The large wooden chair was built in the 1930s, and inmates had painted it yellow before attaching its leather straps and electrodes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I decided that the miniature turret that I had built in the city room and since moved up here to my bedroom was better off on a higher shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long until the Silvers built arenas everywhere, even villages like the Stilts, and attendance that was once a gift became a mandatory curse. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were LEGOs all over the place, including part of the castle we’d built. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I have to wonder what sort of fluke allowed such a pleasing place to be built here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A special entrance was cut into the bank leading to the road, and wide steps and a large white gate were built there. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s built of the same brooding granite as the rest of the school. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had to drag the cart while the boy steered from behind and they built a fire for the old man to warm himself though he didnt much like that either. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Finn, maybe the Google pictures of the other street were taken so long ago, those fences weren’t built yet,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

With Remy resting in peace I was free to express my talents, and I have built this place up from what it was, let me tell you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she built her nest, ironed shirts, potted bleeding hearts, played with her cat, and birthed Louis Junior. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, we both knew that we would not be home until a complete model was built in which all the stereochemical contacts were satisfactory. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a color television with remote-control panels built into the lamp table between the two twin beds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

More important: there were people who’d built their careers on the back of the high school basketball team. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘I’ve heard of you, Kekrops. You were the first to offer sacrifices to Athena. You built her first shrine on the Acropolis.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A massive built dog was sitting on her shoulders and shivering and growling. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted a three-quarter-ton pick-up truck, capable of going anywhere under possibly rigorous conditions, and on this truck I wanted a little house built like the cabin of a small boat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

George carefully built his line of solitaire cards. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth question asked which church was built by the emperor Justinian to demonstrate his superiority to the late Theodoric’s Ostrogothic successors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was very low and the shade was deep in the back of the temple where the new altar to Thoth had been built. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He helped Federal Express develop its package tracking and tracing system, then moved over to McCaw Cellular, the mobile phone company, built that up, and oversaw its merger with AT&T in 1994. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a deeply disturbing turn of events, essentially abrogating the Treaty of Versailles and undermining the foundations on which European peace had been built since 1919. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dicey built a small fire and opened the soup can with her jackknife can opener. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fixed up the room just the way he wanted it, with wooden shelves built in an alcove. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hiring himself out to neighbors and relatives, he chopped wood, plowed fields, brought in hay, and built barns and cabins. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had added a second story, installed a private cinema, built heated greenhouses, and laid out formal gardens. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the summers, the families began the tradition of organizing a picnic at Log Cabin Beach, a wooded resort overlooking the James River, built exclusively “for members of the race.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Both the men and women were taller than pretty standard, and more powerfully built, their eyes as pale as an ugly’s. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As thin as he was, he was surprisingly built. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high-rises were built by Richard Daley’s father so that the migrants from down South would be vertical instead of being spread out all over the city. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tear at the toughness Jasmine had built up over the school year. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Our bodies built the Capitol and the National Mall. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Folks," he said, "this is going to be the most 'ghetto' spacecraft ever built. There's only one way to finish that fast: no landing system." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if all this time the city has been no more than a scale model built by her father and the shadow of a great hand has fallen over it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That evening I hear hammering, and after a while I go to see what is being built. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We traveled by bus to the famous White Palace, a wonder built of white marble so unearthly it floated like a cloud. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the neighbors can’t see, because my father built a fence around it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

To many, that could mean only one thing: Since canals on Earth are man-made, Mars’s canals must have been built by intelligent creatures. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was of average height, a sturdily built man of forty-seven, but how he maintained his weight was a puzzle. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then he would sit and brood for hours while Mary frantically built up a backfire of gaiety. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my second year, the missionaries built a dormitory and started a boarding school. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the North End knew why the tank shattered—because it wasn’t built right. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

My uncle who had painted the pony claimed he had seen a UFO come down over that very same hill before the drive-in was built. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some built new mounds or maintained the old; others hauled wood for fuel and houses or carried water in leather pouches or weeded the maize fields with stone hoes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One by one, they set her afire, and in this way, Elowen’s prisoners built her funeral pyre. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I think the parts of me that are built on memories made with Ellen are some of my favorite parts of myself. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting on her bed, the frame her daddy built a golden brown so we might as well be sitting on a throne together. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since Asian mainland infectious diseases were well established in Indonesia, New Guineans thereby gained long exposure and built up much more resistance to Eurasian germs than did Aboriginal Australians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So we built ourselves the life you see around you. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

While the boy still slept, they built the funeral pyre. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved things and cleaned things and built things and did every kind of job you can think of! The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the woods, they built hideouts and sang forbidden songs, making up irreverent lyrics for the Hitler Youth songs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To be on the safe side, Nhamo built a low fire on the ground below. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we used every last block we had in the house, we had only built up a few inches from the ground. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We lived in a house that I built. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

This had the immediate effect of dispelling the slight tension that had built in the room while Mr Harry Smith had been speaking. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve thrones, built for beings the size of Hades, were arranged in an inverted U, just like the cabins at Camp Half-Blood. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With the sea literally at their backs, on a cliffy tongue of land, they had built their tingle wail across the root of the tongue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when they had been installed in the 1940s—over thirty years after the house itself had been built in 1909—the intercoms had probably all worked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rocks and bricks in this bridge felt like they were one of the original things anybody had built in New York City. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A layer of sweat built up inside his plastic head bubble, making it difficult for him to see the monkeys clearly. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Round by round, Mitsima built up the sides of the pot; it was narrow, it bulged, it narrowed again towards the neck. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever they saw a hilltop or a roof rising above the water, Malcolm stopped, tied up, built a fire, and one or the other of them attended to Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A mystique built up around his calculus class—if you could make it through there, you had truly accomplished something spectacular, something no one thought you could do—and success bred more success. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wall is old, built of rough, square lumps of hewn granite, and it comes from the woods and goes back to the woods once more. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Until I built an antenna system out of wires and foil and metal coat hangers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He was fifteen, black, built big—looked like I did. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We breathed into bandanas and built shelter from the stench with plywood and a tarp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The biggest wall in all the world, her brother Viserys used to say, as proud as if he’d built it himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I just felt sure Mr. Curtain would have built a secret escape route for himself,” Milligan explained. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the foreman had identical scaffolds built for all the men on the job, and even suggested that Dad send the original to the Mechanics Institute, where it won a prize. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been heads of enemies erected on poles for decoration, and their king had built himself an underground treasure chamber which was also a subterranean passage for escape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks up at the ten-foot-high gallows, newly built for the execution of the conspirators. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was a small man, but well built. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue’s Clues is essentially a show built around the James Earl Jones effect. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You keeping Judd’s dog up there on our hill—got a place for him all built, never letting on. What else you keeping from me?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neck: “My family has been in this country for over two hundred years. We built this place, fought in every war from the first one to the last one, paid taxes, and voted.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was about to say as much when she saw the battlements ahead, long parapets built into the very stone of the mountains on either side of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The town was built around a square in the manner of midwestem county seats, with the jail dominating the center. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was old-fashioned, with heavy wooden drawers and shelves for holding jams and pickles, back when the house was built. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

My mother had built it, piece by piece, a couple of years ago when she was getting some new level of certification in computer programming. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was Groves’s job to make sure the bomb got built quickly, and in complete secrecy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I built her myself. Started shortly after your grandmother passed on. It was this boat that carried me through those terrible times. That, and raising your daddy and his brother and sister.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Much of the OASIS’s popularity and culture were built around this fact. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

SD-03 then rolled out of the bunker and began to climb a series of ramps and staircases the Sixers had built onto the castle’s outer walls to provide access to the upper levels. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As if to avoid the eyes of all the ghosts, the dead ones who had built their town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So when Savery built a model he would have been misled into thinking he had made a breakthrough. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The local trees, which had once stood tall, had been cut down to be the lodge poles upon which our plastic-bag huts were built. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stocked the Coalwood school library and built a school playground and a football field. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had three sons and built a beautiful house on a hill, off in the countryside. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But the bed, built by Tony Bucci, is not exactly a bed; it’s just wood hammered together in the shape of a bed, with a plank where the box spring and mattress would be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only good thing about its height is that it is built to support weight. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

How could the chemical have built up to such prodigious levels in the grebes? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As they approached, Mr. Kapasi explained that the temple had been built between a.d. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They built an ice cream parlor where the old one was. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Combining sugar with almonds—as is still done in marzipan—cooks who were serving wealthy Muslims built elaborate, edible sculptures. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

These usually bought land, but good land, and built their houses of planed lumber and had carpets and colored-glass diamond panes in their windows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

First there’s a road built to where you keep your goods. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes refilled the mosaic-lined fountain with sweet water and built an aviary in the garden, stocking it with toucans and cockatoos, parrots, a macaw, and canaries that sang in high octaves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had built an addition to their house so he could live with them. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He measured the distance and height; they built the shapes from mud and let it harden. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The house we rented had been built by a mining company. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was well built, but not too stocky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The black man, original man, built great empires and civilizations and cultures while the white man was still living on all fours in caves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back and see Jesus. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate was built of stones and arced from one side of the trail to the other. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Dummies built to flare up bright and sudden, a ritual to celebrate the end of the year, something that was supposed to keep demons away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just stares into the campfire he and Scoob built together from scratch. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

In the dining room, he built an elaborate cabinet system to hold his stereo equipment, much of it scavenged at yard sales. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Namely, the elevated tactical unit I built in the oak tree in our backyard. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The section had outgrown its original room in the Warehouse Building, and in 1945, the group moved into “two spacious offices” on the first floor of the West Side’s newly built Aircraft Loads Division Building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The exposition, if built right—if it topped Paris—might dispel that sentiment once and for all. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There they had built their burrows, dividing ancient houses into tiny studios. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blake Grunwald’s parents’ home was what real estate agents in California called seventies ranch style—which meant it was long and narrow, dark on the interior, and built on one level. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knows,” she said, “this town was built in 1868. Is this a game?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some love stories are tragedies—epics, spanning years, and built on dramatic irony, wars, Russian winters, and hours of film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A stockily built young Negro, who introduced himself as Bill Williams, asked if I minded having him sit beside me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the boys knew that his name was George Pocock and that he built racing shells in the loft of their shell house, not just for Washington, but for rowing programs across the country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The two of them had carved out a life here, built hopes and dreams together side by side. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Men were setting their dogs on a long table which had been built in the center of the camp ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof was built with an overhang, so that a narrow gap separated the two buildings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, they built boats and learned how to steer them. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lowell deduced that when the planet’s oceans dried up, the Martians built a system of canals thousands of miles long to move water from the polar ice caps to dry areas. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The dam would be built across Indian Creek at the mouth of Milagro Canyon, establishing a mile-and-a-half-long lake whose easternmost shore would extend up to within hailing distance of the Dancing Trout’s main lodge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of the tallest men Cora had ever seen, solidly built with an arresting gaze. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Many houses built of wood and many dark doors they passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He built these warehouses on the land beneath the house, and filled them with things for people to see, and then the people came to see them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I checked in on him. Dead drunk. But I built up his fire and left him some bread,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Has the devil built a tent in my house?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The schools were new, built for the big generation that had come before, and the teachers had what in the Depression was considered a high-status job. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But it was built on Indian graves and every bit as much a ruin as the temples of the Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The version he built for me was three feet high and a couple of feet wide. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the Union troops were camped out in fields around the city, and tent hospitals were built there to treat the many returning war wounded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander, says Arrian, “was at once struck by the excellence of the site, and convinced that if a city were built upon it, it would prosper.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I pretend out loud that I’ve built him a majestic castle, describing every brick and barrier and weapon that will protect him from the monsters outside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But built into his life is awareness of that presence, of the terrain, of the unpredictable weather, of the narrow margin by which he is sustained. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, there was a training device in Houston built especially for the gun. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of our wagons were built to be come stages for just that eventuality. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I...I built a key with old trade documents. It was a place to start. Then there were letters, books.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One we built inside the fireplace at Calvin’s house. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Jon built a cookfire, claimed a small cask of Mormont's favorite robust red from stores, and poured it into a kettle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When she’d built a thick boot, she frosted it with more plaster. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We others cut down timber on the foreland, on a high point, and built his pyre of logs, then stood by weeping while the flame burnt through corse and equipment. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hevelius was, however, happy to use telescopes for other purposes, such as mapping the moon, and eventually built a massive 150-footer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It began to appear in films and television commercials, and from there its profile built and grew and blossomed. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They all lived in a brick house that Elizebeth’s grandfather had built, on the Smith family farm in Union Township, a few miles east of Huntington, Indiana. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Alongside death and despair, this was also the period of astounding Gothic architecture, with the most extraordinary cathedrals, abbeys and churches being built all over Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A low parlor stove was built into a black marble fireplace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found a land whose tasks called forth the deepest and best we had; and we built a nation, mighty and feared. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We built a fire in the cave once and had to run outside because the smoke got so thick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A series of picnic groups and camping sites had been built by internees— clearings, with tables, benches, and toilets. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d be the princess, and that amounted to sitting in a cage he built out of stone or ice or something, and watching him and Ivan battle with magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They went into the Nest, and the robot built a fire. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Did Aaron Giebel see the iceberg looming as he built his San Simeon and dreamed his dream of cows strong enough to pull buildings? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In World War II, Germany built on Oberth’s ideas and developed the V-2, a rocket powerful enough to carry an explosive warhead all the way from northern Germany to London. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melancholy held me hostage and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They padded silent through the dens the men had built of wood and grass and mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Quietly, slowly, he schooled the horse, fed him well, built his trust. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a sturdily built child, with full cheeks but already pensive features. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some said it was as old as the world, built when our Blessed Savior was first born. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The gaps weren’t in the town, the gaps were in him, the gaps were in his eyes and in his brain and in his soul—he wasn’t built right. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Joe hadn’t built a drone that could fly a microphone up to Mom, in plain sight of the whole auditorium. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was almost as tall as Ekon, built like a stack of boulders, but his long, narrow face had the twitchy likeness of a meerkat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She even had latrines built in the woods, and she posted signs shaped like little hands with gentlemen and gentlewomen written on them pointing to two thin paths that led away from each other. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"These modern hotels are all built like boxes of bricks. But what if it is?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She built a structure and attacked it, and if it showed the slightest shakiness she tore it down and started fresh. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Minli built a fire as quickly as she could and sighed as its warmth slowly heated the air. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the authorities built in each cell a kind of stand- up desk, a simple wooden board that jutted out from the wall at about chest-level. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had built special shelves and cabinets to hold them all. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And as he built his own program, he began to brood on it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He and his team cut roads, built bridges and telegraph stations, installed telegraph poles, and strung thousands of miles of telegraph lines. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The men had built another rock wall, and now, with enough ammunition, he could hold there for a long time. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear Anna, We will live in a home built at the top of the world’s tallest ladder.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

People built homes the way they bought eggs: a little at a time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones’s gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The Office/Camp Shop was the sturdiest of the structures we had passed so far, built in a more permanent style than the smaller log cabins with their dark green doors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was a fireplace built into one wall, and above it hung two pots. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The wildlings had built their watchfire in a shallow depression above the narrowest part of the pass, with a sheer drop below and rock behind to shelter them from the worst of the wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I imagined the city as it was being built. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest kind were, indeed, no more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shivering—for the last week in November was bitterly cold— Johnny built up the fire in the attic. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people who had built the Teeth had misjudged the sea rise quite a lot. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were not nomadic, but built up and lived in some of the world’s biggest and most opulent cities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was in his eighties and short and fat and built like a rock. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He owned some drug stores, a lot of drug stores. He built them up himself." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was built to provide a head of water for driving logs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Black-on-black crime” is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Quentin hefted it while the machinists who built it circled around. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jones was solidly built and, when he reached adulthood, sported a pair of curly sideburns that covered most of his cheeks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jessie had built the water wall along the eastern facade of the brownstone, inspired by a science class during which her teacher showed them different cartoons of Rube Goldberg machines. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was not only the room that brought tears to my eyes but the idea of a room for me taking shape in Raji’s mind, and then being built with his hands. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the laws of debt and repayment, they built churches which couldn’t be paid for in a hundred years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Powell said, “I suppose furniture is built into the wall. Or maybe we’re not supposed to sit or sleep.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But filling its spacious offices and laboratories with appropriately distinguished professors was not as easy as getting the structure built. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of confidence, though, built to keep terror at bay. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Ivers has built the roller coaster into the side of a shed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their instructors, König and Schulz, had also built sabotage equipment for the men to take with them and use in America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Every inch of it was built by my father and grandfather from all different kinds of wood—whatever they could borrow, barter, or beg for. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lowell built his observatory far away from home, on Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In under seven years, using volunteer labor, he built a 2,000-mile trail through mountain wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the unyielding demands of Project Mercury and the sprawling, still-forming organization that was being built to manage it stretched everyone to the limit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how fast they came, but when he built up the fire and the smoke increased the flies almost magically disappeared. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I could not find my way around its newly built freeways, its thriving industrial complexes, its racially mixed, upscale suburban sprawl. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have lost my Ned, the rock my life was built on, I could not bear to lose the girls as well . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Well, when the town was finally built nobody really cared for the name of Westmoreland Homesteads and so there was a contest to name the town—and who do you think won the contest? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sight of it made me queasy—this thing Stick and I had built together, and half destroyed together. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He blocked the doors with the drums and built a fire in the floor and he made beds out of some flattened cardboard boxes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There’s a wooden shed built against the back of the house. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Harvey then built up his case, using a combination of experiments and observation. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Neal moved to Ascend Communications, which built little boxes to terminate Internet signals and was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999 for $24 billion, one of the largest acquisitions in history. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Before they built the dam that was just a river down there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He built our house with his own hands, and Mom’s vegetable garden fed us year-round. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was particularly proud of a dropdown inner stowage pouch, bulging with little plastic bottles of vitamins and medicines, with a transparent window built into it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

To this day, you can find the Great Houses of old plantations on hilltops throughout the Caribbean, and yet the strange thing is that the men who built and owned the homes hardly used them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

ATK built rockets under a contract from NASA, which in 1999 awarded Keith the Silver Snoopy Award, a prestigious honor reserved for people who show great dedication in bringing safety to flight missions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our apartment is built like a train, narrow in the front with rooms extending out to the back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are built differently, my husband and I, which is why one of us chose politics and the other did not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were long, dark wooden tables, with gas jets and taps and sinks built in to them, and there were dark wooden shelves upon which were displayed a selection of things in large bottles. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Heat built up under my hands as I turned the handle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the wire wasn’t built to sense them up there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He built a ramp in the backyard, and he would play with a boy from across the street. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Rusties must have built it out of something special, just as Shay had said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He built grammar schools into the neighborhoods because he did not believe young children should have to ride buses to school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once, sitting in her pillowed chair, she considered having a secret door built so that she would have an avenue of escape. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not some rickety wooden contraption you'd see in some museum, but the weird, outrageous vehicle of a god, built of sleek, otherworldly metal and shimmering with starlight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It must have been built, red brick by red brick, to be the most magnificent building the workers had ever seen, like a European cathedral. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar had had sleeping chambers built for the most important ones, far away from the smoke and bustle of the kitchens, with great curved couches comfortably heaped with skins. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, how could this man have built her a house, then a castle, then brought her here? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The firm is entering a competition, submitting designs for a new five-star hotel to be built in Miami. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the simple solid fact upon which all four of our lives were built. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With a tarp we made a lean-to and built a large fire out in front of it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

I thought about the way my mother had built trails of graham-cracker crumbs and marshmallow to lure roaches from the house rather than step on them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such bad karma, the company sold it to some other hotel chain, and built a new hotel—a massive green Oz-like gambling cathedral. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

That made three in all, built to protect the gold seekers from the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne—to protect the invaders against those whose home it was. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

When a suburban-style shopping mall was built in 1980 at the height of the oil boom, it opened on the east side of town, just a few blocks away from Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meals were crowded till we built a bigger table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they aren’t real ruins: They’re like a sculptural re-creation of ruins built eighty years ago, but the fake Ruins have been neglected pretty badly, so they have kind of become actual ruins by accident. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"That one and the other two like it were built during slavery times." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy sitting on the side was about six feet and built pretty nice but he didn’t look hard enough to play no ball. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had the experience, built over a lifetime, but no degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’s blond, ruddy faced, and really built—the dude’s got serious muscles. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Sonny built a rocket? He doesn’t even know how to put the sprocket chain back on his bike when it slips off.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the plants growing out of the water, a colony of weaverbirds had built their nests. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The settlement was built in a long line close to the stream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one built weapons of cruelty like the Mud Men. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Nailer pushed himself upright and forced through the ferns to where the girls crouched around a newly built fire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

So they built a broad, straight highway, six lanes wide in places, with concrete dividers down the middle and outsized sodium street lamps that light the night sky for miles around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Those three weeks were a lie that she and Matthias had built to survive. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Smaller than Lord Furnival’s dwelling, it was built of stout timbers, with grinding wheels of massive stone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bike was a Condor Junior Roadracer, custom built for him on his twelfth birthday. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

After that, nobody came or asked anything else about the bronzes for a while, and his brother built his well and life went on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But there is another and more ominous side to the enterprise: it was built in part by slaves in chains, many captured by the pirate ships of Polycrates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaiser Wilhelm II had built a sprawling summer pavilion in Griinau so the imperial family could reside in splendor while watching the competitions or taking to the water themselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Negotiating furiously, he assembled a force of as many as 200,000 men and built thirteen big ships in an audacious plan to assault Tenochtitlan from the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He commissioned the construction of a fire boat, the Fire Queen, built specifically to negotiate the park’s shallow canals and to pass under its many low bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She was tall and built like the figurehead of a ship carved by a generous hand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They walked over the ground where the gallows had been built last summer, where they hung the traitor Hickey. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of “Marmion,” where the girl was built up in the wall. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But Dorothy and the others who had built new lives during the war weren’t waiting for leaders or politicians to take the lead. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To one side of it there was a shallow alcove in which Winston was now sitting and which, when the flats were built, had probably been intended to hold bookshelves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Tension built as they found fresh footprints and spent bullets on the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She’d built her own kind of walls to protect herself from the near-constant reminders of death’s presence here, but it had crept in anyway, intruding. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sure, wood and log homes got built after, but Ben says the first thing you do when you land is build immediate shelter and immediate shelter comes from the first supplies to hand. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

After dark, these people settled in alleys, where they built cook fires and where they sang and danced. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A minivan, built before there was such a thing as a minivan. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ma and Ba sat in front of a small fire that Ba had built. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Judd comes out on the little porch he’s built at the side of his trailer, and they stand there and talk awhile. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the bluff where she had built a fire lay a dark object. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as we got up to the slabrock fence that Papa had built around the corn patch, I looked over and spotted this gobbler doing our pea-picking for us. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cilia went to work packing the silver, and she built up a little fire on the kitchen hearth so she might have hot water to wash the dishes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said that it had been built almost a hundred years ago as a fort. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the riverfront the Renaissance Center was being built, inaugurating a renaissance that has never arrived. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

First on the path is a big wooden barn, built as watertight and solid as the bridge, like it could last there forever if anyone asked it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And so it was with all houses that were not, like Wang Lung’s, built upon a hill, and these hills stood up like islands. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re not going to mess up, Tiara. You can do this. You built a hut. You learned to fish and catch rainwater for drinking. You’re a survivor.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Entrepreneurs from all over the country went to San Bernardino, visited the new McDonald’s, and built imitations of the restaurant in their hometowns. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The colt’s body, built low to the ground, had all the properties of a cinder block. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, since I began school, I had from time to time heard people around me say that whites had built blacks schools only to teach us how to be their slaves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken his first drink in fifth grade, and by the time he was a senior had built up quite a reputation for drinking. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The future given to the Augurs in visions. That is the reason we built this school. That is the reason you are here. Do you know the story?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was standing erect behind the counter, not leaning forward or resting on the small shelf that had been built for him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

From up here Tyrion could see it, the dark trees looming beyond the stretch of open ground, like a second wall built parallel to the first, a wall of night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I told her that the Emperor Nero, from Rome, had a giant sea built where he could keep sea monsters and have naval battles staged for him. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could also buy their way into opera houses, most of which were nevertheless built, owned and controlled by rich patrons, chiefly for their own benefit and that of their friends and hangers-on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When her parents had built the house on the hill, Nin had helped them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It is all pine trees here, too skinny for their height, built like I am. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

If the flying machine and the control system sound funny, you have to keep in mind that these machines were among the first ever built. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hauled stones in off the desert and built a small rock garden outside our doorway, with succulents and a patch of moss. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had built castles in the sand at the bar of the little river. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He built sand castles with us, and swam and swam until it got dark. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Or had the Ice Court been built in a time before Grisha had come to be viewed as monsters by the Fjerdans? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The travellers reached a low ridge crowned with ancient holly-trees whose grey-green trunks seemed to have been built out of the very stone of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Here in the shop only great sarcophagi were built, and blocks of stone roughhewn to size, ready for the sculptors. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The rivulets from these umbrellas flowing down the uneven floor of our poorly built church, pooling in spots. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then they built a new house on the ashes of the old. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Second Avenue was nice because it had semi-houses that were built when there was still some sort of formal settlement going on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It had been the first Sukkot without Papa, who usually built the sukkah they would spend a week pretending to live in. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next day, Karl came back with a small, sound coffin he had built himself. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He is dark-haired and well built, strong, protective, kind. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The White Star Line had built a charming little temple at the northwest bank of the lagoon opposite the Wooded Island, with steps to the water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A slightly built former dancer, she worked upstairs as a vice president at Bravo. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And for that, the cyclotron at Washington University in St. Louis, which Compton had built before moving to the University of Chicago, would do. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His was the topmost room in the Seaman's Rest, a high and spindly building built on a rocky outcrop to facilitate smuggling. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

This one was bigger than most, with the jagged angles and uneven limbs that were Leen’s signature, since she built most of her machines out of whatever found junk she got her hands on. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not since Noah built the Ark have citizens of Aurora County seen such water! Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The senator’s villa, much more modest, of course, but still spacious and luxurious, had been recently built, and was on the outskirts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Wedding cakes are not baked as much as they are built. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He watched a dog and a horse and a man yawn and wrote that it “makes me feel how much all animals are built on one structure.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the thought had built and built in Rishi’s mind until he couldn’t contain it anymore. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Towering cloud banks built on the horizon and then swept inward, bearing steady rain. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Within a short time, C.P. had built up a small network of friends within the city government who would keep him posted on developments of interest to the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I built my whole life around the stories they tell about me. You know what I learned?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed as solid as the granite on which it was built, and Turner marveled that it could still be so after Mrs. Cobb had gone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ophelia thought that Paul’s personality was built of oppositions—a need for frenzied activity that verged, she thought, on desperation, and a towering self-confidence oddly combined with a hunger for affirmation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

His clever hands built a well-boring rig, and he bored wells on the lands of luckier men. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Edondurath built a house of the frozen bodies of his brothers, and waited there inside that house for that last one to come back. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been hard to watch as carefully built, compassionate policies have been rolled back, as we’ve alienated some of our closest allies and left vulnerable members of our society exposed and dehumanized. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He walked past the village school that his great-grandfather built for Untouchable children. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, Dr. Gazzaley is talking a bit about how attention science unfolded, and the leading researchers upon which modern work is built. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He built barns, crawling around in the rafters and pounding nails. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The government—the Exclusion Authority—built all of this, this whole camp, under the cover of darkness. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was the tank built in to the front end of the boat for fresh water and he thought it held twenty gallons but he did not know how much water was in the tank. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for all the rich wages earned and the middle-class lives built, any claim that Levittown had to being some kind of utopia was discredited by its glaring defect: a persistent racism. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He walked down to Waterworks Park, amazed that the Americans had built such a palace to house plumbing filters and intake valves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hazel led Percy to a black crypt built into the side of the hill. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The vista of the city below was astounding—hill upon hill of buildings formed out of the same white stone that built this palace, every window sparkling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As at his own wharf, one side was built up solidly with counting houses, warehouses, sail lofts, stores. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was built near the mess hall, class and office buildings, the sports complex, and the boys’ dorm. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And so, beginning in 1932, military training was built into the secondary education curriculum in the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sewed clothes for him, built him toys from scraps of wood, rags, and dried grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Was the courtyard built for just that purpose? he wondered. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the three dorm buildings was a large gym, built by Warner Bros, as thanks for use of the Death House and other prison sites in its gangster movies of the 1930s. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a granary built, as well as larders for storing food in winter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily no one was hurt, but we were forced to move to another one, similarly built. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The open, sunny, fresh-aired summit of Greylock is crowned with a large, handsome stone building called Bascom Lodge, built in the 1930s by the tireless cadres of the Civilian Conservation Corps. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them, all Rhode Island Reds, huddled into a ball at one end of the chicken house his father had built years before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To the right, in the smoky distance, the president saw the banners of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West flying over the arena Colonel Cody had built at Sixty-second Street. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On Clybourn Avenue in Chicago, just north of downtown, there was a strange paradise, seemingly built for the working parent, seemingly built for me: a standard, supremely American, got-it-all strip mall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was racing along, his truncated tail held high, in the wheel Mr. McDuff had built for him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And as we walked down the walkway and got closer to the house, I saw this house had been built in the Western style. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were placed perfectly within the doorways, as if the school had been built around them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He built a cookfire against a rock and they ate the last of the morels and a can of spinach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now, if an atomic bomb could be built, it would be Truman’s job to decide how to use it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a powerfully built young man, and was finished with school at fourteen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The ones who built their cities over our graveyards and palaces. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When I won over a goodly number of fighters, I built up my army enough to attack fiefdoms and to pursue the enemies I had seen in the water gourd. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Colored Men’s Library Association was built in 1887, a gathering place for black men to read and listen to lectures. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ophelia’s father put up the money—about $4,500—and because PIH had no red tape and little overhead, the school was built right away. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Coalwood Women’s Club built a float for the Veteran’s Day parade in Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he stepped into the shelter his men had built for him, he paused and looked back at Jon Snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He started with fifty cents and had built an empire. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our newspaper Muhammad Speaks ’ full back page carried an architect’s drawing of a $20 million Islamic Center proposed to be built in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not large, but he was built like a man who lifted and carried things for a living. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Papá built it with discarded wood from the city dump. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t all that thrilling, but Annabeth kept telling us interesting facts about how the Arch was built, and Grover kept passing me jelly beans, so I was okay. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The owner of a sugar plantation built a home—called the Great House—usually high on a hill, where the tropical breezes blow. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Just as soon as she’s built up the fire and made gruel and tidied the whole cabin. With more than a day’s work waiting here at home.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

What I set down about him will be the result of memory plus what I know to be true plus conjecture built on the combination. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some that night worked on a small notice announcing the opening of a new hotel, clearly another hastily built affair meant to capitalize on the expected crush of exposition visitors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When Rondon arrived, he ordered Kermit to wait there while he and Lyra scouted from the river’s shoreline to determine if the rapids were passable or if a portage would need to be built. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At the time of the ballroom’s being built, suppers had not been in question; and a small card-room adjoining, was the only addition. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Can he tell that I’m still built like a child? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

That half of the city was mostly built on solid white limestone, with only a little bit of topsoil above it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Back in the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge he built an artificial cloud chamber–a simple device in which he could cool and moisten the air, creating a reasonable model of a cloud in laboratory conditions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She watched him walk away, a thickly built man in khaki trousers and a short-sleeved shirt that looked crisp from ironing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They have one tower built, and Spencer checks the box to make sure they are building the second tower just like in the medieval castle in the picture. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

So she went downstairs and built a fire that really burned. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I would scream so loudly and for so long that I would yell away all the years of hurt built up inside me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Tired out but proud, the animals walked round and round their masterpiece, which appeared even more beautiful in their eyes than when it had been built the first time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They were clever thieves and nothing I stored would be safe until I had built a fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a frenzy of hard labor, thousands have been built. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That evening she stopped early, built a bright fire and cooked a stew, adding to it a sweet-leather lichen from the tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In June the Ways and Means Committee agreed that the thing should be built. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was never a question that Cherry Hill wasn’t built as a sustainable community for its families. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In this way, Hitler built up the German military. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’d built a fire there and charred billets of wood lay stuck in the melted tar together with ash and bones. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big yacht— looks like it was nice and fancy before the flares struck. Now it seems like it was built a hundred years ago. Can’t believe it floats, much less runs.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Dinwiddie had sent a special message to London, advising that French troops had marched out of New France and built two forts in the Ohio Valley, land claimed by Virginia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Superconducting Super Collider, a multibillion dollar project that was contemplated until the early 1990s, was going to be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Max was clever, the way he built this. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We walk over the little semi- lunar bridge Baba has built near a cluster of fig trees; it becomes a great suspension bridge joining cities, and the little pond below, a foamy sea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Boxes built to keep me in my place. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing fine. See those huts, the irrigation system, fishing lines, the rain-catching tarp, and desalination still? We built all of that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A book of photographs: a dragon dance at Tet, schoolgirls in white do dais, a temple built on a tree trunk. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

No houses had been built, but the lots were marked with surveying stakes, and the grass was freshly mown. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The barn, solidly built with Karl’s own hands, put up a brave fight. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gradually, the people of Rass built one from ancient memory lavishly cemented with rumor. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two blocks to the west was a thin sliver of a park built into a rocky hill. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I look behind the janitor and see a narrow metal door built into the wall. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

My father was a powerfully built man, standing just under six feet tall, but my mother could easily take his measure. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The engineers had built a stone fortress with an iron portcullis, guard towers, scorpion ballistae, water cannons, and no doubt many other nasty surprises for the defenders to use. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was built in memoriam to those who have lost their lives in auto accidents, and as a place of healing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yet, he built the spanning bridges and the grand mansions, the sturdy docks and stout factories of the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“More like kicking the people in the face,” Young Square Cop said; he was short and square, built like one of those guys who blocked tackles in college football. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It seemed like it was a game—for whoever had built the place, at least. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They hastily built defensive positions around the city. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She built small platforms higher up in the trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone sat under trees or built shelters out of sticks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edmonds continues to publish the newspaper her father had built into a Durham institution. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

These bits of information included where British troops were stationed, what forts were being built, how many warships were entering and leaving New York Harbor, and how much food the troops had. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But of all that Michell accomplished, nothing was more ingenious or had greater impact than a machine he designed and built for measuring the mass of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The more sugar was planted, the more mills were built to grind it, the more docks were hammered into place to ship sugar, the more enslaved people were brought from Africa to work the plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

All because of Stick, the one person I thought cared about what we had built as much as I did. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Of the sixteen shells on the river that day, George Pocock had built fifteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And I’d been looking forward to trying out the new skate park when they got it built in January. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was a good teacher, patiently explaining to me how each proof built on the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My blood and sweat is in this house, built it with my own two hands. It’s just gettin’ old, just like me. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wondered if that was what Rose was thinking about when she had built her own tiny version of the same building her mother had dove off of. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They built a low barrier across the door. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the truck, on the way to the train station, she saw a few makeshift homes built out of what looked like scraps—even worse scraps than the barracks were made out of. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We crossed burbling Snapfinger Creek on the little footbridge that Tidings had built. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can still feel tears built up in my throat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He had built our house in Pine Level, and there was very little he couldn’t make, grow, or fix. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She spoke of the many lodges she had built and the one that caught fire. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some have built fortresses; others have torn them down and destroyed them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bedsprings as they reached a crescendo, as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Originally the two rooms had been the master bedroom, but when they’d moved in, Papi had built a dividing wall, so that the boys and the girls each got a small bedroom. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was built of a light stone that shone almost like snow in the glare of the moon, a vast spreading complex of walls and roofs and buttresses, all surrounding the slender spire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Gey wrote to Berg saying, “An interesting story could still be built around a fictitious name.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They ascended a narrow staircase that had been built as an emergency exit in case of fire but that the numerous subdivisions of the house had transformed into the only means of entrance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoulder to shoulder, they tiptoed down the stairs into the basement, where Redemption’s training room had been built. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He’s a Combatant, built tall and lean like a scarecrow, probably best in our class after me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Angola, the country’s largest prison, was built on an eighteen-thousand-acre former plantation once used for the breeding of slaves. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Where were the lighthouses to guide my newly built ship of knowledge just setting sail on a perilous journey upon a vast, turbulent and unknown ocean of life? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they were stuck without much of an option aside from Wanda quitting the job she’d had for over a decade and uprooting themselves from the neighborhood where they’d built up a network. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As the rod went up, specially built machines measured the flying neutrons, clicking loudly as more and more neutrons were released inside the pile. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only about four years old but he was sturdily built; moreover, he was clutching a large stuffed toy to his chest with both arms. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You mostly sleep in shelters. Tonight, except for Samneric up by the fire, you'll all sleep there. Who built the shelters?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Desperate to learn more, the CIA turned to one of the most expensive pieces of equipment they had ever built. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One more lie, one more piece of the myth he’d built for himself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Father built controls for the vertical rudders and the warping mechanism of the wing following the design of the Wrights. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building had once been one of Denver’s many mansions, built after the Gold Rush of the late 1800s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Another pillbox was being built where the main road entered the village. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And I built you tents you hardly ever see. I have had so much of you around me always and I have been unable to give you anything in return that you can keep.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The constrained wind had built itself up to mini-cyclone intensity and could not be constrained. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The ship moored beside a dozen other, similar sky-ships, at the top of a huge tree, large enough to support hundreds of dwellings built into the trunk. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, it was like this city was built for my brother. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Both Canada and Mexico have built walls to keep us out and them in.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We saw a low ring of stones built up with cement and wondered who the mason was who knelt there and studied the shapes before fitting them to-gether. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not too bad. They built a new gate in the street and banned okadas after six p.m., so it is safe.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the first half of the nineteenth century, owners of whaling ships amassed fortunes from oil and built the still well-preserved Federalist and Greek Revival mansions on upper Main Street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we wouldn’t even talk: we’d just keep the screens on while we both watched a TV show together or built the same Lego set at the same time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He built and ran an intelligence operation that helped him outwit his foe and win the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we went inside, she built up a big fire from the stove lengths and shavings. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, built of dark wood and decorated with golden ornaments. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was built of logs, just like the cabins in the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both her and Yvonne were built like New York Giants linemen. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There’s the skiff my dad built me for my ninth birthday. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Presently, site came to a cluster of huts in a clearing: fine huts that looked as though they had been built yesterday. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think they built a whole lot like that in the fifties and sixties, which is probably when ours was put up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody biked in Shaker Heights, just as nobody took the bus: you either drove or somebody drove you; it was a town built for cars and for people who had cars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hevelius, who lived in Danzig, Poland, built one enormous telescope 150 feet long. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, powerfully built youth of twenty, with a firm mouth and grave, dark eyes that gave him the appearance of an older man. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She built Mr. Edwards’ face and his clothes and the word that was stamped on the metal clasp of his suspenders. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This 'dining hall' where I now sit, however, is a modem annexe built to adjoin the main building - a long, flat room characterized by rows of large windows on either side. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They built a courtyard in front and in back of their house. It’s behind the gate with the pictures of the lucky children on the door.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They built a toy boat out of wood, then disassembled it just as fast. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They are wonderfully built homes, aluminum skins, doublewalled, with insulation, and often paneled with veneer of hardwood. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of this is a salutary lesson in the way tottering edifices of theology can be built on a small textual misunderstanding. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They had been walking two hours when the beach was interrupted by another, much larger promontory, this one big enough that homes and shops had been built atop it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A cement and brick pillbox had been built down by the river, right on the bend, among the sedges, destroying the nests of the teal and the gray wagtails. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stone would have to be carried and built up into walls, then the sails would have to be made and after that there would be need for dynamos and cables. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Halfway to the ceiling, seemingly in midair, were five gigantic electric chandeliers, the largest ever built, each seventy-five feet in diameter and generating 828,000 candlepower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were trees around it and the farm buildings were built against the house. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At six foot four, I’ve got inches on Drew, but he’s more built than I am. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“My husband says all these big estates will be chopped up in time and bungalows built,” said the woman. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He built palaces for himself while alternately brutalizing and neglecting his citizens. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Yet in the last fifty years we have built a food system that strips many of those healthy compounds out of our foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was built for the benefit of Baltimore’s poor. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This view of things is compatible with the very old notion that a framework for meaning is somehow built into our minds at birth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new house is built on the grave of all the trophies and symbols of the family: the New Yorker cartoons, the taxidermy, the embroidered pillows, the family portraits. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be built of cement blocks covered with a kind of mustard-colored stucco. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, Jeanne lived in a small cabin in the middle of the desert, while I lived in a small hut built of straws and pine tree leaves. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Really? I did that in season two. I saved a poodle in the middle of a frozen pond. I had to wear specially built skates.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

To move people and goods from place to place, Indians built networks of ruler-straight causeways and canals, some of them three miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sinks had been built of gray marble for the old Chinese men who boarded here before we came. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They built a pyramid of leaves and twigs, branches and togs, on the bare sand by the platform. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fragments of pink Aswan granite from the Pharos are built into the reconstructed Fort Qaitbey, which stands on the site of the original lighthouse. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite far from completion. I need to send the finished plans to Friedrick so he can start construction on the clock. I suspect it will be much more impressive when built to scale.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So we built another house, down on the beach where the chimpanzees only sometimes roamed. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was named for its owner, George Boldt, a very rich man who had it built it for his wife. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She had strangely small feet for such a sturdily built woman. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For a city whose economy was built on slaughter, kosher meat remained an unobtainable luxury. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ossifying conviction that he was living out some ancient and preordained plan, encoded in his blood, built into the architecture of his name. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A tour guide tells them that after the Taj was completed, each of the builders, twenty-two thousand men, had his thumbs cut off so that the structure could never be built again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the considerable pile of rocks and lime that we had built up and said, “There, that is what we have done today.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water bubbled past the stones that Dyedka had built around the well’s mouth, creating a low wall. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was at that time that they built a fortress of reinforced concrete over the faded tomb of José Arcadio, so that the corpse's smell of powder would not contaminate the waters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

All of us—who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries—were, instead, black victims of the white man’s American social system. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived two miles outside, in a cottage his grandfather had built. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Though perhaps your attitude will be useful. I’m not going to pretend that my father’s empire was built on trust and understanding. But you already know that.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On West Harrison Street in Chicago, two miles west of the city’s downtown, there is an ornate, block-long building designed and built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In front of the sink he built a small bar out of discarded lumber and covered it with scavenged tiles: blue- and-white arabesques; Neapolitan checkerboard; red heraldic dragons; and local, earth-tone Pewabics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The mall was built like a fortress around a huge, two-story enclosed street, where store succeeded store, as far as you could see. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not stone walls like the one I built with Benny’s dad Andy. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But one idea led to another, and the next thing I knew, I had built myself a habitat. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's forgotten that he's running and started letting his body do what it was built to do, and now everything is a little easier. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She saw my face, which said back, I didn't know other tools were built only for men. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was an Earth Man’s settlement, built of wood and already rotting into sawdust. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne and Jacob kept commenting on how they had built one house on top of another. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Percival was mouse-colored and had not been very attractive even to his mother; Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though Cootie could barely move his arms, he’d built the house on his own, teaching himself construction as he went along, hammering the plywood walls and plastering the inside. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, the Deweys had built a new house in town; they were proud of it, and proud, too, of both their sons, who were deep-voiced now and as tall as their father. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path led up to a dock built of weathered gray wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abel blew his warm breath against the lock before opening Sommensen’s warehouse—a mildewed barn built of creosoted timbers, put up more than fifty years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every time they built a road they built a old folks’ home. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A great house, built in the nineteenth century. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The tenement was a long passageway of ruined houses, all exactly the same: small, impoverished dwellings built of cement, each with a single door and two windows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no door, merely four walls built of tin which did not meet at one corner, thus leaving enough space for one person at a time. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Knowledge is a house that must be built from the ground up,” said the instructor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been because of the coach in ninth grade who thought he was faking a broken arm and wouldn’t let him leave the practice field until the fluid built up. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are the same size as our Khmer men and are similarly built, not like the Barang, with light skin and a thin nose, like I saw in Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has built gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The slender foundation built by my parents began to shake. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two or three termites in a chamber will begin to pick up pellets and move them from place to place, but nothing comes of it; nothing is built. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rules of mathematics were built around counting sheep and surveying property, yet these very rules govern the way the universe works. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The waterwheel itself is housed in a huge shed built against the milling room, which is two stories high. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strange machine, built years before, to talk to a ghost. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Volpe feels that she, too, has built too quickly to anger. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’d brought back spectacular photographs, of a palace built on a lake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what Archie did—built the house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The computer program wasn’t built to handle something like this, so Artemis had to improvise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The house itself was identical to hundreds of others built on postage-stamp-size plots on dirt roads. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little shrine was built into the corner; Taisin saw the scroll listing ancestors’ names, a spray of dried flowers, a small pot of incense. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

New wooden fortifications topped the old stone walls on the outskirts of town, and watchtowers had been built along the shore, but the war had not touched Oxscini’s forested lands yet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In one skeleton’s pelvic area mountain bluebirds had built a nest, and in it the female bird, surrounded by peeping young, stared beadily at the startled boy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to think it was my family that had kept me away from the street scene Sapo had built his life around, but it wasn’t. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Opposite the doors, a flight of stairs that seemed to be built of blocks of ice curved up out of sight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Since my fire would be built in a six-inch hole, flames under two feet would not show. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The whole place was built like a temple for learning. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A group of German soldiers is standing around a fire built in a trash bin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But I can’t say I’ve ever built one for a robot and a gosling. So, just what exactly do you need?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I contemplated heading back to the feast, but I’m not built to be rude to elders. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Their whole plan had been built around never hearing the sound of an alarm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He built a little tent of dead wood and the fire was safety alight. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I caught and released some largemouth bass and a batch of bluegills in the pond shortly after it was built. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a one-room Presbyterian Church, built of native stone, to which a preacher comes every three weeks when the road is passable. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of those trees, in a new nest they’ve built, just along the twist of the creek. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Loll, man, why won’t you let me see this secret project you built?” he asked. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung’s grandfather, who had farmed the very fields upon which Wang Lung now spent his life, had built it, hauling the bricks from the town upon his wheelbarrow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Dinka never built factories or highways or cars or planes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Zeitoun had suspected, the jail was built largely by hand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He built a separate home for himself—smaller, simpler, and infinitely more humble, but comfortable all the same. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It is time to look more closely at the work of Descartes and other scientists who built on the foundations laid by Galileo. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Work was a pyramid, he knew, built on day after solid day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They hadn't yet done much investigation into McMillian, so they decided to arrest him on a pretextual charge while they built their case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed the glow of distant fires well above them; a tower keep, built upon the steep side of the mountain, its lights like orange eyes staring down from above. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’d built one that could creep along the floor and up the side of her chair, unseen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I lived in the mine, in a wooden shack with a zinc roof that I built myself with the help of a few peons. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison had been built in 1805—in Napoleon’s day— and was even styled after the Bastille. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found wood piled by one wall, built up the fire himself, and then with gestures asked for water, for swallowing sea-water had sickened him and now he was parched with thirst. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Cabins built on posts would just float like boats, porch and all,” he assured himself in a whisper. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orpheus, a professional architect, remodeled their house, designed and built a separate studio for Marian, and dammed up a small brook to make a swimming hole. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“You’ve built the fire up way too hot,” I told her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last they saw of him, he was tied to a stake with a fire being built around him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Eric and the boy I thought was named Ben gathered broken branches of driftwood from the drier piles against the forest edge, and soon had a teepee-shaped construction built atop the old cinders. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Both Olmsted and Hunt were hard at work on George Washington Vanderbilt’s manor, Biltmore, near Asheville, North Carolina, and together had built the Vanderbilt family’s mausoleum. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At one time it was a dog-trot hall, but Dr. Finch had sealed it in and built bookshelves around the walls. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Bet there’s never been so many cars in Coalwood since it was built. I’m going to park ’em alongside the road, single file. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He also built some wooden boxes to hold it all, cushioned with newspaper for protection. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Strangest of all was a small wooden shack built up against the big brick chimney. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s wax dripping from the condenser or charcoal built up on a resistor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When secretions built up and clogged the tube down the Sherpa’s throat, Hunt would suck the tube clear with her mouth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

If the old plan had been daring, it had at least been built on stealth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I cursed the carpenter who had built this tomb. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They built their homes on sand and called the slip and slide adventure. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe these have been here for centuries and the people who built them are long gone,” Adina said without conviction. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The coast guard lighthouse on the rocks at Point White was a tower built out of reinforced concrete that rose a hundred feet above the sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Surely it is the barrow of the king who built this castle,” Taran said in a hushed voice. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The nest was the most intricately constructed thing, like something built by the fairies in my childhood tales. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was built upon rational numbers and implied the existence of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We, or at any rate I, had built such elaborate fantasies about him and the illusory mother that seeing him in the flesh shredded my inventions like a hard yank on a paper chain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the Fjerdan shut his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, “The Ice Court is on a bluff overlooking the harbor at Djerholm. It’s built in concentric circles, like the rings of a tree.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Michael S. Egan, the founder of Alamo Rent- a-Car, built his own baseball field, complete with a batting cage and stands. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the same way, a rat civilization would probably never have built skyscrapers, since rats prefer to live underground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Cole spotted the tiny shelter that had been built for him near the trees, above the shoreline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In the end they decide on a shingled two-story colonial in a recently built development, a house previously occupied by no one, erected on a quarter acre of land. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was in a small village built right up to the road, a way station for merchants. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time he was fourteen, Tony had built a fierce reputation in the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The bank building, which provided the shell for the new library, had been built in 1931. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

My vocabulary cannot describe the new mosque that was being built around the Ka’ba. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were built of brick, and at the time they were brand-new. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cracked in our hands as we built our contraptions, spilling onto the newspaper we had haphazardly laid out. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This one, though, was far more elaborate, and had been built since the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“My father spent his boyhood here,” he went on, “before the new palace was built. He says there’s a secret passage somewhere. It’s rumored to start in one of the rooms on this story.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the back, everything seemed to be built out of plywood and canvas. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And yet his desire to crush all faith in him was in itself built upon a sense of faith. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Marsh showed an interest in natural history, Peabody had a museum built for him at Yale and provided funds sufficient for Marsh to fill it with almost whatever took his fancy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Gosh, nobody back home is built like him, other than the varsity swim team. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some engineers told him the house had been built by one of the old surveyors, like Lewis and Clark, who had explored and mapped the American wilderness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a picture of a Gay Nineties couple on a bicycle built for two. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fireplace built into the cave wall, and a pot bubbling over the flames. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We rode down Route 127 to Folly Cove, passing a mile of granite curbing and houses built with granite blocks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Auburn Prison, meanwhile, had been built in the style of Newgate Prison in New York City, with inmates housed in “apartments” holding two to twenty inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d built his own house, hauling river stone, milling lumber, a man prominently and wondrously strong far into his forties. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The heavily illustrated volume, just 165 pages long, presented incontrovertible evidence that humans and chimpanzees were built to the same body plan. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“All the squares formerly built up solidly were now so many black excavations, while the streets had the appearance of raised turnpikes intersecting each other on a level prairie.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

That one we built in the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Then they began trying to convince themselves they could have built the bomb—if they had really wanted to. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In days long past they were built by the Men of Gondor in their pride and power, after the overthrow of Sauron and his flight, lest he should seek to return to his old realm. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Starks were made for the cold, he would tell her, and she would laugh and tell him in that case they had certainly built their castle in the wrong place. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At first Pollard was too weak to go far, but he gradually built up his endurance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The helicopter light shot down a dozen brilliant pillars that built a cage all about the man. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert Swinyard says our school and the Maze prison were built by the same architect. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She would walk me across the street to Miss Daisy’s beauty shop and sit me in the small room built onto the side of Miss Daisy’s house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Someone has built a fire in my kitchen. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

During that time between his proposal and their wedding day, Gramps and his father and brothers built a small house in the clearing behind the first meadow. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was a federal holding prison built inside Dutch Schultz's old liquor warehouse, which had been confiscated during Prohibition after Dutch was arrested. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A generator had been built, and electricity lighted the houses in winter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all built it together, as a family, a few years back, before my older brother, Brady, left home. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He built ingenious training devices out of whatever was lying around, brewed up homemade liniments, prepared his horses in exactly the way they said he shouldn’t. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the story of the steam-powered boat is based on a misunderstanding: Papin had built a boat powered neither by sail nor oars, and the boat was indeed destroyed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Katherine and Jimmy decided to buy a lot in Mimosa Crescent, the World War II-era neighborhood in Hampton that had been built for middle-class families. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When she touched my cheek with her open hand we got the shock of static she built up from the carpet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As stains and stench accumulated, the restaurant’s manager built a chute on the roof and threatened to jettison the garbage directly onto Olmsted’s precious lawns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Whether it had been built that way, or because he had used magical trickery to make it so, Slughorn’s office was much larger than the usual teacher’s study. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Trains weren’t built for speed, but, as old as this one was, it was probably the slowest train I’ve ever been on, especially after it started climbing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the traditional Philippine house, built on stilts, with one room where the whole family lives. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

First, however, she moved out of the two rooms into a spacious first floor of a building that had been built as a store. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood its people. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually, however, the practice of seizing pictures ceased, and I built up my album so that it was thick with pictures of my entire family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was reminded of a time in Pacific Grove when I was painting the inside of a cottage my father had built there before I was bom. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew what damage it might do and what might be built on the rubble? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Shelves stuffed with books were built into three walls, and a TV dominated the fourth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His house in Georgia is definitely way nicer than I built it up to be in my head. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was now getting close to the middle of November, and as the sun went down in the afternoon and traffic jams built up on Leesburg Pike near his office, Dalgard worked on his diary. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I built a hut here I would first have to kill him and his pack. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they were busy playing, I dragged up several large timbers and built a fire which would last for hours. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The University School was built around a central courtyard. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The lodge had been built for sporting people and trout fishermen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In my day, I built a bridge. I called on my friends to help. We gathered rocks and threw them into the ocean so I could get across,” said Hanuman. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a hypothetical molecular-engineering technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he graduated, he and Margaret built their first lab in a janitor’s quarters at Hopkins—they spent weeks wiring, painting, plumbing, building counters and cabinets, paying for much of it with their own money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For such an extraordinary athlete—even as a Lower Middler Phineas had been the best athlete in the school—he was not spectacularly built. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were crudely built and dirty, the kind that would haul livestock. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If the Baconian system can be summed up in a sentence, it is that science must be built on the foundations provided by facts—a lesson that Boyle very much took to heart. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The temple was only the second built in Utah, constructed by volunteer labor over seven years starting in 1877. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With the four officials beaming, he wrung my hand in welcome, a young, tall, powerfully built man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lester was built like an ox, which made him look more like a man than the high school kid he still was. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And in fact, over thousands of years, people in every corner of the globe built a large body of food knowledge. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I realized Hades must’ve built his palace to resemble this one. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Whoever built this city loved to waste metal. They aren’t called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty discovered them.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My father had told me once that it had been built in the early twenties by a group of Orthodox Jews who wanted their sons to have both a Jewish and a secular education. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure I built that ladder right. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin built a fire and stacked dry wood nearby. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Osh had built our cottage from whatever he could wrestle off the nearest shipwrecks that were slowly settling into the seabed, breaking up in storms, and otherwise disappearing, bit by bit. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The truck backed up to the steel tower that was built to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba was pouring himself a whiskey from the bar he had built in the corner of the room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was also the construction of a landscape of sacred power, built in an atmosphere of ecstatic religious celebration. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Especially the younger ones, who ain’t built up a callus to it yet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth spent most of the days in a precarious tree-house they had built the previous summer between three great birches on the lake shore. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cleverly built home, with one wall, a sloping roof, and two entrances. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It had been built into the side of a mountain, overlooking granite peaks and a valley carved by ancient glaciers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She climbed, hid, built, broke, wrote on the walls, and spoiled dresses when they had only just been finished. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It turns as smoothly as if her father just built it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to imagine a rabbit plodding steadily on: they are not built for it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his orders his sanitary engineer, William S. MacHarg, built a water-sterilization plant on the fairgrounds that pumped lake water through a succession of large tanks in which the water was aerated and boiled. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Samuel built his house with his own hands, and he built a barn and a blacksmith shop. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“At least one new family has built a hedge to avoid people seeing them as they pass by,” said Wade Green, seventy- two, who has summered here for years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We built a tavern there, and I began buying and selling land. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings are narrow, closely built, as the city’s perimeter is longer than it is wide, stretching two miles along the Tonle Sap River. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked on until I found a hut built against a lone brick wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fumbled with the flint and tinder until a spark jumped, and I built a respectable blaze. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied them carefully, and then I remembered reading how Wernher von Braun had built rockets when he was a youngster. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

First a corsair’s cellar, built to safeguard gold, weapons, an eccentric’s beekeeping equipment. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A governing council votes for a vice chancellor. That is the way it has worked since this university was built, that is the way it is supposed to work, oburia?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But if there is indeed an American image built of truth rather than reflecting either hostility or wishful thinking, what is this image? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were so impressed with what we’d built as we crawled through the doorway and settled ourselves inside. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He built the town courthouse and the jail. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The barn was twice the size of the house, built on top of a natural cave that served as a root cellar and cold storage. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It's a separate community built around a beautiful green, dotted with flowering bushes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The house was small and wooden like it had been built without machines. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were the two beehives Onofre Martinez had built and which the one-armed man cared for, supplying the Blooms with honey as a kind of rent. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was the same size and shape as the parlor, but two of the walls had bookcases built into them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wide, tree-shaded avenue and the houses were rich and impressively built of large granite blocks with long stone stoops. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His courser was as slim as her rider, a beautiful grey mare, built for speed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the German dictator built up a huge military and started hacking out what he called a “Greater Germany,” a massive European empire that Hitler insisted rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made Hazel’s look like a toy built from a cheap kit. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some even caught glimpses of his sinuous form, silhouetted against the light-colored stone of which Rome was built, a sinister shadow sliding past walls and closed gates. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The church was a strange little white frame building stuck up on a hill behind the police station, built when the city was a country town instead of part of the metropolitan Washington sprawl. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Livingstone helped end slavery, opened Malawi to trade, and built good schools and missions. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

They built a series of apartment complexes—mostly two-story buildings arranged around big parking lots. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They planted their fields carefully and all about their new plants they built fences made out of sticks and pieces of thorn tree. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

By the time Edwin visited next, Cole had built a table, a chair, and a bed frame for an old foam mattress that was part of his supplies. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I was about to become part of a country that was much more rich and interesting because it had no walls built around its perimeter. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m the kid version of Glenn Burke, except I’m not black and built like a tank. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Maddy told me his nickname is Mack, because he’s built like a truck. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Carl had named his boat after his wife, and, in ’48, built a big frame house just west of Amity Harbor, including an apartment for his mother, Etta. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We have built up a repertoire of such gestures, such familiarities, between us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been built from wood and iron, and was by far the most beautiful and well-kept stable she’d ever seen, certainly far nicer than anything in the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was here that his army had put ashore, and there on the highest hill that he built his first crude redoubt of wood and earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No one had constructed the houses along the street as well as Miss Whitlaw s father had built his. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that the bucket was sturdy wood and built to hold at least two gallons, it looked tiny as a teacup next to the draccus’ massive head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Maggots, and the Puddifoots of Stock, and most of the inhabitants of the Marish, were house-dwellers; and this farm was stoutly built of brick and had a high wall all round it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He is a chap built up by you people for some reason that I don’t understand. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the alley behind our house, there was a mini housing community called Euclid Parkway, where about fifteen homes had been built around a common green space. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With his new money, the man had built the fourth wing to his house, and in the courtyard he grew a stand of bamboo. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he wondered, quietly aloud, how they had built this city to last the ages through, and had they ever come to Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotels were built on the assumption that visitors would come for two weeks at least, but the car gave them a fickle mobility. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked thinner than ever, and he was built long and lean to begin with. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Since the Germans had a shortage of powered aircraft, the boys built and piloted gliders. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was jarring and uncomfortable, at least at first, like being dropped into a strange new terrarium, a habitat that hadn’t been built for me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The propulsion experts at NASA’s laboratory in Cleveland took the lead on the craft’s electrical system and the retrofire rockets built into the craft itself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“They were dedicated to Zeus when the dam was built,” Thalia said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s so hot there that swimming pools boil, so one emir built himself an indoor ski resort. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The men were grizzled and sharp-eyed, dressed in dark, heavy- knit clothes built to hide layers of road dust. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I am watching from the cave, but the fire he built—outside the house, in the yard—has burned down. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The young man had built a small fire and was cooking a piece of sausage he had taken from a package. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw a heavily built man, probably in his late sixties, wearing a rather tired tweed jacket, his shirt open at the neck. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she built the lean-to and had it painted gray. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"All these savages know how to do is steal the things better men have built . . . and kill." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Old Familiar cawed twice, and then we took off, flapping in a giant, gusty circle as we built up speed and climbed higher and higher. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I see a loosely built part where the stakes are far apart and the bushes sparse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yanek, why don’t you put on a show for us? He built his own projector.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But the hills are so pretty. Mostly, with small out-of-the-way towns like this one, you’ll find city people who have come and built themselves homes up in the hills. For privacy.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I built the last shelter for you, and I built it well. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But we sang our songs and brought them to the streets and into the classrooms—classrooms we built on our own lands and filled with our own words and books. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Without Euclid this very school could never have been built. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was always held to be the real founder of Rome because Romulus and Remus, the actual founders, were born in the city his son built, in Alba Longa. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had built themselves a crystal house on top of this ordinary building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And after they built the town from my mind, they populated it with the most-loved people from all the minds of the people on the rocket! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Kind of embarrassing. Anyway, that’s how a Roman legion got to China. The Romans eventually put down roots and built a new hometown called—” “Li-Jien,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I nod and she continues, “Let’s just say this wall was built like the pyramids: most of the builders didn’t live to tell about it, and ain’t no Moses come to liberate them.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They built churches out of plaster and wood and sat within them, reading books written in foreign tongues. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a city that had been built just to be abandoned, in which all the fears and madnesses and revulsions of the creatures who built it were made into stone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

All were keen that so terrible a deed should be swiftly avenged, and that no further disaster befall the great hall the king had built for them to feast in. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The engineers were smart. They built the walls on old foundations that go down to bedrock. And don’t ask how I know. I just do.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When they reached camp, Cole explained how he had built the cabin, then he returned to the fire pit. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“One computer for schoolwork and regular stuff, one for video games, and the third—I built this one.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had a wife, Nancy, and three children, and his own house, which he had built with his own hands, a small tight adobe that required mudding every two or three autumns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Uncle Drum and I built a ramp onto the new porch. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The temple wasn’t too dark inside, thanks to a hole in the top where a family of birds had built a nest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A few of them surreptitiously moved up past Snakeroot and built shacks along the fringe of the woods, hoping someday to be rehired. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the workers he referred to as “my people,” Erwin built a huge auditorium where they attended concerts and plays, movies and flower shows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

About the same time that the Soviets began working on putting another woman in space, they also began talking about a space station, built from separate modules. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had her stained-glass window carefully wrapped in cloth and brown paper inside a box that Father had built for her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun fell and the moon rose, the dragon showed her how he could make sparks by scratching his claws against a stone, and they built a small campfire. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, all the teams were grabbing desks and firing up the tablet computers built into the furniture so they could explore the library’s online card catalog. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The area was originally intended for whites, and a real estate developer actually built a number of houses there for white buyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, threshing the grain his own farm would not raise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We paused on East 53rd Street, where a new building was being built. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I would use the excuse that the monument was being built, and the noise and dust and activity bothered me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never built a fire all by herself in her whole life. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rather it is to track the evolutionary process by which success has been built upon success; that way we can come to understand that science works, and how it works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In this way Bobby Joe built up some interesting and valuable connections and with their help, just before leaving Vietnam, he worked out a daring plan to send himself a “body.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auk XII, on the pad, was built to the design we had more or less standardized, but how it would perform loaded with melted rocket candy was a complete unknown. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After everything he’d built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life: one disappointing son and two suitcases. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had built his hatreds little by little—beginning with a mother who neglected him, a father who alternately whipped and slobbered over him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joe was off to college—to that school Leland Stanford had built on his farm near Palo Alto. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since we enjoy affluence and security, and since our affluence and security are built on foundations laid by the Agricultural Revolution, we assume that the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful improvement. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

These mansions had been built by wealthy white families in the late nineteenth century and included two to four bathrooms, electric lighting, gas furnaces, and steam heat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some prosperous Frenchman had built the house in the late 1700s to house a menage of wife, children, and spinster tantes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while views of the surrounding mountains and deserts were spectacular, the army built high fences around the entire lab—making the scientists feel like prisoners. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if anyone ever found them, when they built that new bridge. You buried the map too.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The revolution had been slow and ponderous, but it had weight, and that weight built up a momentum, and when that momentum finally broke forth, it was with a great and accumulated force. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The hut was built, or piled up rather, of driftwood planks and branches. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the gray dawn he built up the fire and found more wood for die day, feeling almost chipper because his ribs were much better now. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

To convey these tactile qualities, Titian built up his surface in thin coats, known as glazes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the very outskirts of the village, there was a large, simple wooden structure originally meant to provide cover in a rainstorm, then, when more solid buildings were built, to store things temporarily. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It sucked off boots and shoes and ruined the brake linings on cars and trucks; it built up crippling deposits under horse and cattle hooves. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theirs was the last house in the neighborhood to be built, but when they moved in the area was still so new that local maps showed it as woods. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might’ve been seventeen or twenty, it was hard to say, but he was built like a dancer—with long graceful arms and muscular legs, perfect posture and an air of regal calm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The wall was built in such a brain-frenzied hurry that it cut right through some commoners’ houses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s all been researched and tested. These tools are built specifically for women.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

You were built to kill monsters like this. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I want patrols assembled immediately to keep watch in the streets, and sentry fires built on every corner.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blond-haired, well built and as graceful as a cat on the court, Andre was one of South Africa’s rising tennis stars. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many houses had their upper stories built so that they extended over the narrow streets, blotting out the sky. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The material introduced in this chapter will be referenced and built upon throughout the remainder of the book. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Though its only window had been bricked in years before, one wall still boasted a hearth big enough to hold a kettle, and there was an actual privy built into a comer nook. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had built my house on solid rock, all right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny called, “See that big house, children? Down near the water? Your great-great-great-grandfather, Captain Turner, built that house. No other house in Salem like it. It has seven gables.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shone on the clay fireplace Sam had built from riverside clay. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jack peers my way again and, when I catch him, he looks down at the thing he built—bookends, I think? The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

What those rich people don’t always know is that broken and forgotten neighborhoods were first built out of love. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We built sand castles, ran in the surf, rode a merry-go-round, a miniature train, and bumper cars. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I had built a new life, and it was a happy one, but I felt a sense of loss that went beyond family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had meant—or so word at church had it—to build an elaborate bungalow of the sort his father had built years before on the family farm at Island Center. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tingling had built to a furious itch that needed to be scratched, and I was too upset to hold back any longer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I knew he was sore because the DiAngelos bought his grandfather’s farm, tore down the old house, and built a mansion up there on the bluff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

This has been the longest closure since the park was built. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Would they be built on different laws of physics? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all built by the same contractor at the height of apartheid—separate nodes in the central nervous system of a police state. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All this occupied what had been the royal palace before the current queen’s grandfather built a finer one straddling the Eder and gifted this one to the Scholars’ Guild. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I built a little igloo out of my books.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I think it was the sand castle she built with that kid. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy about yachting—and an account of the luxurious modern house he had built on this little island off the Devon coast. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Jason imagined what the palace must have looked like when it was newly built, with Imperial guards walking the ramparts and the golden eagles of Rome glinting on the parapets. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He built up the fire and then worried about whether the Farm Patrol could see it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It led to wooden steps built up to a lookout tower that gave a view of the deep valley and the surrounding hillsides. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The week after that someone built a board fence. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly below the aerie was a pine tree where two blue jays had built a stick nest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

That men had built such a thing as this, a stepping-stone to heaven. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had Farhad and Muhsin dig a deep hole a hundred yards outside the circle of willows and built an outhouse over it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“My Thomas built this house. He made it good and snug or it wouldn’t have stood all these years.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels, each delved into the hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall was a gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

If they built one, maybe we could chip in a few dollars and they would let us stay there. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Another forge was built for the production of tools and nails. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

They were in a place the size of a cathedral with the appearance of a city, its towering walls built of objects hidden by thousands of long-gone students. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A pair of birds had built a small nest of mud and grass in the highest beams, had themselves a family. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She could have built her own hut to shelter from the rain and devised fishing lines to satisfy her need for meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Use less than for quantities of time and money, too: He built the bookcase in less than two weeks and for less than thirty dollars. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two feed bins in the barn built to keep out mice and I’d already stacked one with potatoes and the other halfway with nuts and com and cabbages. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Pickett estate was silent, sterile, and endless—like a newly built housing subdivision before actual people move into it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They built a fire and cooked a meal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can tell it was built for a larger gathering, and perhaps it held one before the pox epidemic. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Professor Kylmer had a research grant from the government and worked part of the time at a special laboratory they had built for him, not at Cornell but in the mountains about twenty miles away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

No other country could crack them, in part because no one could guess how the machine was built. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The youngest in Booth’s group, Powell is tall, powerfully built, and very handsome—except that his face is misshapen on one side, the result of a mule’s kick. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A great wall which the gods built out of Ymir’s eyebrows defended the place where mankind was to live. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In every instance, they have improved the homes they have bought from the whites and built even better ones. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pauses, eyes cutting into me again—but this time, I know it isn’t with all the anger he’s got built in him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

We were built so differently, he and I. For one thing, Barack’s head was an overpacked suitcase of information, a mainframe from which he could seemingly pull disparate bits of data at will. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They built a house at South Beach with a view of the sea and cleared a path to the beach. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brahe’s observatory: the curved scale is a quadrant for measuring elevations that is built into the wall; inside it is a trompe I’oeil section of Brahe’s observatory, with a giant figure of Brahe himself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the right side of the meadow a large common latrine has been built, a roofed and durable construction. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In under a minute, he has built an oscillator to match the schematic. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He fed the fire again and then arranged some rocks around it so that it couldn’t escape from the little cleared space where he had built it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“We have built the walls far too thick for that. They could not knock it down in a week. Courage, comrades!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It drifted through open windows in summertime, accompanying my thoughts as I played with my Barbies or built little kingdoms made out of blocks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And as soon as the mountains were built, they began, just as ineluctably, to wear away. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The emperor probably had some built in his throne room.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I have the perfect spot for a nap. My husband built this cozy little den just for me. Come on. It’s right through here.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Long ago, when the Games began, the Capitol had built a dozen fine houses in each district. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The platform was built of almost three million cubic yards of rock, much of it transported from mountain quarries fifty miles away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him how I never wanted to work in any of those offices, or that I’ve also dreamt of performing on a stage I’ve built. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was the largest shopping complex in the Bay Area, built in an old Ford assembly plant. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They were built of stone and they all looked exactly alike. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

José Arcadio Buendía spent the long months of the rainy season shut up in a small room that he had built in the rear of the house so that no one would disturb his experiments. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That of course was why the first Sanchez had built his seat there. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cart and the platform are almost exactly the same height—not by accident; my father built a sort of earth-ramp leading up to the barn just for that purpose. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

He was surprised when he saw that the Englishman had built himself a furnace outside his tent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He built a wind-powered mechanism that generated noise to scare birds from the family fields and set out to create a perpetual motion machine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The dinosaurs, built of concrete, were a kind of bonus attraction. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Alfred L. Kroeber, the renowned Berkeley anthropologist, built upon Mooney's work in the 1930s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Marly, Joe got that old man up the steps and into his bed and built a fire and gave him hot milk!” she said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

We built our own fire and unfurled blankets. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

This was when the railroads were being built and when Wall Street emerged. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Donders built instruments to try to measure what he called “the time required for simple mental processes.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What’s more, he wrote the libretto as well as the music, and drew up the specifications of the purpose- built theatre at Bayreuth in which it was to be performed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Early on Wednesday morning, I built a fire in the metal trash barrel in the backyard, fueled by my school papers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This arch here looks seventeenth century, but isn't it the case that it was built quite recently? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This business about being watched isn’t real. You’ve built it up in your mind.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only the blood of the dragon would ever know the secrets of the fortress the Dragonlords had built, he vowed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Indeed, built into one wall was an enormous fireplace, cold and blackened with soot. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The voice of doubt lapped against her, persistent and unabating, but she built her fortress up higher. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was built into a white arch formed by two monumental stone wolves on their hind legs, and spanned the road leading up the hill to the Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And our inferior bodies could not possibly be accorded the same respect as those that built the West. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

An ejection seat is simply the aluminum seat the pilot sits in, with a small rocket motor built into the back of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school was built on posts, and a stovepipe came through the wall and stuck up above the rafters. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith is also in charge of getting houses built for all of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They went on talking and remarking about it while Mother built a fire in the stove and put in their antelope leg to roast, and mashed some plantains. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In places they could look down through clear waters and see where old houses had been built, their concrete foundations showing in the deeps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His opponent was shorter and thicker, built like an ox, with a low jutting brow and broad cheeks, and he hacked and battered at his door, making it shudder and jump under his sword. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had never been to Seattle before, and I thought it was one of the most intense-looking cities I’d ever seen, built right up against the tree-lined coast, in the shadow of a giant volcano. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The stones were still there, piled up, from when they had built the fire. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Old fishermen with time on their hands built bonfires out of driftwood and warmed themselves while the sea made breaches in the hulls of ships that had come hard aground. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He believed the Rad Lab was destined to face inevitable decline as physics progressed and competitive laboratories emerged—many of them built on the model Lawrence had pioneered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

How do you, another would-be user, then design something similar for your own use, knowing that other people have already got their own model built and working? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The machines, which were dismantled by occupation personnel and dumped in the Pacific Ocean, included the identical copy of Lawrence’s sixty-inch cyclotron built in Tokyo. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At nightfall they built fires with pieces of old shoes to keep the mosquitoes away, and watched the stars from beneath the big oak tree where they’d hung a rope to swing from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife, Virginia, had just built a four-bedroom contemporary home, complete with a swimming pool, on Cedar Gap Ridge. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We’d got a video player in the billiards room a couple of years earlier, and by that spring had built up quite a good collection of movies. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a roughly built log cabin with mud plastered into the cracks, and there was one door and one square window covered with greased paper. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So to avoid the problem of absence, Prince Humperdinck built the Zoo of Death. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His place was built the old way; it was a birchbark house, but it was quite warm in winter because he knew how to heap the sides with snow and he was an excellent trapper. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

As I sprint faster, the layers I’ve built to protect myself since I crossed the border flake off, like scorched leaves on the trees along Kobani’s Aleppo Way. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So much of our brain is built to shield us from knowledge that we are far less in control than we think we are,” he adds. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The days he had spent on the boat, the enforced rest, had built up his strength. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said she thought the glory days of this country had long ago passed, and even those glory days were sullied: They had been built on the bodies of others. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The newly opened King Willem II is a secular high school housed in a palace built by the Dutch royal family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He built the Mary Rose before I was born, and I seen the picture of him standing by the bow when she got launched for the first time. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The land of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob should be built by Jewish goyim, by contaminated men?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“My father,” says Etienne, panting, “used to say Christ Himself could not have carried this wardrobe up here. That they must have built the house around it. Another now, ready?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The hall had been built as part of the national headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a patriotic society founded in 1890. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Einstein introduced a new “antigravity” force, which, unlike other forces, did not come from any particular source but was built into the very fabric of space-time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most listeners will quickly grasp the form of a short and simple piece, or of one built from many short repetitions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Now he was in bed with Valencia in a delightful studio apartment which was built on the end of a wharf on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a place the Fallen Angels might have built as a spite to Heaven, dry and sharp, desolate and dangerous, and for me filled with foreboding. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise built to a deafening crescendo before ceasing abruptly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She could send him to the refrigerator, which was decorated with the blank couple on the bicycle built for two—or, as now, she could wheedle, “Tell me a story, Billy boy.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An inch shorter than Joe, and more slightly built, he was nevertheless a fine physical specimen and striking to look at, with fine, regular features; gracefully proportioned limbs; and an open, eager face. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Along the main thoroughfare, the houses were built right at the edge of the road, as if huddling for warmth during the cold Polish winters, and hoping for company in summer. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I gripped the handlebars of the big green bike and leaned forward, head down, built for speed. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She quickly built a reputation for being brilliant, a natural scholar who could glance at a book and know it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ren house was sturdier built than my cabin; from here, it appeared to have several rooms. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As he climbed into bed that night, C.P.'s thoughts lingered on the upcoming game at the newly built ballpark, with its unique round tower that reminded the boy of a castle. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here we is with two in the house and one being built and they still ain’t no place for this man to do his business. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It did not seem to be built strong enough for its three stories of height. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Baelor the Blessed prayed and fasted and built the Seven as splendid a temple as any gods could wish for, yet he could not put an end to war and want.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas Volpe built a workshop in the basement for his wife’s business, with big mirrors for fittings. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The men tended to be taut and well built regardless of age, dressed in beige or gray pants the color of the plains and cowboy boots that were worn for function. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva had his own opinion of how the fire should be built and how long the meat needed to cook, and so did each of the others. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion—and the wall being built around Asgard was a glorious, imposing thing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The warehouse was in a newly built industrial section of Compton, far enough from coffee shops and hot dog stands to discourage most of us from going out to eat. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Followed by: Senator Oscar Diaz, responding via satellite, that President Claremont’s primary value is upholding the Constitution, and that the White House was built by slaves, not our forefathers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d built the frame from long beams, the roof and walls from decking, the chimney from a vent pipe off a lost steamer, one window from a porthole. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He went to King City and studied a flush toilet and then built one of craftily bent tin and carved wood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I built a modest fire just big enough to cut the chill and lay on my back, backpack under my head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As I walked, I built it back up with prayer, hung the door on its creaky hinges, nailed the floorboards down, fitted the transoms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A free man, the Americans believed, had the right to what he had built with his own strength, brains, and will. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was entirely graceless, rather tall and badly angled, built of dark red brick. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I could’ve built a wall to rival that one I heard about in China. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Everything built up over fifteen years here can come apart as easily as an adobe house in an earthquake. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Later, after we finished reading about how ancient Sumerians built sundials, Jack whispered: “Do you ever want to beat those kids up?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Whoever built this place must have loved light. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My grandmother Rose was a tough woman, so tough she’d built the family home with her own hands while my grandpa worked as a tailor in the market. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In a feat of modern aircraft design and engineering, Johnson's team built the first U-2 spy plane in only eighty-eight days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually no cars pass us; the sidewalks are empty, and the homes, which were built many years ago, stand gray or paint-chipped behind walls of lilacs and groves of stately trees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had built a maze on Buck’s Peak and trapped me inside it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The family built a hut in a small makeshift village with other Moro, avoiding the “peace camps” and farming the surrounding hillsides to produce enough food to survive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

You sense it all around in the pointed lack of ornamentation, plants, or reason for hope—walls built not to shelter but to constrain. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. McDuff had built it back with posts as thick as telephone poles and crossbeams that could have been used as headers in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the western end of each little house, they carefully framed a small windowlike opening, and built beneath it a shelf for spirit offerings. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He came back, put his big hands on either side of the door frame his great-grandfather had built over a hundred years ago, and he nodded. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near it was another, sturdier, bridge built low to the water, carrying an enormous conveyor belt, which appeared to be transporting piles of rock and gravel from one side of the river to the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It got cold at night, even on the beach in the summer, so he built fires with the remains of Calypso’s dining table. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He drew pictures, constructed models, built full-size prototypes—and not one of them worked. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British had built their own hangman’s platform at the opposite end of the Commons. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father built an orphanage in Shar-e-Kohna, the old city, south of here,” I said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It extended barbed wire and built new concrete barriers.3 China, too, increased border security to discourage North Koreans from entering the country in the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He walked down to the rocket, and some of the men were eating a freshly cooked breakfast under a shelter built by Cookie. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got near us, we captured the poor pig, slaughtered it, and then built a fire and ate roast pork underneath the stars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember the rumbling we all felt under the beauty of Paris, as though the city had been built in abeyance of Pompeii. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I felt Fay’s arms stroking the muscles on my back, my shoulders, and the tightness inside me built up as it had never before done for a woman. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every ten minutes by the small clock built into die dashboard he tried to radio with a simple message: “I need help. Is there anybody listening to me?” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed orders, however, and the former grand marshal of the fair wound up fighting the men who had built it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Wouldn't you know that as soon as I got a claim staked and a place built, the doc here would tell me this cough was going to kill me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like Algernon, I found myself behind the mesh of the cage they had built around me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

East Germany's master spy built the largest espionage network in the entire world, recruiting thousands of spies, informers, and watchers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago had been built largely on soggy marshland that flooded every time it rained. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here they were stopped by a large, heavily built rabbit—one of the Owsla. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Dad really would have built us a house?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The black community wanted the public housing units built in a different location, and virtually anywhere outside of the already overwhelmingly black section of Durham would have pleased them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once having set up her idols and built altars to diem it was inevitable that she would worship there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was vaguely aware of this particular young man, who had built a reputation during basic training as a thoroughly eager warrior, ready to kill and businesslike every bit of the time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A small bellows was built into the side of the machine, and it began to rise and fall, giving the impression that the device was breathing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the night they had built a stone wall, had set out pickets, had taken prisoners. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Industrial Revolution would depend on the skills of such men, skills that would have been familiar to the craftsmen who built the first Strasbourg Cathedral clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The cities back East had been built in the railway era, with central business districts linked to outlying suburbs by commuter train and trolley. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Shoulder-length hair, well built, and her clothes had cost somebody plenty. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like their confreres elsewhere in the Americas, Indian societies had built up a remarkable body of knowledge about how to manage and improve their environment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So they built Story Boxes in the image of the original one to protect the power of the stories they had collected. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A vague tension built in the room as they snuck glances at each other, waiting for the boy to leave. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Esgred was the first ship he built. He named her after his mother. I would be hard-pressed to say which he loves best." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A kind of resolve suddenly built in her chest. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The desk, too, was pleasing—his father had built it himself. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought often of the room Raji had built for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Guards grabbed the boy and dragged him to the front of our lines, where the Nazis had built a gallows for hanging prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wasi was sturdy, built of tightly stacked stones with a thick thatched roof, but it could not protect us from the creeping fingers of the cold night air. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Had the king had them carved when he built the clock tower, or did they predate it? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was a clearing in the forest, and in this clearing there was a mug cottage built of stone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1853, a small stone hotel called Tip-Top House was built atop the mountain and was a huge and immediate success. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Homeless men have built a cardboard “village” on rooftops. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes sense, then, that the construction of small and mediumsized hydroelectric plants—capable of serving local industry and built mostly by hand, using basic technology—has been a priority since the 1990s. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Probably near fifty, he was built like a tank and always seemed to have his jaw clenched. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad built shelves all along the upper walls to store Mom’s art supplies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle built the starship models when he was a kid.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Jam wondered if it was the thing who got to decide what was on the other side, or if what was there had always just been there, or if Bitter’s imagination had built it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

An early benefactor was his twin brother, Monty, who had taken over the Dallas hotel empire their father built from a single Holiday Inn and who donated a three-story Victorian in a neighborhood near Brown. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses—whatever you desire.The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She used to follow after him every place he went—out fishing in the woods, to the clubhouses he built with other boys, to the slot machine in the back of Mr. Brannon’s restaurant—everywhere. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They hurried across a small clearing and into an alley between several haphazardly built log cabins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Not only had Foaly built their communications network from scratch, but he was also a pioneer in the field of flare prediction. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was surprised at such affection after all these years, but then, in the stone walls I had built between my present and my past, I had forgotten how close we once were. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aberdeen Gardens, the sprawling development built on former Hampton Institute farmland, was another desirable location, its wide streets with grassy medians and surrounding forests drawing many active-duty and retired military families. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Pressure built behind my eyes, a lump formed in my throat. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

After easing him over the bank and down into the gully, we built a large fire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He built his own laboratory, the first at Cambridge, but then engaged in the most bizarre experiments. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The foundation was to be made of thick walls, built twenty-five feet below ground level, which would support the building and prevent it from settling unevenly. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Because the slab had to stay moist, it must have been built and covered quickly, a task requiring a big workforce. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Mayans of the tenth century CE built city-states as far south as Belize and Honduras. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The two men never spoke again, though to his credit MacKaye paid Avery a warm tribute on his death in 1952 and generously noted that the trail could not have been built without him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The demon who had built the house had wanted it that way. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like the tiniest castle ever built, with round stone walls and a pointed red-tiled roof. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Mike device was based on the Teller-Ulam design and built by Los Alamos; Livermore, which at that time was fully engaged in “simply coming into being,” played no role whatsoever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s built, he keeps his mouth shut, and unlike you”—she popped a grape in her mouth—“he does dishes.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We built a fire and sang campfire songs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The men found a thin-walled cabin nearby, stumbled inside, built a fire, and felt lucky to find some food. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried in vain to awaken love in them by means of the bird cage that Úrsula had built during the first reconstruction of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The houses that had been built with such haste during the banana fever had been abandoned. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They dragged boards and other materials down from the scrap heap by Miss Bessie’s pasture and built their castle stronghold in the place they had found in the woods. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He built Mammachi a Bauhaus dining table with twelve dining chairs in rosewood and a traditional Bavarian chaise longue in lighter jackwood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in a while a mortar shell would land near the base, and then we would all run out into the trench built in front of the tent. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a couple steps up to a large chair behind a desk built into a tall wooden podium. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In Jerusalem there are Muslim shrines built to the Prophet Jesus. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then took the insights he had gained and built cipher machines for the Army that were even more secure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The old crone’s cottage, like most other Stromford dwellings, was built with a few timbers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

On this particular June Sunday they rode up through the lanes between the drystone walls that Beryl’s laboring ancestors had built, and over the top of Highdown Rise, with mud up their bare shins. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The next day, he brought me a book about famous buildings and the men who had designed and built them. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

A slow dread built up inside her as she began to make the obvious, logical and completely mistaken connections between the night’s happenings and the missing children. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s so that the custom- built harvester can snip each leaf at precisely the same point. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Reporters had been calling Dads office, the Department of Civil Engineering, asking how a school could be built over a huge sinkhole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this basis of material stability Orgoreyn had gradually built up a unified and increasingly efficient centralized state. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She cut it up and built a small fire. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they built the strongest rope ladder in history, Frankie wasn’t sure how she’d be able to use it when she was weak and had only one usable arm. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She was originally built for vacation cruising and has amenities I think you would enjoy, such as a pool, a formal dining room, a ballroom, and a library. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

According to William Woods, the geographer and archaeologist at the University of Kansas, Monks Mound completely covers whatever habitation these people had before they built Cahokia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It also determines the grammatical category of the phrase: in this case it is a verb phrase, a phrase built around a verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sweeping and drastic remedies could cut out anything—and life with the cut Ideal advice, which nobody was built to follow, was no advice at all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Neel’s eye fell on the beautiful chair and desk Baba had built so carefully, and an idea leaped into his mind. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pearl turned her eyes to the TV screen, where burly security guards were wrestling an orange-haired woman built like a BarcaLounger back into her seat. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Of course, it’s not like the old days. When the Colosseum was first built, you know, they could flood the whole arena. They had sea battles with ships modeled on real ones.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“This was...the basement for a manor house, built in later Greek times.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The construction noises I heard over the phone earlier were actually due to construction, because the office is only halfway built. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most impressive features of Galileo’s entire career is that within 24 hours he had built a telescope better than anything else known at the time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They camped almost in the road itself and built a great fire, dragging dead limbs out of the snow and piling them on the flames to hiss and steam. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was King's Landing and the great Red Keep that Aegon the Conqueror had built. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Emotions and ritualized behavior patterns are built deeply into us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had reduced private ownership of land, nationalized certain sectors of the economy, pioneered rapid industrialization, democratized education, and built a modem army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, Ignatius thought calmly, Rome was not built in a day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this history, black residents near Hopkins have long believed the hospital was built in a poor black neighborhood for the benefit of scientists —to give them easy access to potential research subjects. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her father had built a career on it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The letter C identified a cargo plane like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, built to transport military goods and troops and, eventually, commercial passengers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Near Block 28 some of the men who had been professional gardeners built a small park, with mossy nooks, ponds, waterfalls and curved wooden bridges. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm had built it on the grass only a few feet from one of the main paths, but, like him, it seemed to be invisible. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, there you are, boy. Platform nine — platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they don’t seem to have built it yet, do they?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was built exactly like the inside of a ranch, only in the middle of a New York apartment house. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He brought a few sheep, built them a feeding trough. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

This was where my father built for us with his own hands a four- room house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forms for seventy-two tiers of seating had been built, enough to accommodate 110,000 people. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“If it’s about this land, it’s mine. I built this hot-dog stand with my own hands.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of our school's built in the last thirty years, but one part's an old grammar school from Victorian times and the Old Gym's in that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘Many long lives of men it is since the golden hall was built.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing built atop it, just the hole cut into the earth like a dead mouth agape, tangles of briars and waist-high grass growing up all around. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It also helped that he was strikingly good- looking and built like the oarsman he had been, the former stroke oar of a Washington crew that had won national championships in 1924 and 1926. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes he waves me in, a short, thick man built like a bull. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe the room and the stairwell had been built during different time periods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was a Negro Youth, a Tall, Gawky Thing, and he played upon a Fiddle built, I would hazard, from two Gourds & a discarded Peg-Leg, but, Shun, he played like a Seraph — a Disconsolate Seraph. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Using some channel iron found behind the machine shop, we built what looked like a miniature oil derrick and placed it over the scale as a brace for a tube that held the rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But as resentment built, it began to show. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The path they built had no historical basis. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The house the Links eventually bought in Medlock Bridge, built in 1987, has 3,900 square feet and 1,100 more in a basement with a wall of windows facing the backyard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The hospital’s cavernous wards were built for another century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Hundreds and hundreds of footprints. Some guy driving a bulldozer discovered them by accident, and they built a whole museum around them.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I looked at the house that my father and my brothers had built on the juniper-patched hill; it was quiet and peaceful in the blue night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cattle pens, filled with animals and their waste, are built around a corn mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the downside, the Burrow was not built to accommodate so many people. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The desk had probably been in the same room since the school was built; it might have been even older than Ms. Udell. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He built a fire and propped the boy’s wet clothes up and brought him a can of apple juice. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It envisioned 25,000 miles of new hiking trails across America, most of which were never built. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once in the building, we head straight to the Family and Consumer Science classroom that hasn’t been used—outside of our Iridis meetings—since the school was built eight years ago. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There’ll never be anything as fine as them again. They’re built to last; ten, fifty, two hundred years. Yes, they’ve as much right to—to life as you or I or any of us.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they flourished, evangelical entrepreneurs and strivers built a distinctly evangelical business culture of prayer meetings, self-help books, and business associations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“But he said that it built character. And he said that Penn State was looking really good with their recruitment. And he mentioned you.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Chords built only of consonances sound pleasant and "stable"; you can listen to one for a long time without feeling that the music needs to change to a different chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A large building, spruce and white; not only money has built it but men’s hopes and pity, as I know who have seen it grow brick by brick and year by year. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inka roads, by contrast, were built for llamas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Scott’s shantytown for the homeless was built near a rocky knoll and the residents christened it Tobruk, after the battle in the North Africa campaign of the war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To carry water from a distant spring through the fortifications, he ordered a great tunnel built. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, technically speaking, Suquamish villages were built on both sides of the Sound. So their reservation is across from us, but this whole region counts as our ancestral territory.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he can see her clearly from this seat that his dad built. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They put new glass in the cupola, painted the fence Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather had built, and then painted the porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If a bomb were built in time to affect the outcome of the war, it would need to be dropped by plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stooping, he collected rocks and built a small pyramid to mark the point where he had intersected the path. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It looked like a collection of matching houses, built with maroon-colored bricks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Here she checks the trip wire her great-uncle built beneath the telephone table on the landing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Charlie was built like the twins, shorter and stockier than Percy and Ron, who were both long and lanky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

To handle the increase in patients, the committee ordered that a new structure be built to accommodate them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It was a respectable gate built plainly of wood, and Wang Lung struck it with the palm of his hand. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The Ice Court had been built to withstand an onslaught of armies, assassins, Grisha, and spies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A powerfully built welterweight with a Marine Corps emblem tattooed in blue on one massive bronze forearm jumped lightly to his feet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings were built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She brought me the old clock her grandfather built. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cane became a part of the myth he built. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Spender led him over into a little Martian village built all of cool perfect marble. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It all started when Edwin and Garvey first brought me here a year and a half ago. Edwin had already built a cabin for me.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The well was dug even before they built the cabin. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrapped up like white mummies, we new astronauts were given our first peek at the Gemini spacecraft being built at the McDonnell plant in St. Louis. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s built like a brick house with mounds of blonde hair, though I’m sure she dyes it that color, because the roots are black. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She had, in short, done everything right and she had built a good life, the kind of life she wanted, the kind of life everyone wanted. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We built it larger than our last one with the hope that a brighter fire would attract the draccus more quickly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now, Mary’s presence at the laboratory built on plantation land rebuked the shortsighted intolerance of her fellow Virginian. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bridges, because they are usually sensibly planned civil-engineering projects, are only built to go over things—often, things with lots of water in them. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In a moment I built up an intense loathing for sleeping in the room where the boy had died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other is senior Bobby Ryan, a little shorter and more slightly built, but also an athlete, a lacrosse player. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The missionaries built and ran schools when the government was unwilling or unable to do so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just a little room they built inside the carport. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They approached a corner park that was raised and built over a parking garage. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was like an invisible bridge had instantly been built connecting us. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But the house had certainly been built by a millionaire and was said to be absolutely the last word in luxury. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He also thought about the family that had built up that farm. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

As a young man he had built it himself on acres of field and forest deep in the Catskill Mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“They need some way of getting food from the farms at the bottom of the mountain to the city at the top. So they built these trams. They even carry passengers.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Stan Smith, tall, lanky and powerfully built, with blond hair and blue eyes, was one of the world’s greatest serve-and-volley players. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magic was not mentioned in the song that built the world, but rather had arrived in the world much later, in the light from the stars and moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And the long days and months and seasons built a powerful restlessness into the boy. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hey—the whole freaking world was built from delusional optimism and folly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was thick and sturdy, built like a man already. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I want it built strong,” he directed over and over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The colossus lay like a medieval castle, built in the most inaccessible place, protected by precipices and rivers.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pauses before taking it, not wanting to leave the brief world we built together but knowing we have to. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The room isn’t built to block that level of sound, and the whole house shook. They’re going to come down.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even after this, he thought up an idea for an escapement for a pendulum clock, which he described to his son Vincenzio, who actually built such a clock after Galileo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Looking toward the sick camp, I saw the sufferers gathered outside the huts we had built for them, waving their hands in fear. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Approaching, she could see the pen that was already partly built. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other buildings in town were low to the ground, built of rough timber with cedar-shingle roofs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only a few Gee Bee’s were built, and they must have been very tricky to fly; eventually they all crashed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had built up the strength in one of his little hands so that they attached a plastic arm over it and he could control almost real-feeling soft plastic fingers on the end. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barn and the farmhouse burned down years ago—before my parents bought the property and built a one-story brick rancher. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

I found out later that it had eight sides instead of being built in the shape of a square. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty seconds at a time, I could practice opening the Gemini hatch, getting out, and “flying” or walking over to the side of a make-believe Agena built out of wood. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so full of minerals that rough, chalky encrustations had built up along the edges, like a coral reef. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On that particular afternoon, the girls had built a dungeon out of cardboard boxes in the corner of the storage yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys had built a wooden raft they kept tied up there, fourteen feet long, nine feet wide, big and solid enough to carry them out into the lake. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Americans had built ten big forts on Manhattan Island, and six more across the river in Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing built this crazy can last Listen, she say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the way, he built schools and almshouses, new roads and bridges, and even founded whole new towns, establishing himself as one of the most enlightened of the English landlords in Ireland at the time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He built a little house for his mutt and tried to induce compliments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At dusk, he tried another farmhouse, newly built of cinder blocks and surrounded by pigpens. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And I wondered which side actually built the fence. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had been built above the original stone castle, and cost a kingdom’s wealth to construct. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“When I built the cable company, in the early stages, I was making deals where I would have been bankrupt if I hadn’t pulled it off. I had confidence that I could make it work.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Forming the west side of the quadrangle, King Hall had been built almost thirty years later for the University of Chicago’s education department. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She scanned a bookshelf built into the kitchen wall, all art books. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Even in the house he built up nearly from scratch, he was still Big Ma’s child. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her house was not well built for she had never made one before, but it was cozy inside. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the women nor their husbands, brothers, or parents had any While masters built Great Houses that they hoped not to use, a slave’s whole life fit into one room. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But at last they came to St. Paul’s Cathedral, which was built a long time ago by a man with a bird’s name. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

"There is a saying in Qarth. A warlock's house is built of bones and lies." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s high and wide, carefully built to keep us in and others out. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In the twelfth century CE, the Mississippi Valley region was home to several large city-states that were built of earthen stepped pyramids much like those in Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In 1661 Christiaan Huygens built his own air pump and began repeating the standard experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As I stood there, I thought of the cottage that Osh had built. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“My own fault, really. This world is built on the power of story, boy. Seems my story is intertwined with this here floating death palace. Cotton and the Maafa.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her closet, full of clothes, was built into the wall, and the top of her dresser was covered with small perfume bottles, lipsticks, and miniature dolls. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Man got his house done built and his wife ain’t come yet.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And where better could she learn that trade than in a house full of magical creatures, where fairies built their nests in the garden and books whispered on the shelves by night? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The boys and girls who built them were, I realized, the competition we West Virginia kids were going to have to face once we went out into the world. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know that she’d been built in a factory and then stored in a warehouse before crossing the ocean on a cargo ship. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They squatted on Indigenous lands and built towns, confident that the US military would protect them. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Charles cleared land, built up his walls, improved his drainage, and added a hundred acres to the farm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are so big they look like they were built And vines. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They raised us, built a life, and prospered—not extravagantly, but enough to definitively move up in class. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Several weeks earlier, Edwin, the Tlingit elder from Drake, had built a sparse one-room wood shelter for Cole on the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The first was built largely around a core of last year’s freshmen: Don Hume, the big powerful stroke; Gordy Adam at number seven; William Seaman at number six; and Johnny White at number four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

How had they built an atomic bomb so quickly? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Spencers’ hole was built for a family, so there's more than enough room to move around. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Past the new, freshly baked, iced, Gulf-money houses built by nurses, masons, wire-benders and bank clerks, who worked hard and unhappily in faraway places. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their land was originally unprotected from the East; but on that side they had built a hedge: the High Hay. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if we built a little fire by one door we could smoke ’em out the other, like bees,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Say that there were people in the year 1905 who hated war and got together with some scientists in secret and built a rocket and came out here to Mars ” “No, no, Hinkston.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a radio telescope were built on Venus, it could detect the Sun, the Earth and other distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The reality was that Wagner could only have a theatre built for him and his own pieces put on there thanks to the generosity of the very people he had previously so detested. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Back at the truck the boys built a little fire when it got dark and the chill crept up from the ocean. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the following Saturday, Auks II, III, and IV were ready, built exactly as he had described. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Farther up the bay, on the dead-water east arm known as Little House Cove, the Westinghouse family had built a Newport-style mansion on thirty acres of Douglas fir trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The city built a new prison, moved the inmates into their new quarters, then rehabbed the old prison and turned it into a high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then they built a second vessel and set off downstream. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had been built in the 1950s and was designed as a co-op, meant to ease a post-World War II housing shortage for black working-class families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I had built the machine but had not included any devices for studying disintegrations.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This road of endless ruts and missing stretches of pavement had been built during the first American occupation of Haiti, in the early twentieth century. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Our great grandfathers built stone walls and buildings that are standing today. In Europe some have been standing since the year 1000.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They built neither stockades nor trenches around their camps. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Blocks away, where newly built mixed-income homes sat next to picturesque buildings like the gothic Church of the Advocate, built in 1887, was the direction the neighborhood wanted to go. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Tall, well built, and confident, he was as black as the night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden was surrounded by three walls built of rough stone, the other two being not much higher than the one I’d just climbed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were living in the housing project then, some government- built apartments for people without a lot of rent money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each block was built to the same design, just as each of the ten camps, from California to Arkansas, was built to a common master plan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Used to climb this very tree, y'know, when Nick was a wee nipper. One summer, we built a tree house. Wonder if it's still up there..." Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Francis wanted no time lost in seeing whether a satisfactory three-dimensional model could be built, since the geneticists and nucleic-acid biochemists should not misuse their time and facilities any longer than necessary. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Over the next decade, he built a successful career and started his own company based in New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The temple, for the mound was surely built for religious reasons, was laid out in a wide, shallow U about 150 feet long and 60 feet high, with a sunken plaza between the arms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was built low to the ground, so Woolf’s view was constantly obstructed by bigger horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to remember this day: when she left behind the life her parents had built for her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Powell’s radio voice was tense in Donovan’s ear: “Now, look, let’s start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics—the three rules that are built most deeply into a robot’s positronic brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She built up the fire, heated kettles of water for the washing, so that Mercy might have fresh linen under her restless body. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If her father has built this alley into his model, her fingers have not discovered it yet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The brother agreed. He built them a wasi not too far from his parents’ home, and he and the star woman lived together happily. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The freshly built town reminded him of a huge Army camp. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The haven, where the townfolk would shelter in times of trouble, was even larger, low and long and built of stone, with a thatched roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bacon read it in manuscript, but had no time for it: Gilbert’s preoccupation with magnetism seemed to him an irrational obsession, and as a result he had ‘built a ship out of a shell’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Never mind that the man for whom it had been built was still living, the Cloudspire was a royal tomb, and all manner of luxuries had already been laid in for the king’s postmortal comfort. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

What consumed him in this period mostly was something new: his first purely commercial venture, built around his first invention totally unconnected with the work of the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Which was the whole reason the hood was built in the first place, to keep the victims of apartheid out of sight and out of mind. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Walls, doors, halls, steps, everything was built to an inhuman scale that made Arya remember the stories Old Nan used to tell of the giants who lived beyond the Wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then in 1941, the SS sent Sargo a young German radio expert, who built powerful transmitters and radio networks that could reliably reach Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was built in stages in the second and third centuries a.d. atop a deep, 300-foot cave created by a lava tube that may have represented the place where human- kind emerged onto the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night Cole built a bigger than usual outdoor fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At last milady flailed away with her hand brake on, and the kind of a day I had built lay in ruins. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he built a little pyramid of twigs leaning against one another in the center of the circle. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Its tranquil beauty mocked the relative prosperity peasant families had enjoyed for centuries, before the dam was built. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The grandeur of the ornate glass structure, built in the Beaux Arts style in the early twentieth century, makes one think it must have at one point been a playground for royalty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He carried in so much wood and built such a high structure with it that his mother walked in fear of an avalanche of oak. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The batter who stood now at the plate was broad-shouldered and built like a bear. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The other boys discovered their own truths when we built our rockets, but those were mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But you built that company from the ground up.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was Giannini’s urging, perhaps the example of Bing Crosby, who was investing heavily in racehorses, or maybe the spellbinding vision of the track their money had built. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was built like a linebacker, which didn’t involve ball skills at all, so Dad held out hope. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like all dwarfs, they built things, wonderful, remarkable things, in their workshop and their forge. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Leo built the stables so pegasi could come and go easily.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The city of Tenebrion was built in rings, with tall walls separating them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Ralph felt as though he had a cardboard tube down his throat as he described how Grover had bought the land, built anyway, then sold it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outskirts of the capital they built a storybook cottage, two stories, fretted with eaves and little porches and window boxes, an incongruous Alpine look in the tropics. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then we constructed a wooden railing around the floor and that left only the roof to be built. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

There were the city’s defensive walls, built in a harmonious oval, but the harmony was broken. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Something novel, original, daring and unique must be designed and built if American engineers are to retain their prestige and standing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She knew Mr. and Mrs. Allen; because they had all served together on the building committee when the old Lincoln School was torn down and the new one was built six years ago. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were large, heavy, ostentatious pieces that were built to last for generations and to withstand country life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also she went to the princes of Eleusis who had built her temple and she chose one, Triptolemus, to be her ambassador to men, instructing them how to sow the corn. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They built barricades with sandbags and paving stones that they pried loose from the main courtyard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, they built their entire life around my existence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

One man had built a small fire and was popping com. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes spent his earliest years in the Cherry Hill Apartments, a planned construction built after World War II to provide housing to returning black veterans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

England now had no excuse; the abolitionists would force their countrymen to face the question: Was England a nation built on Christian beliefs or on treating people as property? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When she had everything stored at the back of the cave, she built a fire, boiled pumpkin, and toasted a few soldier termites she cornered in the baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the Revolutionary War, Pittsburghers built their opportunities from whiskey and farming, then they broke their backs on coal and the railroad. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But this forty-yard length, this is what I am built for. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sphinx and pyramids were built by people fed on crops originally native to the Fertile Crescent, not to Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We were . . . smart. And I think it might be part of the Variables. But most importantly, Teresa and I have a . . . gift that made us very valuable as they designed and built this place.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was announced that later, when bricks and timber had been purchased, a schoolroom would be built in the farmhouse garden. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Both music and the colourful ritual of ballet thrived at the French court under Lully and Louis XIV who built upon the musical patronage of his predecessors. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At A military hospital camp at Kendall Green, near Washington, D.C. one end of what would become the National Mall, the Washington Monument was one-third built. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It had been built a long while before by the Brandybucks, for the use of guests, or members of the family that wished to escape from the crowded life of Brandy Hall for a time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Disillusioned with political organizations, he had distilled his thoughts down to three or four basic ideas, on which he built his whole philosophy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haupt was powerfully built and an accomplished fighter in both wrestling and boxing. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Could life elsewhere—on Mars, say—be built of different stuff? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time the heaving will destroy whatever is built on top of it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We sat around a fire built with dry cow chips and told stories while shaking out grain from ears of corn. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This town was built by Mayor Carr and his politician cronies. You willing to give your life for some rich man’s delusions?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

How you present yourself—ordinarily the job of the opening few moments of your address—is the foundation on which all the rest is built. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

There we built our bonfire, and Olakunde and the other musicians began to make their music for the dance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They built a department store over part of it and then tried to erect a government building over another part. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Cieza de Leon once came upon three different highways running between the same two towns, each built by a different Inka. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once she found it, she stepped around to where she’d built makeshift steps. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Under apartheid, the government built what became known as Bantu schools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I sat there in court for three days listening while the evidence built up. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they pulled together and worked with Roz and built a bigger, better lodge on top of the old one. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But it can’t be built in clay. No kiln,” I say. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They farmed and built a house and brought a series of older and older children from the audience into the imaginary home, and then more babies for grandchildren. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a performer, just like my mother used to be, touring the country, the world, to tell everyone about the New China that Chairman Mao had built and how it was becoming stronger and stronger. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see the barrier to this trap, because it had been carefully built around a curve in the bank where the animals could not see it until after they had gone through the opening. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could make out an open-air market filled with colorful tents, a stone amphitheater built on one side of the mountain, a hippodrome and a coliseum on the other. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘My mother played on the floor of this kitchen. My grandfather was but a young man when he built this house, and I, a grandson, have better right to it doubtless than an elder brother.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We even built a little bench to sit on inside the fort, and we had a plan to paint animal spots on the walls. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As he gazed at it suddenly Sam understood, almost with a shock, that this stronghold had been built not to keep enemies out of Mordor, but to keep them in. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were dappled Percherons from France and shire geldings of tremendous size built to bear the weight of men in armor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Before we got back to Camillo Junior High, we passed Saint Adelbert’s—“built almost a century ago with the pennies of Italian immigrants,’’ said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The plant was built with sufficient room to install more tanks if production failed to continue ramping up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“So we’re really just talking about prosperity built on the back of slavery once more,” I say. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Alex was fourteen, already well built, with the body of an athlete. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

In order to feed the people who built and used the monumental structures, particularly large quantities of food were required. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there, it was almost like this mental courage built up inside of me because I had toppled one of the greatest. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve built up a good record here from the time I was a kid. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If this place was built as a fountain, there has to be a way to drain the thing. You guys, check the niches for secret exits. Maybe the seashells are knobs, or something.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They even gave us an extra ration at one point because they wanted another barrack built before the snow came. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Gobs of it built up in the doorway, plopped to the ground. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter said that New London had built the most expensive rural school in the world. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They even have Wi-Fi and TV screens built into the seats. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even the vast sextants and quadrants built by Tycho Brahe were simply enlarged sighting devices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was nothing there—just a wall, built of red bricks. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Og’s wife was a big Tolkien fan, remember? He built this place for her.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But now Papa was gone—and so was the life they’d built. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

For a man who had built his fortune from the ground up and seen it demolished overnight, he had been so hopeful. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

God had done a wonderful job when he built the Mississippi and there could be no way to improve on what nature had done. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America’s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Here, for the first time in his life, he built a home for himself, feathered with comfort and permanence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole idea behind why they built it will be gone.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were cages large enough to contain pools built into the floor, and beings with silvery scales instead of skin swam beneath the surface. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He leads us to the roller coaster he’s built in his backyard— actually there are two: the Blue Flash and the Blue Too. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The main market is situated along the highway leading into town, near an old train station built by the English. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the help of other refugees, Beatrice and her sons built a mud hut for shelter. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Among these living carriers were fish that had hatched nine months after the last DDD application, grebes, and California gulls that had built up concentrations of more than 2000 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Chisamba Singles was like a small city—more than ten thousand people lived there, either in shared houses or small shanties built from scraps of metal and wood nearby. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She repacked her treasures, slid down the rock, and built a fire in the dry streambed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these meager beginnings he built the giant Westing Paper Products Corporation and founded the city of Westingtown to house his thousands of workers and their families. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we passed the gristmill built by my great-grandfather Tweedy around 1850 on the Hudson River, and rattled through the cool of the covered bridge he built across the river to join his land together. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer laid out his vision for getting the bomb built. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is young, very well built, and articulate. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a special, sausage-shaped canvas bag built for him, maybe about thirty feet long. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was heavily built and had a round, fleshy face and short, dark hair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s recently built, oblong in shape, flat- roofed, undecorated, unrevealing, sort of like a factory. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the Palace they built a wire cage and in it their collection of angry tom cats grew with every night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was placed on logs and rolled close to the dining room, and what they called a “butler’s pantry” was built between. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I was built, I was supposed to be a top-of-the-line resort, but the owners never secured a liquor license, so I became an instant disappointment. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I saw that La Saline stretches for many kilometers along the sea, built out on dumped refuse. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shed was full of things he had built, some senseless mechanisms the functions of which were a mystery even to himself now as he looked upon them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We got no fire on the mountain. But what's wrong with a fire down here? A fire could be built on them rocks. On the sand, even. We'd make smoke just the same." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I think he was eighteen, but he was built like a streetlamp, just like me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We watched as all the houses were built and each street added. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

While the twenty-seven-inch accelerator was still on the drawing board, Lawrence and Livingston worked intently to improve the performance of the eleven-inch chamber that Livingston had built for the old magnet. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Many thousands of others boarded trains and jammed the bright yellow cars, dubbed “cattle cars,” built by the Illinois Central to haul as many people as possible to the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“But you trapped him here when you built your dam. He has been angry about it ever since.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle Frank had an eco-friendly construction company in Spain and had built a ton of buildings in Madrid. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His dragon body wasn’t built for hugs, but he made it work. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“When they built the new tower, they left this one standing.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The only way up the Purina Tower is the steel ladder built into the side, and there seem to be about twenty-five thousand steps. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The new prison sounded horrible, but Pong couldn't believe that one march would stop it from being built. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I built an app for chronic illnesses. Med charts, schedules.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Which was why I lived most of my summers in the tree house after I built it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, over the summer, he got contact lenses, and I noticed his eyes were bluer than the swimming pool his parents built for Carver School. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reads about how the pyramids and Greek temples and Medieval cathedrals were built, studying the plans of churches and palaces in his textbook. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She built a fire in the grate and burned every letter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nowhere near as cool as our real bug-out, though—a hidden safe house our family built deep in the woods in the event of a nuclear attack, or EMP, or any other end-of-the-world scenario. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But there it sat, sagging a bit, squat and honest as her father had built it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He felt weighted down by the centuries of time since the Pyramids had been built. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back on the beach, the girls built a signal fire from sticks, palm leaves, and paper from their morals clause contracts, rescued from their official “Welcome, Miss Teen Dream” folders. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He also built houses, school buildings, churches, a company store, a bakery, and an icehouse. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There has been one improvement since she left six years before: a relative built a small cinder-block house next door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The wide-open building that serves as church and school was built of concrete-block pillars holding up a roof of palm thatch and billowy clouds of scarlet bougainvillea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seen you when I built that crazy lean-to for Kate. Now why in hell did she want that for? No window.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When this place was first being built, my mom and Lucy used to drive through here every few weeks with me in the backseat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The truck was built to carry cargo, not people, and it was smelly and disgusting, packed full of bodies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That first captain walled their promontory, built their homes and shrines, and parcelled out the black land for the plow. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Handel, though, not only represented a musical amalgam of European styles during his lifetime; he also bequeathed to the next generation of composers a non-parochial, universal idiom that was venerated and built upon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This is the biggest ship there will ever have been: it is built of the fingernails of the dead. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t think any of this had been built for me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The work camps and chalets, the schools and study centers, were never built. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Miles drove through the streets of Crane, memories of the cross-burning and the colored pool and the wall that the whites built bubbled to the surface. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After swearing Abdulrahman to secrecy, Ahmad brought him up to the roof and showed him a cage he had built from scrap wood and chicken wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Late Victorian, the house is, a family house, built for a large rich family. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all just sitting right there at the top of my throat, just behind my eyes, all the sadness and guilt that’s built up inside me like a pile of trash at the dump. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their hut is bigger than many we have seen yet built like all the others. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solitary Ik, isolated in the ruins of an exploded culture, has built a new defense for himself. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a broad reach of savanna, the Beni’s original inhabitants built raised fields—artificial platforms of soil that lift crops above the floodwaters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is a dull, drab, ash gray; it looks very old, even though it was built several years ago. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s built a complex farm system around this simple idea. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Our ancestors built devices to measure the passing of the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. My mom built it so I could feel like I was outside.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At sixteen, Eleanor was already built like she ran a medieval pub. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He was a powerfully built man, deep-chested, broad- shouldered, massive, and yet quick in his movements, springly and agile. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy does a pirouette over the unaccompanied wild percussion that we’ve built up and lands on his knee: “How sweet it is!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the turret, the Warden had built three bunks for the boys, with PJ.’s on top. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“What for? I am glad she told me. Should I not be proud that you have built this house with your own hands?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Murphy Homes were built in 1962 and named after George Murphy, a legend in Baltimore for his work as a groundbreaking educator, but just as often they went by a self-explanatory nickname, Murder Homes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ogion knelt down and built the fire on the hearth and lit it, for the house was cold. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was always getting built up instead of crumbling down. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The houses were built on concrete slabs, so no digging was required. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They dragged themselves to the cellar, which was nothing more than a dirt room underground, built a century ago to store canned goods and potatoes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was examining the three dimensional plastic maze I had built. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The music reflects off the walls, reminding everyone that this place was not built for the acoustics. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My climb continues, up a wooden staircase that’s been built atop a crumbling concrete one. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A robot is a machine. I was not born. I was built.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Consider this: Half of all the offices and malls standing in America today have been built since 1980. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just five years old, she and her sister ship, the SS Washington, were the first large North Atlantic liners to be built in America since 1905 and the largest that Americans had ever built. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The house—for the most part designed by Mr. Clutter, who thereby proved himself a sensible and sedate, if not notably decorative, architect—had been built in 1948 for forty thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting dark and almost everybody was hanging around their barbecue pits where they’d built little fires and were roasting hot dogs or burgers or marshmallows. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Its crew built a rude shelter with a defensive wall made from poles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But if you put a few thousand volts on the tube and built up to a million volts on the particles, the glassware would survive, and the particles would accelerate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Erudite girl prods at any weaknesses she sees, and so does Cara, and soon they are all shored up, like we have just built a secure structure. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Chattana was a city built on water, with canals serving the place of roads. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A large cofferdam, made of sheets of steel, was being built on the west side of the river to divert the water away from the base of the cliffs there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“We built a whole new extension just for you.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Before she climbed into the car, Mrs. Ezeka asked her to come to the back and see the new bunker her husband had had built; it was concrete, sturdy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He said that he wanted to rip down the house he’d already built but his dad wouldn’t let him, so he planned to add The Amazing Deck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Molly’s dream of a quiet summer evaporated, for the house was desperately in need of rehabilitation—“an old wreck, one of the oldest around, and built without benefit of architect” she recollected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was as though the house was built half onto a plot of land, half in a forest, like it was emerging from the trees. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He signaled to a man built like a hot-water heater. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or were great whites built differently from others? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They built up a big army and a navy and attacked other countries around them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enormous white-columned hotel, built in the classical revival style, sprawled on a manicured estate in the middle of White Sulphur. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Tony had a GED and had built a successful trucking company in Las Vegas, but it hadn’t survived the recession. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They built new airstrips as they needed them and lived with the local population or even in hastily dug trenches in the ground sheltered by tarpaulin sheets. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She had heard that Japanese houses were usually built north-south, but the houses in this little village faced every which way. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Cant you never get done for a while. Here I done built you a fire, and you wont even look at it.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the boys’ room, all that remained were the bolts that had attached the bunk beds to the wall; I guess that wood had built someone a cooking fire. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It must have been thought of as elegant when it was built.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were pathways built onto the top of the trussing, places for the bridge workers to get out to the cables and repair them. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They collected rocks and built walls four feet high, and then turned the Docker and the Wills over to form a roof. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A suspension bridge built out of Kirk’s Soap. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Carter had built it in the early 1930’s for the old mules who had become too broken down to work in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Flashlights built into our guns illuminate a large living room with mirrored .walls that throw our faces back at us at every turn. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He once told me that football is built on violence and racism, and it is corrupting and exploiting kids in low-income neighborhoods. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

"It's the most expensive thing ever built," Teddy said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both our offices were ex-bedrooms in the solidly built old frame house we had bought. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The motel is the kind we’re used to: a row of cottages, flimsily built, strung together with Christmas tree lights, yellow or blue or green. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a special console built to hold the televisions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was built before Karhiders used powered vehicles, and they have been using them for over twenty centuries. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

So far, to our knowledge, King’s had not built any three-dimensional models of the necessary atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She took off her stockings so she wouldn’t get a run and then glided to the floor as if her legs had been built to go in opposite directions. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wheeled him up an hour later, used my pocketknife to cut holes in the bottom of the barrel for drainage, and built up a fine sweat shoveling in dirt. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even societies built on the idea of eliminating class have had stark differences in rank. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s built to get out over the waves. It’s a ship-to-shore boat. You use it to ferry people to and from their yachts.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And since the men who built the early theatres were mostly sailors who had returned from the sea,” continued the voice on the tape, “Billy felt right at home.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It must have been built around the same time by the same people. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I flew really good when I got up above the surface, going over the shantytowns that had been built up around the cooling steeples. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principle of the scaffold was that loose bricks and mortar always were at the level of the top of the wall being built. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has spaces big enough for my thumbs to get into and millions of words and phrases built into it! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The talks proved to be critical, for they built on the foundation established in the Record of Understanding. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been built some fifty years back, hidden in the woods, right near the river just in case somebody needed baptizing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“To you she was because you built her. I don’t think you ever saw her—only your own creation.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Victory Mansions were old flats, built in 1930 or thereabouts, and were falling to pieces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Ivy covered it, but it was solidly built, and it would not fall down this century. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Made of elm and built by her father when he married her mother, the table was large, sturdy, and dependable—and so much more than a place for meals. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Men who make Committees and go around stealing mothers and hurting them, they’re just red ants killing black ants in a giant universe that has tornadoes bigger than the biggest thing we have ever built. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

How else could a science of psychology be built except by laboratory findings? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The west side is built into the hill in the old-style way. Sand and dirt for a roof; just about halfway underground. You can feel it, can’t you?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Men were laboring with Mattocks & Axes & Picks & rustic Grubbing Hoes — & together they digged out & built up the Breastworks & Redoubts at the Eminence of the Hill. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tins was surrounded by a high wall with towers, and, on the inner side of this wall, the big rooms which were needed for stores, bams, barracks, and stables were built. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t look like it was built for two people. Will it hold both of us? Will we be too heavy together?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They built a lofty pyre on a great ship, and there they laid Balder’s body. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This country's economy was built and grew on the backs of slaves. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He built up the fire and put the frying pan to heat and sliced thick pieces of salt pork into it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Too many high school girls are built like boys. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The reddish mound of earth that covered Dobby lay ahead, and Harry walked back to it, as the pain in his head built more and more powerfully. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s like he’s come to life because the monster he’s built has come to life. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The original village was submerged when a government dam was built in 1956. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Encyclopedia. I want to see when the Pennsylvania Railroad built this nice long track through the peninsula. I’d have to go into Delaware to pick it up, but it would take me right into Pennsylvania.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the arch stretched the great span that the Valyrians had built at the height of their glory, its fused stone roadway supported by massive piers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Soon after this Arthur Goldreich and his family moved into the main house as official tenants and I took over the newly built domestic workers’ cottage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed Izio into some deep, deep place inside me and built a dam across my sadness. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It had been built so long ago that it held up its own weight, without any support from hoverstruts. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The day dawned, and already the time of youth was fleeing the house which the three giants of my dreams had built on the hill of juniper tree and yucca and mesquite bush. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tank had leaked from the moment it was built! I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Someone has built a shrine to Finch in one of the large glass cases in the main hallway, near the principal’s office. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He noted how clearly it showed up and he noted how big and carefully built it was. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was as if Farmer had built himself an alarm system that, with any extended free moment, set off a recording saying, “You’re forgetting Haiti.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Behind them stood the big badger and another strange-looking creature, equally well built. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The stone of which everything was built seemed to be red, but that might only be because of the curious light. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Piatra Neamț was nestled in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains, with an economy built on logging and cattle raising, not the farming of sunflowers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

By evening the pines around the lake were lit from below by a hundred fires, and the greatest fire of all was built in front of the gathering cave. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding the river only partially frozen, they built a raft and launched it—“but before we got half over, we were jammed in the Ice.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and turned the firing switch on the professional-looking console Billy and Sherman had built. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A vastly larger stadium was to be built, one that would hold at least a hundred thousand people. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They are like engrams, built into our genes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After eating supper and cleaning up, Cole went out to the fire pit and built a fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“When the carpetbaggers commenced takin’ over, them Stokeses built a rock wall around the fam’ly graveyard and took off for Brazil, lock, stock, and barrel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then he built the twigs into walls with a sturdy basket weave of shredded bark all the way around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Big Top Mall was first built, it smelled of new paint and fresh hay, and humans came to visit from morning till night. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Cut down, they are now mute spies in the house built by foreigners. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s common to use but to mean “nothing but” or “only”—just be careful not to get tangled in negatives, since but in these cases already has a negative sense built in. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They built one of the most extensive networks of irrigation canals in the world at that time. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And so, slightly stunned, they stopped, built a campfire, and cooked trout for breakfast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Rome was not built in a day. Keep it in mind, comrade, that this is not your Oxford college. For you what is a nonsense for Masses it is something different.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, your dad built this for you when we were in college. Isn’t it beautiful?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

One of the mounds at Cahokia is believe to be the largest earthwork in the Americas to have been built before the European invasions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Since there had never been a republican chief executive, there was no readily available vocabulary to characterize such a creature, except the verbal traditions that had built up around European courts and kings. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

From the outside, it looks like it was built at the same time as the rest of the apartment. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A whole lot of talk about grace and faith and mercy and salvation, which, to me, all just equaled shouting, clapping, and singing in a building built to be a sweatbox. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Gray Horse, in the western part of the territory, consisted of little more than a cluster of newly built lodges, and it was here where Lizzie and Ne-kah-e-se-y, who married in 1874, settled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The hotel had been built on the side of a hill, so even though they went down, the cafe was still on ground level, with an outdoor patio overlooking the river. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The racetrack had been built in a grassy field between the archery range and the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

With or without the walls that he built. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was very old and built of a warm, reddish-brown stone. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Emily Sue lived in a house built on the side of a nearly vertical mountain across the creek and not more than a hundred yards from Big Creek High School. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the fence was apparently not built with the express purpose of keeping ten-year-old boys out, for while the bars are solid, they are spread almost a foot apart. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each of the two upper tiers had been built so they staggered outward, reversed stair steps. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was the daughter of King Laomedon, who had cheated Apollo and Poseidon of their wages after at Zeus’s command they had built for the King the walls of Troy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the key point is that the debate was not resolved so much as built into the fabric of our national identity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung sat in his doorway and looked out over the waters that were yet far enough from his house that was built on a high wide hill. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He tried to be stoic, giving the familiar speech that no team was ever built around one player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two women spoke about their donations to a wonderful charity in Malawi that built wells, a wonderful orphanage in Botswana, a wonderful microfinance cooperative in Kenya. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, they built a fire and roasted Dicey’s fish over it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the city was built, the brilliant early engineers had adapted these to a system of natural plumbing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Before he could walk, we built a “cage” for him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We built a roaring fire and propped the can up over the coals. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Each family will be assigned a house in the village. Those who do not get a house today will be built one tomorrow. Your first work assignment is to build houses for each other.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were well organized and built quite complicated villages in the fields. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Stonehenge dates to 2500 BC, and was built by a developed agricultural society. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been built as a shelter for pigs about to be butchered. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the lake’s western end, where the Little Tennessee River flows into it, stands a big hydroelectric dam, 480 feet high, built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

First there was a very high iron bridge, as high-arched as a rainbow, and after a bit of low stone bridge built in the shape of an S-curve, and I was on Deer Isle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I go to sleep by a campfire that looked like it was built by a boy scout, and I awaken in the middle of the eighteenth century.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were built by Jason’s dad, who is one of the richest land developers in Florida. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the old mosquito—and with it the disease—had been absent so long, hardly anyone had built up an immunity to yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Over the past seventy- five years, they’ve learned to be self-sufficient, turned their citizens into an army, and built a new society with no help from anyone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I had built up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but its algorithms were built on the full sum of human knowledge. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The two ramshackle rooms, built from zinc and porous bricks, like the ones on Fifteenth Avenue, overlooked the street, and were part of a row of similarly constructed tenements partitioned by narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived on the Flanders side of the Dodendraad electric fence that had been built to separate occupied Belgium from Holland. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Baba had had a stage built on the balcony that over­looked the garden and planted speakers throughout the yard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Was that why I fought my way out of Durango? Was that why I built an empire greater than El Dorado’s? El Dorado bathed in gold dust every day. Did you know that?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new place had been built in the 1970s, and nothing had been updated since then. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the priest had built his first school, it had only a thatched roof, and classes that couldn’t fit inside were held under a mango tree. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the back yard there was a big oak and in the summer they had built a tree house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Christopher Columbus was built out of three old houses, strategically connected by a series of back courtyards, corridors, and specially constructed bridges. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Until the sun went down I watched from the headland while the men made a camp on the shore and built a fire. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bounded by Central Park to the south, and lying between the Hudson and East Rivers, it was built up in the 1890s as an ultramodern urban environment for middle- and upper-class whites. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a fancy litde guardhouse on the island, like something the kings and queens in history would have built to keep out the serfs, or the Vandals, or whoever. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city was carefully built on the flat top of Machu Picchu, Old Peak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He goes on to tell me how their houses are built with frames made of thin saplings. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Neel slumped on the small chair that Baba had built with wood from their trees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of all, it’s a food chain built around one plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With dark they built a fire against the log and ate plates of okra and beans and the last of the canned potatoes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They augmented their diet with fish caught from the river, and Tally roasted a rabbit on a fire she’d built herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had built round turrets all along the walls. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The peasant farmers had watched the dam being built, but even when it began blocking the Artibonite River, forming a reservoir that flooded their farms, they felt stunned disbelief. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Egypt’s pyramids were larger, but they were built centuries later. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dyedka had built both the house and the barn in his youth, and though the house was comfortable, it was obvious where his priorities had been. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After the bed was made I built a fire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A chorus of engineers chanted that the thing could not be built, at least not with any margin of safety. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shanties built out of every imaginable scrap of waste—roofs of coconut thatch or gunnysacks, walls cobbled together from metal signs, wooden crates, or even cardboard taped over with plastic sheets—lined the narrow streets. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I went back to the house then and built a fire and cooked food for Rontu-Aru and me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s square-shaped, a bungalow, built of yellow brick and surrounded by raw mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In just a few months, a staff of six black scientists and technicians built a factory at Tuskegee unlike any seen before. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mom also built rows of shelves in the windows and arranged brightly colored bottles to catch the light. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The chair had been pulled up to the oversized fireplace Carl had built, inside of which stood tall, fluted andirons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And her shorts have little pouches built in—I can see the tops of energy gels peeking out from both sides of her hips. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In cosmology, as the journalist Geoffrey Carr has suggested, we have "a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This is the house built on the Erik Fisher Football Dream. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1938, Elizabeth met a man named Timmy, a strongly built Russian immigrant with red hair, blue eyes, and a nearly lifelong commitment to communism. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over the foamcrested waves they saw not far off a high, round, green hill, and beneath it a town built on a small bay where boats lay at anchor, all in peace. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If we had not built on high ground the very walls would have melted in that moisture. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wall was built in front of the restroom door as if to say, “Forget that it happened!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jason’s entire career at Camp Jupiter had been built on careful choices. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Jamestown colony was built on Chesapeake Bay, at the edge of the Powhatan Confederacy homelands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Russians had built atomic and hydrogen bombs, and they had jet bombers that could reach the United States. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so the red blood blushing in their faces and their eyes shining with wonder, Frodo and Sam went forward and saw that amidst the clamorous host were set three high-seats built of green turves. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She could not determine their nature, but they looked so suspicious to her that in any case she burned them in a bonfire she built in the courtyard. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Three men came inside the low stone wall the boys had built. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not so much, no. Since the highway was built... most cars, they do not go this way now. I must cherish every customer I get.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

High towers that people built, and strong places, and havens of many ships; and the winged crown of the Kings of Men was held in awe by folk of many tongues. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The area on which Hunt had been built was marshland, and the ground grew wet during the night. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But he just couldn’t fathom how such a structure could have been built. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had built his own oil field service company. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was she who made us feel the breathless height of the structure and the relative puniness of the humans who had built it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Aru turned around, she saw that the bridge was being built, more quickly now. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s now 175 years since Sing Sing was built—way past time we tried some new ideas. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two previous chapters were built around a pair of admittedly freakish questions: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? and How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired,” Velia said, and she fell into the nest of clothes we had built ourselves the night before. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Andy—called “Harold” by Rob and all his Kiwi friends— was a big, sturdy lad, built like an NFL quarterback, with rugged good looks of the sort that earn men roles in cigarette advertisements. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere below, a fire had apparently been built. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esperanza’s book had opened his eyes to the horrors of the empire El Patron had built, and he had seen for himself the low, dark dwellings of the eejits that were no better than coffins. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am virtually out of water, but the water Ti Jean and Farmer are carrying is unfiltered—they have both built up an immunity to local microorganisms—so they advise me not to drink it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The man was built entirely out of clockworks and fine machinery. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He said our house because a couple of my uncles had built their houses against his until the original house spread into a long house with many of my cousins living in it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should thank him for showing me that any power of one person over another is built on the threat of violence. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Each protocol had a different function: TCP/IP was the basic plumbing of the Internet, or the basic railroad tracks, on which everything else above it was built and moved around. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I studied in the evening until the sun set, and I stood in line to use the little libraries that missionaries had built for us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s balding and squarely built and looks like an aging football coach. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just built this stuff and tried not to think about where it came from. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She offered him another five dollars if he went back, and he built a small bankroll until he couldn’t deny he had found a true passion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A pair built a nest and I was able to witness the arrival of the parrot babies. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Problem is, it's just not built to pull hydrogen out of the air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slope plummeted eighty feet, straight to the roof of an apartment complex built into the hillside. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a small monkey, built for life in the trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our friendship was built on a plainspoken candor that I think we both enjoyed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Papa had named him Jumper because nobody yet had ever built a fence he couldn’t jump over. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I built my computers piecemeal from parts picked up at swap meets and shady discount stores in the city. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They built it of dry seaweed and leaves and also with hairs off Rontu’s back. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looks at the walls around it like he’s thinking about how that got built. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Jam gave him a small smile as a shaky hope built inside her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Robin was all excited by the mock-up gliders my father built. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ran along a street and had been built so the whites who lived on the edge of Niggertown would not have to see it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Idiots. They built their door so it opened out. When it snowed, they trapped themselves inside. The weaklings couldn’t pull or claw the door down!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She has become keenly aware that what middle-class comforts she does enjoy are built on uncertain scaffolding. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The Greeks built the Parthenon and the Egyptians built the pyramids back when the Anglo-Saxons were still dressing in animal skins.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mom wanted a real home up front, so Dad built a couple of bedrooms and a kitchen with a double sink. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in my heart, I felt a slow-growing certainty of my own: I wasn’t built to practice law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He claimed the nickname came from the wood shelving units Clancy had built to store all of their books and schoolwork. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then he entered in haste, and made a bed of furs that he took out of an old chest, and built up a fife, and cleaned Therem’s wounds and bound them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their only way to speak to each other was through a thin crack in the wall built between them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable—Caucasian characteristics for all. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Altogether, just 2 percent of the United States is classified as built up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But even as he moved his tools, trudging back and forth to store them in the primitive litde structure he had built between two trees, he found himself thinking again of the old woman. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It looked like a boxing ring, but I called it the “slippery table,” because the metal floor was built to be as slick as possible. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right under that wall you built on top of it. I can see it clear as day.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She’d even built the furnace and molded the bricks herself, which is not an easy job, and even today, not the job of a woman. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

These centerings were first built on the ground by the carpenters. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

In the service of saving Africa’s babies and extracting its mineral soul, the West has built a path to its own door and thrown it wide for the plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some also built roads and highways such as the Autobahn. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there was the chicken coop Linda and he had built together, and the chickens wandering in the yard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived alone, in a nondescript apartment near his lab in London, and in a spare, white modernist cottage that he had built for himself in Brighton. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet and shuffled on until I saw a single bare light bulb on the porch of a house built about a hundred feet down the side of the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed the whole place was built on waste from the Gulf of California. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor were they smooth walls, as I had imagined, but had houses built close against them. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright’s evil twin,” said Wednesday. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, as the frost-tinged night came on, the staff built fires of Elgon olive logs in the fireplaces, and the food in the dining room was horrible, in the best English tradition. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Tycho was such a superb observer and had built such accurate instruments, this was the most sensitive search for parallax yet undertaken. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Charlie had found a book in the library about tree houses—real ones, like real houses all over the world built around trees. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z