Would there be coal enough to burn the body? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear God, no. There were just these five. Still, we have to burn and bury them, just to be sure. I already cut the wood we’ll need: ash and rowan.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He gripped the plant just enough to slow him down as he slid to the ground, ignoring the horrible burn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Beside her, a cigarette burned down to ash in an aluminum pie plate. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The numbness of the initial assault now faded, the bruise deepened into my skin, along with an anger so hot, it threatened to burn me alive. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Unless...“Did they...did they get him when they came to burn down the house?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When Queenie turned up unexpectedly during a break in the Manchester Blitz, and they spent three wet and stormy days burning black market petrol up and down the Pennines on Maddie’s Silent Superb. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The coffin’s wood was as dry as its occupant, and perfect for burning. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He whipped around to see the lady who’d ordered them beaten, and almost burned her with the end of his torch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His right hand, though it had been salved and bound, was burned on palm and fingers. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

How many cities had burned to the ground? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brown, the woman who was off to burn my dad’s books. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Late into the after noon I alternated between the burning fever and the shivering cold. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A central fire burned in a bronze brazier the size of a bathtub. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The temple my dad had used as his headquarters was burning with Greek fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I envisioned myself burning on a pyre of dream sequences, and then the answer came to me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Like the lightbulb, for instance, was technically invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1811, but his lightbulb sort of sucked and burned out all the time. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If the kids from school could see her now, they would burn with jealousy. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A fire was burning in the hearth, a candle on the bedside table. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They shone not as if they were burning but as if, wherever they were and however dark the night, sunlight was shining on them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc’s advice made me think of Gran, and tears burned my eyes again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“So,” Dad said, “when the sun starts to burn out and Earth turns cold, everyone here might want to move to Venus to get warm. And they’ll have to get permission from your descendants first.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That were struck in the road and got burned up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even as the fire burned on Monday, Mayor Mason officially established a relief society and appointed O.W. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took the burning cigarette and pointed the glowing tip at my cheek. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was the cigarette, Shadow realized: it had burned down to the filter. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Out on the water, fires burned, oils somehow ignited and blazing despite the torrents. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s better. Oh snap! See what you did? Your pancake’s burning!” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

A gust of wind carries the smell of burning garbage toward us. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Later, when the crops are high, farmworkers use propane torches to burn the weeds by hand. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We worked frantically drawing water, washing the burning bodies, and trying every herb, tea, and poultice to break the fever and banish the infection. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The torch spun from his grip to bounce across the floor, then tumbled into the pit, still burning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sun shone down through a hazy sky, and there was the smell of burning in the air, as well as something less pleasant. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The beast devoured Barsena’s flesh. Dragons prey on men. It was killing, burning...” “... burning men who meant harm to your queen. Harpy’s Sons, as like as not Your friends.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, anyway, I’ve got to find Roger,” said Lyra, burning with her new idea; but it was for Will to know first. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the fact that Frank hasn’t said one more thing about burning the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Torches are burning nearby, the flames flickering and wavering in the wind. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She thought she smelled the scent of pine burning: a spicy, woodsy scent from a campfire. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But the Rohirrim made a great burning here yesterday,’ said Gimli, ‘and they felled trees for the fire, as can be seen. Yet they passed the night after safely here, when their labour was ended.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The cool water soothes my skin; it dulls the burning pain of the cuts on my head and above my eye. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was lying on a cot, the bright eye still burning into mine, although the man was gone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was that cool and cute Arthur guy, who clearly hasn’t been burned by the universe before, because he actually thought we were supposed to meet. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When Kaisa’s skin was no longer touching the moonstone ring, it flared into life again, burning as though it were angry with her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louder I raise my voice until my rusty throat begins to burn with the song and I can feel a new breath come in—deep, past my lungs into my belly. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It burned for a second and then went out quickly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a burning desire to hit her in the mouth, but I controlled myself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled toward the burning house as an enormous figure emerged from out of the flames carrying Fang on his back. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A brake light had burned out on her Volkswagen, and she had been too busy to replace it. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You can protect other buildings that are threatened,” the young scythe said, “but you’ll let this entire compound burn to the ground.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

While we lay there, watching the fragments of Swift-Tuttle burning and fizzing across the black of the desert night, I had to endure the entire humiliating tale. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We’d get an extra couple of days to do some digging before the Recluse on the Run storyline faded from the front page and the psycho couldn’t fight the itch to burn again. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The sword laid the in-truder open to the bone, taking off half his nose and open-ing a gash cheek to cheek under those eyes, eyes, eyes like blue stars burning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I tore it up and burned it over the spittoon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lungs were beginning to burn, her brain screaming for a breath of air. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He’d turn on the radio or turn up the dial on the oven so that your dinner would be burned and he’d pinch your arm if you weren’t paying him enough attention. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But as the sun rose and the mist burned off, we really warmed up in our fashionable get-ups. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The buildings were burning and people got beaten up just because of the color of their skin, their religion, or ethnicity. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, it would only burn for a few minutes, and then I’d die— It was scary that he even considered it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And even with the sleeve pulled down, she could not conceal the burned and blistered part of her hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama gave me medicine that tasted like burned brussels sprouts. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On long, lazy weekend afternoons, afternoons when the air was translucent and still and full of the smell of burning leaves, they rented canoes again and paddled around in Portage Bay. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He woke with the jerk of his right fist coming up against his face and the line burning out through his right hand. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fire!” someone yelled, just as the crisp smell of ash and burning wood reached Magdalys’s nose. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was nighttime, and save for the stars above, the burning hole in the ground near the Bottle Tree was the only light for miles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Give me a leg up! I want to see it burning!” cried Farid. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then all the lights in the houses burned. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very soon that was ablaze, and Iorek calmly placed one log and then another and another until the fire was burning strongly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mist hung just above the trees, burning off in patches where bright sun dulled the intensity of red hibiscus blossoms, yellow morning glories, the purple centers of passion fruit flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It smells like a wood fire outside, which means Old Joe and Older Joe are probably burning brush on the farm. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It must have been one of the books they burned,” Mr. Richard said and shook his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a dream, he sees a bright crystalline night with the canals all frozen and the lanterns of the miners’ houses burning and the farmers skating between the fields. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It burned her arm and her right leg, but it wasn’t serious, she said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun burned off the haze, and the dew vanished. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said nothing of her plan at home, but fell to work next day, much to the disquiet of her mother, who always looked a little anxious when ‘genius took to burning’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could cany a burning stick and build a signal and perhaps attract attention. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crater was littered with broken wooden furniture, shattered china plates, some half-melted pewter goblets, and burning linen napkins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Saturday night smells of biscuits and burning hair. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

My feet are burning even as I sit here and write. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were vampires and witches and ogres and worms that burned. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma,” Milton would warn her, “I’m going to burn up some of this garbage now.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When we left her house, the sun was burning high in the sky, and the air was so thick with humidity, we could barely breathe. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a special detonator that was required to make it burn hot enough to cause an explosion. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Until they got burned to the ground by angry Greeks. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Low in the East there were black bars of cloud like the fumes of a great burning. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I tell him everything about what I saw on the night Zimmerman’s burned down. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the hamlet had burned down, including her house, which was now smoke, and the girl danced with her eyes half closed, her feet bare. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron brought me into his house and sat me on his couch and demonstrated how to hold the cigarette so the metal wouldn’t burn me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Vanderbilt walked out onto the track with a bucket, burning off a little nervous energy by picking up loose pebbles and clumps of dirt. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesper hissed as a bullet whizzed by his cheek, close enough to leave a burn. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were raking the lawns and burning leaves in the road, and I stopped for a long time and watched. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He could feel her handprint like a burn throbbing against his collarbone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Uhmma said it is my job to make sure the blanket always covers the cushions so no one will see the burn holes the old owner made. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It all happened so quickly that Nina could still see the distant fire of her own burning aircraft as the German soldiers led her away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The best way of attracting a handsome husband was to find a special tree, part of which would have been burned. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Still, I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such crimes . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old farmhouse—the heart of the Cottages—had a number of fireplaces where we could burn the split logs stacked in the outer barns. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stepped on, though I felt it vaguely, already numb from the burning ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you look into his eyes, you can see the intelligence burning behind them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Crouched on the ground, she saw the Greek ships getting ready and she watched the city burn. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing to stop sparks, burning tree limbs from flying, singeing, killing us all. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Cooling a heat that’s been burning me up all my life. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were four gray coils on the pavement where flares had burned out. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When Tehlu struck the fourth, there was the sound of quenching iron and the smell of burning leather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the wind was from the west, carrying the smell of burned land, the men seemed tense. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Humiliation burned Cas’s throat and made her want to crawl under the table. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Con wiped away the tears that burned down his face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It burned with an unholy dripping glare for a minute, three times normal size, then dwindled. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He extended his arm, holding out the burning golden flame, and went toward the small pile of wood she had left on the forest floor, and set the pile alight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sat there and stared at the e-mail for the longest time, feeling my cheeks burning. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"You mean after I got over my fear of being burned alive?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But a question was burning in George’s mind. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There’s the store that they burned down when the Bulls won the championship. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke supposedly pleased the gods, but Annabeth had never thought about where the food went when it was burned. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The boys all turn to face me, and I feel my face burning. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The wet smell of coming rain mixed with the smoky smell of burning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had seven sons as well, but four are burned and dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The name of the wind came to me when I was arguing with Elxa Dal. When I shouted it his braziers exploded in a cloud of burning ash and cinder,” he chuckled. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tears burned the back of my eyes, but if I cried she’d get mad at me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ironically, most structures put up immediately after the fire were little better than the ones that had burned down. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Albert Nightingale took off a glove, and Joseph flinched, thinking he was going to slap him with it, but he placed his cool palm against Joseph’s burning forehead. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I said, thinking of people being burned on the stake in olden days. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most figured the Americans wanted New York burned to the ground to leave the British without shelter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood burned merrily; and though all round it the snow hissed, and pools of slush crept under their feet, they warmed their hands gladly at the blaze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Can I pray over it for you?” he asked, already stretching his hands out toward her burned arm. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To the right and left, Dany glimpsed places where the grass was burned and ashen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before she can finish each one, we are told “the morning overtook Scheherazade, who lapsed into silence,” leaving the king burning to hear the rest. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God! Is like Smyrna! Look at die mavros! Like the Turks they are burning everything!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As the afternoon burned into evening and the crowds dissipated, the teenager was one of the few who remained at the plastic tables. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Sadly, it's all used up now. Half of Paris saw it burn. So I'll need a new one." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He whipped the spatula in front of my face and little bits of hot oil flicked at me, burning my eyeball. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Before she could even find her balance, the brachy hooted once and then lunged forward, reaching the burning theater in three massive clomps. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“If we don’t find a good place to take shelter, we’ll be burned to a crisp.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Those with eyes had seen it burn and burn, understood that they were on the edge of a desert now. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because over everything, I see Daphne’s image burned across my retina. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had once flown a burning Corsair away from a densely populated urban area before bailing out. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The prophecy Ella gave us— about the child of wisdom, and the mark of Athena burning through Rome... do you know what that’s about?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ranofer’s face felt as if fires were burning beneath the skin. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. Do you—” “Just promise me you won’t burn down my house.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Will it get her in trouble if I mention that she burned a few herself to get rid of them this time? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was a windless night; the flames would burn quietly and steadily. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Fragments of the scorched box lay in her burned hands. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car turned right at the end of Privet Drive, its windows burned scarlet for a moment in the now setting sun, and then it was gone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

News of the impending move burned through the camp like a spark riding gasoline. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I recall the strife upon Hog and Noddle’s Islands, when the grass burned and the beach puckered with the shot of Marines. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Their smiles went sour as the room filled with the sweet, acrid smell of rotting flowers and burning hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I will have known him for eight days. m I should throw this page away, burn it maybe. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the spear and the bow and trotted back around the lake to his shelter, where the fire had burned down to glowing coals. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes still burned from the monster’s breath. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She thought she would leap from her skin as the minutes burned away. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She says, There are them that burn the horse droppings but we’re not gone that low yet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Monday, as the fire was burning furiously through the North Division, the Chicago Evening Journal managed to get out a limited edition. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

At six o’clock on Monday morning, the fire had been burning over nine hours, and seemed capable of continuing its march north unless more help could be found. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Harry had no idea which way was up, which down: His scar was still burning; he expected to die at any second. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I follow him the short distance from the front door to where the incense is burning in the kitchen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Two candelabra burned with twelve new long stemmed candles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place already reeks like sunscreen and burning charcoal, even though it’s barely nine o’clock. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

My father stood at the stove sipping from his usual mug, the smell of burned coffee and almost-burned toast in the air. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My face was burning, but I knew better than to talk back. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Put more coal in; it would burn after awhile. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The teacup was too hot; it burned my fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was cool for May; I was thankful for the warmth that came from the steadily burning logs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the wood was still green, and it burned slow and smoky, sending a black plume up into the bright hard blue of the sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The whole side of the hill was burning. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes burned from the smoke, and each time the crowd gasped, I felt as though my stomach was being wrung between cruel hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Cellular Express got looted first and then burned down. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the ground crew below must have heard their engines, because suddenly a firework flare from the airfield burned brightly for a moment to give them an idea where they should land. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She swore to him, though, that the next time he got caught starting fires she was going to burn him. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat felt dry and tight, and my eyes were burning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

So I felled an oak over by the gorge, burned a hole in it, carried water to it, and put my deerskin in it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also seemed like she needed to burn some energy, to quote Zara. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had chipped it into the base of the marble to identify himself as owner, much as brands are burned into the hides of cattle to identify their owners. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It burned Harry’s mouth and throat as it went down, making him cough and splutter. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But thinking of Tariq was treacherous because, before she could stop, she saw him lying on a bed, far from home, tubes piercing his burned body. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The flares were kept where the aircrew could reach them, and their explosions told Larisa that the flames had already reached the cockpits of the burning Po-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At this moment they caught the smell of burning white sticks and heard the men returning up the farmyard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crisp anger burned at the edges of my heart. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Some days Nate felt sure his nose would burn right off. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are we living in a hotel? Why are we letting our son burn through five million dollars? This should make us all upset.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fancied that, should I be discovered, 1 should be caged and tortured like the animals in the experimental chambers, burning compounds applied to my skin, incisions made near my eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down to a few glowing embers, and shadows lay thick across the bedchamber. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I got to the road, I didn’t even care that the asphalt was burning hot under my bare feet. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Though it was forbidden to look back while the lodges were burning, I could not resist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had loved his arrow’s movement, its burning ambition in the sunlight, and, besides, it was his best one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he burned the paper in the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The system failed, failed all the way through the complication of mechanics and computers, burning each one down like the pop and sizzle of a string of Christmas lights, shuddered to ruin one by one. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He felt every step—the rub of his wet socks in his shoes, the burn of his wounded leg, the ache in his hand—but he also felt more himself than he ever had before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked deep into the heart of winter, and then he cried out, afraid, and the heat of his tears burned on his cheeks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My ears were open to any information that would help Nicole, or help her help herself, if she did in fact burn herself. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The antibiotic cream slathered on her feet comes with a nice pain-numbing element, and so the scorching fire of the day before is just a burning hum. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They would leave a burning cross or shoot some windows out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were surrounded, at least one man down, a burning ship at their backs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There never was one—not in any of the films of the mortars or the trenches or the downed and burning helicopters or the wounded. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

My own face had now assumed a deep tropical burn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

His clothes were torn, burned, and splattered with monster slime. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

All spring the bombers come, every single night, their only goal seemingly to burn the city to its roots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“They burned the White House to the ground.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only the six friends had seen the thing before it was burned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Throw them away—actually, burn them, and make sure no one accidentally breathes the smoke.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“They will burn here, so I might as well be here when they do.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tiny green flecks burned around the black pupils of his hazel eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His lungs burned as he inhaled smoke and grew dizzier, but he shouted at her anyway. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

How they’d made her wash laundry outside in the cold until her face went numb and her fingertips burned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The treated canvas burned fitfully, and the acrid grey smoke hung close to the ground in the quiet evening air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The scent of burning wood, usually so comforting when Daddy lit a fire on cold days, drifted through the forest. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Now his fingers dragged across her flesh, and his icy eyes burned with a strange fire. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I nodded quick, all my bravado gone, breathing so hard my nose burned. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The boy backed off, looking at his hand as if it had burned her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He knew it would burn through the handcuffs in seconds, and the worst thing was he could actually feel it, where he had put it, in the zipped-up outer pocket of his combat trousers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

But I still had another question burning inside. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He still burned with shame, remembering how his sword had slipped out of his hand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Daddy goes on: “That loss yesterday burned you up. I could tell the moment you stepped outta the team van.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He screamed their names until his throat burned. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was quiet except for the sound of the waves against the hull The fog had burned away to a blue sky, as if the island of the Sirens had never existed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat burned her eyes, but she did not slow her pace until she reached her house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was too terrified to close my eyes, though the cool forest air whipped against my face and burned them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stuck my head into the kitchen, where fat pork chops sat burning on the stove. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He gathered up the discarded clothes and put them in a box near the incinerator, so they could be burned. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

June carried her cello, while the Daughters trailed the wagon single file, carrying burning candles. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stormed out of the kitchen, leaving the pancakes burning on the griddle. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I wear them only once, Westley, and I burn to see you in action.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Over our own territory we could get down quite easily, and over the German lines we felt that it was much better to burn up than to be captured by the Germans.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was the strangest sensation: a burning without pain. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They seem to burn for an hour, and a man cannot make the least movement without bringing the bullets whistling round. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd started screaming as the boys burned the track up. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

That secret burned to ashes as the designer perfume smoke drifted into the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My legs burn, but that is all right. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But...if it was all true, why did I feel this burning, cringing inside me like I was the one who’d done something wrong? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"And you know what happened to the children after the burning." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I supposed it was contraband because of the ease with which it could start a fire, trip the cell’s circuit breaker, burn the inmate, or burn someone the inmate didn’t like. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought these books had all been burned eight years earlier. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to go down there to order. He didn’t speak enough English. It’s ten blocks. I’ve got to burn something off before I eat anyway.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stare could burn a hole in granite. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He stood with clenched fists, his eyes burning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My legs feel fine, but numb, so I’m guessing I got burned but you’ve already done something about it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was this burning, which I couldn’t stand anymore, that made me move forward. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The elevators were screeching, burning up and down their cables as they vomited smoke-blackened miners into the light of day. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I know,” Moss said, his face burning as anger flared in him again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Men-at-arms carried burning brands out to light their way, and her uncle led them across the moat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the head of the grave mound, the candle still burned. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He thought I burned his house down,” said Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And Lazlo wasn’t a creature of anger or envy, but he felt the scorch of both—as though his veins were fuses and they were burning through him, leaving paths of ash in their wake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At one point, city leaders started sending food and other supplies into the black districts, whose residents, after days of burnings, lootings, and shootings, were in a state of near starvation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She spoke to fire, and it promised it would not burn him; water gave its oath never to drown him; iron would not cut him, nor would any of the other metals. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Emily’s face burned so furiously she thought her eyes might act like magnifying glasses in the sun and set her binder paper on fire. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes—which are red from crying—rove over his face, and he’s so relieved to see something other than pity burning in them, he almost reaches out to hug her with his good arm. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Taylor had already begun clearing plant debris into a tidy pile for burning. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When your skin loses the pigment, it apparently also loses its ability to protect itself from the sun, which means I can get burned really easily. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes! All over the sheet! We’ll have to burn it.Take the creature outside now.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Face to face to face as they march and shoot and burn. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The other side of the clearing was burning. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to cry, but I could feel my eyes burning. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My face burned with humiliation, and I imagined the old women in my hometown shul, clucking their tongues and shaking their heads. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After they had dumped water for the sheep, they went to burn the spines from the cholla and prickly pear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was, those moments after she’d eaten the strange fruit were blurriest of all, sort of like a dream, but...there was one thing...Her cheeks burned. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

After staring at moldy peanut butter sandwiches and burned cookies, I didn’t have much of an appetite, but the girl waved her hand and a picnic appeared at the edge of the fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t giving you money to put some creamy crack on your scalp and burn the mess out of it! You better work with what the good Lord gave you!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A glance showed one torch burning in a wall bracket by a doorway far down the canyonlike street. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed—cows, horses, men—they left to rot or burn. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only external trace that the tragedy left was the bandage of black gauze that she put on her burned hand and that she wore until her death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sure, buildings were burning, bodies were lying in the street, but the mood wasn’t one of desperation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Rowan found himself standing alone between the burning Tonist cloister and the crowds still held back by peace officers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They’d found him at the bottom of an irrigation ditch, badly burned, flies in his mouth and eyes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That made her so sad that she would have cried if all her tears had not been burned away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Benny was crying as the flames burned the edge of the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light burned sudden and intolerable, the light along her limbs, the fire, and she screamed aloud in terror and pain, “Yes, yes, yes!” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But recently I've heard of public records buildings burning down, and I wonder if some of them are resistance jobs meant as acts of protection. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dimple felt her cheeks burning, and she looked down at her boots. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even so, the chimneys still burned day and night, day and night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she burned some clean, bright hardwood, and saved its ashes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bull would fly over thirty rooftops before landing on top of someone’s chimney, which would be burning hot even though it was summer and no one was using their fireplace. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then he came to the part about the animals who had escaped from the burning newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time I thought of him at the sanatorium I saw shadows carving themselves under his cheekbones and his eyes burning out of almost fleshless sockets. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They went into the courtyard, into a sun so burning that the heat of hay-making seemed to have been nothing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grey flames swirled around him - burning his sleeves, blistering his face, turning his eyebrows to ashes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The hate and mistrust burning in the soldiers’ eyes might have shrunken my spine, but it only sparked rebellion in the older kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

How could he make her eat those words, without getting burned up for his trouble? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“This one’s easy to place on the scale. I can burn those germs right off.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Stars would burn out as they exhausted their fuel, and galaxies would become darker and darker—and then cold and silent. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was dark in there, lit by the orange glow of burning charcoal. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I imagined that they’d gone to feed the big fires that had burned outside the hospital. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The last arrow of Legolas kindled in the air as it flew, and plunged burning into the heart of a great wolf-chieftain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks ago I burned the cupcakes I was making because I forgot to set the timer. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The red bulb burned out, and it was pitch- dark in the clubroom. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were already at the window, looking out at the burning cabin and farther, down the path into the marsh, now lit up by the flames coming from the fire. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I leap with thee; I burn with thee!” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The dark buildings below were filled with phantom flickers of light, echoes of the sparkler burned into her eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They could burn my flag or pelt me with stones, but if there were taxidermied kittens to be had, then I would go and bring them back to this, the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

All the wood they had to burn was small wood and the fire was good for no more than an hour or perhaps a bit more. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The necrosis was comparable to a third-degree burn in some cases. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There are bloodstains rising up from her burning Achilles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

“I thought we weren’t supposed to be burning batteries,” said Grace, snapping hers on, too. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He believed every one of them was talking about his burn—pitying him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the muscles around it burn and tighten into a knot as I keep following my family. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My scalp, ears, and face burn, and Donna is pressing something cold against my forehead. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I stood upon the flashing of the roof, and watched the houses burn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The air was aswirl with flame, soot, and burning shingles, each caught in a devilish whirlwind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the books went up in sparkling whirls, and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“They burned a Catholic church up your way not long ago. With some nuns in it.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day I burned with greater in­dignation against Him, found more flaws to Him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bear grass has an oily sap that makes it burn bright and fierce for a long time. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them decided to take off their coats and stay awhile, so they flew in the kerosene lamp and got burned up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still didn’t know the extent of the burn. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I sat down and opened the wine list, my face burning. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A sentry fire was lit at the corner, burning between us and the last two blocks to the wharf. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waded through burning waters and debris and lumbered ashore like nightmarish special forces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In each of their evil eyes, I saw the reflection of the fire from the cross that was burning on my aunt’s lawn. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One half of the room was dark and only one light burned, directly above the table. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we go ahead and burn down the Dancing Trout while we’re at it, Mr. D.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rush of something like hatred burned through him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How close did he seem to her now!—leaning over his stacks of paper with six candles burning brightly around the perimeter of his desk, scratching his knowledge into the rough, clean space. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“This is it,” Mr. Stokely said, burning his eyes into mine. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can already feel my skin starting to burn from the sun. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Aleuts who had fallen on the beach, we burned. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few hours Matt’s arms ached, his back was stiff, and his eyes burned from salt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you had not insisted upon burning everything that came into your path, I could have tried, but as the situation stands, trying would be worthless.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Schools for girls had been burned to the ground, and all women were forced to wear a severe form of burqa, a head-to-toe veil that had only a tiny fabric grille for their eyes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It carried the black and acrid smell of coal—and something else, a chemical smell, maybe something they added to make the fires burn hotter. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

These men who looked steadily into their platinum igniter flames as they lit their eternally burning black pipes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torches burned in sconces, their flames scorching the stone walls behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the deepest of the caves there were brands burning, and three people stood there, waiting for them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Until nine or so. Then it started burning off—was mostly gone by the time we set out in the launch, if that’s what you’re driving at, sir.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pinmei marveled at how he did not slip; his hooves burned into the waves of ice, and he ran as easily as if he were on a dirt road. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They looked like a fast-flowing dark stream, illuminated by the torches and burning sticks they held. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could have safely thrown the draperies into it and let them burn. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

One day Lelia came home from work and said she was burning out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I didn’t think of that! Maybe we ought to burn the chicken a little.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Let it drown, Harry thought, his scar burning almost past endurance, please... let it drown. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He swigs again just to feel the burn. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Farmers clear small fields with axes and machetes, burn off the chaff and refuse, and plant their seeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Whatever had been there had burned to the ground. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The old dry leather went up with a whoosh, and the yellow pages stirred as they burned, as if some ghost were reading them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He sucked his burned fingers to draw out the fire. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played until my calves burned and my lungs were in danger of experiencing a non-passive failure. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Books of prophecy,” Hazel said, “which Octavian is obsessed with. Romans used to consult them when disasters happened. Most people believe they burned up when Rome fell.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Here, the Romans burned a tattoo into your flesh, as if to say: You belong to us. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were all burning up with fever, so there was no point in boiling water, but it gave me time to gather my thoughts to figure out what to do. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We packed up what lay about while the fire still burned. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There were a few spots burning on this side, but nothing like the galloping flame behind her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And Shorty did his band’s date, then borrowed his piano man’s car, and burned up the miles to New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke carried both the boys back to the apartment, his arms burning by the time they climbed the steps, and he set them on the couch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We better cut off the turnips. They’ll burn, and Mama will whip us,” she said. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom’s father noticed that, thirty paces from where the victim lay, there was a spot of trampled earth and a burned ammunition wad; it was the place where the killer had stood. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I burned them all on a bonfire of blame. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The pressure suits, for example, had been covered with nylon, and that was replaced with something called Beta cloth, which did not burn as easily. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see the man alive and not burned back there like a body shelled in another body. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie bent over, trying to catch his breath, his chest burning. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My eyes burned, and a trembling pain started in my gut and moved out, like water into an overfilled glass. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The only sensation he had from the arm was a throbbing burn in his shoulder. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The smell of the fire, and the animals that had had to be burned so that their rotting corpses would not infect the air, clung to his nostrils. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair had burned away, leaving only ragged patches. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Like most of the ruins in the wealthy neighborhood, it was huge and half burned down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“The roof isn’t burned through except right by the chimney. That means the fire probably didn’t damage the second story very much. What of yours was in there?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Although it’s undeniably hot, we have to fight a fire every other day to burn our vegetable peelings and garbage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“No wonder. He probably burned about six million calories.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I finally understood why the gods hadn’t been able to get near the burning tear. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Kelton points out that even nonfunctioning air-conditioning makes us burn gas faster, and I tell him where he can shove his useful information. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farmhouse itself had burned down so many years ago that nobody could remember what it had looked like nor who had lived there. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, tell me. You never get used to the bruised or burned or bleeding babies—the kids who’ve been abused—or the parents who bring ’em in. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could smell the flesh, because it didn’t stop burning,” said Adams. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine what it was about me that could burn up Mary so. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew from the first moment I told a girl my arms had burned off in a fire, I had found a great hobby: making up stories. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Before his friend arrived, however, he burned all the grass around his hut, so that the ground was black and charred with stubble. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The boy had never seen two lamps burning in the same room. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two white men, their faces blackened by burned cork, capered through a series of skits that brought the park to exuberant laughter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His own room was once Caroline Kennedy’s nursery and, later, warranting some sage burning from June, Nancy Reagan’s office. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ruby’s gift, too, was an extension of her nature: Bonfire, blazing like a beacon, burning like a wildfire out of control. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We burned not a home, but a symbol. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A single campfire burned near the center of town, where the night-watch gathered to warm up every hour or so. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As the transport rolled deeper into the city’s skyscraper core, I saw people clustered on every street corner and in every vacant lot, huddled around burning barrels and portable fuel-cell heaters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It made my eyes burn, my skin crawl, and my hair stand on end. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And half the houses on the Christian side of town had burned, too. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When the fire is roaring hot, I rake the burning coals to one side, put the squash on the large sandstone slab at the bottom of the oven, and close the door. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise of the crowd entered his body from the air, through his skin, into his bloodstream where it burned and cooled at the same time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The molten gold trickled down his face like wax, burning deep channels in his flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stared at the daubs and streaks and runnels of red, and this newest mystery, it wasn’t a pathway of light burning lines through his mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If I did, I would be burning both my bridges. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I take too big a sip and burn not only my tongue but a path all the way down my throat. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes burn with staring into the dark. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all bending over the vegetable patch, their clothes drenched with perspiration from the heat of the sun burning down on their backs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He dropped the hand and glanced up once quickly at Longstreet, eyes bright and black and burning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes got big all of a sudden, and Genie could tell he’d burned the back of his throat. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In our explorations on mud roads around Mount Elgon, we saw signs of the recent trouble: burned, empty huts that had once belonged to Bukusu farmers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joetta thought about her stupid cat and goldfish getting burned up and looked kind of hard over at Byron. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My leg was burning, bursting with the pain, but I was able to hold on. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rotated himself in preparation for the next burn. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are scarred, like he was burned, and they clench around the paper like he wants to crumple it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She could smell the stench of burning hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yakov’s dybbuk writhed within me, clawing my insides into a hot, burning frenzy. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But winter was my favorite time to be outside—on those special days when the rains had stopped and the fog had burned away. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't mean the burn. I mean face the ..." "What?" Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A few years after that, the whole place burned down when he fell asleep under an electric blanket, but he built it back up again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Fires—perhaps on ships—burn far out to sea, and the stars shudder in their constellations. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"When it's done, throw down a burning brand. We'll come when we see it fall." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But I’ve also remembered how I found the book that night when I went back to the cave after he had burned my things. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The students had set the sole administrator’s house on fire; even the guest house behind it had burned to the ground. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt of the tangerine grove that we burned, and buried, and plowed under, and coated with sand, and landscaped over. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Orlando, Duma Nokwe and I then burned our passes before hundreds of people and dozens of press photographers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burn is maroon- colored and wrinkled like a dead apple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was Ezekiel’s wheel, in the middle of the burning air forever—and the little wheel ran by faith, and the big wheel ran by the grace of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Charles placed seven eggs on top of the warming oven and built his fire carefully of small pieces of kindling until it burned fiercely. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The screaming gradually subsided into deep, burning groans, which no salve could soften. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that wanting, that desire, burning in my chest like a flame. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Osh pulled the rope taut and wound it next around one wrist and then, fast as he could, the other, cinching the two together, the rope surely burning and pinching as he worked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I was standing at attention with my eyes to the front, their piercing gazes felt like they were burning a hole through me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“With Klan folks burning crosses in the middle of the night, we don’t need frights over cows, Jojo, you hear?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The scent of burning wood reminded everyone of land so far away, and sunk many of the men into nostalgia and fresh pangs of homesickness. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Others sported sigils he did not know; broken lance, green viper, burning tower, winged chalice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The fires in the sea had gone out, but it looked like Nyame’s city was burning brighter than ever, and the gilded domes and shining ivory towers reflected all that light back onto the bay. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The ring is gone, but there is a bright red circle burned into his skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Black chimneys stood up in silhouette against the glowing sky, shooting flames from their tops, and the smell of burning flesh filled the air. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then they burn you up with the garbage, like an Unwoinan. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burn was mostly healed, but echoes of the pain came back if she got too close to heat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The whine of a motor launch, someone burning biodiesel to reach the ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The burning sends up in smoke most of the nutrients in the vegetation—almost all of the nitrogen and half the phosphorus and potassium. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We came to a Barn that burned full of Hay. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She holds a burning cigarette in one hand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Just have to burn it in my presence.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t turn around; my cheeks are burning up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

All that hard work, solving the clues, burning midnight oil, endangering the lives of his friends, it had all come to nothing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In my mind, the warm sun burned bright. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I felt his cool, strong fingers on my burning hand, locking it in place. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Milton no longer had any brain waves, so it was understandable why, hovering in the Cadillac, he might have forgotten that the Zebra Room had burned down long ago. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At first the wildfire had scared him, but over time van der Donck had come to relish the spectacle of the yearly burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The story took up the entire front page of the Island Examiner, including photographs of Dusty Muleman and the burned boat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

So Aru had thought it was just one of those generic warnings parents gave to kids, like Don’t go outside without sunscreen or you’ll burn! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Half the businesses in the Garden were either intentionally burned down by rioters or were casualties of the war. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Laura loved to look at the lamp, with its glass chimney so clean and sparkling, its yellow flame burning so steadily, and its bowl of clear kerosene colored red by the bits of flannel. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woolf was sure that he would soon burn out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands were shaking, his knees had become weak, and his ears were burning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the moment, the burn of it, the tears in her eyes as she’d hugged her excited friend good-bye. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You know what they say: When people start burning books they’ll soon burn human beings. Suppose we’re next to find ourselves on a pyre?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But you’re not really going to let it burn you up, right?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Mama, what if...well...what if the Klan decides to burn down our house? Or...do something worse?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I think it’s burned a hole in my hand and broken my wrist, but I don’t flinch. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The instructors passed around spent cartridges that smelled slightly of citrus; one had enough residue left inside that my nose started to run after I sniffed it and the skin on my forehead burned slightly. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha! But you’re hoping the right vial could solve your problem with the burned stick, eh? Maybe break your curse?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I needed for him to explain the meaning behind it all, the pogroms, the massacres, the burnings that pursued us through the centuries like a dybbuk we’d never be able to tear ourselves free from. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And if it is burning away down there, why isn’t the ground under our feet hot to the touch? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It got trapped in a burning city and escaped, speaking bad French. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The hatchways had to be closed, and below deck the air grew so foul that the very lanterns burned dim. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thick red carpet sucks at the soles of Werner’s brogues; electric bulbs burn in a chandelier above the table; roses twine across the wallpaper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He saw that Strider was sitting alert in his chair: his eyes gleamed in the light of the fire, which had been tended and was burning brightly; but he made no sign or movement. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Uglúk thrust a flask between his teeth and poured some burning liquid down his throat: he felt a hot fierce glow flow through him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The spell hit the skrewt’s armor and rebounded; Harry ducked just in time, but could smell burning hair; it had singed the top of his head. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They would stay there until next Ash Wednesday, when we would take the fronds to church, to have them burned for ash. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the next half hour we watched the place burn. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marco looks down, surprised to find that he has been holding his right hand in his left, unconsciously stroking the empty space where a ring was once burned into his skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The fire inside the Atashkadeh had been burning for fifteen hundred years. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“That would’ve been a lot of fun imagining them all burning to death when the flares struck.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But it’s not as if she’s burning down the house in any popularity contests herself. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She blinked away the burning in her eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I move past the wounded, past the burning plane wrecks, fixated on the disaster ahead of me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The shapes of the small tree-limbs burning incandescent orange in the coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s sort of like those moments when you’re thinking about something big that burned itself a powerful memory. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He lifted the broom and pressed the bristles against the light bulb that burned in the ceiling. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traces of the burning pepper seemed stuck in her lungs, like the embers of a fire that wouldn’t go out. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As he replaced his wand in his pocket, Harry saw that his hand was blackened and shriveled; it looked as though his flesh had been burned away. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he calls him a joto and tells him he’s going to burn in hell. They’re some weird religion. I forgot what it’s called...” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Each summer day they prayed for a storm to cool their skin from the burning sun. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only a single lamp burned, and as midnight drew on, the glads drooped in their pitchers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled a little like burning electrical parts. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I had lit the study, and the study had burned faster than anywhere else. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He was one of a number of men overwhelmed by burning oil on a sinking ferry off Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This is the same stuff that’s on the back of postage stamps. Mix a little of it in your powder and add water. Let it dry. I think it’ll burn. That’ll be fifteen cents.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes are burning, my throat is tight. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had even constructed a model to show how they might work, and Mrs. Coulter had seen the object before it was exorcised and burned. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She, pathetically and repeatedly asserting this innocence, although she was in the entanglement which the other trouble had brought her to, knew that the next night might see her burned to death. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede’s cheeks burned at the dismissive tone in her father’s voice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the stick burned quickly, and before she could go far, the flame singed her hands and she threw it down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fog had burned off from the morning, and Emily’s sweatshirt looped uselessly around her waist. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It fell soundlessly, caught flame midair, and had begun to burn away to nothing before it ever had the chance to reach the coals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail! Ho, God!” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the streams had caught fire and burned away. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or a lighter ship,” he suggests, burning me an evil eye. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Until I was seeing it play out glossy and burning like it was someone else’s memory and not mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I touch my hand to her forehead and she burning with fever. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had been burned really bad, and they came in and turned him every two hours. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long ragged tails streamed behind them like flickering flames, and in place of a lord's sigil they bore the device of a god: the burning heart of the Lord of Light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s not the sort to run into a burning building and get himself trapped.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All that pretty trim burned bright and clean. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This cap was a beacon to the inquiring eyes of her family, who during these periods kept their distance, merely popping in their heads semi-occasionally to ask, with interest, “Does genius burn, Jo?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Mr. Bonetti periodically burned the garbage and hauled the remains to the city dump in his truck. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t smothered, only banked, but it would burn like the wings of the seraphim before this was over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The smell of burning coals reached Loki’s nostrils. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They burned in his face like red coals. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was my first really big step toward self-degradation: when I endured all of that pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man’s hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lungs burned like gray, like smoke that she couldn’t breathe out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo submitted secretly to the burning baths of permanganate and to diuretic waters, and both were cured separately after three months of secret suffering. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The potatoes proved that all too well, as did the wood shavings, which Father collected in a bucket and brought downstairs to burn. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And now the cake was behaving very curiously for while the bottom was burning and sending out a black smoke the top was rising and falling glueyly with a series of little explosions. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth twitched on the burned side of his face and Sansa could almost hear the rest of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Celaena’s hand burned when it touched the water, and she thrashed, but the princess held her firm, saying words in a tongue the assassin didn’t understand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That look stung more than I thought it would; I shifted and hid behind the pyramid, my face burning. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The smoking fire burned her eyes as she took another bite. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes burn with questions as he takes another step forward. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Hazleton employees then drove them to an incinerator owned by the company, where the monkeys were burned at a high temperature, high enough to guarantee the destruction of Ebola organisms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he knew that these houses could burn down in a very few moments. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was grateful for the silence of the passage as she walked upward, her legs burning from so many stairs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We believe that the village of Loun-Ariik was attacked and probably burned. Your family . .Uncle paused and looked away. When he looked back again, his face was solemn. “ A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only possible explanation is that I haven't been burning all the released hydrogen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longtime residents have not forgotten 1978s infamous Night of a Thousand Flames, when KKK groups from all over the West gathered in the county and ringed the foothills around Chokecherry with burning crosses... Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It sounded like it was burning through other tents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Six men had been burned in the struggle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So many cane fields were on fire that the air was filled with “a rain of fire composed of burning bits of cane-straw which whirled like thick snow.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He waited patiently until the flames burned high, then began to dance the eagle dance. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Anticipating the barn was about to be burned down, Booth challenged all of his pursuers to honorable combat on open ground. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His torso was disfigured by an old burn scar that stretched across his spine and midsection, coiling like a shed snakeskin around his left hip. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And throughout the night, white and black mobs invaded each other’s neighborhoods, attempting to burn the other out. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I took a sip, and the burn of it surprised me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It seems that the Marburg virus may have been burning through rural areas in Uganda not far from Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hems of my jeans were burning from my run through the study. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At the feast that night he had eaten ribs of wild boar, prepared the Domish way with dragon peppers, so hot they burned his mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The light in the hall burned his eyes and the odor in the cell made every breath a discomfort. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She broke her fast on sardines, fried crisp in pepper oil and served so hot they burned her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One chunk-stick burning atop another in the stove rolled against the stove door with a slight thump. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he have ever tried to burn it? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The towel was thin and rough between my hands, a carpet burn of a cloth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Corcoran began to pick at the house plants and I, ears burning, was staring at my lap when a door slammed and two young men sauntered into the wide, high-raftered hall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two crewmen pushed the burning raft away from the ship, and Jules stepped forward, twisting her cap in her hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s been burning for as long as I can remember.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petroleum vapors burned his lungs, but he could breathe. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have any firewood, though. What can we burn?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I glanced at my roommate, burning with resentment. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Within an hour, a cloud of blackness would cover the planet and burning rock and other debris would be pelting down everywhere, setting much of the planet ablaze. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A tall lord with copper skin and silver-gold hair stood beneath the banner of a fiery stallion, a burning city behind him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Misty tendrils of smoke bled along the ground at their feet, and the smell of burning wood laced the air. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She tried to obliterate this burning phrase, and what it made her feel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Turner nodded, let himself get chosen up for sides, and felt the fire burning brightly. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Stout new gates had gone up first, to replace those that had been burned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could now see that my niches were not going to be big enough for the amount of food I would need for the winter, so I began burning out another tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a brief, intense flash of heat on my hands and face, but my wet clothing kept me from being burned or catching fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Are you training women here?" the burned man wanted to know. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In addition to taking slaves and booty, wartime victors in central Mexico often burned their enemies’ codices, the hand-painted picture-texts in which priests recorded their people’s histories. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The older neighborhood kids killed snakes and threw them in the garbage hole when it was burning and watched them sizzle and squirm. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t matter, because I knew that when the tea burned my tongue, it burned Papas love into me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were at the head of a large valley, fed into by the foothills of the mountain forests that had burned in the recent fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Jay later claimed that the entire eastern seaboard was illuminated each evening by protesters burning him in effigy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had once jumped out of the window of a burning house dressed only in shorts and the “Handbook.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Momma would have them bring the corpses in and burn them for the compost pile. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Alone in my lifeboat at sunset I would know that he was burning alive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After being in Tartarus for so long, he could barely look at Hyperion’s burning golden armor without getting spots in his eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Will that wire really be able to conduct that much power, Beetee? It looks so fragile, like it would just burn up.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It burned out at Sierra through a golden haze of light. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

One thing I loved doing at the time was using a magnifying glass to burn my name into pieces of wood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just as in the case of a Gemini deorbit burn, we paid extraordinary attention to the direction we were pointed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winterfell is burned and broken and there are no more safe places. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was sitting nearby, his hand held loosely on his knee and still slowly dripping blood, his face scorched by the sun and pale under the burning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each child looked haggard, haunted by the image of Michelangelo, surrounded by books, burning alive. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Fire Danger signs and a forest waiting to be burned. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I climb to my feet and rest my hands on my knees, breathing hard and trying to keep the burn behind my nose from becoming tears. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to smile at him, but some tears came trickling out of my burning eyes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her wrist ached badly, and the torch had burned down almost to her fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shipping food thousands of miles and burning up fossil fuels went against his whole philosophy as a farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The wind had increased in velocity, and burning chunks of wood were being carried for many blocks before they fell to earth. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The heat burns out of the day; the painkillers burn out of my system. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the postem door and led her into the castle, his burned face twitching and his eyes brooding, and he was one step behind her as they climbed the tower stairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No such terror out of heaven had ever burned in Shelob’s face before. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Around me people were burning, crying in pain, dying. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This secret is like having hot burning coals under my bare feet all the time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My quads burned from crouching for so long. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

One struck me on the leg and burned like a whip. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this rate, I’ll have burned through the rest of the $1,200 I’ve allotted for my life in Minneapolis in less than a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His burning eyes glanced over the parishioners one by one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather was cold enough to snow, but Felix's face was burning hot, and every muscle in his body shook with anger. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first swallow of wine burned my mouth like fire where it was cut. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He found that a small brand, burning away to its outer end, had kindled some fern at the edge of the fire, and the fern blazing up had set the turves smouldering. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She gestured for Koffi to follow her across the rugs on hands and knees as the animals and beastkeepers trapped inside the burning tent continued screaming. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A former burn victim herself, she knew that real flowers aren’t allowed in the burn ward because of the risk of infection. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“My board almost burned. I had to save it and jump in the river.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew, I woke up in pitch darkness; the candle had burned out, and Faro was growling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And there has to be a torch burning somewhere. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The audience laughed and the show went on while I burned with humiliation. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sheep was burning before it began to fall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The light from the circle of burning brand flickered across the blades of their knives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The knowledge fans the rage burning within me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

King began his speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” by acknowledging he was moved to “break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Two cats sidled through the legs of the crowd, sniffing the burned flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s eyes drifted back to the fire burning in the hearth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twenty-five cities were not sited strategically and did not have defensive walls; no evidence of warfare, such as burned buildings or mutilated corpses, has been found. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He says, “How can we criticize others for burning down the rain forests when we’re covering the earth with asphalt?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She tells me to burn the pile of money on the table. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The burning in my back settles into a steady throb, the salve the tinkerer brought actually helping. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

On a couple of them, you can still see the stub of a , crosspiece, burned black. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Dad looks at the weeds, which are burning fast, thirsty for flame in that quivering heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I retched until my throat burned, an iron band of pain cinched tight around my windpipe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A tiny glow burned in the stone for a moment. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had a broad, good-natured face, which was weatherbeaten and so freckly that he looked almost tanned; his arms were muscular, and one of them had a large, shiny burn on it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It, like the other one, was burned so badly that the skin had detached from the sole. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

That bolt of electricity burned a small hole in my memory. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Torches flickered along the walls of Dragonstone, and in the camp beyond, he could see hundreds of cookfires burning, as if a field of stars had fallen to the earth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It must be hot, but not too hot, or the lard would burn. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind's eye they burned with a thousand lights, a fire blazing in every window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He grabbed it by the wire rim that held the top of the globe and burned his hand. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then burn off the hydrogen with a battery, some wires, and a tank of 02. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are right. I am burning up. I am burning the hell up. Whoof!” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were so red, they looked as if they’d been burned. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down and looked out but he stirred with a piece of wood and found a bed of coals still glowing hot and red. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I got a bit of a burn on my hand at the shop today.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

According to an account written in the Suffragist, they burned “all the words he has ever uttered or written on the subject of democracy.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The dark things in the princess’s heart were these: a very small, very hot, burning coal of hatred for the rat who was responsible for her mothers death. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Studying the furious, burning cliff, I can’t help thinking it’s alive, trying to outwit us. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Of how to recover from this camp that burned itself onto my skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He manages to produce a bit of burned mush from the bottom and puts it in a bowl for the little boys to share. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The surrounding beach was peppered with smaller pieces of burning wreckage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When he reached the building in which she lived, he looked up to the second floor and saw a light burning in her window. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oil burned in black iron lanterns all along the walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The entrance was covered with curtains of scaly reptile skin, and flanking the entrance, two torches made from colossal femur bones burned bright yellow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In another seven years, the fields will be burned and replanted. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind leaps from violent imagery to sex to people jumping out of burning skyscrapers to very practical issues, such as how to get a duvet to stay on a bed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When I open the box, I see broken shards of my Christmas ornament, along with burned scraps of what must be my father’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She brushes away the thought, but then the responsible-person guilt collides with the burn in her legs and the ache in her toes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We hear of Foraging Raids on the Islands — Deer Island, Pettick’s Island, a Mansion burned, Cattle conducted to Shore — but no more than that. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I gulped a bowl of porridge, burning my mouth in my haste, and excused myself. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Do, Jesus, do, sweet Jesus . . ." I moved ahead, the fumes of alcohol and burning tar in my nostrils. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shower of burning embers greeted Sullivan as he entered the building. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

That stench burned Meggie’s eyes so that the letters blurred, but she must go on reading while the eerie creature grew taller and taller. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They both looked away as if their eye contact burned. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When his eldest boy was five, one of Valentine’s teamsters was strung up and burned for reckless eyeballing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The coffin lid burned well, and there was enough of it to warm Lyra’s milk, but only just. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The comfortable bungalow was just blocks from the dictator’s huge wedding cake palace that the mobs had long ago burned down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A café burned, and so did a furniture store, an A&P grocery store, several abandoned houses, a dry cleaners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the horizon, look back the way we came, the mist mostly burned off by now and the whole swamp forest covered in sunlight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My fingers are bloody burning like a mother. See if it’s working.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Look, I don’t care if we burn up or not,” Big Time said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized that iron was burning through the Queen—iron from the unicorn’s blood—and it would kill her just like Kaede’s dagger had killed Elowen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They trudged past the burned square where their house had been without even looking at it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

From above came the sounds of approaching footsteps and men’s voices, and the smell of a burning white stick. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, if the electric charge of the electron had been only slightly different, stars either would have been unable to burn hydrogen and helium, or else they would not have exploded. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dessert, a cherry tart, was slightly burned. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Baker shouted an ultimatum to the fugitives: “I want you to surrender. If you don’t, I will burn this barn down in fifteen minutes.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was exercising all his willpower to prevent himself succumbing again to Voldemort’s rage: His scar was still burning. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But at that moment, my neck creaking, my lungs burning, I was sure they were going to kill me, and I panicked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The Hydras heads would only stop multiplying if we burned the stumps before they regrew. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, those old-school jeans are too thick to burn, I thought. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Agents would tear off each key after using it and then burn or otherwise demolish it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was burning with conviction; I could almost feel the heat rolling off him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even Pantalaimon was active, changing to a crow so he could flap his wings and make the fire burn faster. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was burning... and if I did not see her fall, hundreds swear they did. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Of course it didn’t That afternoon we had an assembly at the campfire to burn Beckendorf s burial shroud and say our good-byes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Let all the crazy men come and burn it all down. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every night on the television news, Americans watched film from the Vietnam War: falling bombs, firefights, burning villages, the wounded on stretchers, and body bags loaded onto planes for the long flight home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Your wife has given you seven strong sons. Do you pray to her? It was wood we burned this morning." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was now only about two inches in length but was still burning. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

My lungs burned, and my eyes stung from the tears. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But “if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The match burned close enough to Ophie’s fingertips that she blew it out before lying flat on her stomach and reaching farther under the bureau. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They got along well—but it's not like he burned with longing for her. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The tar-saturated wood burned like a torch, crackling wildly as the fire inched across the structure as if it were stalking another victim. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A burning pang began in the center of my chest and spread to my limbs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She was sitting at a table, looking very sleepy as the red candle burned in its special gold holder. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were willing to burn up to save the quest. Mars can’t expect more than that.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The remaining Smokeys had perished in the fire that had quietly, without any alarm being given, burned the district headquarters to the ground. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The all-father took the two eyes and threw them up into the night sky, where they burned and glittered together, side by side. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The statement was harmless, but the memory of it made my cheeks burn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The letters burned across the small screen and faded. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His Greek books were spread out on the desk; a cigarette burned in a full ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“People would say all type of stuff. Like he was just intentionally trying to burn him. Like, ‘Oh yeah, he gay, he hecka gay, let’s burn him.’ The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Ask her what became of those checks. You saw her burn one of them, as I remember.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, I found a broad-shouldered young man from rural Texas who had multiple injuries and whose body had been severely burned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Beaten silver mirrors backed every wall sconce, so the torches burned twice as bright; the walls were paneled in richly carved wood, and sweet-smelling rushes covered the floors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It isn’t the only cylinder, though— they are everywhere, filling the room with smoke that does not burn or sting. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Waves of disgust and hot, burning anger enveloped him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might have killed the little girl himself, and burned her afterward. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her mind flashed to see if she had forgotten anything—will made, letters burned, new underwear, plenty of food in the house for dinner. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun blazed overhead, burning the back of his neck. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Then he got to the angry burn just above her ankle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lighted torches were stuck into the ground to the right and left of it, and two more were burning on the lawn, casting quivering shadows in the night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But some items must have survived the burning, they couldn’t possibly have got it all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands, believed to be working against God on behalf of the Devil, were put to death by drowning, hanging, or burning. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Take heed, Mrs. Clarke,” Penelope said cautiously, “you are likely to drip wax on yourself if you are not careful. That will give a nasty burn.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He took one look and his face burned with shame. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the light goes bleak for me when I see them and remember burned men pulled from the oil-slicked sea. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi felt his eyes follow her as she tossed out the burned tortilla and washed the pan. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And her mother would be there, leaning over the gates of Heaven, to see her daughter burning in the pit. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

No flowering cactus burning myths in the desert. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her picture was so perfectly radiant, it burned my eyes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I'm lying on my bed, microwaves burning up my brain, running up a killer phone bill. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kainene had seen one of the burned houses on her way to work. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His senses were burningly alive, but his mind went back to the deep participation with all things, the gift he had from his people. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the enthusiasm of the Grail had burned the bad gasses of the air into a short-lived beauty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless, he could feel the fur burning off his snout. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Disappear into the woods like I did that day they brought the burn victim to our house. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Not of the sorcerer, nor his blade, nor even the way my manhood shriveled as it burned. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It burned, consuming the body of Balder and the body of Nanna, and his horse, and his possessions. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her lungs were on fire now, her breath was burning her throat, but she climbed without stopping, and when she came to the top, she burst through the door to the roof and ran out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I mentioned the burning. I couldn’t help it.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I burn a strip up the sidewalk, melting snow and ice three feet on either side. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Archer wrestled to the ground by men twice his size and pinned in the center of the circle while someone burned him with a blazing-hot iron. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“A fire in my village. Some boys burned it down.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When darkness had fallen over everything, and the stars burned bright in a moonless sky, they went to sleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am only writing this because it stops him burning me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His palms and fingers were sore, and his burning arm and leg muscles made it clear that they had already traveled too far. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the room beyond the landing, the burning curtain sloughs off its rod. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Salim said the Sparks could burn in hell. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will only crack and burn, and it’s so beautiful, Set Jorah will call me a fool if I ruin it, and yet, and yet ... A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rain stops falling, the fire stops burning, my heart stops beating. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Kali’s words: “She has fire in her body, men burn before and after.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new rumor was spreading: The gangs were hatching a plot to burn black families out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Together we wind through the streets of the Seam until we reach the burning building. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun, burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can broil just as quickly as I can burn. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A rage like nothing he had ever experienced burned throughout Joe’s bruised and battered body. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many things looked different since they burned me up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Images burned in her brain, a flush burned in her cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

How delicious it is, this concoction of milk and eggs and burned sugar. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Straight down when you see the sunken ship. Then about one mile east, past the mermaid graveyard, you will start to see fires burning. “You’re giving him directions to the forges?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He shuddered, thinking of funeral pyres burning on the surface of the water, of red lights in the deep. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She tucked me into the blankets and then burned more incense in the room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When night came it did but deepen the darkness, and our hearts were hot, for away in the North we saw a red glow under the cloud, and Aragorn said: “Minas Tirith is burning.” The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I guess we could push it into the burn pile when we clear the other brush. I wonder if George called a forester yet? I wonder what it’s all worth? All that wood back there.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Far from satisfying him, the sketchy meal only whetted his appetite; moreover, the onion had made his lip smart and burn. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

All the water and the juice must be boiled away, and the pumpkin must never burn. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m old enough to stay alone for an hour without burning the house down.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A flash of green caught his eye, ahead and off to port, and a nest of writhing emerald serpents rose burning and hissing from the stem of Queen Alysanne. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The morning haze had long ago burned off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pile of it burning would make a big light. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Surtr, the burning giant, who was there before the beginning of all things, looks out at the vast plain of death and raises his bright sword to the heavens. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As we watch the candles burn and play our last game of dreidel, Mom goes into the family room. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Close them up again, fighting to stop the burn. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Macondo would no longer be a burning place, where the hinges and door knockers twisted with the heat, but would be changed into a wintry city. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The four Old Ones scattered hastily into the hall, where the strange blue-white cylinders still hung ghostly round the three walls, burning with their dead cold flames. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a good thing I burned off most of the hydrogen before the explosion. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You did not see the gods burn, my lord?" he asked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was another smell, outside, something burning, a pungent fragrance that was half sweet and half bitter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In that case,” she said, “you burn them, colonel.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now that we were back on earth, it was moist and smelled like burned chemicals, but mostly it was hot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Milo was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Are you suggesting that I”—she cut herself off, glanced toward the ghosts, and finished in a whisper—“burn up Minya?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His words scalded me, left my cheeks burning hot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The magistrate observed the burned home, the sooty villagers, and said, “You don’t understand.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Aunt Saba let a cigarette burn down to a stump between her fingers and flicked it into the air when it stung her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I turned my back, face burning, goose bumps rising. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The burn looked worse than it was. The tray was too bulky and there were too may things on it.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the sweater and covered the burn again. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, they made sure all the coals were burned out before they washed up and went to sleep. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He approached Lupin and the struggling rat, and his wet eyes suddenly seemed to be burning in his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ever since the day he saw her burn, Wash had been sending little presents with the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a candle burning just outside, and on the matting in the gallery. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It crackled and burned, until the air was buzzing with it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

High John raised an eyebrow and waited, and a flush of hot anger burned my face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I dipped our towel in cool rainwater and squeezed it over your eyes, but your forehead stayed burning hot. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

So he took Beowulf's hands between his own and blessed and thanked him as the queen had, his voice trembling with sincerity, and gave him twelve jewels—burning stones, the most precious things he owned. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran so fast to the apartment that my lungs burned. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t one,” said Harry, still disoriented by the sudden appearance of all these people, unable to take everything in while his scar was still burning so fiercely. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My breath was burning in my chest as I looked for somewhere to go, somewhere to hide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It burned all the way down my throat into my belly. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He burned whole villages in Friesland for revenge. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t want us, meaning me, to get burned by the midday sun. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun would burn it off later, but now it formed a milky sea that reached halfway up Matt’s legs as he sat astride the horse. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning pizza changed into something fragrant—the smell of a dean sea breeze with wild- flowers mixed in—but I had no idea if that meant my father was really listening. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

When rocket propellant burned, it first produced a river of gas that flowed into the convergent section of the nozzle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Then his Hindu followers burned half the flowers, and the Muslims buried the rest." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And there is a village burning beyond the fields.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“To save more books? To stop the burning altogether?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The woman rushes forward to drape a white mink coat around the minister, whose blue eyes burn into mine. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They would sit on the ground among the old headstones and wait until the sage had burned away, and Ash still remembered the way she would fidget after only a few moments of stillness. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ser Addam Marbrand commands their outriders, and he's pulling back south, burning as he goes. He knows where we are, more or less, but the Black- fish vows he will not know when we split." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The fire in the grate has burned low, and the air coming in through the open window in the front room bears a chill, the land getting cool as the sun sets. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At last they reached the safety of the Gryffindor common room, where the fire had burned itself into glowing ash. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“If my daddy builds us another house, will the bad men burn that one too?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Flames burn low in the gilded fireplace, the tall bookcases stuffed with curios and relics loom in shadow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His black hair is covered in mud, and his eyes burn with the panic of a cornered animal as he looks between Faris and me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I will burn in hell for that, but it’s true. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They also kept away from the bars, from all the fingers poking through, the faces the men made at them, and the burning cigarettes flicked at them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Uncle’s words came back to him: “The village of Loun- Ariik was attacked ... burned. Few people survived ... no one knows where they are now.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears burned the corners of her eyes, and Anya hurried out of the kitchen before she lost her composure altogether. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In my memory the bulk of the damage had been skin-deep—his arms, back and shoulders had hardly been burned at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You hush up. You want me to burn your other hand for you. You aint hurt. Hush up.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it will collapse andpossibly even catch fire in the oven, leaving you with a flat, burned souffle. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire flared up and swallowed the dry paper, and I found my thoughts shifting to Nazi book burnings. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If we had a piece of coal burning in the oven, he would sit in front of it and warm his hands, with one of his pipes dangling from his mouth. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Often they used a strategy of setting fire to towns as they attacked, killing those who fled their homes and burning alive those who stayed inside. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her scalp burned as someone grabbed a handful of her hair and wrenched her backwards. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It’s unnerving, and hot enough to burn his skin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The liquid burned down her throat, making her eyes open wide in momentary shock, and then they were riding again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As they approached the target area under cover of darkness, there was nothing to light their way but the smoldering glow of burning coal mines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The muscles in my arms still burned from having worked so hard, but now I was finished. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

You know that drugstore got burned out that time? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel my face burning bright red. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He's walking away from me, and I try to stand my ground, but then finally chase after him up the steps to school, because I've got a burning question. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then someone has scribbled at the end of the list: Don’t burn the turkey, Ma! American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And his wife Phyllis: “Where are they going to live if they burn down their own neighborhood?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Meme realized that he was burning in the heat of his pride, and she desperately looked for a way to humiliate him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Did I never give her a burning love, inseparable from jealousy at all times, and from sharp pain, while she speaks thus to me! Let her call me mad, let her call me mad!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They had burned so bright, and fought so hard to get free. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was empty-handed, but something in my chest was burning a little brighter. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“If nobody confesses, I am going to burn everyone’s presents in a big fire! ” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I remember my first summer here in Würzburg, after that dreadful winter when I left the ghost of my mother behind in the burning city. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her face burned as he rose to his feet, standing close. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All of the homes had been burned, their roofs of thatch and walls of reeds consumed by the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adams and the other nurses had to remove their dressings and put fresh antibiotic ointment over the burned area every twenty-four hours. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I notice a long burn on Rue's forearm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The British then moved on, razing fifteen more towns and burning fourteen hundred acres of corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The low clouds caught the color of the burning river and roofed the sky in shades of shifting green, eerily beautiful. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the electric chair years, he complained that he could smell flesh burning after the midnight executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A deep burning washed through the fibers of my muscles. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Bod made for the lightning tree, an oak that had been burned by lightning twenty years ago and now was nothing more than a blackened limb clutching at the sky. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It must have splintered many of the city’s wood-and-plaster buildings; fallen torches and scattered cooking fires would have ignited the debris, burning down most surviving structures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I half feel his disappointment that I didn’t burn it or eat it or any of the other things he would do with his scribblings. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Bob,” she said, “offerings burned in the mortal world appear on this altar, right?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I leaned against a column and let the stone chill my burning cheek. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Whip and burn marks scored his chest and arms. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to Teluman’s shop, I’m surprised to see the door open, the forge fire burning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

These tmmch, being supported on beams of wood which could be burned away with fire at the proper moment, had it, bringing the rubble-filled baileys down on top of them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he drove home, Ellsberg knew he had just burned his bridges to the president’s inner circle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the smell of something burning causes them to bolt naked from the bed, rushing comically to the kitchen, laughing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes seemed more gold than usual, almost burning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

That was the last sight he had seen the day the castle fell: Smiler burning, the flames leaping from his mane as he reared up, kicking, screaming, his eyes white with terror. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The first responders were battling the blaze from a distance, but the fire was still burning. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They are obscured only at the bottom, so it is impossible to tell what is burning, if it is wood or coal or something else entirely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her skin felt like it was burning from the force of the thirty pairs of eyes fixed on her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And though she might have to have these sheets burned in the morning, and possibly have to bathe in lye herself, it was nice to have a friend. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Though it burned for two more days, the fire did not jump the road. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not much—but then later, when the troops were hunting Indians and shooting children and burning teepees, it wasn’t much different from your mouse hunt.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two torches burned on either side of me, barely illuminating a long, damp corridor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The velocity of the burn was such that it flung the door open, blew the stovepipe loose, and sent white smoke gushing into the yard, along with us and the dogs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Failed with a bright-purple capital F. The note from my teacher is burning a hole in my back pocket, and I know I should give it to my parents. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The stones of the hut walls were charred, while the remains of the burned chairs and tables lay strewn on the floor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She should have told me to tell her when it started tingling, because by the time it was actually burning it had already taken off several layers of my scalp. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He jumped up, grabbed for it too quickly and burned his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But look what they did to her. Scratched her face, and gave her a Chinese burn!” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I hurdled fallen logs and ducked low branches, chasing her until my lungs burned. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat inside her, a terrible burning in her womb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After eight minutes of Nick’s best nonstop read-ing, her eyes were practically burning holes in the chalkboard behind him. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put it in front of all your gods and your demon toys and burn some incense in it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are always Sallies—burning Houses, shooting out the Windows of Taverns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Funny, he thought; even though I know rationally it’s faked, the sound of a false animal burning out its drive-train and power supply ties my stomach in knots. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And the first time I had washed a body, I had vomited in the alley behind the tahara house until I was coughing up strings of burning bile. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And now since you're a fireman's wife, it's your house and your turn, for all the houses your husband burned and the people he hurt without thinking.. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed awed, either by the chandeliers that hung from the dark ceiling, or by the countless candles that burned everywhere in their heavy holders. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The little piece would burn up before the oven cooled. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The sound and intensity and time of the burn seemed to exceed the best of my black-powder combinations. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature around Finn dropped twenty degrees, and Finn’s skin burned with the cold. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Smoke burned his throat as he dashed through the tangled bushes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Far down in the valley scattered fires still burned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She tossed the joint into the pool, where it quickly burned out and then floated on the blue water. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As I gathered up the rest of the loot with shaky hands, the man’s gaze burned into me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I think it was when we arrived in Ro Leap that they burned my red dress. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun burned through the morning haze, and we all were sensible of thirst and weariness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes cannot hide the passion burning inside his heart; Ishtar has to shield hers to look upon him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And contrary to local lore, Kerry did not burn the stuff in a bonfire; Dad told me that he donated it to St. Vincent de Paul. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sense of the white blur hovering near, of Mary burning, of Britten, of the law tracking him down, came back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled of burning rubber and foot odor. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I paint it early in the morning, when the ice in the parking lot is an electric blue, and in the sky up above, the rendering sails burn red. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While Stalingrad was burning, they were cooling their heels in the fragrant fields of the Russian steppes, surrounded by sagebrush and birdsong. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There is no blood, no cloud of doll hair burning up in the candle fire. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The kind old eyes behind the glasses burned with a fire I had never seen. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the hundredth time, I look down at the candles burning behind a screen at my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“They tried to burn half the county down,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

How doth all that seeks to rise burn itself to nothing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, where they burn the convicts’ clothes when they arrive. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I drank enough to ease the burning heat in my throat. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Oxygen-rich air was sucked into the column at the base, where it mixed with the burning fuels and also rose, twisting and whirling around as it did. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The kettles were then filled with copies of President Wilson’s speeches and were kept burning day and night. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It smells great, and a lot of people burn it like incense to make their houses smell good. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve only seen it blazing through the forest, burning everything in its path. But this is marvelous!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He did come to speak to her and check her burned feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was left with vague memories of the cold smell of antiseptic and ammonia, and bright surgery lights burning into my eyes as I counted backward from ten. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

For five days and nights, news coverage of burning buildings, tanks, and armed troops focused on American streets, not Vietnamese villages and jungles. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His eyes burned red, and he pointed at her in a broken, stiff way. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And what if the girl was still lying, and the notebook really was burned? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

We arrived around sunset, and already there were more electric lights burning in the city than I’d ever seen at one time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He pulls away, looks into my burning face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I found Dad in the field, lighting a fire to burn the insulation from a tangle of copper wires. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to be like his father, chained to “yessirs” forever, but maybe it was harder to burn bridges and break habits than he thought. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So burn it,” suggested the most terrified of the group. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Together they cleared a place for a fire, surrounded it with stones, then gathered twigs, leaves and branches to burn, plus four slim branches on which they could thread the fish. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Joseph told Albert about making the fire in his toy chest, and burning the Persian rug, and being sent away to boarding school, and how he’d been fascinated by fire ever since. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was hearing Mama’s voice once more, but differently, louder now, right in front of me, and I smelled cork burning. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want evidence? Just look at the brand-new casts on his hands—obviously he burned himself while he was lighting the fire.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I know. Do you think I don’t know? The date is burned into my brain.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tuesday night I made TV dinners in the oven and burned them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

As a thing to catch people jumping out of burning skyscrapers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mack glanced at the burned curtains, at the floor glistening with whiskey and puppy dirt, at the bacon grease that was coagulating on the stove front. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the olden days, widows used to throw themselves on their dead husbands' burning pyres—or were thrown. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There Ignatius stood like the boy on the burning deck. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry had given a cry of pain: His scar had burned again as something flashed across his mind like a bright light on water. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The thing is,” Frank said, “Ella remembers everything she reads. She said something about the page being burned, like she’d read a damaged text of prophecies.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My hair, what was not burned off, is shaved. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That fire went out,” Mrs. Morton said, “but the fire that was burning inside of the preacher could not be quenched.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bruises were almost all faded, even if his arm was still in a sling and even if there was an annoying burn of soreness in his shoulder. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“His father’s greetings burned his eyes when he approached—blinding him!” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And sometimes you burn the toast,” Klaus said, and they smiled. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Shadow bought a slice of pizza and burned his lip on the hot cheese. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A naphtha lamp hung over the table, and a brazier held burning coals against the bitter chill of the night. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was the aching glory in masses of clouds burning gold and purple from an invisible sun. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every warning indicator in my cockpit started to flash as my mech began to fall out of the sky in two smoking, burning halves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She made it to the last one just as the stick had almost burned down to her fingers, and she let it drop on the counter to burn itself out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The burning snakes twisted horribly and some crawled burning across the floor of the grotto to illuminate its darker recesses. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My heart burned with black tears when I thought of where he was following me to. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The year had not been kind to the hills, and already in June they were dry and the stones showed through the short, burned feed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I can’t,” I stammered, pushing away a memory of raw fingers digging in the mud and the smell of burning hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But my lungs don’t seem to be burned,” I said, relieved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat leaped up to the shelf just in time to keep his tail from being burned. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greyjoy s longs hips are burned or taken, her crews slain or surrendered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was also sore about the shoulders and had a burning ear, from making bosh shots at the quintain— for, of course, practice tilting was done without armour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though dwarfs had thick skins, they were extremely sensitive to sunlight and had a burn time of less than three minutes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately the poison ichor was flowing all around him now, making the ground steam and the air burn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I look at my shoes, my cheeks burning. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He blows on the spoon, all dramatic like it’s burning hot, and then he puts it into his mouth. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I follow him into the hallway, my arms burning from where the chair hit me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Big honor for the first soldier to breach an enemy fort. You’ll notice nobody in the Fifth is wearing one. Usually we don’t even get into the fort because we’re burning or drowning or...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Cal doggedly lighted bill after bill until all were burned, and then he crushed the black chips down to powder and waited for Lee to comment, but Lee did not speak or move. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ran for more than an hour, over grass and gravel, until the sun burned away the early mist and dried the dew. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came from the water and the marsh possessed by a stern angel that burned in the blood around his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most burning question I have is why Miss Joe would want to tell me something like that. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Be off with you, you silly things," said Tristran, his face burning, and, having nothing else to hand, he threw his bowler hat at them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, half a hundred prayer candles burned in a fragrant silence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then I saw them—two burning, yellow eyes—staring at me from the shadowy foliage of the tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The North Tower continued to burn for another half hour; then it, too, completely collapsed. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Felt like that letter would burn a hole in my pocket, but I finally got breakfast over with and set off to the post office. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I throw some small sticks on it, wait for them to catch, too, then some larger ones, and pretty soon there’s a real fire burning in front of me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The force of the heat pushes Bailey backward, moving through him like a wave, the air burning hot in his lungs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The mouse, I’ve been sure for years, limps home from the site of the burning ferns wheel with a brand-new, airtight plan for killing the cat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Her wagon and all its contents were burned, and the woman was stripped, tarred and feathered, and, along with her servant, run off. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

No trees grew there; but among the rank grasses could still be seen the burned and axe-hewn stumps of ancient groves. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There was the tantalizing melancholy in the tingling scent of burning hickory wood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never realized how skinny he was—but that was Jack, he burned off energy just by being alive. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The summer came and burned me brown with its energy, and the llano and the river filled me with their beauty. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a fraction of a second, billions and billions of years would pass; the universe would have already met its ultimate fate and burned itself out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They trotted past blackened fields and burned holdfasts, down to the riverlands and the Green Fork of the Trident. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I need to wet this blanket again. My hand’s getting burned.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Listen, boy, you’re going to speak to both white and colored people that night. What can you alone think of saying to them? You have no experience . . .” I burned. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the Mask who raided my home, who burned it to the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her father had burned the blocks the day after her mother died. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He came as she had asked, and before that awful glory of burning light she died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only actual poll I ever took myself was informal and designed to answer the burning question: What percentage of college women enjoy watching the Three Stooges? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were going to burn down the cake! Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“They burn like the fire of ten thousand suns,” Colin said, deadpan. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A giant burning ghat was erected on the highway. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning houses filled the air, draping the city in fog. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The pizza was burned up, hard as a rock. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Almost two thousand five hundred miles away in Brisbane, my chance to be a school hero had crashed and burned as well. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You’ll what? Stomp your little paws again? Go ahead. The Thicket is gone, remember? Whatever magic was in those thorns burned away when the iron monsters attacked.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If they are not killed, she will be burned. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was going to collapse, or a flood was rolling in, or burning hail would rain down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

People said, “Thank God it wasn’t the school he burned down,” or “That boy was trouble from the start.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That newspaper clipping was burning a hole in my lap. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she was shaken awake in the middle of the night by her hostess, who urged her, “You must get up, your airfield is being bombed, your aircraft are burning!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There used to be a lot of other pictures but they got burned. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I told you there was something suspicious going on,” Mr. Greene said, feeling pretty proud of himself and puffing up a noxious cloud of cherry tobacco smoke, which burned my eyes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The man’s eyes had been burned out, the edges of his face crinkled and red. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

All night the townsfolk danced and sang around the burning fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a miracle the school didn't burn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hazel followed the path through the clearing and up a hill into the trees, heart burning the whole way. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She mourned the table after the burning because of the memories it held for her mother. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks, if you took your shoes off, burned. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The wind, which was also increasing in power, took all of these burning objects and blew them over the heads of the firefighters. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stella wasn’t sure what else to say, but thinking about her father’s words being burned, destroyed, made her stomach queasy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The truth is that he really was a heretic and was burned for his religious beliefs; it was just unfortunate that the Copernican model got tangled up in the whole business. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Harry dropped his gaze to his treacle tart, his insides burning again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was a fever in their eyes and in their hearts, and it burned so hot they could never rest for long. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The pinewood stakes still stood, charred and scorched but not burned through. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her arms hard, scraping the last bits of flaking skin from the burn in the process. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just one round at first, a single red tracer that thumped into the sandbag and burned. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their right a nightfire burned outside a temple of red stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He covered her with silk, though she was burning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’d laid it on the edge of the pool table and the coal had burned down to the wood; a charred spot was spreading on the varnish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because with a roar, a cloud of burning darkness lifted two giant fists over the cliff top. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sneaking it out bucket by bucket until he had enough to buy out his indenture and burn off his work tattoos. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The room is redolent with burning rosemary and crushed herbs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He has an idea about us burning sticks to make charcoal. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Every camp saw fewer fires burning, and those that were lit threw off more smoke than heat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My legs burned and ached as I leaned over his neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Blackwater itself seemed to boil in its bed, and burning spars and burning men and pieces of broken ships filled the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And I guess I do, because the next thing I know, I'm driving this dune buggy at about a hundred miles an hour across a burning desert that looks like the surface of the moon. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two more questions he was burning to ask . . . but they concerned the guilt of living people. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

Sicknesses like measles and smallpox would have burned through his six hundred men long before they reached the Mississippi. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And though he was powerful, he was bound and burning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, she waited with her burning cheeks and her own dumb smile until he slid her papers back to her, rough fingertips briefly brushing her wrist. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the time I finished reading the new chapter, hot tears were burning down my cheeks. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Fire—everywhere, climbing the walls of the room, burning with all the intensity of the sun. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My cheeks burn, and I brush past my uncle and climb into the backseat of the car without saying a word. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But it was gasoline and it would burn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to pay someone to burn my kruge for me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a fire burning in the hearth when they entered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The news came to these men, and their eyes squinted and their fingertips burned a little, and each one thought how the patron could not live forever and someone had to take his place. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently, Jay’s fingertips smooth the cream into my burn. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

His men will burn the bridge while the infantry covers the rear. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her footsteps kicked up clouds of ash that burned her eyes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The part in my hair get to burning, then itching, but I can’t scratch at it cause both hands is full then whoo! somebody blow out the flame. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A peat fire burned low in a hearth blackened by the hotter blazes of years past. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Mad she may be,” Ser Kevan said, “but with so much smoke drifting west, surely there must be some fire burning in the east.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her flyer for the book burning somersaults away in the breeze. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He got out of the car and closed the door, took one more pull from the cigarette, burning it down to the yellow part, then plucked it into the street. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That’s what you do with witchcraft; the only way to destroy it is to burn the physical thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And as he was being burned on a tall fire, he may have thought of it and perhaps wished he had not asked or not been answered. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably for the best. A couple hundred years ago, a person was good as dead if folk saw he had a knack. The Tehlins called them demon signs, and burned folk if they had them.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, the albino came out, pulled the cups from the corpse, decided to burn the body on the garbage pyre back behind the castle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, there is all that burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Will you do something? Will you burn your copy?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was just a weird hand-ship the size of a yacht, sailing without a captain, roaring across a burning sea toward us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the short fuse of his patience burned out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She turned her beautiful head toward him once more, and he broke into a run, a question burning in him, but as he opened his lips to ask it, she vanished. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Take a chicken’s foot, tie it with red string, spin it over your head three times, then burn it. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the strongest wizards in the district could administer this potion—a kind of paste made from the burned and ground bones of leopards and lions, and mixed with roots and herbs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen I found coffee grounds spilled all over the table and burned toast in a pan on the cold stove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If that cop hadn’t murdered that boy, people wouldn’t have rioted, the daycare wouldn’t have burned down, and the church wouldn’t have let Jay go. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She left the salon almost mournfully; while the hairdresser had flat-ironed the ends, the smell of burning, of something organic dying which should not have died, had made her feel a sense of loss. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mismatched candles in silver candelabras, burning in sets of three, surround the desk in the center of the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Not everyone would run into a burning building with nothing but a towel over his head to rescue people,” says the reporter. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The burn in my legs feels less like exercise and more like a dreadful punishment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I have sat in the burning heat of day under a relentless sun, and under the stone gazes of a disinterested humanity.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Old dreams still burned with the power of their one night on earth, but burned deep and forbidden in regions denied to men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When word reached Octavian that Mark Antony was dead, he feared that Cleopatra would kill herself or burn up her treasury or both. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Rubble was strewn all about it: great chunks of shattered masonry, burned beams, broken gargoyles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After using up three, the paper caught, in a sudden breeze, and then began to burn steadily. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I told you, and you didn’t listen. Now your precious hideout is burning, and I’m gonna hunt down all your little friends and put all their miserable hides with the rest of my collection.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sherlock whines softly, and my eyes begin to burn. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I almost dropped it because it was freezing cold on one side and burning hot on the other. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That one what locked hisself in his house and shot at them police until they set fire to the house and burned him up. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know things are unstable but this is—” “And my cousin Shinelle in Cauter County? They burn up her car cause she went down to the voting station.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Yellow, orange and red fires were burning on both sides of the road. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She grabbed my hand and burned me with the pointy part of the iron. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There were no riots or burning over there, not that she’d ever heard of. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There would be candles burning, we would watch each other’s faces come and go in the flickering, in the white flashes of jagged light from outside the windows. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The things burning and people living in cellars. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but he came for my daughter,” I said again, frustration burning my throat. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The electric bulb suspended from the ceiling burned with ugly sharpness in the dawn. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The men at the Tribune would do their best to stamp out and smother the burning embers that landed on the roof, but eventually, the fire won out. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the young woman in the shack, how she’d treated me so nice, and then I imagined what it must have been like for Dad to go into a burning house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Once she is dead, I will have you three burned as well, as false saints and practitioners of the arts of the Devil.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Blood rushed to my cheeks, so they burned hot as the vodka racing inside me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The contents of individual cells could burn, and wood in the catwalk area between the galleries could burn, but not the block as a whole. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He burned with shame to hear himself speak like this, but he also couldn't stop. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She built a fire in the grate and burned every letter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the first of these occasions, she perpetrated the attempt to burn me in my bed; on the second, she paid that ghastly visit to you. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He put his arms around her, and her feet and hands burned with pain as she slowly warmed up. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the clear gray eyes the light still burned steadily. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When her strange eyes burned into me, it did not seem quite sure. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands and feet punched and kicked the burning walls, but I couldn’t feel a thing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If you back out of a burning building, even if the fire is too far out of control for you to do anything, you’ll be shot the next day for turning back. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I wished I had kept my candle burning: the night was drearily dark; my spirits were depressed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

At Sikandra, Akbar’s tomb, they gaze at gilded frescoes in the entryway, chipped, ransacked, burned, the gems gouged out with penknives, graffiti etched into the stone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Kino’s brain burned, even during his sleep, and he dreamed that Coyotito could read, that one of his own people could tell him the truth of things. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ser Barristan had asked some of the queen’s cupbearers to help, but the sight of the burned man was too much for even the boldest of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was six months after my best friend, Bluford Jackson, got firecrackers for Christmas and burned his hand on one and died of lockjaw ten days later. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They had no choice but to go through this door, even though Reynie had no answer to his last burning question: What if it was a trap? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Listening to the average citizen speak, it was easy to forget that this part of the world had not seen an arcanist burned for nearly three hundred years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If the Hells Angels moved into that house and lived in our town that would be more frightening to me than burning the house down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What about the town of Nogent-sur-Oise? It burned this week. A fire started by Christians in the Jewish quarter. People died.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When White left the Tribune offices, fires were burning on all sides, but, aside from blackened scorch marks, his building stood tall and proud. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

This head could spit out long forks of searing fire, burning everything to cinders within a range of about half a mile. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

A roped-off room in a castle somewhere, a room made entirely of blocks of stone, icy and cold, even though a fire burned low in the hearth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The stomach ulcers returned, burning and aching through the night. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My face is burning—literally burning—and I think I'm going to pass out when I watch Jamie and Hiroshi shake hands. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Say we get out of this heat and talk more over cold drinks? You must be burning up under all those layers.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond the fields, a mile or more away from the sea, rose a forest of oak, chestnut, and hickory, open and park-like, the underbrush kept down by expert annual burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over the years the odors of liquor and vomit, boiled cabbage and burned meat, unwashed clothes and mouse droppings have intermingled into a stench that brings tears to my eyes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was breathing hard, and deep circles of red burned high on her bright cheeks; in all my life I had never seen anyone so maddeningly beautiful as she was at that moment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Somewhere above, the rockets burned down to civilize a beautifully dead planet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is the first meet, and we've got some work to do. But I'm watching every one of you, so let's get out there and burn." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

His mouth burned worse than when he had swallowed the firewater of the Phlegethon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was pulling Horace up by his arms when the door slammed in my face and a burned dresser lifted out of the corner and flew across the room. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Abnormal sensations as of prickling, burning, or itching, as well as tremors or even convulsions may follow exposure to appreciable amounts, according to a standard textbook of toxicology. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Further west, the same burning occurred, but on even grander scale. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tell them your birth certificate and your parents were burned up in the fire. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the homes had flat roofs and were made of burned brick, some of mud the same dusty color as the mountains that ringed the city. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

But I was filled with joy and triumph, and the fires to me were the flames of Troy still burning as Odysseus pushed off for Ithaca. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was there in the hand-washed and ironed clothes on the cane-seat chair, in the warm slippers left outside my door, in the wood already burning in the stove when I came down for breakfast. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In another article in Ahmad’s box, a young Mujahid was saying that the Soviets had dropped gas on his village that burned people’s skin and blinded them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My cheeks burned and guilt coursed through me, the guilt of indulging myself at the expense of his ulcer, his black fingernails and aching wrists. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke from burning wood lingers in the air. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The twenty four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But everyone in my family will tell you, “Trevor burned down a house.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My ears started to burn, and all of a sudden I felt hot all over. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She moved carefully—the burn on her back still hurt if she turned too suddenly. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius felt as alone as he had felt on that dark day in high school when in a chemistry laboratory his experiment had exploded, burning his eyebrows off and frightening him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fireplace with raw brick showing where the wooden mantel and surround had been pried away and burned. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

With their leg muscles burning and chests heaving, the boys finally reached the top. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the juice splashed on Pecola’s legs, and the burn must have been painful, for she cried out and began hopping about just as Mrs. Breedlove entered with a tightly packed laundry bag. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a black-haired youth, curled on the burned ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the saliva only made her burning eyes worse. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And I will not let my brother be burned alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even now I can feel the Cornucopia, which burned so when I first climbed it, slowly turning to ice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It raced down the mountain at jet speeds, burning everything in its path. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was also worried, like his friends in Los Angeles, that he was being impulsive and burning bridges without good reason. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She saw his heart burning through his chest, and in an instant he was gone, consumed like a moth by a candle, turned to ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Winterfell’s walls were strong as well, but Winterfell stands in ruins today, burned and broken. A wall is only as good as the men defending it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

But as the stars that outline a spiral arm burn out, new stars and their associated nebulae are formed just behind them, and the spiral pattern persists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A suffragist from Tennessee said, “We burn not the effigy of the President of a free people, but the leader of an autocratic party organization whose tyrannical power holds millions of women in political slavery.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Far away, maybe ten miles or more, there was a great burning, but between it and the Riders lines of fire blazed in a vast crescent, at the nearest point less than a league distant. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

How can it matter if I leave one little tap running, one little light burning, one little piece of litter on the road? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He still saw the wight in his dreams, dead Othor with the burning blue eyes and the cold black hands, but that was the last thing Sam needed to be reminded of. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Moses on the mountain, fire burning words into stone. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Just as the burning smell began to choke her, a cold, clean wind blew. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lee lifted the bottle to his lips and took a deep hot drink and panted the fumes out of his burning throat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his eyes to mine, I saw they were black and smouldering as if some deep flame of anger or hatred burned in him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cat stare burned into my shoulder blades. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

By then all the stars will have burned out and the protons and neutrons in them will probably have decayed into light particles and radiation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sniffed for air as my throat began to burn. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Scabior said it, Harry’s scar, which was stretched tight across his distended forehead, burned savagely. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now, I didn't understand Latin, but I understood that someone had just gotten burned. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a pile of stove lengths on the circle of burned ground where she cooked down her apples for apple butter. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was pretty far for us to have to come to burn her, but there was plenty of dry wood around. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then let’s play a game. If we win, you don’t burn a single book.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

My heart fluttered absurdly, and my cheeks were burning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A purple-and-brown raptor stepped out in front of the burning theater. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You ask me, I think they ought to round them all up and burn them at the stake.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It drifted over a calm spot just beyond the waves, and, thankfully, no fires were burning nearby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer followed these terrifying events from his home in California, burning with what he described as “a continuing, smoldering fury” toward Adolf Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face was burning, and I wanted to escape, but Diego wasn’t going to pick me up for another ten minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Stories went around town about how Jenny had broken up with him and he was so angry, he burned down the store to kill her. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine them fighting, burning, looting, and bombing every city and farm in their path until they reached the Great Plains. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Let them burn by flame or fever, let the destruction started here rove acre by acre until the dead have been avenged. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“But in the message—I could have read it to you again if you hadn’t burned it— it says that the group who wants to close the border is headed by Mentor! The schoolteacher!” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I feel my eyes burning and I don’t want her to see me crying especially when I don’t know why I’m crying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Frey fights hard and well, but he will be the first of the Aesir to fall: his sword and his armor are no match for Surtr’s burning sword. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The candle had burned out and the fire was down to coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The phosphorus would keep burning and burning, right through muscle and bone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A few strands float up to the real candles burning at the head of the box. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The sick lay there still, and the fire burned, and the smoke arose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have plenty to say to him when he sees those burned draperies.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even the fire burned neatly, three perfect plumes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It started at my face and burned down my chest and arms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A small fire burned a hole in the ground at my feet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the library, so snug and warm last night with the burning logs, was like an ice-house now, in the early morning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I turn left again, my chest burning because I'm running my hardest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re burning up my gas. Sit in the cold. It’s good for you.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aisling and her father stood across from each other on either side of the grave, and at the head of it, resting on the simple headstone, was the burning candle. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see why they hate us so much,” said Gregory He thought of Shed’s burning eyes, his last words, “Overlander, we hunt you to the last rat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nicole didn’t know, but whatever it was, it was still burning. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Between agonized gasps and groans she muttered that her stomach felt as if it were burning up. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The wattle and daub cottages nearly always got burned, and had to be rebuilt afterwards with much profanity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Methodically, she went from person to person, waving the burning branch with her good hand and shouting insults at any hyenas who might be lurking. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do the same, hot sand burning my feet, and follow her. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

War and woe and the screams of burning men, Davos might have said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was no fire burning, nay, not even a hearth where it could burn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some had been burned, as if the inhabitants had wanted to make certain they could not come creeping back, but this one had been spared the torch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the pain in his lungs overtook the pain of the burn, he would release the air in a great, gasping cry—a cry of relief for his lungs, of agony for his leg. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And suddenly, he’s just another burn victim from a mine accident. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We walked on the hot, burning sand until sunset. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Just like a peasant, to burn his own village from sheer stupidity!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Men were crawling from the river, men burned and bleeding, coughing up water, staggering, most dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His wire spectacles reflected the lantern’s glow, as if the flame burned inside him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to step into the foyer, smell the orange peel Ali always tossed into the stove to burn with sawdust. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"If my hand had not been burned, you would probably be dead now," he pointed out. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why had this field escaped while another burned five miles back? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The book said that my people had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had to save my energy, and I wasn’t going to burn away my calories on tears. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dream of one day owning a red dress to replace the one the soldier burned. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The touch sends a shock through my body, and all my insides burn like his fingers ignited them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was afraid she planned to burn her treasury, and he could not let that happen. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Anderson no sooner thought this when the door caught fire and burned McConners’ hand. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Better to send money, Lourdes replies, than burn it up on the phone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They are comets and meteors burning past her little capsule; they scorch up her very skin as she tries to sleep. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He rose and knelt and blew at the coals and dragged up the burned board ends and got the fire going. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s the next day My eyes are itchy and burning as I drive with the window down. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“We are burning the Five Evils,” I said drowsily, then squirmed out of her warm lap. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam had only just reached me when I felt the strangest sensation of burning, right at my core. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We battle along the straightaway, my legs burning, aching, empty. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Use a strong fire, burning heavily all around. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face is starting to burn so I step back in my little room. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I proclaim loudly, “Wuv-buckle, I like to walk out in the open, where the sunlight streams down and catches the amber highlights burned chemically into your hair.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to curl up in the street and burn. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was stiflingly warm, and the fire that was burning under the crowded mantelpiece was giving off a heavy, sickly sort of perfume as it heated a large copper kettle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When a local black minister,J. D. Hunter, brushed aside warnings to stay out of politics, segregationists burned his house to the ground. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a conflict that lasted nearly a month, rangers and their Indigenous allies attacked Spanish and Indigenous towns and villages, looting and burning them, taking scalps, and hunting for people who had escaped slavery. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Flames rose at once in the fireplace, crackling merrily as though they had been burning for hours. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Above his ear, beneath the wire stem of his spectacles, I could just make out the powder burn and the dark hole in his right temple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Aromas of freshly cooked food wafted about, intermingling with the scent of the sweet woods burning in the fires. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I focused on the burning trees, but the undergrowth—moss, weeds, wildflowers—bums, too. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

‘I burned my hand making you a silver basin ... Now, it is “go away, please.”’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am sad thinking I have finally replaced the other red dress that the soldier burned. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will go forth from Muspell with his flaming sword and burn the world with fire, and one by one the gods will fall before him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Stooping like a cloud, he lifted a burning branch and strode to meet the wolves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One man remembered seeing a man’s burning shirt sail into the sky, its sleeves outstretched. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of burning castles and dead men rising unquiet from their graves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In front of it burned a low fire and two piles: one of wood, the other of round rocks. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The burn makes his smile and his legs spread a little wider, and his phone is in his hand before he registers sliding it out of his pocket. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She left behind the burned remains of another woman in the blackened husk of his estate. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could go up onto the roof, but the corrugated tin burned my feet. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The girl tried to help him retrieve it before anything was burned, but he told her to just sit still, for Chrissake, and she pulled back her hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A fire still burned in the old stone fireplace, and the grandfather clock and television set were right where they had always been. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “and I’ve been wondering about that. I thought it would be burning all the time now Voldemort’s getting so powerful again.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The full bag was hauled to the basement and burned. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some people watched, horrified and weeping, from their windows, but a surprising number kept their heads and were forming a bucket line from the town’s cistern atop the city hall to a nearby burning building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I doubted Mrs. could cook like Big Ma, but I knew she could scramble some eggs and fry bacon without burning them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It came untethered and crashed around with reckless abandon—burning, shattering, consuming. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Frankie shook his head, his eyes burning wildly through his unkempt curls. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She lit one now, a long black cigar that smelt of burning rubber. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I rubbed the soap on a rag and scrubbed my skin until it burned. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How the grasses had been burned and the trees uprooted and the river strangled with rocks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My nose and throat burn as if I swallowed fire. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“It is the king who is burning the books, is it not? Well, his mother, Blanche of Castile, is the prime mover, I am sure. But I gather that the king is collaborating enthusiastically.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A red light burned bright and Knot yanked another lever. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"We got to let that burn out now. And that was our firewood." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that—more fire. And then either the slag heap or, perhaps what no one in the world ever quite gives up, perfection.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rocks were hurled through their windows, a cross burned on the lawn. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

My shopping list was burned into my brain. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach burned but I felt oddly calm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They left the dunes and came along the cliff, and then seeing the smoke from the fire which I kept burning, they followed it, and at last reached my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him, burning with shame at my complicity; but there was no way out of this arrangement, should I wish to continue my education. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down long since and there was no light but those strips and slants of dimness creeping across the circle, sketching out a face, a hand, a moveless back. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, fascinated by the face I saw reflected in the glass—the eyes that seemed to burn straight through the green tint, making my arms go weak. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were brighter than usual, and I had a bad flashback of moldy sandwiches and burned cookies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

General Sherman’s March to the Sea, where he and his men marched across the South, burning and putting down the dead, wasn’t much more than a temporary setback for the shamblers. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And all the old fever and pain burned in him and he was still never satisfied of his love. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I sit down near him with a burned cook pot. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light from the burning oil was inconstant, but they had no trouble making out the widening puddle of blood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It didn't burn his eyes or nose, and, in fact, he no longer noticed a particularly strong taste. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I want the burning towers out of my head. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

My lower half remains firmly anchored to the ground while my upper arms burn from the effort. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow flames turned orange and red, then burned with streaks of blue. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Blanche and Louis could not be closer. So this is our chance. Tonight, during the meal, I will bring up the burning of the Talmuds. I will pretend to have no opinion on the subject.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bronze, they were, brighter than polished shields, glowing with their own heat, burning behind a veil of smoke rising from the dragon’s nostrils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Somehow I’m afraid to stop because my flesh doesn’t seem to be burning and I know Cinna must be behind whatever is happening. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel burned everything he ever gave her and left the ashes in front of his locker. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

On August 9, 1610, Percy’s forces attacked and burned an Indigenous town, killing many people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pain in his scar was reaching a peak, burning as it had done in the garden of the Burrow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My lungs burn as I gaze up at the light from the hole that I fell through, the thin cord from the oxygen concentrator a guide to the surface. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It burned with something else, whiting out the setting around them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a person who never tanned, and he kept out of the sun as much as possible to avoid burning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say that! I’m just not used to you not whipping stuff up in the kitchen. You the only dude I know who knows how to burn.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The fire in my face burned on and on, deep through my flesh, scaring my soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floating people were suddenly illuminated as they passed over a burning tent and Harry recognized one of them: Mr. Roberts, the campsite manager. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When all was done she told them that they had gloriously avenged the dead, and with that she entered the burning dwelling and died there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was aware of eyes burning into my back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re with us now, man. You got to jump in. We stole it. You burn it.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of the main tent is lit with lanterns burning with green alchemical fire, tinting everything a sickly color. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I remember someone helping to wash the dirt and dust off me, the pain when they cleaned and dressed my burned feet, but not much more. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was caught in it, a smothering shroud, hot, white, the bitter smell of burned powder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This entire episode took me from fear to a rage that burned in me then, animates me now, and will likely leave me on fire for the rest of my days. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you promise not to let my house burn down?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t burn yourself,” I said as the flame crept up toward her hand. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The other half of the ward were burn patients, people injured by explosions or fires. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I burned the toast a little, and that was the first of a long list of complaints from Mr. John Conlan. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Who can look into the wet-mouthed smiles of children and see a meadhall burning, or listen past their musical prattle to the midnight roar of fire ? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with the press and the protestors here, too, I imagine the burning anger behind the Director’s false grin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She filled the stove with things to burn and then she struck a match. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sweat rolled in drops down Kino’s forehead and fell into his eyes and burned them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, he could hear the squeal of children and the shouts of the neighbors, for his friends thought he might be inside the burning house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Invading armies would always burn a city down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They hiss loudly as they strike, and burn themselves a socket in the ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Holes of different sizes dotted the hull, and burning seawater flooded out like lava. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He smells of burning things, hair and meat and fuel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Every cadet possessed a burning desire to be recognized, but never noticed, as his piercing blue eyes evaluated his corps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Despite being burned at the dump, and burned again in the lake of fire, Stupid Horse was untouched. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He mess with me and the Diablos will burn him up. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a little something I whipped up in my spare time. Wish I could give you more than a few seconds of burn, but at least it got us out of there.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But Boori Ma preferred to think that what irritated her bed, what stole her sleep, what burned like peppers across her thinning scalp and skin, was of a less mundane origin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My lungs are burning, and if I could cry I would, because my legs and arms are tired from all the kicking. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

The next to go was Clifton's doll, but it burned so stubbornly that I reached inside the case for something else. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The eloko cradled its burned arms to its chest, screaming in pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I gave him a fierce look, as if hoping to burn him with my eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In his mind he sees them burning somewhere. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Somebody brought a light, a hurricane lantern that burned steady in the stormy wind; somebody else, water. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a bunch of guys threw the dead horse into the back of a truck, drove it to the dump, and burned it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the window he saw that the day would be windless and burning hot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The long march began at around noon, the sun high in a cloudless sea of burning haze. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told about the burn, but with none of the belligerent arrogance with which he had been answering the questions kind people had put to him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only polite good-byes, the Crown Prince strode from the jangle and jingle of the court, the list of would-be brides burning a hole through his clothes and straight into his skin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Katz tried to light a fire, but everything was so wet that it wouldn’t burn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two Step was still on the roof and the theater was still burning, and... Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We would either freeze or be burned up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maid scurried past Meggie again, looking frightened as if any contact might burn her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Three days ago — it felt like much longer, but it had only been three days — he had awoken with his scar burning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“A scale from the dragon that burned you, as they say.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The burning crosses and shots in the night were common enough then that the porter wouldn’t have bothered to mention it if it was just that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe hard and blink harder, but my eyes burn anyway. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Behind him on a wooden table a small lamp burned. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had now forgotten the delicious meal which he had enjoyed, and all that remained was the burning pain from the blows which the people had inflicted on him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I feel like I need to tell all of you. Javi, too. It’s been burning up inside me all year.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My foot on the ground is cramping, the arch of it burning. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The brandy burned my throat and restored a bit of warmth to my body. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a little too close to the reek of Dad burning chorizo and eggs on the weekend before we found out about the comet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day the skin on her abdomen burned blacker and blacker, and the pain grew worse. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were armies of flies of all kinds buzzing round their ears, and the afternoon sun was burning on their backs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His words burn and crackle like the logs on the hearth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When they finally did, the man resisted, believing the hill to be cursed, so many churches having burned there in the past. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

For instance, he was working on a technology to burn coal more efficiently, so that even the lowest-grade coal could be mined and sold. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes burn, and I struggle to pull air into my lungs. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Aisling’s father had lit it shortly after Elinor died, and it would burn all night, sheltered by the curving glass around it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roz sat inside and listened to the wind and to the soft pops and crackles of burning wood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A fountain of burning jade rose froiji the river, the blast so bright he had to shield his eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Food laid out in pans on the hred-up stove, getting burned. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be a saint,” he says, a small fire burning in his voice. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We should have Mr. Greene print up a request to start a Protect Norvelt fund and collect money to buy what empty houses there are and keep this town from being sold or burned down.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had come to a decision and needed to act fast, while the decision still burned in his mind. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I put a few ice cubes in mine, because I don’t like to burn my mouth. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The day before the lighting, they dug a big hole in back of the store and filled it full of oak wood and burned it down to a glowing bed of coals. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I look over my left shoulder and see the headlights burning gold against the gray buildings and roads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Other pages of the newspaper had photographs of burning buildings, boarded-up stores, and desolate streets. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He always managed to break, ruin, burn, sit on, or knock over something important. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But...how? You not scared of burning yourself, or burning the whole house down?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Pray the sun will burn off the fog and let me see again. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This one had run into a burning building in his youth to save a family member. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My chest burned with the unjustness of it all. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sturdy brick structures had been transformed into blackened skeletons whose insides continued to burn brightly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no such papers. I have burned all secret documents. I was ordered to do so.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and I raked them across the front dirt and burned them in the street. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They burn crates and papers and even antique furniture to keep warm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Behind its crumbling red brick walls, Astapor was still asmolder, though by now most of the great fires had burned out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Honeyman’s Patriot neighbors in Griggstown, New Jersey, heard about his escape, they rushed to his home and threatened to burn it down. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, Denise, watched Newark burn, and it only strengthened her resolve to break free. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He casts them in the burning pit of hell where they burn for eternity. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Lacks children had to work from sunup to sundown; they weren’t allowed to take breaks, and they got no food or water until nightfall, even when the summer heat burned. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am,” Francis said, wiping at the burned spot and scrambling to hide the cigarette butt as she came down the steps. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I found I had to stop every ten or twelve yards to draw breath and wipe burning sweat from my eyes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She and her friend Herminia burned votive candles in the nursery until the doctor threatened to throw them both out of the hospital. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archibald Yronwood had been cradling his prince’s scorched and smoking body when the Brazen Beasts had found him, as his burned hands could testify. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sun rose on Monday, and Chicago continued to burn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mareth had told him that torches burned all night long in the corridor outside his room and he could rekindle the flame there. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth glanced into the living room and held up a burned cookie for Luke to see. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything about a celebration; he merely gathered the wood, set fire to it, and watched it burn. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark-brown root-beer bottle, like a burned limb, grew out of her dimpled hand. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved through the pictures faster and faster as he came to the burning theatre, and the flames, the terrible flames, that filled the paper completely. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The burning arm was lost over the edge, up to the shoulder. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But it had a fire burning inside all the time. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She burned two in a row, to be exact—she had the fire in the stove stoked up way too high. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blow out an angry breath and go to stand next to Ida, who is poking at her burned porridge piece in dismay. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A panic attack is coming on; my chest is tightening, my face is burning up, my skin and scalp are itchy. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I dreamed, not of blood, glassy eyes, and the smell of burning hair, but of gentler things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Were with the camera, tracking to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Frightful blinked as it burned her eyes, but she did not leave. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But as it is, I feel like the sky will light on fire any second now, and all the stars will crash into one another and burn away to ash. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Now the fog burned away, the mist level lowered until she was deposited upon the shore of wakening. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way Fozia said he loved to dole out punishments and had personally burned an entire village to the ground. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The air was burning them, and then the air itself was burning. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They were taken to a large synagogue that had been burned and then rebuilt after the events of Kristallnacht. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It reeked of burning hair and rotting flowers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We could have burned as easily as we put out the fires. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

One pot was in the shape of a large owl’s head, and growing out the top were just the spindly burned stems of something that had been alive the day before. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The French fries were heavenly; the soda burned their throats in a good way. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He let off a shot near my head that burned my ear and made my whole head ring. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one we’d lost was impressive enough, though I’d seen it opened only once, at night, by the skittish orange firelight of the burning home for peculiar children. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The old scar on his forehead, which was shaped like a bolt of lightning, was burning beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Once I had had to eject from a burning airplane, and I knew that the procedures had to be memorized and be very clear in your mind. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a slow burn that rises up my bosoms, my chin, my mouth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He is not wearing his sunglasses, and in the dim room his eyes burn with scarlet flames. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Thus, my young friends, does the light of the Founder still burn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat together until the candle had burned out and another one had to be lit. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He pointed to where the fog had burned off. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small flecks in the iris of Mordred’s eyes burned with a turquoise light, as bright as the owl’s. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was skinny as a coyote, with not even two pesos to rub together, but he was filled with a burning desire to survive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face burned as he tried to stop himself from crying. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some of them even wore sunglasses, an act that on the Permian band would have been considered as blasphemous as taking out an American flag during the halftime show and burning it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used hot combs to straighten their hair, his aunty had said, because they wanted to look like white people, although the combs ended up burning their hair off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s curiosity burned through her like a flame on a match. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The candle burned down to a puddle of wax, then a second and a third. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleven men survived the collision but some were burned badly from the fuel fire that took place after the crash. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Are you training women here?" the burned man wanted to know. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then she’d probably want to burn a couple dozen candles and make me dance around them, and we all know that would end up with the cute firefighters storming our house again. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was taking shape more rapidly now that she used burning coals to hollow it out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She knew the Drevlians would kill him, so she acted first. She sent troops to the Drevlian capital and burned it to the ground, leaving no one alive.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was one more sentence: Your notebook wasn’t burned. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The husk of the tracker jacker nest, beaten to a pulp by the heavy rains and dried in the burning sun, confirms the location. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Nicolas had gone to fetch Amanda in old Covadonga, which still ran, though it barely sputtered along on its remaining nuts and bolts, lost in a black cloud of burning oil. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But selling was better than watching them die when the grass was gone and there was no more cactus to burn for them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

During our struggle, I caught a glimpse of where the burning building had been. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the end of our seclusion, the lodges and all their contents were burned, destroying our last links to childhood, and a great ceremony was held to welcome us as men to society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strain burned through the town of Nzara and reached eastward to the town of Maridi, where there was a hospital. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They leave their cabins with their nighttime fires still burning. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, American bombers were pounding Japan night after night, flattening and burning entire cities. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has red laser eyes that burn my forehead. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

My hands and feet were bandaged, because they were burned. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The bridge is still attached at their end and it slaps the facing cliff but it’s burning so fierce it won’t be no time at all before the whole thing is just ash. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They tore down Mr. Fenchel’s white picket fence and burned the front out of his house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Ultima burning the evil load of the sack exactly where the three witches had danced when my uncle saw them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya could see its colors more clearly now in the light of die burning town: a golden lion on red. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The ticket seller had a dim banker’s lamp burning behind his wee cage. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I felt my face burning and my throat choking. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The ropes burned at my hands so that the rope fibers seemed to brand my skin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gardner realized immediately that the battered, burned volume was an old codebook. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I remember, even on the cold mornings when the fire had burned down, I would wake up under a blanket, always with some brothers and sisters next to me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waves his go-chu back and forth like a fireman hosing down a burning house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The moon smiled on him and guided him, and his golden body burned with such beautiful brilliance that he became a new sun in the heavens. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was the same shade as mine—deep brown, nearly black—but where my eyes were pale green, his were dark enough to burn from a distance. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Luxa’s torch had burned out, leaving only his hard hat for light. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It oozes and flows toward a feeding crab, and as it comes close its yellow eyes burn and its body turns rosy with the pulsing color of anticipation and rage. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she knew it was not ripped off; it was burned off, exploded off by heat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In its furnaces the power plant burned coal, and out of its chimneys black smoke poured day and night, blanketing the town with soot and making all the floors dirtier than ever. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I yelped, just to get Uncle Tony back for the rocket scientist burn. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mark can do nothing, his strength spent, every part of his body aching and burning. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At first it had felt as if his hand were still aflame, burning day and night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My throat still burned, but I was filled with gratification that with all those brothers, I was the first to imbibe. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The moment I took my first burning snootful, I understood that this was the drug for me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The governor of the colony rushed toward the burning plantations, where he met a group of armed slaves, and asked them what they wanted. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I let Charley out, and suddenly an angry streak of gray burned across the clearing in the pines and bucketed into the house. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wounded leg burned, but not as much as the rest of him, and he pressed her back onto the blanket. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It burned redder than the other stars, and did not twinkle, though sometimes it flared up bright and sometimes dwindled down to no more than a distant spark, dull and faint. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It didn't have time to soak up much juice. If I leave it connected all afternoon, the orb will burn bright for a few days—even longer if I keep it switched off.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He pushed his hat back, and the sun burned into his already brown face, making him squint. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Let’s burn her at the stake,” he said huskily, abruptly lurching forward to stub out his cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was empty and a dim light burned at the far end. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the table were two religious-looking candles burning away. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I played back the memory I’d burned into my heart, but I knew this was where she’d pulled the seed from. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The power’s been coming and going; sometimes the lamps burn at full brightness, other times we squint at one another in the brownouts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

All went well until 1848, when the factory burned down and the family was reduced to penury. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had holes burned in her face, like someone had taken a cigarette to her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Someone might even be in there burning leaves. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns back to the fire, where the chestnuts are beginning to burn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face is grim and long, his eyes are burning in his pallid face. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His lifeline was tied to a stick in a fireplace, and when that piece of wood burned up...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I usually burned them after I finished them, just to lighten my load. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There were no piles of trash to worm into, no burned- out buildings to climb through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She kicked forward, her lungs beginning to burn, and miraculously, she found Taisin’s hand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Feeling a surge of patriotism, Melita burned with desire to join these young people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He shows us how to keep the slow match burning by blowing the ash off of it every few minutes, and how to use it to ignite the gunpowder. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Just set a match to it and burned it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the emergency room, Sasha was taken to the burn unit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was so hot it burned his fingers, but so good he could not help but reach for another chunk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It ate 1020 bar stock, burned it out like it was cardboard,” I marveled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Evan was burning with embarrassment as everyone looked at him and his buggy lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Why you think I drove all the way out here to kingdom come, just to burn gas?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Matty didn’t want to alarm her, but he was in excruciating pain, as if his arms had been burned by fire. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Lori was lurching around the living room, her eyebrows and bangs all singed off and the smell of burned hair in the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, I left Mama and went to stand in the light of the burning bear grass. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, your poor hands. Have you burned yourself, sweet lady? The fingers are so delicate . . . Our good Maester Pycelle makes a marvelous salve, shall I send for a jar?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The toy of a man with money to burn. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wanted to say impossible, but she remembered Athena’s bitter words in Grand Central Station, the burning hatred in her eyes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Last week she was burning a lavender-lime—a purple-green swirled combination that actually smelled really good. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In the Greek myth of Prometheus the gift of fire forever severs humankind from the natural world—the burning torch is the icon of the constructed and artificial. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She did not want his touch, and yet she did: she burned with longing and froze with rage. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Under the picture of the man with the burning heart there is a shelf with a red glass holding a flickering candle and next to it a small statue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She lit the kerosene lantern while I made the fire, then she burned some sweet incense. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed till my arms burned with pain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A firefighter at the scene had told Ernest that those responsible for this “should be thrown in the fire and burned.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My home was raided and burned to the ground, my family killed because two of the rebels gave Darin’s name to the Empire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The only evidence I saw of the oil splash was a wide burn scar under her chin. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Matt had to return to school, and Bando stayed on to help burn out another tree for another guest house. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wept as he told us that he literally had to reach down into the graves, lift out and carry the decomposing bodies to the burning pyres. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Before the beginning there was nothing—no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the cloud of burning oil stood over the landscape like an angry father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Threads of smoke floated up from a filterless cigarette whose coal burned dangerously near his fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sky is seamless and blue, the snow so white my eyes burn. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my blood burning, my anger mounting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry found the hot drink as welcome as the firewhisky had been on the night that Mad-Eye had died; it seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“My ears burn with hate for what you say. You will answer for this to Ladybird herself. I avenge the General.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The thought made his face burn and his voice wither, and he might as well have been turned to stone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I burn my tongue on a cheese bubble and swig half a glass of ice water. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then I think she saw the burning fence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like that, I can feel the image burning into my retinas, where it will remain forever.. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But he had never seen a cross burning like that one upon the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s something I have to tell you. Doctor Korczak was right. There was a cow. And it burned like a marshmallow!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any butter for that burn?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The color-striped candle would burn down to the fuse at six-thirty; whoever was working there would be at the other end of the room. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was caused by little pieces of our heat shield burning up and coming off, as it was supposed to do, to protect us from the searing frictional heat. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some even looked burned, and there wasn’t a sound to be heard. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a large frame house, with miles of slippery wood floor, a kitchen clad in stainless steel so shiny it burned, a living room with a fireplace and giant TV. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My face burned red, and I willed myself not to cry. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A time stamp is burned into the lower left corner of the image, just like on the shaky home videos Dad used to take. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The row was dimly lit by the warning lantern where the railroad crossed the street and by one small carbon-filamented globe that burned on the porch of Jenny’s. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra sat close to the anvil, where the knife lay cooling, and Iorek told her to bank the fire up and not let it burn down: there was a final operation yet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘Thrice shall pay for all, if you are willing. You will not find me a burden much greater than when you bore me from Zirakzigil, where my old life burned away.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My cheeks burn again at the thought of Gale. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He stared ahead, covered in blood, eyes burning with hate as she cleaned his face and put him on her couch to sober up with some ice packs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And the whole leg burned like wildfire when I so much as curled up a toe. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I threw up again, tears streaming from my burning eyes, and I ran. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Farmhouses with electric lights burning in the windows. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked grim and tired, for his eyes were burning, there was an air of such impersonal cruelty about him that despite myself I shivered. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the air was coated with the smell of burning. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often a boy would burn his hands and cry in pain. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall—all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I coughed reflexively and sucked down another lungful of the burning air just as I entered the wall of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They applied ice packs to my ribs, which were super uncomfortable because after a while the cold makes your skin feel like it’s burning. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My cheek burned, but I fought back the hot tears and tried to swallow the lump in my throat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had many dreams in which I saw myself or different people burning in the fires of hell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must pull it out of the ground and burn it to ensure it is dead.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed his hands over the flames once, and then the woodpile was bare and cold, not burned at all. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As Masha’s burning plane sank lower, one of the German fighters flew so close that Masha could see his grinning, freckled face. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But there were some women burning books, that’s what she was really there for. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia reads a story about two sisters, a pretty one and one who has a burn covering half her face. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Add the onion, then. Stir it so it doesn’t burn.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Either way, it looked like the house had come close to burning down. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I had recently had a visit from Winnie and I learned that 8115 Orlando West, the house in which we had been married and which I considered home, had been burned down by arsonists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire in the bedchamber had burned down to em-bers, but the room was still warm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The tank beneath was filled with charcoal, pieces burned out of whole sticks and limbs in carbon effigies of the trees themselves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Pyp grinned, "The Night's Watch is thousands of years old," he said, "but I'll wager Lord Snow's the first brother ever honored for burning down the Lord Commander's Tower." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t collected them, would our house have burned less brightly? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It makes him seem even more intense than he already is, with his burning eyes, rapid-fire clipped speech, and slight lisp. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We crossed lines in sand drawn through palmetto scrub, lines down the middle of highways, soup-kitchen lines, lines of worry, souls lined up awaiting the burning tongue of salvation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we burn them. We don’t put them in holes.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the terror, I can feel the flames of anger, burning, rising. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1959, when discussions of my fertilization got under way, my mother couldn’t foresee that women would soon be burning their brassieres by the thousand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She gathered the remaining leaves and flung them into the fire, where they caught, flaming, and drifted upward like burning black pages. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Frank averted his eyes as if the sight of them together might burn him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He rolled up his sleeve and showed us the blistered pink flesh of the burn on his forearm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incense was burning all around the botanica and the shelves were crowded with teas and potions and smaller saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She did not trust monks and she did not trust giants, and the last time she’d seen a giant monk, her friend Theresa had been taken away to be burned at the stake. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If not, he’d drop it in the burn bag—a large, brown paper sack standing by his desk. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Right on cue, a flock of clucking chickens hobbled toward us from a burned and blackened coop. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The skin of my thighs burned with the extra strain. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She had watched in helpless anguish while the flaming plane slowly glided to earth, knowing that her friend Zhenya was burning to death in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Several burned feather tips fell to the floor. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I make myself close my burning eyes—I can’t see anyway! Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

One streetlight is burning above a historical marker and, knowing I don’t have to reach Beaver Corners before dawn, I stop and read it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although pinon fires burned in stoves day and night, dwellings stayed barely warm; outside, trucks would not start. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eastward Sam could see the plain of Mordor vast and dark below, and the burning mountain far away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You were snoring, and then you gave me a burn.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Infected elm wood, after being cut and stored for firewood, will release a crop of fungus-carrying beetles unless burned before spring. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered the Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Bigio had come into Mrs. Baker’s classroom and the sound of her sadness, and I knew what burned guts felt like. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The memory flashed painfully in her head: she had left the arrow behind when she fled the burning forest. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She might want me to hear them that way, but they’re burning me up instead. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I feel like my skin has been burned off. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe its ten-year battery has shorted, and all its circuits are systematically burning out. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Though you murder the world, turn plains to stone, transmogrify life into I and it, strong searching roots will cracky your cave and rain will cleanse it: The world will burn green, sperm build again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was night and his lamp was burning and he had just barely begun to get drunk when suddenly he knew he was no longer alone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arul looked at the sky and moaned about how he didn’t want our souls to burn in hell until the end of eternity. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In homeroom, Ivy’s face burned red the second she walked through the door. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Beneath the shadow of the cowl, her eyes burned like pale red candle flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She felt the medallion, hidden beneath her tunic, suddenly burning against her skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we got there I was wore out, and the heat and burning oil had made a dirty brown mess out of the Pierce’s neat new engine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my cookies are going to burn! Be right back.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was busy keeping the flames low so they would not leap up and burn the fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The direwolf's eyes burned red as embers as his teeth nipped lightly at the soft skin of the boy's throat, just enough to draw blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Come in," he said from the half-shadow; then I saw him move and his head coming forward, his eyes burning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been walking for a while now, since they got off the lorry at the motor park, and the afternoon sun burned the back of his neck. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why would he risk all that to burn his girlfriend? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I had heard my papa and Uncle Henry saying that right in Marshall, they set burning crosses in front yards. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move down through the darkness, burning with murderous lust, my brains raging at the sickness I can observe in myself as objectively as might a mind ten centuries away. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the men’s feet dried and the blood began to circulate, they all had the sensation of burning. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The sun burned down on them with savage heat as they stood around the open dank grave. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He almost burned the parchment then and there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What do you think, Bernie? Could he really get people to stop working at my place? Would he have the guts to burn my hay?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water keeps the leaf wet, and although the top dries up and burns down to the water level, that’s as far as the burning goes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was burned to the earth I started a fire in another house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They will simply come down on us in force, corner us, and then drive us out, or burn us in. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The scent of my burning flesh chokes me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Hard to say,” he said, letting the match fall, still burning, from his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The split knuckles on Kino’s right hand burned when he saw who they were. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the fiercer the longing for the Hallows burned inside him, the less joyful it made him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hundreds had come to the castle gates to bear witness to the burning of the Seven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I eat my burned toast and Daddy gathers up some papers and folds them into his jacket. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a torch flared twenty feet ahead of them, and behind that torch, a half-dozen more burned into life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My stomach knotted, and I knew before they told me: they’d burned and buried it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And by the time Joseph came to the end, he could feel the terrible heat pressing against Leo’s skin, and he could hear the burning theatre as it cracked and fell around him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

This fire had only been a distraction, a controlled burn to keep the fire department busy. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

By the time the Trojans were awake, before they realized what had happened, while they were struggling into their armor, Troy was burning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me several minutes to keep the match from blowing out in the wind, and then the match almost burned me, so I flung it away. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the Inka army’s plan to burn down the town and prevent the invaders from crossing the river was foiled by the native Xauxa and Wanka populace, which had long resented the empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It snuffed, rolled on the burning pieces, then ate them after they were extinguished. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The substance burned holes the size of silver dollars through the vehicle’s top, fenders, and hood. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He flexed his burned hand as he rode, opening and closing the scarred fingers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So I was relieved to think we had caught the Five Evils and were burning their corpses. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And burning our fingers while eating these sweet nuggets, we naturally started to giggle and gossip. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His scar was burning: He felt angry and frustrated; he hated the idea that they were all imagining him to have power to match Voldemort’s. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And partly because population growth burned humanity’s boats. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes have turned to burning diamonds, his Noise blazing a red so fierce it’s practically steaming the water away from him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His coat hung loose and he was burning muscle. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A rural black family guilty of a small infraction of “social custom” would awaken in the middle of the night to find a cross burning in their yard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two VC came out from one hut that we were burning. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the crackling sound of the wood being burned. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

How the two women had come together was a mystery, but this much was definite: Mrs. Castro had hired Angela to burn Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Still he stood, and stared, and remembered, until he felt the sun burning down on his bare feet and knew his shadow had crept behind him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Belet stood before me, our noses inches apart, so I could register the fury burning in her eyes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A star can burn for billions of years, but it dies just once and quickly, and only a few dying stars explode. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Cool a burn, cool a burn,” he keeps repeating as the damp gauze feels like a match held to my skin. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He leaped over the side and struggled toward shore, splashing through water covered with blotches of burning black oil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the women’s section across the room, I felt Mrs. Brenner’s intense dark eyes burning into me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow, that was even more terrifying than the burning itself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Understanding no choice but to burn with their children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot but not enough to burn, so I walked on it a piece, arms spread-eagle, balancing with my fishing pole like a tightrope-walker at the circus. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His lungs were like burning brooms in his chest. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She backed out of the nursery, cradling her hand as if it had been burned. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As Farmer and she were leaving the capital, Ophelia suddenly smelled burning tires. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Humans burned or shredded them, and they burned and shredded her, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I thought that the burning pain in my chest was Deborah. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On the return trip, he came to a bridge that had opened to let boats sail downriver and away from the burning areas. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The glass has shattered out of her bedroom window, and what she hears is the sound of something burning beyond the shutters. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A calloused hand, a healed cut, the shiny slash of a burn on the deep bronze skin. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small fires were still burning in the north, but otherwise the city seemed unnaturally peaceful. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

This equilibrium cannot last forever; the star has only a limited amount of hydrogen fuel to burn. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z