There he sat, hour after hour, so intent that often his lips moved, and two spots of color burned in his pale cheeks, as though some secret excitement sprang from the pages. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There are parts of me that would laugh while the whole lot of them burned. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the middle of it all, deep in the center of my chest, a piece of me burned in anger like a forge coal fanned red and hot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Allah to “bum my brain” as I felt the brain of my brother Reginald had been burned for harboring evil thoughts about Mr. Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every part of Toby’s body burned now, from his heels to his hair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I pass by the same people over and over, until their faces are burned into my memory. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

None of them knew how quickly as they sat around again that night, as Daddy sang once more about the foxes, as the fire burned and the miracle of the cream happened all over again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes of the Meecham children burned with the excitement of secret gifts camouflaged beneath wrapping paper. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cigarette had burned down to the last half inch. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A small fire burned a hole in the ground at my feet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

The spiritual power inside of her burned so intensely, she felt that if she simply burst forward, she could plow through the haint and obliterate Wick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All of our family albums burned in the fiery attack. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

When six were burned Lee came in without knocking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“I heard some Muslim homes were burned not that far from here. Maybe they were angry,” Amil said, bending over, ripping up pieces of grass. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the fall he burned brush piles and raked leaves for Virginia Gatewood, a stick figure at twilight in cloth gloves and a threadbare mackinaw coat ragged at the elbows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the meantime Arne Stolbaad’s chimney fire expired; when the firemen showed up at last he expressed to them his delight at having burned clean the flue creosote. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

A hundred years earlier and she would have been burned at the stake for her visions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have much to gather. My things were mostly burned.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is the / for ‘illustrious’ or perhaps ‘impertinent’?” My face burned both in the scar and where his lavender- smelling fingers pinched my skin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the first sunlight burned through the thin, blue mist and radiated off the blades, a prayer leader said that the Osage were a “humble people, asking for your help.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The final count was two hundred fourteen slain, three times as many burned or wounded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

He emerged in a clearing of burned grass and found himself face-to-face with a basilisk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hot bricks and rubble have burned my skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three of my friends had burned to death in a spacecraft, and now I was headed for major surgery. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could I expect you to know blessed Mr. Poe? He died a long while ago, before Lincoln. All of his books were burned in the Great Fire. That’s thirty years ago—1975.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was the stench of burned and burning things. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

His eyes, merely intent before, now burned with an uncontrollable need. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

There was victory and defeat; and towers fell, fortresses were burned, and flames went up into the sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Right. And apparently the day that burned my Gold-Bug in Mr. Quisling’s memory.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Tears burned at my eyes, but I would not let them fall. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Who would bother about a few straws if I burned them? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind was formed in the desperate, keep-alive pattern of those early weeks and months as she spent herself out and burned herself up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

On some of the tables glasses stood half-empty; in one ashtray a cigarette had burned down to the butt; a plate of risotto stood next to a basket of stale rolls as hard as cardboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘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

In many instances, the colonizer forces burned fields and stole or destroyed the foods and seeds the people had stored. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

My cheeks burned, but Edward seemed at ease. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed that way to Ophie, like all Mama’s good memories had burned down with the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The slaves were nor required to work—as long as the Yule logs burned in the fireplaces. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sputnik II orbited the earth 2,570 times before it burned up in the atmosphere five months later. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran flexed his burned hand in the blessed cool of the cloud. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you see how bad the salt burned that guy?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His mother was yelling, "Feed it to the pig, you stupid creature! Why not? No one decent will buy burned bread!" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The burned stick in his coat pocket felt heavier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Votive candles burned feebly in blue and red clusters before statues of St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toast ain’t burned too bad this morning so I start with that. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Rocks were hurled through their windows, a cross burned on the lawn. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

We could have burned as easily as we put out the fires. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun burned like molten gold, and the land was seared and empty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

“But I have a question for you. How did you make it through the fire? The reagent produces a most intense flame. How is it you are not burned?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

When he passed the burned place where Anya’s house and barn had been, his eyes bugged. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

But when he came back from the burned house, he had that puppy. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was yellow gold, burned gold, and gold turning to brown; there were reds blending with browns, greens with grays, and solid browns shining like silk. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyebrows were gone and the front inch or so of my hair was completely burned off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nate’s cheeks burned, but he was determined to prove the captain wrong. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

But remembering that place also made her think about her last night in Georgia, the smell of smoke as their house burned and the sad-eyed ghost of her father. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“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

That’s when I learned that some of those who walked out had assembled at the vacant lot at Sixteenth and Park across from the school, where they hanged and burned a straw figure. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And over all the burned stuff on either side of the ditch. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

From there it burned uptown, pushed by a strong wind, devouring Bridge Street, Dock, Stone, Marketfield, and Beaver, then it ran up both sides of Broadway. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How would I know? Ask her septon. When your father burned our castle, she decided the gods were punishing us. Now all she does is pray.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

James directed her to a huge marina, where lights burned in many buildings and in many of the small windows of the boats tied in rows along the docks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The tea was always too hot, always burned my tongue, and if lunch was something peppery, my raw tongue suffered. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The gashes seemed to have burned into him like evil coals; the blackness had spread and his arm looked like a burnt tree. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

That the kitchen curtains burned from the plantains she left frying on the stove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m not the one who burned your hospital! She’s my friend, and I... I just...” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He burned what was left of New New York that morning at three. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow bought a slice of pizza and burned his lip on the hot cheese. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The wound itself was burned black as if the iron had scorched Elowen’s flesh, and Kaede had to swallow her nausea as she wiped the blade on the very edge of Elowen’s ermine cloak. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the milky twilight grew darker these little lanterns were more intense, so that when at last the night had come they burned with vivid purity. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“They killed my husband, burned my village to the ground. I have no home, no family, nothing is left.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

While everything burned to flat black ash, we wouldn’t be sad because we’d be in this new place. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The crocodiles had been trapped and burned to death in an eruption of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the hot water Papa had poured on my feet, except now it was my entire body that burned. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The scar left by the bonfire was still visible on the lawn behind the house, where Capricorn’s men had piled up the books and burned them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Great Hall was deserted now; the candles had burned low, giving the jagged smiles of the pumpkins an eerie, flickering quality. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“But that’s all it takes. Got burned pretty badly and lost a couple fingers. Wasn’t much of an artificer afterward.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I asked as I bit into hot cheese and tomato sauce that burned the tip of my tongue. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Her remains were burned, her works obliterated, her name forgotten. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, an old city that was razed, burned to cinders, and crushed into the ground, even the roads disappearing, the earth left to run wild over the wreckage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘Oh ... my brilliant plumage. Very well. I suppose you can’t die in glory if you are blinded and burned.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The ghost I talked to explained how Hecate defeated Clytius in the first war. She used her torches to set his hair on fire. He burned to death. In other words, fire is his weakness.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Surrounding her were candles she burned in daylight, clean yellow diamonds, footlights that ringed her, mysterious masked mother, nose and mouth veiled with a cowboy handkerchief. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shame and anger burned at me, making my skin feel fever hot under the cold water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“How could I have? I think we both were having bad dreams. I am not burned and you have always been safe, so let’s go back to sleep.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ged lay blind and dumb in fever like a stick in a slow fire, and there was no spell to cool what burned him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

The sweat rolled in drops down Kino’s forehead and fell into his eyes and burned them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ash was momentarily astonished, for the huntress had never done that before, though it was the customary farewell practiced by the people in that country, and her cheeks burned. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I heard Mother tell a room of devoted faces that sixty-five percent of Dad’s upper body had been burned to the third degree. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Intensely interested, he tried to block out the shouts and chatter rumbling through the Glade as others found out about the Map Room being burned. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

NO: an afterimage burned on their retinas, the glow seared forever in their memory. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

But the white fury of the Northmen burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears and bitter. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Unlike bites, werewolf claw marks wouldn’t transmit lycanthropy, but Reyna knew firsthand that they healed slowly and burned like acid. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Framed photos from our time in America lined the living room, since the photos from our past in Africa had burned in the camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

Three long, thin loaves of bread appeared on the sill, plus a misshapen lump of burned dough. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

After my mother was buried, Uncle Abdullah burned her belongings, afraid that they had been tainted by the fever. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And yes, the cake has spirits, but all the alcohol has burned off. I ordered it specially in honor of your fiery debut." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

His library pallor had burned and then browned. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mom made scrambled eggs, which I usually love, but she’d burned them. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For not only were the numbers becoming wholly unmanageable, but the further one got from 1776, the lower the revolutionary fires burned and the less imperative the logic of the revolutionary ideology seemed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

It was constructed around 1889 but burned mysteriously three years later. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head burned like it was full of Red Hot chips. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They both smelled like burned rubber, so I assumed they must be new. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I know that when Mother had removed the gauze that morning, she’d found that his ears were so burned, the skin so glutinous, they had fused to the syrupy tissue behind them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

Long ago, when the old house had been lived in, before it had burned, there must have been a wide lawn around it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Other day, me and a few others, we go and burned some houses.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

Finally the short fuse of his patience burned out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As he did every morning, he took a deep breath and stared at the lamp on his desk—a tiny flame that burned night and day, fueled by magic olive oil from the supply room. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

The candle burned down to a puddle of wax, then a second and a third. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tracked her down in a nearby store, hiding in the back, and when Morrie went in, she burned an angry look at him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Every day, bodies were found tied to trees, some times burned beyond recognition. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It became colder the deeper into it one sank, and Tristran pushed his burned hand as far as he could down into the fabric of it: it resisted him slightly, but accepted his hand. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

How much fossil fuel was burned to keep it refrigerated and fly it to the U.S.? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His ear had been burned away; there was nothing left but a hole. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Their tattered uniforms were black with soot from the villages they’d burned in retreat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Between the edge of the burned forest and the mountains, a rocky slope of heavy boulders and scree was littered with scorched and twisted metal: girders and struts that had belonged to some complex machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to finally address a matter that had burned my patience for years. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But each time Felicia reached for the memory, a white light burned in its place. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It burned off my clothes and would have burned off my skin, dark though it was, had I not protected it beneath blankets and propped-up turtle shells. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is the ash of a cord that has been thrown into the fire and burned. Cord just like that ball of nettle twine in the corner.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When all was burned they quenched the flame with wine and gathered the bones into a golden urn, shrouding them in soft purple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we swept and burned old newspapers, we talked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I will not let my brother be burned alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The powder burned into the ground like fox fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’d burned the edges of the photo with the stove flame to make it look even more antique. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it was, but it burned my throat. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She burned with shame twice a day when she stripped and got into her costume. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

Jon Snow ran his burned hand through his hair and wondered once again what he was doing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The biting alcohol burned in her throat and she felt the stirring in her that frightened her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Blount burned a rich, red brown by the sun, his face smooth and hairless, with a bracelet of gold and precious stones on his forearm. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He pounded those bronze bulls. Otherwise they would’ve burned down this whole place.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It fluttered a little and the flame bent down low, but still both ends burned strong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that the anger had burned away, Luke was left with an inescapable feeling that, in one blink, he’d managed to ruin everything between him and Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

Pinmei’s eyes burned with tears, and the wind shrieked as the night darkened the sky, the paper of the window flapping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The panga burned in the fire with a sickening, metallic smell. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of the structure were used as a vocational shop until the roof burned down in 1984, when the building was permanently closed—boarded up and fenced in though, inexplicably, not removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Almost 80 percent of the fuel burned is used to process food and move it around. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With his laser tube, Rick systematically burned into blurred ash the book of pictures which he had just a few minutes ago bought Luba. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere above, the rockets burned down to civilize a beautifully dead planet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We ate the crackers we’d left there. But after a while the candles burned down and went out. It was so dark. And cold. We told each other stories, we sang songs...” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

If they burned their fingers, that was their own fault; they should have minded him. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance the room seemed to contain nothing but gold, gold that burned with a richness my eyes could barely absorb. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A fiery outline of twilight shone around her silhouette, burned red-gold in her hair, grew diffuse in the fuzzy texture of the woolen skirt pulled carelessly about her knees. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

A fire burned in the hearth behind him and cast large shadows on the opposing wall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when a meadhall burned, the survivors would go to another meadhall and, stretching out their hands, would crawl unarmed up the strangers’ hill and would beg to be taken in. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm that once stood there had burned long ago, but the vegetable pit remained. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

He was sitting in a white home; dim lights burned round him; strange objects challenged him; and he was feeling angry and uncomfortable. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We drank beer on the beach and lay in each other's arms until the sun was only a memory burned into our brains. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

The top was caked with burned grease, and the oven door hung open. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It has been two hundred years since we have seen an arcanist burned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The South Tower burned for less than an hour. Then, it collapsed.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Both of them burned to ash in the pit in Atur. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But she still remembered the beauty of the world before the King of Adarlan had ordered so much of it burned. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

Wreckage of the flying chariot burned in the water, and Coach Hedge swung a mounted crossbow, taking potshots at the Roman birds as they flew overhead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A wide area of the meadowland was burned black and scorched flat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Near four thousand men had burned that day, among them King Mem of the Reach. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He is old enough to know that he himself will be burned, not buried, that his body will occupy no plot of earth, that no stone in this country will bear his name beyond life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He then took out the rhinoceros hide, wrapped the bird inside it and burned the whole thing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Phineas said your life depends on a burned stick—” “It’s true,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I have none to offer. The slavers burned the trees.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All the structures had been burned, except a simple straw hut that had been only half scorched away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A fire burned in the small wood stove and the windows were closed tight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If that person in a passing car hadn’t noticed the smoke and called the fire department, and if they hadn’t come so quickly, the entire building could have burned to the ground.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

If the firewood burned, Frank died: end of story. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My legs burned and ached as I leaned over his neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In those burned letters Martha had never mentioned the war, except to say, Jimmy, take care of yourself. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just keep running cold water over the burned part.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The pier had burned down years earlier, leaving tall wooden pilings that Lawrence and his friends liked to dive from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This time the schnapps burned hard all across the roof of my mouth, the back of my throat, and I coughed some of it out, embarrassed. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The weed was cheap and burned my throat. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And the whole leg burned like wildfire when I so much as curled up a toe. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then I thought about my friend Bluford Jackson, the one who got lockjaw after firecrackers burned his hand last Christmas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One end burned; the other was mashed and wet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The boys turned frail, their skin ashen and their cheeks sinking, as their bodies burned up under the infection. 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

The problem was that it burned so easily. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

She had looked forward to receiving the sage’s mark on her own skin since she was a child, but remembering her vision, her face burned. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His new-won power burned him back into his body, forcing him to live. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Across the meadows the enemy campfires burned low into the soft June night. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Whenever my hand accidentally brushed her hair or bumped her arm, she would flinch as if burned by steam from a kettle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His glare burned a hole through my head. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

As I follow Mrs. Hameed out of the office, dread hangs over me, as heavy as the smell of burned popcorn. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Stupid burned toast from this stupid so-called treasure. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

It burned holes in the fog cover and wilted the girls’ spirits. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

We picked up our possessions and walked on, more firmly now that we had somewhere definite to go, helped by the yellow flare that burned so steadily ahead of us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there with the burned sock, knowing Master would find him that way. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could be talking to a farmer or an emperor, Pinmei thought, remembering Yishan’s unbowed head the night the hut burned, and it wouldn’t matter. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A collective consciousness that has burned bright for thousands of years. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She looked frightening, mad; a thin stream of fire issued from her wand and burned a hole in the carpet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The show was up for two months, and when it came down, I carried my crates to a vacant lot and burned them in penitence for my undeserved success. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

Papa says you always burned some before a party. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Cora thanked the Lord that her skin had never been burned in such a way. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever neighbors burned trash, I ran over and watched the blaze trying to escape the garbage can. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they must be burned away so that the heart of this thing might be known. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

She burned the old grass, rekindling the dead fire with one of her precious matches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the unconscious form and saw that the sun had burned his neck where the skin was exposed. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Niran led them through the main gate and past the smithy, the forge still smoldering, and then into the main hall, next to a kitchen where a fire burned in an open pit. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

I sit down near him with a burned cook pot. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If they had burned the city down, someone would have told me. So your counsel is that we had best be careful?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It leveled some 2,000 square kilometers of forest and burned thousands of trees in a flash fire near the impact site. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All told, more than a thousand Cherokee homes were laid waste during that winter and some fifty thousand bushels of corn and other provisions either burned or looted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Its windows and doors were also metal, and, as we stepped in, I touched the wall and burned my fingers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Papa was not at home the day the debils burned the rice and palm trees that grew on the nearby hillsides. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

A dark-brown root-beer bottle, like a burned limb, grew out of her dimpled hand. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Unless it was when he put wood on the fire and sat down and talked while it burned, and the steam began rising in white clouds once more under the little roof. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

We’d talk about the meals Mom burned and the popcorn Dad made. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

“That’s why you burned him. You had to have a mark to use the Vision on.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

This was supposed to be burned along with my body. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It burned in his stomach and took his mind off the cold and the sound of the wind outside. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nick knew my father had been burned, but he didn’t know the severity of it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His cigarette has burned down to the filter in the ashtray, so he lights another one. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time Dusty Muleman got there, it had burned to the waterline—seventy-three feet of smoldering ash and melted poker chips. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a black-haired youth, curled on the burned ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

Our village had no electricity, and our daytime cooking fires burned too low at night to give off any light, so each night brought nearly total darkness to the inside of our house and luak. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evening news showing stretchers covered in white sheets, carrying the burned, mutilated bodies of my four friends to the morgue. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“You’ll have to wait till we rebuild our theater, I’m afraid. It burned down in the riots tonight.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If things could go on like this until afternoon, Mary would be burned enough to make him safe. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Good thing you didn’t tell me this before I burned the boat with my dad.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It looked ripped up and blackened, like burned meat. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

And all summer long, the German army fought and burned its way relentlessly toward the city of Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the paper had all burned, he ground the charred bits up with his foot and covered them with a pile of wet leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

Sefia’s hands burned, as if everything she touched would burst into flame. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

When her house had burned down, the whole village had surprised her family by running to their aid. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Rubble was strewn all about it: great chunks of shattered masonry, burned beams, broken gargoyles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A boy was suddenly standing between the still smoldering braziers where Capricorn had burned the books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It burned with something else, whiting out the setting around them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

The bathroom was filled with thick smoke that burned our eyes and made us cough. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined Kaori’s house, with the circle rug and the incense that smelled like burned flowers. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was no natural light in my cell; a single bulb burned overhead twenty-four hours a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brow was crisscrossed with wrinkles, his dark eyes brooded and burned with some kind of invisible suffering, and the fingers of his right hand played aimlessly with a long, gray earlock. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now her hair is what she calls “somewhat cute, somewhat lion’s mane,” and she will never approve any photo to go up online because she thinks she looks too burned out. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at my clothes, which were scorched, burned, sliced, and tattered from my night of constant battles. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Every other big city in Germany had been bombed and burned ferociously. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dried and burned, hasira leaves may become a dangerous and addictive hallucinogen, causing those affected by it to exhibit unusual mood swings, hyper-aggression, and memory loss. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’d grown up being called a freak, an arsonist, because whenever he got angry, things burned. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

One side of his face has been burned fairly recently. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, nne, we are fine. The people who might worry are those that live near the vice chancellor. Last time, the students burned a senior professor’s car.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

It had burned brightly for millions of years and would soon become a supernova and burn out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything inside him churned and hurt; the tears that had yet to come burned his eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Some leaf crops were so burned and spotted as to be unmarketable. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

“They was king’s men burned our village,” one man called down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fever still burned him from within, despite all the maester's potions. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

China tried delaying that Treaty’s ratification; Peking was looted and burned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they came right together it became utterly black in the white mage-radiance that burned about it, and it heaved itself upright. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Each one had a dozen burned cookies on it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her features, once beautiful, were badly burned from poison. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When the Waterworks burned down at around three in the morning, the pumping machines went dead, and the water supply to the city stopped. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

If you pushed your hand down too far into the loose sand your skin would be burned. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the site of a factory building, recently constructed, and none of the workers knew what had become of the family whose house had burned down on that spot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The realization burned at first, but then it made the decision easy. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

My hands and feet were bandaged, because they were burned. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Something was burned, there was the stink of something burned. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The last time, torches had burned all along the tunnel, and the eyes of starving men had peered down through the murder holes in the ceiling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Peeta being tortured—drowned, burned, lacerated, shocked, maimed, beaten—as the Capitol tries to get information about the rebellion that he doesn’t know. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When die fire was out, they carried off the singed featherbed, burned away the worst of the smoke, and brought up a,tub. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“She couldn’t cook. She burned everything, including water. She had a hard time opening a can of beans. She couldn’t make head nor tail of a piece of meat. Six.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The tea burned the roof of her mouth, but somehow the burning almost felt good. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The more fiercely the man burned in life, the brighter his star will shine in the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The tree is burned, freshly burned and freshly knocked over, too, the unburned splinters clean and white like new wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My fire had burned down, leaving only a glowing red body of coals. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there were black carcasses of burned cars. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I kept my clothes on to keep from being burned. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose some kid set you on fire, burned say 90% of your body. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time she reached the top, her thighs burned and her arms trembled. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

Were those really the same stars that had burned so brightly above the black ocean that night? I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

To hide the evidence, the bodies were burned in crematoriums, but enormous clouds of smoke poured out of the chimneys, visible for miles, and a horrible stench filled the air. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Windows were broken, and outside the building an effigy of President Eisenhower was burned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had cut the corn, and burned the stubble, and the field seemed much bigger, the trees on the edge of the wood looked a long distance away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And partly because population growth burned humanity’s boats. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Time burned up while we lay there, caught in the sparks that flew overhead, swallowed by the noise of a city ablaze. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A fire burned in front of her house, and the smell of cooked rabbit filled the air. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to shake as his eyes burned, his head pulsed, his heart broke. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That monster will be burned to a crisp. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But these were supposed to have been burned, I said. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He began to tear off chunks from the burned parts and toss them into the trough, and the front bakery bell rung and the mother disappeared to help a customer. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“This will be burned, by the tree where the witches dance—” she sang and swiftly put the evil load into the sack. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the tingling in his hands, the lightness in his head, the heaviness of his heart, and it consumed him, filled him to the brim with a bitterness and voracity that burned his throat. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The fire in me burned on and on. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Barbarossa let go of the pigtails as if they had burned him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seven’s legs burned as she ran, Thorn and Valley at her side. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That they burned it along with the boathouse attached to it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I thought of taking sips of Papa’s tea, love sips, the scalding liquid that burned his love onto my tongue. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

He recalled what Hades had said about this public square, where the Inquisition had burned hundreds of people alive. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My eyes flicked up to the sky, to the hole that burned like a second sun, and he followed my gaze. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The smoke that hovers in the air is condensed around the bookshelves, which are burned to cinders. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Hundreds. Thousands. Some sick, some burned, some wounded. The Cats and the Windblown are swarming through the hills with lance and lash, driving them north and cutting down the laggards.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had burned our books in the Polish language. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, a few weeks after they burned the body, a bunch of kids were swimming in Turtle Lake when it caught fire.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were never burned, although once I might have been when I was so terrified I tried to jump onto the stove to remove the possibility of its remaining a threat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day Newcharlie had burned the pictures and dropped them out the window, I had run downstairs trying to catch them. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

The memory of his corpse burned behind her eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Alex wasn’t sure whether that was good for them or not, but there was nothing else to do, and he figured they probably burned fewer calories that way. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And it was then that the last of the wax ran molten over Tristran's hand, and the burning became impossible for him to bear, and the last of the flame burned out forever. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Hard Tack entered stud in 1932, his name burned in infamy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Allow me, though, to make a counterargument. Do you believe that the books of the Jews should be burned?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I turn him over, and half of his face is severely burned, the rest is deep red. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We found my cousin’s body, which had not been burned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The house, it seemed, had burned away years ago. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

“It ate 1020 bar stock, burned it out like it was cardboard,” I marveled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Besides their well-known rallies where they burned crosses and preached race hatred, the Klan hosted regular dances, shooting matches, barbecues, bingo nights, and fishing trips. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Where do you go when you get burned up and turn into smoke in the air? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could go up onto the roof, but the corrugated tin burned my feet. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My shopping list was burned into my brain. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people stood in silence as the offering burned itself out. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I smell fire and ash, but I am not burned. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

A stub of tallow burned in front of it. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

They burned houses that night, killed one man, and took five prisoners. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about how the children who lived in this house had been burned up and blown apart because a pilot who didn’t care pushed a button. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The trees and the tropic grass were burned and sad from the ferocious northern freeze. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That look burned clear down to my belly. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s closer to what we had in our homes in 12, when the candles and fire burned low on a winter’s night. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A fire burned at the edge of the street, heaped with books and scads of papers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

From there they were hauled out to inhabit the dreams of his descendants, until they were mistakenly burned half a century later on an infamous pyre. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shine the flashlight over the wreckage and think of the burned ditch behind it and it can only mean one thing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

She’d burned her finger in the process of pouring some hot syrup, and she was hurting badly. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Specific impulse was, my book said, the thrust a rocket produced when it burned a pound of fuel in one second. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But if she burned a straight path to the harbor they’d be an easy shot for the artillery. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond, the tops of the keeps and towers still stood as they had for hundreds of years, and it was hard to tell that the castle had been sacked and burned at all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

As government soldiers shelled and burned the countryside and airplanes strafed and bombed the villages, refugees moved south. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At Uncle Leang’s hut, Ma managed to hide them from the soldiers by sewing them in the straps of our bags, which we kept even after they burned our clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later the Westing house had burned to the ground. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The answer comes in a low voice: "He burned them." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“You could get burned. We should wait for the firefighters to put out the fire.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“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

The candles and the incense sticks, lit the day before to mark his death anniversary, had burned out. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The heat of the sun showed no mercy, and she couldn’t even wipe away the sweat that burned her eyes as it ran down her face. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pizarro agreed and the Spaniards publicly burned Challcochima to death in the main plaza of the next town they came to. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He broke the eggs but burned the omelette. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A fire in my village. Some boys burned it down.” 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

When he moved, it was to tend the cheeks in the pan before they burned. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

Glad was I to get him out of the silk warehouse, and then out of a jeweller’s shop: the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

The Colonel’s hatred for Harsden burned with the fire of a thousand suns. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyes burned, and Celaena put a hand to the amulet. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As the sun set behind them, a citronella candle burned in a bucket in the center of the table to ward off mosquitoes. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Each day, millions of meteorites fall against the outer limits of the membrane and are burned to nothing by the friction. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When their marshmallows were burned the right degree of delicious, Petey gave Finn two crackers and a piece of chocolate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Wet clothes froze solid when you tried to dry them anywhere but right next to the fireplace—but when you dried them there, they sometimes ended up burned. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The llano was beautiful in the early morning, beautiful before the summer sun of August burned it dry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose hot and dry, it burned off the rain droplets that had hung from every green shoot. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Pong braced himself for the worst, but she wasn't burned. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The eloko cradled its burned arms to its chest, screaming in pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

But in the rooms food stood upon a table and in the kitchens fire burned. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was the anonymous letter, which burned so quickly that as it flamed I hurriedly unfolded another: It was that slip upon which Jack had written my Brotherhood name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I again unclosed my eyes, a loud bell was ringing; the girls were up and dressing; day had not yet begun to dawn, and a rushlight or two burned in the room. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first night I burned half of the wood and slept curled against the mountain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany, starved, slid off his back and ate with him, ripping chunks of smoking meat from the dead horse with bare, burned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Of course he was right, she thought, but her cheeks burned. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

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

The southern sky was aswirl with glowing, shifting colors, the reflections of the great fires that burned below. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His hand was warm and I wanted to take it, but instead I jerked away as if I’d been burned. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

But she did remember, and told him so, about the slap across her face, the pop and sting of it and how it burned. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Everything that slowly congealed into me burned like acid from the bites of red ants. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

His frilled collar and skull had been badly burned, as if the guy had decided to wash his hair with a blowtorch. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

"Your shoes weren't burned, so at least you won't need to go barefoot to the queen." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Realizing that the soldiers were starving was small consolation when, one morning, I smelled an awful sweet smoke as they burned corpses somewhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She burned with questions, but Mona picked up her staff and levered herself to her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The floors had burned inside it, and all the beams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some even looked burned, and there wasn’t a sound to be heard. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They burned plantations and commissaries, tore up tracks to impede the passage of the trains that began to open their path with machine-gun fire, and they cut telegraph and telephone wires. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Make four bundles tie them with yucca spruce mixed with charcoal from burned weeds snakeweed and gramma grass and rock sage. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pain burned through the joint into the thigh. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When the hot sun burned overhead, Minli’s knees shook from weariness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

A mark burned on her forehead in blinding blue light. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Shackleton and the rest of the men on board Endurance were tortured by indecision: they were all patriotic subjects of a country heading into war, and yet they all now burned to voyage south. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When the barn was burned to a pile of glowing coals, the men asked Jethro to draw water from the stock well to throw around the edges of the coals. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for—” I looked down at the burned cookies scattered on the floor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mother pulled our old resolutions out of the Bible and read them aloud to much laughter and then burned them in the fireplace. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I watched it burn away, and followed the trail of smoke through the air as it burned. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can’t explain where the conviction came from, or how it burned brightly enough to shine through the black uncertainty. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I find my anger ebbing away, and I’m lost in muffled grief again, this time not just for Tris, but for Uriah, whose smile is burned into my memory. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He staggered to his feet and sucked the burned air into his flattened lungs until his head cleared. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the Mask who raided my home, who burned it to the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

When I swallowed, it caused my burned cheek to ache. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Again and again the sap spattered onto his arms until his sleeves were dotted with holes and the flesh beneath was burned raw. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And one voice, with sublime disregard for the situation, read poetry aloud in the fiery study, until all the film spools burned, until all the wires withered and the circuits cracked. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through the site of a roadside hamlet burned to nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wax protected everything but the lines, which were burned—or “etched”—into the copper. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

There's a little slant of light coming through this narrow cellar window, enough so we can feel our way around all the burned junk that has fallen through the floor. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be mad at her, but it’s obvious she’s bored reciting these lines that have been burned into memory from telling hundreds, maybe thousands, about how they’ll soon be dead. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Well, something had happened: the cross the preacher had hung round his throat had been burned in front of his eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To have lived here when royal families were slaughtered, when seers and magic-wielders were burned alive, and the world fell into darkness and sorrow? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This is a shock and she faints, and the burned one gets out of the mirror and into the pretty one’s body. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My nostrils burned with snot and bile, and I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Frightful blinked as it burned her eyes, but she did not leave. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

His burned hand was stiffening up on him, and soon it began to ache. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Encanis thrashed on the wheel and began to howl as the iron burned and bit and froze him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

On the whole, Tendai thought it was better than being burned alive or buried in an anthill. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a physician, he knew no means existed for establishing the identities of burned, dismembered, or otherwise disfigured corpses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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 creature was a scientific marvel, and they had burned and buried it like trash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

Behind the clear gray eyes the light still burned steadily. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

That ship has sailed—and burned up in the harbor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The light of the torches made his burned face shine a dull red. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was crying now, and the tears burned her scar and bit at her face. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A fist burned into Ben’s kidney from behind, dropping him down on his knees. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Some believe they are natural features, perhaps relics of lightning fires, and some believe that they are man-made, burned or cleared to provide land for summer grazing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The image had already burned into Thomas’s mind before Alby jumped up, blocking the view but not the moans and screams, pushing Thomas out of the room, then slamming the door shut behind them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Like a forest fire the flame roared on, and burned your flesh away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead his eyes burned and tears came, the seeping tears that burned, but he didn’t cry. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brekker’s touch burned like brimstone—a single brush of his bare skin caused your flesh to wither and die. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might have burned them, or put them into a moldering cellar. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I grew anxious thinking about witnessing the spectacle of a man being electrocuted, burned to death in front of me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His body was light, the fat burned off from days of scarce food. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Charlie didn’t put up a fight when I led him inside and got him out of his work clothes, which probably needed to be burned. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

The air smelled of ash, every rock and tree in sight was scorched and blackened, the ground strewn with burned and broken bones, yet it had been home to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Inside, the old house was warm—a small potbellied stove in the corner burned a cherry red with mesquite—and Gretchen met me outside as she always did. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

His features burned with anger, but his eyes were filled with unshed tears. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pale fires burned behind the shining black daggers of his teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I hope die Weeper burned the bodies,” said the dour man, the one called Dolorous Edd. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And later, when we learned who actually burned down the Coral Queen, we congratulated my mother all over again. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were some kind of crops being grown in between the trees, half of it now burned out or uprooted by the shelling. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body burned away in layers like an onion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The odors of smoke and burned flesh still clung to Jon’s blacks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Light entered as a trespasser, unwanted and unwelcome, and soon was gone again; cookfires, candles, and rushes burned for a little while, then guttered out again, their brief lives at an end. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Since then her grandmother carried her from town to town, putting her to bed for twenty cents in order to make up the value of the burned house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

Ivy’s curiosity burned through her like a flame on a match. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was already forgotten, dismissed, though the outline of her palm and fingers still burned on my skin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad poured water and salt into a jam jar and dabbed at our bites.The salt burned but he said we’d feel better soon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And these were no shadows; their faces burned clear, even now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The greyhound’s eyes, catching the candles as she watched him, burned spectrally, two amber cups of feral light. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I burned through the entire They Might Be Giants discography in under two weeks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was not even sure if she could see the burned wreckage of the zeppelin, or the crimson-stained snow around the corpses of the warriors. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His neck and forehead had been badly burned the day before. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

Four eyes burned through the shadows—two of molten gold and two of bronze. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tanner, whose house it was that burned, sent a couple of boys skipping right under the Kargs’ noses, taunting and yelling and vanishing again like smoke into smoke. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

In order to ensure that she would be the first and most authoritative Anthony biographer, Harper burned most of Anthony’s letters and documents. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Hazel going through the kitchen to the toilet tipped the frying pan of hot grease on himself and the floor and was badly burned. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great fire burned in the hearth, but there was no trace of warmth in Lysa's voice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I told you it wasn’t burned!” she whispered. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

Six university cars had been burned down, as well. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I developed a cough, and my cheeks burned the back of my hand. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nausea burned in his stomach—the squishing of the goo against his body, the smell, the circling motion. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The basilisk burned up all the film inside it, but Colin just got Petrified. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

The last light of June burned in the west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a clear, bright day when I went out, and the sun burned warm upon my eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hoverboard was useless there, but the hiking was easy in the new shoes the rangers had given her, her own so burned that they had fallen apart in the helicopter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Harry’s face burned as Lockhart shook his hand for the photographer, who was clicking away madly, wafting thick smoke over the Weasleys. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And what if the girl was still lying, and the notebook really was burned? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I had heard the grownups talk about a house down the block that had been burned to the ground. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

“At least forty people...lie dead..., their bodies burned and distorted.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A building that was once a barbershop was burned to the ground—the only thing left was the barber pole. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She held the paddle in both hands and stirred carefully, because if the pumpkin burned there wouldn’t be any pumpkin pies. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They burned brightly-" Davos did not trust this man, for all his courtesy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His muzzle was wet and red, but his eyes burned. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

I gestured to a break in the trees to the north of the burned farmhouse. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I asked, and gunned the engine as we burned rubber onto the road. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the sky above, the stars burned clear and sharp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

How the grasses had been burned and the trees uprooted and the river strangled with rocks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm learned that lesson after firefighters put out the flames that burned his house, parents, and favorite things. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My stomach squeezed up and my face burned just thinking about that. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

That is what happens to you if you’re bad and don’t go to heaven, you go and get burned up in the bad place instead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I will leave you to finish here, Bowen. Make certain every corpse is burned. Thank you for your counsel. I promise you, I will think on all you’ve said.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When we got back home, it didn’t matter that my mother had made us burned grilled cheese sandwiches for supper. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had burned to death because I had decided that I wanted to spend my life with white people. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The western cliffs burned amber in the last of the sunshine. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

His beard was laid like snow upon his knees; but his eyes still burned with a bright light, glinting as he gazed at the strangers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At Abagana, they drove past the destroyed Nigerian fleet, a long, long column of burned and blackened vehicles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most of them wore tattered Ancient Greek dresses, except for the one in the lead, Kelli, who wore a burned and torn blouse with a short pleated skirt...her cheerleader’s outfit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

No one spoke of the previous night, of the thing they had burned and buried. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Seconds ticked by before the pain registered, white-hot pain, a line of fire, blood that burned its way down her face and neck. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“What were you doing?” he demanded at last, letting go of her as though she burned him. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

By the time the fire was put out the house had not, despite Mrs. Richardson’s fears, quite burned to the ground. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Folks used to help each other more than they do now. If a man’s barn burned in my neighborhood, why, everybody turned to and in a week he had another barn—full of hay.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The trees have been cut along the road, felled and burned. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A greenish fire burned in the mouthlike fireplace, and thirteen men sat at a long table, each staring at her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Threads of smoke floated up from a filterless cigarette whose coal burned dangerously near his fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

I had burned all of the little fish, and since I could catch no more until the Aleuts left, I took the skirt outside to work on it there. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I stared through the windshield as the burned lights took over the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music. 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

“A scale from the dragon that burned you, as they say.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They burned the king’s palace to the ground and emptied the rest of Tilcajete, leaving Monte Alban firmly in control of the entire valley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

The altar was adorned with thick, fragrant clusters of flowers illuminated by the slender white stemmed candles that burned from six candelabra. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been gone for years and soon everything they left behind will be burned. Should burn the graveyard, too, if you ask me, if dirt and bones would burn.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The fog had burned off, and the cool air was clear, the shadows bruised and purple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A fire burned on the stone hearth, and nearby was a rocking chair and a cradle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

“You’re quite right,” said Dumbledore serenely, shaking back his sleeve to reveal the tips of those burned and blackened fingers; the sight of them made the back of Harry’s neck prickle unpleasantly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

An old woman sobbing that they had burned her cottage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And now seeing the handwriting of the two in the consuming flames I burned my hand and slipped to my knees, staring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the crackling sound of the wood being burned. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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 left behind the burned remains of another woman in the blackened husk of his estate. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His cheeks above his beard were pink where the sun had burned his Irish skin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soap in the washtub burned my skin, and Mami scrubbed me so hard her fingernails dug angry furrows into my arms and legs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The sound of Miss Peregrine’s life slipping away! Emma, you should’ve burned those Gypsies’ faces off while you had the chance! Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Chunks of coal burned in iron braziers at either end of the long room, but Jon found himself shivering. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A peat fire burned smokily in the large fireplace against one wall, and the smoke trickled out of the chimney far above. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Richard Garrett made a claim against the U.S. government for compensation, for the value of his property, including the burned barn and the corn and hay consumed by the cavalry horses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had just wanted to see how the curtains would look when they burned. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat of being becalmed he had burned and begun to tan, and now with the wind and the spray of a night and half a day his body had become weathered and brown-gold. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You didn’t have to bury those books, right? They burned beautifully, like the very best firewood, and their pages—ah, they quivered like pale little fingers." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Doc that he looked at it for many minutes, and the face burned into his picture memory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red light burned bright and Knot yanked another lever. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to wet this blanket again. My hand’s getting burned.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Jordie finally roused him, the candles had burned low, and it was already morning. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Lord,” she sighed, “this is the second batch I’ve burned this afternoon.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Which of you tore away my door and which of you have my rake and my hoe and which of you burned my roof in his oven?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

That winter she burned the excess copies for fuel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

He spent hours retching into a bucket until his throat burned like fire. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vegetation grew less dense, and finally she came to a clearing where the land looked ruined, burned. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

The air was still damp from rain the night before, but the sun had burned through the haze of the morning and shone brilliantly in the sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The campfire burned against the deep blue night, and the travelers all gathered in its glow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was lying nearly naked, squarely in the ashes of the burned shelter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It happened rather suddenly one day, after Rachel burned up an egg omelet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I applied all my force to clean the burned bits from the bottom of the stew pot. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tossed it on her plate and blew on her fingers where the bread had burned her. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

He let the sun play on it until it burned in his eyes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many and more were burned and many and more were collapsed; others stood as they had before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

At least the house and field had not been burned, and there were no corpses about. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hospital’s previous building for mental illness had burned down when an inmate set it on fire, so patients were closely watched to make sure they didn’t cause trouble. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Great Fire would have burned until it ran out of city, then continued its hungry march across the prairie. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

My ears burned hotter than a matter/antimatter reaction chamber. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His eyes were large and dark and burned steadily like a lamp protected from the wind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned so much that she allowed herself to be caught no less than forty-seven times in various disguises. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He pulled gently away from her and knelt down in front of the fireplace until it burned his stomach. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My face burned from embarrassment, because at that time I did not understand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had stopped going to soccer practice after the day I crashed and burned in the star drill. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They were walking normal, but they looked like they’d been burned up and hit with stuff. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Made of wickedness as he was, the good in this man burned him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old words of the song burned into their collective memory. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small fires burned in the charred shell of two rooms. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

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

I spent the nights reading Greek until four in the morning, until my eyes burned and my head swam, until the only light burning in Monmouth House was my own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Throughout history,” he explained in the Library Olympics welcome packet, “too many books have been burned by people who didn’t like what was written inside them.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

That was how Johnny’s mother had died—burned up by fever, coughing herself to death. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

History marched on: Christianity swept through Europe, the Roman Empire fell, the Library at Alexandria burned, and the Dark Ages began. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I look at the horned B burned into my palm. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every night I cried so that both my eyes and my neck burned. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They leap into battle, the steps to the dance burned into their muscle memory. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

My heart was pounding, my lungs burned, and in my side there was a continuous stabbing pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Story Box burned with light so bright it seared my vision and left behind floating dots of color. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, her cheeks and forehead burned from the bleach and the potent liqueur. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the point where Kainene had burned his manuscript and remembered days ago in Nsukka, how he had felt nothing, absolutely nothing, watching Harrison dig and dig in the garden. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He put it in my hand, and the rock burned the skin with intense cold. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the business of death, the complexity of how to deposit a badly burned corpse into the ground of a National Cemetery as quickly and with as much dignity as possible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She scanned the room, squinting through the hole in the stone, and caught sight of something that twinkled and burned like a star at floor level by the doorway. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

"Would that it had burned to the ground," I muttered. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That monster will be burned to a crisp,” Peach Fuzz said in a dangerously low voice. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Even if I knew where to go, the part of me that was burned by Stick’s betrayal wouldn’t let me chase after him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I'd taken breaths as big as I could and just held them until they burned, and then watched the cool air mist like smoke when I exhaled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes burned just at the thought of it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

It can only be seen under UV light, but it’s there, burned into my skin, branding me forever. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Bubber was barefooted and the sidewalk was so hot it burned his feet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My nose and eyes burned when I threw up but I felt better. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It hurt, the little ants were biting us all over bad and it burned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minute I took a swig of the mixture, my mouth burned even worse than it had with the hot sauce. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The droplets of water falling from the blade of the oar were tiny stars, extinguished as quickly as they burned into being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No, you can’t have this! It’s evidence. Your rocket started a forest fire. It burned the top off Davy Mountain and almost got to the houses on Highway 52.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a blister the size of a pencil eraser on it; someone must have burned him with a cigarette. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It burned like a thousand suns, and at its edge, something glowed a soft green. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

Then his improvised wick caught and burned with a steady blue flame, and the world began to shimmer around them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the fire spread, his coat sleeves burned away, and his arms began to scale from the heat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inside, half a hundred prayer candles burned in a fragrant silence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Saleem had burned garbage the week before in exchange for roof repairs on his family’s hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

In front of it all, we put two scuttles of dusty coal and a faded half-furled Confederate flag, saved last year when Cold Sassy’s old wooden schoolhouse burned down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Even if I give my body to be burned and have not charity it availeth me nothing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart burned with black tears when I thought of where he was following me to. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It pressed against his eyes, and they burned. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

His eyes burned with sincerity for a protracted moment — playing havoc with the rhythm of my heart — and then turned playful. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Farmers still came to her court with burned bones, complaining of missing sheep, though Drogon had not returned to the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The lack of goodness in the young gun’s heart was oxygen to the fire, and so he burned a good long while before I woke. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame that had burned in Mercy’s eyes had such purity, such complete selflessness, that everything Kit had ever known seemed dim in its light. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her expression was that of a mother watching a doctor remove bandages from a severely burned child. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Logs burned day and night in fireplaces despite the oppressive heat, and gunpowder and other noxious chemicals were tossed in frequently. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Rather, he had them, but they were in a perpetual state of regrowing from being burned off in the course of his alchemical pursuits. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sun became Mon, and acid burned the lining of my stomach. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurses and doctors kept asking me questions: How did you get burned? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Fitzpatrick grabbed a rope and swung down through the fire to the main roof below, where he lay with a fractured leg and internal injuries, half his huge mustache burned away. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His cat stare burned into my shoulder blades. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Cooking fires had been blown from their pits, and scattered embers burned everywhere. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I have no such papers. I have burned all secret documents. I was ordered to do so.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the fire burned out, and there was darkness in Valaskjalf, Odin’s Hall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He did come to speak to her and check her burned feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Among the ashes lay the metal spangle from the ballerina's dress; it had been burned as black as coal. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the same time, my nervousness left me, burned away by the attention of the crowd. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the morning after Ted Lavender died, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha’s letters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead it is the heavy scent of something burned and wet, with a sickly sweet undertone. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The birches and wild grasses vibrated with impossible color after their time in the burned land, Edenic and fortifying. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He twitched his burned fingers, feeling a throb of pain deep under the skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The air was cool and the fire burned high, stacked with dry wood. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My anger burned inside me like a fire. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn almost wished she had burned her sister's letter before reading it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Percy wasn’t sure what the old seer had meant about Frank’s family history—his great-grandfather destroying camp, his Argonaut ancestor, and the bit about a burned stick controlling Frank’s life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had been charged with ensuring Nicole Castro’s eventual return to the Hollows and her transition back to normalcy—whatever that could be with half your face burned away—went smoothly. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Luxa’s torch had burned out, leaving only his hard hat for light. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was when Vienna burned to the ground. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eat my burned toast and Daddy gathers up some papers and folds them into his jacket. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

All those twinkling lights, every star in the sky, could have burned out years ago—the entire night sky could be empty this very minute, and we wouldn’t even know it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only for a tiny millisecond did I imagine that he wanted me burned alive along with the multitude of helpless animals. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Charles might've even burned him up, and he's like a thousand years old! Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

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

“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

And baseball in Seattle had recently experienced a major setback—one of many more to come—when the wooden stands at the Indians’ ballpark, Dugdale Park, burned to the ground in July 1932. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He almost wished he could be here to see the faces of Garvey and Edwin when they returned and found him gone and everything burned to the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Her right arm had been horribly burned and she grew up with its skin withered and purple. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed till my arms burned with pain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her little legs kicked helplessly in the air, and a tiny fire burned on one foot. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Scattered almost randomly around the top of the mounds are burned, oxidized chunks of rock—hearth stones—in drifts of fish bones and ash. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now she stood in a black pasture in bad-luck Tennessee, crunching burned wood beneath her feet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After going this long, I worried that even something as simple as burned okra might send her over the edge. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the fire in Conor’s chest suddenly blazed, suddenly burned like it would eat him alive. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

"It burned, he said. He tore it off. The herbwomen made him a new one, wet and soothing." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Finn’s stomach roiled and his eyelids ticked and the horseshoe burned over his heart. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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 isn’t fair that he burned out, but his light remains to remind me of everything we had and would never have again. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He smells like pinesap and burned hair, and there is a light dusting of golden powder streaked over one cheek. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From Florida to Maine his pamphlets, and later his autobiography, were burned in bonfires along with his effigy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Although Jackson tried frantically to rescue Washington, he and his friends watched helplessly as Robert Washington burned to death. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They sat together until the candle had nearly burned away. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I do not think that the ashes of a burned cord are going to tell us where Loki is.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment in which fire burned up my arm and into my brain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the water rushed up my nose and burned. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ella made a horrible, painful wail like she was being burned. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

She burned her fingers trying to light a fire for the first time in her life and she had to ask Aureliano to do her the favor of showing her how to make coffee. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I felt the excitement of the big hunt as it burned its way into my body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until then Ellidyr’s eyes had burned with triumph, but now his face changed. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Part of Richmond is gone, burned to the ground. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Sandor Clegane stood at his shoulder in a plain brown doublet and green mantle, his burned face hideous in the morning light. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They burned a lot of fuel, and they used castor oil, which leaked and splattered all over the cockpit after a few flights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he was glad to have new threads, since his old ones were pretty smelly and burned up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A man was being burned alive across the camp, screaming in agony on his knees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She decided she would rather be shot dead trying to escape than be burned alive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They burned them out, an easier and much faster way of getting results. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They would put the used bandage off to the side, wadded and covered with smears of blood and yellow stuff and little pieces of burned skin. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The lightbulb over the sink in the back room had burned out, and Jimmy didn’t have any extras. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Is that the wall we burned in the fire? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sweat dripped into their eyes until they burned. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Woth reported a wooden bridge half a mile downstream, but someone had burned it up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A few torches burned in. sconces at the near end where a group of Ser Amory's guards sat around a scarred wooden table, talking and playing at tiles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fires burned throughout the khalasai, great orange blazes that crackled with fury and spit embers at the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The insult—especially in front of my teammates—burned inside me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She would have been exorcised to cast out the evil spirit, and if after many trials that did not work, she would have been burned as a witch for the good of the community. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The days were growing short and a little fire burned all day in the cookstove to keep the house warm. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My chest burned with the unjustness of it all. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We moved the rest of the people out to the landing zone and burned the whole place down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pizza was burned up, hard as a rock. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every exhaled breath burned the tip of her nose. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her face burned as he rose to his feet, standing close. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"He burned down a holdfast and murdered a lot of people, women and children too." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hallyne said that sometimes the substance burned so hot that flesh melted like tallow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My heart beat fast and my cheeks burned with nervous energy. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing came up, but she felt like she was turning inside out, and her throat burned. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he took the plate out some time later, he was surprised to discover that the salts had burned an impression in it, just as if the plate had been exposed to light. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“My mother had me burned, Jay. My own mother. My mom. I miss my mom.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I put the matchbox with the lion picture on it, and the magic burned bones inside, I put it under my pillow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It landed on the floor a few feet off, where it burned brightly for a moment and then sputtered out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had been slashed and stabbed and partly burned, and it was so stained with black and other dark marks like old blood that little of it could be read. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

After the hotel burned down, we lived for a few days on the beach. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Jinny’s frustration from earlier had burned away, and now she just felt guilty, even if she didn’t know what else she could have done. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The bristles of his broom had been burned off. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, some years later, I think in the 1930s, the mill caught fire and burned down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, my computer monitored my vital signs and kept track of exactly how many calories I burned during the course of each day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She looked with moist eyes into the fire, which burned feebly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

There was Uncle Neville hanging with Sierra’s mom and dad back in the eighties, all three of them looking wildly happy outside some nightclub that had long since burned down. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As the fuse burned shorter, he tore off his clothes, turned each piece right side out, and dressed again. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and thirty miles of wilderness had been burned, ripped apart, or buried under a hundred feet of mud and debris. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

She built a fire in the grate and burned every letter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I swallowed by accident and it burned on the way down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

She was using both of them to gouge at the burned skillet with a wooden spatula of Nelson’s making. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He stared back into the crackling, red-hot flames, and his anger burned. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The fever burned, making me weak and dizzy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The tattooing pen burned her flesh, leaving a trail of blue numbers in her arm above the wrist. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t love moving. If you asked me a few years ago, I would have rather bleached my hair and burned off my eyebrows again.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

The pain burned across my knuckles, through my fingers, and a scream, louder than I had intended, brought Abuela to my side. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beneath the Great Hall of Redwall, candles burned bright in their sconces. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you didn’t stop filming. What if that cheese had burned off the roof of my mouth and it was the last morsel of food I would ever enjoy?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

All the grief has been burned out of me, she told herself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The family had gathered in the kitchen to celebrate the victory while the afterglow of Ben’s performance burned strongly in their memories. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then a cloud would cross the sun that had finally burned its way out of the gray. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of black holes, however, is almost certainly very much higher; in the long history of the universe, many stars must have burned all their nuclear fuel and have had to collapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took it, looking into his eyes that burned back at me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sweat burned off his body in an instant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The sulphur burned its little blue bead before the wood caught. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We know that both the head and the body were stuffed into the furnace and burned! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second, his skin burned by the sun and peeling and missing his left ear, stared back at me blankly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the girl smile as she realized her doll was only partly burned. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mark feels as if the oxygen is being burned out of his chest; he fights for each breath until he gets used to it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The fire lasted all night and when it was over, my mother's high school had burned nearly to the ground. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

Mama didn’t know “what got into people,” but that old Dog Breedlove had burned up his house, gone upside his wife’s head, and everybody, as a result, was outdoors. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only my picture book and my mother would beat me if I burned that. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Greyjoy s longs hips are burned or taken, her crews slain or surrendered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As we rose out of the highway trough, we could see the condemned houses, many burned, as well as the stark beauty of all the vacant lots, gray and frozen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nina dreamed of being burned alive on a pyre and woke up screaming. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A fire burned in the middle, and all around stood the villagers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Saints are hard to live with, Mr. Newton. Usually they end up getting burned.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

His eyes burned, and he took a deep breath to keep his voice steady. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She entered almost apologetically and said, “I’m so sorry to interrupt such important lessons, but I burned my hand preparing the evening meal.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand orange eyes burned holes in his heart. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow my mom found the strength to cradle my little sister’s burned skull in her arms. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

People were burned; some died; some are still missing. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

No one came and burned someone’s house down in the middle of the night if that person was white. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My hands burned, and a splinter worked its way into my palm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

Nymeria had landed ten thousand ships upon Dome’s sandy shores, but when she wed her Domish prince she had burned them all and turned her back upon the sea forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her home would be burned down that night. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the fire burned brightly again, sweat beaded his forehead and rolled down his cheeks with his tears. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

By the time the fire was under control, my sister's closet and our bathroom were burned to a crisp. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It had grazed the skin of my shoulder as it passed through my clothes, and the cut burned. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The family’s badly burned ’78 Camaro was discovered last Saturday on a north Long Island road with the roof ripped off and the front axle broken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She found it so embarrassing that she burned large parts of it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“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

Others lucky enough to have jumped free now found themselves mauled by her whirling propellers or burned to death when her boilers exploded. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When the fire had burned down to embers, the boys raided the pushcarts of the Jewish merchants and stole potatoes which they roasted in the ashes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wounded shoulder burned with pain at the frantic effort. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Snowdrifts and lightning strikes, or bedclothes burned away, leaving nothing but an angry, naked baby steaming in a mesarthium bassinet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He shone bright, as if burned clean by fire. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

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

Was she afraid to find out who had burned her? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Harry ran out the door, tore off his shirt, and threw himself into a snowbank, but the damage was done—his chest was hideously burned and blistered. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Books, except the Koran, were burned in heaps, the stores that sold them closed down. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

Lightning burned streaks in the sky, and thunder cannonaded. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But I swear that girl burned rubber getting back to her seat when she was through. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were jobs nobody cared about in Odessa unless a house burned down or a sewer line backed up. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down to embers, and the shadows wore creeping in aH around them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After their island sanctuary burned, they were taken prisoner aboard the pirates’ ship. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

He leads me to the spot where our fountain burned out. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The holiday for the field slaves lasted as long as the Yule log burned in the fireplace at the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’d returned, his mother had touched his face, which burned with shame. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

From that tile floor I let myself sink down into it, down and down until my lungs burned, like when I was in the deep wells beneath the diving boards at the lake. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

When humans burned down forests and thickets, this also helped wheat. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire burned away my hair, but elsewise it did not touch me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It came to be called crack for the crackling sound the baking soda made when it was burned. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

I ran until my legs ached and muscles burned. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She lit the kerosene lantern while I made the fire, then she burned some sweet incense. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not found any socks to wear that morning, and the hot pavement burned through the thin soles of his shoes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And all I could see was a blurry orange chrysanthemum where the pinpoint sun had burned its memory into my eye. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

What we had was a burned White House and ten thousand widows on the public pension list. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fire on the hearth burned slowly and the wavering light from the oil lamp made shadows on the wall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Rosa held on to his ankles so tightly, her fingers burned like fire. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped up, grabbed for it too quickly and burned his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The light from the candle burned my eyes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he rode, Jon peeled off his glove to air his burned fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Horrible things. The worst kinds of torture. You drowned me slowly. You burned my heart from my chest. You blinded me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Johnny felt no more shame over his burned hand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of our colonists have burned the natives’ houses, stolen from their gardens, robbed valuables from their temples, beat the people with clubs, and shot them with muskets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The kerosene lamps burned low and made great shadows on the newspaper-covered wall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Of course I didn’t know, would probably never know—if the experts were right, I would soon be dead, burned in intense white clouds hotter than the sun. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I feel certain he would never have hit his son the way she did over the burned bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was a rushing sound in his ears and his face burned with heat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I burned my thumb just taking the lid off, the whole can oven hot and reeking. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The candle in the red glass beside the Mary statue still burned, looking like a tiny red heart in a cave of darkness, pulsing out light to the world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The acid electrical smell burned his nose and mixed with the smell of wet vomit on the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Then Mr. Randolph remembered that maybe the bulbs was all burned out. He tends to forget since they really don’t help him much.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

My stomach and my throat burned and ached with the tears as I curled into a ball on my bed and tried to cry the very life out of my body. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. And apparently the day that burned my Gold-Bug in Mr. Quisling’s memory.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They don’t care that Chief Powhatan himself saved us from freezing and hunger when all our houses burned. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

From this vantage she could just see the top of one of the Tidemaker towers, where lights always burned. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

Six and a half weeks since Nicole was burned, and the police hadn’t made a single arrest? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But Woolf must have burned with the frustration of the nose loss in 1938, and the guilt for having possibly exacerbated the horse’s injury in 1939. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He later burned down two warehouses and several houses in Bristol. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoulder burned with pain and she cried out. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My toast popped up, less burned this time. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

In every room in the great house they burned braziers of charcoal and still it was cold enough to see a man’s breath when he blew it out. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Still, as she grew, she fell, she ran into walls and doors, burned herself against the woodstove. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes burned after a trip to the town. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other was burned in a workshop fire there’s a red seam down his face where the eye melted shut. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

For him she planned sugar in his motor, scissors to his tie, burned suits, slashed shoes, ripped socks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It’s crumpled and burned in most places and even tho I don’t know what it looked like before it crumpled and burned, it’s obviously mostly wreckage. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

I dream that our house has burned down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

They machine-gunned the inmates to death and then burned the bodies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Catch up tonight, okay? Chapter twenty-seven in your American history book talks about how churches were bombed, houses were burned, people were lynched. History MADE.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My natural tan never burned like her fair white skin. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And she tells me about how the government burned it to the ground. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“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

It had nothing to do with me, but I couldn't help wondering what it would be like, being burned alive all along your nerves. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Timothy had taught me to lay the fire sticks like a wheel, so that the fire burned slowly in the center, but always had a few un-burned ends on the outside. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like it burned all night,” Tally said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I might have lost everything, but my spirit burned bright. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was black and moonless, but overhead a million stars burned bright. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It burned, and the skin peeled for days afterward. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One of the bulbs in the room’s only ceiling light has burned out, while the second bulb is fading, waiting for someone to replace it before it dies, too. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What she thought was how the city would have been full of people going about their lives before they were burned, flattened, ripped open. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The effect was only slightly inhibited by the fact that he had burned his eyebrows off again about two days ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

From the burned part the girl should take a piece of charcoal and then rub this between her palms. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

His voice was high and cold, but fury and fear burned inside him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

So Nina taught her the words, and they sang together, fumbling through the verses, hopelessly out of key, until the lanterns burned low. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the candle burned away, Mr. Milgrom struck a match and said that maybe it would last for eight days, like the oil in the story. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The light from the ignited mercury burned for a full five seconds. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Uri pulled down the hatch, snipping off the daylight, then he flipped a switch and a bare lightbulb burned among the cobwebs in the ceiling. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Although the morning was warm and fresh, a small wood fire burned in the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Then came the worst news yet: In Germany and Austria, on the night of November 9—10, 1938, synagogues and Torah scrolls were burned and Jewish property destroyed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Across a river or deep in the blackened quadrants of a burned city. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

Tiptoeing down the stairs to the kitchen, she saw that the embers had burned low in the hearth and none of the servants was yet awake. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We might be held liable if the State Shop burned down! Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether she in effect burned herself or not, Nicole Castro was definitely cutting. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They hung around the burned house, offering to help in any way they could, feeling official and generally getting in the way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth's well-honed espionage skills kicked in immediately: She managed to conceal Jacob's true identity from the policemen who investigated his death, and she gathered and burned all his many papers in her apartment's fireplace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Others would not come out and so they burned: small flame-feathered birds, the churning insects, and a few female baboons who had managed against all odds to carry their pregnancies through the drought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of the funeral pyre seemed to be burned into her nostrils. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His mother has burned her hand on the stove and he doesn’t know what to do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Right on cue, a flock of clucking chickens hobbled toward us from a burned and blackened coop. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

When it was all over, several buildings had been wholly or partially burned—including another house belonging to Abe Greenberg—and the windows of dozens of businesses lay in shards on the sidewalks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

My mother and I raked them across the front dirt and burned them in the street. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now living with her grandmother in America, she had been badly burned in the attack, the scars stretching across one side of her body. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

His lungs burned as a stench like earth and fire filled them, and a metallic clanging assaulted his eardrums in a steady, repetitive rhythm he could appreciate. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what the Wyrdmark is that burned on your forehead?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

These pamphlets were widely read by abolitionists in the North, but they were confiscated and burned in the South. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Gather up from the mud the pieces of burned, striped cloth, the shreds of his pajamas, then bring him down, the poor pale boy, and make a decent burial. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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 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

I imagined honey-colored parasites celebrating in my golden-tinted organs as I alternately froze and burned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes burned red, and he pointed at her in a broken, stiff way. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“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

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

His face was calm, but his eyes burned with a cold intensity that Pong immediately recognized. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They carried it into the yard to cool it, and even before it was cool enough they began tasting it and burned their tongues. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of completely burning organic matter to ash, ancient farmers burned it incompletely to make charcoal, then stirred the charcoal into the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The requisition of his books made sudden sense, and he understood that Thyon would not have burned them or flown the pages off the widow’s walk like birds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His right hand dangled over the side, blackened and burned. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

Tell them your birth certificate and your parents were burned up in the fire. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been delivering babies until the hospitals were all burned down. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was so hot now, my palms burned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fire warmed and dried them and they were silent for a long time, watching as the furniture of the ship crackled and burned. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

They had a fire on the beach that evening and steamed mussels so hot and chewy they burned their tongues on the tawny meat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a very good bicycle repairman. He played the tabla well too. The Taliban killed him and his family and burned the village.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There must have been a small building up here that burned, and they buried the debris. We’ve just been throwing them in the woods.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She burned my old ones, with the shoe in the pocket. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The sea slapped and sucked at the pilings, and fishing-boats jogged at their moorings, and out at the end of the long pier burned a lamp. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My back still burned and itched, but it was bearable. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The cott she had shared with her mother had been burned. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Thereafter, the ladies joined our supper by way of payment for their services, and we sat below and held a more somber feast than our last musical festival, before Norfolk had burned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The alchemist’s hand rested—casually—on the hilt of his sword, but there was nothing casual in the malice that burned in his gaze. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Cole felt no regret for having burned the supplies and the shelter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

I sincerely hope you burned or erased those pictures, Tyler. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As I headed to first period, my ears burned with anger at the unfairness of it all. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The dry cottonwood chunks burned like gunpowder in the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fiery piece of tent had fallen from above and burned through the mattress, scorching my skin. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Ring misseth, maybe, the heat of Sauron’s hand, which was black and yet burned like fire, and so Gil-galad was destroyed; and maybe were the gold made hot again, the writing would be refreshed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But they never put it on display, and then the museum itself burned. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

They passed a farmhouse burned to the ground, its roof about to collapse. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

By dawn the fire had burned itself out, but none of them slept very well that night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Venting months of frustration, Seabiscuit burned rubber off the line and sped past the grandstand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

No cry of “lights out” was ever given on Robben Island because the single mesh-covered bulb in our cell burned day and night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Timothy had found several pieces of wood with bolts in them; had burned them, then raked the bolts out of the ashes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The top half of my sleeve is burned away. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They carted away all the hopelessly burned magazines and tried to salvage some that had only been scorched. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright circles of color burned high in her cheeks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

He reached for the brass doorknob but suddenly withdrew his hand as though he’d been burned. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

They flared up briefly, caught the paper, and burned it to ashes before Nhamo even got close. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But that evening, when my fountain pen still hadn’t turned up, we all assumed it had been burned, especially because celluloid is highly inflammable. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Yet most of the fuel burned by the food industry isn’t used to grow food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When a Greek Orthodox church in Flint burned down, Milton drove up and salvaged one of the surviving stained glass windows. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"He burned down a bam. He shot a cop. He robbed a bank." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

Baba points out ruins of medieval palaces and ancient forts in the hills, gutted and burned by fighting. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It was you who burned down the Hall of Elders. You erased Alaric’s memory and created the fire that killed him,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A raven was perched atop one, pulling at the tatters of burned flesh that clung to its blackened skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cane field where Wild hid, or watched, or laughed out loud, or stayed quiet burned for months. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the sound kept with her, burned incessantly through her ears, trailed her like a stalker around every turn. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I was so burned up by his words that steam just about burst out of my ears. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I filled my glass again and went to stand by the door: deep breaths, I thought, fresh air, that's the ticket...Charles burned his finger, cursed, and slammed the oven shut. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Squatting beside a blackened tin pot outside the woman’s hut, I ate burned rice, crispy and gooey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even burned pieces tasted wonderful, better even than beef. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A house three blocks over was struck by a lightning bolt and burned to the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face had turned white and her black eyes burned. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His eyes burned from staring at the horizon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The new tower will be twice as tall as the one you burned, he says.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The flush burned the top of his ears. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And on the other end, Michelangelo's burned body. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I agreed, though I never knew anyone like him, who scribbled those secrets on napkins and ate them, or stuffed them in their pockets, or burned them ceremoniously on the rocks around the pagoda. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We talk about how his life is more hectic than ever—he now receives two hundred emails a day—yet he insists he can juggle the ever-expanding load and that he isn’t burned out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Why had this field escaped while another burned five miles back? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Between them and the smoking mountain, and about it north and south, all seemed ruinous and dead, a desert burned and choked. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He pointed to where the fog had burned off. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you burned this book now, its matter would be changed to ash and smoke, but the net amount of stuff in the universe would be the same. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally one said, “We heard stories. The crows burned all them that yielded.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

James lay down with them, but Dicey returned to the dying fire, to be sure it burned out entirely. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I remembered all the times I’d seen one of my brothers burst through the back door, howling, pinching some part of his body that was gashed or squashed or broken or burned. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sun had burned through the fog by that time. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mob looted his shop and burned it to the ground. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His hands had to be seriously burned from blocking the first volley. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What a queer smell! It’s like burned feathers,” observed Amy, smoothing her own pretty curls with a superior air. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were sure he was safely burned, they set off to travel again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the bridge burned in a clear pattern—a fiery row of identical owls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The pretty one has a boyfriend and goes to dances, the burned one hates her and loves the boyfriend. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear the shrieks of the Undying as they burned, their high thin papery voices crying out in tongues long dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

I suddenly realized that he could have burned it to the ground, and I felt sick. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“What happens to anybody? They got burned out, lost all their money, ended up here. Got no families, got no women—well, I think Bobby has one.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was about to connect the cable and plug when something whistled past his ear and then, right afterward, a stinging pain burned into his back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Minya’s animus burned brighter than Ruby’s fire, and for good reason: She was the only one of them who actually remembered the Carnage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

According to one tradition, when the philosopher Protagoras was convicted on charges of heresy, his books were dumped in the city marketplace and burned. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

That night, the girls cooked up a dinner of slightly burned fish, grubs, and bulrushes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A flicker of fear raced through her as she thought back to the night the Klan had burned the cross. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Joyce Simdars’s family home burned to the ground on the night of September 29, while the family was away. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The other monsters went crazy, charging the convenience store, then running away as the rainbow light burned them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I told the detectives I had a hunch about who might have burned you,” Chrissie said. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His eyes burned with fire, fueled by lack of sleep. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Jon peeled the glove off his burned hand, put two fingers in his mouth, and whistled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“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

First he took the Smokey out back, splashed kerosene on it, and burned it up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

House after house ignited and burned to the ground, leaving behind blackened foundations and charred heaps of wood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

We drove past the burned village, and the dog didn’t move. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My throat, my heart, my belly—they all burned with happiness, and probably relief, too. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The big clapboard house burned to the ground, but Grandpa and Stanley got out alive, and they moved into a windowless two-room apartment in the basement of an old house around the hill. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I still stood by the fire, where the note had burned to fine ash. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barely two months after V-J Day, the Klan in Atlanta burned a 300-foot cross on the face of Stone Mountain, site of a storied rock carving of Robert E. Lee. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“If you still want those musty old books, you’re too late — I burned them.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sounded disaffected, cool, all blues and violets, the opposite of the hot ember glow that burned inside Maya. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

Hung up by their tails from the poles of the roof, they made much odor, but burned with a very clear fight. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one time in his life he had been a little overweight, but all his digging and sweating had long since burned away any excess fat. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Fire was a constant dread while the lamps burned. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I took a picture of Kama, the girl who had been burned as a child in the attack. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Your hay and your corrals might get burned by accident, too.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the match burned down into James' fingertips, Alfred saw the dark, widening stain on his torn coat sleeve, and the blood running off his hand. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vajra, who had decided to become a glowing pen instead of a lightning bolt for that day, burned brighter at her question. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She clutched her black bag and the gunny sack that had to be burned. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That signaled third-degree burns, in which the skin has burned all the way through, down to the fat below. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The wood in the stove had burned down some, and it would be safe. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet behind, the broken tower still stood, no more burned than before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Abbey said, “Muleman’ll have that tub fixed up good as new in a week. What was Dad thinking? If he was serious, he would’ve burned the dam thing to the waterline.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death imaginable, free entertainment that drew huge crowds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There are times that one treasures for all one’s life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Grim reminders of it were strewn along the road: burned carcasses of old Soviet tanks, overturned military trucks gone to rust, a crushed Russian jeep that had plunged over the mountainside. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pig-meat into the invisible flames. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Sometimes people assume he’s been burned in a fire: his features look like they’ve been melted, like the drippings on the side of a candle. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Few lights burned; but from a half-dozen chimneys slow, almost phosphorescent pinon smoke emerged, dissipating in a flat way over the town, seeping into bushy cottonwood foliage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kate’s face burned bright red—she fairly radiated fury—but she held her tongue. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

What sort of man can stand by idly and watch his own brother being burned alive? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Her rectum burned as she sat in her train seat, her brain felt light and unmoored inside her skull, and a cold sweat beaded on her forehead. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We would either freeze or be burned up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame of hope that burned in him was smaller now, but no less bright or fierce, and he tended it almost daily with visions of the pot he would make. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

He carefully burned the original, and then he went to bed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

Tears burned my eyes, but I didn’t cry. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When me and Jay got up on Saturday, we shoveled hot Cream of Rice cereal into our mouths, then huffed and puffed to cool it down as the steaming grain burned our tongues. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sun burned down glaring and white-hot in the streets. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“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

Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They burned from carrying Beau in the duffel. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

Bigger’s stomach burned and a hazy black cloud hovered a moment before his eyes, and left. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The long red tail of Mormont's Torch burned as bright as the moon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t find it, for it had burned completely to the ground. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Always darkish in color, Simon was burned by the sun to a deep tan that glistened with sweat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She observed, without turning: “I think I will go back, dear, and chance it Even if I am burned, that would be better than having the Trouble.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke the fire had burned down and it was very cold. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Fiery tears burned the back of my eyes, and I was glad water fell from my face so those girls couldn’t see my hurt and anger. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Others said it was burned by a contingent of jealous citizens from Midland because the Odessa college was competing with a similar institution that the sister city had built. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There used to be a lot of other pictures but they got burned. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I got a glimpse of the wound on his thigh, gaping, charred flesh, burned clear down to the bone, before I ran from the house. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He took my best friend, Old Theresa, away to be burned at the stake. He lives at Saint-Denis.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore pushed back the sleeve of his robe over his blackened hand, and stretched out the tips of his burned fingers toward the surface of the potion. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I started thinking that if I burned the house, he would lose all his money. He ought to lose it. It’s all he ever thinks about.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"It burned, yes. There is great healing magic in fire, even your hairless men know that." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And number three is the scorched timbers from the crosses that were burned around our town on the Night of a Thousand Flames. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Where I had imagined Yakov reaching through me, my skin itched and burned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The bicycle-riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The smell of rotten meat burned my nostrils. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow flames turned orange and red, then burned with streaks of blue. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Jacob says, "I wonder how many Bibles were burned yesterday." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The science lab is different from the other classrooms—it has these old thick wood tables with black marks burned into them, and metal stools to sit on. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This time, the angry suffragists burned not only Wilson’s words but also a straw-stuffed figure about two feet tall meant to represent the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

He shakes his head, looks up at the black mark on the ceiling from where Miss Celia burned up the turkey that time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When the paper had burned so close that he could no longer hold it, he dropped it to the floor and stamped it out with his shoes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was sweet with tarts, and some of the berries had boiled over in the oven and burned, making the sharp, bitter-sweet smell pleasant and astringent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling that if I weren’t so tired and burned out on adrenaline from our long night, I might be able to put a name to what was wrong. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

A forge burned red hot in the corner. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

My heart ached, my feet burned, and something in me still felt confused and lost. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Animals sat on some of these initial letters, plants twined around others, one F burned bright as fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He burned the man he had to bum, for all the world to see. We all do what we have to do, Snow. Even kings.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The candles burned lower and lower, making the light dance over the many moving faces of Lockhart watching him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Since the owner’s house was burned and the owner ostensibly burned with it, the employees of the tannery, out of respect, did not go to work. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A magnificent fire burned brightly in a fireplace, and a sparkling chandelier ringed with candles hung from the ceiling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

He needed the heads far the wall, but he had burned the headless bodies that very day, in all their finery. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bulungu could also be burned to the ground for no reason at all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I don’t love moving. If you asked me a few years ago, I would have rather bleached my hair and burned off my eyebrows again.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

They took a winding lane up toward the Forester farm, and the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cars also came to sad ends; the joyous celebration after the first Skaggs Springs economy run came to a tearful halt when the winning car spontaneously burst into flames and burned to the ground. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was as icy as ever, but the trail his fingers left on my skin was alarmingly warm — like I’d been burned, but didn’t feel the pain of it yet. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

One held what looked like a piece of black coal and a piece of white chalk, and where the two pieces were pressed together, an angry red flame burned outward in all directions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

In particular, they intentionally burned much of the landscape periodically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Smoke burned his throat as he dashed through the tangled bushes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They burned our house, and yet he kept on doing the same thing, pushing his agenda, talking his big talk. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"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

Mama’d get cross with her about a tarnished spoon and Constantine would serve her toast burned up for a week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Annabeth started considering ways to pick the lock, but as soon as she touched the pull ring, a fiery shape burned in the middle of the door: the silhouette of Athena’s owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

The synagogue had been burned to the ground. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My chest burned, but I stood up and wiped the tears from my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Miles burned his way through another three marshmallows. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They sizzled in their own fat and the acorns burned black. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

I take the stick he found and put the already burned end into it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I used to go here. Before it burned down. It’s the only place on this side of town that I could think to go to at this time of night.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Another drag, which used up the rest of the cigarette so rapidly the red-hot end of it burned back into his fingers. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She went back to see, and I heard her tell Maman how it was, a desolation of lost shoes and hats, of blood, of burned ballots floating in the breeze, sticking in the blood. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

She burned herself a dozen times as she worked with Umma in the kitchens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

“The moral of the story is that things are a mess in here. We effectively ‘lost’ almost two hundred thousand books when Tolem burned the Larkin ledgers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After killing most of the Pequot defenders, the soldiers set fire to the structures and burned the remaining people there alive. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The white police and firemen came and stood around watching as the house burned down to the ground. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the rocket took off, the propellant was so loose it just fell inward. Too much of it burned at once.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Just call it what it is, Alter,” Frankie said, looking at me with such sympathy, my sinuses burned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

Occasionally they were able to scrape out an extra bit of food for themselves and the little ones while cleaning the pots, burned pieces of potatoes that had stuck to the bottom. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a grass fire not long before, so all the vegetation of the more open ridges and peaks had burned away. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The pilot had been burned to death, and the fifth crew member had hidden himself somewhere. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My brain conjured so many scenes of disaster, it burned as if with a fever. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It still burned me that he hadn’t told me about it to begin with, that I’d had to find out from Maxie. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It burned for a few moments, and then died out. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My legs burned, but I had to get even with her somehow, to try and salvage the last day of summer, and the last wimpy shreds of my little-boy ego. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I waited a long time for a glimpse of Coral Cove, but finally the sun burned away the fog. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Nel sat on the red-velvet sofa listening to her mother but remembering the smell and the tight, tight hug of the woman in yellow who rubbed burned matches over her eyes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I snapped my Zippo lighter and burned the evidence with full knowledge that I compounded the contempt. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"If my hand had not been burned, you would probably be dead now," he pointed out. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was an open space behind it and a wooden plaque hanging on the back wall with letters burned in: “Front Desk.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I usually burned them after I finished them, just to lighten my load. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

Some of the closer tents are splattered with mud, but none are burned despite the charred ground surrounding them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yet that very night, his brother came to Bran's bed-chamber pale and shaken, after the fires had burned low in the Great Hall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

“So I took him to the vet. That’s where he got the bandage. But he kinda scraped it off when he scrunched under the fence in front of the druggie house that burned down.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then he turned Ranofer about and very gently smeared the mixture on his shoulders, where the fires still burned. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

When they reached the building on Dublin, Kathy could see the remains of the homes that had burned to the ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

His cheeks were red, burned from the cold and wind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The stuff burned, causing me to lower my head to hide the tears that popped from my eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anytime my extra energy wasn’t burned off, it would find its way into general naughtiness and misbehavior. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As maize swept in, Indians burned and cleared thousands of acres of land, mainly in river valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After Mama burned him, Papi said a captain in the merchant marines took pity on him and doctored his papers so they’d say he was injured during an explosion on board. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whole shoulder was on fire, a brutal pain that dug deep and burned like acid. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The white has burned away, leaving a smooth, fitted veil of black that drapes into the neckline of the dress in the back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He burned things, and he said things, and he charmed and he demanded. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The windows burned with lamplight, yellow and orange. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Another famed oilman in Oklahoma quickly burned through $50 million and ended up destitute. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The wall they tore down, and the village they burned. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

I go back to the poem I started in Mr. Simmons’s class, when a woman with a burned face makes her way through the crowded aisle, asking everyone to spare some change. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had dabbed her wounds with Myrish fire, which burned so bad she had had to bite her lip to keep from screaming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

“For the matter of that, you pulled away my sword rather roughly. I told you and told you not to draw it. But you wouldn’t listen. That’s what burned your arm.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

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

Then I burned down the white people’s house, and that was the end of that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In 1967, when my parents were teens, the Newark riots broke out, and the city burned with rage. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

"You burned the maegi in their house of dust and sent their souls to hell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Sir, some of the trainband fired on them from a house just down the road. The Redcoats killed them all and burned Starr’s house.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fire burned hot that morning, and they drank their tea standing up, turning around slowly to warm their backsides. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"It won't work anyway. Every orb I made except this one burned in the fire. Along with everything else." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was very hard work: The smaller trees and bushes had to be burned or uprooted. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frightened talk ran through the town that the whole Ames family had burned. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

We burned up some of it singing sea chanteys and pirate songs with naughty words, being careful to switch to hymns when other riders came into view. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She had read somewhere that napalm was gooey stuff used in firebombs that burned everything. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And so in this place and that, by burned homestead or barn, upon hillock or mound, under wall or on field, still they gathered and rallied and fought until the day wore away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Then a bunch more druggies got in there and burned the whole place down. Almost took my house with it, but the fire trucks got here in time.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

A fire burned constantly in the center, the smoke venting through a hole in the center of the roof. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Plus, the recipe clearly stated that she’d laugh at me if I burned these cookies, and I kinda felt like she would figure out a way to let me know she was laughing. 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 person who cut it used it for bad medicine, but it did not work because my uncle burned the shirt immediately. That day, there were many flies near his hut.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because, she realized, if she was going to be burned at the stake for magic—well, they would be, too. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The older boy had also mentioned burned earth and a disease. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His original army jacket had burned up months ago. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I noticed for the first time how burned my clothing was. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several burned feather tips fell to the floor. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

‘Well, no, I don’t think so. But I can’t use my right arm, Pippin, not since I stabbed him. And my sword burned all away like a piece of wood.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My sight burned and I realized it was the start of tears. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The dishwater is boiling away on the stove, I forgot all about it. You all clear the table and start washing up. Be careful and don’t get burned.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I made note of you this morning as well. The false gods burned with a merry light, did they not?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nailer smiled and sipped, was surprised at the quality of alcohol that burned his mouth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It snaked out in all directions, forming a brilliant flash that burned through the wallpaper and melted the paint underneath. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His knuckles burned and a sharp current of pain ran through his wrist, up his arm, exploding in his shoulder. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word they both hopped out and set to work, Joe scavenging bigger logs that burned well in his shop’s heater, Nancy gathering smaller branches that would fit easily into the kitchen stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She made a stronger concoction, burned sweetgrass braids, fanned Omakayas, too, but the deep cold seemed to have seized her heart. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

While the bin filled, I helped Luke balance on one foot and lower his burned leg, now wrapped in black plastic, into the garbage can. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When they broke and ran before him he had laughed, his terrible burned face for a moment transformed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Anderson no sooner thought this when the door caught fire and burned McConners’ hand. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the end it had burned her up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The burned area is about the size of my hand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t collected them, would our house have burned less brightly? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I fought for the army. The rebels burned my village and killed my parents, and you look like one of them.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As a young boy, my dad regularly witnessed his mom getting beaten, and the image of her being abused remains burned into his memory. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew this story: how a few years ago Josh Trammell, a sophomore, had fallen asleep with a candle lit and burned his parents’ house down. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘We have been set many riddles since we came to Tol Brandir, but this is the hardest to unravel. I would guess that the burned bones of the hobbits are now mingled with the Orcs’. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, the sun burned fiercely, elsewhere there was cool in the forest shade; elsewhere there were pumpkins and bananas. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It burned on her lips so fiercely she was surprised Mo didn’t see it there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There’s a young woman with a scarf wrapped around her head leaning against her oxygen tank; others are wheezing terribly; some are disfigured or badly burned. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They burned and looted the town, destroyed the granary, and even dug up graves and mutilated corpses. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father’s stag kept guardian in his heart. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

I sat on the bank, took off socks and boots, and dipped my feet in water so cold it burned until the freezing went deep and deadened feeling. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chair was so cold it burned her skin. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

“But my lungs don’t seem to be burned,” I said, relieved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Realizing that this was one of those Smokey concoctions that burned your tongue, she sipped carefully. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Inside a hundred dim red candles burned like distant stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the Minotaur saw me, his eyes burned with hate. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Violet had burned the toast, and their parents, smelling smoke, had run downstairs to see what the matter was. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was fashioned in the likeness of a snarling black hound, fearsome to behold, but Tyrion had always thought it a great improvement over Clegane's hideously burned face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The candle in the cresset still burned dimly, but the lack of windows in the stone walls made it impossible to tell whether it was dawn or the middle of the night. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

Ged looked down at his burned hand and said presently, “I do not know what I am. I had power, once. I have lost it, I think.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was even burned alive by the citizens of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

His face burned as Headmaster scanned the page. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“From the old forbidden books. The Premature Burial. And the others. The Pit, the Pendulum, and the ape, the chimney, the Murders in the Rue Morgue. In a book I burned, yes!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s scar burned in the silence, but he made a supreme effort to keep himself present, not to slip into Voldemort’s mind. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

She wanted to say more, but Riccio interrupted her as if he had to say something fast, before it burned his lips. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

On this night, the moon burned like metal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A fire burned brightly in the center of it, even though the day was very warm, and the man was steering her toward it, Amari realized with fear. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her movements were so graceful, it was hard to understand how she could have burned herself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I was afraid of the fire as it burned within me, building a heat that spread to my face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

“They’re all destroyed now anyway. All that work, burned to ashes or melted. I should’ve known. Nothing in this city changes, and it never will.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When the bodies were finally collected, they were burned in tall pyres like Hindus on the Ganges. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

It was so hot she burned her lips and had to quickly press the cold blade of a knife to her mouth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Brown was so stubborn about his decision that even after the fire he was able to write arrogantly in a letter that “I am still standing the watch that burned Chicago.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Above, the sky burned a deep pure October blue. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

For this reason he burned one of the rice trays and had to start it over again. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One moment the flames burned orange and yellow, filling the cavern with a ruddy glow; then all the colors faded, leaving only black and white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His face burned as he tried to stop himself from crying. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

We took the old picture of the Stove King and smeared some honey on it before we burned it in the stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Their hands and their faces got very hot, and Laura burned her finger, but she was so excited she did not care. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, we burned and pulverized sheep’s bones, doused the powder in a rendering of vinegar, and heaped the blot with the concoction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The entire sky garden was beyond recognition, burned and charred as though an unseen force had ravaged every iota of life there. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Pong nodded, backing away The mention of getting burned had scared him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

The cornbread burned to charcoal when I fell asleep, head on the table. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The park shimmered with snow so fresh, so dazzling white, it burned my eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

Her cigarette was angled peculiarly between her fingers; it burned dangerously close to one of her knuckle grooves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

People have been gathering morels in burned forests forever; Ben mentioned that in Germany long ago people would set forest fires just so they could harvest morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A red spot burned in each pale cheek, as if she had been slapped. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel burned everything he ever gave her and left the ashes in front of his locker. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I plugged the pipe — rolled the glass — twirled it on the marble slab, and now my right hand burned and ached and the glass was off—lopsided! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“She said God made me with all the right ingredients, so it’d be a shame if I burned in hell.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It burned for a few hours,” Dad said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her arms burned from holding the string taut, and the bow that had felt so light moments before now became heavy in her hands. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The fire department arrived, of course,” Mr. Poe said, “but they were too late. The entire house was engulfed in fire. It burned to the ground.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The cabins and the Big House burned to ashes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wash stood at the edge of the Masons’ backyard on the opposite end of the street from the burned house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night Papa burned the flag he had brought with him from Hiroshima thirty-five years earlier. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“Someone burned all the Maps. If there was a code, it’s gone.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even the fire burned neatly, three perfect plumes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The rain clouds blew away, leaving room for a bright red sunset, where fiery lights burned behind the clouds that gathered around the lowering sun. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In Phnom Penh, I had black buckle shoes that went with my school uniform; the soldiers burned those too. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song of the river suddenly grew louder, the torches burned a little brighter than before, and the air was full of strange smells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ged asked, and stood up as he spoke, so that the werelight that burned overhead between them sent his shadow back against the wall and floor. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Melisandre’s back was to the Wall, on one side of the deep ditch where her fire burned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The horn upon the left was tall and slender; and in it burned a red light, or else the red light in the land beyond was shining through a hole. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

Dustfinger couldn’t help smiling when he thought of Farid’s eager face and the way he had burned his lips when he secretly took the torches from his backpack. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

It wasn’t until the next morning that Worsley discovered holes scorched in his socks, but the skin on his feet was still so waterlogged that it hadn’t burned. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Following her gaze Alice lifted the iron and saw what Violet saw: the black and smoking ship burned clear through the yoke. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fumes were very strong and burned our eyes and throats. If I had stayed there long, I believe the chemicals would have permanently damaged my lungs and eyes.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had always burned the books I had brought into the house, branding them as worldly; but she would have to tolerate these papers if she was to keep her promise to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach burned but I felt oddly calm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Except that jacket had burned up months ago. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My thin pillow was lumpy and had an ammonia scent that burned my nose. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It would have been easy to pity it, except that the cut around Harry’s neck still burned. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Shrouded demigods, both Greek and Roman, were burned at the campfire, and Chiron asked Nico to oversee the burial rites. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I pinched the bridge of my nose and concentrated until my sinuses burned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

Though it burned for two more days, the fire did not jump the road. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Lillian always remarked that the doctors had taken a badly burned, homely man, and with all the advances of modern medicine at their disposal, turned him into a grotesquerie. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fine, perfect really, except for the burned areas. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They fought through that town, took it, burned it; leaving their ships under guard at the mouth of the River Ar they went up the Vale wrecking and looting, slaughtering cattle and men. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

So her usual patients are burned or wounded or ill. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Klan burned down homes and businesses belonging to its political rivals, and frightened many others into leaving the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

This part of the forest has just been burned a few days before and the ground is still hot and smoking. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her last wish, he said, was to be burned. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two ancient lamps burned fish oil, throwing dim shadows against the dark stone walls. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

The hot ember of guilt burned in his mind, and his thoughts flew back to the night of their escape. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There’s a man, his clothes and body pretty much completely burned away from the chest down. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His lungs burned and his legs turned to jelly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His proof was burned bones, but burned bones proved nothing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Victarion took him around the throat with his burned hand and lifted him bodily into the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the more they hoped, the more the clouds of sorrow lifted, drifted, and burned away in the heat of a brightening sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Later it burned down to a smoldering self-pity, then to numbness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the stench of burned flesh that many on the row claimed they could smell during the execution wafted into his cell, Myers dissolved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In his stern presence, I could never recall the pleasant way his lips used to twitch, before they were burned away, when a memory tugged tears from his eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I burned myself some toast and scanned the so-called news sites for bits about Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“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

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

I thought Mr. Lias would go on telling about his wife then, but his tongue had already burned out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He would fill that furnace as full of coal as it would get and make sure that Mary burned in a hurry. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her shoulders burned, and all she could do was focus on each handhold, each step. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I came up with a solution, but . . . remember when I burned rocket fuel in the Hab? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It burned sullenly, giving off an acrid smoke that the wind brushed away to the north and west, toward the unseen bluffs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Buried underground or burned into ash, they couldn’t do anything but haunt the memories of the people who had loved them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It has burned steadily since the ceremonious lighting on opening night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Soon the roof was on fire, and from there the blaze spread to the main house, and the whole thing burned and burned and burned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thinking back, the signs were there—family photos burned in the fireplace, Mother sewing her best silver and jewelry into the lining of her coat late at night, and Papa not returning from work. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The images of South Africans going to the polls that day are burned in my memory. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When the Reichstag building burned down, which became the pretext for Hitler’s suppression of political dissent, Szilard was dismayed by the failure of his German friends to grasp the developing reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the operating room, Dr. Grossman shaved away at the burned, dead skin, cutting away thin layers until he reached bleeding tissue. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Two old women were at work on one of the burned- away roofs, beating thatch against the earth to clear it of bugs before twining it to the roof timbers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

If it had ever held answers about my grandfather—in the form of letters, maybe, or a photo album or a diary—they’d probably burned up or rotted away decades ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

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

The buildings stand empty, row after row of them, the windows broken, the doors gone—probably burned for firewood—and when I poke my head inside, even the floors have been ripped out and salvaged. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When the morning fog burned off and the sun was high, the beauty queens and the accidental pirates trudged through the waters to the beached ship to assess the damage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

Its woodlands were cleared for agriculture, or cut to obtain construction timber, or burned as firewood or for manufacturing plaster. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Arm let go of the General’s shoulders at once, and his face burned with embarrassment. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The fire department got there in time before it burned down, but Saleem said it’s really bad,” Mama says. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

Heat burned her skin—anger or embarrassment or some mixture of both. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We’d watch the spring with binoculars and see how much thrust was produced and then divide the answer by the pounds of propellant burned and how long it took. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The organs had been packed too tightly into the chimney and thus never had burned. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

Malcolm hurried through the meal and burned his mouth, but soothed it with a piece of cold plum pie and cream. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

From the time he was burned as a child, he had always feared fire, heat, and small spaces. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth century, more books were burned than ever before or since. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

The air saturated with Diesel fumes burned in my lungs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When it was burned to the earth I started a fire in another house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Even Fen Xu, whose house had burned down the year before. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the piano was finally out of harm’s way, Harry Rantz and his family gathered around it and watched, awestruck, as their house burned to the ground. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

Her panic seemed to have burned up along with that woven bridge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

"They took all the books from her library into the garden and burned them." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

The candle burned with a dark red flame, she knew; for those with eyes, the corpse would have seemed awash in a ruddy glow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As he had placed the Wafer on Mina’s forehead, it had seared it—had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white-hot metal. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to grab the pot with my hand and I burned it real bad. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Being burned as a witch is not safely enough off the agenda. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

When the war first started and Germans burned down buildings, we hated them for it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I push the pram down to the Dock Road, out to Corkanree where all the dust and garbage of Limerick is dumped and burned. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But her spirit goes into the mirror, and the next time the pretty one is brushing her hair in front of that mirror, she looks up and there’s the burned one looking back at her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amari looked at the sun as it disappeared into the sea; it burned coppery bright and beautiful. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our journey Estraven had lost all the smooth, compact solidity that marks the Gethenian physique; he was gaunt and scarred, and his face was burned by cold almost as by fire. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wicked people burned our castle on the hill. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy I no was on the Essex and he was burned so bad he dide when that boat got nocked out of the fite. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She popped a piece of the burned potato scraping into her mouth. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed the soap on a rag and scrubbed my skin until it burned. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of them ending up dead, or burned up so bad that when someone finds them, their skin is black and their lips are cracked open? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

On the night that she burned the wreath’s last leaf, she did not come back from that dream world. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a strange sight as we passed through the burned district ...” Kinzie recalled. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like my skin has been burned off. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Across the landscape flares burned bright blue and gold as far as she could see. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

A black man waiting for a bus spat out, “They should have burned the whole place down.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tinder burned all right, but that was as far as I got. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thrusters burned overhead and the darts continued to slam into people all around them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It may be that he is burned out on it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was as rational as you and I, more so perhaps, and we burned her.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

All she had were the images burned on her brain and the sensations burned into her skin, and how did you erase those? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

By the time the firemen came, the house had burned down completely. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then they gathered their cattle, burned a trail brand on their hips, and pulled out on the long trail to Kansas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They burned it in one of the pots, and the stench was like a corpse exhumed for its bones too soon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It only felt like being spaghettified because the more we tried to avoid the pain, the more it stretched, twisted, and burned, trying to get our attention. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My face burned, but I couldn’t stifle a giggle. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But when rioters burned down the business, my father moved us up to upstate New York. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

Macon knocked it out of the chair and with a yardstick pushed it into the bathroom, where he doused it with alcohol and burned it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When one cigarette burned down to a fragment he no longer could hold, he lit another.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We burned copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

On March 26, in Pretoria, the chief publicly burned his pass, calling on others to do the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her strange eyes burned into me, it did not seem quite sure. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“So bright I close my eyes and still see it burned into my vision. And a headache for hours after.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Winterbottom half-heartedly chipped away at the burned brownies and asked Prudence if she would have another chance at cheerleading tiyouts. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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 slashed again and Nailer’s belly burned where the blade cut a shallow line. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they even burned his library, but he was definitely dead. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Only a candle burned in the room, and by its light I saw Ultima lying on the bed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the shade of the forest, Minli’s black head burned hot. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Try as the potters might, the wood in the kiln never burned the same way twice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

Our house had burned, with the blame going either to Mother’s spirit or the mischief of village children, though Tata Boanda allowed it was probably Father trying to toast meat over a kerosene flame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter only fat and bones were burned to the gods upon their altars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porridge was ready, a different matter from the stiff bran mush of Pulefen Farm; it tasted like the roast chestnuts of Terra, and burned the mouth splendidly. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a rite hurried by fear and panic, we burned what was left of him and ran for our own lives. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if the gods of burned cities could still answer prayers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

My hair, what was not burned off, is shaved. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The talk was always the same, of the Turks and their brutality, of Venizelos and his mistakes, of King Constantine and his return, and of the unavenged crime of Smyrna burned. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Drool fell from its mouth, its eyes burned red, and even though Seven knew this was not the Nightbeast, her heart still thumped with fear. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

The stone was so cold on his bare back it felt like it burned. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Annabeth glanced into the living room and held up a burned cookie for Luke to see. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nine houses in Seattle burned down as a result of chimneys clogged by snow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The “boys”? Those cement faces and eyes of hate that burned the clothes off you if they happened to see you lounging on the main street downtown on Saturday. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bodies are burned beneath the open sky, and the khal rises on his fiery steed to take his place among the stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A fire burned in the middle of the clearing, and its flickering light fell over a crowd of completely silent, watchful Death Eaters. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

I came upon it last summer and dug and burned it out until I made a snug cave in the tree that I now call home. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother’s fury burned behind her immobile face. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We burned a thousand books. We burned a woman.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her heart went out to the poor boy as he stumbled out the door, clutching his hands together as though they were burned. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Black churches active in the civil rights movement were at risk of being burned or bombed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It started at my face and burned down my chest and arms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He showed him a successful skin graft made on the face of a woman patient who had been severely burned. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Two spots of color burned on her cheeks. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Like machine guns that fired hundreds of bullets a minute, and poisonous gas that burned soldiers’ skin and lungs. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

Far down in the valley scattered fires still burned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The skin burned off straight away, but just under the surface the marble-grey flesh was still cold and raw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Some nursed gashes and cuts, while others were so badly burned she didn’t recognize them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“The warning lamp in the roof burned green. All clear!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You aren’t,” his eyes burned at me from his grimacing face, “still the assistant senior crew manager!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Yet we learned that they burned a cross just above our house at the Negro school, and that someone remarked they should have burned it on my land. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The late sun burned down on their heads and there were brown, crumbly ant beds all around them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Only a few scattered clouds crept across the sky, but the air still felt too crisp, almost burned, like all the moisture was gathering into something solid, something we could feel. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His body was burned the color of leaf tobacco. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say yes, knowing that he’s referring to the horse farm that burned down a long time back. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

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