He coughed and spit, his neck burning from the rope, then tried to sit up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Every time I opened my eyes, I saw the burning tip of Papa’s cigarette glowing in the dark; other times I heard the rattle of his aspirin bottle. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally leveled off, my legs were burning. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

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

I watched him, burning with shame at my complicity; but there was no way out of this arrangement, should I wish to continue my education. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the crackle and hiss of the log burning in the hearth at the end of the long, drafty common room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kepler had nothing but his mathematical ability and a burning zeal to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I knew from the shakiness in my legs and the burning in my lungs that I couldn’t run. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The burning sun was like a heavy weight on him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He could feel a burning, prickling feeling in the inner corners of his eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I could feel Martin’s eyes burning holes into the back of my neck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The colour of cinders and ash about them, and the continual smell of burning from their pipes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just kept sprinting in and out of darkness, hoofing it through puddles of streetlight, legs pumping, gut cramping, lungs burning, brain screaming. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Marco reaches up to a branch above his head and passes the ring through one of the burning candles until it glows, white and hot. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

“When I flew over that night the river was burning with oil, and everything on the ground was burning,” she said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They were grand and beautiful and frightening — the horses’ heads shining white, their eyes burning like a blacksmith’s forge. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then in the light from the burning house she saw something nailed to the trunk of the huge magnolia tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Within, a fresh fire was burning in the hearth, the logs crackling and spitting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He took a step forward, and the heavy burning of his anger brushed against Jam’s skin. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was the last week of July, dry and dusty, and I could feel the sun burning my skin. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was still burning when his father told him to get ready for the season’s last baseball game that evening. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

I drink in the smoky smell of the lamps burning. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

There are always Sallies—burning Houses, shooting out the Windows of Taverns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Masha Dolina, whose first wartime job was to fly aircraft away from her burning airfield, was one of only a few lucky women whose commanders found a place for them right away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The small fire burning in the floor seemed a long way down. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The kettles were then filled with copies of President Wilson’s speeches and were kept burning day and night. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Yet in his nightmare he faced it again . . . and this time the burning corpse wore Lord Eddard's features. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There Ignatius stood like the boy on the burning deck. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An involuntary shiver racked my body as I recalled the burning shul, the smoke scorching my lungs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The heat from the burning huts was intense; the shimmering air creating phantom figures all around us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire was burning in a hearth shaped like the gaping mouth of a lion. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I swallowed and kept talking to fight the burning in my eyes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s burning, giving off a rancid chemical smell. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

Abnegation discourages anything done strictly for my own enjoyment, and that is what this is: my lungs burning, my muscles aching, the fierce pleasure of a flat-out sprint. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Still there seemed an unusual amount of burning going on, and smoke rose from many points round about. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They can’t stop even to pick the burning bits of metal from their arms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She could feel the desire burning in her chest. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The trees along the sidewalk near the school—so recently a burning orange and red and yellow—are losing their last leaves. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Some people watched, horrified and weeping, from their windows, but a surprising number kept their heads and were forming a bucket line from the town’s cistern atop the city hall to a nearby burning building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

The party towers were already lit up, and snakes of burning torches marked flickering pathways through the pleasure gardens. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He covered her with silk, though she was burning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The moment he stepped out of the plane, Arisue was hit by the horrible stench of burning flesh. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to release it, but my chest was burning for fresh air. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But the flames were thick and oily and burning fast, consuming the ball of bark as fast as if it were gasoline. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black cigarillo was burning in the ashtray in front of him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was several minutes before Doon managed to light it again, and more before he finally had two burning at once. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Moss slammed his legs down as hard as he could, his quads burning, and sped through the intersection of Lakeshore and 18th, avoiding the red light. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

To keep the lye from burning up my scalp, I had to stick my head into the stool and flush and flush to rinse out the stuff. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burning gods cast a pretty light, wreathed in their robes of shifting flame, red and orange and yellow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

After all, it was 1968, and guys were burning draft cards, and Canada was just a boat ride away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My hands and feet punched and kicked the burning walls, but I couldn’t feel a thing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The channel is choked with burning warships and the floating corpses of horses. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

Atop its center pole flew die royal standard, golden, with a stag’s head within a burning heart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before the beginning there was nothing—no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I felt something burning against the side of my leg. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I followed of course, showing a pale shadow of my former burning curiosity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It swelled like a tumor jacked up on steroids, burning through a haze so white it glared. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

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

Not him, just the crash of a burning crate. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

With other students gathering around us, whispering, my stomach tightens, a little puke comes up, burning my throat. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I try to wake as discomfort turns into nightmare, but I only slip deeper in, until eventually there is nothing but choking, burning light. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

At Mrs. Platt’s house, we ascended to the roof, where she had watched the burning of Charlestown some months before. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Albert LaPautre drew on the pipe and frowned, tamping and adjusting the tobacco burning in the bowl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

They drew water from a feeder creek and warmed themselves at a slash pile kept burning by his children—girls in rubber boots, including Hatsue—who dragged branches and brought armfuls of brush to it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The phosphorus would keep burning and burning, right through muscle and bone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I see the bakery window... reach out and touch it... cold and vibrating, and then the glass becomes warm... hotter... fingers burning. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Drowning or burning, the punishment was all the same. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the forest burning to the right and the left, the colonists' boats passed through a channel of fire, their passengers as goggle-eyed at the blaze as children at a video arcade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a moment of maneuvering through the maze of timber and iron, we came to the hanging row of glass spheres with fires burning inside them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

The girl looks at me for a second and then uses the tip of her boot to knock the burning sticks off the little green box. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wondered if what she’d typed was burning holes in her chat partner too. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Engulfed and burning alive, they ran out into the woods, sure to set the whole forest on fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that was Tom Riddle senior, the handsome Muggle who used to go riding past the Gaunt cottage and for whom Merope Gaunt cherished a secret, burning passion.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My face was burning, and I wanted to escape, but Diego wasn’t going to pick me up for another ten minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The settlers began raiding the Indian villages, killing and burning, with the goal of exterminating the native people. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was aware of eyes burning into my back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth time she came up, she managed to open her burning eyes for just a few seconds. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

So the burning feeling I have in my hand sometimes, I must pull it back into my heart and keep it inside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth still tasted of blood where he’d bitten his tongue, but a fire was burning to his right, the heat washing over his face, and he had never felt anything so good. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stood in the hall of his house, putting on his badge with the orange salamander burning across it. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked grim and tired, for his eyes were burning, there was an air of such impersonal cruelty about him that despite myself I shivered. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And yet, while she was singing with pleasure and dying with laughter over her own inventions, Aureliano was becoming more and more absorbed and silent, for his passion was self-centered and burning. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

Abruptly, we were almost blinded there upon the isle; the smoke of burning houses inhaled us, and we were within it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She ran toward it, ignoring the burning flowers in her path. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

She looked at Mo. The little trick with the burning match didn’t seem to have surprised him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I think I can actually smell the ring of flesh around my chest burning, and Johanna’s fighting off withdrawal symptoms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

I wrapped the crayfish in leaves, stuffed them in my pockets, and went back to the burning tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there it was, big and shiny and round, blue thrusters burning hot and loud as it lowered toward the middle of the settlement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I coughed reflexively and sucked down another lungful of the burning air just as I entered the wall of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Meggie held her breath as his lips closed around the burning matchstick. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Calvin was ahead, the burning lamp swinging low from his hand. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped his eyes with a finger and looked at the pilot out of the comer of his eye to make sure he hadn’t noticed the burning and tears. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of my burning flesh chokes me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of thousands of years human beings have been burning and cutting down forests and encouraging domestic animals to graze on and destroy grasslands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came untethered and crashed around with reckless abandon—burning, shattering, consuming. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As I neared the building, thought of the burning books, I felt angry. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw it by the light of the burning town, so clear that it was as if time had stopped. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And though he was powerful, he was bound and burning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The flames were burning low by then, the warmth fading. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t drink water, eat the soup . . .” “I’m burning up . . . Why are you so mean to me, my son? . . . Water. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a fierce, burning blue, the trees ferocious shades of red and yellow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In colonial times, as many as one out of every four trees in between southeastern Canada and Georgia was a chestnut—partly the result, it would seem, of Indian burning and planting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She reaches down, presses the button again, and picks up the box without even burning herself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the Greek myth of Prometheus the gift of fire forever severs humankind from the natural world—the burning torch is the icon of the constructed and artificial. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The baton hit Moss’s left knee, making him crumple to the ground in an instant, overwhelmed with pain, with shame, the burning agony. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was so silent I could hear my pulse in my ears, pumping red-hot burning blood into my face. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Between agonized gasps and groans she muttered that her stomach felt as if it were burning up. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

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

When it was burning and the charcoal was at last getting hot he turned, noticing Brian for the first time in the dream. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw his heart burning through his chest, and in an instant he was gone, consumed like a moth by a candle, turned to ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His interference did little to quell the rage burning in my veins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I turn from the Suits to my parents; my mom is sobbing into her hands, and my dad looks like the house is burning down around him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Before she left, she blew out the candle to save it from burning out and took with her a book of matches. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Corps participated in several cross burnings with the adult Klan members, always in the context of a rally. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

“He was burning. Constantly. Sometimes just smoke and sparks, sometimes engulfed in flames. The way you are now.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She gestured in disgust at the burning wreckage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The gaslight had been kept burning inside the entry hall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Liam must have felt my gaze burning through the back of his jacket, because he stopped and turned to wave before disappearing around the corner. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In his dream, he realized that each statue had a name burning on the floor in front of it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It was the courtyard. The entire courtyard, not just the bonfire. Bright and burning and hot. Then...I don’t know what happened but Bailey was there. That much I’m sure of.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

She watched the hearth of Hestia burning in the middle of the green as the cabins turned off their lights for curfew. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When that Hydra showed up, so did John, torch at the ready like lolaus, burning the necks as I cut off the heads so they couldn’t grow back. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

All this time Signy was living with her husband, bearing him children, showing him nothing of the one burning desire in her heart, to take vengeance upon him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bundle of sticks used for kindling, for burning heretics alive centuries ago.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The tops of the trees around me are all burning, and through the smoke to my left and right, I see walls of flames surging forward, igniting bark on every trunk. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All conversation stops as the entire lunchroom gawks, my face burning into their retinas. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like she was coated in their ashes, in the stink of burning flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He felt a burning on his neck and reached up to find red coals there. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The kiss started burning a hole up through Liyana’s smooth left cheek where it had begun. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Your mother had taken many pictures, all through Paris, of doors, giant doors—deep blue, ebony, orange, turquoise, and burning red doors. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The fire was raging around Leo right now, and the flames were going to continue burning until he did something about it. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

And then I am up again, and breathing, And Clairmont is burning. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then I think she saw the burning fence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

But the wood was burning fast, and the snow still fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Then, when it let go, freeing her to take in gulp after gulp of air, she saw burning owls at the window grinning and beckoning to her with charred feathers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He felt that they had not wanted to print it as long as it had remained buried and burning in his own heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The air was freezing, and it carried the smell of burning. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled myself into the bed and yanked the sheets up, my face and side burning with pain. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

He was there in the hand-washed and ironed clothes on the cane-seat chair, in the warm slippers left outside my door, in the wood already burning in the stove when I came down for breakfast. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The things burning and people living in cellars. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His scar was burning: He felt angry and frustrated; he hated the idea that they were all imagining him to have power to match Voldemort’s. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For understandable reasons, Claire did not spend much time observing the burning buildings around her, so her description of what happened is limited. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Frodo could see it from his window, deep in the heavens, burning like a watchful eye that glared above the trees on the brink of the valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Your mother heard today that photos of people in old-fashioned long gowns and mandarin jackets are considered fourolds. So your parents are burning them in the bathroom.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rolled over to the edge of the burning oil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When they stopped to sleep, she dreamed of ashes, drifts upon drifts of them, covering the Wood in a stale scent of burning. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Stars exploded out the top of my head and all of my words and all of my rememberies followed them up to the sun, burning to ash that floated back and settled in the mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what it was like, if you want to know. The two of them looked as black as—as black as death standing up there with this fire burning all around them.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I choke out an apology, and my face is burning. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

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

Imagine them fighting, burning, looting, and bombing every city and farm in their path until they reached the Great Plains. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They saw farmhouses burning, and then they came across a dozen or so dead English soldiers in the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

It reeked of burning hair and rotting flowers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then Gandalf went out in haste, and already the fire in the sky was burning out, and the smouldering hills were fading, while ash-grey evening crept over the fields. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His eyelids felt heavy and he could still smell the smoke from the burning letter. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s staring at me and I want him to stop because it’s burning me to the ground. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

I’d gotten it out before I realized that her burning hair was not a delusion. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Flames from the burning hay pushed against the roof and beams, almost as if they were struggling to break free. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Weak smoke of the type produced by burning leaves rose from one of the antennae of smokestacks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My right thigh is burning from holding up my stump as I push one more time. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a little too close to the reek of Dad burning chorizo and eggs on the weekend before we found out about the comet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In it were no tables, but a bright fire was burning in a great hearth between the carven pillars upon either side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What connection did they have to the village? Or to the people, and the children, in the burning houses?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Like all their neighbors, Maria’s family heated their house by burning wood, and she was gathering scraps that were lying around the yard. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

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

I feel as if I’m at the center of nothingness, of a black square that is totally empty; that I’m exploding slowly outward, into the cold burning void of space. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fallen: he and Esther in the white folks’ kitchen, the light burning, the door half-open, grappling and burning beside the sink. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The best we can say–can ever say–is that it was still burning on this date 680 years ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When questioned about the smoke and the smell, the director of the Hadamar killing center explained to the townspeople that his men were burning old shoes and other articles that contained petroleum. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

“No, but he came for my daughter,” I said again, frustration burning my throat. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The fire had now been burning for over an hour, and the wind was increasing in velocity. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a second my mother’s face radiated sunshine yellow, then it flared into orange and then bright, burning red—the color of fire, the color of hate, the color of my hair. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

My hands are burning from yanking and peeling back them leaves. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

High John glared at the burning tear flickering in the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Every bulb must be burning at full wattage inside the train station as well. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And, though I bit my lip in hesitation, he must have seen the curiosity burning in my eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Red eyes stare back at me like embers burning in the dark. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When Scoob looks at his arm and sees the lines of drying blood that have run down over his hand from a nasty-looking cut near his elbow, the dull ache explodes into a burning throb. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The wind brought the rest of the burning cabin down to ashes, soaking it with icy rain. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He wept as he told us that he literally had to reach down into the graves, lift out and carry the decomposing bodies to the burning pyres. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“My father’s brother fought in Burma and came back filled with one burning question: How come nobody told him before that the white man was not immortal?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Toby’s cheeks were hot, burning, the corners of his eyes tense and taut. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We stumbled to our feet as a great, hot wind ripped through the area, burning our skin and stinging our eyes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I look at my shoes, my cheeks burning. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

But Kaz had hope now, hope and fury, twin flames burning inside him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not burning hot like the middle of summer, but warm enough for me to not need a coat. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Oh please tell me which is the water that runs through my veins, I moaned; oh please tell me which is the water that washes my burning eyes! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toronto lies behind it, at a great distance, burning in thought like Gomorrah. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

From a small window high in the wall of his cell, Everett Alvarez watched the dancing light of fires burning in downtown Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The cool water eases the burning, but only somewhat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make things worse, the air was hot and blistery, burning our cheeks as we drove on. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And there was the forest, and the Bottle Tree, and the fight, and the burning rip. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her last letter, his mom was worried that they might be evicted from their apartment because of the smell of burning sneakers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The article had appeared ten days ago, and Harry still got a sick, burning feeling of shame in his stomach every time he thought about it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she felt as if the marks were bright and burning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The cries and screams of men and women mixed with the terror of the horses burning alive in locked stables. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned against a column and let the stone chill my burning cheek. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

One day it was very hot, and as he was bending over a pool, he felt a burning on the back of his head, and a dazzling light from the water pained his wet eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And all the while burning inside me was the song, the song. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Palm trees and pillared arcades cast shadows over the burning pavements. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She described what had happened at the fort—the voice of Gaea, the spiders in the garrison, the Mark burning them away. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to nod calmly, even though my face was burning. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sparks flew up as Con broke apart one of the burning pieces of wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That led some of the boys to cut spoons out of scraps of metal so they could scoop their food without burning their fingers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire in the center of the grove was a small sad thing, ashes and embers and a few broken branches burning slow and smoky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As Farmer and she were leaving the capital, Ophelia suddenly smelled burning tires. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I work hard all day, and I expect to come home and see something burning in here.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

He got out of the car and closed the door, took one more pull from the cigarette, burning it down to the yellow part, then plucked it into the street. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The flames in the distance, still burning into the night, had made it seem as if the sea itself had caught fire. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed that I could practically rub my skin off and still feel it, all wet and sticky, and kind of burning. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the draperies a story below, burning, lighting the night only enough for us to see that they were on the ground and some distance from the nearest wall. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of burning up, though, the bills only turn as shimmery as everything else in the festival. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The only reliable signs were the black plumes of smoke from the dredges and the ever-present scent of burning leaves from slash piles set aflame by workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A few days later, with his mission burning inside him, Guiteau sat down in his rented room and wrote out a letter to the American people. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

There were armies of flies of all kinds buzzing round their ears, and the afternoon sun was burning on their backs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The image of the burning, sinking wreath flashed before my eyes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him in and breathing him out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn’t distinguish among the pains. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He went straight to the Mother, grasped the sword with his gloved hand, and wrenched it free of the burning wood with a single hard jerk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Along the right hand was a row of torches burning with a smoky orange light, but the only doors were to her left. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

British soldiers looted a burning house, running out with arms full of silver, and forks and spoons sticking out of their pockets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay with his eyes squeezed shut, and a burning pain in his bladder. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Emma made fire, swallowed it, then blew it out again without burning herself. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I was a little startled myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames; but a second look dispelled the illusion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The sun had popped up in the east like a cork and was burning through the morning mist. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The falling moisture felt like more mosquitoes landing, but as it turned to rain, it cooled Cole’s burning skin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

Vaguely he remembered burning the supplies and the shelter, and then trying to escape by swimming. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A giant burning ghat was erected on the highway. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian hated stewed tomatoes and turned away dizzily and began to vomit, clutching his burning throat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Heroes did heroic things, they saved lives, they pulled people out of burning buildings. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

They were about anger and hurt so extreme that rational thought was thrown out the window—these were people so deranged by frustration that they were burning down their own neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Jam and Pet stared as Redemption called his uncle, a grim light burning behind his eyes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A burning chunk-stick fell against the inside of the stove, but the boy did not try to convince himself that it might be the thump of Sounder scratching fleas underneath the floor. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see why they hate us so much,” said Gregory He thought of Shed’s burning eyes, his last words, “Overlander, we hunt you to the last rat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turning the corner to X-gallery, I saw three more, one of them larger, like a small campfire, sending bits of burning embers flying into the dark space beyond the fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could smell the odor of burning fur too, as the fire spread along the troll’s back. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The burning crosses and shots in the night were common enough then that the porter wouldn’t have bothered to mention it if it was just that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grey Wind stalked beside, eyes burning, and man and wolf alike bled from half a hundred savage wounds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Giant iron baskets held burning logs to light the rows of white tents. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

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

She came to believe that she had lost her capacity to love, and that the burning desire of her flesh had been quelled forever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a cold look in his eye that said nothing mattered except the fire burning from his leg into his brain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I return, Cardan is swilling down more wine, his gaze burning into me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Thicket was burning in a bonfire the size of a mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

There was one last feeling of being lifted into the air and a sensation of rapid motion and burning heat, and he passed out. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I fled, and felt somewhat safer in my own room, where there was no moonlight and where the lamp was burning brightly. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the other thing about this cover is that Judy’s got her elbows up on the bar and there’s a cigarette burning in her hand. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I could feel my cheeks burning, like they were on fire. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The earth there was so dry we couldn’t properly bury the bodies of those who died of hunger or sickness—they’d stink from underground—so we took to burning them in our bonfires. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like the bile that kept burning her throat these days, a deep, paralyzing grief would come rising up Laila’s chest. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The husk of the tracker jacker nest, beaten to a pulp by the heavy rains and dried in the burning sun, confirms the location. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Two are burning in Castaic, more than fifty miles west of us, threatening access to Castaic Lake—which millions from Los Angeles are trying to reach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And at the back was the new altar to Thoth, with its candles and incense still burning in front of an old stuffed owl that Toby had cut his teeth on. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window’s closed, the light’s on, the stove’s burning, and there I am brushing away at the rug. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then, ignoring the burning across my back, I set my feet on the bench and loosened my clenched fingers from the iron ring. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

And the first time I had washed a body, I had vomited in the alley behind the tahara house until I was coughing up strings of burning bile. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The smell from the kitchen was getting stronger: It was something like burning underpants. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A man was not as heavy as a boulder or a cask of burning pitch, and could be thrown a deal farther. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

I felt as if I were trapped inside that house, as if I couldn’t escape the broiling walls—as if my life and the life of that house were burning down together. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The engine rumbled and coughed and smelled like burning oil, but it actually worked. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I groan, reaching over the bed to grab my phone, my G-tube burning with the stretch. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

That newspaper clipping was burning a hole in my lap. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the fields, a mile or more away from the sea, rose a forest of oak, chestnut, and hickory, open and park-like, the underbrush kept down by expert annual burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

He was also sore about the shoulders and had a burning ear, from making bosh shots at the quintain— for, of course, practice tilting was done without armour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first thought was of angels descending, their burning brands flashing, their fierce wings stirring up things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Capricorn fell down on his face, and his black heart stopped beating, and all those who had gone burning and murdering with him disappeared—blown away like ashes in the wind.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The crofters had left behind a good supply of peat when they fled, so the air was hazy with smoke and the rich, earthy smell of burning turf. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My head started swimming, my chest burning, and my legs got all gooey, like all the running was turning my bones to liquid or something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing in the world for me except the burning. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fistful of burning hair could not begin to represent the mess I had made of my life. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The city was noisy and dirty, the weather murky, the air often polluted with a yellow smog from the new factories and from all the fireplaces burning dirty coal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her mother came to wake her the next morning, Kathleen would not open her eyes, though her breast still rose and fell, breathing in the lingering smoke from the burning wreath. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw up again, tears streaming from my burning eyes, and I ran. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my blood burning, my anger mounting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tub full of burning charcoal was dragged beneath Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then very quickly the frightful burning searing scorching feeling started spreading down into my chest and into my tummy and on and on into my arms and legs and all over my body! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

Mrs. Glass sat very still, watching him, her cigarette burning low between her fingers. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

That had been a day ago, but I remembered seeing her dark eyes burning bright with hate at the back of the van they had locked us in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The only consolation is that if I was hot, “Queen” Angelita must have been burning up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I look back at the children, I can tell they're not thinking of Bibles burning. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes are totally burning a hole in the side of my face right now. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He smoked all the time, a cigarette between his lips as he added up the figures, and sometimes left burning on the counter while he went to look for stock. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

“Some things I took before the burning, for you to have iffen they let you stay.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The departures of Wilson and Spencer left Smith and Hickock and Andrews alone with the Row’s burning lights and veiled windows. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do have a little magic, you know. You keep burning through the clothes I give you, so I thought I would weave something less flammable.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

I crumple up the note, my eyes burning with tears. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

At the landing I saw a bucket half full of kerosene and seized it, flinging it impulsively into a burning room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I rocked from it, my cheek burning and tears welling in my eyes from the surprise of it as much as the pain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

It offers views of the sea to the west; the cliffs below, all strung with entangling wire; and directly across the water, a half mile away, the burning city of Saint-Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And you flew the rest, I suppose,” said Bigwig, “burning a white stick in your mouth? Come on, tell me sensibly. What’s the matter, Hyzenthlay?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hurt terribly—the cuts sharp; the air burning; the alcohol cold, then hot—pain so various. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1979, reports reached the C.D.C. that Ebola had come out of hiding and was burning once again in southern Sudan, in the same places where it had first appeared, in 1976. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild had reclaimed the site, Jon had been told, but rangers claimed that the overgrown ruins were haunted by ghouls and demons and burning ghosts with an unhealthy taste for blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

I made a pile of toilet paper in the toilet, lit it, and when it started burning, the flame shooting silently up out of the bowl, I flushed it down the toilet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At one thirty in the morning, my eyes are burning and my stomach cries from hunger. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They applied ice packs to my ribs, which were super uncomfortable because after a while the cold makes your skin feel like it’s burning. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One man, found with rosin and brimstone-tipped slivers of wood in his pocket, was tossed into a burning cobbler shop, another was quickly executed with a bayonet through the chest. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still saw the wight in his dreams, dead Othor with the burning blue eyes and the cold black hands, but that was the last thing Sam needed to be reminded of. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The old scar on his forehead, which was shaped like a bolt of lightning, was burning beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It had seemed to him to smell of burning flesh, and the sound of it was anguished as it played amongst the lines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten the stove going and was melting the snow when I smelled something burning. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amidst the panic, she calmly unbuttons her coat and removes it, tossing it with a delicate gesture toward the burning chair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Men flying back from the burning passed him, and some seeing his livery turned and shouted, but he paid no heed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the fiery light of the Titan’s armor, her Death Mist disguise made her look like a burning ghoul. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

You have sat here and voted guilty with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swung her free arm, and it met with a shadowy face with burning coals for eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas crashed to the ground; he felt a grave marker dig into his back before it snapped in two, burning a deep scratch along his flesh. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Jon plunged his hand into the flames, grabbed a fistful of the burning drapes, and whipped them at the dead man. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her hair is ironed straight and some days I think I can still smell it burning. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon, there were food shortages, and inflation made their money so worthless that people began burning it for fuel. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They left the dunes and came along the cliff, and then seeing the smoke from the fire which I kept burning, they followed it, and at last reached my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officials walked around the camp, burning the drugs in front of people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With his bright eyes burning into Trueblood's black face, he looked ghostly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wondered if that burning mark was based on a real sacred owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The light fades earlier; on the way home from school we walk through the smoke from burning leaves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were two more questions he was burning to ask . . . but they concerned the guilt of living people. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

The bundle of dynamite burning in me suddenly diffused. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He blows on the spoon, all dramatic like it’s burning hot, and then he puts it into his mouth. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Our house looks like that, too, Marly thought, and knew why Mother had said to leave a light burning. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

We usually went to my grandmother’s church, an old-school Methodist congregation, five hundred African grannies in blue-and-white blouses, clutching their Bibles and patiently burning in the hot African sun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Captain Reed sat forward, his blue eyes burning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wanted to say impossible, but she remembered Athena’s bitter words in Grand Central Station, the burning hatred in her eyes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

But it crushed me with hopelessness, for I wanted to write of the people in my environment with an equal thoroughness, and the burning example before my eyes made me feel that I never could. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had a piece of burning thatch in his hand and was carrying it from home to home. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She lit one now, a long black cigar that smelt of burning rubber. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Fire—everywhere, climbing the walls of the room, burning with all the intensity of the sun. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Harry dropped his gaze to his treacle tart, his insides burning again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I was left with vague memories of the cold smell of antiseptic and ammonia, and bright surgery lights burning into my eyes as I counted backward from ten. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

The most burning question I have is why Miss Joe would want to tell me something like that. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, I was now wasting valuable seconds, burning away whatever lead I still had on the Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Despite the fire’s approach, the heat and shower of burning debris, Chamberlin remained calm, watching the dramatic scene in front of him and mentally taking notes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

We walked on the hot, burning sand until sunset. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I sat with my ears and neck burning, hearing the pupils whisper about me, hating myself, hating them; I sat still as stone and a storm of emotion surged through me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crouched over it, his face glowing and creased like a goblin, eyes burning dangerous. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In a moment I smelled cloth burning and knew he was holding the wrapped piece of wood toward the sky. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A coldness passing through its root-beer-colored bricks, invading its rooms and blowing out the vigil light burning in the hall. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

The inside of the main tent is lit with lanterns burning with green alchemical fire, tinting everything a sickly color. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every camp saw fewer fires burning, and those that were lit threw off more smoke than heat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

While hundreds of fires were still burning on Tuesday, such as at the coal works, most of them were under control. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them have their muskets ready with slow matches burning. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My fear of the Career pack is minor compared to my burning thirst. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The analogy is more poetic than precise, for the cell accomplishes its “burning” with only the moderate heat of the body’s normal temperature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the deck of the Jean Bart, the three new French citizens looked back at the burning city, ablaze from end to end. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At first it had felt as if his hand were still aflame, burning day and night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I opened to an illustration in which he was burning my letters. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of things burning that aren’t meant to burn wafts across the city: shoe polish, rat poison, toothpaste, piano strings, hernia trusses, baby cribs, Indian clubs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

She had watched in helpless anguish while the flaming plane slowly glided to earth, knowing that her friend Zhenya was burning to death in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation—a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

After burning all the letters, he got out a hammer and nails and boarded up the cracks around the front and back doors so no one could go out. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

"Good. That's good. Let us get it burning high and hot within you, eh? Burning bright inside you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the sun burning down from overhead, he was freezing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Aunt Addie confronted me in the hallway with burning, black eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry felt as though his body was generating waves of hatred so powerful that it seemed incredible that Snape could not feel them burning him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

Every cadet possessed a burning desire to be recognized, but never noticed, as his piercing blue eyes evaluated his corps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

In the spring of 1959, when discussions of my fertilization got under way, my mother couldn’t foresee that women would soon be burning their brassieres by the thousand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Royal stared in blank hostility, before, seeming to remember Gabriel’s face, he took a burning cigarette from between his lips, and said, with pained politeness: “How-de-do, sir.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

The reins, the halters, the blinkers, the degrading nosebags, were thrown on to the rubbish fire which was burning in the yard. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning houses filled the air, draping the city in fog. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Goober didn’t know about this new feeling, the sense that his bridges were burning behind him and for once in his life he didn’t care. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My chest is burning, and the numbness in my head blocks out everything else. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In a matter of minutes, my throat and nose are burning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The hay wagon listed drunkenly and was pulled over on to its side where it lay burning furiously. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

How can I go at this new assignment, how can I go on burning things? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind, which was also increasing in power, took all of these burning objects and blew them over the heads of the firefighters. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no sign of the body, even though the body’s image hovered before his eyes, between his eyes and the bed of coals burning hotly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Then we can make sure it doesn’t go down like that again. Talk to these kids. Get in their heads. Yeah, they mad. We all mad, but burning down our neighborhood ain’t gon’ fix it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I loved the sound of the leaves crunching under my shoes and the smell of wood burning. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

From the women’s section across the room, I felt Mrs. Brenner’s intense dark eyes burning into me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

While Stalingrad was burning, they were cooling their heels in the fragrant fields of the Russian steppes, surrounded by sagebrush and birdsong. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I turned toward the cabin, the wood burning lower now but still too high for me to get close enough to rub away the other circle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was sitting directly behind me, but I could still feel the heat of her eyes burning through the headrest, scorching the back of my neck. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When the burning haze cleared from my eyes, the first person I saw was Zach, untouched and laughing at me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“With this gift of innocence and beauty, we honor both the gods,” he proclaimed, as the warships of the Iron Fleet rowed past the burning ketch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

When your servants carried him inside the gates, he cried out again, 'She is burning.’ A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If I miss a spot, it’ll keep on burning. Scald you something fierce.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain of it rivals the clenched, burning throb in my knee. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yellow lights were still burning in several stores, and a juke box that had played steadily for one hundred hours finally, with a crackle of electricity, ceased, making the silence complete. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute I was happily burning hydrogen; the next I was on the other side of the Hab, and a lot of stuff was knocked over. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her smile when she looked at me, burning with love. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A burning brand he had been holding in his hand rolled down the stair. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tried to thaw the pipe by running a burning piece of wood along it, but it would be frozen so solid there was nothing to do but wait for the next warm spell. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But still, I felt painfully alive, like every cell in my body had a little flame inside it, burning so brightly it hurt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer ring of candles was complete, twelve white columns burning exactly as they had when Will was last in the hall. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emilika is still gone, so Helena will have to be on her own, feeding herself, keeping the doors locked, and staying warm without burning down the apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Strange flakes of fire, like burning scraps of paper, drifted around them on the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When I woke, the city of New York was consumed with burning hellfire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not everyone would run into a burning building with nothing but a towel over his head to rescue people,” says the reporter. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her momentary glee at the adjustment is crushed by the pain that follows as the ring continues to close around her finger, the metal burning into her skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The dragons craned their necks around, gazing at them with burning eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A burning coil of incense sits between them, along with a large black-lidded basket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The room smelled like wax, candles, oil lamps, tobacco, burning stove wood, whiskey, dirty clothes, and leather boots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Do you know how much work it takes to make a book? Years and years of a monk’s life, to make just one! How many books are they burning?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A servant had already put tea and sweet cakes on the table and was now lighting the houlu, a small stove for burning coal. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My foot on the ground is cramping, the arch of it burning. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

Pioneer 1 arced through space until, sixty thousand miles out, not quite one-quarter of the way, it lost momentum and dropped back, burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cradling the egg with both hands, she carried it to the fire and pushed it down amongst the burning coals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A slow, burning pain started to pulse up their arms and legs and dance across their backs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“So what do we have here?” says the guy, his eyes burning at me, and laughing in a most ugly way. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I run back inside the burning apartment and straight toward the orange glow of the kitchen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And through the Link, I can sense his earnestness, his burning ambition to do right, his desire to prove it to me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

I ran into the hemlock forest with a burning stick and got a fire going inside the tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where Ophie and her mother huddled, the air was still clear and sweet, even as the acrid scent of burning wood began to taint it. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He found himself huffing, his lungs thinning and burning within him, his chest hurting. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Over thirty rats were in the high reaches of the burning tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I felt a burning in my stomach, like a pot of oil was slowly starting to bubble inside. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Suggs would take a special delight j in burning her, she did not doubt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wished I had kept my candle burning: the night was drearily dark; my spirits were depressed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Just a little meddling with dark forces better left alone,” I said lightly, holding up the burning shingle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They saw a dull red glow shining up through the narrow cellar windows beneath the Great Keep, and a second Are still burning in one of the storehouses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My legs and my hands are numb and then they re burning and then, after a long time, a familiar feeling returns to them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

This one had run into a burning building in his youth to save a family member. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She went up the wide marble steps at the end of the hall and passed a set of huge mirrors hanging on the wall that reflected the burning light of the chandeliers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Buildings up and down the block were burning and collapsing, punctuated every so often by the explosion of flammable liquids. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until I was in the shower — the water too hot, burning my skin — that I realized I was freezing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I managed to crash my way through the burning debris of the tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Aisling and her father stood across from each other on either side of the grave, and at the head of it, resting on the simple headstone, was the burning candle. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the question still burning in his brain, Ellsberg spent the summer reading the Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Bulldozers rolled up the green forests and heaped the resulting trash for burning. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, at this minute he hated Archie with a special burning hate that was part of the boredom and the weariness. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world was full of burning of all types and sizes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He instructed that he should leave lanterns burning upon the dock early in the morning, so that we might land there and pursue the bargain under cover of darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a voice, a voice like burning silver, like a kiss against my ears. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Whole forests are burning out of control inside me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, American bombers were pounding Japan night after night, flattening and burning entire cities. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared ahead, covered in blood, eyes burning with hate as she cleaned his face and put him on her couch to sober up with some ice packs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

Most of the original Fragment had been destroyed by the fire, the burning pages flapping and frittering away into ash, all their words turned to dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only light came from a burning wick in a tiny bowl of cooking oil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I do the same, hot sand burning my feet, and follow her. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the men’s feet dried and the blood began to circulate, they all had the sensation of burning. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I don’t know how you do this. My chest is burning. I’ve got cramps in every cramp-able place in my body.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

They ate slowly out of bone china bowls, sitting at opposite sides of the table with a single candle burning between them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

Jokes were one thing, but burning stuff down was something totally different. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hence the question: Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Immediately, the smell of something burning filled the place. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘The first circle of the City is burning, lord,’ they said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He passed a strip-mining works, huge blue arc lights burning in the dim midwinter daylight. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was a cool night, and it felt good on his burning face, but the shame came rushing back as Moss saw just how many people were staring at him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After further dismembering him, she spent several hours burning the pieces in a stove. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was still thinking about the lines of prophecy the harpy had recited—about the son of Neptune drowning, and the mark of Athena burning through Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At one point, I could feel someone’s eyes burning into my back, so I turned around to sneak a peek at the Savanna table again. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Secretly, I dreamed of ascending Everest myself one day; for more than a decade it remained a burning ambition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A smell of burning was in the air and a very shadow of death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

Grinning skeletons in Greek armor crowded around me, draping me with silk robes, wreathing my head with laurels that smoked with Chimera poison, burning into my scalp. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Two VC came out from one hut that we were burning. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s naughty, and then there’s burning down a white person’s house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat inside her, a terrible burning in her womb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When we got there I was wore out, and the heat and burning oil had made a dirty brown mess out of the Pierce’s neat new engine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She forgot pain, forgot fear, forgot the tyrant who stared at the burning mark on her head with dark eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

He stood there with his bare face hanging out, burning hot all over. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I manage to shield my face with my arms as shattered bits of matter, some of it burning, rain down around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mismatched candles in silver candelabras, burning in sets of three, surround the desk in the center of the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

How young and smooth they’d been, and eager and tireless and burning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Aimee felt tears burning behind her eyes and that sharp, knifelike twinge in her throat that always signaled a flood of tears. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Lily pulls open yet another large wooden door, and this time we slip into cool blackness and the sweet smell of burning candles, mustiness, and age. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Jolly difficult to sleep and when I do I just have nightmares about flying burning planes with faulty chokes, being forced to cut Julie’s throat with Etienne’s pocketknife, etc. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The fog was burning even as it boiled up, engulfing everything in a roiling pool of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The torch, that was already burning low when he arrived, sputtered and went out; and he felt the darkness cover him like a tide. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That was the last sight he had seen the day the castle fell: Smiler burning, the flames leaping from his mane as he reared up, kicking, screaming, his eyes white with terror. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By midafternoon I’d done all I could do on the soap pot, and a nickel was burning a hole in my pocket. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Once again I could see the red sand and feel the burning of the sun on my forehead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

One of the cameras follows as I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

She shoves a gag in my mouth, and then the knife is burning, searing, carving a path through my skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Someone might even be in there burning leaves. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see the draccus, but I could hear the great crunching it made as it rolled in the wreckage of a burning house. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Oxygen-rich air was sucked into the column at the base, where it mixed with the burning fuels and also rose, twisting and whirling around as it did. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wish they had, I wish they had—it would have been far better than burning it at the school. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She stopped, and he stopped with her, and she stared into his haggard, burning face. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Soon they got the furniture burning merrily, and Nailer cut slices of ham for them to gnaw on. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart’s yearning.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were strange candles burning high on the walls out of reach. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

Under the picture of the man with the burning heart there is a shelf with a red glass holding a flickering candle and next to it a small statue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You are burning in the flames with me, you will die as I do!” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

His skin was so red that it seemed to be burning. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in school some of them had been nice to him, and it was hard to think of them burning in Hell forever, they who were so gracious and beautiful now. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He stumbled ahead through instinct in burning humiliation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That Christmas season, the workers had been burning the fields, and so the fields were scorched and black. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb as high as I dare to get them, muscles burning. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Use a strong fire, burning heavily all around. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His note to Dearest is burning up my pocket. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Against the near wall was a small iron stove that supplied heat by burning dried yak dung. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of the burning pot jerked him awake. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle there was a wood-fire blazing, and upon the tree-pillars torches with lights of gold and silver were burning steadily. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A second fork of animated lightning sliced across the screen, there was a swirl of clouds, and then in burning red the letters SE, the logo of Sayle Enterprises. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I sit bolt upright and clutch at my side, my G-tube burning like absolute fire. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

You almost couldn’t believe people lived like this, burning trees to clear land, burning oil for heat and power, setting the atmosphere on fire with their weapons. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I throw some small sticks on it, wait for them to catch, too, then some larger ones, and pretty soon there’s a real fire burning in front of me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are burning into me, but I've got to put an end to this. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

The wood sizzles above the burning paper and we watch the white maggots try to escape. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her skin felt like it was burning from the force of the thirty pairs of eyes fixed on her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I held him and clung to the wet branch, only slowly becoming aware of slight burning feelings on my arms and legs. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped away then, back up the creaking steps, but Winnie sat upright, wide awake, her cheeks burning. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A burning stick settled in the fire; a night bird called. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had a cross of salvation round his throat and they were burning one to tell him that they hated him! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A noise made him whirl; two green burning pools—pools of accusation and guilt—stared at him from a white blur that sat perched upon the edge of the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar pictured his father cutting cane in a Florida hell, burning his flesh as he stooped over the big kettles of molten sugar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I was nauseated by the smell of burning flesh, which turned out to be my own as I climbed up the hot ladder,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk round all day with the announcement burning a hole in my pocket It pink. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to my seat, burning with humiliation. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s an attempt to set a backfire to his own empathy—whatever it takes to prevent his conscience from burning him alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

What mattered was that by burning his manuscript she had shown him that she would not end the relationship; she would not bother to cause him pain if she was not going to stay. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floor, so I did what I could. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it banks a curve, the wheels kick up hot white sparks, burning Enrique’s skin. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She’d spent a month training with them one burning summer, and her muscles still ached at the memory of their grueling exercises. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Conor’s stomach contracted to a ball of fire, like a little sun burning him up from the inside, but before he could react, Lily did. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

Then Turner saw his father stand like Aeneas with his two spears, pausing beside burning Troy and putting it all behind him, his face to an open world. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My burning cheeks stretched into a huge grin. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I focused on the burning trees, but the undergrowth—moss, weeds, wildflowers—bums, too. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Behind them, palm trees swayed before a burning red sky, and beyond that churned a wild ocean full of beautiful dark-skinned mermaids and swirling dragons. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I search for Hamza in the burning rubble, crying out for him. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the air, the smell of burning flesh. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Pollard and Seabiscuit were alone again, burning over the track, Kayak spinning off behind, the wire crossing overhead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No burnings today, and none tomorrow... but if the snows continue, how long before the king s resolve begins to weaken? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So Stella peered carefully into the shadows, her only light the flickering remains of the burning house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A massive bonfire was burning at the center, which had been emptied of market stalls and was now filled with revelers in costumes of all colors and kinds. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I saw it burning right next to me as our invasion force steamed on. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A little bit ago you were freaking out at me for being late for curfew, and now were talking about garlic? They’re burning books—Dad’s books.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I thought that after that, Mrs. Clarke went around in the middle of the night burning all the “controversial” books. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Could thine eyes be seared, but for an instant, with the red glare of wasteland burning always! The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Standing in that temple, staring into the fire that had been burning for hundreds of years, I felt the ghosts of my family all around me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She felt as if there were a mixture of peppers and sand inside them, pricking and burning her lids. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

Behind the terror, I can feel the flames of anger, burning, rising. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, she waited with her burning cheeks and her own dumb smile until he slid her papers back to her, rough fingertips briefly brushing her wrist. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s the only light burning on the back of the building. It might be where the dognapper is keeping Duke and Tater. All the other guests probably evacuated.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

I pulled off some toilet paper, lit it, and when it started burning, I threw it down the toilet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s her fault,” Velia spurted, her hazel eyes burning with resentment. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A rural black family guilty of a small infraction of “social custom” would awaken in the middle of the night to find a cross burning in their yard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fire across the ridge, down the mountainside, spreading inland, tree by tree, burning like massive candles, pop-pop-popping and falling, striking more trees, burning ground cover, eating the landscape alive. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

He turned again, eyes burning with purpose, bordering on anger. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She felt the medallion, hidden beneath her tunic, suddenly burning against her skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The water hissed and boiled when it struck the burning wood, sending up a vapor of white steam. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

She went on, “That smell of burning tires never quite leaves you. The smell is forever associated for me with political violence.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I can feel my ears burning hot with anger. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Asha could see the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, a faint orange glow floating in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Booth hears the crackle of burning straw and smells the sweet smoke of burning cedar. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The first responders were battling the blaze from a distance, but the fire was still burning. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At the end only the tops of the last high trees were lit, and they looked as if they were burning. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sliced off a long cluster of vines and laced them through one of his belt loops, trying to ignore the burning and itching in his hands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Figures were jumping from the machine, spraying white foam at the ground as they crashed through the burning flowers and into the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“They get cold so fast, don’t they, chips. One minute, you’re burning your mouth on them, the next you’re wondering how they cool off so quickly.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She could smell the odor of burning flesh, no different than horseflesh roasting in a firepit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was an awful thing to see them riding through in white robes with torches burning, guns shooting up the sky. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played Milton’s birthday, Desdemona’s birthday, the date of Greek Independence minus the last digit, the year of the burning of Smyrna. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My feet slid against the wood, skin burning. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds in the water, drowning or burning or doing a little of both. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In Treegap, the same moonlight silvered the roof of the touch-me-not cottage, but inside, the lamps were burning. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an instant, the hissing, burning gas vapor lit the grotesque scene. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When David and I entered Alexandra, we saw several burning government buildings, beer halls, schools, stores belonging to Indians and Chinamen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whole head throbbed, his palms were burning. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was night and his lamp was burning and he had just barely begun to get drunk when suddenly he knew he was no longer alone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pried up a thick shingle burning along one edge and took off running for the roof of the town hall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Just leave me alone,” I say, cheeks burning. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then she went over to the couch and woke him up and started berating him for nearly burning the house down. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even as Ann was addressing the council, a few hundred miles up the eastern seaboard, Newark, New Jersey, was burning. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The room was light-colored, pretty, with a small fire of driftwood burning brightly in the fireplace. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

“It is the king who is burning the books, is it not? Well, his mother, Blanche of Castile, is the prime mover, I am sure. But I gather that the king is collaborating enthusiastically.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the cloud of burning oil stood over the landscape like an angry father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My heart fluttered absurdly, and my cheeks were burning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

We began cooking their breakfast, somewhat constrained for space, with so many in so small a chamber, and the fire burning large within the hearth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Vine and Knot ran to the sails with torches and suddenly silk and ropes were burning. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The burning in her bowels did not cease—that burning which, eating inward, took the flesh visibly from her bones and caused her to vomit up her food. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Then I must say you have rotten taste. I can smell cream tarts burning from here, Rita. You are the most impossibly scatterbrained child I have ever seen.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe burning something down on the way out. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say “Yes, Papa,” because he was right, but the burning on my feet was climbing up, in swift courses of excru- dating pain, to my head and lips and eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The French are no more capable of a republican government,” he insisted, than a snowball can exist a whole week in the streets of Philadelphia under a burning sun.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was like she was a blowtorch burning my neck and making a crispy marshmallow out of my throat. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And, of course, there is all that burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He watched the growth of the trees and felt wildfires burning across the landscape, experienced lightning strikes on the granite domes, and suffered the slow inevitable advancement of glacial ice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When he next looks up, a soft glow shows behind a line of distant trees, as if something is burning out there. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One person ran across the courtyard to the burning cow. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Sam crossed his fingers in the darkness, hoping Bate’s eyes were burning too much to have seen him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

With a shaky hand, I twisted the cap and took a long, sweet, burning gulp of whiskey, one that would have made the Polish widow proud. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When the kiss was over, he looked at me with burning in his face. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell him why I feel so conflicted ... explain to him why I, of all people, have reservations about burning Erudite to the ground, so to speak. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius felt as alone as he had felt on that dark day in high school when in a chemistry laboratory his experiment had exploded, burning his eyebrows off and frightening him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep and dreamed the Yanquis were back, but it wasn’t my grandmother’s house they were burning—it was Pedrito’s and mine. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So how about you?” he asked quietly, raising the burning match to Basta’s face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the bedroom she had once shared with Patria, the lamp was burning low. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blinked my burning eyes and stuffed the postcard back in my pocket. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“We wouldn’t want you burning a customer’s shirt,” she chuckled. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

"And you will run his messages, keep a fire burning in his chambers, change his sheets and blankets daily, and do all else that the Lord Commander might require of you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then he throws the burning cigarette into a dry patch of grass before he gets up and stumbles away, not even turning around or saying good-bye. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But at the same moment, Jacob said, “Better than burning books from sheer stupidity.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For the hundredth time, I look down at the candles burning behind a screen at my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As a thing to catch people jumping out of burning skyscrapers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

However, he was helped by his nephew Iolaus who brought him a burning brand with which he seared the neck as he cut each head off so that it could not sprout again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one long operation, Allen was burning up with thirst, his mouth parched dry, his tongue swollen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Also, I know how to make French toast and pancakes without catching anything on fire or burning myself or melting the spatula. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He saw Block Betha burning, and White Hart and Loyal Man to either side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Magazines, brought from Earth on the silver rocket a month before, fluttered, untouched, burning brown, on wire racks fronting the silent drugstores. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark can do nothing, his strength spent, every part of his body aching and burning. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The men above pulled the wet ropes, their hands burning, while those below lifted and shoved, heaving the canoe up. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Soon, the roof of the Ares cabin was burning, and naiads from the canoe lake rushed over to blow water on it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hazel collapsed in agony, her side burning, as the Doors shuddered and disappeared in a flash of purple light. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I remember my first summer here in Würzburg, after that dreadful winter when I left the ghost of my mother behind in the burning city. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

All of him, all of him was burning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Millions of trees were killed by the burning wind. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nicole didn’t know, but whatever it was, it was still burning. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Even in the burning bam, with walls of flame tower-ing all around and him in chains, he had not seemed so distraught as he did now. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: The “Mudblood” death camps, the torture, the burning alive of those that oppose him. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I left the lamp burning in case he woke in the night. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Its flame was burning, it was giving out light, but it had a shadow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Outside, the smells were even stronger, burning wood and sweat and fear and hate. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sam doesn’t say anything the whole ride, but I can feel her eyes burning my back. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bitter riots were sparked by King’s assassination, but the fuels that kept them burning were the preexisting conditions: illegal but strictly enforced racial segregation, economic contraction, and an unresponsive political system. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He’d crawl through the damp tunnel each morning with a pick, filling buckets for his family and neighbors so they could keep their houses warm and stoves burning. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

These devils are laughing, their murderous eyes burning down at me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then I tried to say the refrain from “Tere Bin,” but it came out wrong, and I ended up saying something about burning lentils. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Hand on her burning right cheek, Hannah drew in a deep breath, willing herself not to cry. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her homeland she had started many fires, but usually with a burning stick from someone’s cooking fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, picturing a burning sun over a barren desert. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the cards, and then at the flame of the match burning with an unwavering clarity between his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Alaska was holding a burning green candle in her hand upside down, dripping the wax onto a larger, homemade volcano that looked a bit like a Technicolor middle-school-science-project volcano. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The urge is still in me, stronger now, burning me up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes stung and my throat closed, tight and burning. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mad she may be,” Ser Kevan said, “but with so much smoke drifting west, surely there must be some fire burning in the east.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On some nights when we really need it, Pa allows Ma to cook a tiny portion of the rice and mask the smell by burning damp, decayed leaves in the fire. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The news footage of Iranians protesting in the streets, burning the American flag, and screaming "DEATH TO AMERICA" didn't really do much to bolster our image. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

Lee lifted the bottle to his lips and took a deep hot drink and panted the fumes out of his burning throat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were targets, so he could aim the radiation into the same area each day, but rotate between spots to avoid burning her skin too much in one place. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

Bigger lifted his eyes and looked at the furnace; it seemed impossible that she was there in the fire, burning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Only thing in it is the stuff about guys burning their draft cards. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

From his sun-chariot he shot fiery arrows down upon the Greek Army, and men sickened and died so that the funeral pyres were burning continually. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks up the length of Henry’s body and is met with burning eye contact, a red lip caught between white teeth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

She wanted another kiss—her chapped lips were burning up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I crush my teeth together, jaw muscles burning, to keep from screaming. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

"Take off your boots and dry your stockings. I'll find some dry wood. If the ground's not wet under the rock, we might be able to get a fire burning." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My knees hurt when I thought about the washboard, and my head felt dizzy when I imagined the sun burning down on him. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hellfire don’t need lighting and it’s already burning in you...” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the sun rise, burning its collection of memories, and I draw strength for another day. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his face burning and his head bowed, he walked through court after court, hearing that voice roaring ahead of him, hearing tinkles of laughter on every side. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Everywhere reeks of hot metal and burning fuel. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rain and wind paused, and an acrid smell like burning wire filled the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Werfel considered telling the whole story, which involved feuding families, a cruel son, a jade amulet, and a burning salamander, but it didn’t really seem like a good time. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He turned toward her and swept a strand of hair out of her eyes, his fingers leaving a burning trail on her skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny, he thought; even though I know rationally it’s faked, the sound of a false animal burning out its drive-train and power supply ties my stomach in knots. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

We are burning old cane stalks, and they bum fast. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This time, it wasn’t like knives, but fire, burning across his skin, scalding him from the inside. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Manchee’ll take the burning stick upwind of Aaron and drop it somewhere to catch fire and make Aaron think I’ve lit up my own campsite. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Someone’s voice seemed to call to him, and soon he found himself in the arms of an angel, floating high above a burning city. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The guilt read all over his face, and I was certain that was what he and Ethan and Freddie had been burning by the river. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he was just a week old the Fates had appeared to his mother, Althea, and thrown a log of wood into the fire burning in her chamber. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should have told me to tell her when it started tingling, because by the time it was actually burning it had already taken off several layers of my scalp. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Six levels to climb in the dark with her hands slippery from sweat and the fires of hell burning below, with the rope weighing her down and no net to catch her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The rug on each stair was burning the side of my face, it was like underwater. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It raced down the mountain at jet speeds, burning everything in its path. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Under the stench of rotting vegetation, I smelled burning ozone as the air filled with ions. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My ears filled with the crackle of burning wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clear my throat and hope he doesn’t see all the redness burning through my face. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It vomited fire and fetterlings as it cut through the burning waves. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

She rolled up to the window and it was then she saw Hannah burning. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He started up the car, his eyes burning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no blood, no cloud of doll hair burning up in the candle fire. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

"Be off with you, you silly things," said Tristran, his face burning, and, having nothing else to hand, he threw his bowler hat at them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Downriver, the Black- water was jammed with the hulks of burning galleys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She tried to stare him down, but her eyes were burning in their sockets. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The glass has shattered out of her bedroom window, and what she hears is the sound of something burning beyond the shutters. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The air was burning them, and then the air itself was burning. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“But I had stored a few things in the clearing so they missed the burning. My basket of threads, and some scraps of cloth. And look at this, Matt.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His scar was still burning so badly that his eyes were watering. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I doubted Mrs. could cook like Big Ma, but I knew she could scramble some eggs and fry bacon without burning them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Hard to say,” he said, letting the match fall, still burning, from his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

He was skinny as a coyote, with not even two pesos to rub together, but he was filled with a burning desire to survive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea behind was a patchwork of black water and phosphorescent foam, and the last of the burning zeppelin’s flames were dwindling into nothing as it sank. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We learned that Tad Schmitt found a bright blue vein of gas still burning when he was clearing rubble from what used to be the school’s crawl space. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the edge of the chair, his ears burning, and gave his order to the waiter with a mere thread of a voice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wide pool of burning brand winked out behind the two men, leaving the alley in pitch darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And oh, the heavy burning thing that had been inside him all day had melted and disappeared. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

The burning weight still hung heavily within him. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Emma could not bear the thought of spending eternity without Charles, of Charles burning in hell. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was here! The fire is still burning!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I thought drowning must be the kindest way to die, and burning the worst. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

The shingle was burning an ordinary, cheerful orange. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was going to collapse, or a flood was rolling in, or burning hail would rain down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tore back to Clairmont, and when it came into view it was burning, bottom to top. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was always some potion simmering over a pot of burning pitch, and one of my duties was to tend to these. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The captain’s eyeball fixes on Carlyle, burning at the insubordination—a lowly swabby second-guessing his order. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

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

My face burning, little girl, he called me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their shadows, and the shadow of the tower on which they stood, and all the spectres of the burning trees, stretched over the parkland in broad strips of indigo. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam had only just reached me when I felt the strangest sensation of burning, right at my core. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He sat up carefully and saw a fire burning not far away, where Lyra was trying to toast some bread on a forked stick. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evan was burning with embarrassment as everyone looked at him and his buggy lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was taking shape more rapidly now that she used burning coals to hollow it out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the West the dying sun had set all the fume on fire, and now Mindolluin stood black against a burning smoulder flecked with embers. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

All of his lights were burning strong now. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frey fights hard and well, but he will be the first of the Aesir to fall: his sword and his armor are no match for Surtr’s burning sword. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But in light of the recent goings-on at the mine, the cross burning at the German Fraternal Hall, and the Widow Cane’s death, the whole town was abuzz. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

The creature turned its head to look at Ilya, copper eyes burning. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The hot, close smell of burning candles made his head swim. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain is almost unnoticeable at first, and then second by second the heat doubles and deepens until you want to claw the burning out of your skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes darted around the room, lit with a burning hatred. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His lungs were burning, and his sides ached. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The light from the burning oil was inconstant, but they had no trouble making out the widening puddle of blood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He throws the burning candle into the cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

I could hardly breathe for the smell of incense and the mustard oil burning in the hundreds of little lamps. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now whenever trouble is coming, Tatica feels a glimmer of the old burning in the centipede trail on her belly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The pictures show the street in chaos, the burning frame of a car parked out front. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my family boarded the enormous vessel, I had many burning questions for my parents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Last week she was burning a lavender-lime—a purple-green swirled combination that actually smelled really good. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My fists clenched, but I forced them to relax, and as much as I wanted to snap, to point at the burning land and scream, I didn’t. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The heat from the burning barn, shed, and fence was so hot that the O’Learys’ house, forty feet away, began to smolder. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m coughing violently, throwing up the water I still feel burning me up on the inside. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If we cannot preserve it for another year I would be in favor of putting a torch to it and burning it down and let it go up into the bright sky to eternal heaven.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They left the lantern burning at Tab’s grave while they set up camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

The scent of the spring night filled their nostrils until the sweetly burning smoke rising from Booth’s pipe flavored the air. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She passed the night burning packets of papers in the fire and demanding gallons of tea and fresh biscuits. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mount Doom was burning, and a great reek rising. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Because his scar had been burning for hours, yearning to show him Voldemort’s thoughts? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

Some went straight to the houses of the judges and lawyers who had sentenced them, killing them and their families or burning their houses if they were not around. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He drove the burning point into the back of the man’s neck—the guy screamed and grabbed his throat, falling off Alec. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I think of my Liars burning, in their last few minutes, breathing smoke, their skin alight. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Something inside is burning me up, and all I know is it makes me think of you. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The trees parted to reveal a mossy clearing hung with strings of silver lanterns, and in the center of the clearing a bonfire was lit, sparking and burning with unnaturally red flames. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty yards from shore, three black swans were gliding over the water, so serene ... no one had told them that war had come, and they cared nothing for burning towns and butchered men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “and I’ve been wondering about that. I thought it would be burning all the time now Voldemort’s getting so powerful again.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We’d always keep a small fire smoldering up by the hut and if an airplane came near, he’d take a piece of burning wood from our small fire to ignite the big one. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We each sat at opposite ends of the table with the candles burning away. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pinmei suddenly felt as if she were seeing him for the first time, the redness of Yishan’s hat and clothes burning with a light of its own. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was surreal being back at camp, because everything looked so peaceful: no burning buildings, no wounded fighters. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“She will be ready for burning this afternoon,” the guard said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas said, “Were your ears burning last night, Bud?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

More like burning rubber, less like rotting dead mice? she thought. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Big honor for the first soldier to breach an enemy fort. You’ll notice nobody in the Fifth is wearing one. Usually we don’t even get into the fort because we’re burning or drowning or...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A mother was fleeing with one child over her shoulder and another holding her hand, and they zigged around a burning section of grass and came right at us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

This was caused by little pieces of our heat shield burning up and coming off, as it was supposed to do, to protect us from the searing frictional heat. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coals under the ashes on the dark hearth she fanned to life until a cheerful fire was burning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

War and woe and the screams of burning men, Davos might have said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

She heard him crying out to the birds as they rose higher, like ten thousand hot sparkles, so many red-yellow fireworks in the heavens, tugging the canopy like a flower petal, burning through the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed, not of blood, glassy eyes, and the smell of burning hair, but of gentler things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

How can it matter if I leave one little tap running, one little light burning, one little piece of litter on the road? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then my arms were around her, and now I was crying, my body burning on the inside, while I told her over and over again, “It’s okay. It’s okay. I’m gonna be fine.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a quote from a mine fire authority observing that if the rate of burning held steady, there was enough coal under Centralia to burn for a thousand years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I swung in and out of consciousness until finally I became aware of a thin seam of light burning at the edge of the shade. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Flames crackled, adding the scent of burning pine to the overwhelming smells from all of Doc’s potions and oils combined. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Make me some bandages or we die,” and, with that, he rolled onto the ground, tore off his burning clothes and set to work caking mud onto the deep wound in his shoulder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

So Tehlu held him to the burning wheel, and none of the demon’s threats or screaming moved him the least part of an inch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I get to Teluman’s shop, I’m surprised to see the door open, the forge fire burning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In addition, many people had hauled furniture from burning buildings and abandoned it in the streets in hopes of saving it. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Judgment Day is close at hand, the hellfires are burning. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The candles burning in the temple had scents as well; even the unscented ones gave off faint wisps of smoke from their wicks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was no one in the kitchen, though the light was burning—the lights were on all through the house. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He wondered if the fire was still burning outside, or if it had gone out by now. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom...I wish I could...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of Candless’s people leaped aboard and Dauntless heeled away from the burning ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the crowd goes whooooop! as the other runners gallop past me, burning whatever gas they had left, barreling toward the finish line. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“How come colored people act like that? Why are they always fighting and burning up stuff?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Yellow, orange and red fires were burning on both sides of the road. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The rising sun was burning off the drifting tendrils of fog as Tyrion led them off. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to think again of the suffering of the last war, the news of burning towers and legions dead. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Then he took a deep, deep breath, arched his body like a bow, and spat whatever was in his mouth out into the air above the burning torch. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We will finish the work of Your Majesty’s great ancestor King Degravaunt, killing most of the goblins and burning the world free of evil forever. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And we don’t care that the air is hazy with smoke and stinks of burning and war. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The couch faces a gas fireplace, a light blue flame burning. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The place where the crow had pecked him was still burning, but there was nothing there, no blood, no wound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

I remember my parents telling me about how devastating 9/11 was, how those burning buildings and all the posters of missing people are seared in their memories forever. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Failed with a bright-purple capital F. The note from my teacher is burning a hole in my back pocket, and I know I should give it to my parents. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The roof was a typical tar-over-wood affair, which meant, in addition to keeping it wet, the men on it were constantly dancing around to stamp out burning cinders. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold, but perhaps just a trifle warmer than the day before, and a low dawn sun burning through the trees looked cautiously promising. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The stars called to her like signal beacons burning on a vast black sea as she flung herself a hundredfold into the dizzy air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He pedaled as fast as he could, his arms taut and his legs burning. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rusties had been stuck down in these streets like a horde of rats trapped in a burning maze. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hazel followed the path through the clearing and up a hill into the trees, heart burning the whole way. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The angel touched a burning coal to my forehead, bringing a sharp and blissful sorrow, and I saw before me the shining face of my dear Savior.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The air was windless and smelled like burning coal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

So ended the raid, and no news of it came ever back either to Mordor or to Isengard; but the smoke of the burning rose high to heaven and was seen by many watchful eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As they drew closer to the city walls, the tents appeared more and more like permanent fixtures, the canvas walls dirtied with grime from fires burning in hastily dug pits. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the wake of the reapers’ scythes the black land showed again through the stubble, no longer moist and rich but bone-hard, desiccated, and beginning to crack in all directions under the burning sun. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

Nan, with her frail body and burning eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“What is it? What is it? Are we burning? Are we burning?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

They charged down Fifth Avenue, the whole world a series of shuddering earthquakes, the dark, burning city a blur around them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And I guess I do, because the next thing I know, I'm driving this dune buggy at about a hundred miles an hour across a burning desert that looks like the surface of the moon. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He says he feels too sick, and he doesn’t want any breakfast, even a surprise. I felt his forehead, and it’s burning hot.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I turn left again, my chest burning because I'm running my hardest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment she was weightless in the dark, the sides of the hot stone pit burning her arms. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Queen’s cheeks were marked with unnaturally bright red spots; her burning golden eyes had the same fierceness Kaede had seen in Elowen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bigger knew that soon he would have to clean the ashes out, for the fire was not burning as hody as it should. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out every candle we owned and lit match after match until the wicks were all burning with tiny flames. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Dolores did her best to temper some of the fury that was burning inside her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He lowered his head in shame, his cumbersome face burning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When she turned back, the domovoi was on top of the oven again, peering down at the leftover little piece burning inside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

He had to wrap his hands in the wet blanket to keep them from burning as he held the kettle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They walked intently like people going to a fire after it has been burning for some time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a skewer and jammed the prongs into a burning log. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

With all this buzz about burning crosses and the KKK, his Dinoland plans must be pretty much dead. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Later, her face is burning from the slap as she watches her biscuits buried in dust. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bono, Will, and I stood with our muskets at ready while the others lit the place afire with their burning torches. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

After we had finished burning the old picture, we sat down to a lunch of meat pastries and dumplings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The sun rose higher and higher, burning away the leftover clouds, and the sky went from lavender to too-bright blue. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My father answered: “In evening when the light is dying My feet at last are homeward turning The wind is through the willows sighing Please keep the hearthfire burning.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

With luck, I might see, on a soft summer night, as many as three halls burning down at once. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He sobbed finally with huge, burning explosions of pain. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evil faces peered from it into his eyes, and he saw the light of burning. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he remembers most clearly about crawling through the fence was that Park’s body smelled like it was burning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Frank looked down and saw the airstrip riddled with craters like a piece of burning Swiss cheese. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His face is grim and long, his eyes are burning in his pallid face. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When Jacqueline and I stepped out into the yard to wait for the burning, I raised my head toward the sun thinking, One day I may just see my mother there. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Either the side effects of the nahlrout were fading, or my anger was slowly burning away the haze of exhaustion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two men hauled the cumbersome canvas hose as close to the flames as possible and aimed a stream of water at the burning building. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Houses are burning at Parame, mademoiselle. They’re scuttling ships at the port, they’re shelling the cathedral, and there’s no water at the hospital. The doctors are washing their hands in wine. Wine!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the olden days, widows used to throw themselves on their dead husbands' burning pyres—or were thrown. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moaning of the wind and the cries of the animals outside mixed into the thin smoke of incense and the fragrance of piñón wood burning in the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This little fella, he starts to burning when the shell goes up. When he’s all used up, kapow! You got yourself a mighty fine pyrotectic display. That’s fireworks in layman’s terms.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry couldn’t stand to look . . . but the potion had turned a burning red; the light of it shone through Harry’s closed eyelids. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes cannot hide the passion burning inside his heart; Ishtar has to shield hers to look upon him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

He dreamed of burning castles and dead men rising unquiet from their graves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At intervals globes of burning gas cast a white-hot light over the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Only a fraction of the candles are burning, but the sight is no less resplendent as they illuminate the twisting black branches, casting dancing shadows over the striped walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Normally any conversation that includes the phrase “bodily functions” and me in the same sentence would have me burning with embarrassment. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The shadow-thing that was Cain stood nearby, watching, his burning eyes his only distinguishing feature. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A burning sensation rose in my chest and stomach, the fractured ribs sizzling. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

As soon as the job of burning the bull was over, Mama told us we had to do the same for the Spot heifer. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gunwoo stepped back, his eyes still burning with the intensity of his emotions. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I make myself close my burning eyes—I can’t see anyway! Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Urgente,” she calls out, meaning her own condition now, for her whole body feels bathed in a burning pain as if her flame-colored dress were itself on fire. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then he spied the plane with the burning engine directly above him and screamed to McWatt through the intercom to turn left hard. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We could hear them excitedly laughing at the sight of the burning houses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The green Fall Fiesta flyer was burning a hole in my backpack when I walked up to our building. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then she took a long wooden stick, borrowed flame from a burning wick, and lit a new candle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There’s no lock on my door, so I sit on the floor, leaning against it, burning up, inside out, sinking my fingernails into my arms as I imagine Muhammad’s face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They place you on a pile of logs and blackrock, dry brush and kindling, and they send you burning onto the ocean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once the lantern was burning steadily, I rose to my feet and continued deeper into the cellar. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When all was done she told them that they had gloriously avenged the dead, and with that she entered the burning dwelling and died there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all take another look at the mountainside, lit, exploding sparks, and burning faster. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

All those stories from the seventies—burning crosses, Ku Klux Klan. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The horse was barded in bronze- colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Me: "How would you feel if somebody accused you of burning yourself?" Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Yet he looked at me from beneath his red-checkered keffiyeh with eyes burning fiercely, refusing to be humbled by his age. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

He had cowered from her since she had thrust the burning branch in his face. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coop’s eyes are burning a hole in the side of my face, just willing me to look at him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

I found him in the experimental chambers, burning hair. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

In a hundred valley houses fires started burning in combination wood and gas stoves, and men, dressed already in irrigation boots, quietly ate breakfast with their wives and children. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing my arm as fast as I can, my shoulder socket burning from the sudden motion, and the belt strikes Marcus’s shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

My parents keep talking to their friends for another ten minutes while I stand in the entryway, burning up in my jacket. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When Moch resorted to that one, Ulbrickson said, “the boys get so hot they have to wrap asbestos around their oar handles to keep the boat from burning up.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With the small blade, he avoided the risk of burning himself out and losing his form. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Incense was burning all around the botanica and the shelves were crowded with teas and potions and smaller saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She slammed the car into drive and pulled off in a cloud of burning rubber and smoke, swerving down the street, screaming hysterically— “ Wooooooooo!” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another sphere contained a wick hanging in empty air from a silver wire, burning with a motionless white flame despite its apparent lack of fuel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The smell of burning skin and hair filled my nostrils. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The lights are burning here, but darkness is all around me—in the alley, in the attic, in the basement, in every closet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire licked his skin like something living, a darting, burning creature that he had befriended, a creature that caressed him and danced for him and drove the night away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The smoke trailing from his lips, as though he was burning up inside. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A hundred smudge pots had to be filled with fuel, fired up, and kept burning all night. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the God of the Vine was born of fire and nursed by rain, the hard burning heat that ripens the grapes and the water that keeps the plant alive. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poured the bottle of brand onto it and set it afire with the burning shingle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Quickly, I left Mama and went to stand in the light of the burning bear grass. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were wax candles in massive brass candelabra, burning softly under yellow silk shades; full, fragrant roses, yellow and red, abounded. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc’s voice carried over the sound of our breathing, loud in the kitchen and against the still-crackling fire burning the remains of the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The drumming of his hooves was like a counterpoint to the slow song of the wind, endlessly burning past my ears. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

He could see campfires burning in groups and clusters, like little cities sparkling in the mist, far, far off toward the blue hills to the east. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, our stomachs jellying and our necks burning, we listened, avoided each other’s eyes, and picked toe jam or whatever. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come to ’tention after that first flinch and was staring up at the gun with their front legs stiff as stone and their chests all bowed out and their eyes burning. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There were fires still burning high in the mountains and at night they could see the light from them deep orange in the soot-fall. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

All night watchmen on the walls heard the rumour of the enemy that roamed outside, burning field and tree, and hewing any man that they found abroad, living or dead. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At the sight of a burning pile of clothing, the horse jumped sideways. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

“He’s not on fire. He’s burning oil,” Maddie said, because she knows these things. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The outer ring of candles was complete, twelve white columns burning exacdy as they had when Will was last in the hall. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A silvery gray twilight soothed her burning skin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled on his back, sweat pouring off him, his insides burning. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer followed these terrifying events from his home in California, burning with what he described as “a continuing, smoldering fury” toward Adolf Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no riots or burning over there, not that she’d ever heard of. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The High Hall of the Arryns was aglow with the light of fifty torches, burning in the sconces along the wadis. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She only caught glimpses of what passed: walls of white, glacial floors, and every once in a while, a torch burning with a cold blue flame. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The moment I took my first burning snootful, I understood that this was the drug for me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jasmine was watching television when she saw that police had arrested a suspect in the bus passenger burning that had been all over the news. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He walked through life self-consciously with downcast eyes and burning cheeks, the object of contempt, envy, suspicion, resentment and malicious innuendo everywhere he went. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The burning incense was sweet and suffocating; the glowing candle was hypnotizing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is so!” she snapped, tears burning her eyes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But the saliva only made her burning eyes worse. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The “ink” was made by burning plastic—a pen or a toothbrush— under a metal surface, like the bottom of a bunk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my eyes burning and I don’t want her to see me crying especially when I don’t know why I’m crying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My throat is so dry it’s burning too. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Now the four companions went forward, past the clear wood-fire burning upon the long hearth in the midst of the hall. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When she lay down again, she left the light burning. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And at the same time we heard the loud report of a shot and running men carrying burning torches surrounded our house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The planes were like explosives. Gallons and gallons of stinking oil, burning. Metal so hot, it lost strength, softened.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

To me she was not a person, or even a voice, she was just a part of the song that was burning out of me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On July 28, forty actors spent twelve grueling hours filming scenes in a burning wheat field. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

One morning he was here, and every day after that, holding a burning tin cup of bitter tea to my mouth and repeating my name: “Béene-béene.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire was dying down, burning blood-red, underneath. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“He never comes home during the day. Just do the heavy cleaning and teach me how to fix supper and it’ll only take a few months—” My nose prickles from something burning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Yossarian shouted anxiously at Doc Daneeka as he ran up, breathless and limp, his somber eyes burning with a misty, hectic anguish. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The clearing was quiet except for fires burning in the woods, and the cries of the wounded. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Frankie shook his head, his eyes burning wildly through his unkempt curls. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two gulps of vodka later, my eyes are watering and my throat automatically grumbles “Ahhhhh” to get rid of the burning. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The head snapped around as it smelled the sweet smoke of the burning resin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A dangerous smell, an unpleasant smell, a totally unnatural smell—quite close outside: a smoke smell—something was burning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she longs for the satisfying burning it produces deep in her lungs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"Just imagine it's the burning sensation in your heart for Sandra." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

As they drew closer, the black cloud, which surely came from a burning refinery in Dunkirk, was beginning to rule the northern sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of bright fire burning on the hearth, and in front of it were some low and comfortable chairs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Outside in the square, the nightfire was still burning, but the priest was gone and the crowd was long dispersed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Roz sat inside and listened to the wind and to the soft pops and crackles of burning wood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He said there were so many untapped sources of energy in the world that it was ridiculous to be burning all that fossil fuel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My pa talked to Mr. Soldano. Mrs. Soldano was burning a bunch of rags in kerosene to clear out the mosquitoes.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked as we walked, the setting sun burning up the sky behind us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Blanche and Louis could not be closer. So this is our chance. Tonight, during the meal, I will bring up the burning of the Talmuds. I will pretend to have no opinion on the subject.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was no fire burning, nay, not even a hearth where it could burn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had many dreams in which I saw myself or different people burning in the fires of hell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That left me standing alone in the middle of the burning gymnasium when the headmaster came charging in with half the faculty and a couple of police officers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I always went, and wound up wolfing down Paul’s famous burgers—but now I saw that face, Paul’s, burning, a bloodred mask of rage. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mama asked now, her face almost burning with intensity. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He shows us how to keep the slow match burning by blowing the ash off of it every few minutes, and how to use it to ignite the gunpowder. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mig held the tray with the one small candle burning bright, and she listened as the rat went on, speaking directly to the wish in her heart. 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 think about that very last breath. Sucking for air. Pulling and pulling and getting nothing. I think about my chest muscles ripping and burning, absolutely useless. No air. No nothing. Just black.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The flames of the burning shelter rumbled like a freight train and sucked at the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The burning snakes twisted horribly and some crawled burning across the floor of the grotto to illuminate its darker recesses. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

His jaw hard, his eyes burning, he stared unblinking into eyes a mere inch away and dared them not to see him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

My lungs are burning, and if I could cry I would, because my legs and arms are tired from all the kicking. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A burning Sherman tank lifted right up into the air and flipped upside down by the explosion of a 500-pound bomb that had been buried as a mine. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the table in front of him were books and papers, a steaming espresso pot and a tiny cup, and—I was surprised to see—an unfiltered cigarette burning in an ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I heard it flare and ran my left hand over the top of it There was heat It was burning. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He stares at her with burning intensity, completely oblivious to Rosie. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ivory towers, now beet red as they reflected the burning rip in the sky, stood tall and angry. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

The memory flashed painfully in her head: she had left the arrow behind when she fled the burning forest. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her five daughters, who inherited a burning seed, had been lost on the byways of life since adolescence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But there were some women burning books, that’s what she was really there for. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Thank you, Basil. Would you bring that brazier over here and get it burning as quickly as you can?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve only seen it blazing through the forest, burning everything in its path. But this is marvelous!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the library, so snug and warm last night with the burning logs, was like an ice-house now, in the early morning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room a dozen candles were burning on the floor near the open window. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts are going down a chimney and burning. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At least one of them was in the office at the time and made his escape down a burning stairway. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Marble mermaids lit the way as Davos climbed, bowls of burning whale oil cradled in their arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hate bubbles up from my stomach, burning my throat like acid. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Coming into his presence was like stepping up to a gas heater, to a row of blue fire burning in the dark, wet curve of his eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a sudden onslaught the sky would rain burning missiles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I lit one, the flame sputtered only once, like a newborn’s first breath, before burning steadily. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I felt as though I was burning up inside. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His whole head was throbbing violently with the pain of infection from the quills, and more than anything he wanted time to scratch and scratch; to rub the burning cheek along the ground. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Franny gave a minimal glance down at her left hand, and dropped the stub of her still burning cigarette into the ashtray. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Out of the frying pan into the fire,” shouted the count, burning himself badly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“We got fired on,” she said, and looked away, burning with shame at how much it had taken out of her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The powder on his face was burning off in spots but he still looked very pale. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Okay, maybe not the burning sensation that plagued him for days, but the rest. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

Outside, he could hear the squeal of children and the shouts of the neighbors, for his friends thought he might be inside the burning house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days it would’ve been a graveyard, but most sensible folks have taken to burning their dead and mounting a cross in a field or yard, like these. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So Marmeluc and the kids are staring into the fire, and there’s the sound of the crackling logs and the light of their burning orange cores. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Worst of all was the stench of burning skin, so thick at times that many lost their appetites. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A panic attack is coming on; my chest is tightening, my face is burning up, my skin and scalp are itchy. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Unferth stood over them, holding the brand, with a tortured look in his eyes as if it were his own hand burning. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then someone tackled him from behind; he dropped the burning log and landed face- first in the dirt. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She wrote the letters in a fury, burning herself with sealing wax, her hand was shaking so. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of his friend’s dislike of the burning heats, the hurricanes, and rainy seasons of that region. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

I got a burning cramp in the calf of my leg and collapsed to the ground. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A naphtha lamp hung over the table, and a brazier held burning coals against the bitter chill of the night. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She noticed the hard eyes of a soldier following her, burning through her clothes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad screams, Somebody needs to call the fire department, 'cause JB is burning up this place. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Someone down the road was burning grass clippings. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The part in my hair get to burning, then itching, but I can’t scratch at it cause both hands is full then whoo! somebody blow out the flame. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

None of them had ever seen a village burning. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The thing had finally gone out by itself, but not before an image of a stable full of burning horses had flashed through my mind. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge is still burning like you wouldn’t believe, hanging on the opposite cliff like a waterfall on fire, flames having leaped up the entire length of it, angry and greenish yellow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The white spot suddenly became a bright red spot, and Larisa realized that it was one of the 46th’s aircraft burning. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Even the darkness couldn’t conceal the rage burning in her features. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

Yezzan was burning with fever, squirming fitfully in a pool of his own excrement. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The burning plane crashed while the searchlights continued to hold it in their lights.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Days passed working, burning, cutting, gathering food, and each day I cut another notch on an aspen pole that I had stuck in the ground for a calendar. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no oil- burning motorships on the high seas at that time. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her own were grim enough, and she wasn’t faced with the notion of burning people alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I smoothed my hand over the rippled sheet, tears burning in my eyes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By the time I finished reading the new chapter, hot tears were burning down my cheeks. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Down the block, she climbs over the burning ruins of her home, a small maisonette on the corner. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The reflections of burning houses glimmered dully on the armor of his warhorse as the others parted to let him pass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One agent, he claimed, had sniffed the air and cried, “Don’t you smell that human flesh burning?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Red flames billowed out, surrounded by black smoke from the burning jet fuel. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The days were long, beginning before dawn when the sea was purple black, ending with the sunset when the sea was burning red. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A fire was burning in one of the braziers at the foot of the steps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were flowers, a forty-ounce Miller, pictures of saints, and pictures of the deceased, with six large candles burning in the form of a cross. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I found Henry and Camilla upstairs at a table by the window, a full ashtray between them, Camilla with her chin propped in her hand and a cigarette burning low between her ink-stained fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And when that was done, he looked at the family, and Thialfi did not think he had ever seen anything quite as scary as Thor’s burning red eyes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He left the room with his eyes burning and his daughter's wails echoing in his ears, and found the direwolf pup where they chained her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We’re not finished, young Todd,” he calls, over the crackle of the burning bridge and the roar of the water below. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Illegal deforestation makes it worse. Land that has been cleared for development—cattle grazing, clearing for lumber—increases the likelihood of burning. Another stress.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Stood there in our front yard with the sun burning down on my neck, sweat running down my forehead, my whole body tight as a drum. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Holes of different sizes dotted the hull, and burning seawater flooded out like lava. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

I had the hunger and thirst of a famine all to myself, smoke in my burning eyes, and no strength left. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I just kept looking at Mr. Tushman, and I tried to listen to what he was saying, but all I heard was yak yak yak yak yak because my ears were burning. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A curious steam rose from the wound, and the fabric around it curled back as if it were burning away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

The tips of her breasts touched his coat, burning in like acid and closing his throat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The pain in my stomach intensified, burning through the night, making it impossible to sleep. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sat bent over, smelling the sharp dry odor of wood burning in the hot sunlight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya could see its colors more clearly now in the light of die burning town: a golden lion on red. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was all dim and obscure in his mind, the gebbeth, the burning staff, the running, the whispering, the gate. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They and others came shortly, and they stayed throughout the night to see that the burning brands were not blown onto the roof of the cabin. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instant I pressed my lips there, I jumped back, a flash of white burning inside my eyelids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

The countryside itself seemed spooky—shadows and tunnels and incense burning in the dark. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Hathaway went out into the cleared weather to see Earth burning green on the windy sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d drunk close to a liter of wine and my temples were burning. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hangs on to wells and a boy’s golden hair; would just as soon inhale sweet fire caused by a burning girl as hold a maybe-yes maybe-no hand. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hand up as one might reach to adjust a dimly burning globe in the ceiling of a dark room. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred the burning wood a bit so that the fire flared. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The fury in his eyes is familiar, the glitter of them like banked fire, like coals burning hotter than flames ever could. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After burning a cross on the courthouse lawn, a group of enraged white men who were members of the Ku Klux Klan went out searching for someone to victimize. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

“They’d just arrived in London after being rescued from the burning island...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

There was also the problem that if stars had been burning indefinitely in a static universe they’d have made the whole intolerably hot–certainly much too hot for the likes of us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sun has gone down, relieving us of its burning rays. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A report in the Woman’s Journal said, “Women were spat upon...slapped in the face, tripped up, pelted with burning cigar stubs, and insulted by jeers and obscene language too vile to print or repeat.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Like a slug burning to death from salty spit. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was a burning smell that I later learned was me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying by the fire, which was now piled high and burning brightly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She gathered the remaining leaves and flung them into the fire, where they caught, flaming, and drifted upward like burning black pages. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

But the burning thing inside him would not let him care. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

He cut off its terrible emptiness, drew back, and gave the entire room a gift of one huge bright yellow flower of burning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are obscured only at the bottom, so it is impossible to tell what is burning, if it is wood or coal or something else entirely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It must have splintered many of the city’s wood-and-plaster buildings; fallen torches and scattered cooking fires would have ignited the debris, burning down most surviving structures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fingers burning, I stripped the hot skin off potatoes in silence, swallowing hurt and resentment with the same outward resignation that Gladys manifested. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

JimmyTrotter cranked the handle to the spit and the deer turned around and around under a pit of burning coals. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The pain in his scar was reaching a peak, burning as it had done in the garden of the Burrow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The perspiration gathered with the silence and the sub-audible trembling around and about and in the women who were burning with tension. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But I was filled with joy and triumph, and the fires to me were the flames of Troy still burning as Odysseus pushed off for Ithaca. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I felt a tear burning in the corner of my eye, but I refused to acknowledge it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He had been responsible for the Asylum burning down. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But while the nightmare’s happening, the burning or the cutting or the beating, you realize something you known all your life: the white lady don’t ever forget. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With that, she sweeps out the door, leaving me with a thundering heart and the royal seal burning in my pocket. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But she feels this in her heart and soul and with every searing and burning step: A crime must have a punishment, and this is part of hers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The river, still dark and mysterious, was spanned by bridges that were turning coldly grey, with here and there at top a warm touch from the burning in the sky. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I take her hand with my sweaty palm, and her fingers feel burning hot in my own, like she has a fever, and she immediately tugs her hand away from mine, surprised. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to ignore my burning ears, but I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t put some thought into my outfit. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Where, eighteen years ago, she had spent five eager, tireless, burning nights with her beautiful young husband before the gods stole him away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was very quiet as Dustfinger let the burning torch lick his bare arms. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She dreamt of red hearts burning, and a black stag in a golden wood with flame streaming from his antlers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The old man huddled in the dark doorway, his bony face lit by the burning yellow in the windows of distant skyscrapers.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neville had somehow managed to melt Seamus’s cauldron into a twisted blob, and their potion was seeping across the stone floor, burning holes in people’s shoes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Further west, the same burning occurred, but on even grander scale. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Anya had told Ash to be polite to them, but all she could feel at the moment of their arrival was a thick, burning anger inside her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan screamed loudly as the electric sensation turned into burning, raging, fiery pain. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I had heard my papa and Uncle Henry saying that right in Marshall, they set burning crosses in front yards. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flickers of gold-orange flames were visible, and even several yards away the acrid stench of smoke and burning grass stung his eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In a conflict that lasted nearly a month, rangers and their Indigenous allies attacked Spanish and Indigenous towns and villages, looting and burning them, taking scalps, and hunting for people who had escaped slavery. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline reached out her left hand, scared that if she took her eye off it it would vanish, and she fumbled for the burning thing. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

As if the angry Romans, burning couches, and exploding buildings weren’t confusing enough, hundreds of purple ghosts drifted through the forum, passing straight through the demigods’ bodies and wailing incoherently. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Gregor felt as if rat eyes must be burning at them from every crevice. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sense the burning of its fiery eye. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

How could I have been so wrapped up in my own stupid criminal exercise, the thrill of it, my own anger at the aunties and Granddad— Fatima and Prince Philip, burning. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Say we get out of this heat and talk more over cold drinks? You must be burning up under all those layers.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lord Lefford-made mock of ghosts at table, but always kept a candle burning by his bed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were eight in all, each of them like a little fire burning just inside his skin. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

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

“I especially enjoyed burning this village. We caught everyone here. No one escaped. That is how good it was. We carried out the command and executed everyone. Commander will be pleased when he gets here.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

With their leg muscles burning and chests heaving, the boys finally reached the top. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Whatever will they say,” I said, my face burning as he let me down again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building was already burning fiercely and he knew that in addition to five cows, the O’Learys had a calf and a horse in there. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sam’s cut was burning like fire, and his head felt light. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The acrid smell of burning oil in the cold room nauseated him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But the docks echoed with the cries of enslaved Africans bought, sold, and branded in the burning sun. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I follow him into the hallway, my arms burning from where the chair hit me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The grass was burning in huge swathes around the pine tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His body, despite the smoke and his burning eyes and heaving chest, was flexed taut. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A thin wavering cry of pain drifted over the walls, and a warhorn sounded off beyond the burning houses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They drag themselves, unable to see, salty seawater burning their eyes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The image was burning me up from the inside out, blistering my lungs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing but sparks and spurting heat, molten rocks and burning embers. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He turned and opened a cabinet that stood against one of the walls, “Give me just a moment and I will numb the burning that must be all across your back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At that Ged lifted up the staff high, and the radiance of it brightened intolerably, burning with so white and great a light that it compelled and harrowed even that ancient darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the burning sting of tears in the backs of his eyes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Perched with his bum on the burning milestone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old walrus in fact managed to instill in me a great and burning ambition; it had simply found expression in an unintended pursuit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

John tried to laugh—John thought that he was laughing—but found, instead, that his mouth was filled with salt, his ears were full of burning water. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“His eyes are the color of burning coals, and his fangs are bigger and sharper than a javalina’s tusks. But his claws are just as dangerous. He can rip out your heart with them.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A rose garden, salty ocean wind, burning cordite—the tower could convincingly re-create them all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Millions of gallons of water wasted, millions of lights burning, millions of pieces of litter, much of it harmful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone had been busy burning and burying a creature worth a king’s ransom. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but the Portuguese army went out burning villages to the ground, to put a damper on Neto’s popularity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deep burning washed through the fibers of my muscles. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was no gas chamber here either, and no chimneys burning red in the night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My face must have been burning like an animated case of athlete’s foot in a Lotrimin commercial. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And if Masha and her crew tried to parachute out of their burning plane, they would surely be killed by the enemy’s guns as they fell. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A small fire was burning in the middle of the straw mattress where we’d left the matches and the magnifying glass. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She felt like she couldn’t get a breath, and she sucked at the air as her arms and legs roiled between burning and numbness. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the distance we saw the outline of a temple, not too distant however, with a yellow oil flare burning from the top. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sugar-white sand felt cool against his burning cheeks, and he was very sleepy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was inlaid with polished wood in the shape of a star, and above them a wrought iron chandelier held a dozen burning candles. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candelario, she pleads as she lifts her hand to knock, for the burning has spread. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She held on to the edge of the sink while the paste went burning down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air was calm, though animals’ slops and whiffs of burning wood made it rank. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Alec was close and somehow overheard their conversation over the burning snarl of the thrusters. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It drifted over a calm spot just beyond the waves, and, thankfully, no fires were burning nearby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Police and ambulance sirens are blasting, and the firefighters are handling business on the burning gym, but it’s too late for mad people. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They leave their cabins with their nighttime fires still burning. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I recognize the smell of vanilla incense because Beth’s been burning it recently. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

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

To the east Bigger saw the sun burning a dazzling yellow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And with the press and the protestors here, too, I imagine the burning anger behind the Director’s false grin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

“I’ll be a saint,” he says, a small fire burning in his voice. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Only Nature: the crackle, pop, roar of the forest burning and the thunderous pounding of falling water. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They waited, but there was nothing in sight, unless you counted in those smudges on the horizon—boats burning after an air attack. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ranofer’s hair lifted, in a cold tremor of recognition, which was followed by burning shame. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Fernanda, burning with envy, finally accepted the miracle, and for a long time she kept on praying to God to send her back her sheets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He opened them to an intense stinging and burning. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Me: “A wild forest fire burning out of control!” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When you sacked Rome with the Visigoths, you could smell the smoky scent of the burning city as well as the barbarians’ b.o. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I covered my mouth and nose with my hands and ran through the burning study and down the flaming hallway into the kitchen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Tonight, like an inferno burning outward in all directions from a single ignition point, the news that Lincoln had been shot spread from Ford’s in an ever-widening circle. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he looks away, squinting at the sunlight that’s burning down on his red face. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

As she jumped up, a burning torch slipped from his hands and fell on the grass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It will be sung year on year and age on age that Unferth went down through the burning lake—” he paused to pant “—and gave his life in battle with the world-rim monster.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed his cigar on the right-hand edge of the desk, burning end out, leaned forward on his elbows, and covered his face with his hands. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A thought drummed in Smith’s mind: He’s burning the top right off the racetrack. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Ambrose broke your lute, it roused your sleeping mind. Like a great hibernating bear jabbed with a burning stick, it reared up and roared the name of the wind.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stink of acetylene and burning metal cut into my nostrils and seeped like a nosebleed into the back of my throat. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The plane is inside the building—breaking apart, exploding, melting, burning furniture and people. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the shame burning my throat hurt too much to answer. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The long march began at around noon, the sun high in a cloudless sea of burning haze. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a prayer was said, Sourmelina brought the priest a candle burning on a plate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if she hadn’t been burning up she could have kept her head, but she was so hot, so exhausted that Thursday in May, she wasn’t prepared, she had no defenses. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Breaking a leg on the concrete would be better than burning to death, but there was also a good chance he’d split his head open. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I had seen the number on the radio in Greg’s memory only a few hours earlier, burning brightly through even the murkiest clouds of his thoughts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He set me down, still holding my face, his glorious eyes burning into mine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Padva is correct, as she has felt Marco’s gaze burning into the back of her neck all evening, and she is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

The odor of baked salmon hung stale in the air, slightly bitter and slightly acrid from the long smoldering smoke of burning alder leaves, and lay like an invisible pall over the exhausted revelers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Planting trees that resisted burning and didn’t require too much water. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So she let him kiss her, and when he pulled back she leaned in and kissed him, heart pounding in her throat, her face tingling, a fire burning in the pit of her belly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the sun was only a band of burning red seen through the trees, Dicey took out the ponchos and spread them on the ground, rolling on them to crush the undergrowth beneath. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the people were troubled in their minds; for the heaps of carrion were too great for burial or for burning. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But the only remnant left was the burning ache in my throat and the stench of spent gunpowder and swampy water muddling in my nostrils. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I flinch when I hear it drop, and push him back, my eyes burning. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

This head could spit out long forks of searing fire, burning everything to cinders within a range of about half a mile. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes him seem even more intense than he already is, with his burning eyes, rapid-fire clipped speech, and slight lisp. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The bridge is still attached at their end and it slaps the facing cliff but it’s burning so fierce it won’t be no time at all before the whole thing is just ash. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

But the burning gaze of El Alacrán keeps them at a distance from us. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I curled my fingers over the ledge of bricks jutting out beneath the window, the rough surface burning my fingertips. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I thought I should leave it burning, but I did not want him knocking it over. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"The other watch turrets are not far. I see torches burning—" "Torches, but no guards," Theon said testily. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We climbed higher still, and soon the roar of the burning rip in the sky filled my ears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was slow and aimless, unafraid as I pulled Ben’s book from under my burning mattress. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

These too are of a burning color—not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Greek fire was burning the tables and furniture, spreading up the circular stairs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

On and on, as if she had something burning inside of her that she couldn’t quite get out. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His face is bright red, eyes burning with an intensity I’ve never seen before. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

My lungs burning, I bang on the door, praying I’ve made it in time. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

General Sherman’s March to the Sea, where he and his men marched across the South, burning and putting down the dead, wasn’t much more than a temporary setback for the shamblers. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My father was pleading: “My son, water. . . I’m burning up . . . My insides . . .” “Silence over there!” barked the officer. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean forward in my chair, face burning. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This was definitely more exciting than burning the supplies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

As Hrothgar had done, this younger king was systematically burning and plundering nearby halls, extending the circle of his tribute power. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sting from my loss to Cecilia had transformed into a burning desire for revenge. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

No sight, no sound, no feeling except the unrelenting burning of flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A tiny part of me, the part that forgot it had witnessed her screaming about her burning hair, and screaming about not getting what she wanted, and screaming about her friends, felt bad for her. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Jon saw candles burning in several wall niches as they made their way along the tunnel, their footsteps echoing ahead of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

When my legs were burning to their limit and my lungs were sucking at the thin mountain air and my knees were shaking and weak, I stopped for my first rest. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

If the Hells Angels moved into that house and lived in our town that would be more frightening to me than burning the house down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Flames rose at once in the fireplace, crackling merrily as though they had been burning for hours. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

It hovered above, watching patiently, waiting for me I slept, and the great bird settled its burning wings around me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There would be candles burning, we would watch each other’s faces come and go in the flickering, in the white flashes of jagged light from outside the windows. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of one of the trees the boy’s father sat, the lantern still burning by his side. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the window he saw that the day would be windless and burning hot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just as the burning smell began to choke her, a cold, clean wind blew. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gradually the sufferer grows thoroughly disoriented and subject to increasingly dangerous hallucinations—including the decidedly cruel misconception that he is not freezing but burning up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We are burning the Five Evils,” I said drowsily, then squirmed out of her warm lap. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Bodies piled up in the streets, and sickboats moved through the canals, using long shovels and hooks to tumble corpses onto their platforms and haul them out to the Reaper’s Barge for burning. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But a moment later I felt a slow, burning sensation begin to creep across my back and realized the truth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

But of course I couldn’t, so I just stood there with my face burning and my stomach in a knot. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I almost dropped it because it was freezing cold on one side and burning hot on the other. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

MaWee struck a match and set all the candles on the board burning. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“No, the chiles are burning my eyes,” I lie. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I drank enough to ease the burning heat in my throat. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he glanced at me again, his dark eyes were burning with a kind of intensity that made me feel like my head was full of air, ready to float away. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was lots of dust in her eyes and burning her throat. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The people at the bar kept making jokes about women running naked out of the burning hotel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several nearby houses and shops were staved in like rotten barrels, most of them burning fitfully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since it’s pretty much understood that if the place isn’t burning down, I get the door if Grammy is watching television, I swing open the door. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I faced the shouts, cheers, shrill whistling, my eyes burning from the light. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fountain of burning jade rose froiji the river, the blast so bright he had to shield his eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She could see the shapes of other tents and lean-tos and the fuzzy orange glow of the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, but not the tower itself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had to strain his eyes to see the words by the light of an old kerosene lamp, which that night—like all others—flickered as though it was burning its very last wick. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

The young soldier was holding the burning stick high, making the shadows on his face long and severe, as if his head had been stretched; Jonathan saw him in a new way—powerful and evil. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then Joseph told Albert about making the fire in his toy chest, and burning the Persian rug, and being sent away to boarding school, and how he’d been fascinated by fire ever since. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was panicking now: He could see no way out, and it was easier, as his fear mounted, to block out Voldemort’s thoughts, though his scar was still burning. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Like that, I can feel the image burning into my retinas, where it will remain forever.. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

The fire came gushing out of a hose like burning horsewater and down into a sewer hole in the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the table were two religious-looking candles burning away. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Unfortunately, a couple of Allied airmen had to jump out of their burning plane. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

He turned to look me straight in the face, utilizing the full power of his burning gold eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Another squadron of German bombers appears on the crimson horizon, lit by the burning trees like a false dawn. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I woke up to a burning flashlight beam stabbing my eyes as Joey Cosentino thumbed one of my eyelids up and whispered, “Nah, he’s alive.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Somehow, that was even more terrifying than the burning itself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

The drop...the cement and brick below them...Even with a fire burning and the chance of more explosions, it wasn’t a good option. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My face is burning, and I slide down in my chair. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Madame Edith thought fear of the dark was to be expected in young ladies, so a lamp was left burning. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look over my left shoulder and see the headlights burning gold against the gray buildings and roads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The burning tear in the sky covered the Golden Crescent in an orange glow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Three days ago — it felt like much longer, but it had only been three days — he had awoken with his scar burning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the back Hassan grunted and sniffled as if he were dreaming he was a German shepherd, and Colin felt the ceaseless burning in his gut, thinking, This is all so CHILDISH. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

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

The innocent man stood bewildered, a cigarette burning in his hand. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A platoon of large passenger tricycles wheels migrants from the bus stop to the riverbank, swerving along the main, rutted, dirt road to avoid pigs and trash burning in the middle of the street. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness, and even the fingers that held it would be cut to the bone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Terror and grief shook him, seeing in his thought the mad fierce face of Boromir, and his burning eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The quiet, broken only by my wheezing, reminds me of the brooding in the burning building before it crashed down. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was cold, but my fingertips tingled as if they were burning. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he dipped the torch he was holding into the bucket, took it out again, and held its dripping head of wadding to one of its burning sisters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yife! I got a burning ash from my cigarette—there, it’s gone.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Stooping like a cloud, he lifted a burning branch and strode to meet the wolves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So I was relieved to think we had caught the Five Evils and were burning their corpses. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drop my weapons and take a step back, my face burning in what can only be shame. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the electric chair years, he complained that he could smell flesh burning after the midnight executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If there was any chance of breaking free, the Boss wanted to be ready for it, and he was burning half a ton of coal a day to keep the engines fired. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But truly, my face was burning at the thought. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ride home, my legs burning as we go up the hill to our house, Mom going strong despite the heavy load strapped to her back. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

Another burning tree barrels down the ridge, bouncing off the hillside, before landing. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My lungs are still burning, my throat raw, and my legs and arms are the sorest they’ve ever been. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walk round all day with the announcement burning a hole in my pocket. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It mixed with the burning gasoline from the flamethrowers and napalm bombs, the sharp tang of gunpowder, the overheated metal of machine gun barrels, so hot that they were melting. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we left Alabama, we eat oatmeal for breakfast with a piece of toast Daddy can’t help from burning. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

“That fire went out,” Mrs. Morton said, “but the fire that was burning inside of the preacher could not be quenched.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

As Masha’s burning plane sank lower, one of the German fighters flew so close that Masha could see his grinning, freckled face. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

She had never brought down her sails, and some burning pitch had caught in her rigging. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Hurts worse than anything else in the world, like it’s burning for a while, and there’s a sharp pain for a while?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only wondered how bad things would have to get before he could see it burning down with himself inside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pine trees would look down forever on a lantern burning out of oil but not going out. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is unshaven, his blue eyes burning in a face that is the color of beets. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They lasted there a few months, but when Dad set their room on fire by falling asleep with a burning cigarette in his hand, they got kicked out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The red puccoon dye protects my back, chest, arms, and legs from insects and the burning of the sun, and my moccasins protect my feet for running. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

After a few burning steps, I sit down again. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked me over, his gaze burning through my clothes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That one hot July day of filming in the burning wheat field produced the only shots ever taken for the movie. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe its ten-year battery has shorted, and all its circuits are systematically burning out. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Other pages of the newspaper had photographs of burning buildings, boarded-up stores, and desolate streets. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When she opened it, he smelled dried apricots and juniper wood burning. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And now, as well as leading the flight formation and dealing with the pain in her wounded leg, she was switching off the Pe-2’s burning engine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The sun is burning my scalp, so I duck into a luncheonette. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is redolent with burning rosemary and crushed herbs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The bridge had been bombed after all, so we watched them come in line after line over the railroad bridge, the smoke of the burning synagogue still rising black behind them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I stood there, my heart racing, my eyes burning and hot, for a long time after Maddie and Lewis had driven off. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Forest had teased Stocktender first, burning and cutting him before the final moments of his hideous death. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Matt felt a deep, burning rage against the woman and against Senator Mendoza too. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the tantalizing melancholy in the tingling scent of burning hickory wood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grows, burning white-hot before it explodes into a fiery message. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I smelled the burning and heard a horrible crackling as the fire singed my hair and eyelashes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Romans responded by burning her ships just as quickly as she could move them, forcing her to change her plans. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Betsy did too, though she kept her candle burning, studying into the night as she often did. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Waren’t no candles nor lamps burning so I looked up the stairs to check their bedroom next. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His coat hung loose and he was burning muscle. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

The mouse, I’ve been sure for years, limps home from the site of the burning ferns wheel with a brand-new, airtight plan for killing the cat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Hotter than the flames that once licked around my bed before Papa pulled me out of our burning house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need water. My throat is burning,” I complain loudly to the girls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet I was hot, burning with an inner fever. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then came the smell—something burning, oily. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the air was coated with the smell of burning. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face getting tight, burning in the sun. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It felt almost comic to him, burning in his throat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waves his go-chu back and forth like a fireman hosing down a burning house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He pulls away, looks into my burning face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His look warned me not to take this lighdy, but I couldn’t help wondering why an immortal, all-powerful being would like the smell of burning food. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was monstrous, shaped like a roaring, fanged mouth, a blazing fire burning within. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The British then moved on, razing fifteen more towns and burning fourteen hundred acres of corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, it was time for bed and Ophie’s questions were still a hot coal, burning quietly in her brain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Of course, many hadn’t even looked up when they’d been in the Berg right over their heads, thrusters burning louder than anything Mark could imagine. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One streetlight is burning above a historical marker and, knowing I don’t have to reach Beaver Corners before dawn, I stop and read it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heart pounding, adrenaline burning through me, everyone is my enemy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And my eyes were burning and they wouldn’t stop. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Plum! Plum! He’s burning, Mamma! We can’t even open the door! Mamma!” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ranofer stood like a culprit, head hanging and face burning with humiliation. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her face was burning with shame and fury, and she could still feel his fingers as if they had left marks on her skin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My mind is racing, speeding through the hours and days and months ahead, and my heart is pounding, and I can’t even bring myself to stop or wipe away the burning tears on my cheeks. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For tonight only, he thought, in case she decides to do any more burning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The low clouds caught the color of the burning river and roofed the sky in shades of shifting green, eerily beautiful. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I try to explain that Mam has the disease and I’m worn out trying to make ends meet, keeping the home fires burning, getting lemonade for Mam and bread for my brothers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She saw it on one burning afternoon sewing with her on the porch a short time after Meme had left for school. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It takes me only a few seconds to realize that they are photographs of suffering: narrow, pinched children with huge eyes, ditches full of bodies, huge mounds of burning papers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His eyes have turned to burning diamonds, his Noise blazing a red so fierce it’s practically steaming the water away from him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I need to go out for the evening. And the house can never be left unattended while any fires are burning, and I mean candles as well as the fireplace here in your room.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was a soft rain falling and a fire burning in the fireplace. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fire burning in the center of the hall, and the smoke stung Shadow’s eyes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

Shin, crazed with pain, smelling his burning flesh, twisted away from the heat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At the conclusion of the ceremony, we returned to our huts, where a fire was burning with wet wood that cast off clouds of smoke, which was thought to promote healing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told them I’d rather walk, thanks, and backed out of the apartment, smiling, practically delirious, my face burning under the collective gaze of cool, curious solicitude. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The stoplight at Grand flashed green and he pushed harder, spun his legs faster, enjoyed the burning sensation in his thighs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Pyp grinned, "The Night's Watch is thousands of years old," he said, "but I'll wager Lord Snow's the first brother ever honored for burning down the Lord Commander's Tower." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

He smells of burning things, hair and meat and fuel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

We battle along the straightaway, my legs burning, aching, empty. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

‘One would say that all the Wizard’s Vale was burning.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The men at the Tribune would do their best to stamp out and smother the burning embers that landed on the roof, but eventually, the fire won out. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still he watched her, but a burning was beginning in his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of their escape, the flames of the burning town had shimmered so brightly on the water that it had seemed that the lake was afire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw his banner unfurl as his standard-bearer shook it out; a burning tree, orange and smoke. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and told how after burning the cabin down, he had tried to escape by swimming. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Hundreds had come to the castle gates to bear witness to the burning of the Seven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Inside, the air was pretty thick too, filled with that sweet waxy smell of candles burning. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

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

The stars, burning diamonds in the cloudless sky, turn the road beneath their feet a silver grey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cold air blows in with the smell of burning leaves and dead things piled on to bonfires. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t, and what I remember now is that I went down the staircase burning with shame and resentment. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My baby is still in there!” cried a mother hare, pointing at the burning lodge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His own chambers in the Guest Keep had never seemed so chilly, though the thralls had left a brazier burning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We passed the burning building twice more on our long ride. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

By now he could extinguish the burning matches with his mouth quite well, but all the same Dustfinger took the box of matches away from him, and Farid looked sadly at his empty hands. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

“When he pulled us from the cabin, we fell on the ground, and the grass around us was burning,” said Masha. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I understand that the factory is not working at capacity currently, and I did observe that only one of these devices was operating, burning coal and what looked like one of the cutting tables. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Why didn’t you keep this fire burning?” he demanded, raising up the heater door and peering at the cold ashes on the grate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We race across the lawn, an acrid burning smell heavy in the night air. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

One of the three candles was still burning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have sat in the burning heat of day under a relentless sun, and under the stone gazes of a disinterested humanity.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A boy like no other, perhaps Harry could feel his face burning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He sat on the burning milestone with his matted hair and eyes like windows, and was glad to be able to look away sometimes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minli woke up when the sun was high in the sky and burning with light. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He has an idea about us burning sticks to make charcoal. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I was burning out the infection in front of someone I cared about, and that made all the difference. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

At night, it reflected light from a burning flame. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He opened it by burning the string with a lighted match. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Constant burning of undergrowth increased the numbers of herbivores, the predators that fed on them, and the people who ate them both. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So the mouse raised his head and squared his shoulders and pushed the spool of thread forward again, into the kitchen, where he saw, too late, that there was a light burning. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The acrid smell of burning cotton fills the kitchen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

An alchemist would probably live in a manner that was different from that of the rest of the people at the oasis, and it was likely that in his tent an oven was continuously burning. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their names leapt in fire, burning down the years under his axe and his hose which sprayed not water but kerosene. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who can look into the wet-mouthed smiles of children and see a meadhall burning, or listen past their musical prattle to the midnight roar of fire ? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It traced a line of fire all the way across Tyrion's face, and twisted a burning poker up his nose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The tips of his ears burning with shame, Fadi slunk into the front seat. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Fragments of burning debris had fallen into the space between the iron stack and the inner walls of the tower, made of smooth white pine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

The team had enough food for thirty days, but they were burning calories so quickly, they were constantly ravenous. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Nicolas had gone to fetch Amanda in old Covadonga, which still ran, though it barely sputtered along on its remaining nuts and bolts, lost in a black cloud of burning oil. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her new clothes, Lyddie could feel the shame burning through her rough brown cheeks. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her throat constricting, Celaena tucked the piece of paper into her pocket and hurried back toward the great room, the Wyrdmark drawn on the paper burning a hole in her clothing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Instead of burning quickly, the green chips smoldered and filled the hollow log with thick, choking smoke. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, three weeks after starting X-ray therapy, she began burning inside, and her urine came out feeling like broken glass. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Fishtail lit the pipe, and the fragrance of burning red-willow tobacco hung peacefully in the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The realization rose inside my chest like fire, burning everything in its path. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Students had gathered on the hockey field nearby, burning paper effigies of Gowon around a glowing bonfire; the smoke curled into the night air and mixed with their laughter and chatter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Some men said, long afterward, that Beowulf was killed by the burning breath of the Firedrake. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

And off they went, those six words burning holes in his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve always been the one for outdoor chores anyway, burning the trash and weeding, while my sisters squabbled about the dishes and such. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mustang left the comer in her car, burning rubber, promising to bring her new boyfriend back to kill Mike. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper had stopped burning and was just sitting there smoking. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she was shaken awake in the middle of the night by her hostess, who urged her, “You must get up, your airfield is being bombed, your aircraft are burning!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

As for sending in a burning arrow, that's more laughable than ever. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her flyer for the book burning somersaults away in the breeze. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Moses on the mountain, fire burning words into stone. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

Most of the town is at the book burning, so I should be safe. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I think to the parts of it that are burning down, and although arson is not in my personal bag of issues, I have no sympathy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the burst of energy was burning quickly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

Well, say you leave the tap running while you clean your teeth, or leave the house with a light burning, or drop a piece of litter and can’t be bothered to pick it up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library paste and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were good, a small blue flame would still be burning at the bottom of the glass when they slammed it down on the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only polite good-byes, the Crown Prince strode from the jangle and jingle of the court, the list of would-be brides burning a hole through his clothes and straight into his skin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Would he dance like that in front of a burning building? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And that burning sensation extended beyond my stomach and moved upward, where it lodged in my neck. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A part of me recalls the way he saved me from the Skiz fight, that he had helped me heal this burning wound in my side, that his hands had been so gentle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The room they stood in was small but cozy, with a fire burning in a fireplace to their right. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Yet all these billions of gently burning little fires spark the energy of life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The charred metal scent of the father’s new clothing was burning his throat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

These books were bound differently from the ones Babulya had pulled out of her burning synagogue. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

But they won’t stay still for me, they move, there’s a smile and it’s gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper’s burning, blackness eats them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After fleeing across the burning bridge, Frear went directly to where his sister-in-law’s house had been, his heart filled with grief. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now I tried to keep up a steady pace, wiping the sweat off my forehead and ignoring the burning in my legs. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

My body felt like it was burning up. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We crossed lines in sand drawn through palmetto scrub, lines down the middle of highways, soup-kitchen lines, lines of worry, souls lined up awaiting the burning tongue of salvation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And then, for no apparent reason, the balance shifts, and Michelangelo rises in their thoughts, his slumped body, the dancing flames, his burning flesh. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Flames burning in my eyes, shooting out straight at her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z