It was far enough in the bush that we knew we could manage there for at least a season or two before anyone even thought to come this way. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sprouting up from every one of the broken faults in the basketball court grew giant weeds and sticker bushes as high as our waists. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

What was that large shape behind those bushes? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked back behind the bush with my bike, and just in time, because the orange pickup came right back down the road. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

As I got up from the Mouse House, something in the bushes caught my eye. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The candlelight illuminated the world: every tree and bush and blade of grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She picked as many off the bush as she could before returning to Ekon’s side to drop them before her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Evans knocked, and a tall tea-colored woman, crowned with a bush of black hair, opened the door. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was a row of bushes that almost completely hid the muzzle flashes coming from their midst. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scrabbles back, then starts sniffing at some bushes like there ain’t nothing unusual going on in the world. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A rosebush grows there, its leaves withered by frost The sight does not sadden me, for I know the bush will bloom again next year. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Two bear cubs burst from the bush and rushed pell-mell, tumbling head over heels straight for her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

An almost ecstatic moan led them to a large bush adorned with a haphazard assortment of red, star-shaped fruit. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I start frantically shuffling down the dusty Middle Eastern road flanked by scrubby bushes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Audubon paints an active cuckoo pair within a community of other species, reaching to grasp a beetle on a magnolia bush in its native Louisiana. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

An animal—a rabbit?—moved through the bushes by the summerhouse. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We saw men, and women, and children pull back into the bushes and brambles as the train got rolling. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We all nodded then turned and pushed off into the bush like swimmers from the block. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

So the shade provided by the bushes created various tones of gray that were easier for the film to absorb. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I quickly carried the scraps bowl out into the yard, walking past the privy, all the way back to the stable wall where straggly holly bushes grew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuff the map deep into a bush and walk away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I was getting so tired that I started to forget to duck in the bushes when a car would roar by. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was looking up at the sky, trying to find the Big Dipper, when I heard someone moving through the bushes by the garage. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy drove the horses to pull the flatboat with its huge tank because it was too steep and muddy for the tractor in this bush. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in parked cars and beat the bushes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The sounds of Myanda crashing through bushes died away, along with the excited voices of the people who had followed her. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lawn’s cut, the bushes are shaped, and the house itself looks well kept and inviting. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two Sundays ago, my brother watched as the other kids on the block hunted multicolored eggs in nearby bushes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Last summer we found an arrowhead half buried under a bush. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She pulls her pants up and walks back to the fields but soon has to rush to a bush again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They inspected underneath stunted bushes, turned over chunks of rock, crawled beneath huge slabs, always watching keenly for the telltale single winding track of the adder. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I pick up a twig from the dirt under the bush behind me and trace the cracks in the bricks. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I guess we should get back to beating the bushes, then. Find my patron and find you some answers.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Since a bunch of kids are puking up their guts in the bushes out front and the neighbors are worried about alcohol poisoning. Are you hurt?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, there were long rows of bushes on both sides of a wide brick walkway and to each side of those bushes was a big lawn area with fountains. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the bushes stood a tall man wrapped in a dark cloak. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Others retreated high into the hawthorn bush, while a handful, braver than the others, flitted toward him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tool pushed Moby a little ways away, both of them bedding down in the nearby bushes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Former colonists staggered back to Waltha after years in the bush, and Maria listened to their tales of tangled jungles and swarming insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stopped in a small clearing filled with tall grasses and low bushes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Grass and rocks, bushes and rocks, vines and rocks, sand and rocks. Lots of rocks,” she said, lowering the spyglass. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He did not move while I did this, nor afterwards as I cleaned the wound with a peeled stick from a coral bush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life was closing in around her like the bushes had closed in around the rickshaw. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Oppenheimer walked home, he saw one of his scientists bent over a bush, vomiting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time they could hear him crashing through the bush until, at last, the November night gathered about them once more with its accustomed quiet. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A dead male body lay by the bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were in a residential area, driving past bungalows in wide compounds with rose bushes and faded lawns and fmit trees. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Zola, who is in the bushes hunting for snakes, seems to reply for Mr. Pomodoro with an air puff that escapes from her feet up through her whole body to her mouth. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

How long before he stepped outta the bushes and took Viola away? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Johnny likes sunshine, I like rain. Johnny likes to ride his bike—” I bolted from the bushes and ran headlong into a tall figure dressed in black. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We hid in the nearby bushes and listened to gunshots and the screams of men, women, and children. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It rose steeply and was covered by prickly bushes, vines, and bracken. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He crouched low down behind the holly bush. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Running as hard as he could, into the bush. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a challenging engagement—wet, hot, buggy, and fraught with fear for what might lie under each bush or beside each rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she crashed through the snowball bushes, still clutching the screen. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu’s heart jumped in his chest; he looked at the bush by the roadside but it was too thin to hide in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she opened the window and jumped out, falling onto the hydrangea bushes that her Aunt Ferula had planted long ago. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A block away, past a line of hibiscus bushes, the ocean churned. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hobbled the mule and tied a long rope to the burro and let them graze on the thin, bluish green leaves of salt bushes growing at the entrance to the canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine a grave dug beneath scrubby bushes, hastily covered up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brambles trailed upon the ground, or clambering over bush and bank, made shaggy caves where small beasts housed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Behind it, Battersea Park appeared as a square of dense green bushes and trees that were making a last stand, fighting back the urban spread. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She went around the bush with him, still tense. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The snow glowed blue and green and the constellations glittered, not only in the sky, but on the ice in the river and on the snow on the bushes and trees. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she drops her biscuit, you ought to tell her where it’s gone,” he said to Pantalaimon, who instantly became a bush baby and gazed at him with enormous eyes, unmoving and silent. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian had us trapped between the fence and a thicket of bushes and vines heaped with snow. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

As Neel crawled around the tree trunks and through the bushes, Rupa followed his movements with the flashlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because he had no sight, he had a great ability to interpret the noises made by animals in the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

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

Any picnic tables or playground equipment that might have once stood nearby had been swallowed up in dense, thorny-looking bushes and trees. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She heard footsteps and fell against the wood, then into a green bush. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I sat by it to rest, and there I had eye contact with a huge dark snake that retreated behind the bush. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, a gust of wind blew him to one side—-just enough to miss the highway and crash into a clump of bushes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I stuffed the L behind the bushes and walked on, enjoying the admiration of some seventh grade girls. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They walked through the bush all morning and stopped only for a short time at midday. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

So he had to look for berry bushes, but keep the lake or the rock ridge in sight at all times. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spying on Diana from the bushes was the hunter Actaeon, unaware of the grim fate awaiting him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At first he walked fast to vent his fury, but soon he slowed and began to push aside bushes and leaves. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked through the branches of the bushes and in front I could see a crowd of people and, above them, a stage holding up the moon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rip in the Noise, as big and horrible as life itself, I can hear it a little bit away, behind the Spackle buildings, behind some bushes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mostly I stayed in the grassy part and watched the monkeys as they moved about in the trees and low bushes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was watched from a bush by the hidden baboon, whose eyes glowed with anger as he saw the deception which he and his friends had suffered at the hands of the wily hare. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The other friend then slipped out of the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Mama, I think Blanca’s pregnant,” he said without beating around the bush. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bush on the edge of the clearing quivered. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Get away from me! I hate you all!” he screams as I crouch and hide in the bushes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many families left the camp, to search for relatives or to hide in the bush from the Nigerian soldiers who were coming with whips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A group of gunmen and boys emerged from under the bushes, crouched, and took quick cover behind trees. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, students would stand on the veranda and urinate into the bushes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t even think it was him, but some maniac who’d been lurking in the bushes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes rustled, and Father’s dog Ajax trotted up, pleased with himself for having found us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The tracks went on and on but finally they caught up with him sleeping under the wild rose bush. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the outskirts of Bauya just before sunset and waited in the bushes as our commander went ahead to make sure our colleagues wouldn’t shoot at us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even now, looking listlessly down, he saw a pale green tendril emerge from the lower portion of a thorny bush and slide silently toward them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I even imagined hidden microphones in the bushes that would broadcast my confession to the whole town. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The clearing narrowed, but there were none of the tangled bushes here, it was possible to walk upright. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He looked up and, out of priestly habit, smiled benignantly at Milton, his white teeth appearing in the great bush of black beard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She remembered approximately where she had seen the rats go in, and she studied that part of the bush carefully. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw these two Congs dragging a guy into the bushes.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The satyr slid into the bush Kendra had crouched behind earlier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But it’s difficult to keep to it because the bushes are thick. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead, there were more thick bushes, and he thought he ought not to go through them, in case of getting the string ripped on a branch. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She would have stopped immediately had she not still been so completely bound to the notion that this was a bush, and that she was witnessing some trick of darkness and perspective. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Up the drive, and at the back of the house, bunched between the yew trees, were the great bushes of rhododendron. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Another year, they tossed everybody into a landscape of nothing but boulders and sand and scruffy bushes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ours has green bushes that just about cover the front windows, and lots of dead leaves. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just past midday she came upon a bush growing by the stream, its twisted limbs covered with hard green berries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I am just getting ready to toss a pinecone when Zola zigs out of the house and yells into the bushes. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The chicken coop squatted between the pigsty and the mango tree, a branch of which held one end of Mami’s laundry line, the other end stretched to the trunk of an acerola bush. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Park Forest was like a miniature city of tract homes—modest ranch-style places with soft gray shingles and newly planted saplings and bushes out front. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

There was no point beating around the bush. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

With that, the old man turned away and disappeared into the bushes. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the shrine was something natural, like a special bush or stump. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I was scared he was going to come to the tent, so I hid in the bushes instead.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The housekeeper knelt in the mud beside a bush blossoming with large blue and white roses, absolutely soaked, apparently weeding. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For several days the six of us walked on a tiny path that was about a foot wide, walled by thick bushes on either side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bushes rustled, and a lean black shape came padding from behind the weirwood, teeth bared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room for more than two of them, because of the roots and bushes and the creek bank. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long they lost the course of the brook, slipping across the moonlit patches as fugitives and halting in the bushes with raised ears and staring eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard loud, wild peals of derisive laughter crashing all about him and caught blurred glimpses of wicked, beery faces smirking far back inside the bushes and high overhead in the foliage of the trees. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He kept that posture for two days, eyes open, not saying a word, still as a bush in that dry, windless heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Yet I was in a frenzy to reach that open lawn, to run for the bushes, to get away from the cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I settled into a spot between a fake bush and a stuffed rabbit. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray shapes appeared from the line of bushes straggling over a hillock. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We knew what to say because whenever the elders met, we were hiding in the bushes listening. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ears like a bush baby, but that didn’t stop the girls in port from cooing over his smooth brown skin and short black curls. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I ran into the bush to try to save the baby. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got out and positioned himself in the bushes beside the building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Tell him too,” she said, “never to pluck flowers, and to think every bush may be a goddess in disguise.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a ceiling of smoke and a bush of yellow flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

What I wanted most was to go charging into the bush to find him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The heat pulsed among the cottages and bushes and children. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the group lined both sides of the road along a hundred-foot stretch where it narrowed from encroaching bush into a single lane. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When that happens someone usually spots ’em ’mongst the trees or bushes, stealing looks and studying us hard, not sure if it’s safe to get noticed. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

On the first morning of clearing, Gibrilla’s uncle assigned each of us a portion of the bush to be cut down. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dark skin, big lips, and hair the texture of a briar bush—they were just plain unpleasant to deal with. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as they were going to swim off on their tour of inspection, a timid young roach appeared from between two waving bottle bushes of mare’s tail and hung about, looking pale with agitation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was someone on the other side of the gorse bush, watching him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I fly out of the building toward the bushes where my grandfather is waiting. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But it was just a prickly bush thing....This...this was a whole city of vines and thorns. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As he ran off into the bush, both the father and his son saw that the marks where his feet had been were marks of a lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The smell was familiar, the one he had smelled when he crawled out from under the bush, after the thunderstorm, fresh and cool, but sweet-rotten, too, from the soil and the leaf-mould. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Usually the trees were filled with birds, and frogs chirped from the bushes. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

A child’s voice, coming from behind a nearby bush, made the sound. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi ran his hands across the leaves of some bush with brilliant blue-violet flowers as they walked, releasing that green plant smell. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Left untended, maize fields filled in with weeds, then bushes and trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Such tactics were, until the mid-1930s, seen at all levels of racing, but nowhere were they used with such ruthlessness as on the bush tracks where Pollard got his start. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mong spit in the bushes and turned his eyes on me this time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They weaved around bushes and through the alleyways, Mr. Dimblewit looking around nervously almost the entire way. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

People popped out at him from trees and bushes, from ditches and tall weeds, from around the corners of tents and from behind the fenders of parked cars. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when I felt that I could no longer put one foot in front of the other, a voice boomed out of the dense bush. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

No low bush or grass could grow in that dim light, so the ground was carpeted with golden needles. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

One block, then another, then a held, past a line of trees, and into the bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As she finished speaking there was a sound from the bush beside the path and out of it there came a large lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, evidently as a warning that he must keep silent, then parted the bushes and quickly led the way along the narrow track into the wood. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A movement caught Sierra’s eye in the bushes where they had just been sitting. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Making a loud rustling sound, he leapt out of the bushes right under MacDuff 's nose. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They have to go to the bathroom number two in the bushes and we might catch it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there I was on this rocky road with no cars and no houses, and only bushes and trees on either side of me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He explained that he wanted a ride as far as the edge of Denali National Park, where he intended to walk deep into the bush and "live off the land for a few months." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cursing my own foolishness, I dropped the duffel behind a bush by the enclosure gate and skirted the nursery wall. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fruit trees and bushes in the orchard show much promise. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a garden laid out with spring water running through it, and he’s set a place apart for flowers, roses and the like, and some of the bushes are coming clear from Boston.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were rocks and weeds, bushes and trees, everywhere. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as it landed, she squawked and went back to pecking at the dandelions in the blackberry bushes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The mesquite bushes were green, and even the dagger yucca was stately as it pushed up the green stem that blossomed with white bell flowers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cruised low to the ground, skimming over bushes, dodging tree trunks, and swishing past branches. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Juniper bushes ringing the clearing would provide cover. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The landing strip at Kasane was waterlogged and we came in at a drier strip several miles away in the middle of the bush. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vegetation closed in as I neared the river, making it impossible to avoid clomping through bushes and thickets. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it was the feathers in Georgie’s hair,” Lissa said, “and the war paint. He jumped out of the bushes screaming and yelling. I guess he was trying to frighten us.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They wound and squeezed their way through bushes with fat shiny leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Oscar was really taking his own sweet time, stopping to sniff at every bush, every tossed fast-food wrapper. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The catbird stopped her fussing in the wilted lilac bush. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both kids took off, zigzagging around trees and bushes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The light faded, and the leaves on the bushes rustled softly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And killed them all, removing the right eye from each body before she left for the bush,” finished Zheegwon. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, basically, everyone. Usually I’m drawing, but sometimes not. I hide in trees, bushes, on my roof with the binoculars, wherever.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Hide, hide in the bushes, is what the voice in my head said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bushes moved as though something had recoiled, and she hurled a rock at it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rushed past the ancient sycamore trees and hid himself in the bushes, waiting for the old men to leave. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But then something stirs in the bushes behind us, and I jump in spite of myself. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, a dog poked its head out from behind the bushes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I helped Papi string colored lights across the yard, and we decorated an eggplant bush with crêpe paper flowers and cutout figures. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now that bad weather had come, almost no one ever sneaked away alone any more to peek through bushes like a pervert at the moldering stumps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A roar went up from the woods on both sides as every tree, rode, and bush seemed to sprout a spirit. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I toppled off the bike and fell straight into the bushes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Once, about a year or two ago, he was always wanting to stop off behind bushes and pee and play with himself awhile. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Soon he would call for someone to take him into the bushes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once or twice I stopped, shivery with goose bumps, and called his name, but he didn’t jump out from behind a tree or a bush as I expected. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Later, when he heard her car start and saw the glaring headlights near the bush with the white flowers, he thought she was going to collect a few things from her flat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny drone but as before it didn’t register, then suddenly, roaring over his head low and in back of the ridge a bush- plane with floats fairly exploded into his life. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On Paul Van Riper’s first tour in Southeast Asia, when he was out in the bush, serving as an advisor to the South Vietnamese, he would often hear gunfire in the distance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The trees were thin and stunted here, for they were on the edge of the tundra, but there were brambles and snagging bushes in the path. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Slammer stood in an obscure place between the Homestead and the north Glade wall, hidden behind thorny, ragged bushes that looked like they hadn’t been trimmed in ages. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He smelled something sweet, heady, as they walked into a compound, and was sure it came from the white flowers clustered on the bushes at the entrance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t rained in forever and a day, and the bushes were shrunk and crumbly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He nibbled at some stalks of grass, then, delicately, his lips rolled back over his teeth, picked a few overripe raspberries from a low bush. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane almost seemed to stop in the air, floated on down toward the lake below and to the front, and Brian remembered the last time he’d “landed” on a lake in a bush plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Creeping between the bushes and the side of the house, we heard voices and laughter. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drum went lower into the bushes just as a 110-mile-an-hour wind struck. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The kid could have stashed it in a Dumpster or tossed it in some bushes as he ran away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unfortunate cub’s head received the full force of the blow and he was sent spinning across the track into the bushes. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hid behind a bush and watched the man with the earpiece and the AK-47. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Pong waited a few seconds, then followed behind, staying in the bushes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When Lyra and Will came in with the bushes, Iorek directed them in placing branches carefully on the fire. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ravine is more filled in with bushes and trees than it used to be. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Angeline and Omakayas saw the men coming, they decided to hide and quickly dived into a heavy stand of bush. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could see it clearly, and behind it some bushes, and behind them a street—all outdoors, and nothing but air between me and them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He must have pulled it from a bush as they rode past. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tiller led them through a clump of bushes and there, on the other side, was Sairy, seated on a flat gray stone, her hand stretched toward a big black skillet full of bacon. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Papi looked around as if someone were hiding behind a bush and listening in. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was completely uninhabited, not a single bush or tree, just barren dirt to a shore of endless water. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She told Mrs. Sharpe about finding the third letter tucked neatly into the bushes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then I see Johanna, crouched beside a bush with a bowl in her hands, picking what appear to be raspberries. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

From here, I see the bush shiver as she gets closer. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They made us all stand in the compound of a house that was closer to the bush. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It might have been the mixture of twisted vlei bushes and peat she used for fuel. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the day doing the usual: raking leaves, pruning bushes, watering flowers and weeding the lawn. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we watched, a group of men dressed in civilian clothes emerged from under the tiny bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Straining to listen, forgetful of the danger, I rose up from the bushes where I hid. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan watched intently from behind a bush, certain the soldier was looking for him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him the rabbits stirred in the bush. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s on her feet, but a bush is whapping back and forth like she just tripped over it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew tractors and combines, of course, and had seen his dad’s bush hog and manure spreader and gravity wagons up close, in the barn. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Under the shadow of bushes leaning out over the water they halted and drew breath. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Seth crept ahead, staying low, using the bushes for cover, gradually making his way toward the meager line of smoke. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Tally retraced her steps to the exact window they’d jimmied, a dirty, forgotten pane of glass concealed behind decorative bushes, and found that it was still unlocked. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They had cut down the bush around the village except for the entrance from the river through which we arrived. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Or maybe not; we can do no more than speculate about what he intended to do after he walked out of the bush. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A row of raspberry bushes heavy with ripe fruit lined the other side of the bank. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat down by a clump of gorse bushes, and the woman began to undo paper packages. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Houses pass slowly with dead bushes and the frozen corpse of snow. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We helped Dadi up and moved farther away from the bushes toward a dirt road we could see dimly outlined in the moonlight. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He did a double take as he pulled his tarp off our hibiscus bush. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The lilac bushes preened at the railing, but there were no lilacs yet. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing this, our soldiers cut off the Youns’ heads and hide them in bushes or toss them in the jungle so they cannot be found. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the excess of snowball bushes that lends a semblance of green to every yard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leafy greens of bushes and trees ran together outside their car. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad went to pay for the food, I ran out of the restaurant and hid in the bushes by the parking lot. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Gale spreads the bread slices with the soft goat cheese, carefully placing a basil leaf on each while I strip the bushes of their berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

That there’s such a thing as crickets, these little bugs that hide in bushes at night and make crazy sounds together, who knows why. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Quick, powerful puffs of wind create brush and bush sparks, trees become mammoth flaming candles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dandelion shot out of the bushes, crossed the path in a flash and was on the boat beside Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father stopped watering the azalea bushes along the front walk, and they drooped and began to die. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Look here, Colonel Julyan,” he said, “there’s no sense in beating about the bush. The reason why I’m here is that I’m not satisfied with the verdict given at the inquest this afternoon.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you forgot. But I not forgot. You forgot that we would go in the bush to look for food—you forgot. But I not forgot.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Kendra looked back, understanding why Seth had called the disheveled barrier of bushes a hedge. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the journey back, the uncles fell upon Ditshabe and struck him with some rocks that they had picked up in the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When a big lilac bush threw leaf patterns on the walk ahead of us, Grandma shied like a horse. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the exception of the one holiday when my grandfather passed out just after dinner, my cousins always have to go to the bathroom outside in the bushes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“See if he wants to go outside. Show him your gardenia bush or something. I’ll keep the kids here....Wait a minute.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The terrain was flat with acacia trees, small bushes, and a few rocks that increased as we went farther into the lowlands. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They settled in villages and planted corn and squash, bush beans and berries. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was not Monday, some woman had spread out a washing on the bushes and stumps by her house. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she unpacked the boat, she saw a furtive movement in the bushes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top is a rocky outcrop of boulders and loose stones with shrubs and straggling bushes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Skinny Delivery Boy, you know I never beat around the bush. Yes or no?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Throughout the long afternoon, Matthias lay hidden at the base of a lilac bush. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Milo looked around and, for the first time, noticed dozens of them—sitting on the car, standing in the road, and lying all over the trees and bushes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The island, which was about nine square miles, had a thick belt of quite dense bush around the edge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Methuselah had sidled up into the bougainvillea bush right behind us, muttering, “Lubberlubberlubber.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran off as fast as he could to the far end of the garden and hid himself behind that clump of dirty old laurel bushes that we mentioned earlier on. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A troop of bush babies chattered as they made their way along the shore. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also hollyhocks and oleander bushes with pink and white flowers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

No bird with half a brain would build a nest in a ’zalea bush. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The rowboat had come ashore in a tangle of bushes that overhung a small bank at the side of the river. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another snaked itself out of the bushes and curled around his foot. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Presently its sound reached her ears and the throb of the engines reminded her that this was the beginning of the season when bush pilots took the gussaks out to hunt. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alaskan hunters know that the easiest way to preserve meat in the bush is to slice it into thin strips and then air-dry it on a makeshift rack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heedless of obstacles, the ogress pursued them noisily, trampling bushes and tearing through branches. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The window looked strange in the dazzling air of the desert, giving onto the deep-shaded bush, a square of thick green vegetation hanging in the air like a painting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The girl hopped over and forced apart the bushes, in which there did not seem to be an opening. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The bushes to our left shook, and my heart jumped. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She ducked behind a bush as the voices got louder. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Waving his hands above his head crazily, Hassan ran considerably faster and with more agility than Colin had ever thought possible, weaving around trees and hurdling bushes in a vain attempt to discourage the hornets. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I spent the day before Christmas fighting a holly bush with a pair of scissors. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one broad clump of bushes the little kids could hide in, if it came to that. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we went to look at the bush that was supposed to be cut, I knew tough days lay ahead. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And heard the assault coming, up the rocks, clawing up through the bushes, through the shattered trees, the pocked stone, the ripped and bloody earth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stormed away; great multicolored swarms of fairies rose into the air as she passed, angrily pushing aside bushes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were few leaves left on the bush, as the old man had been forced to eat leaves to deal with the great hunger which plagued him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Odim Street itself was shapeless and tangled, with both sides knotted in thick bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She shucked off her clothes behind a bush and struggled into Hazel’s bathing-suit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Rail fences were good to keep, Mr. Chris said, because bushes and little trees and things grew in all the corners, on both sides, and made safe places for building nests—as safe as thornbushes. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

While plotting his course— where he would have to leap, where to skirt a clump of bushes—a loud guffaw startled him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him thru branches and bushes, the river rushing closer to my right than it’s been in days. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even then he was clinging to the quality of her sugar-flawed skin, the high wild bush the bed pillows made of her hair, her bitten nails, the heartbreaking way she stood, toes pointed in. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see, moreover, that if I were quickly to go outside and conceal my person behind the large rhododendron bush beside the path, it would not be long before Mr Cardinal came by. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying the pouch with his powders in it, he left the village and returned to the bush where he had been living before he became chief. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As far as he could tell, the bushes were undisturbed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The road hadn’t been used for years, so it seemed the bus was moving through bushes, as leaves and branches heavily slapped its side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He squeezed between two bushes and seemed to disappear. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Windy lives in a neighborhood where every home has a sign in the bushes advertising its brand of security system. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was beautiful shrubbery around this house, and she would sit under a bush near the window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dust and bits of dead grass flew everywhere and until I figured out the steering, the mailbox, my mother’s flowers near the front step and a small bush were in danger. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

And I see torches through the trees, and I hurry quick and hide me in the bushes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They crossed over the tracks, and there, underneath a scraggly tree, in a circle of bushes, Edward was dropped in front of a large pair of feet. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The branches echoed with birdsong, and the paths wound around lush flower beds and between heavy emerald bushes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In no time at all they came around a clump of tangled bushes and found themselves in the place where the storehouse peered down at the sleeping cabins below. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At such times he let Nhamo lurk in the bushes while he talked to visitors. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the bushes slapped me, but I didn’t stop. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They didn’t speak, not even when they heard the man breaking through the bushes behind them upstream. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw Campion look upward nervously and another of the patrol glanced back to the cover of the bushes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Liyana sat behind a bush next to their house in the thinnest, softest grass watching customers travel up the sidewalk. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pried open her fist, got hold of the coin, and threw it into the bushes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Flurries of light-green snow began to fall, and the leaves on the trees and bushes turned a vivid orange. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She released her grip on Bull’s ear, stepped back, and began spitting vigorously into the bushes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Trees and sun and bushes and roots, squirrels and bugs and snakes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps we may have noticed an oddly shaped insect of ferocious mien on a bush in the garden and been dimly aware that the praying mantis lives at the expense of other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She kicked a shard of broken jar across the Owner’s tire tracks, sending the last squirrel sprinting back into the bushes. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Barking orders, she got the camera crew and the sound guy in position next to some evergreen bushes. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mel Willis was the owner of Hippie Queen Honey, and she lived on a shaggy, overgrown patch of berry bushes and brambles and flowers with her hives and with Priscilla. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Both of us had our moments of getting back to nature, Chapter Eleven in the U.P. and me in my bush in Golden Gate Park. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I walked around toward a big blackberry bush and found some dirty sawhorses next to a bunch of stumps. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Liddy, from the bushes, barely heard it over the hum of the air conditioner. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We never walked really on the road, but along the edge, so that we could vanish into the bushes or a ditch if anyone came along. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Snuffy crept quietly into some bushes and saw that they were naked in the big shallow pool, Joe passionately munching on Nancy’s plump flesh; chill autumn winds whistled down the river. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took us a few minutes to rise from under the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was an area that had bushes, and baby trees, and benches, and a neat water fountain. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mom hated his handiwork, saying he’d made it look more like a bush than a tree. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing to be seen but clustering bushes and water weeds and low-hanging boughs of yew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sap began to rise in the sugar bush, and Cutler’s was in a frenzy of activity. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were the same green shade of a snake I had seen once, slithering across the yard near the hibiscus bushes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the sunlight, telephone wires looked like glass strings high overhead, bushes glistened like cakes made of diamonds, starbursts of frost etched themselves against our windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Not by a rainy season come and gone where none was supposed to be, nor by the plain green bushes changing themselves bang into poinsettias. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall azalea bushes hide my face, but I can see through enough to spot an approacher. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Do I think the investigator’s going to hide out in the bushes near Judd Travers’s place for a week just to see for himself? Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing aside a few branches, he made an opening in a row of bushes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon they were in the shelter of the bush, but it was a long time before they halted for the night. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It veered to the right, missing the bird and bouncing into the bushes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He flapped his wings to help himself over a bramble bush and was flying. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As I crossed the field, I knew that I risked having Marissa rush out of the bushes at any moment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The right fork is narrower with higher bushes on each side and even tho it’s night you can just tell it’s dusty. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Knife, a much smaller and more fit man, zigzagged after Rita as she darted around hillocks and bushes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie was a funny sight, hardly higher than a currant bush, but drawn up like a man in his worn boots and his father’s old woolen shirt with the sleeves rolled. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the bushes, Uncle pointed out a clump of rocks up ahead and told Salva to walk as far as the rocks. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the rose of Sharon bushes, Peach stopped, ran his fingers across the graceful branches, and then looked to the top of Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only thing making any sound was the crickets chirping away in the bushes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Scoot uptown and bring me a twenty-five-pound sack of sugar. Tell them to stick it on my bill. After that I want every gooseberry off them bushes out back.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a valley of mere earth, rock and water; there was not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass to be seen. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He unzipped his anorak, and carried it over to one of the bushes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Two carefully watches the bushes along the sidewalk for a lurking bogeyman or worse. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

While the bike was now traveling parallel to the bushes, I wasn’t. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

From the bushes, I spied Met Bong and Met Preuf together by the fire. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A honeycreeper sang from the bushes outside the window. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny would take Ess up the dunes and into the lush green center of the island, full of fruit trees, berry bushes, chickens, and the stream. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Excuse my rudeness, but at my age there’s no point in beating around the bush. Your appearance is quite stylized. Are you one of those—what are they called, gothics?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She put her suitcase beside one of the overgrown bushes that grew by the screened porch, and they all walked down to the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often the only companions along the path would be the lizards scurrying off in the dust or the cicadas screeching in the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then he rose and moved around the flames, eating berries off imaginary bushes and catching fish from an imaginary stream. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Obediently, he quieted and stared in the same direction at the spindly maples that made up their stand of sugar bush. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

With their hands free, they took up tools and beat from the bush their own food and shelter and their own fine business of right and wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men had walked around to the far side of the bush, the side near Mrs. Frisby’s tree. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He did not stay on the blacktop but went along the edge, the side toward Burden Creek, walking where there were trees and bushes to hide him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grayish green salt bushes had taken over the areas between the crisscross of big arroyos. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He examined the bushes, the branches, the ground for a berry, a nut, anything. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arranged all in a row were several of these animal bushes—fantastic creatures as tall as the house, standing guard against the woods—including a winged griffin, a rearing centaur, and a mermaid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He climbed out of the car and looked at the strip of tarmac with thick bush on either side and thought of the people who did so much with so little. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The trees and bushes were covered with mist. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just nodded, making my way through the bush but still behind the trees so I had a better view of the green bowl of the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I zipped myself up and squatted behind a clump of bushes. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It was a little creepy, all abandoned like that, and when the blackberry bush rustled, I ran back toward the barn and decided that was enough exploring. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then, when the butterflies have finally stopped, on a low tropical bush with pink flowers, and he’s down on one knee focusing his binoculars, three uniformed men in a jeep drive up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes thinned and the sounding bracken grew rarely in the the swampy earth, so that they could move three times as fast. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was heading back to the house one night when he heard a noise through the bushes. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the dark hair sprouting in bushes along his fingers. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was a deep indentation at the base of where two bushes overlapped. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The Regiment moved on across the open place and through a cornfield and some low bushes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The courtyard is full of ants, the bushes full of wasps and dirt daubers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On my way out, I hunted around for our copy of the Examiner, finally found it in the bush beside the front porch, one of the spastic paperboy’s favorite spots. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When the headman arrived at the bush in which the old man lived, he was saddened to see him in such a state. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Hermione made purple and gold streamers erupt from the end of her wand and drape themselves artistically over the trees and bushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After beating about the bush a little, he said suddenly:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Me and Peewee opened up on the first clump of bushes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a butterfly bush and yellow sunflowers, cosmos, daisies, daylilies, two birdbaths full of water. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Johnson got down in a prone position and started stitching the bushes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had a crush on a blueberry bush once,” Juniper said miserably. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hurtling through the bushes on the high hillside of the trail a small, black-tipped wheaten body leaped the last six feet down with careless grace and landed softly at their feet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen a hunted deer run from the open field and take cover in a shadowed bower, panting among the tangled bushes and brambles that she prays will keep her unseen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It had been a long two weeks in the bush. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river of mud whisked her downhill, slamming her into rocks and dragging her through bushes and sweeping her straight toward a cliff! The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And how about that letter she had just found in Mrs. Sharpe’s bushes? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully he hid the bicycle in thick bushes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small plane, the type bush pilots use to carry people over the roadless tundra and across the rugged mountains of Alaska where cars cannot go. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind an overgrown forsythia bush was a plaster Virgin Mary as tall as their waists, with a blue painted hood draped over her head in the manner of an Indian bride. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A little white chicken came out of the blackberry bushes out behind the barn on Great-Uncle Jim’s farm the other day. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Dots of sun danced on the green walls of the shady grove above low bushes weighted with pigeon peas, the earth screened with twigs, sensitive moriviví plants, and french weed studded with tiny blue flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to believe how silent it all had been a moment ago, and how Biafran markets now thrived so easily in the bush since the Nigerians bombed the open-air Awgu market. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they traveled to the sugar bush, the family packed as lightly as possible. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting on the low brick wall by the bushes next to the faculty parking lot, which is where we wait for Grace to pick us up every Monday after school. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Anyone still alive would have fled into the bush, and no one knows where they are now.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I swore I thought I saw some Congs dragging a guy through the bushes,” Monaco said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that Dobby deserved just as grand a funeral, and yet here the elf lay between bushes in a roughly dug hole. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There, sheltering behind a small bush, was a bird which looked almost the same as the milk bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“You could write about dragons too,” Tony said, now knighting a small boxwood bush. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On termite mounds Nhamo discovered jabvane bushes with purplish black fruit, and in dense thickets near the water grew brambles with dark, sweet berries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He counted two houses and nearly missed the third, so high and unbridled were the dark bushes in front of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man tied it tightly to a low branch of a bush. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was there he found the paper falcon, hanging like an ornament in the yew bush. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Harry waited until Lockhart was out of sight, then pulled Ron out of the bush and up to Hagrid’s front door. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He turned around and began walking to the west, back toward the bus, back into the fickle heart of the bush. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clipped my fingernails smooth where they had broken every which way while I was grabbing at bushes and trees and Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bullets continued to fly behind us, but now their redness could be seen as they pierced through the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

No tree or bush grew on it, no plant but the bowing sea-grass. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I cut down the path to the terrace below, where the ball is caught in the prickly thistle of a blackberry bush. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His door opened and he stepped out and started walking slow toward my bushes. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

We moved to a completely dark area behind a collection of bushes to regroup. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Behind him lay the parking lot, a vast open space where occasional clumps of planted bushes spread long shadows over the ground. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crash crash tumble crash! . .. through a thicket of weeds and bushes ... A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mom used to put a glass jar on its ledge with clippings from the hydrangea bush next to the garage. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of sitting among the dead bodies, the bundles of food, crates of ammunition, and bags of drugs, we took cover in the nearby bushes and guarded the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A quick, ear- splitting boom that shook the ground, which continued to tremble even after the noise ceased, vibrating so much that the bushes around them danced. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I peer through the bushes, afraid the Careers have returned, trapping me here for an indefinite time. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He waited, his eyes vigilant, watching the surrounding bushes for the next attack. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She plunged deeper and deeper into the bush until the sensation of power left her and she fell to the ground unconscious. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding my hand to keep his balance, as trees and bushes made strange, sliding movements in his peripheral vision, Lefty was confronting the possibility that consciousness was a biological accident. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’d only find them when winter came, and suddenly the bush would be scattered with tiny plastic people deep within its branches. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he doesn’t, I hide the stand and stool in some bushes for next week and head back into the woods toward home. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Their road was only a scar through the waste of thin snow and leafless bushes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Rafik thought she had passed the camp and was heading down through low bushes and scraggly trees toward the runways at the abandoned airport. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom jumps from the taxi in her sling-back pumps and runs past the giant bird of paradise bushes, past the rotting pawpaw tree, and up the three front steps of Abuela Celia’s house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaloko said he saw this from the nearby bush where he hid. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I walked around the corner, and way down this side, which seemed to go on for another mile, was the moose, blocking the path between the brick and a dense thicket of bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I touch the fuzzy frizz I call mine; it’s bushed out of the scrunchie. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When they finished pruning the rose bushes she washed her hands and took the package to her bedroom to open it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Anastasia and Mushie descended from the trees and joined me on the ground as we came upon a field planted with short, weedy bushes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But they’d camped there at the spring; and the bee myrtle had been blooming white that day, and seemed like in every bush there was a mockingbird, singing his fool head off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of it was a lovingly manicured bush grown to chest height. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Thing 1, Thing 2 and Thing 3, along with Markie, sat quietly under the lilac bush, and I congratulated myself. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We immediately got off the path and walked in the bushes toward the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I follow the sidewalk until I get to the security gate, then I dart into the bushes. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The man in the horn-rims walked around the edge of the bush, examining it closely. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Axelroot did pretty well for himself as a pilot in the Congo, transporting perishable goods from the bush into the cities for retail sale, and he was also active in the diamond trade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment longer, he began to retrace his steps, keeping close to the bushes, until he came to the broken wire fence at the entrance to the allotment. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We hurriedly deviated from the path, running into the bushes and lying on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I sketched the buds peeking from the berry bushes. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He slipped out of the hut and put the bowl down at the edge of the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He was halted by another grenade that exploded, causing his remains and blood to sprinkle like rain on the nearby leaves and bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Impalas grazed around the baboons as though they were bushes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car finally pulls up to a house at the end of a street, where round bushes and rocks adorn the front path. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was also true of the cement squares of the walkway leading up to the Perfect House, which were bordered by perfectly matching azalea bushes, all the same height, alternating between pink and white blossoms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If she needed to, she could break and run, away from the bushes where her family slept. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The headset barely fits around his bush of hair. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The woman was pointing out the flowers and the leaves of the bushes in order to cajole the girl forward towards the building. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the heath stood a clump of hoary juniper bushes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This part of the journey was often interrupted because at the faintest sound of a motor, the Tillermans ducked into the bushes at the side of the road and hid. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled me behind a thorn bush and we collapsed, both breathing heavily. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In front of each house was a tiny lawn planted with either morning glories or a hydrangea bush. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

To his surprise, Leader followed the frog, pushing his way through thick bushes, and found that it had led him to the place where the path resumed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

At tie sound of her voice, Weasel came creeping out from the bushes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Between two scraggly bushes is a bench with cigarettes strewn on the ground. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Closing my eyes, I smell her red bush tea, the shea butter she rubs on her skin. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Grover stood in the middle, facing three really old, really fat satyrs who sat on topiary thrones shaped out of rose bushes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He reached the shore and pulled himself onto a rock by a creosote bush. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, I know something is after me; it is looking for me in nearby bushes, looking to kill me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paces the patio, lighting cigarettes he forgets to finish, flicking the butts into the ginger bushes nearby. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

If we swirled around the oak tree the way Dismay had swirled earlier, we’d be bashed into the rose of Sharon bushes that sprayed the bottom of Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A bush baby, or galago, is a small, squirrel-like animal related to a monkey. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had to do with peeing in the bushes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No Czech revolutionaries jumped out from behind the bushes to free us, but the Czech people fought back in less violent ways. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we had crossed the clearing, the rebels sent some of their men to catch those who had made it into the bush. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bush went still, the brown feathers of the wrens merging with the branches. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was glad I was going to be getting a ride but I said, “Sir, I left my suitcase over in the bushes, can we please get it?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t react in time to catch him before he crashed into a bush. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I squat behind a bush, panting panting. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the light filled out, the birds started chattering above their heads, and all round them, every bush was thick with birds. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Closer to the house, vibrant bushes of hibiscus reached out and touched one another as if they were exchanging their petals. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact, they’ll probably want to bulldoze that bush out of there. I can do that with the big tractor.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night, the two elder boys crouched in a bush near the furthest field, waiting to see if anything would come back to wreak havoc. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The Minute Men, from behind stone walls and barns, trees, bushes, had opened fire. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On each side stood a sable bush—holly or yew. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The boy obeyed his aunt, but all the time he was listening for any sounds to come from the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

My family had never had a Christmas tree, but I remembered how once I had helped Papi wind colored lights around the eggplant bush that divided our land from Doña Ana’s. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

That is, except for these last few years out in the bush where we ran and home was a campfire and a canvas tent, not that it was bad. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

At once, birds rose up in alarm from the bushes, and flew off through the wood.'Are you O.K.?' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Nehemia nodded, staring at a barren bush in front of them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had been queen of the cabin and the straggly fields and sugar bush up there on the hill. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A posthole digger, shovels, a few bags of quick-set concrete, large buckets with lids, a role of fencing wire, pliers, and a couple of hammers were piled on the ground near the bushes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cadaver pointed to the rhododendron bush and then at the axe, but Mr. Birkway shook his head. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Park Service rangers don’t hide their pickups,” he said to Mole, and walked noiselessly around the thicket until he found where the bushes had been cut down to let the green pickup enter. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that Louisiana’s grandmother stuck her hand out of the azalea bush and grabbed Raymie’s ankle. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Unsettled, I drew back quickly and concealed myself behind some bushes to observe their intentions as they entered our small building. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Every bush in the foothills is full of them.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

A low bush nearby had blossomed in tiny gray balls. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I spun around, but all I saw behind me was a stubbly holly bush. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He kept it directly before him as he picked through bushes and vines and trees, the thick rotting floor of the forest crunching beneath his feet, reminding him of where we all go. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

For this she was put to scragging, second-picking the bushes that had a few inferior puffs left on the twigs by swifter hands than hers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Frisby, up on her branch, was staring at the blackberry bush again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush—climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She looks around at the scraggly grounds, the overgrown bushes, the abandoned houses. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The combine has broken down for the third time in as many days, and Westerberg is frantically trying to replace a hard-to-reach bushing before nightfall. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too effing right I’ve got a gun, Todd boy,” he calls, no longer searching round but coming straight for us, getting his horse to step over bushes and round trees. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She hit the screwdriver at a weird angle, and it flew into the bushes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They eyed the wolves uncertainly, and when Summer returned to Hali's corpse to feed, Joseth dropped his knife and scrambled for the bush, heaving. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Chrissie said she might even come home for a while tonight. I’m driving in after her when we’ve got through this bush...” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I crossed the grass quickly, placed my person behind the bush, and before long heard Mr Cardinal's footsteps approaching. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to fear,” whispered Louisiana’s grandmother from where she was crouched in the azalea bush. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He once picked fruit from one of his father’s trees and hid it in the bushes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were supposed to feed it the slumber berries in these bushes. But you managed it well enough.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They gathered up the linen, yoked in the mules, and were about to start home when they saw a wild-looking naked man suddenly step out of the bushes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doha’s own courtyard was lush, with pink peonies and golden forsythias, magnolia and plum trees, and azalea bushes that bloomed to a man’s height. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nate quickly ripped off the coat and silver hat and tossed them into a bush, along with the musket and bayonet. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what kind of bushes they were, but the leaves had a rich smell like sandalwood, and there’s nothing I like better than scented sheets. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then one day he rejoins his unit in the bush. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was absolute sweetness, like a drift of scent from a lilac bush. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

There would be a glimpse of green—the landscaped lawn around the Central Plaza; a bush on the riverbank. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, all I can do is take tiny sips from my bottle and watch a beetle crawl up the side of a honeysuckle bush. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They headed for the side of the house where the bushes were thick. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went through a white gate, past a row of rose bushes, up the stairs to the house. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And how at night the bush crickets had sounded like creaking stars and amplified the fear and gloom that hung over the Ayemenem House. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bush fought back, then yielded angrily, snapping and crackling before the inexorable thrust of steel. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And people who cut that grass and trim those bushes. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I pitched a rock at a stray cat prowling through our bushes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She did run fast, as fast as a child, although she was a wrinkled woman, an outburst that jumped at us from bushes, between cars, between buildings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was grubby, sweat streaked, comprehensively bushed, and rank enough to turn heads. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wore cheap, printed Terylene bush shirts over his white mundus and the ugliest plastic sandals that were available in the market. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea that simply walking through trees, bushes, on untrammeled ground could be so hard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light had faded and faded, sucking the colour out of the trees and bushes, until everything around them looked pale brown, like an old photograph. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They lugged the bush to the opposite side of the yard where there was a mound of dirt, and they replanted the bush. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Look in the bushes!” a captain was shouting. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shone onto the leopard—and turned it into a bush! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went forward and in a very short time found themselves looking down from among the bushes and undergrowth on the edge of the railway cutting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hiding ten boys in the bushes was not easy, but somehow Fadi and the others hunkered down behind the leafy branches while Ravi stood near the designated meeting spot. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Raymie heard a rustle of something in the bushes, the hum of electricity from the streetlight, the buzz of insect wings. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The bushes were blooming white and smelled sweet. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know what in the hell he was talking about, but we liked fashioning bows and arrows and whooping to each other through the bush and feeling all Chiefy. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They had to stalk her, one on each side of the garden, and Nat finally dived full length under a bush, dragged the cat out, and wrapped it tightly in his own shirt. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The four of them scrambled for cover, each taking shelter behind a different tree or bush, as two men walked into the forest. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the bush, they stopped as if in confusion, ran to the left, ran to the right, then fled back into the woods again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"And I want the truth, Ali! No more beating around the bush!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He did not stop until he got to Odim Street and past the bush with the white flowers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The most petite sheet-wearing person touched my arm and gestured for me to walk away from that gathering toward another patch of bushes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They gathered armfuls of the bush and carried them back up toward the cave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He heads into the field, which must have tall grass in it and some smallish bushes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Iorek said, “Below the first spur on the track, there is a bush with resinous wood. Bring as much of that as you can.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finding them was rather like an Easter egg hunt, because many of the hens preferred to lay under bushes, rather than inside the henhouses. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the shelter of the dark bushes Hannah faltered, clutching at Kit’s arms. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BFG pointed through a gap in the bushes, and there, not more than fifty yards away, she saw a man padding softly across the lawn. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having crawled through a bramble bush for the prickly poppy, I was feeling a bit prickly myself just then. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then he heard a rustle and saw a little eddy of dislodged snow in the bush to which Hermione had pointed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Taryn asks, giving up on the bush after the brambles make her fingers bleed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After a while, though, they went off into thicker bush, where the trees grew closely together and there were many places for the animals to hide. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The lights blinded me for a second and then I ducked into the bushes again. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I remember it was a scorching summer day and I was driving up a rutted dirt road, nothing on either side but sunbaked bushes, gnarled, spiny tree trunks, and dried grass like pale straw. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small bench beyond the grove of bushes, sheltered from the rest of the yard and the house. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He fell unconscious into the bushes then everyone rushed him at once. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Wes saw another man, wearing a woodland camouflage shirt, crawling from beneath the bushes, reaching in his waist, and pulling out a weapon. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As the sun came over the rim of the desert and light flooded the little hillocks and bushes all around, Matt curled up in the shelter of a rock and cried. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed down a path to their left that wound into the bushes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then, the bushes ended, and they came out abruptly into a clearing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Here’s what she asked me yesterday: “Don’t the hydrangea bushes look pretty today?” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As I crossed a narrow ravine crowded with low trees and bushes I got very close to a beautiful red-gold bushbuck—a forest antelope about the size of a long-legged goat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pig, he was sure, was keeping out of sight in the bushes. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

At first he thought Beano had managed to sneak up on him again, but the old lady sitting in the bushes was even more repulsive than a gorgon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Joey went inside the minimart, and I went around back and peed in the bushes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Marcus noticed a glint among the dull sunlit stones and bushes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The dog ran in circles around the girl, sniffing the weeds, the bushes, the trees. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They sprinted down the dirt road, Ben taking a commanding lead with every stride, until he heard Sammy trip over a stump and somersault into an oleander bush. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think that porcupine could see me in the bushes, but when I went for his throat, suddenly there were quills in my face!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The man was on his hands and knees, leaning his face into the middle of a bush; he grunted something that kind of sounded like a “Yeah?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In that hour, she spent ten minutes in the rice field and the rest of the time in the bushes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Phoebe and I saw her slashing and hacking away at the bushes in her back-yard.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

If it rained, they could go under the bushes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We let go of one another’s hands and hid in the nearby bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even in the deep bush, where you could die any number of ways, the war was nakedly and aggressively boring. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He walked down the mountainside to the road and sat under a large rhododendron bush. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I keep my balance for the first part, grabbing weeds and bushes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She found him rubbing salve into the leg of a sheep that had caught itself in a thorny bush. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His sugar bush was scraggly and his oat crop barely enough to feed his growing family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we swung the machetes and axes, their weight would send us flying into the bushes, where we would lie for a bit and rub our aching shoulders. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He did calisthenics each morning to get in shape for the rigors of the bush and discussed backcoun- try survival strategies at length with Bob, a self-styled survivalist. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It took them some time to find him, but at last they reached the bush where he lived. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fitzgibbon had always wanted a lilac bush; they were her favorite shrubs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted Hamlet and Horatio reclining in the shade of a great bush, while their horses grazed on sweet grass nearby. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They scrambled out of the bush and started down the hill. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and in the bushes I saw there were more men with submachine guns and grenade launchers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The flickering images were a far cry from Lourdes’s childhood home: a two-room shack made of wooden slats, its flimsy tin roof weighted down with rocks, the only bathroom a clump of bushes outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This gave him time to evaluate different people’s grass and bushes and cars, and to ponder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall of bushes extended as far as Kendra could see in either direction. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The sun made even the dense holly and hawthorn bushes on the edge of the clearing look harmless. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I stayed motionless behind my bush, watched, and wondered. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just in time to see him skip down the front steps, pluck the morning paper off the hibiscus bush, look at it for a moment, and then toss it back toward the front porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then I went back through the bushes and over to Mrs. Wheeler. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this, there was a rattle in the bushes, and Werfel appeared—“Hold, you scoundrel du Burgh!”—hopping on one leg, trying to untangle his bedsheets from the bushes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Then one night, we heard a commotion in the bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Even if unconsciously, you decide which bush looks most promising, and whether it’s worth it at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, they were too frightened to move, and had to sit in their bush while the great elephants ate as many pumpkins as they could manage and destroyed many more. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Whatever these two intended, he and Lyra could still get away through the window he’d opened behind the bush on the path below. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Taran rolled up in his cloak under the protection of a bush. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Doc,” he called, “here’s another entrance in the bush, and there’s a hole just inside it.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Later, crouching near a bush, hugging my knees to my chest, the mother’s words echo in my mind and despair creeps into my heart. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped when he saw her hiding in the bushes around the side, gripping a huge carving knife and all dressed up to look like a Pianosan farmer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She pulled her family into the bushes and told them to lie down. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They darted from tree to tree, from bush to bush, constantly looking behind them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ugwu sang along and wished, again, that he could join the Civil Defense League or the militia, who went combing for Nigerians hiding in the bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pax watched Runt all night and into the next day from a bush not far away. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took my coveralls off and stashed them in the bushes just down from the station. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They take clients into the bush to hunt big game. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start on the leaves suffocating the bushes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The young man explained that he had seen the old man living in a bush not far away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When the sick feeling was gone I pulled into the willow bushes and rested again, my arms around some brush, holding tight with my hands to the branches. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She threw open the door and ran to bushes and vomited until she dry-heaved. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer reached out and pulled his glasses from his face and flung them into the bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

While the stranger ducked back and forth, Taran slashed and thrust, hacking wildly at bushes and branches. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Turn left where purple fluffy wands arch on tall bushes inviting butterflies. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was a steep climb through tough little foot-high bushes and a million small jagged stones. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wound their way down the hill and moved slowly along the bank, picking their way over stones and around bushes until Florida said, “Wait. Stop.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

After he left, Kainene said, “He roasted a fantastic bush rat for us last week. But you would have thought it was a rack of lamb the way he went on about it.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Three or four of them emerging from bushes and shrubbery, running, crouched, keeping themselves low. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground that was once lush and green, filled with bushes and flowers, is now dead and buried under outdoor tents and food carts, where thousands of shoppers traverse everyday. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there and looked hard at all the bushes and trees and junk and everything, to make sure nothing moved. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Oh God,” Mary Lou said, and threw up in a bush. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The battle raged on and on, down the side of the mountain, over huckleberry bushes, fallen logs, and rocks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know when I find it, crowning the top of a slender bush. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had gone back and forth gathering sap from the sugar bush. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I slip out of the bushes and cross to one of the round metal plates that lifted the tributes into the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The hen’s reproachful eyes followed us as we ran around the bush, her body aflutter, her head whirling on her body until it seemed that she would screw herself into the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her goats were tethered to a thorn bush, which they chewed without enthusiasm. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We -paint its shell a bright red, Hassan’s idea, and a good one: This way, we'll never lose it in the bushes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey stood up and went around the far corner of the house to pee behind a large evergreen bush. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bend in the stream, and it ran through a long, low arch of hawthorn bushes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He found the trees and began to pick the fruit, but a little later he heard the sound of something in the bush beside him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I fetched the extra key from its hiding place in the bushes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Over the next months, Allen’s squad was repeatedly sent into the bush for three or four weeks at a stretch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And off toward some bushes were two wooden sawhorses, a few feet apart. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Inside an alder bush, just ahead of him, a family of wrens was darting and hopping about, their tails sticking upwards like Indian head-dress feathers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The tall trees thinned out, bush and undergrowth were sparse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It felt so good, the big car snorting and the steering wheel shimmying and the bushes and trees on both sides turning into green blurs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With two burly hands, he lifted the twisted heap of a bicycle off the ground and threw it into the bushes. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even Warbeak was beginning to feel the effects of prolonged low nighttime fluttering, through the woodlands, around trees, over bushes; it was not the same as a clear, clean flight through the upper atmosphere. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Remarkable men,” the count said, glancing at the workers who were making sure that, from above, the black stretch of tarmac would look like bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Away from the house, near Doña Ana’s, the latrine with palm frond walls under a zinc roof was hidden from the road by hibiscus bushes and an avocado tree. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

More often than not, they did not believe in conversation, their dispositions reflecting the rough, atonal quality of the land, which after the droughts consisted mostly of the gnarled limbs of low-lying mesquite bushes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interlocked bushes ranged from ten to twelve feet tall, and they looked really thick. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Graceful trees and bushes were growing along the riverbanks—weeping willows and alders and tall clumps of rhododendrons with their pink and red and mauve blossoms. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Ready, Frolic?” she called, and the puppy scampered to her from the bushes where he had been pawing at a rodent’s hole. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s ’cause he’s a little gentleman, Jake,” his girl called out from behind the bush. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It might be a mouse hiding under a leaf, a squirrel twitching its tail on a tree trunk, a blue jay calling from a bramble bush. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to be light enough so I could see the bushes along the shore-line. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bush grew rounder, taller, its leaves thick and green. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The creepers and the bushes were so close that he left his sweat on them and they pulled together behind him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I watched from the bushes for a time, knowing I’d been wrong about Shady and his drinking. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

He stopped to ease himself near a bush, but because the bush was wilted it did not give good cover. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped into the cover of the bushes, stumbling as the world became dark and light and tilted. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

R.C. walked across the yard and out through the bushes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

In a hidden place in the garden, surrounded by bushes, we had our “camp,” where we could light a little fire and boil water in a tin can, balanced on rocks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sadly he lay down by an unrewarding blueberry bush, drew his paws down tightly over his blackened face, then licked the dirt off them. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan points to a small white rectangle just in front of the flower bush. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The lane widened, and in a minute he came to the footpath she had told him of, a mere cattle track which plunged between the bushes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her pumiced spear at the ready, Sosie crouched behind the bush to watch and wait. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There was no guessing what mineral wealth hid in the soil, untapped because the old ferns, flowers, bushes, and trees had tired themselves to death. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great-great-aunt Florentine had stuffed lavender sprigs in her pockets and in her pillows, in her drawers, in her hair—she had been a walking lavender bush. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Feather spotted something in a bush and got low, his tail parallel to the grass. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I can see everything from the leaves on the trees to a skunk strolling through the bushes a good fifty feet away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One day, as soon as we had left the forested area of a village we had bypassed, a group of huge, muscular men sprang from the bushes onto the path in front of us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A few feet away, Gale the weasel appeared from the bushes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Often they appeared from the bush walking on stilts, towering above the crowd and screaming in different tongues. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I knew they wouldn’t be far from it, just under the closest bush, so I turned and worked back toward the road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there are no berry bushes here to bend under the polar wind and point to the south. Nor are there any birds I can follow.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they hid in the bushes to watch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together, the roar of the forest rose to thunder and a tall bush directly in his path burst into a great fan-shaped flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was the man he’d seen not ten minutes before, stark dead in the bushes with his throat cut. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We continue walking, past the end of the train, out where even I'm fairly sure there are no cameras hidden in the scrubby bushes along the track. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

That was when I heard the rustling in the bushes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here, bushes and a wild tangle of creeper made a mat that kept out all the light of the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not much grew around Midland other than the Joshua tree, cacti, and the scrubby little creosote bushes that Dad said were some of the oldest plants on the planet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see tiny red berries on the bushes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rustling noise in the bushes startled me, and turning toward it, I saw a pair of fascinated eyes in a dough-white face. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the bush with red berries that were probably poison. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was inside the bush, and it was dark. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Spreads the limbs of lilac bushes low enough to hide you. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt retreated into the cover of a creosote bush. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx peered over the bush in front of him just in time to see a young woman raise her parasol and march off. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had not seen Snail’s mother hiding in the bush, and he had not heard her chuckles as she threw the money out before them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They rode for miles, going slow and careful, dismounting to lead the horses over treacherous ground, letting the good-for- bear-bait hounds sniff at every bush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Concealed by a clump of bushes, I flatten out on my belly and slide under a two-foot stretch that's been loose for years. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They went through the opening behind the bushes, and back, down the stairs and passages, into the cave. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Two policemen stepped out from behind a bush, and the birds stopped their chatter. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every morning, Hassan placed a flower on the little mound by the sweetbrier bushes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And there was always the danger that a voracious army of ants would swarm through, eating up their specimens and leaving trees and bushes “clean as the handle of a broom.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We went over to the bushes and I grabbed my suitcase. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a pair of gloves from Abuela and got onto my hands and knees to help spread the dirt around the base of the floribunda bush. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We lifted him up and began walking slowly through the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As he was rebuttoning his pants, there was sudden motion in the under brush as a dark shape thrashed its way free of some nearby bushes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Behind me some blackberry bushes gave off a sweet smell, and there were bees humming in the blossoms. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just above the bridge, between it and a thorn bush upstream, was a ledge of turf which overhung the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrubby plants sprouted between the rows of stone benches, so it looked like a concert for thorn bushes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Here and there scrub pines and bushes jutted from the granite surface. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Knight Bus rolled through the darkness, scattering bushes and wastebaskets, telephone booths and trees, and Harry lay, restless and miserable, on his feather bed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s let—the fields and pasture and sugar bush for the debt. The house and shed we’ll just leave be. I hope the snow don’t do in the roofs.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We ran around the yard a couple of times to throw them off then sneaked into the oregano bushes that grew thick and fragrant behind the outhouse. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

These children defecating earnestly or weakly, according to their destiny, in the bushes? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees draped in Spanish moss were even spookier, the brambly bushes thicker, the hairy vines more twisted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I tramped the hills seeking out the huckleberry bushes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decide it’s time to stop beating around the bush. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, there was Rose, sitting on a log about twenty meters into the bush, her backpack at her feet. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I remember the brass porch light with its fierce yellow glow, my own feet, the juniper bushes along the front steps, the wet grass, Linda close beside me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came around the bush, he was walking upright, saying, “Come here, you have to see this.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She searched through the forest for them, looking under all the trees and bushes and into all the secret forest places which leopards like to lie in. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The snowball bushes outside the window swayed gently. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I never wanted it to be like that. But she kept saying no. I could have had her in the bushes years ago if that was all I wanted.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stomped around, looking in the bushes, and splashed through the waterfalls. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were larger rocks and some scraggly bushes eight or nine yards to one side of him; it was all op>en on the other side. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the time a car would come by and I’d have to duck into the bushes and wait till it had passed, so I don’t think I was doing any five miles a hour. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a landscape!” thought Laurie, peeping through the bushes, and looking wide-awake and good-natured already. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked, I became afraid of the road, the mountains in the distance, and the bushes on either side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bushes that covered its entrance were gone. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Annual plants therefore waste little energy on making inedible wood or fibrous stems, like the body of trees and bushes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lark’s two maids were rushing wildly about the garden, looking under bushes and up in-to the trees as people do who have lost their most valuable possession. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

At the back of Heart is a dumpster and some tall trees and some bushes that haven’t been trimmed in years. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was utterly bare: a platform of tumbled rocks with not a blade of grass to be seen, no tree, no bush, nor any moss or lichen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Virgen reached over, plucked a perfect blossom from the bush and handed it to me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

By the trail, in the bushes, was a spotted shadow. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of these things, we decided to bypass villages by walking through the nearby bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He beheaded the dried blooms of a hydrangea bush. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As they got farther into town, the houses got bigger and sat on yards carpeted with green and full of thick bushes and enormous shade trees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He left his clothes on the blueberry bushes and moved to the edge where his pale toes clenched the rock. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As soon as his car was gone, Petra hopped out of the bush. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was against the law, of course, so he had concealed the truck behind some bushes, off the trail, under a big beech tree. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They planted it with trees—hazel, alder, birch, and dogwood—as well as privet hedges and holly bushes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my basketball went into the bushes by your garage. I was just retrieving it.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun was at its height, he tried and failed to sleep among some low bushes; and as the evening approached, he was footsore and weary. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He saw a sage bush far ahead in the distance, and in a few moments zoomed right by it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

A car was turned on its side, flames rising to the sky like the burning bush we learned about in Sunday school. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Alfred guided him over the rocks and the bushes and the new snow, toward the lights of the avenue. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd be hidden by bushes and the barn through much of his yard. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He recalled every detail—an oleander bush with peach-colored flowers, an adobe wall with paloverde trees draped over it, a fountain tinkling into a copper basin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what I mean. No checking out, no hiding in the bushes. Be there. You won’t want to miss it.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then the rabbit leaped out and Molly peered under the bushes and saw him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dense bushes along the fences, where many birds lived, had been clipped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The flatboat dragged along the little deep-rutted roads that wound through the bush. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the migrants want to stay on the grassy slope by the tracks where they catch outgoing trains, where they can hide in huisache or mesquite bushes if there is a migra raid. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A bush drove at her with a spear long enough to punch through her belly and Qari’s back as well, pinning them together as they died. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of trees, one bank full of scraggly bushes where bits of trash had caught, and another bank with a more gradual sandy slope. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

An owl hoots; a bird sleeping in a laurel bush awakes and flutters its wings. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes behind the mango trees were still. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ducks bobbed among the cattails at the water’s edge, and a kingfisher hidden in the bushes clattered its call. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All the different bushes, so pretty in summer, were brown and broken from the long winter. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A brick wall as high as me surrounds it and wild bushes grow higher. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

He looked coldly at me and forgave me and sauntered away to a hazlenut bush. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He removed the ammunition and tossed the gun into the bushes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I lined my shoes and cap with newspaper to keep out the wind and emptied the leftovers hiding under the holly bush into a bucket that I covered with an old rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corporal Gadafi would hold his fist up, and when he brought it down, we fell into the bushes and crawled quickly, without producing much sound, until we reached a designated tree. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One of them was played with toy guns we made from a mpoloni bush. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

A freshman girl attempted suicide—for entirely unrelated reasons—by eating poison berries from a bush outside the Music Building, but somehow this was all tied in with the general hysteria. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Eleanor closed her eyes and sighed, feeling and hearing and smelling the house; a flowering bush beyond the kitchen was heavy with scent, and the water in the brook moved sparkling over the stones. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse took his warriors to a thick stand of leafless bushes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jumper was always getting his chunk of wood hung up behind a bush or rock, so that he couldn’t get away. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path was almost as smooth as a lawn and clear of bushes and weeds, for it was kept cut for fishermen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then people figured out how to grow it, just as they learned how to plant apple trees or berry bushes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We weren’t sure if it was the bus, so we gathered our bags and hid in the bushes near the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He made no attempt to run, but the weasel, its hunger satisfied, left him alone and made off through the bushes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crash of bushes, a tumbling figure. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw draped his anorak carefully over the top of the bushes, spreading it out as much as possible. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Instead they ran into the bush and found places far from people where they could live. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I was behind Alhaji, who parted the bushes like a diver heading to the surface for air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were plentiful and delicious and I ate almost as many as I picked, stooping behind the bushes to keep out of sight. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The yard is thick with trees and bushes, and surrounded by a tall metal fence. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon we began rummaging the bushes for whatever fruit looked edible. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There, beneath a large tree, next to a thick bush, I hide from the rest of the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, far below the Wart, there was a thump and a rattle of leaves, as the aerial torpedo went smack into the middle of a bush, regardless of obstructions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whistled to birds, and they answered him and came and hopped along the bushes by the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As she combs the emerald bushes, she looks for telltale signs—eggs no bigger than pinpricks, or leaf edges scalloped by the jaws of an inching worm. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When they saw him coming back, they were already gathering in the second bush. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke a tawny shape, dog-like, sprang out of the overhanging nut bushes as silently as light from behind a cloud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a bomb landing just behind the bush, and the whole wood lit up for a long, slow second, in green-white light. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Far away, a stream pattered through reeds, while near at hand bush babies shrilled at the unwelcome presence of Ear, Eye and Arm. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had put Lyra down on the grass and was tugging La Belle Sauvage out of the bushes, so Malcolm dropped the rucksack in the canoe and joined her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I could see this boy throwing up in the bushes at a party house. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I drag myself over to the honeysuckle bush and pluck a flower. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

While I was sitting on the porch steps, R.C. crashed through the back bushes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The dampness arose out of the Gulf and was deposited on bushes and cacti and on little trees in salty drops. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Belgian Congo and Uganda the results of heavy applications of DDT against an insect pest of the coffee bush were almost “catastrophic.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The twigs cracked again, and then they heard soft, thudding steps, in the leaf-mould out beyond the bushes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I found a vantage point behind a bush, set down my milk, crouched, and waited. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Maybe there is a bread bush in that field," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The allamanda bushes bordering the garden bloomed heavily with yellow, cylindrical flowers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had hung a pair of his underwear on a nearby bush to dry. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

During this time other women were gathering the scarlet apples that grow on the cactus bushes and are called tunas. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under my floating body, I heard a bush rustle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Buds and then yellow roses appeared on the bushes by the porch. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He rarely stayed on the sidewalk, veering onto neighbors’ lawns to hurdle bushes. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She settled beneath the sheltering apron of a bush and let go. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then, after a bit, she found she could aim with the noose of the rope, that she could choose a log or a bush and catch it precisely on most of her attempts. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly and asked himself ruefully what new misfortune could possibly befall him a moment before the mad hermit in the woods leaped out at him without warning from behind a mulberry bush. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The very first time Alex pulled up to Pennsylvania Avenue as the First Son of the United States, he almost fell into a bush. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the three months he was in the bush, there was only one. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Once, he shot a bush pigeon down from the cashew tree with a small stone, wrapped it in leaves, and put it into his bag. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thing she’d tried to avoid turned out to be a bush—a bush that saved her life and those of her crew. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On her grave I planted a rosemary bush, and it proves as enduring as an evergreen tree. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In my mind I can still picture Granny’s rose garden that day, the bushes decorated with buds and blossoms. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We heard a piece of metal slide down the shingles of the roof, bounce off the gutter, and fall through the snowball bushes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I break off branches from the holly bushes and a few sprigs of pine and carry them inside. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I held the cutlass in my hand to start attacking the bush, Gibrilla’s uncle couldn’t help himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But nobody was listening to him, except my shadow and me in the bushes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Johnny saw running down Cambridge road through the bushes on Charlestown Common a scurry of red ants. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top of a nodding snowball had snagged her sun- bonnet, but Miz Eubanks herself was down among the roots, beginning to crawl out from under the bushes that had broken her fall. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At least he was not looking in her direction, and Mrs. Frisby hurried on to the bush, directly to the hidden entrance, and slipped inside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The ogress had already closed half the distance to the bush. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

From behind us the last long rays of light played across the campus, accenting every slight undulation of the land, emphasizing the separateness of each bush. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wander around awhile and then ditch our communicators under a bush. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With my wild zoot suit I wore the yellow knob-toe shoes, and I frizzled my hair up into a reddish bush of conk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabbits and field mice and all other small hunted that feel safer in the concealing light crept and hopped and crawled and froze to resemble stones or small bushes when ear or nose suspected danger. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed how the wind from the south bent over the new little leaves of the tall privet bush. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned it up, and some of the water spilled through the bushes, on to Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The moon was shining cold and white, down into the dell, and the shadows of the bushes were black. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I will remember forever some of what happened when a balloon that had caught under a bush jiggled loose and floated up into her nose out of nowhere. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then he pees on the roots of a baby bush. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he flung himself down under a bush and waited for a moment till his breathing steadied. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Oh lion,” he said, "I know that you are a mighty beast. I know that all the animals in the bush are frightened of you.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I looked in front of us at the bushes where the crickets were hiding and thought for a sec. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Manchee lifts his leg on practically everything till he must be running outta pee and then he heads off under a bush, burbling to himself, finding a place to do his other business, I guess. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

So, when you wade into a thorny thicket amid the mosquitoes on a hot, humid day, you don’t do it for just any strawberry bush. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The front half of my bike slipped free of the bush. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Of course Liz had seen me, and through the bushes I watched as she opened her mouth to call out my name. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first instinct was to duck into the bushes. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood lawns spilled into each other, a continuous carpet; the bushes bristled, bushy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you get me some of that? I’m bushed.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Silently I left the toyon bushes and ran without stopping until I reached the mesa. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to stop once to disappear into someone’s bushes. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Just as we were about to, Hugh burst through a thicket of bushes into our makeshift camp, bees circling his head in an agitated cloud. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once, on the way, he suddenly put the box down, raised the rifle and fired into some bushes by the edge of the road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I strain my neck to see if it’s the same man who jumps over the bushes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I put the ring back on the bench, and we ran to the safety of the monkeys and the bushes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grasses and real trees and real bushes still grew beyond the barbed-wire fence posted with a big sign: PRIVATE, NO TRESPASSING. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Just as he was going to get up and come out from behind the bush, the tree branches parted, and there was Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” said Granger, taking his arm, and walking with him, holding aside the bushes to let him pass. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lee felt that enough time had passed he did not beat around the bush. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

R.C. picked up a rock and moved through the azalea bushes toward their house. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

For three days, he fetched firewood from the bush and water from the pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started from the bush and wheeled: I hit him square in the spine midway along his back and the bronze point broke through it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was quiet, disturbed only by the rushing stream and the buzzing of a colibrí around my gardenia bush. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I try to get to my feet, further tangling myself in the bushes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was only with the arrival of pale dawn that he stopped, slumping down under some bushes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She looked out across the veranda roof to the wide lawn below, with its bushes and little clumps of trees wound around with mist. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dark, and a gathering wind stalks through the bush. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Thlayli, I want a few words with you. Just come back under the bushes, will you?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grass and thorns, blackberries broken on the ground, mud, worms, rotting leaves, a rat creeping through the bush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As we walk, we hear leaves rustling in the bushes nearby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, we couldn’t see what it was for all the bushes, so we pulled them to one side between us, and what did we see?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He would be leaving soon to spend four weeks in the “bush,” where he and dozens of other boys would join an aggregate of elders and learn what it means to be a Xhosa man. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

James grabbed her arm and marched down a block to a screen of trees and overgrown bushes that concealed a small park squeezed between two buildings. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, that would be the escape hatch. We’ll find the main hole nearer the middle of the bush.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She heard a rustling in the bushes, then footsteps retreating. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I left my bike in the bushes and went inside. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

More like a tall barrier of unkempt bushes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I elbowed him and pointed through the bushes to keep him focused on the task. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Squeals issued from many of the bushes, and dark shapes emerged from them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ron relieved his feelings by aiming a kick at a gnome who was peering out from behind one of the new Flutterby bushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m running across the street, and reaching into some overgrown bushes in front of the house on the corner. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And shortly afterward he had set to work, alone, digging the grave in the place that Bill had shown him at the end of the garden, between bushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Mexicans follow, up a steep embankment, along a well-worn dirt path, past mesquite bushes and behind some tamarind trees, until they are next to a large, round, flat tank. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There’s ten or fifteen trees and lots of bushes and stuff along the edges. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They carried his cot and all his belongings right out into the bushes and simply dumped them there, and then they strode back slapping their hands briskly at a job well done. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there," says Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was soft grass on both sides of the river, and beyond the grass, trees and bushes sloped up to the bases of the cliffs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The great granddaddy creosote bushes were thousands of years old. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the books into the backyard and hid them in the bushes near the alley fence. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

We learned that wildlife, like deer and butterflies, depend on native plants for survival, and if we remove the bushes and small trees along our coastlines, then hurricanes could cause increased coastal erosion. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever mentioned his stunted height and the pointed teeth that looked like they belonged to a bush rat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He lifted it into the back of the pickup along with the top half of the bush. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The child scampered off into the bushes and was lost to sight. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they get here and actually head out into the bush—well, it isn't like the magazines make it out to be. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held me back, but I shoved him into the bushes and ran down the path as fast as I could. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Petey joined him, pulling the paper off bushes and out of flower beds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t get far before Fink burst out from the bushes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Forum was okay, but it was mostly ruins overgrown with bushes and trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They reached the bushes and Seth turned left, studying the leafy barricade as he went, occasionally squatting and checking closer. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They could hide in the bushes on this side. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Villagers had planted new mangrove plants to replace the bushes and trees torn away by the cyclone, and new roots were beginning to push through the salty soil. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

We pick our way to a place where people sit in groups among scrubby bushes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? Your tires were right in the bushes.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She had wiggled her way far back under the thorny limbs of a blackberry bush in the comer of the garden. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed out and staggered off into the bushes until I figured I was lost and nobody could find me, even if they wanted to drive a twelve-inch knife into my belly. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Dozens of migrants, children among them, emerge from the bushes, from behind the ceiba trees, and from among the tombs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Hoping it wasn’t a hippo, I crept into the bushes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a little less green than usual, but the blackberry bushes hang heavy with fruit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After a rest Matt hacked his way through the bushes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laughed and disappeared back into the bushes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me to enjoy this day, not to hide in the bushes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I watch them until they disappear behind a bush. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange, imaginary shapes flitted about in the gloom; eerie cries pierced the still air; trees and bushes reached out their branches to catch and scratch like living things with claws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He left the path presently and pressed through the trackless growth of rushes and bushes, which he seemed to know as well as Ranofer knew the Street of the Crooked Dog. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They were clad in red shoes—red like the winter berries beginning to pop out on the bushes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The piggy? Oh, terrible hunger pinches! Gurgi cannot remember. Was there a piggy? Gurgi is fainting and falling into the bushes, his poor, tender head is full of air from his empty belly.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Then, it bounded away into the bushes, stirring up the dead leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We walked in two lines on the sides of a dusty path, looking into the dense bushes with our bloodshot eyes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Once, however, I came upon a male cardinal sitting in a hawthorn bush. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark inside of the holly bush smelled bitter. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Perfect white snow-covered lawns, with manicured bushes and trimmed trees. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, Scipio looked around as if to check whether it would be worth making a run for the bushes, but each time Prosper held on to his sleeve. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Silently he would take his bicycle to the riverbank and leave it there hidden in bushes with the clothing folded beside it. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It happened to be behind a heavy-leaved bush just off the path, and there he cut a window in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon, however, he came to a canyon choked with bushes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m in the bushes praying to keep still. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We came out from the bushes and started running along beside it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He first cut off the bush at the base, then started on the root, but no matter how deep he dug, he never could seem to get to the bottom of it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Reaching the bottom, I had about twenty yards of clearing to cross, but the grass and bushes were pretty thick. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oleander bushes flanked the road leading up to the main gate of the Ravenel Marine Air Station. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t find it under any of the trucks nearby or in the middle of the sage bushes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Attempts to beat around the bush made her turn prickly. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He knew that Kehaar could not be everywhere and that the bushes and undergrowth provided enough cover, at a pinch, to dodge him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I—I don’t think it was a good idea to kick the bush,” said Aunt Shuvai. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel led the elf behind some bushes, and they climbed down a brick wall. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Taran gestured for the others to stand away from the bush. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

By contrast the northmen seemed hale and healthy, big ruddy men with beards as thick as bushes, clad in fur and iron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Was there an end to this madness, and was there any future for me beyond the bushes? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I say: John gets apart, and he hide in the bushes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

From behind the same bush they had used as their Anal hiding place when approaching the well, a creature emerged. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Luster got it and they squatted in the water, looking up the hill through the bushes. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all her time in the bush, she found them far less unnerving than the land mines. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pacing between the bushes, Frankie took another swig from his flask. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The girl was barely hidden in the green bushes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The trees and bushes are mostly bare, but I see a few green blades emerging. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When they first became homeless, it was early summer, and they slept on park benches or in the bushes that lined park paths. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tree and Zheegwon each had an arm under Minerva’s so that she almost floated into the bush, still hanging her head as she had been for the past week. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Milligan, disguised as a gray-haired gardener in a straw hat, puttered gloomily about the iron fence, tending to the rose bushes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The birds are so tame we pluck them out of the bushes with our hands, the sea is teeming with fish, and the trees are full of fruit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But even Dragon, though he would chase a rat up to the edge of the bush, would not follow him into it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hitherto, music had been something anyone and everyone might participate in, a communal activity, like the singing of a tribe in the bush. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The only way to tell if a ball is there is to look under the bushes, and I can’t do that from over here. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just ahead of him, below a bush, a thrush was banging a snail down on to a flat stone to smash the shell. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She’d make me hide in the bushes because she knew men would stop for a woman but not a woman with a child. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The first several images in the stack are landscapes—shots of the surrounding bush, the overgrown trail, distant mountains, the Sushana River. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magpie fluttered out of one of the rhododendron bushes growing near the house, and a couple of fat sparrows pecked busily at invisible insects in the gravel, but that was all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the blackberry bushes shake, and my heart about stopped for a moment, and all my muscles got ready to run. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The sheriff glanced to left and right, as if Gramps might be hiding in the bushes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As always, Joon was running ahead of me, gathering up speed on the downhill so that he could jump over a low juniper bush. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It went back the way it had come, and soon its noise faded into the normal sounds of the bush. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lions saw the spear and ran off into the bush, leaving the two frightened boys in the cage. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Here they paused and examined the bushes round them curiously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I looked under all the chairs and around all the bushes and trees. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am. I’m standing here listening to you tell me the news of the day—that a bush is dying.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We only make it a little farther before Ziggy pauses by a bush. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Walking and ducking in and out of the bushes between Flint and Owosso was a lot more work than I thought it was. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes nearby exploded with startled buffalo, who had apparently been sheltering under the wrong tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light, full and smooth, lay like a gold rind over the turf, the furze and yew bushes, the few wind-stunted thorn trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made more noise than usual, smashing through the bushes in her haste. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

First we ran around the building for a few minutes, and then we began to learn how to crawl in the bushes nearby. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I stood behind the bushes, watching the people I had heard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She removed pots, wooden spoons, a drinking gourd, an old cloth Aunt Chipo once used to cover her hair, and a knife Uncle Kufa had hurled into a bush when the tip broke off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a caveman being so focused on building a fire that he never heard the lion coming through the bushes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“In the bush, where we members of the RUF usually make our beds,” the leader answered. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there’s something hidden under the bush,” Phoebe said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Four is stable. Concussed, I’d guess. But otherwise okay. His shield’s off, though, so I stuffed him in the bushes.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

That morning they lit a fire in a deep hollow shrouded by great bushes of holly, and their supper-breakfast was merrier than it had been since they set out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It made me angry to think that an old bush would dare grow so close to the graves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He just passed her bush when he came around the cabin.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard a branch snap somewhere in the bushes, as if a large animal was creeping about. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just when I thought my situation was headed from bad to worse, he waddled back into the bushes. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

After several visits to the bushes, she finally walks over to the supervisor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they went into Mr. Benedict’s office, where Mr. Benedict obediently sat at his desk and said, “Sticky, I won’t beat around the bush. Your parents are here.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Matt stared up at the impossibly distant bushes peeking over the top of the cliff until he was dizzy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t been hard to follow them; despite Mary’s confidence in the open savanna, there was plenty of concealment in the grass and the occasional thickets of string-wood and sap-lacquer bushes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I ducked away, my scalp smarting, and scrambled into the oregano bushes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She reached into the bushes and pulled off a switch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything back, just looked at the bushes thinking what she meant by that. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Our bodies tense, we clasp each other’s hands, holding our breath, but then a small feline silhouette saunters lazily out of the bushes, looking for food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tromped through woods, pushing our way around thick shrubs and stepping over pricker bushes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

So on and on we go, getting more and more tired, stopping only once so that everyone can have a private pee off in the bushes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe bushes and cactuses and stuff have grown over it. I’ve heard a dead body makes good fertilizer.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Below him there was a planted field, rows of low green bush, rolling toward a creek, broken by one low rail fence and a few thick clumps of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw, but the egg still landed in the bushes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front lawn is raked, edged, mowed, and the bushes are mulched. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence was beating the bushes for money to build his new 100-volt, sixty-inch cyclotron, which by Bethe’s reckoning was ten times beyond useless. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Matt cautiously peered around a bush and saw two bighorn sheep thunder at each other like a pair of farm trucks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, walking home through a silent forest with no frightening sounds from the thick bushes on either side of the path, Kira wondered what human would have stalked her, and why. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just resting in the bushes when Fred ran by carrying the Lady. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The photographer tried hiding in the bushes while his assistant distracted the horse, but again Seabiscuit swung his head around to stare at him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted as I came upon them along the streambed, carefully picking their way through raspberry bushes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrestling twenty-five pounds of sugar back from Moore’s Store was nothing to picking all the gooseberry bushes clean. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The one in the bush, with a gun, killing whites,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever it was seemed to be traveling at a breakneck pace with little regard to obstructing bush or foliage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was a path surrounded by dense bush, and she knew that it was a place where it was dangerous to stop too long. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The flag was run up and Beasts of England was sung a number of times, then the sheep who had been killed was given a solemn funeral, a hawthorn bush being planted on her grave. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It stands up big as a bush, just like the hair of the toy man with the rainbow face. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“This way!” and off he runs, thru the bushes and off on a track parallel to the river, away from the army. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would see a group of common-law prisoners working by the side of the road, and their warders would order them into the bushes so they would not see us as we marched past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the hibiscus bush we discovered a fallen nest of baby birds, all drowned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chose a cluster of bushes far from any street lamp. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what were you doing up in those bushes?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Although the trees and bushes offered concealment and protection, the paths were narrow. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It would be nice to have his own little piggies skulking about in the bushes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Otto and I blundered through the bushes, we surprised a Nile Monitor, a sharp-fanged lizard that would have been fearsome had it been more than two feet long. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I just followed him through the thick brush, weaving through pine trees and threatening, chest-high brambly bushes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But what she said, in a wail hard to understand over the train racket and me still part deaf, was “I left my bucket in the blackberry bushes, Will! Hit were might near full!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

While the other boys draped their shirts over the blueberry bushes, Turner stepped to the edge and looked down at the blue-black rocks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When he came to the gut cherry bushes he paused. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the aircraft searchers came, as they did occasionally, during the night as they rode, Jonas sped to the nearest tree or bush, dropped to the ground, and made himself and Gabriel cold. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a branch from a bush that grew near the entrance and bending forward, let it graze the ground before him as he walked. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night after night she dreamed that she was “in a wilderness sort of place, all full of rocks and bushes.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked down behind a bush, trying not to shake. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuart climbed the bank, went into the bushes, and was back in a few minutes wearing a pepper-and-salt jacket, old striped trousers, a Windsor tie, and spectacles. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He said nothing, and they walked along more soberly now, watching out for the bush that Iorek had mentioned, and silenced by the thought of what they might be taking on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he sees I am awake, he says: “That gave you a fright. It was only a nose-cap, it landed in the bushes over there.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fresh stench of night soil in the bushes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before either of us had a chance to answer, a Volkswagen roared in the distance and all the people walking on the road ran into the nearby bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even before the sun gave light, dead day was creeping from bush to bush watching man. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I knew all that stuff but I was still kind of nervous when I followed the little trail that went through a bunch of bushes and led to the water. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But she found that someone had already done that: hers and Will’s, too, were laid over the springy twigs of a fragrant bush, nearly dry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We had no soap, so we just soaked them and put them out in the sun to dry while we sat naked in a nearby bush waiting for them to be ready. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boundary between our land and Doña Ana’s was bordered by eggplant bushes, and between us and Doña Lola by annatto, oregano, and yucca. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Klansmen would come back from the bush, sometimes alone, sometimes in twos or threes, brushing themselves off. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was made from strings of the yucca bush and had a small opening at the top and hung down like a pouch. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke burned his throat as he dashed through the tangled bushes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On this side, the bushes were neatly trimmed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

From the corner of her eye, Shanti caught a colorful bird skating above the bushes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The bush plane that dropped down into the field to leave us here went right away again, and there will be no more coming-going until that same plane returns again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her, a newly emerged brood of tiny snout-nosed butterflies crawled out from under the spiny hackberry bushes and began to creep upon her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I went head over heels down the bank in the dark and fetched up against an elder bush—and there I lay.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had tamed the bush, and in return it yielded them their food and their scant living from trap lines and a wood lot, but the struggle to keep it in subjection was endless. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held it as long as she could, but finally she had to squat by a bush and skin down her breeches in front of all of them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The path was almost entirely overgrown now, and the bushes clawed at him, scraping at the infected burns until he was close to sobbing with the pain. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They’re not even in the bushes, just a little farther from the fire than the others. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The spring was not far off and I rested there, though I was very thirsty, cutting a lobe from a cactus bush to chew on. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the bush, unsure whether she was teasing him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the bushes, Sefia bit down on her tongue to keep from crying out. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I never thought I would have a yard with a creek and big trees and blackberry bushes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I followed Trotter over into the bushes that separate Mrs. Wheeler's yard from ours. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We began to move swiftly among the bushes until we came to the edge of a swamp, where we formed an ambush, aiming our guns into the swamp. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I have seen him jump over bushes to make sure someone did not leave the store without a little stapled booklet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He is as tall as Pa, with an angular body and cropped gray hair that sits straight on his head like dense jungle bushes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned up the long drive, between the rhododendron bushes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Even her picking a switch off the forsythia bush and stinging my legs would have been welcome. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later he’d jumped out, holding the painter, and Asta in the shape of a mouse shot across the path and under the bush. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She came around the gorse bush and stood next to Bod, who got to his feet. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A thicket of berry bushes protects it from unwanted eyes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the cobblestones was a bit of well-manured earth where a lovely rose bush grew and a row of bright red geraniums. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After another few minutes, the road led them to a place where, off to the left, a shallow stream looped near, with willows and sheltering, scrubby bushes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eh? You like coming to this bush place?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita squatted in the bushes until she heard the orchestra start up again. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We turned into the grounds, moving cautiously, and from beneath some bushes we watched the windows. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I did not try to sell any more of the papers that night; I walked home with them under my arm, feeling that some Negro would leap from a bush or fence and waylay me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a clump of bushes off to one side. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His screams were answered by a thunderous roar as the huge black she-bear crashed through the bushes and rushed to the cub. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The track snaked uphill and led to a flat field where poplars and cottonwoods soared and wild bushes grew in clusters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Peeing behind chinaberry bushes and wishing for the joy of toilet paper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he crawled under a bush and lay panting and trembling. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows that not to be seen he has to dart and hide from one bush to another. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little later the last bit of wire disappeared behind them like a thin black snake, and Mrs. Frisby climbed down from the asparagus bush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about as long as I am tall, but I dragged it out of the bushes eventually and got it upright. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

A robin landed on the holly bush, as if posing for a Christmas card. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Every fifty yards there was another card sticking on a bush, or hanging from the branches of a madrone, or tacked to the trunk of a buckeye, and all of them said, “Welcome Home.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blueberry bushes have come up, as they do after a fire: first the fireweed, then the blueberries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I renew my search, looking inside every bush, kicking aside the leaves underneath. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, when I’m standing behind the bushes, the father comes over to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The only color was some dark, spindly bushes and spiney cacti. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

So every day I filled an old coffee can two or three times and watered around the roots of the bush, moistening the earth until it became spongy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He did this, but while he was moving into that position, the other friend hid in a bush which grew near the edge of the grave. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On the morrow he would leave the road and strike out overland through field and bush and stream to throw off pursuit, but for the moment speed was more important than deception. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He points to the bushes and motions for me to follow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those except Yossarian reporting on sick call with temperatures below 102 had their gums and toes painted with gendan violet solution and were given a laxative to throw away into the bushes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mole put his tail between his legs and slunk out from under the lodge, into the bushes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She moved on to a rhododendron bush, which she was poking and prodding when a car pulled into her driveway. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I turn right where purple flowers curve like baby moons over butterfly bushes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As he crossed the state line into Mississippi, a white man hidden in a clump of bushes shot Meredith from behind with a shotgun, seriously wounding him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Near the stream was the bear bush, which had frightened their oldest son once, when he thought it was a bear crouching there. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He plunged his horse into the bushes that hid me, plunged it in to either trample me or drive me out. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a noise and ducked behind a ragged bush. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burst of flames in the bush died down and smouldered to ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four was probably wandering around the rose bushes, wondering why nobody was talking to him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I spot a cluster of berry bushes and hurry to strip the fruit, to suck the sweet juices from the skins. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When McCandless tried to walk out of the bush one year ago the previous week, the basket was in the same place it is now, on his side of the canyon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved farther from the road and crouched in a thick growth of bushes, grasses, and young trees. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing in the shade of hazel bushes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The snow deadened his careful footsteps, over the smaller rocks, over the low thicket of leafless bushes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heart has huge windows that go from the roof to the floor, but I duck behind the dumpster and into the bushes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was listening for the sounds they make when they go carelessly through the bushes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he thought Ged was coming close enough to touch him, he would hobble away, peering back with a scowl around his bush of dirty white hair. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Baba Joseph had several pets: a duiker antelope, a bush baby, a large tortoise, and an enormous warthog that waddled after him, begging for treats. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a short way to the spring, but it was over many rocks which I could not climb, so I had to take a longer way through the bush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hailsham was full of hiding places, indoors and out: cupboards, nooks, bushes, hedges. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of “uhh” you say when you’re watching a scary movie and the bad guy like jumps out of the bushes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The children tiptoed this way and that, looking behind every bush and tree. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It looked deserted: trees and bushes grew thick in the property behind her house, and long grass and weeds filled the front yard. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

As the virus ravaged the hospital, the surviving medical staff panicked and ran off into the bush. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strangely easy for him to get in the bush plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few times along the way, he stops to lift his leg and pee on bushes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Just before the rickshaw careened into the bushes, Naima managed to jump off the cycle. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a rustle in the nearby bushes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We tore the grass to shreds, crushed the neatly manicured bushes, stomped the flowers, and cracked one of the house’s windows with a rock. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, we must go over there immediately,” she insisted, and leaned her blue bush of hair toward the garage. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

More than a month had passed since Salva had run from his school into the bush. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dry hot wind glided up and down the canyon restlessly, shaking the salt bushes and sweeping dust over the tire tracks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their delicate, showy hopefulness shooting from forsythia and lilac bushes meant only a change in whipping style. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow became aware of eyes on him: a handful of red cardinals stared at him from a skeletal elder bush, then returned to pecking at the clusters of black elderberries. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He would see all parts of it; see the whole wing, the feathers, see the color of the feathers, see the bush, and die size and shape and color of its leaves. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the journey ended, Catherine would be able to sleep anywhere, on the ground, in a haystack, under a bush, and this rat-infested fodder house would loom in her memory like a king’s palace. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he entered the house, he looked around at the blank-faced walls, the two prickly bushes outside the window—the tan shag carpeting, the lack of books, the tiny stove. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was fun to gather the large round walnuts and the smaller hickory nuts, and the little hazelnuts that grew in bunches on the bushes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced quick at the house to make sure no one was watching, then pulled aside the prickly branches of the bush and set the bowl down within it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trotter had said that he was looking for his basketball in our bushes, yet he didn’t have it with him when he left. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sudden rustling in the bushes startled them both. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I got a few red camellia bushes out front a the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I found a hiding place in some bushes and crawled inside and huddled there for what felt like hours. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once I caught at a bush to help me up...it was a prickly pear, and I had to spend precious minutes pulling out the thorns. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the look of him, he had not shaved since she rode south; his beard was a fiery bush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He would push through a lot of undergrowth, and closely packed bushes, scarcely able to see more than a yard ahead, and then come out suddenly into another wide clearing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Adam said almost gaily, “Charles, I been listening. You want to tell me something and you’re walking around it like a terrier around a bush. You better tell before it bites you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some low bushes grew there and among them, with just his head showing, stood the big gray dog. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bottle of Rebel Yell was passed back and forth between the four men until Red drained the last swallow and flung the empty bottle into the bushes along the road. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bush you always park your car close to your tent so that you can leap into it if there is an emergency. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A movement on the sumac bush outside caught her eye, and she flew at a blue jay. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Trees were turned to scarlet, gold, beefy red: blueberry bushes to crimson. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men went before and behind with torches; the bushes seemed to press in on all sides. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I think so. I think it bounced off the bottom of the tree and went under the bush there. Look, they’re pretending not to look for it....” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When he was still very young, Cholly had been surprised in some bushes by two white men while he was newly but earnestly engaged in eliciting sexual pleasure from a little country girl. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the thick bushes and the swamps and muddy banks that bordered the creeks, only small bodies could wiggle into the dry nooks and crannies of the island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sneaked around the side of the house and crawled into a thicket of bushes growing wild by the wall. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Other robbers hide along the tracks above and below the bridge, which is thick with bushes and vines. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Something rustled near the cashew trees, and Harrison leaped up and ran over to see if it was a bush rat he could catch. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even a white flower opening up on a bush just looks doomed for this world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From your berry-picking days, you know that you select particular berries or berry bushes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He turned back and set off up the side of the lake, heading for the gut cherry bushes, his windbreaker-bag in his hand. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked us through the bush, in a semicircle, and then southeast. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t taught me how to turn, but I turned the handlebars hard to the right and just missed running into the bushes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We keep to the woods as long as we can, clambering over fallen trees and beating our way through thorn bushes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Unlike the stucco row house I’d lived in in London, this house, fully detached, was covered with wooden shingles, with a tangle of forsythia bushes plastered against the front and sides. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He went back over to the bush, and hauled out the satchel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We heard Freddie, but it was the sound of him breaking through brush again, freeing himself from a bush. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He came dashing through the bushes and halted at the sight of the unconscious fox among the ferns. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cars, the bushes, the bird feeders—even the lids on the garbage cans are wearing white hats! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I stare at the bush, but I don’t see anything. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They returned under the arch and as Silver came out of the bushes to meet them, they could hear the other rabbits stirring uneasily among the nettles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he led me to sit under a clump of bushes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three boys sat on bikes at the edge of the yard, right beside the holly bush. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Obediently, the men all stood with him, flicking cigarette butts into the damp brush and they spread out to start beating the bushes again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m assuming he’s got bad eyes, as he hits the bushes and the roof as often as the porch at our house. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jess was trying her best, but from the start she had been handicapped by her big curling bush of a tail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For suddenly, just behind him, James heard a rustling of leaves, and he turned around and saw an old man in a crazy dark-green suit emerging from the bushes. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I still catch Jenna peeking behind bushes for hidden doorways. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I could see twigs on the willow bush. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He would hail the blue sky and shout out his praise for the grasses and bushes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always had a happy disposition, and most of the time looked perfectly content, trotting along through the vast stillness of the bush with stolid, unalterable good humor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My best friend’s hair was like a bush of thick black wires. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

As Peach gagged, Dismay banged into the rose of Sharon bushes and yelped, then bounced into the current and was swept away, tumbling under the water. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watch myself drag Gavin Rose into the bush and beat him down to the grass, the dirt, and the fallen tree branches. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mami propped up her pigeon pea and annatto bushes, which had been flattened by the storm, and soon they bloomed again, their leaves as new and fresh as babies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The face on the other side of the gorse bush crumpled into a gargoyle, tongue sticking out, eyes popping, then returned to girl. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Our clubhouse was a tiny clearing inside the circle of bushes behind the gazebo in the community garden. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Gallup police would find his body in the bushes along the big arroyo, and he would be just one of the two or three they’d find dead that week. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the river the water, bushes, trees, everything was covered with ice. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, all this ruined my plan to put out the seeds and hide in the bushes and wait. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then, ahead of her, in the direction of the place where she had entered the bush, she heard a rustle, a faint scraping noise. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They told her she was in a forest clearing edged with bushes where song sparrows and cardinals lived. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was still hunched behind the bush, trying to decide what to do, when the decision was made for me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I sent him in a circle around the tree, beating on the grass and bushes with a stick, while I stood waiting. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I worked my body into the bushes, I pulled Peach after me. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, she’s been reading up on it. Just today she asked about your foundation shrubs. So I told her about the butterfly bush and that smaller one, the purple one.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Halting the oxen, she crept over to the bushes and peered into them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly under the bushes and waited. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Together they peered around the bush at the other bank. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Their deep bush tans, the sores and blisters, the stories, the in-it- togetherness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him to pee in the bushes somewhere, but of course, it’s not that kind of bathroom he’s talking about. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A scarlet-crested bird shot by below, brushing sure dark wings against a quivering bush. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Treetops seem like bushes growing out of water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The morning was quiet except for the noise of the little birds flying from bush to bush and the cries of the gulls who did not like these strangers. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a last growl of desperate bravado from the bush and a whimpering cry; then the sounds of the bears’ escape receded in the distance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like years since he had run away from his school and into the bush. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others got azalea bushes and roses and thick green grass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I was a tiny girl, he would send me out to the bushes on the edge of our property with a small tin pail to collect them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The same Patrice Lumumba, mind you, who washed his face each morning from a dented tin bowl, relieved himself in a carefully chosen bush, and went out to seek the faces of his nation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the path. But the bushes have somehow grown across and hidden it. Isn’t that strange? I just came through here a day and a half ago. I’m sure it wasn’t overgrown like this then.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight Neel was able to push through the bushes and find the thin trail that circled the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever I cut off, I put under the bush, to feed the roots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Finally me and Howard finished and, I swear, you couldn’t hardly even see that trap nestled there in the bushes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a family book to keep me going as we walked through the bush, so I pulled out the folded picture from the magazine. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny horned deer loped through the bushes and birds like jewels flitted through the air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Quickly they slunk out of sight behind a brown and stunted bush. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, she reached across Tristran's sleeping form to touch the silver chain which circled the woman's wrist and ankle and led off into the bushes and beyond. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They searched and searched all along the river and in the bush beside it, but there was no trace of the new wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Raspberry bushes mean rabbits are about,” I told a curious bluebird watching from a milkweed plant. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday when Tla Flor was up with the boys, Mama was bemoaning that her rose bushes were so scrabbly and saying she wasn’t going to be seeing much of her favorite flowers this year. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manchee barks, all keyed up, and he runs past the buildings and into the bushes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Only a thorny stubble now stood where the bush had been. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I dashed through a stand of waist-high bushes, but when Margo didn’t run, I stopped. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The zigzagging path leading to the front door was overgrown with a variety of odd plants, including a bush covered in the orange radishlike fruit Luna sometimes wore as earrings. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

Peach grabbed the bushes for all he was worth and began to choke. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The young man led the blind man off into the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He then tossed the infant into the bush on the side of the road. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slid out of her swing and went over near the cricket bushes to make her call. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As Gwydion rose and went to her, Taran glimpsed a shadow dart behind a bush. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He crawled deeper into the tamaric bushes and pulled his knees up to his belly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Besides that it was nicer and cleaner out in the bush than in the encampments they made. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then it was a violent downpour, Kingshaw felt it coming through the bush. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’m fine. A little sore and scratched up from where I got thrown into some bushes, but no contusions or signs of internal bleeding.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Henry Metelmann said, “We had to respond by throwing ourselves into ditches or dashing into bushes or other shelters.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we, and others, emerged from the bushes, we saw a man run from the driver’s seat to the sidewalk, where he vomited blood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We dodged from bush to bush and made it to the other side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From somewhere nearby a shiny green frog emerged from the base of a bush. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

So far I had seen no one and I sat down by some bushes along the bank of the ditch and took off my shoes and emptied them of water. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The thorns had captured Father’s gleaming new rickshaw, bushes closing around it like a trap. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

We raided the bushes as soon as the guavas were large enough to bend the branch. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was too late, for as he rose from his crouch the silver edge of the moon slipped above the eastern horizon, and Kino sank back behind his bush. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tore the grass to shreds, crushed the neatly manicured bushes, stomped the flowers, and cracked one of the house’s windows with a rock. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grunting snuffling sound in the bush behind the cub: his mother was investigating a rotten tree stump. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was shaking, but she slowly, quietly crept into the bushes to hide. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, there they were, blood-red and luscious, as I had seen them the evening before, great bushes of them, massed beneath the open window, encroaching on to the sweep of the drive itself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the path clearly now, for the bushes had drawn back, their leaves bright with new green growth and dappled with buds. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Told him that my father had recounted to me about the time they went to the bush to fetch firewood and accidentally shook a beehive. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Blanca was raising a Brazilian rubber tree, a shy, squalid little bush whose one attraction was its price: it was sold by the leaf. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He trailed through the bush after her mother as she searched for late mushrooms, then sat on the cabin steps and patted the dropped corn kernels as she shucked a stack of cobs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a dead gorse bush King Pellinore was sitting, with the tears streaming down his face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen many surprising friendships during my life: a pony and a toad, a red-tailed hawk and a white-footed mouse, a lilac bush and a monarch butterfly. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her own personal rod was a branch from a lilac bush, which grew in the side lawn. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the very back of the lot stood a row of bushes. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We bend low beneath the neatly clipped bush, listening for the footsteps of concealed security guards. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I was a little girl, my love for Matilde was as thorny and tangled as a blackberry bush. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark followed just as the landing pad above him started to rotate, the bushes and earth and small trees heading back toward the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As he ran up the porch steps, he could hear them whispering about the big shade trees, the cushiony grass, his mother’s tidy azalea bushes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two other guards came out of the bus and fired random shots into the bushes at us in the dark. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With a mighty leap his steed cleared the bushes and streaked into the forest. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was moving down in the sky, but the heat still danced above the salt bushes in the canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He kept moving in the water until at dusk he found a place under a bank with bushes for cover. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Monaco went around the side of the hut and saw two Cong soldiers trying to pull an American into the bushes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She counted every blade of grass in the back yard and every leaf on a certain bush. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

With a last glance at them, it leapt toward the bushes, its tail sailing, and disappeared. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Chief Ranger suggested calling a local bush pilot, who flew hunters into the remoter parts of the bush and knew most of the Indian guides. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the door shut behind me, and the lock click into place; heard her call Dad’s name as clearly as I heard the birds in the bushes outside the dark garage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Rita was hiding in a tiny clearing surrounded by thick bushes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the clearing was done, the bush was left to dry. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A badger peeked out from a berry bush. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I feel terribly sorry for my girl cousins and my other great aunts because they don’t really have the bushes option, especially when it’s cold. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The more I looked at it, the more I loved that bush that had never flowered. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I want to disappear into it and let the trees and bushes hide me from the rest of the world. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No brandy for me, thank you. I should get to bed. I have quite a walk ahead of me, now that Manpower has moved to the bush.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wore a bush hat and filthy green fatigues; she carried the standard M-16 automatic assault rifle; her face was black with charcoal. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing through the last thorny bush that obstructed his way, Neel shone the light into the hollow. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before long they had reached the edge of the settlement and made their way beside a sluggish stream through bare-twigged scrubby bushes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he placed his foot on one of the lower branches of the bush and climbed up in front of her. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The hair between his legs was a darker shade of sand than the hair on his head, but fine as down compared to the coarse black bush around her own sex. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Captain Flume gasped and dissolved right back into the patch of dewberry bushes, and Major Major never set eyes on him again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to have to do more than sweet-talk a fish,” Jinx said, emerging from the bushes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I could hear it in the bushes. I could hear its steps, and sometimes it growled.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, a sizeable clearing—about five feet across—had been cut from the center of the bush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And when she was halfway down, near a little grove of knot-wood bushes, she saw something strange out on the mudflats. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

While our parents are putting up the tent or making the fire or cooking, we sneak around behind the trees and bushes, aiming through the leaves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Goat’s children, shocked by what had happened to them, went off into the bushes, stifling their tears as they did so. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see the red dust that coated sassafras bushes and wild flowers by the roadside. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

With a grunt, I tossed the arrow as far as I could into a patch of thick bushes. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“The light was bad. Probably it was a bush all along,” Nhamo amended. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to Gus and Bertha’s, we set the trap up over by the bushes at the edge of the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It had been only a few days, but the women had gathered thorn bushes and circled them around the remains of the cott where Kira had grown up. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, she’d pitted her woodwork bad and topped the snowball bushes outside. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was cut short in a little bush, almost perfectly round, and she stood at the microphone holding a piece of paper, shaking with nerves. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A flower now bloomed on the side of the bush facing the water, the first to bloom of hundreds of buds that studded the tree like pale gems. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lily had picked up a fallen flower from the bush behind which Snape lurked. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I shimmy up the steep hill sideways and begin picking through the thicket of bushes. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she reached the bushes, many hands reached out to help her on to safety. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was very hard work: The smaller trees and bushes had to be burned or uprooted. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She huddled beside him behind a wide bush twice her height, trying to breathe quietly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s creepy to think of someone sticking that letter carefully in Mrs. Sharpe’s bushes.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Drum got to his feet and ran to a bush. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Blackavar was silent and they sat watching Campion as the last of the does disappeared through the bushes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her new home had not a bush or a tree or a blade of grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered his bush accent and his nervous excitement and that he had seemed older than he looked now. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were tufts of sparse grass, a few bushes and rocks, and nearby he could see an area of thicker vegetation: broad, low trees outlined against the sky. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The expanse of water was clear ahead of them, and the only sound was its rush against the grass and the bushes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The day dawned, and already the time of youth was fleeing the house which the three giants of my dreams had built on the hill of juniper tree and yucca and mesquite bush. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers swayed in the cool afternoon breeze as I strolled through the garden toward the bushes bordering the main verandah. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You were right. Somebody took them here, no doubt. Look—the bushes are beat to death on the other side. Like twenty people marched across it.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He got up and looked around at the low, snow-covered hills dotted with bare bushes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d landed on the bottom step when a sharp rustle in the bushes along the side of the building caught his attention. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

With the trees farther apart, the underbrush grew higher and the bushes bigger. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Now she’ll be safe, he thought, and a second later he saw the pale gleam of the window deep behind the bushes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he rode in a jeep on dusty dirt roads into the bush. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled at the guard at the fence and said I had to go pee in the bushes and would be right back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was watching him walk down the path bordered by flowerless green bushes when the assembly bell rang. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We hurried back home to sit under the lilac bushes on the side of the house. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t seen the deadly thing that had grabbed at Matty, but he knew there would be more; he watched the bushes for them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I finally spotted him quivering under a bush. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later, Snail asked Tortoise to come and pray with him at the grave, which was in front of a small bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They leaped from the bushes and demanded that she lie down with them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

An April breeze ran across the meadow, stirring the bushes and the trees in one long chilly sigh. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“None of us can. On account of the Recruiters. We re bush Indians for real now.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He made me sit down, and he tied the string of the new rubber apron tightly around my neck, and combed up my bush of hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Into the bush. Do you hear me? Not home. Don’t run home. They will be going into the villages. Stay away from the villages—run into the bush.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it was fate that made Joon fall when he tried to jump over that bush. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

"Beats the bushes, which is where I figured I'd be sleeping." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I looked real careful all along the blackberry bushes and the trees but didn’t see nothing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t in the hayloft, or under the bushes, or perched in the crook of her favorite tree. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Walking around to the far back corner of the garage, I noticed a narrow passageway between the bushes and the building. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Z was perched in a tree near the bear bush. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I was headed straight for the rough branches of the bush on our side of the fence. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She moved to within a few yards of where I lay in the bushes near the edge of the clearing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher came out of the bushes and said, “How many of those fish did you stone like that, Elijah?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Scrub grass and thorny bushes covered its lower slopes; higher up a jagged tangle of bare rock thrust steep and sudden into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the dark it was visible only as part of a blur that formed the yard, the trees, and the bushes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As they walked, brushing their way through bush and herb, sweet odours rose about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She considered moving around the bush to take a peek, but could not muster the courage. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the base of a blossoming bush. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At last, when night came, the strange animal stopped dancing and disappeared back into the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Past Portland and the first exits for Freeport, Dad helpedSookie navigate a series of country roads overgrown with bushes and trees that blocked my view to the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

This bush has poisonous berries, yet its wood often heals wounds that nothing else will. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We planted berry bushes and a lot of herbs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This close, my brother smelled like a little animal, a rabbit perhaps, that lived under bushes in fear of hawks. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

A moment later, she saw movement in the bushes, but it was only a small covey of bobwhites startled from their roost. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I crouched my way through a couple of backyards, getting scratched and scraped by fences and bushes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Peering through the olive bushes at the top of the rise, he saw what looked like an out-of-control zombie frat party. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even after getting shot twice in the chest and once in the head, Sergeant Prothero stumbled off and ran about ten feet, finally falling in the green bushes that surrounded the jewelry store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He points to a large flowery bush in a small clearing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lyra laid them one by one on the grass, and then they were through, and moving among the bushes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fireflies glittered in the leaves of the elm trees and in the ferns and in the hazel bushes, flickering on and off like the lights of a strange and distant city. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She moved ahead, pushing through the dense bush like a coyote. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He could see the bushes; they did not look too far away. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron slams Manchee sideways with an arm, sending him flying into the bushes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to just drag her off into the bushes,” said Rufus. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Together they moved through the tangled brush, pushing through the thorny bushes that grabbed at their clothes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

A friendly, cool breeze slapped playfully at the car, and the long shadows stretched out lazily from the trees and bushes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see him. But I can’t see behind the bushes. Oh, if I could just fly higher...” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the rock, big as a truck, outlined against a purple-black sky, and his feet moved faster, over the small rocks, over the low thicket of bushes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waited, watching the moving clouds reflected in the lake, while the bush next to them whispered in the breeze. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Olanna was surprised by how quickly she hitched up her wrapper and began to wade into the bush on the other side of the road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Behind a bush, you and I peeled off our clothes and changed into the dry skirts and blouses I’d brought. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Louis, skilled in bush lore, followed the leopard’s tracks and the trail of dried blood, until we found the body of the huge dog. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I toss the ball into the bushes near her. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Low branches and bushes were spread out on either side, and he had to climb over and under them, lifting briars and brambles out of his way. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The cement gave way to springy earth, stones, stunted bushes, gullies and hills. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was jumping through bushes, hoping I didn’t hit any booby traps, avoiding anything that looked like it might be a step easier. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A Yoruba goat from the bush with two children from two different men. I hear she is old and ugly.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were close enough to the island now to see it was teeming with plant life: trees twice the size of the ship and an understory of bushes and tall grass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All of this is seen by the creature in the bushes. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She needed to be sure, though, and so she risked stepping out from the bush. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He watched more alertly as the cat approached the spot again, just an empty patch of grass between the hornbeams and the bushes of a garden hedge, and patted the air once more. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A door on the ground floor opened up to a skinny backyard, where a mommy cat and her new litter of kittens made their home under a hydrangea bush. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Petey pulled more paper from the tree trunks, the bushes, the flowers, whatever wasn’t strung up too high. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Javier used to steal my micro dolls when he was mad at me and hide them in the creosote bush. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We were flying over rugged country, and there was nowhere to land until we got to the bush airstrip at Ruaha. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She spoon-fed Minerva, who was now unresponsive, and rag-washed her face and hands before taking her into the bush to pee and then bundling her back up. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Through the bushes the boys appeared, calling to him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the stone I arranged the rainy armful of azaleas I had picked from a bush at the gateway of the graveyard. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I ran through the bushes toward the sound, my face and arms getting scratched as I went. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not long after the Crowell house bombing, another close neighbor, Mrs. Ryles, came home from teaching school one day and saw a mysterious brown paper bag lying in the bushes by her front porch. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But here in the desert, nothing green could survive except tiny evergreen acacia bushes, which somehow endured the long winter months with almost no water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall being frightened one night when I thought I saw someone lurking in the bushes; although I investigated, I found nothing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog still held on to the last bit of meat as it disappeared among the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay tiptoed out into the dark night, following the moonlight shadow that was slipping and dipping between the trees and bushes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just then, the truck turned left into a narrower place covered with bushes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I hid in the bush and followed you home. You didn’t even notice.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They had no idea, I thought, what was really happening in the bushes in the entire country. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The smaller re-wilded breeds that people were living on, hamsters and cats, hadn’t herded this far into the bush yet. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We met up with Ayanna and Chestnutt at a giant plaza filled with fountains disguised as statues, and flowering bushes shaped to look like animals. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I look out the front window, past the dripping pink bougainvillea bush to the street, wishing Matilde would appear now and snip every last tie I have with these people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard the motor fade in the distance and finally sputter and die, I stood up and came out from behind my bush, not forgetting my milk and fish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a bright red bird flew into the bush by the window and looked at her. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the bush was a family of cats. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Their African equivalents—such as the African buffalo, zebra, bush pig, rhino, and hippopotamus—have never been domesticated, not even in modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just seen a man’s legs, one with a shoe on and one without, protruding from the thickest part of the bushes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He took off the collar and leash and threw them into the bushes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

All I know is that when I threw myself to the ground and into the circle of his arms I was small again: no baggage, no years in the bush, no murder. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"Next time," he said, "I'll just say, 'Eleanor, duck behind these bushes with me, I'm going to lose my mind if I don't kiss you.'" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He was in an open van and Joe and I sat in the back, and I watched a lioness lazily emerge from the bush. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the trail, out of the darkness of the bush and into the light of the slanting bars of sunlight, joggling along with his peculiar nautical roll, came—Ch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a thump, she dropped to the ground, wincing in pain, then scurried to hide her nakedness behind a bush. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dale was placing the milk behind a small, round bush. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

If only, right after that, she hadn’t found one of her small bushes stripped! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a wild bush had grown up and practically covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together the rats crashed into a prickly bush, kicking, biting and pummeling each other. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I would go out onto the cliffs, with their pine trees and gorse bushes, or down to the beach. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am crouching in a bush and sweat runs down my forehead and stings my eyes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood very quiet, with only his head showing over the top of a cholla bush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no tents, no highways, no peeing in the bushes, no lakes, no motels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some hidden bush under the St. John’s bridge. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Creosote bushes and paloverde trees framed a small, narrow valley, and in the center of this was a pool of water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got no time to fuss with this bush. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby had never realized until that moment, standing next to it, how very big the bush was, how dense, how incredibly thorny. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Eager to try, she snapped a stick off a snow-laden bush, trimmed all the side shoots off, and swished it from side to side like a rapier. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I bend over and reach into the bushes to get it, and when I stand backup, I lock eyes with her again. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She gasped and swatted it into a bush. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wind that was rustling the bushes and making the trees sway was also causing his wet garments to feel icy against his skin. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nearby, a gardener transplanting a bush glanced at her without interest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We sat on the ground near the bushes and waited all night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The trail I followed led along the bank of Birdsong Creek through some bee myrtle bushes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a steady whoosh of wind rustling through the bushes and trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The people ahead of us had made a path in the grass with their running, so we followed that, but sometimes we had to scramble through thorny bushes that scratched as we passed. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The damp ground felt cold, and droplets fell from the bush as she jostled it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I had a terrible vision then of Mrs. DiAngelo angrily ripping up the butterfly bush and the flowers I’d planted and heaving them all over the fence. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the stream, beyond the thick poisonous oleander bushes that were such a danger to tykes, lay the area known as the Fen. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, I was walking through the bush, my right hand outstretched against the cool brick of a building buried deep in the trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I shrieked at them, trying to scare them off, but they merely ducked behind bushes and took long sticks from the saddles of their horses, bows and javelins. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my bike behind a big bush and leaned it up against the fence, and I took a good look through the row of trees at the chicken coop. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Over and under and through all manner of trees and bushes and branches. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Where the trees began to thin, she used th*'undergrowth, slipping from bush to bush quiet as a shadow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A mesh of webs covered bushes and porches, and crackly voices and organ music came from flower beds. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He examined the bushes all around as if he had never seen anything like them before. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew this because they were skulking in the bushes outside the detention room, making grotesque faces at me through the window. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

He gave me a nasty look and began stripping leaves from a spindly little bush. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The guards took women oh into the bushes at night, and most seemed to expect it and went along meekly enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jinx and Finn were standing in the clearing surrounded by a circle of trees and bushes, cutting them off from the town, from Shady’s place, from help. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He would not eat any of their food, but he drank a little water and then crawled about under the bushes, sniffing and muttering. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The map was leading me in directions I hadn’t seen in my brief time at the school, through bushes and brush that quickly turned to trees and forests. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She hauled in dirt from the mountains by the sackful, slung over her shoulder, and fertilized, watered, and manicured each bush with exceeding care. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think about eating the deadly nightshade berries from the bushes beside the path. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That is to say, the important international conference to take place at Darlington Hall was by then looming ahead of us, leaving little room for indulgence or 'beating about the bush'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Again he directed the wand at the surrounding trees and bushes, searching for a human outline, for the glint of an eye, but he could not see anyone there. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I squint at the dark purple flowers on the bush. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stop to pick a few blackberries from prickly stems of bushes growing between them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We snuck out to the backyard before Mom made it inside, and then picked our way through a little bramble of honeysuckle bushes at the edge of the yard. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every time a bush rustled in the wind my heart leapt. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She always kept a twig from this bush on the top of her dresser. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the dawn birds were scampering in the bushes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hulking beasts tore through the bushes where we'd stood just seconds before. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The driver stopped with a jerk, in the middle of the road, and they jumped out of the car and into the thick green bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was only one place he was making for, and that was the window behind the bush; so he kept his head low and ran fast, and Lyra and Ama ran behind him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She whips the pole back over her shoulder, and Ronan dives into the bushes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We sped up our steps and took dives into the bush before the grenade landed, followed by several rounds of machine gun fire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I mean, she’s probably been through a lot, living on her own in the blackberry bushes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was a valley leading down on the other side, and it was thick with bushes, so they guessed there might be a stream as well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without warning, something began crashing through the bushes about twenty yards to their right. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Finally flat ground gave way to a gentle upward slope of bushes, saplings, and rock. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved carefully away from the cliff’s edge, feeling her way in the dark to a mossy patch beside some bushes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Other times it would raise itself, uncoiling to look into bushes for eggs and birds on the nest. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He spotted a faint path winding past a clump of violets and curving beyond a funny-looking bush. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a short distance now to the river, but among the sodden patches of rushes, the bushes and sedge and deep puddles, they found it next to impossible to tell their direction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was back in the bushes, out of our sight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes are covered in snow, dirty from George’s dog, Roger. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

To the brother-in-law, these sounds were meaningless, and he was most impressed at the blind man’s ability to understand the bush although it must have been for him one great darkness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Sort of thing she’d do, isn’t it, hide in bushes listening to people.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A gardener was always trimming bushes, watering plants in the greenhouse. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have time to explain,” he said, backstepping deeper into the bushes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Lights flickered in the hawthorn bush behind him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Years of wind and no rain had finally stripped the valley down to dark gray clay, where only the bluish salt bush could grow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the bush came the strange animal. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It's a wonderland of palace buildings with golden turrets and glittering arches, fountains full of crimson and ivory fish, topiary mazes of clipped trees, shrubs, and bushes in every possible geometric shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Stretching over the dunes were huge evergreen bushes that formed natural huts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even getting her into the bush to relieve herself was an operation in patience. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He came out from under the bush, walked away a yard, and turned his back on Kingshaw, unzipping his jeans and peeing into the bracken. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Ah wanted yuh to school out and pick from a higher bush and a sweeter berry. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They had packs to carry, and the bushes and brambles were reluctant to let them through. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many of the houses were unkempt and there were very few hydrangea bushes or morning glories on the front lawns. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The men who had come to get us smiled as the truck sped along the dirt road, raising light brown dust that covered the bushes on the sides of the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sky, the trees, the bushes, even the path itself was golden in the light of the setting sun. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A half mile away, she saw the paper festooning the trees and bushes in front of Finn’s house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They saw the lion—its body the size of a cow—drag his grandmother into the thorny trees, then toss her body into the bush like a mouse. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was near the comer of the cemetery, covered by a low, sprawling bush. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He veered off the road and the car screeched as it ran into the thick undergrowth of the bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He plucks a few blackberries from the bushes around us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I spotted him, shooting from a bush from the direction of the sanctuary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The plane crashed on through the bushes and banged into another tree. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the donkey sees one of these dancers, it will chase them into the bush and kick them with its mighty legs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was overgrazed; rain eroded big arroyos in the gray clay, and the salt bush took hold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m bushed myself. What with all the excitement of getting those men off, I think I’ve worn myself pure out.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The bushes were just high enough and in a perfect rectangular shape to block her neighbor’s “junkyard.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when Cap was performing the dancelike martial arts moves by the dogwood bushes, my darling daughter emptied an entire wastebasket full of water down on his head. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I heard a rustling coming from a bush about fifteen feet away from me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The hen watched us, cackling nervously, and when we walked around the bush, her beady eyes followed us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A long, Jeep-like vehicle crested the hill, trampling down bushes as it came. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Will, watching the shadows out of the corner of his eye, saw them slip ahead, leaping over the ferns to disappear into the bushes farther down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Fix breakfast and feed the babies. Don’t think you’re going to sneak off to the bushes today, my girl!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With trembling hands, I unwound the entrails from the bush. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows of the classroom were all open, and the fragrance from the oleander bushes outside filled the air, heavy, rich, and warm. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the spot by the dry bush and started singing, mimicking Dog’s voice. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a few moments, the bushes moved again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked all around, at the beach and the cluster of stores down the way and the trees and bushes behind us climbing up the steep cliff. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, a rustle and then a thump in a bush ahead made Omakayas freeze. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you two take your little colored selves outside and get those bush beans and collards in here before it gets dark,” Mama said, edging the book out from under their fingers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The hydrangea bush—or snowball bush, as we called it—on our lawn glowed in the sunlight, and I stared at it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Other bushes were laden with purpling currants; butterflies abounded; and at every step grasshoppers whirred off, some crackling like the snappers kids placed against their bicycle tire spokes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But when it come time, Jasper just flat wouldn’t do it. He said he didn’t care what some crazy old bush rat told him.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When June and I finally made it to the bush, it was snowing even harder. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If he misses the one he just left, he knows he will be a sitting duck, waiting for days in the bushes and the tall grass until another one comes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Staying in the darkest shadows, under the bushes when we could, we sped away from Nimh, not knowing or caring at first what direction we were going. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I dug the nails out of the bushes and went back up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He turned to start the jog back into the cover of bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I filled the canteen, scoured the bushes for the last berries, and hurried back. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later I was hiding behind a bush maybe ten yards away from the black car with the tinted windows. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

McCormick and Baron arrived in southern Sudan in a light plane flown by two terrified bush pilots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, here he was, in a bush plane heading north. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

My father has no patience for beating around the bush. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They traveled mostly on old abandoned trails, astonishingly plentiful in this virtually uninhabited region; occasionally, they cut straight through the bush. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wraps her arms around her stomach, runs to the bushes, pulls her pants to her ankles, and lets the poison run out of her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were held over a five-day period at a game lodge in the bush. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t suit you at all. Is this how your lecturer wants you to look, like a bush woman?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two more boys with plastered heads and round eyes came out of the bushes, buttoning shirts that had already dampened onto their shoulders and arms, and I tried to stop the laughter, but I couldn’t. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delsa looked at me with a wicked grin, and without a word, we looped around the bush again then switched and went in the opposite direction. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Story's quite true! I left 'em! Matter of self-preservation. We were lost in the bush. I and a couple of other fellows took what food there was and cleared out." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Alec stopped and leaned far down to examine some dirt next to a trampled bush. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

On this day, all is quiet and yet I nervously put one foot in front of the other, my eyes scanning the trees and bushes around me for signs of the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a stick and began walking toward the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She padded across the road and toward the bushes just beyond the hornbeam trees, and there she stopped. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't gone twenty yards when I heard my name and Gatsby stepped from between two bushes into the path. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The hawthorn bush is easy to tell because it has big red shiny thorns on it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fishpool was in Miss Rachel’s side yard, and it was surrounded by azalea bushes, rose bushes, camellia bushes, and cape jessamine bushes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My legs brushing fragrances off the vague bushes, the dark growing deeper as I walk away from the lights of the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch we disappear into the bushes, one by one, with pieces of toilet paper in our pockets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My own head filled with memories of footpaths, burrows, bushes, and faint rises I’d grown to know on the prairie, faint reminders of our old home. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I run I hear the blade landing nearer and nearer to me, slicing through the bushes around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward tile canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instantly his followers scrambled into the bushes as their Chief ripped the tapestry into shreds, his mighty claws rending and tearing as he roared madly: “It’s a fake, a copy, worthless trash. Aaaaaarrgh!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I chased him into a clearing, where he hopped into a prickly bush. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Beside the stream, a grassy bank extended a little way back to bushes and undergrowth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She bolted, heading to my right toward a tangle of sunberry bushes. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I rush him hard from the bushes to the pool, heaving and panting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It had to be her voice because there was nothing exciting about looking for squat fungus in the bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Me, I’m inclined to stay out in the bush. Cities, they bring nothing but the worst out in people.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I hear a stick break, then another, behind the bushes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now he could see all of the colors; and he could keep them, too, so that the trees and grass and bushes stayed green in his vision. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I search the bushes for frogs, crickets, grasshoppers, or anything else that can be eaten. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using some creepers and an overhanging bush, the young fox finally made it to the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Leaping out of the skin, he ran off into the bush, to be pursued by the angry shouts of the baboons. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Birds sang in the bushes, a bumblebee droned past, everything was surprising in its normality. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Reaching for a bush, her small hands bleeding, the horse now close behind, she— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After rinsing out my clothes and hanging them on bushes to dry, I sit on the bank in the sun for a bit, untangling my hair with my fingers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The others, hidden in a thicket of bushes, eat and drink. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A little way downstream, Campion and his patrol had emerged from the bushes and were coming up the path. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived, Charlie Company was out in the bush, carrying out the new aggressive US strategy of “search and destroy.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We stumbled across a family we knew and they let us hide with them in the bush by the swamp. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was these bushes that Old Flap spent all his time in whilst I fished. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He found the signs of stalking, the sign of a pounce, and a smear of fresh blood trailing into the bush. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another suspicious clump of bushes on the other side of the pickup zone. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some boys had cut off the long, sharp spears of a Spanish bayonet bush and they were chasing the girls with them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ah, the wet season will soon be here, and fruit will grow wild on the trees, and the animals in the bush will grow fat, I told myself. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we turned and tromped back up the hill toward the pair of flowery round hibiscus bushes that flank the steps to our porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, there was a rustle in the bushes beside the lake. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unpaved roads, the scrubby bushes and trees, the huts roofed with sticks bound together—everything was just as Salva remembered it, as if he had left only yesterday. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the faint light coming through the rain from the landing window, they saw a peacock drowned and draped over a bush. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For a moment the man stood perfectly still, his back to the bush. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Time I got down to the garden, Biddy on her knees peeking behind the bush. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They turned off the road into the bush at the side, and walked slowly through a clearing in the trees, pushing their way through the tangled undergrowth at the far end. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the fence back behind that garage building, through lots and lots of trees and around blackberry bushes, and hopped over some rocks to get across the little creek. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I ducked back through the bushes and into our yard. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A nest of entrails coiled through a bush, entangled with the branches. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As we climbed into the boats, an RPG flew from the bushes, exploding on the shore. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Each bush contained a few sleeping bags; you chose whichever one happened to be empty when you wanted to sleep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One might understand a trampled bush or two. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Papa said we should sit behind some bushes and wait until dark, then Papa would go see Rashid Uncle and make sure it was safe. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As we jogged to catch up with him, we jokingly tripped and pushed each other into the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And then I see some teeny, tiny people, watching us from behind a bush. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They came in a pickup truck with Federal Government plates and parked close to the hibiscus bushes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were people sleeping under the bushes near the bus stop. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So I put on my sock and my shoe as fast as I could and ran up the hill to the bushes where I had hid before. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He thought that by leaving the bush we would be walking toward death. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was an exhilarating walk through the crisp, clear air, the leaves thick and soft along the quiet trails, and over everything the indefinable healing peace and stillness of the northland bush. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Killer,” I hear from the bushes around us and then again from another part of the forest. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In a recycling bin, or a clump of bushes? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Each soldier crouching quietly among the ferns and bushes knew the penalty for making any sound that would betray their presence; not death from the defenders, but death at the claws of their own Chieftain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He crashed into a hill of groundsel bushes and wedged his way into their dense center. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Using shrubs and bushes as cover he moved furtively forwards, never taking any needless chances or making sudden movements. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As soon as they had made their way back, Bigwig came across to them from the bushes at the edge of the path. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the left flank, Grover and his nature spirits were regrouping, entangling the enemies with bushes and weeds. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Billboards advertise lots for sale, where blackberry bushes and shrubs run wild. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And she could wash her clothes in the stream and hang them on the bushes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma closes her eyes again, but I keep my eyes open in case whatever’s moving in the bushes is hungry and sizing me up for a snack. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She dived into the bushes as a large object swooped down the road. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you listen to me—if you go down to the bush at the end of your street, you’ll find your brother in a pretty bad way I strongly suggest you get down there.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The continuous, gentle rustling of the beech leaves was unlike the sounds to be heard in a copse of nut bushes, oak and silver birch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, on the stony slopes of hills she found many small tsenza bushes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nsukka is a little patch of dust in the middle of the bush, the cheapest land they could get to build the university on,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He gestures at the bush we’re hiding in, hiding in like thieves. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His hands were cut up from landing in the briar bush. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Into the jangled pieces of road little jungle roosters step from the bush, karkadoodling. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trees and bushes with shimmering leaves of blue and pink and purple. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Down there near the riverbank,” she said, “where the bushes grow thick, are sheep with fleeces of gold. Go fetch me some of their shining wool.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan tended to the flowers in the garden, soaked the roots, picked off yellowing leaves, and planted rose­bushes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shouting it out to the backs of black boys already disappearing into the bushes that flanked the railroad tracks, C.P. felt a tingle coursing through his body. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we crept along a path carpeted with oily black leaves, I stared at the trees covered in fungi, and the withered grass and bushes that had turned to mulch. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could tend to that azalea bush out there,” Miss Celia says one day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On one side of the road was nothing but sand and ocean, on the other it was these steep green cliffs full of baby trees and wild bushes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dicey gathered the underwear, almost dry, from the bushes where it had been hanging all night. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Kendra stared at the bushes and trees, expecting to find spiteful eyes glaring back at her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Now tykes were penned there, enclosed by thorn bushes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a place low and level enough to slide onto out of the bushes. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at the bush, with its few leaves and the hard ground around it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

At their roots, there’s wilted, crackling scrub, dry bushes. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s someone there. Someone watching us. I can tell. There, over by the bushes.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I stomped my foot and then I kicked at gravel, sending it tumbling into the rhododendron bushes along the side of the driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“He turned her from a hyena to a cane rat and then to a blackjack bush. I threw it into the fire.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Min’s wife emerged from behind a tangled bush, holding the bowl in one hand and a basket in the other. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They made their way to a grove of bushes off to the right, the breeze just cool enough to provide some respite from the thick, soupy heat of bodies inside. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They found her on her stomach by the for- sythia bushes calling Hannah’s name and dragging her body through the sweet peas and clover that grew under die forsythia by the side of the house. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z