His mouth puckers, and I can tell he doesn’t completely buy it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“If your grandmother has the kind of money to buy you expensive white people’s books,” the teacher said, “why can’t she buy you cheap black books to use in school?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room, against the opposite wall, she noticed the three pieces of foam core her mom had bought for Jessie's Labor Day project. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a cheap souvenir, the kind tourists bought along East Stave, but it had seemed to please her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lee, his pigtailed Chinese cook, had made a special trip to Pajaro to buy the pots and kettles and pans, kegs, jars, copper, and glass for his kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I woke up early and packed all my belongings into a bunch of cheap nylon bags I had bought from a street vendor a few days before. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

However, she let him buy her a beer, and she sat at the table watching Johnny dancing with Hildy and thinking that in all the world, there was nobody like Johnny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are bought for zoos, particularly by wealthy Arabs who like to keep private collections of wild animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sends $10 across town to her mother to help her buy heart and asthma medicine. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Since we had the bag of what we’d bought, a little extra wouldn’t raise her suspicions. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came out, he showed us a marble chess set he’d bought. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of his friends bought a freshly killed monkey and put it in the back of the Land Rover. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This might buy me a night or two, but I can't permanently live on someone's couch. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This is amazing. It’s so ugly, I kind of want to buy it.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Look at that. She’s buying him candy,” said Arm disapprovingly as the boy’s mother fed money into the machine. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And when she asked if I bought her something nice, I said I did. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had even bought some of them, but mostly they were cheap paperbacks that had been thrown away by tourists. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turned out, he was a big Danny Devon fan and even offered to buy his own ticket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

This could be to say: I’m not buying into all things Dutch, all things the establishment stands for. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In New Orleans the boys bought a pistol and carved two notches in the handle. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four dollars would buy us a gallon of John Eye’s finest. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Arkansas, where we cured our own meat, we ate halfinch slabs of ham for breakfast, but in St. Louis we bought the paper-thin slices in a strange-smelling German store and ate them in sandwiches. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cram my arm in, shift around, and produce a water bottle I bought at school, when it was something I took for granted. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“S’pose we just bought the whiskey and give it to him and let him do what he wants.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who will buy such a sari? Women want what they are used to, not some outlandish thing.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The type of guy who was too loud in the movie theater and always bought a big popcorn. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Buddy Willard and the other college boys I knew were usually too poor to buy hard liquor or they scorned drinking altogether. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“My father’s next door buying my books and Mother’s up the street looking at wands,” said the boy. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In the end we bought the fried pancakes, one each, paying six annas for the three, and four annas for two rice cakes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that day, a day he was never to forget, he went when work was done to buy some medicine for Deborah, who was in bed with a misery in her back. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Make sure to buy extra cheese croissants,” Oliver said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Two rupees? How much do you think you can buy with two rupees?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she would have given me the copy of the book that she bought for herself, it would have been different. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He bought Harry a hamburger and they sat down on plastic seats to eat them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Since the Lilienthals were supportive of Bobby, he reciprocated with gifts: a television satellite dish, a vacuum cleaner, leather goods that he’d buy on trips to Vienna, and special gifts for birthdays and other holidays. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It also meant she could buy me alcohol upon request, and that we looked enough alike that I could use her ID to go to bars myself if I wanted. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She offered to buy it for four thousand North Korean won, which was worth about four dollars at black-market exchange rates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Every hour he made a pit stop to relieve himself and to buy more economysized bottles of Pepsi, more chocolate chip cookies, more red licorice and corn chips. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yakov had bought a gun, but maybe he decided that was too bloody. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Davidson had bought Joey a little angel that was kind of chubby and had big wings and a halo made out of straw. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he hurried to the House of Hwang and he met the land agent there and he said without ceremony, “I have that with which to buy the land adjoining mine by the moat.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He could not recall being this interested in anyone since the glorious day when he had first set eyes on Rosa the Beautiful buying licorice in the pastry shop on the Plaza de Armas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was getting an MBA and had a job as a vice president at Continental Bank, and he and Janis had bought a nice condo in Hyde Park. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They went to her tent, and the boy gave his friend enough gold to buy a sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad bought a souped-up old Ford Fairlane that winter, and one weekend when the weather got cold, he announced that we were going swimming at the Hot Pot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We were hungry. We bought hot dogs. I’m sorry.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, she already imagined taking over the running of Zoe, turning it into a vibrant, relevant companion for Nigerian women, and—who knew—perhaps one day buying out Aunty Onenu. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d buy treats there for Mitt for being good on the train ride up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before he left I heard some colored man bought it.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father worried that if they left Incheon, he would not be able to make enough money to buy rice, like so many other poor Koreans. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They don’t like too many locals in their stores when they are trying to sell to tourists, and they hate children still in their school uniforms who aren’t going to buy anything at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He remembered Murdock had bought the tickets so he could spend time with his daughter on the one weekend a month he got to see her. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I bought a dozen and kept one in my hand as I shopped. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rufus had let him hire his time, work for other whites in the area, until he had money enough to buy the things he couldn’t make. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t buy it when people tell you that closets are the only way a ghost or monster can get into your room. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Well," I said, "are you going to buy me a dinner?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

That night, they bought rats on a stick from a boat seller, and watched the street river traffic. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped at a grocery store, where, per Augustus’s instruction, I bought a dozen eggs while he and Isaac waited in the car. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“That book. It’s all I have left from ... that time in my life. I would very much like to buy it back from you someday, when I have the money.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But they hated paying so many taxes—the extra money England made the colonists pay when they bought things like tea and paper. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“By showing him my house. I’m going to try to buy us more time for Mom to come up with the rest of the money or for me to finish building—or both.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Father wants to start tutoring me then, but we have to buy all the books first. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She gave me rags for the quilt and a few rupees to buy thread. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Bet his dad would buy you guys a house.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then he unearths the emergency credit card from his wallet and buys two plane tickets, first class, nonstop. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the more we washed them the worse they looked and Dad ended up going back to the Yankee Store and buying some brown-and-white seat covers for the front seat. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could go to jail for buying an underage high school senior vodka coolers, right? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a few rounds, Vivi wants us to push through the crowd and buy more fruit skewers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The verdict was neither: we both want to buy tankinis for the pool this summer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Trouble is tinker, I put myself into debt with a dangerous woman in order to buy this horse. If I don’t sell it well, I’m going to be in a desperate way.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But anyone could have bought it before the war or stolen it, and it had no merit as a safe-conduct pass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My dad wasn’t paying much attention, because he was busy tearing open luggage, removing the drugs, and buying new luggage. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Did she plan to buy a boat and dodge the authorities and find her husband on her own? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I say, “Good. Me too. And we don’t have to feel bad about that, Uncle Drum. Because you know she doesn’t know what she bought anyway. You know that, right?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

At last Singer bought a bottle of whiskey from the hotel manager and lured him into the taxi again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He buys the cake trimmings from a German baker who looks most pleased at all his new customers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Which is why I don’t buy into it.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest tree in the neighborhood and its price was so high that no one could afford to buy it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough to pay off all our work debts. With that much cash you could set up scavenge on your own. Even buy Bapi’s light crew slot.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried giving my Mary a shake to see if I couldn't get the pennies out and buy myself a box of Chiclets. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Parents who couldn’t show up at the ceremony in Chicago might buy a gift, might slip their kid a little money. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Something in Alpert was fulfilled in knowing that I would thereafter buy a television or a car or rent a hotel room in New York armed with the knowledge he had given me. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He borrowed a corkscrew from the woman he had bought the wine from and opened the wine and drank some of it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought him a cigar, so we drove around until it begun to get dark on the back streets where they wouldn’t see him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents bought my sister Asiya and me a car to share so that we could get ourselves to our respective jobs and school without having to rely on public transportation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It would buy her time to earn enough money to pay for the rest. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On his feet were cheap, low-cut civilian shoes which he had bought for his father’s funeral. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to buy a shirt? I got some shirts.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Conventional economic wisdom, of course, says that the more choices consumers have, the more likely they are to buy, because it is easier for consumers to find the jam that perfectly fits their needs. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You could sell the horse, skip college, and buy a hundred thousand pizzas.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But this would buy me only five or six extra minutes, at the most. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But he had the means to buy almost anything he wanted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most of his comrades had been killed or bought off. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

At the counter, I order the largest meal I can buy with my fourteen bucks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She regularly goes out of her way, and thus out of their budget, to buy bread at that bakery, meat at that butcher. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you with him when he bought the tickets?” she asked Ginny. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

That night I went out and bought Chinese food and a collection of Poe stories. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Gran sent Ivy into the village to buy a loaf of bread from the baker. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I danced around the shack, hugged everybody, sent my brother to the store to buy two liters of Coca-Cola and a packet of Tennis biscuits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went over to the stairs and sat down on the first step and took out the pad and pencil I'd bought. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And so he bade the laborers build a little room and an earthen stove in it and he bought a good cauldron. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I stood up again and went out of the park toward the liquor store where I bought the watch and Tic Tacs and hit the pay phone to call Jaden collect. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And more important to me, children from these families bought new schoolbooks and uniforms each year, went on all the school trips and spent lavishly during lunch breaks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized that the common practice of competing with specially outfitted racing cars muted the promotional effects of victories, given that the consumer knew he was not buying the race car. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don't even want it. Because you don't need it. Twenty bucks is like a penny to you. I wouldn't care if some kids took a penny from me to buy lunch.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Shay sputters, “if you had an unlimited amount of money, you could buy the medicine, right?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had stood in this exact place before while waiting to buy train tickets for friends or employees. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We spent our summers at Nantucket, Massachusetts, where Dad bought two lighthouses, which had been abandoned by the government, and a ramshackle cottage, which looked as if it had been abandoned by Coxey’s Army. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And adverts are pictures or television programs to make you buy things like cars or Snickers or use an Internet Service Provider. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the third time I asked, “Dad, why did you buy this record player? Don’t they have radio stations in Alabama?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured he’d choose the big ones—like her secretly saving up for three years in a row to buy him that expensive plane saw he was coveting over at Sears. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he could not beg nor buy a decent gun. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Howard opted to race unmodified stock models, exactly the same cars customers could buy off the dealer floor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate cornflakes and milk, morning and night, and bought some bananas for variety, slicing them into the bowl with the edge of my spoon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wash spent the day pulling off his plan to buy the train tickets in Tyler. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began to talk about buying a farm and drove her up and down island roads where property was for sale. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their dearest things, things they had never once considered selling to buy food. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Companies arranged kickbacks for buying certain products, and a black market in stolen equipment thrived. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it only because Hannah used to buy candy from the same rack? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

If I had been there to browse, not buy, they would have. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She makes a lot of money,” he said, “and she should buy her own darn comic book.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He bought him a Japanese toy truck one year, an electric locomotive and train track set another year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, some ladies that didn’t catch no fish would buy some from me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

LeeAnn said, “Well, the school owns The Landry News, right? I mean, like... the school buys the paper and the computer and all, so it’s the school’s, right?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows not to buy a girl a ring. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once wanted these white moccasin- type shoes that were the fashion in those days, and I bothered Tateh to buy them fior me so much he got sick ofi me and relented. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We bought soft pretzels from the cart in the park, even though I told Calista they tasted like the soggy cardboard from the bottom of the pizza box. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They bought a contemporary Cape house with dormer windows, with a lot of land around it, meadow and forest, where the dogs could run and the children could play. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would buy her something for Christmas, of course, something nice to remember him by, but nothing that would give her any ideas about marriage. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found a burger place and bought hot food and cold drinks. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hagrid had been known to befriend giant spiders, buy vicious, three-headed dogs from men in pubs, and sneak illegal dragon eggs into his cabin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But, while Jefferson thought of slavery as an evil that he hoped would eventually disappear, he still believed in his own right to buy and sell slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A lot of people volunteered their cars for the boycott and dipped into their savings to buy gasoline during that time. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Quarantine and massive chemical campaigns are only extremely expensive ways of buying time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, the third floor is better than the first, because we don’t have to be by the cafegymnasitorium, but I don’t exactly buy that. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He and Jessica were talking animatedly about the snow fight as we got in line to buy food. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Abigail had bought Candice the globe a few weeks ago; she wanted her to get a jump start on learning the countries. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun remembered Frank talking about this motorcycle—an antique bike that he had bought, restored, and lavished attention on. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dad decided to take on the task of buying me a typewriter. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the Depression started, he was newly married and had just bought his big car, moved to Queens, and made his great gamble on the writing-paper business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I had seen Mom only sporadically since then, and she’d never met John nor been to the old country farmhouse we’d bought the year before. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The upper middle class had never been so happy: they could buy as much whisky as they wanted, and automobiles on credit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t even have to buy them. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if to convince themselves how great it was not to be tied down by a baby, Mom and Dad bought us tickets to go visit New York for a week. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad told me that one company had been so alarmed by the success of Mother’s oils, they had offered to buy her out for an astonishing three million dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You could tell old Spencer'd got a big bang out of buying it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Herbert agreed to bring Florence’s two daughters, Geraldine and Viola, to New York and drove down to Martinsburg in the black Ford he had bought. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I took off my coat and my tie and unbuttoned my shirt collar; and then I put on this hat that I'd bought in New York that morning. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

One evening he announced that on the next day he was going to Mexico to buy food for the weekend. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I ever get one, I’ll buy his comic book first. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had just spent his life’s savings to buy the place. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, a sleek merchant on a grey mare reined up by Yoren and offered to buy his wagons and everything in them for a quarter of their worth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He promised to support mother and child, as he did, buying them a home in the Philippines, sending occasional gifts to the child, and money to Marilyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lola had been complaining about his mother’s fruit buying for the past three days, so he knew his mom was trying to prove a point by putting every mango and clementine to good use. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In preparation, he went out shopping and bought a leather briefcase. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She thought it was so beautiful that she went out and bought the book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she got more money, she would have to buy another. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“And do you know why your dad is buying and moving all the Norvelt houses to West Virginia?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We should have Mr. Greene print up a request to start a Protect Norvelt fund and collect money to buy what empty houses there are and keep this town from being sold or burned down.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had bought more fancy clothes from the colored emporium, she noted with pleasure, a dark suit that fit him well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So she bought them and tried one and liked it! Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What if you step on something? A piece of glass? I’m buying you a pair.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of guys bought them, passed them around at school, hid them in the covers of notebooks, even resold them. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As always, Mom bought the biggest tree in town, and Jim and I wrestled it indoors for her. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And that, to me, is the only reason to leave home in the first place—to buy things. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“How are we going to buy petrol then?” she asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You could offer to buy him off, or threaten to cut him up into little pieces and feed him to the loan sharks.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dollar watch was not good enough for a job like this; he would buy a gold one. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was nearly shaking as we walked up to the register, and Mitra bought us each a copy of Hawke's book. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For Portia he bought black woolen material for dresses and white linen for collars and cuffs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

How many times in the past hadn’t I dropped in to buy aspirin or formula for the baby. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think of anything funny about buying a train ticket. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Eventually I stopped shopping at Gigante because it drove me crazy to see all the things we couldn't afford to buy. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It might be. Mom bought it at the PX yesterday.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The place had been bought out, the shelves nearly bare. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Did people sew their own clothes so they wouldn’t have to buy from white folk?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Instead he bought a spring in the town of Big Bend, twelve miles south of Waukesha, just inside the Waukesha County line. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That Oldsmobile was a clunker from the moment we bought it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Granny said that she would not buy worldly books for me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lupin? Listen, if he had this much gold, he’d be able to buy himself some new robes.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Entranced by the Algerian Village at the Paris exposition, he had bought the rights to display the village and its inhabitants at future events. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I pretty much expected him to say this, but I knew it had nothing to do with yarn and was really all about him not having money to buy it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

After the game, Bridge bought two Kit Kats, one of which she dropped on her father’s desk at the Bean Bar on her way home. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Do we have enough gold to buy a ship?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could be certain. Octavian has a lot of friends, most of them bought. The rest of the campers are afraid of him.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We went together to buy birds for the cages that had been empty ever since my grandmother, sensing that she was about to die, had opened them and let the birds fly out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Macon went on with the charade, pretending he didn’t know his sister was the one Porter and anybody else—adult, child, or beast—could buy wine from. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I'd buy her a pair that matched mine, but there are more colors now, including a mossy green that I know she'd love. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She thought of buying a wig, but wigs brought anxiety, the always-present possibility of flying off your head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Another penny bought a small reel of red embroidery cotton and two cents went for a pair of small hoops. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his protestations Victor also buys him very shiny shoes and a new hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The next day I drove to the hardware store in town and bought a slide-bolt lock for my bedroom door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She walks with them to the park, and they discuss which ice creams they’re going to buy. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I told him he must buy it in my name o. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He held it up as if to buy Dustfinger’s company with it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I bought it in São Tomé. Never got to take a shot. Great stuff.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They'd buy her little trinkets with the winnings from their after-school fights—flowers, chocolates—and kiss and flatter her to keep her from fussing too much. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“My father went to the store and bought it as a treat. I recognized it right away and loved it. So he would buy lots of chocolate for us all the time.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“No, no, Mr. Das, I didn’t come to buy today. I came to bring you a gift.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to buy new ones, but, you know, they aren’t easy to find.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted so much to buy you them big plastic houses with those little round-headed people sitting inside. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I laugh as we pass through aisle after aisle, gathering the things he wants to buy. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Eventually, he hoarded and borrowed enough money to buy his own herd in Osage territory. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Got a house bought and paid for and sixty acres uh land right on de big road and . Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I bought myself a clothbound black book with purple flowers on the cover and kept it next to my bed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Where do you buy your fish of a Friday?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But except for Mercedes, who bought a dozen, she could not find any customers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She refused to cross the picket line, so we drove twenty miles out of our way to buy our duct tape. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was even wearing one of the new T-shirts Gideon had bought for him. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She bought him a smallish, unweighted wooden set that was housed in a sliding, unvarnished wooden box. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No. She’s thinking, My family needs food and this guy has Corn Flakes, and she buys the Corn Flakes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had to buy five packages of candles to make sure we’d have enough. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The old warder agreed, and the following evening presented Mac with a newly bought pack of cigarettes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went out and bought a roasting chicken and a bakery store pie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sweet Petyr, surely you do not mean to suggest that these puissant lords and noble knights could be bought like so many chickens in the market." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s all very world-class down here, where I used to buy cheap nighties in high school with my tiny clothes allowance, on sale at that and a size too large. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried down to the store and bought more. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans wanted cheap sugar and to be able to buy it anywhere, but they had no voice in Parliament. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had arranged to buy the little house Manolo and I had lived in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

June had just turned fifteen and used part of her birthday money to buy an issue of a blindingly colorful teen magazine. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We buy them for our Sunday dinner, which is the one time every week that we all eat together. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They were black people and they were buying papers to read about how the white folks were trying to track him to earth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I will buy oranges, yogurt without the jam. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t even enough money to buy proper food for them all. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shoot, you can buy a bottle of the worst whiskey for five dollars. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“His name is Hermie. See all those shells in there? We bought them for him. At night he gets out of one and puts on another, just like changing clothes.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my mother had been determined to stick it out in the home she’d bought with her husband. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Number two states you cannot buy gifts for others.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bought a composition book on the way home, and that night, after bathing, I began once again to make marks on paper. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dozens of people were standing in line to buy bags of “McDonald’s Famous Hamburgers.” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“If you w'ant a costume like this, then buy one,” Ignatius said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her husband’s breakfast into the food container that she had bought in Chinatown, one dish in each tier of the stack. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was my tía Gloria’s fault for giving my dad the money that allowed him to buy it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We could buy a bunch of those and have enough energy to sustain us until later on in the day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Can I get you some chai? Biscuits? I have ParleG, bought specially for you from the Indian market.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was actually buying time to go to the lake without her worrying. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Mrs. Fitzgibbon, still not soothed, “then you can spend the money to buy me some new rosebushes.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The prosecution, Miss Petrocelli, paraded in front of you a bunch of admitted criminals, people who have participated in stickups, buying and selling stolen goods, you name it. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t go to a job, make any money? How do you buy things? Like all those tools in the barn? Like”—he waved around the cabin—“all your stuff?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“First you must buy six mats,” said one, a man with coarse, hanging lips like a camel’s mouth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Now that Yegey has apparently cast me off Gaum thinks I must be purchasable, and so prepared to buy me out in his own curious fashion. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a drugstore she buys a Timex watch for her father-in-law, Bic pens for her cousins, embroidery thread and thimbles for her mother and her aunts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wore a navy blue suit I had bought the previous day, after I had brought Baba home from khastegari. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A summer visitor enters a hardware store in Maine and buys a large number of expensive items. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months later, after buying Tori a new car with unlimited car washes, Candice and Brandon split the remaining money fifty-fifty. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What will we buy?” asked Jo, ignoring the latter part of his speech, and sniffing the mingled odors with an affectation of delight as they went in. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And your dad just bought all this stuff for you? He didn’t think these items were a little weird?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We also bought a couch and two matching chairs, two big beds, a chiforobe with a mirror, and two folding cots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, you have thirty days to go buy your stuff back. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Michaelis didn't see anything odd in that and he gave Wilson a dozen reasons why his wife might have bought the dog leash. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Strangers buy her ice cream and she tells them that I’m dead. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar lords like Beckford wanted to make sure American colonists would buy only from their islands, and would not be able to look for cheaper sugar elsewhere. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The best thing Grandpa did for her when they got married was buy her an electric washing machine, but whatever joy it had once given her was long gone. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This time, instead of food, we bought clothes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few days, Nino Carlitos apologized and bought her an aerobics book full of photos of thin, fair women in shiny leotards and leg warmers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends and I would regularly trade the most remarkable stories we’d overheard or witnessed: A father who left his family and robbed his parents for money to buy rock. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There was no running water, no electricity, and nothing to buy but the pipes and wires needed if you wanted to live with plumbing and electricity. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We had even bought a Dodge car that would be waiting for us in San Francisco so we could drive across the continent to Pennsylvania. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought to myself that anybody who could get Grandpa to buy a car would have a bathroom in no time, and maybe even electric lights and a telephone. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Naw, Dusty bought the whole sad story. He thinks I wanted my job back just because Lice left me broke. And I’ll be honest, the money’s not too shabby.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But it dawned on me to wonder, How in the world would he get American cigarettes in a country where you can’t even buy toilet paper? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had sat in that same location for decades and had a loyal following of people who would cross boroughs and state lines to buy bread and pastries there. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The actors weren’t given complimentary tickets for friends and family, so he had to buy three for us. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly, he owns the worst car in living history, but he seems satisfied enough, considering he won’t spend any of that money of his to buy a new one. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t wrapped in cellophane, like the ones you buy in the box. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Tours we got off and bought another bottle of wine, and when we got back in the compartment the gentleman from Montana and his wife and his son, Hubert, were sitting comfortably. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man’s love when you have removed his self-love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t bought new clothes for Cambridge, because I’d had to take out a student loan just to pay the fees. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I tried to pretend I was Mom, but the adoption guy didn’t buy it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Back then, most DJs could spin for only a few hours; they were limited by the number of vinyls they could buy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I'd planned to join him, but that first year, when the time came to buy my ticket, I chickened out, realizing that I was afraid of France. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had gotten married and bought a run-down Victorian house on Long Island that he restored, and he and his wife had a child, a little girl. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I bought twenty pairs of these gloves, for you boys with delicate hands.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew what to buy or give Sam and Patrick, but I didn’t know what I could buy or give or make for my own dad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with my clothes. They’re brand-new! I just bought them a few weeks ago after I turned young.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I may buy ten more of this exact shirt. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, you buy it for me—some sort of clear; sticky gel that smells like bad perfume. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

What follows is a growing mumble, two voices starting polite, quiet, like when a lady buys stamps at the post office and gives the minimum amount of respect required to the teller. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Missy say I go King City buy nursey bottle,” he said uneasily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By this point, Patrick had bought a bottle of red wine with his fake ID, and we passed it back and forth. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I want ginger ale I’ll have to go to the store or the kitchen, buy it or pour it myself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I couldn't buy a drink to take out, sir, so I had to bring you inside," I explained in dread. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave it to Megan to go with her aunt to the mall to buy something black. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At noon, when everything closed up, she sat under a shade tree in the square and fed the pieces of the pastry she’d bought to the pigeons. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sherman bought them a house at Forty-third Street and Michigan Avenue, near the lake but more importantly near the stockyards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the other agents also had their bought girls and they were extremely anxious to keep other agents from tampering with them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the news-stand she bought a copy of "Town Tattle" and a moving-picture magazine and, in the station drug store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She’d bought him inexpensive pots and plates, the kind she used back in Cambridge, as opposed to the gleaming ones from Williams-Sonoma her children buy for her these days as gifts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We got you these,” I said, giving her the vase of flowers we had bought downstairs in the gift store. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I asked him to buy me a six-pack. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike the strict clothes rationing in Germany, the men cheerfully bought more shirts, pants, underwear, socks, and a suitcase. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes,” he mumbled. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’d make so much that I could buy my lunch using other kids’ money and keep the lunch money my mom gave me for pocket cash. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He hired three more girls, and bought sewing machines for all of them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But even though my parents were the ones who’d bought it for me, they started getting annoyed at my constant banging on that Casio. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It didn’t look as if it bought them any acceptance here. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Helen bought her love seat, a sky blue velveteen fold-out, and also her bridge table. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben can buy them at Mr. Phelps’s store if he really wants them. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He bought wool from die north and linen from the south and lace from Lys, stared it, moved it, dyed it, sold it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I do have to shut you down. The law's the law. But before I do, I'll buy one last glass of lemonade. How's that sound?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

If one of them bought a gallon of milk they drank it until it was gone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped by a CVS and bought costumes—matching ninja outfits that were more or less black plastic sheets with hoods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At snack time, while the other children bought little plastic bags of popcorn, I cuddled with Cheetah. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not believe me, so you must give me the necklace. I will not let her buy you for such a cheap price.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he shaved his head he could not, perhaps, buy the beef. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

If the milk were produced at 11:59 p.m., the date on the container would have to indicate that the milk was made yesterday, and no Japanese consumer would buy it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re acting like some farmer who thinks I’m trying to buy his soul. It’s just a little blood so I can keep tabs on you. It’s like collateral.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On my way to Elizabeth’s, I go by the Ben Franklin store and buy a clipboard, a box of number two pencils, a blue-cloth notebook. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I start that job at the post office I’ll buy him shoes so I will. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Such girls have bought watermelon and snapbeans from the fruit man’s wagon. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way to the Eolian I bought a pair of low boots, good for walking and warm enough for the winter months ahead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think to myself, Please Ma, don’t buy it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I cracked open a peanut from the ten-cent bag I had bought to feed the pigeons, and ate it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

So Reynie had bought a sandwich at a deli stand and sat down on this park bench to eat. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was too short at the wrists 'cause Mama had bought it the year before for me to wear on special occasions like school assembly and church. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Lanre brought victory to his side, but he bought it with his life. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But he didn't have enough money to buy a ticket for passage, so Dasch snuck onto a ship and sailed to America as a stowaway. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Walt Disney bought 160 acres of orange groves just a few miles from Carl’s Drive-In Barbeque, chopped down the trees, and started to build Disneyland. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“You should go to school and tell your principal I refuse to buy your supplies. I bet he’ll have some lying around somewhere.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A fellow newjack who bought Newjack the week it came out wrote, “It’s about time the public finds out about us. You tell the true story. Reading your book was like reading about myself.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said that he wanted to move to Florida where he could buy a little piece of heaven, and Mom had said Norvelt was heaven on earth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Me, I never said nothing to him except once when I bought the Statue of Liberty for a dime. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She will wait here, sewing, until Olga can buy her legs, too. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I told him in a new series of whispers, that he might as well buy me a gold gown and a silver bonnet at once: I should certainly never venture to wear his choice. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s buried a hundred and fifty feet underground. Maybe I’ll start working triple shifts. Then I can buy a piece of that coal vein and somebody might have a little leverage against Devlin.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He refused to buy anything unless the honor of his family demanded he do so. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went across the street to this cluster of stores, bought more hot dogs and fruits and donuts, and this time Mong had us buy a bundle of wood instead of charcoal. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had been a sufficiently rash act to buy the book in the beginning, and he had sworn never to come near the place again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But a few years after World War II, several black families bought houses in a whites-only Birmingham community, and the racial lines became blurred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The shoes she had to buy with her own money fiercely pinched her toes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Your Honor. These shysters have been deceiving everyone long enough. Producing illegal alcohol, or their so-called elixir, to raise funds to buy the land. I’d say it’s time to put that land up for sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In another, I buy a bag of sweets for Prim. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of people there, arguing, selling, and buying; vegetables for sale amongst daggers, and carpets displayed alongside tobacco. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we left the markets with our sandals and some fabric Mama had bought, we saw a small crowd gathered around the vegetable stalls we had passed earlier, the ones lining the road. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He held a belt in his hand, the brown leather one he’d bought for his nikka with the girl, and was wrapping the perforated end around his fist. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

An eccentric nobleman of my acquaintance, some years ago, quietly bought a castle without telling his wife. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“They had open markets where you could buy stuff,” Shamsoun remembers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A few days after buying the volume of Shakespeare, Sissy woke up one morning and nudged her current lover, with whom she was spending the night in a quiet family hotel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor did a great deal of buying over the next few weeks. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mo had bought a couple of well-worn paperbacks that looked as if they had already passed through the hands of several people. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Meaning once a year we bought as many fifty-pound bags of rice as we could afford, and we didn’t get nervous again about money until we reached our last bag. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gebu came down the stairs again almost immediately, carrying a packet of bread loaves which he had evidently bought on his way home, for they smelled deliciously of new-baked crust. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When she went to buy it, Mam£ reminded Minerva of her promesa. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sergio returns and then waves to the old guy who just bought the produce. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they were going to do all the things they always did in the summer, like play in the hydrant and buy rocket pops from the ice cream man, without him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And in the afternoons, he stood at the bottom of the subway steps and hawked magazines, turning whatever money he made over to his family to buy food. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s sweet. See, it’s customary to buy a drink for yourself and one for me. We could just split a bottle of champagne.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had gone back to China, where he had bought her and married her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where exactly do you plan on buying this new Bible?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Icelandic friends said that Fischer was kind to the little girl, played with her, and bought her presents while she was in Iceland. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As, surely, the richest kid in the Three Counties, I bought one for me, Dean, and Maxine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see myself buying a boat or even traveling anyplace on a boat. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

That will buy me some time to gather my thoughts. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I bought our food at the market and cooked it as best I could and tried to keep Prim and myself looking presentable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t any question of them being able to buy a better house—or even one more bed to sleep in. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Already he’d borrowed heavily to redo their house, to buy into the west side subdivision and golf course, and to wheedle a position on the proposed ski valley’s board of directors. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other box was an old cardboard box that is called a shirt box because people used to buy shirts in them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, what about all that Egyptian cotton he’s stuck with? How much did he buy?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

To take advantage of that, most farmers would buy more chickens to lay more eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But it came furnished, which means our father didn't have to buy anything. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I have that purple one that Dadu bought you. Maybe I'll wear one of my own, from Mumbai. And join you." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While most of the children in the store, both black and white, scraped for pennies in their pockets, Paulette pulled out two crisp dollar bills and bought three large bags of candy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She borrowed some money from Trotter for “school supplies,” and bought a pack of heavy white construction paper and magic markers. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Two dollars could buy enough cornmeal and flour and sugar to keep her family going for a couple of weeks! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He visits the dealer frequently, despite the rising prices, and buys one bottle after another after another. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma bought two bolts of cloth each year for winter and summer clothes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finished, I returned the empty bottle and quickly bought another. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, Nick learned in social studies class that people who buy stuff are called con-sumers. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides food and beverages, people suggested ointments and tonics, even enclosing advertisements to show the doctors exactly what to buy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For instance, most stores buy yellow and black crepe paper and black paper cats, masks and papier-mâché pumpkins in October. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever I wanted to be, that’s where he was—squeaking the porch swing, or hogging the kitchen table, eating those organic soy nuts Mom bought for him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

After I bought a ticket, I broke away from the crowd and retreated into the shadow of the bleachers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Can’t imagine how she manages to afford them all or even where she gets them—women are no longer allowed to buy cigarettes in Ormaie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With the group’s money and the money I had been saving, I bought my mom some cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Dad wasn’t talking about buying me some extravagant present, like a pony or a dollhouse. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then we bought, and then we all went out into the sunlight and the heat, and climbed back on top of the bus. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the grocery he planned to buy what. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had ever bought me stuff like this before—something I just liked and didn’t need and didn’t even ask for. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Tear away with your jelly fingers. You have not bought these boys, nor stolen them, nor passed any bit for them. You have them by some strange and lovely dispensation.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to a gas station and bought crackers with peanut butter from a machine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember now that my mom bought these gourmet salads for my grandparents from a new salad-only place. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mom won’t let me buy new books, says it’s a waste of money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Ermis missed the occasional three-hour bus rides they had taken to Tegucigalpa to buy things, his mom’s spaghetti, how they would go to the tortilla store together. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Next door was Huxsol Drugs, where I bought a jar of Pond’s Cold Cream. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Your maa is angry with me over the earrings and would never give me cloth for the quilt or money to buy thread.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They could only buy essentials at the grocery store, like milk, bread, and canned soup. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

That way, she’s drinking one glass while he is buying four. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t want their son to be buying or selling drugs, being bullied or bullying anyone else. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, I didn’t have anything to buy and I always saved most of my check. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still wearing the same wrinkled black suit, which now looked like something from a trash barrel; he couldn’t even find time to buy a new one, despite repeated requests from Ophelia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“How can he grow if you can’t buy the right food!” he had screamed, then he’d gathered her up and flung her from their trailer, into a snowbank. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You dont want to buy no golf ball neither, does you.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It started out okay. I bought her a program, a hot dog, even a souvenir foam baseball." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He bought himself a brand-new single-breasted suit of brown worsted for this occasion, with a matching brown vest and a brown and yellow- flowered silk tie. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They had their chance to buy the property. Now it’s up for public sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She bought suitcases and filled them with our good clothes, allowing us to wear only the faded dresses and shirts that we would leave behind like butterflies a cocoon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Today’s Application has something to do with buying guppies at the pet store, and calculating how many guppies you could breed if you wanted to go into the guppie business. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was buying equipment to make his collection of cars simpler, but he wasn’t generating the kind of revenue necessary to support the costs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I might have bought into their belief that I was too old, not strong enough, or lacked the requisite talent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Most of my schoolmates worked mornings, evenings, and Saturdays; they earned enough to buy their clothes and books, and they had money in their pockets at school. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said I ought to also buy a hat, and I did—blue, with a feather in the four-inch brim. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all beg the girls to just buy anything they can think of. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

So he bought me a good present to make up for that. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Catherine bought the things she needed for the baby, up in the town. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Jay goes to her room to call elderly relatives who are surprisingly still alive, and Trey and I load up this Michael Jackson video game on the Wii Dad bought when we were younger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mami buys me a white turtleneck to wear with a red jumper and a pair of sturdy saddle shoes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

This year I couldn’t afford to buy Ma anything for Mother’s Day, so I wrote her into the story as a sorceress who doesn’t age and casts peace spells. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And then: "I'll wear that lovely green sari you bought in New Delhi." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Where can I buy a map?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My only freedom was to swipe pennies from the store drawer and walk downtown with Dee-Dee to buy romance magazines like True Love and True Romance. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always a degree of tension as we tried to communicate what we needed: We didn’t want to appear rude or ungrateful, but we didn’t want to buy food that we would not eat. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long silence, the doll said, “I hope you don’t think that anyone is going to buy you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Mister,” the boy said, “we found a big can of liquor over there in the weeds. You want to buy it?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go buy me a croissant and a coffee, unless you’re going to steal my coins, too.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When the lesson finished, Caroline told me to buy a leotard and dance shoes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To accommodate his bulging feet, he’d simply asked my mother to buy him a bigger pair of work boots. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I prefer Vinolia,” she said haughtily, and she bought a cake of that. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you’re sorry. Well, with your sorry and four hundred a month, I can buy gas so I can raise my kids in the true faith. You’re sorry.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Orff began by buying recorders, which were rare at the time. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Someday, people will be buying these in antique shops, and they’ll have tiny computers that they carry around with them”—which I think he probably meant as a joke, except he didn’t laugh. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t buy flour, white flour, any more without taking four times the quantity of brown flour. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tom had bought the parrot from a sailor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If a ten-thousand-dollar lottery ticket could buy a can of pineapple, who knew what a diamond ring was worth. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Back in California, when Papa wanted something really fresh for the restaurant, he sometimes took them with him to a farm, where he bought butter, milk, or meat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He asked if my father had bought them for me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t keep this a secret. I have to tell my mom before she quits her job and gives up our apartment. She thinks I can buy us a house.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lil’ Dub had even stopped accepting the crossword puzzles he used to buy for her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All told it buys me about 90 days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everywhere there are signs with prices for the great jumble of items waiting to be bought. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

We go to Milk and Honey, and to All Flesh, where I buy chicken and the new Ofglen gets three pounds of hamburger. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good number of the young people who bought Hush Puppies, for instance, were people who once upon a time wouldn’t have been caught dead in them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merchandisers, for example, might look at two golfers, one lower middle class, the other wealthy, and know that they read the same golf magazine, see the same advertisements, and possibly buy the same quality driver. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the way home from school, I stop at Bennie’s to buy a pack of Starbursts. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I handled my phone messages, started thinking seriously about what I’d do the moment I got out—would I buy a cup of coffee? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to buy something to eat, but that would take all the money I had just earned. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

These are the kinds of places where people buy gold watches and real paintings and jewelry and expensive clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She says even if you bought the Globe just for that reason, you’d save a fortune on wrapping. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I would like to buy one of your hot dogs. They smell rather tasty. I was wondering if I could buy just one.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father would buy one for each kid, and we would each sip ours slowly, savoring every drop, hoping to make it last as long as possible. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It felt like a box of chocolates, but I knew Bailey wouldn’t save money to buy candy when we had all we could want under our noses. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought my ticket and climbed into the bus. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, the two of them went to the children store to buy a few kids. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I complained, she told me I would have to understand that her education would bring us better gifts than money could buy. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mom said I should have bought Erlan a chess set for his birthday, but I told her he likes lots of things besides just chess. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after that, Sima was in a market buying pomegranates, and tea, and saffron, when a black van pulled up onto the sidewalk. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Before returning home, Mrs. Tennyson bought a dozen onions from Sam. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I was gonna buy these, but I don’t know, you don’t expect anybody to be nice anymore, but that man in there, he can be cold.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some buy Mexican clothes or ones sporting the name of a Mexican soccer team. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That bought Ekon some time, but not much—he had to figure out a plan to hunt down the Shetani before then. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some was lost in gambling, some chipped off for taxes, and some acres torn off like coupons to buy luxuries—a horse, a diamond, or a pretty woman. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She changes the music to narcocorridos, those horrible Mexican songs about drug traffickers who buy diamond-encrusted guns and cut each other’s heads off. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You can pick any assortment you like or buy a special box complete with all letters, punctuation marks, and a book of instructions. Here, taste an A; they’re very good.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when she had a spare penny, she bought broken crackers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of partying, he was walking his children to the Arab supermarket on Roosevelt Avenue to buy packages of chicken and spare ribs, and hoping to get to use the kitchen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

One day he needed twenty-five cents to buy his lunch. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the comer, on the gateleg table, the glass paperweight which he had bought on his last visit gleamed softly out of the half-darkness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"No need. Sam Westing could afford to buy a dozen certificates of sanity." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Mom she didn’t have to buy me a new dress since last year’s still fits, but she insisted. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The family ran up a bill at the traders, bought expensive salt pork. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

If she found a skirt or a purse she liked she bought two. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to buy a condo next year, or one of them houses they’re selling for, like, five bucks and fix it up real nice.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And every few years, when I have a little extra money, I buy another bracelet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For just a few dollars each day, parents could buy off their guilt. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

People come in, they buy what they want. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Alba had no trouble obtaining the key to her mother’s pantry, arguing that there was no need to hoard ordinary flour and poor men’s beans when you could buy Baltic crab and Swiss chocolate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you can buy me anything I want. The question is, do I want you to buy me anything?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

People stood in line for hours to buy tickets to her recitals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was a sick hoax, and the Red Cross bought into the Nazi propaganda. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Wednesday walked across the street carrying the metal case, and bought himself a coffee at the supermarket. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t buy the things, you see. They were left over.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Katie managed to buy her white kid slippers and a pair of long white silk stockings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d replaced his lumpy twin bed with a new full-size mattress, added curtains to the windows, and bought a new dresser. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Me and another fella went to see him about buying the piece of property next door to his store. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She buys a tall cup of cocoa and asks for two straws. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I could afford to catch a bus home instead of walking or save up to buy whatever. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We needed to grow more food and cotton so Papa bought Mr. McKenzie out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Losing the horse and saddle was hard, but he could buy another in Abbot’s Ford and still have enough money to live comfortably until he finished this foolishness and met up with Skarpi in Treya. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Farmers bought more land than they could afford and figured their profits on the covers of their checkbooks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bought myself a pay-as-you-go flip phone and we started texting each other sarcastic things about people in our lives. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That is the sweet truth bought at the price of so much bitter pain. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Zillah has bought a number of towels in different shades and run them repeatedly through the dryer, to get shades of pink, of gray-green, of off-white, as well as the standard undemeath-the-bed gray. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the version of Max now smiling at me on the monitor was pure software, with the best simulated AI and voice-recognition subroutines money could buy. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The world was a good place to buy in. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His mum had her own bread and cereal which she bought at a health-food shop in town and which Conor thankfully didn’t have to share. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You will get them soon, child. I bought groceries with what I would have used for your books, because your father didn’t give me grocery money this week. Have patience.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the two women deliberately; he probably chose them with the same care and shrewdness with which he chose the other livestock—the horses and mules and cattle—which he bought later on. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Big Kelly and me were setting aside money each payday to buy a baby swing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He bought spare ribs, buttered corn, French fries, and a Pepsi-Cola. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad bought me a model airplane from the gift shop, a real A-10 Thunderbolt. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Two talents and I have the option to buy it back for a month.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Next time he was in Hogsmeade, Harry decided as he walked back up the stone steps into the castle, he was going to buy Dobby a pair of socks for every day of the year. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was sneaky and bad enough to buy the candy and come back pretending it was a free gift. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby’s wearing the ankle boots she bought yesterday and a short patterned skirt, and the effect is disarming. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

"Jack, I'm going to buy your whole team autographed Star Trek memorabilia." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Up with you! Make haste to the shop. You can buy a loaf on the way.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

If only I could keep them, I could hide them away and some day buy a donkey. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

If Susan needed a dog, Mike said he would buy her a new one—a purebred from a trainer he knew about in Pennsylvania. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were order forms for buying HeLa cells online, receipts, newsletters from Deborah’s church, and seemingly endless copies of the photo of Henrietta, hands on hips. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

With a loud yet gentle voice, First Turkey said, “Water Monster of the Agave Pond, you must attain medicine from your mother to buy us more time.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then came the first bald statement that it had been bought—by a Mr. Owen. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The following afternoon he bought a baby grand piano. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That Grover would not have knowingly bought stolen grease went without saying. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was plenty, she said, to buy food for Brian and Maureen and me for two months and pay the water and electricity bills. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If I could buy the furniture now hired for me,” said I, “and one or two other little things, I should be quite at home there.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

If I had lots of money, I’d buy that ruby one for my bedroom windowsill. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to spying, Catt accused the antis of “buying” votes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mention that it was a long time ago, near the water’s edge, when I was little and Lolo bought us those cheap masks and flippers from Walmart. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Last time, we bought candy at 7-Eleven, and Sneaky was mad because it cost us more. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Sure, she had money, but it was her parents who each had a car and bought the castle that Caitlin lived in. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I ask, trying to buy myself more time to make a decision. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The guy he’d bought the radio from said he was selling it cheap on account of him moving to an oil field in Oklahoma and not wanting more stuff to haul. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a huge printing, only 1,500 copies, but Mudie’s lending library had bought 500 copies, which meant that many more people would read The Origin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom won’t buy us any because she says it’s nothing but sugar mixed with chemicals to make it neon colors, and it’ll give you cancer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It’s everyone from the mom buying some food that fell off the back of a truck to feed her family, all the way up to the gangs selling military-grade weapons and hardware. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The lists are given to our sponsors—really rich people, even companies—and they go out and buy us everything.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The debris was shoved into the Bay and the good oysters forward until they could be sold to a buy boat, which would take them to market. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They felt sorry for her and bought her ice cream. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep watching until one of the blond girls cries because her mom won’t buy her a pair of shoes that cost more than my entire life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Soon she had a better room in the house, her own private rickshaw, a house for her elderly parents, a sum for buying blessings at temples. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought a white blouse next and a nightgown—fawn trimmed in sea foam. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we dock, Meng finds a bus station and buys our fares with the Vietnamese money he has saved from his last trip. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was enough for Stanley to buy his family a new house, with a laboratory in the basement, and for Hector to hire a team of private investigators. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. Whoever did send it, I’d love to shake their hand and buy them a beer,” Will said with a snarl. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Mama watched for the sales and then gathered all us children every so often to buy shoes there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of his hair as silver, to go along with his silver tongue, which he used trying to talk her into buying diesel Cadillacs with red-leather interiors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rick said, “If I get them I’m going to buy a sheep.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She crumbles the edges of the cookies before she puts them in the box, to make it look like she baked instead of bought. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He hurried to the pantry and found the bag of birthday decorations his mom had bought. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He does. I know because I bought something from him just a few weeks ago. He has a whole box of colored pencils.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She said it could be bought at the filling station and that her family had one in every room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sally says she likes being married because now she gets to buy her own things when her husband gives her money. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever he’s doing, I figure I must be buying him some time, at least. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He used the extra money to gamble and buy alcohol. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To look for your inheritance? So you can buy things I can’t buy for you?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And I bought them, I fell for them all. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is for bullets, not bets. Wylan, make sure his feet don’t mysteriously find their way into a gambling den on his way to buy ammunition, understood?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mama bought them for me to put in little frames and hang in my room. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She agreed to stop at a store selling Chinese souvenirs because he wanted to buy something for Ginny. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He believes that more and more consumers will make the choice to buy local, “beyond organic” food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I think he may have bought the gifts long ago but wanted desperately for us still to like them, still to like him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manager types the number into one of the gray computers; $3 buys fifteen minutes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He never did find out from the car salesman, but he bought the car anyway. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What, you don’t buy me as a Girl Scout?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A farmer from whom I bought eggs and home-smoked bacon told me of the advantages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few parents and faculty members even bought some of the portraits. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The Russell Stover box is pretty low because no one has been to the United States lately to buy chocolates. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I check my watch—an old one of Dad’s he gave me after buying a digital one that could glow, for his bad eyes—and it’s close to 1:00 a.m. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

You could buy a new car or even a house with all that money! A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I can’t pay you this week. Mister Pugsly had to go to the vet and I had to buy him some medicine and...” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Some were bought as pets and handed over to us when they got too big and potentially dangerous to go on living in the house. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Green went from bust to boom in weeks, buying up whatever tobacco was available from his neighbors and shipping it off to New York, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, California. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

About three hundred families have already bought memberships, which now cost $300,000. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, after I’d finished scrapping, I drove forty miles to the nearest Walmart and bought a pair of women’s jeans and two shirts, both blue. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Later on I bought him a drink, played the bluff soldier, old Arctic hand, "more things in heaven and earth" line. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they had bought her two already, she still wanted one with pockets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harold jingles the car keys and says, “I’m going down the hill to buy stuff for dinner. Steaks okay? Want anything special?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman, bought by trinkets, gave him over to be cut down in the assault on Thebes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents bought me a cowboy hat and bought cowboy boots for Delphine. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

"Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was only one movie playing, and as they waited in line to buy tickets Ophie couldn’t help but bounce a little in excitement. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He wondered what they had bought with all their money. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It hadn't been there when they'd gone into the pool hall—it arrived at four every day—and never stayed if kids weren't waiting there to buy anything—gone by 4:02. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I gave him a sly grin and dipped my hand into my travel- sack, bringing out the bottle of brand I’d bought from the tinker. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Papá and Joe García borrowed money from a savings and loan company to buy a small tractor, tools, wood to build a shed to store them, and an outhouse. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It would have eased her mind if I thanked her for wanting to buy me away from Madam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not buy her a gray pony, a gold necklace, nor a little sailboat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief may have bought the man’s first point, but he disregarded his second point, as it was utterly stupid. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I went on to ask the class, “Do you know what he does? He gets all of his beer bottles and recycles them so that he can go and buy more beer.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Isa made her way to Castleman’s to buy bread for the next day’s dinner, fighting the intensifying wind the whole way. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mam tells Mrs. Meehan, The first telegram money order I get I’ll be in the shop buying a big breakfast so that we can all have our own egg of a Sunday morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Slight symptoms gave him away: the sparkle in his eyes when he saw the little girl, the expensive presents he bought her, the anguish he felt if he heard her cry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fried plantain hawker tried to persuade Ifemelu to buy fried sweet potatoes as well. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had used most of their savings to buy medicine. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

One day she bought a small plant, an African violet in a plastic pot on sale for ninety- nine cents at a drugstore. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

At the drugstore, I bought a gallon of water for drinking and toothbrushing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Tell your friends to buy tickets. They’re now on sale in the student activities room. The price is seventy-five cents for students and one dollar for adults.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She bought him a new set of guitar strings. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

So they started saving their money, and in just a few years they had saved enough to buy a cozy four-bedroom home in Maplewood, New Jersey. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Just look at his loot. Who knows how many other innocent people he’s hoodwinked into buying that snake oil. I insist that he be put under arrest.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had taken Luke a while to figure it out—he certainly hadn’t dared ask anyone else in his family—but he thought maybe the people were thinking about buying the houses. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a good thing to buy land,” she said pacifically. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to buy it, or shall I go and find somebody who will?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We went over and bought a cup of milk to share, then stood over the goat as if idly curious. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“If you’re the gal whose indenture my father just bought, you best learn your place around here.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked himself a wife and bought her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Auntie Ying mentions she bought yarn at half price, somewhere out in the avenues. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would’ve had more if I hadn’t bought new skateboard trucks the first week of vacation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The big cooler was something Mrs. Treski had bought a few years back when she was in charge of refreshments for the school Spring Fling. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my lord. I was bought to please the king.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In pencil it said, “Later. Well, right there the pen give out. One of the points broke off. I’ll have to buy another penpoint in the village—rusted right through.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took out two pence and with these he bought six small green peaches. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

On the train the next day, Joe didn’t make many speeches with rhymes to her, but he bought her the best things the butcher had, like apples and a glass lantern full of candies. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but—anyway, Mom put some money on your books instead of buying you Christmas presents. She figured you could get what you wanted at the commissary.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

No one who tried on clothes in the third dressing room to the right of a certain department store ever bought anything. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Morning begins with a trip, by car, to the Holiday gas station’s convenience store, where I buy a pop container full of ice and a packet of two hard-boiled eggs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around my bedroom for ideas: from the checkered rug on my floor to the calendar of Georgia O’Keeffe flower paintings Dad bought me at the art museum he took me to last summer. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The privileges affected by these classifications included visits and letters, studies, and the opportunity to buy groceries and incidentals — all of which are the lifeblood of any prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t even buy me frozen yogurt,” she pointed out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You mean no Republican ever bought a vote? Don’t make me laugh.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you want a piece of cake before you go? I bought a pound cake from the grocery store. Isn’t that your favorite?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They agreed to set aside a large sum of money from which applicants could make loans to buy these houses. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t need to do that, Dad. I was going to buy myself a car.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Look, senora, buy this, it’s cheap. Buy this, buy this, senora. How much will you give me?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under no circumstances, Bobby instructed sternly, was Olafsson to buy anything from Israel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Be your real friend, not just a restless spirit. Take you to the movies and buy you ice cream.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Money is very easy to earn but rather hard to spend, because there isn’t very much to buy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he went to the farmer and said, “I will give you enough to buy another ox and more, but this ox I will have.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was like buying a fish at market. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They don’t want to steal, they want to buy. Me. They got a corpse up there and they want a miracle.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A second daughter, Polly, was born that year, and as his business took root Harry bought a stump farm—160 acres of recently logged land southwest of town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I told him that in America you could step into a grocery store and buy any of fifteen or twenty different types of cereal. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the leftover money, she bought a small bouquet of flowers and laid it on the boy’s grave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Army commissary officers, like the one Sam was working for, were buying up a lot of the livestock to feed the troops. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the supermarket, Jeremiah asked his coach to buy bacon, one of his favorite foods, so they could have it for breakfast. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Others would buy it through this woman if he did not. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There's a church and a pay phone, an elementary school, and a place to buy cigarettes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Where my mother changed busses she'd gone into a store and bought him a trowel and four packets of seeds. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed a bakery and wanted to go in and buy some rolls with the seven cents he had. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors about the Yule Ball were flying everywhere, though Harry didn’t believe half of them — for instance, that Dumbledore had bought eight hundred barrels of mulled mead from Madam Rosmerta. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Even in the park we must buy food. Our money will soon be gone.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Johnny had no money to buy such things. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, “Here, Dana, here’s a new book I bought for you in town.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed in port there only briefly, long enough to refill a waterskin, and to buy a tar-smeared sailcloth to protect some of their gear in the undecked boat from seawater and rain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t bring you over here this afternoon to drink soda pop and eat pretzels. You’re eighteen and that means you’re now old enough to buy a drink. You ever drank before?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the new one is coming out the weekend of December 4, and Pam wants me to buy advance tickets—there’s only one theater in Chokecherry, and when it sells out, that’s it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The salesclerk allowed my brothers, my sister, and me to actually try on new Sunday shoes, as well as Hush Puppies and penny loafers for school, before we bought them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They bought bratwurst from street vendors, flirted with German girls, and gawked at black-shirted SS officers rushing by in sleek Mercedes limousines. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Where you bought these nice wine cakes, lady?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he buys us each another Triaminic shot, and then he takes me by the hand and leads me to a big round table in the corner of the room. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Our mother had no plans to buy a clothes dryer. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I was constantly surprised by who bought from us: a bumed-out hippie, a well-dressed woman, a dull guy you'd never look twice at, a man in a fake wig and mustache, a preppie college kid. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And I have a jewelry box that Grandma bought me a few years ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“My mom’s really shy. Sometimes it’s okay when people ask about her accent. But other times she just wants to buy a gallon of milk without having to explain herself.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He established the Campbell-Yates Manufacturing Company, which he billed as a firm that bought and sold everything. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I bought some food for my journey, some candies for the little ones, and a dress pattern and some cloth for my mother. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went into a lot of shops and stores, looking more than intending to buy anything. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trap them, buy them, trade them, sell them. All of the above.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At one point, he sent the boys out to buy more drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“She loves them. Just like every little girl. We buy her dolls, and my sisters buy her dolls, and our friends buy her dolls—” She giggled again, and Mr. Richardson’s jaw tensed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the principal says there's no money in the budget to buy more. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a comfortable idea, but the She Elephant is in the business of selling children. The people who buy must want them very much.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody knows colored folks don’t have money to buy the stuff in this catalog,” Carolyn reasoned. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m not selling anything. I’m thinking of buying and then renting,” Macon answered her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others, the Quackenbushes of this world, could calmly watch the war approach them and jump into it at the last and most advantageous instant, as though buying into the stock market. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: “Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It can buy you a cook and a maid and someone to do all your work, which frees up time. That’s like getting an extra hour.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you bought a sleeping bag, then you needed a stuff sack for it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They bought me a big burger and a big order of french fries, and I felt a lot better. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled as he talked about what a good “horse trader” Billy was, and how he loved animals, and how he had bought him every piece of sports equipment that had ever been invented. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the money we got selling the meat one afternoon, a few weeks after the government man’s visit, we bought some potatoes and some eggs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marlee,” she said quietly, “come on down. I already bought a Coke and a PayDay. We can share them on the way home.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mom bought a box of strawberries, even though I know she thinks Belle’s strawberries are overpriced and not very good. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Samuel, the mule I bought, and me got along all right. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No idea if he is buying this explanation, but the chief nods along. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She will buy her husband a cell phone for Christmas, she decides. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Plan A was to get a paycheck by early October, then pay the second month’s rent and utilities and buy food. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he kept enough to buy a complete, professional-grade forensics investigation kit. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

No. Catarina would make fun of her, no matter what she bought. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Well, then, why didn't he buy himself an audio-Seashell broadcasting station and talk to his wife late at night, murmur, whisper, shout, scream, yell? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their buying power fuels the booming market for Christian books, music, and films. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Although I tried to buy the softest of foods now, they were still beyond Morrie’s limited strength to chew and swallow. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Around here,” according to the proprietor of one Garden City hardware store, “locks and bolts are the fastest-going item. Folks ain’t particular what brand they buy; they just want them to hold.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would work a season and buy shoes for our mama. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the winter when there were no crops and no pay, fifty cents for a possum and two dollars for a coonhide bought flour and overall jackets with blanket linings. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would not buy clothes made by underpaid workers in Asia. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Wait, those aren’t the boots I bought you from the swap meet?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The barn and the farmhouse burned down years ago—before my parents bought the property and built a one-story brick rancher. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Keep your head high so that you buy yourself more time. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every day I took the band to Ali Baba’s and bought them veggie burgers for seventy-five cents each. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It nearly killed him to buy white shirts and a suit for his new job in Euclid. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In 1806 he had come up with a plan: Let the English rule the seas; he, Napoleon, would insist that no country in Europe would buy from them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Baba would buy us each three identical kites and spools of glass string. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Look here, he even went and bought me some new earrings.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

If she bought a portable TV set, we could put it in our room and she wouldn’t have to see us for hours. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine someone buying this script book and memorizing each of these potential responses. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home Dad stops at CVS and buys me a whole bag of gummy worms. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will paid for both of them to get in, and bought hot dogs and popcorn and Coke, and they carried the food inside and sat down just as the film was beginning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would buy them for a few cents, read them, then resell them to the bookdealer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Lee Chong’s where he went to get beer he met Dora who was there to buy a pair of nail clippers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of years before, he’d hit the numbers and bought a saxophone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to buy as much time as possible to allow Basil’s escape. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had bought in Cairo a small valise, just big enough to carry one suit, shirt, a pair of underwear sets and a pair of shoes into Arabia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suesetta said she didn’t want any even after I offered to buy it for her. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Shhh,” I tell her, and together we continue to read all about the accident and the track team’s quest to buy me a running leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Why are we whispering? Tyson went in and bought a dozen. Nothing happened to him.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, I was in the living room filling my backpack with the new notebooks Mom bought for me over the weekend when Trevor’s storm door creaked open and shut. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I bought my way out of that trouble,” he said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“She bought a lot of art there. We had a guide, an art specialist.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I keep saying things I shouldn’t. Well, there’s one thing you’ll be glad about. I really will be buying some of your clothes at Second Time Around from now on.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Anya pulled the scale from her dress pocket and said, “Do you want to buy this?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In his excitement on his way home through the plumbing district, Mr. Dalai had bought two basins. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We bought a rural property far enough from the zoo that we could keep the horses but close enough that the drive to work wasn’t that bad. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Even if she couldn’t mention Wash, there were other reasons for not wanting to marry Henry, things she could bring up to buy some time, at least, while she and Wash figured out a plan. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But every time I was alone with Papa, he bought a whole bunch of tickets and called it a good investment. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you just buy those with money that you don’t have?” she says through clenched teeth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Had my mother been there and bought this picture? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny unraveled sweaters and picked apart dresses and jackets and pants; she wound the yarn into balls and the thread onto spools, and people bought them to use in making new clothes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy went into the gas station and bought Diet Cokes for everyone and a pack of cheddar-cheese crackers for herself, and she bought C. J. some peanut-butter crackers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days ago, he would have felt as rich as a king to have that money in his hands, it was enough to buy two slices of pizza and a soda with his friends. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He and Harry had bought a hundred pounds of unshelled peanuts in two burlap sacks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The way they look now, nobody is going to want to buy them.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Might a just been the other maids, though, buying for they friends. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And for the same reason, it’s much easier for Cascadian to buy its produce from large farms like Greenway s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I go to Kmart and buy a brand-new set of lights, exactly the same as the existing ones. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now there’s worry in her voice as she says, “Don’t tell me, Alberto. You didn’t buy that car, did you?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Summer blessings were saving money to buy fabric and practice, practice, practice with the patterns that Mrs. Collins gave me to work on till fall. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Deepavali comes but once a year and this is the first time we have bought fireworks. Do not lose the opportunity.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought cookbooks for the flat’s kitchen, though she never used them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I earn two annas a day by writing letters—sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. I buy food with it.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not now, God. Please, not now. I just bought all that food.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Yossarian, what am I going to do with so much cotton? It’s all your fault for letting me buy it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Someday there will be fifty dollars and somewhere on this long island is a piece of land that you may buy for that money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I gotta buy it by the case. Sometimes he sits himself down and drinks two, three Dr. Nuts at one time.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put on this nice sweater I bought you.’ A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t rush me, Bull. I want you to be proud of the way I look tonight. I bought a gown that could win wars.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smallest ones were always as dressed up as their parents, with hair bows and suspenders and other geegaws Luke knew his parents would never buy. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I did, my mind raced backward almost an entire year, to when the DiAngelos first bought the property from Digger’s grandfather. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nico and he were wandering along the esplanade when Jason spotted the guy with wings buying an ice cream bar from a street cart. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as Grandpa finishes his last bite, I quickly clear the dishes, wash the plates, and run to set up my phone with the little tripod my dad bought for me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then she led me into the front room, with its oversized mahogany chairs and a desk that my grandmother had bought especially for the journalists to use when they were working there. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Once Mom started teaching, I thought maybe we’d be able to buy new clothes, eat cafeteria lunches, and even spring for nifty extras like the class pictures the school took every year. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He called it “a cheese- box. I’ll never buy another Chevy again,” he fumed as the car, loaded with kids, sat in traffic, its engine steaming and sputtering. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My little niece calls him Wilbur. She’s a rather queer child—full of notions. She raised the pig on a bottle and I bought him from her when he was a month old.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we bought her smoked corn on the cob sprinkled with lemon juice, or two paisa caramels. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Red, Agnes, David Alexander, and Yummy spent the evening in The Derby, a tavern Woolf had bought in preparation for his retirement. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, she was working hard too! Sold a bunch of earrings, man. People really like those things. Grandma even bought a pair.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

With her wages she had bought a new dress and bonnet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Until it’s turned: one day he found out through Arthur Smith that the woods behind their house had been bought by a Chinese developer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

People had money to go out and buy things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would take half a week’s wages and go out and buy something he wanted, or something he thought she wanted. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The young women among them were said to have vowed not to marry a man who bought English-made goods. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when an extra-big royalty check came in, Mom bought us a whole canned ham. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t buy the gun to kill himself.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The owl Mum and Dad bought Percy when he was made prefect,” said Fred from the front. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I saw them at CVS on sale for fifty cents each the other day, so I bought a bunch to help Miss Pearson out.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Moments later, Nathan entered the mobile home with his bags and the kernels his mother had bought for his science project. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d do them a favor by buying their records and breaking them in two. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bought the most marvelous pit bull,” said one of the ladies. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, Clara and Jaime bought her clothes or gave her something for her basic needs, but usually she could not afford to buy a pair of stockings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least Helena had the sense to buy only hens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Then it would be better if your younger boyfriend wasn’t grounded so he could take you on a date to the drive-in and buy you presents.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I was asking you to buy me an F-8, Mama. These things only cost a few bucks.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie was sorry that she deceived that kind man by buying the other meat elsewhere. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the space program began, women in the United States couldn't get credit cards, rent cars, or obtain loans to buy houses. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of parents who bought canned soup, lied to their kids about Santa Claus, believed everything they read in their history books and didn’t really talk about their feelings. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If we’d had enough money for me to have a dog and buy its food and pay the vet and everything, I would have had one by now. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, out of the blue, she invited me to go and visit her in Kenya, where her parents had just bought a farm. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He bought a strip of twenty tickets for a dollar and they started to dance. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maids in waiting and my mother passed it from hand to hand, admiring it, engaging they would buy it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we had left was the hustle, and we hustled even harder, taking the bit of cash we had on hand and trying to double it, buying this to flip it for that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We did two loads of laundry, washed out our cups and food bowls and pots and pans, bought and sent postcards, phoned home, and stocked up liberally on fresh and packaged foods in the shop. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He would buy flowers every time it rained and fill our home with them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One kind of monetary policy, which involves the central bank buying private assets, is chunked as quantitative easing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“If we had sufficient coin, we could buy food from the south and bring it in by ship,” the Lord Steward said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She constantly quizzed me about what other kids would do, would buy, would say, would think. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Dad bought me some new clothes but he isn’t very good at it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was flanked by three- and four-story apartment buildings, the first floors of which contained stores where you could buy anything. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be surprised if she had thrown out the other twenty-one letters, or if these were the only ones she had bought. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny half-heard the same conversation going on here that he had listened to when he had stopped to buy food at that other tavern. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also carrying a long, thin package and didn’t answer Aunt Petunia when she asked what he’d bought. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

"Aight, so how about when we get to the store, we just take some yarn, man. I mean, ain't no point in buying something so stupid," he said. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll always help the needy and infirm, ma’am. Here’s a dollar. That’ll buy a couple of watermelons and keep you going for a couple of days.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad also bought an electric washing machine that we kept out on the patio. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert Dean looked forward to buying his own home one day and spoke of land in the South that his family had lost. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She would take the coarse blue cloth Weylin bought for the slaves and make neat sturdy clothing of it while small children played around her feet. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wiggled into the dress she’d bought—short and black, paired with leather platform heels. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I now had more money than I had ever had before, and I began patronizing secondhand bookstores, buying magazines and books. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the Obangui River, they stopped at a roadside market, where the schoolteacher bought some fresh antelope meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t stop any of us except Thwaites from buying Liquorice Bootlaces. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I remember are the long avenues in the frost, the farms and houses braced against the winter, the flat, laconic Maine speech in crossroads stores where I stopped to buy supplies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, Beans. Your little brother’s hungry. I bet a nickel would buy a nice lunch.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, my cookies are pretty awful, so no one bought them, so I figured before I threw them out. . .” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe people are going back and forth about who wants to buy something I made. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He could tell his mom wasn’t buying it. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

To relieve this strangled feeling he bought a drink in one of the drugstores. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For all of them together he had bought a radio and put it on the table by the window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

First, however, she took him shopping, and when Barbarossa returned to the Casa Spavento that evening, he was wearing the most expensive clothes one could buy in Venice for a child of his age. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what I’d do if I thought your money or hers either bought one cent of this?” she says, putting her hand on her dress. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to live under the safe protection of somebody who wore decent clothes, bought meat from the grocery store like the Good Lord intended, and cared about others. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the Jaaxes bought it, the dead man’s widow showed up at the door one day. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the fiesta it would not matter what they paid, nor where they bought. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

This Muggle woman bought it, took it home, and tried to serve her friends tea in it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He had never made enough money to buy the home she wanted, or anything else she really wanted, and this had been part of the trouble between them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Ma, we are starving to death. Many people are dying in the village. Yet the government trades our crops to buy guns to kill more people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m traveling through to Montgomery. I got stranded on the highway and can’t seem to get a ride. I wonder if I could buy something to eat and drink?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d wish I could buy about sixteen blocks of land and build a kind of Disneyland of my own.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They had to wait until Mama came home with some money with which to buy a bundle of wood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of spending my paychecks on rum and beer like before, I saved enough to buy Celia a gold ring from Reprosa, and I asked her to marry me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He read news online, but rarely bought a newspaper or a magazine. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says she was buying socks with her mother the week after her braces came off and some lady asked if she modeled. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we bought coffees and doughnuts and walked along the river. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t a party, mister. He made me sit at his table and he bought chicken and told me to eat. I didn’t want to, but he made me and it was my job.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I earned this, and soon I’ll be able to buy a keyboard and pay for piano lessons all on my own. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I had some clothes and a lyre Master Ash bought for me.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t buy the dog. It’s our dog.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“No, it was quite interesting really. You can see all the things people have bought.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dina wouldn’t give her a credit card number to buy it online. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’d bought books that meant something to her and to him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had nearly achieved his goal of buying every single Hard Tack yearling on the market. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe,” he continued, “if we keep saving money we can think about moving within a year and buying a place in Florida.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Lee was alerted to make sandwiches when the day came, and he got tired of waiting and stopped buying sandwich bread every two days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I could buy it right now if I wanted.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

If they did, it might buy him a little time. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Grandma asks if we like her new dress that she just bought, and he tells her how beautiful she looks. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

It was strange to pause before a crowded newsstand and buy a newspaper without having to wait until a white man was served. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She half-believed she had a free dress, though, when here came a card to Mama saying Grandpa was buying her a black grosgrain coat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She imagined packing her things, somehow buying a ticket, and going back to Lagos. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a scramble to buy our animals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta went on and on about all the money we were saving and how she made sure Fern and I didn’t waste our money buying candy, airmail stamps, and mooning over boys in Oakland. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now she can buy pork seven days a week. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He told her he planned to sell his business, return to Truman, and buy back into the retirement plan. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I know I won’t buy any food in the food hall, I’m too intimidated by it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he clicked the buy button, Mr. Trulz rang again. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said we had to go and buy some clothes for me to wear and some pajamas and a toothbrush and a flannel. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, to buy a plasma TV, not to donate to charity.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The signs of his mental decline had been subtle at first, like forgetting to buy groceries or calling my mother by my aunt’s name. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“A man can buy most anything on the Long Bridge. Gloves, slaves, monkeys.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You used to buy for quality, things that would last. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be buying school supplies soon,” she said with a sigh. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bobby asked him to bring bottles of fresh-squeezed carrot juice from Yggdrasil; if the health food store didn’t have it available, Olafsson was to buy juice imported from Germany. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents would say to do what they did: ditch journalism, get really into essential oils, buy a cabin in the Vermont wilderness, and own six hundred LL Bean vests that all smell like patchouli.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She explained, with a toss of her head, that she was wearing a boy’s suit because William Henry had bought it for her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna changed what was left of her British pounds and bought petrol from a man who led her into a dank outhouse with creamy-fat maggots crawling all over the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They don’t want us to buy just any old chicken, but Tyson chicken or Perdue. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

People mill in a little crowd on the other side, waiting, but there will be no buying or selling today. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She said she’d bought a really darling little iron that looked like it went with a doll house, but had forgotten to bring it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Later, I would note that whenever he had the opportunity he’d duck into a clothier in Manhattan and buy a French-cuffed shirt and several ties. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hung up the phone and bought a plane ticket. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the summer, Mom had bought a wringer washing machine like the one we’d had in Phoenix, and we kept it in the kitchen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

You could buy cigarettes here whenever you wanted. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“After that, I’m going into real estate. I’m buying my mom a house. I’m buying Georgie and Michelle a house. I’m buying everyone a house.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Loyal to my fellow kids, I always buy from the children and not the adults. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the market on the way home, buy what they have left, and sleep. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He buys two beds, one for each of their bedrooms, twelve chairs, a table for the kitchen. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Good luck. I have about a hundred in the bank. It might be enough for you to buy some eye patches.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For formal dances I have dresses which I sew myself because I can’t afford to buy them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Richard Mellon Scaife, the publisher and heir to a banking fortune, bought an extra house, too; he needed it for the staff. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I even witnessed one man knifing another for cutting the line to buy bread. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re going to buy something for me with money you owe me but don’t have?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Even after getting into trouble like this and probably getting sent away, she knows she’d never have asked Jack to buy the book. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterwards, Goat returned from the other side of the river, bearing a fine new dress which she had bought for Leopard. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

My dad bought it three years ago when we were in Peru, and so it had been around the world several times over. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Holmes had bought the insurance in 1893 from Fidelity’s Chicago office, just before the close of the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She gave Aunt Margaret money to buy me a new dress for school. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe through Johnny’s children he could buy the way of dreaming again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I secretly bought a pair of castanets and taught myself at least to emulate some of the sounds I heard from above. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And so before she ate an apple, she scrubbed it at the sink, even though Blaine only bought organic fruit. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Plus he was an adult and nobody would ask any questions when we bought the tickets. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And if it runs out I can stop at a drug store. You can buy anything at a drug store nowadays." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She would send me out to buy groceries, and I wouldn’t come right home because I’d be using the change from the milk and bread to play arcade games at thè supermarket. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She’s upset that I didn’t ask her opinion and bought them in colors that she didn’t expect. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

With Lewis’s money, they bought a houseboat and stayed on the river. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My friends and I had rejected most of the societal norms of high school, but we still bought into the iconic powers of formal dances. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My dad often bought us a fresh piece of lamb or goat meat from the butcher shop. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Think, for a moment, about the last expensive restaurant you went to, the last expensive piece of clothing you bought, and the last movie you saw. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were on our way home from buying groceries at the market. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We got Hawaii, and Momma bought fake palm trees and coconuts from Dollar Tree, and Isabella’s mom, who’s a graphic designer, helped us make travel brochures. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I bought this land,” he calls over his shoulder. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The industry has kept prices down in part by buying bigger ships, the better to accommodate a broader clientele. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“David, when you’re finished, get your shoes on. We need to go to the grocery store and buy something for lunch.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was standing next to a kid in the supermarket who had to show his I.D. to buy cigarettes,” Alpert told me. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mine, mine, yes and dearly bought!’ cried Saruman, clutching at the pouch. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This morning, as I was brushing my teeth, I remembered when we bought a bag of chocolates and hid it in her room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“What I just tell you, man? It’s the best steak you could buy. It’s what all the rich people eat.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“How much was drunk before you bought the fifth of rum?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Four guys from my neighborhood were chilling in the living room of an apartment; one of the guys had just bought a gun off the streets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was so violent in his dislike that Adam knew he hadn’t bought a Ford yet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And then I bought some butter, and you made me drop it.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Go to the store and buy those groceries. If those boys bother you, then fight.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dressed in his Arabian clothing of white linen, bought especially for this day. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This could be done quite easily by bringing up the subject of his car and why he refuses to buy a new one. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Come buy me a hot cappuccino and tell me about this new girlfriend.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why I bought that potion from your uncle?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It might not buy her anything but time, but right now time was the most valuable commodity in the world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger must have bought the clothes for him, as well as the shoes in which he walked very carefully, as if his feet weren't quite used to them yet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It has never occurred to him to buy his wife flowers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mirian can no longer buy construction paper for her children’s projects at school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I can buy the ingredients to make my own cookies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Remember? We buy butter from friend who have farm. But sugar I have no memory of. I may have tasted sugar, but I have no memory of.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We could buy them a lot of books and teach them how to read and write by ourselves. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“A speculator was one of those people who went from plantation to plantation looking for slaves they could buy,” Miss Pat said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

PIH had spent several million dollars of the philanthropist’s fortune to buy the drugs for Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then she brushed against him again—that was the night he’d bought her the earrings—and he knew it wasn’t an accident. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought a large container of beet soup, a green salad, sauerkraut, roasted potatoes, and Polish sausages warm from the pan. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Look what I bought today,” she said excitedly as she tore off the paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Late in 1876, during his seventh term, Garfield bought a farm in Mentor, Ohio, about twenty miles from where he was born. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can buy food or send letters.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Now we go back to the Carousel room,” muttered Mr. Nancy, “and old One-Eye buys us all dinner, greases some palms, kisses some babies, and no one says the G-word any more.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And yet when the noble lady had once gone by, the crowds knitted together just as before, milling about, strolling, buying or selling. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Janie bought him a brand new guitar and put it in his hands. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if a well-rested Mama would buy my excuse, but since she’s as tired as I’m pretending to be, she just nods. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You should let me buy you a new bracelet,” he said one night as they finished dinner at an upscale restaurant in DC. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jule bought hair color in a grocery store and streaked it on carefully with a toothbrush. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She agreed, and right when she had agreed, I knew that I would get her to buy me a video game for my new system. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Dad bought it when he and Mom split up, so when I was twelve,” Alex tells him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Well, how about chips? And maybe pretzels. Everyone likes chips and pretzels. We'll just have a bowl on the table, and anyone who buys lemonade can have some free snacks." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“If you tell her your theory,” I said, “and she buys it...Well, she’s going to be furious.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor baby. She was in that truck for days. Mack bought her from a circus, the same way he bought me, but she hadn’t been there long. She was born in the wild, like us.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She rolled the dice, bought the last available property, and once again we’d all been trounced by our sweet Grandma, the Monopoly champ. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I finished the pack, she would buy me another. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he borrowed a pencil he never gave it back and when school was almost over, he always borrowed loose-leaf paper because he didn’t see the point of buying a new notebook. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t he just run over to Borders and buy some relationship books? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Like you said, you can only buy six tickets. Six tickets at a time. There’s nothing that prevents someone from buying six tickets, then getting back in line and buying six more tickets.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Lily bought lemon cake mix—and I planned to bake up a lemon cake. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Some would go upstairs to Hazel’s mother to have their fortunes read or to buy charms from Marie Levesque, the famous gris- gris queen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He buys me ice cream every time I ask, even if it’s before dinner. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

That night she scraped some money together and bought us chicken. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sohrab was wearing the plain white T-shirt and new denims I had bought him in Islamabad just before we’d left—the shirt hung loosely over his bony, slumping shoulders. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll buy my own —” “Bet you loved that, didn’t you, Potter?” said a voice Harry had no trouble recognizing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When told that the candy came from Germany—“You know, the fairy tale and the Brothers Grimm,” the clerk said—Bobby was reassured and bought a few bars, his anti-Semitic sensibilities appeased. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One lady screeched at Hanako in Japanese, “I will buy your coat!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So she had bought the crystals for ten cents. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You tried to buy it with eighty-four days at sea. They nearly sold it to you too.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the creative songs Mom wrote, she had an inherent sense of style, and she bought me the snazziest outfits. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"Even if you bought one, you couldn't park it, just have to keep goin' up and down the river. They don't get you one way, they get you another. Right, Alfred?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were riding along, the thing lesson being done, and here he comes again with a cone of roasted cashews he bought for us at the last stop. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big jar, like maybe she bought something at Costco and saved the container. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then I found a photo of you playing with the train set we bought for you a couple of Christmas’s ago. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were many silversmiths who would have bought it, but the cup was so old-fashioned he could not expect from them more than its value in old silver. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact with Merry’s help he had already chosen and bought a little house at Crickhollow in the country beyond Bucklebury. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Hundred and fifty million years? A whippersnapper among ammonites, really. What say we buy it for you?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He bought a cot, its legs like delicate candles. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One day you buy something and the next day you return it until you wear me down. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad had to buy you that rug, you know.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The principal was so proud, she bought pizza for the entire school, even though the team was only for grades four, five, and six. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I once bought her a scarf with giraffes on it for her birthday. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, it might plug the leak, Grandpa. I don’t know. But I think it’d ruin the radiator. We can risk it, sir, if you willin’ to buy a new radiator. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“If my aunt doesn’t want the ring, the right thing to do is to give it back to the man who bought it for her.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She waited for Grandmother to introduce the subject, but Am buy a merely signaled for Aunt Shuvai to massage her feet. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bought peanuts, chestnuts, and pretzels from the vendor outside the museum. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan took his time crunching the numbers, knowing that every second taken was a second of life he bought for Kohl. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He proudly displayed his new diploma at home, excitedly mounting it one weekend in a frame he’d bought the week he received his test scores. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Sneaking it out bucket by bucket until he had enough to buy out his indenture and burn off his work tattoos. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not your dog. We bought this dog.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were a few gifts bought and wrapped on the fly by someone who was not me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn't what they imagined doing with their lives, but they needed an income to pay the rent and to save enough money to buy a house one day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“He bought me dinner, and then he drove me home.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I thought, I need to go out and start working to earn money so I can buy a phone and call my family so we can all be together again. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. I got off in St. Louis, but I already bought a ticket that goes to Cleveland.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So when you came here you bought that forty-four because everybody out here has a pistol and you were going to learn how to use it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, people buy the tickets last minute at half price, or for even less, and the show would technically sell out” His parents had bought tickets this way before in New York. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The word hangs in the air between us—church as opposed to the synagogue were buying this suit for. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I did not either get it off a Frenchman. I bought it in a store in Richmond.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “We got to go free or die. And freedom’s not bought with dust.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week after he returned from Canada in August, Bobby bought a ticket to a night baseball game at Ebbets Field to see his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers play the Milwaukee Braves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at my dad now with mild amusement, as if he had just suggested they buy an elephant. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

If the police asked me what I did with the poison I bought, I would tell them I gave it to Spizz. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We ate for a while without talking, and I thought of a picture post-card I had bought once at a village shop, when on holiday as a child in the west country. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All the clothing Celaena planned to buy when she was free to venture into Rifthold and do some shopping for herself, once she had her outrageous salary as King’s Champion. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I never even bought any when I was there. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I needed to buy you good food, medicine for your fever, and things to shore up our shelter and make it comfortable. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe you need to buy longer shirts, he thought. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I bought everything at Dyess Air Force Base. Everything is cheap for a military widow. No taxes.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not buy trouble. One day at a time, my friends. Who knows what tomorrow may bring?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If she had been home, she might have spent the dark afternoons spinning or sewing, but the mistress bought her woolens and calicoes at the village stores. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I became a public relations man for General Electric in Schenectady, New York, and a volunteer fireman in the village of Alplaus, where I bought my first home. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t even thought about it when Johnny Cakes bought me the shoes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, sir, he put through the sale—though he made it clear that he was buying Soldier Island for a third party, unnamed." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

So why shouldn’t they, the two of them, buy a pair of pack horses and try their luck in the Sierra Madre? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Home stills were as illegal as the southern moonshine-making devices, but Americans everywhere found that they could buy them in many hardware stores. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At the market stall he bought a loaf of bread from Jean, who tucked a chrysanthemum blossom into the wrapping. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after running into the boy, I’m on my way to the store to buy eggs, walking quickly, weaving around slower people crowding the sidewalk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blue sari embroidered with delicate gold flowers catches my eye, and I buy it, along with sweets, trinkets, and toys. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Next to him, he had an open carton of eggs, all new and freshly bought. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big building with stalls where you can buy anything,” Mami said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he reached into his backpack and handed me the Buket o Puke ’n Snot T-shirt that he’d bought me at the concert. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I added, showing all of my age and wisdom, “They buy babies down in Mexico for rich people.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she were going to be a farmer, she would at least want the chance to buy her farm. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We are in the aisle of feminine products, and she's standing there with an empty basket, unlike mine, which overflows with items I've collected but cannot buy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, it discriminated against kids who couldn’t afford to buy ties or jackets if they didn’t already have them,” Mrs. Hidalgo said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mom’s eye settled on an Egyptian couch we’d bought at a flea market. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When her outer garments were put away she took off the bright red tights her mother-in-law had bought for her at the American store in Barrow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mirian walks her children down the block, they beg her to buy them a soda or an ice cream cone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I would think the reporter would have been more skeptical, but she buys the stories uncritically. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

One day, when eight-year-old Roosevelt was walking up Broadway in Manhattan, he passed by a market where he was sometimes sent to buy strawberries before breakfast. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Felix had bought a few thousand dollars' worth of stuff online. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The father of a chum had bought a vacuum cleaner factory and said it was a license to print money. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We were lying in bed, between new purple sheets I had just bought for him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And soon, HeLa cells weren’t the only ones being bought and sold for research—with media and equipment standardization, culturing became easier, and researchers began growing cells of all kinds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Everybody got work now. They can afford to buy Four Roses.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo had to keep consulting the map he had bought, but finally the right name appeared on a sign. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“What good would coin do me here? What would I buy with it, some snow?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I bought her a cake, though, a chocolate one with vanilla frosting from the supermarket bakery. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Even the graphs! The questions were all about people buying and selling everything from gasoline to hula hoops, but in my own mind, I put it in terms of tickets.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dallas thought about all the food their money could buy, and his stomach rumbled in response. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the safest plan anyway, and we always seemed to find someone who’d buy the beer for us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“A Hogsmeade branch, you know, but a fat lot of good it’ll do us if you lot aren’t allowed out at weekends to buy our stuff anymore… But never mind that now.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I clip the pin I bought onto the collar of my shirt and fall asleep, picturing the Miss America crown being placed on my head. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Those vegetables,” he said, “that Old Granny buys from you. What price does she pay you?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Best of all, I can even buy a few luxuries for myself. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could make them up, perhaps, and be convincing about it, to buy myself more time, but you would catch on eventually. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the shack to buy a big clay bowl of sweets. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In half an hour, he had cleaned all the glasses in the window, and, as he was doing so, two customers had entered the shop and bought some crystal. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I spent the entire morning apologizing to your mother for having spilled coffee all over her white chef coat. She finally agreed to let me buy her another one, and the rest is history.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Leroy, this here’s moving too fast! You got to be careful. That’s a lot of money you talking ’bout to buy your family, and money can make folks do some crazy things.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Mary had wired me $200 so I could pay for my expenses and buy things I needed. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I smile instead, like I’d really like for him to buy me some chocolate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If I came along and helped look after her two toddlers, she said she’d pay me two hundred dollars at the end of the summer and buy me a bus ticket back to Welch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Having borrowed too much, when the rush to buy organic food slowed down, Gene Kahn was forced to sell control of Cascadian to Welch’s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dandy indicated the man at the podium, who was, at that moment, telling them about hospital equipment bought in the previous year from their generosity. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to wear the little black dress I’d bought for my fifteenth birthday party, my death dress, but I didn’t fit into it anymore, so I wore a plain black dress, knee-length. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, if I win the pageant, I can use some of that money to buy her something nice. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On an impulse she said, “Aunt Consuelo, may I take Irela to the cinema with me? I will buy her a ticket.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

All day waiting, the door locked, don’t open up for nobody, and I don’t till Mama gets back and buys everything except the shoes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bought underclothing and boot liners of reindeer calf skin, and silk gloves to go inside big fur mittens. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have the money to buy him something flashy, but my parents don't really drop bank on gifts either. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If I were allowed to get a job, I could save up to buy this piano myself. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

McWatt was deeply impressed with Milo, who, to the amusement of Corporal Snark, his mess sergeant, was already buying eggs for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I can't believe I didn't buy a deck of cards for us. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

About halfway, he stopped at the dusty roadside window of a Tastee Freeze, across the highway from the Veterans Hospital, and bought an ice cream soda. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d learned sleight of hand from the cardsharps and monte runners on East Stave, and spent hours practicing it in front of a muddy mirror he’d bought with his first week’s pay. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was the only time of year my parents bought a lot of stuff. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I’m looking forward to putting her down early tonight, to slipping into that teddy Tom bought me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to shape things/design things, create things, sell things, buy things, keep track of inventories, do somebody else’s taxes, and read somebody else’s X-rays from half a world away. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had never entertained on such a large scale before and, worried that there would not be enough to drink, ran out at one point to buy another case of champagne just in case. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So, I’m going to get an exorcism from someone who knowingly buys stolen goods? I’m sure that’s going to go perfectly well. Like getting teeth pulled by a grave robber.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He watched over her and her baby as though it had become his calling; he was very good to John, and played with him, and bought him things, as though John were his own. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was the only kind of soda Ty'ree bought when he went shopping. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was well seasoned, and Whymper had advised Napoleon to sell it; both Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick were anxious to buy it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was about dressing them up and buying them clothes,” she recalled. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I had the pattern for the piratas and everything. I bought hooks for their hands and was even going to reuse those patches that Merci used to wear for her eye exercises.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I was standing on a chair in front of the stove, wearing a pink dress my grandmother had bought for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It cost six dollars. 4TH JUROR: It’s against the law to buy or sell switchblade knives. 8TH JUROR: That’s right. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outrage that the demonstration stirred in C.P. stayed with him as he drove back across town to the small gas station he had recently bought. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day in September she came down with a jug to buy beer. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have learned that Henrietta’s cells were still alive, that they’d been taken, bought, sold, and used in research without her knowledge or theirs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I want to see what he’s buying, but it’s already bagged. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of all his warnings to Kevin of the dangers of owning educated, Northern-born slaves, he wanted to buy me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That evening when I got home from work I told Papá and Mamá that I needed to buy one. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I think she bought this one by mistake. It actually has the word ‘butter’ in it.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Mattie, I don’t have the money to buy a partnership from you. It’s kind of you to ask, but I can’t.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom did buy me a nice dress, blue with a sweetheart neckline. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m considering buying a new car,” Mr. Trepid said soberly. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t say you bought four buildings and the inn in the village?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If someone’s lingo is wrong—if he comes up to you saying, “Do you guys know where I can buy some rocks?”—there’s a good chance he’s a cop. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"And now, O my host," said the Tarkaan, "I have a mind to buy that boy of yours." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She thinks about this a second, says, “Maybe you ought to go, Minny, since you know what to buy and all.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He bought a souvenir for his son Howard—a tin man mounted on a spinning top. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So we would buy an old pair with the closest fit. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a newspaper kiosque I bought a copy of the New York Herald and sat in a café to read it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the winter of 1950, when he was seven years old, he asked Regina if she’d buy him another, larger chess set for Christmas. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her nails were Chanel red but so long they had to be the kind you bought at the drugstore. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

You could buy them through the website, and this one was printed to look like the interior of an aquarium with its teal color and pieces of coral. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then later, if someone asks you where you got the candy bar, you’ll say you bought it at the store. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nali had told him that this wasn’t the commercial tobacco that was bought in stores. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He has been asking for fifty dollars to buy a bicycle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had never worn the red panties that Ma had bought for us over the years to keep our dead father’s spirit away. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I am a little tired...besides it does not take two to buy rice cakes.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention I changed my mind about what I would buy from the Sears, Roebuck catalog if I was rich. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People come here, and in no more than a year or two they can buy their own house and have a car,” Peralta said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Can buy a darn formal straight off the rack and it fits like a dream.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The cop had bought it and driven away, much to Curly’s relief. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That child that helps me, Chinyelu, will come in soon. I will send her to go and buy soft drinks for you two, from Ichie’s shop,” he said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I also opened a bank account, rented a post office box, and bought a plastic bowl and a spoon at Woolworth’s, a store whose name I recognized from London. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“My friend bought all the other sheep immediately. He said that he had always dreamed of being a shepherd, and that it was a good omen.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaimito called us over to where he was sitting at the dining room table, reading the papers he’d bought in the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we had to get down to business, and it took us one whole hour to buy fancy dinner plates for Grandma. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He invested heavily in a company that bought perishable foods and shipped them in the latest refrigerated cars to far-off cities. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I came in here to burn them up. But if you want to buy one for a nickel?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just smile and let my eyes dance and say, “If you like my sandwiches so much, why don’t you buy some more for your family and friends?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred wedding trunks could not buy Awaiting Marriage even a hunchbacked, lame-footed husband. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Determined to leave nothing behind, she had bought three large, brown-plaid suitcases, only to find that her clothes would not even fill one. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rumored that Valencia was some sort of heiress and had paid for the million-dollar house in cash, much the same way a normal person might buy a belt or an electric skillet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We also knew he’d buy us candy or take us down to the record shop so we could moon over the Jackson Five album. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Foster parent groups provided some of the basics, and our sponsors bought the big-ticket items. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

What could the Europeans use to buy Indian cloth? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My madam bought them for me from Bata.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I will become a secretary and make a ton of money and give it to Papi so he can buy a new car. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

"They're ordinary decent seafaring folk. They know that the island was bought by a man called Owen—and that's about all they do know." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“You buy your eggs in Malta, not Sicily.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It bought them a few seconds, but not enough. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Certainly. I used to buy our Christmas trees from you. Michael Taylor. What can I do for you, Mr. Swinyard?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Of course now he could buy Cilia that pony and cart. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never imagined that he would one day be praying that people buy hot dogs from him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A billfold with a twenty-dollar bill—“In case you get stranded at the airport in some small town and have to buy food,” his mother had said—and some odd pieces of paper. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finds the best places in the city to buy oil paints and fine drawing brushes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Five days later, when Charles had gone to buy some calf feed, Adam drove the buggy to the kitchen steps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Go to the parts shop, buy the parts, back to the workshop. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She groaned, then suggested I buy a Rottweiler or a pit bull or some huge dog that looked like the wolf that ate the Grandma in Little Red Riding-Hood. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s Eve, as a matter of tradition, she’d buy a special hors d’oeuvre basket, the kind that came filled with blocks of cheese, smoked oysters in a tin, and different kinds of salami. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I expected, but he just looked like anybody—like the sort of chap who would come into the shop and buy a motorbike for his lad’s sixteenth birthday—like your headmaster. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He tried buying their mercy with his lunch, but they pummeled him anyway, leaving him bloody. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

With the change she bought an apple from the Covered Market, which was much more like the proper Oxford, and walked up toward the park. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me buy you another drink, babe, for the one you spilled. And I think I’ll take me another Dixie.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tess and I could buy five of them if we wanted. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Mama had bought heavy coats for all of us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first floor of our house was a shop where ladies and gentlemen of the court sent their servants to buy feathers, ribbons, and lace. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was a large, pale American man who bought the store’s cheap-style clothes and sent them overseas. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved a little restlessly and said, ‘Colonel Nesbit... remember. And he told me, “Go buy a popgun, boy.” Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you two go to bed and get some sleep. But, por favor, give me another dollar to buy some rice for tonight. I want my sister’s children to stay and have supper with us.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He commuted his pension and provident fund to buy a Bharat bottle-sealing machine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So eventually Fred took his last three dollars and twenty-five cents and bought a bus ticket north for a new life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But if you would kindly tell me which ones aren’t, maybe I could buy them some apples or something? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You cannot buy what your own hands build,” he said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Ginny bought two soft drinks, which came in plastic souvenir cups, and a bucket of popcorn for them to share. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

All week, she’s been complaining about buying me school supplies, saying she doesn’t want to waste the gas. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She talks for five minutes to Sid in the butcher’s shop but doesn’t buy any meat. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was Mack who pried open that crate, Mack who bought me, and Mack who raised me like a human baby. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

If she hadn't been preoccupied, she would have pulled the book out the bag, read the title, and then challenged me to explain why I had bought it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A woman in a blue wrapper with a bag tucked under her armpit bought the whole basketful of snails just before Father Amadi came to pick me up. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a man as thrall or a woman as a salt wife, that was right and proper, but men were not goats or fowl to be bought and sold for gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Along with fuel, the driver buys more beer, and the Blazer rolls into Dallas about noon. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I lost a button and couldn’t spare a shim to buy a matching one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was the only person other than my mom and dad and brother and sister to buy me two presents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The addition of a $3-per-pack “sin tax” is a strong economic incentive against buying cigarettes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now that we had spending money, we bought the illustrated paperbacks with their gaudy pictures. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I simply look at someone and say, ‘This person is going to buy a car’?” asks Golomb. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I began school at Howard Institute at a later age than was usual; my mother had not been able to buy me the necessary clothes to make me presentable. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all right who it is. I can buy it for twenty-five dollars.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim’s notion that they were somehow bound together through me—until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were people who bought and sold horses—exactly what I needed. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He bought her flowers and took her to the Timmerman Opera House down the block. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“And Toby’s not here. But he is most days. So...I don’t know. I’d buy some repellent or something.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The piece of home was tiny and so only bought her a second’s worth of distraction. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Any place nearby where I can buy some eggs?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pacheco had been talking the day before about how many new uniforms he’d had to buy because of all the blood he got on them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The right thing to do is buy them coffee yogurt. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I get to work, Miss Celia’s rushing out to go buy a dress for the Benefit next month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And here I just bought this new uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

People were staring at me as I bought my popcorn. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d only bought it a couple of days ago, but now it was too small. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But the dawn is coming. At least we’ve bought some time.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I’m passing a Restoration Hardware, and Mom says rich families on the other side of Jankburg buy couches from there, so I’m probably safe for a few blocks, at least. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Since the 1990s, North Korea has been unable to grow, buy, or deliver enough food to feed its population. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

During the pause after Chester had finished “Rock of Ages,” Mr. Smedley came up to the newsstand to buy his monthly copy of Musical America. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t take nerve, Obie. When you march down to the rail, you’re receiving The Body, man. Me, I’m just chewing a wafer they buy by the pound in Worcester.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abuja was more conservative than Lagos, Chidi said, because it was more Muslim than Lagos, and at parties women didn’t wear revealing clothing, yet you could buy and sell sex so much more easily here. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I stopped on the corner where I live and bought some potato wedgies and a soda from the burger joint. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had hired the Zeitouns to help with the renovation of a house they’d bought, and immediately the two couples had clicked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I bought the cheapest bowl of dal I could find. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t want no tore couch if’n it’s bought new.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They come from all over to buy and sell horses.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In paper money, two thousand dollars would not buy a bushel of corn. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are they buying one of those plastic fans? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, there was the matter of Mr. Clem Crummy having a drawing to get a new name for the Cold Sassy Hotel, recently bought from old Mr. Boop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s disrespectful that you have a relationship with this woman and that you have bought her a house where my mother’s friends live,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when I walk home from school, I buy a dollar cheeseburger and eat it in three bites before I get to our door. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What kind of world is it, Ben thought, that lets its coaches die without his boys around him, buying him Cokes, calling him by his first name, and rubbing his shoulder with Atomic Balm? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I bring the money into the house. I buy the groceries, run all the errands. Mama, I'm the one who takes care of you." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I knew it was an important opportunity because he bought a new jacket especially for the occasion. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the second Communist five-year plan, our parents bought a car. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the shop they bought mackerel, and butterfish, and sea bass. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They bought sodas and threw away the donuts. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dedicated players returned, and those who didn’t buy in to her system left. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was a modern brick house that could not have been cheap to buy and the name on the gate said cosy nook. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the rumor was that, as an interpreter, he had access to information from fellow Isseis that he later used to buy his release. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I should buy you a spot of supper. I’m afraid my friend here has some work that needs doing.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He bought her pretty clothes, and took her for ice cream. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see John break down and start buying his own six-packs of beer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

At New Delhi, he bought for $15 a peg-in travel chess set with a beautifully detailed design that was made of fragrant sandalwood—but he felt guilty about paying so little for it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lin bought the film and, before viewing it, asked the stewards and reporters to join him at a theater in Solana Beach to see it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men talked casually of grass and water, of So-and-So who had bought a new champion bull in England and flown it home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Folks in Clarkston sent their kids to Clarkston High School, went to services at one of the churches on Church Street, and bought their groceries at a local independent grocery store called Thriftown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He buys a tree, ties it up, and secures it to the top of the car. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to buy a hand lamp. You just sign them out at the desk and return them when you’re done.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Plus it was a chance to buy a home—our own home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bernabe had bought it off the distinguished sculptor for a bottle of cheap tokay twelve years ago. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we kept to our budget, we believed, we could afford new clothes and shoes and coats, and buy a ton of coal at the cheaper off-season price. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped outside a convenience store while the man in her front seat got out and bought a loaf of bread. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If I could only send her to buy groceries or something, because I intended to say as little as possible to avoid digging myself a hole. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were also Daughters of Liberty who played an important role in the campaign against the buying of products made in England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So can I visit your place now? My parents are ready to buy a toothbrush for Vee. How come I don’t get to meet hers?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had bought Mom a pair of earrings, a bottle of purple nail polish with glitter in it, and some striped tights, even though I thought, and I still think, that striped tights look dumb. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Someone didn’t let her use their stapler after she bought everyone doughnuts last week—seriously, I’m not making that up—and her shrieking voice is making my chest tight. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was so little money from city funds that each year the principal put on a fund-raising event to buy desks, books, and equipment for the cafeteria. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before I left, I went out and bought three things I remember well. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a short time, the Cherokees achieved almost 100 percent literacy in the syllabary, bought a printing press, had Sequoyah’s signs cast as type, and began printing books and newspapers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Milton went out and bought the ring for Shad. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would invite me to sit, and I would buy him a drink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Quite often the big loud women came shouting into the house, “Now when you sell this one, I’d like to buy her to be my maid.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an afterthought, I buy three bottles of white liquor from a one-armed woman named Ripper, a victim of a mine accident who was smart enough to find a way to stay alive. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Steeped in new moods and ideas, I bought a ream of paper and tried to write; but nothing would come, or what did come was flat beyond telling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Perry waited in the car, he had gone into the hospital to try and buy a pair of black stockings from a nun. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy had read about it in the Austin papers and had bought it from an estate sale, the bird having outlived its previous owner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her lips were wide and purple, like those African dolls you see in tourist store windows but could never afford to buy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He and his father had bought two silver rings, washed with gold, and silver earrings, and these his father had taken to the woman’s owner in acknowledgment of betrothal. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Though Theresa had bought an ivory blouse to go with a certain green skirt, in practice she’d worn it with a beige skirt. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I see a thin ray of hope that maybe he’ll let me buy Shiloh. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again, I’d read the caution and concern on so many faces when I spoke of having loans to pay off, of not yet having managed to buy a house. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Neither Harry nor Ron bought any ingredients at the Apothecary, seeing that they were no longer studying Potions, but both bought large boxes of owl nuts for Hedwig and Pigwidgeon at Eeylops Owl Emporium. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had bought a house in the suburbs without even telling Tommy’s mom. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She moved in and bought a bunch of maid’s overalls to wear. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was a dizzying array of people to pay and collect from, houses to improve and maintain, bills to deal with, invoices to issue, supplies to buy and store. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

People didn't buy dog food in the sack like they do now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother was remarkable, Crow. To bury this for you when she might have spent it to buy whatever ease she could.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We took delivery of enough potatoes to fill the bin in the cellar and had no trouble buying meat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother gives this child the soda that she bought from the vendor on the street corner. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Lots of places to hide bodies, neighbors say, but I don’t buy it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also have a supply of reading material, and we’re going to buy lots of games. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The next morning, my father ran right out and bought an answering machine so I wouldn’t miss any of his calls. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I wonder about all the places and things and new experiences their money has been able to buy them. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She would spill the walnut kernels, and then she wouldn’t be able to sell them to buy sowbelly and potatoes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the last of the pizza money, I buy us each a chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream on a stick. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My other clothes are all a little too big or too small, but this jacket fits me as though I went to the store and bought it just for myself. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he bought a Victor victrola, a tall Gothic instrument, and he went regularly to see what new records had come in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed it was, for as they approached, Milo could see crowds of people pushing and shouting their way among the stalls, buying and selling, trading and bargaining. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hard times. He bought this brownstone a few months before your family moved in. He used to live a couple blocks away, right by the college. He worked there.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

So they bought a drink and then we bought a drink, and then they slapped us on the back and bought another drink. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Even so, Ambrose wasn’t so silly that he bought the fellow’s debt himself.Manet made a dismissive gesture. “He had someone else do that, but he made sure everyone knew he was responsible.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

With her earnings Irawaddy was able to buy rice and salt, and milk for the child, who was too weak for anything else. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You like to sell it, but did you ever consider what it could do to the people who bought it?" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It goes something like this: The pet is bought when it is small and cute. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, she buys $300 in groceries, enough to last the clan a week. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He said, “Perhaps you are frightened at living here alone—but in a few years we can move—maybe even buy a house such as your father’s. You would like that?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used my sneaker money to buy Mom a set of paints. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to weed the garden and then you’re going to string up the new chicken wire Dad bought to keep the rabbits out.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a fleeting second he thought of the knife Sirius had bought him for Christmas — locked in his trunk in the castle a quarter of a mile away, no use to him whatsoever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Emma had been holding her breath for so long that she swayed with dizziness and her eyelids sagged down over her eyes, she finally thought, We just need to buy more time. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He told the lady running it that he had a rare medical condition and couldn’t eat cooked meat so he’d like to buy a raw hamburger. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People like me, from Grafton Hill, simply walk past the window displays to check out what’s inside, but we never buy anything. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a girl there trying to sell some old jazz records but nobody was buying. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He joined the Klan soon after buying the business. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Gracias. Perhaps someday I will buy a book that is in Spanish and in English, too.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Where can I buy some clothes around here?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d seen places like this in Michigan, of course, but he never had to do anything in them other than buy gas. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t—” “Don’t lie! Remember that drum set you begged me to buy. Why did you want it, Starr?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"Chap bought it for me. Don't you like it?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And when Scoob takes that out, he uncovers enough shiny, sparkly, glittery stuff to surely pay for college, buy him a car, and maybe get him a decent-sized house, too. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Jordan had never bought her anything special, not even on her birthday. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his amazement, China was a place where even dogs seemed well fed, and if he ran low on cash to buy food, he begged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I woke up thinking: You didn’t buy him a present yet. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Few trainers, even the most cocksure, were fool enough to buy a horse from the master. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to the baker to buy naan,” he said from the other side. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to be aware of that and buy carefully.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He bought the warehouse from the city for a hundred dollars when I was in third grade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not like the idea of buying a cheap shirt. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad had never been able to buy the class pictures for us, though a couple of times, Mom secretly snipped a snapshot out of the packet before returning it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stupefied that he would walk these miles as a courtesy to a stranger, I suggested he let me buy him a ticket for the show and we could walk back together. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, turning down his offer to buy my land for a second time. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Sure, I’ll buy you one. If you give me the money for it.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I could wait for Cathy to leave the house, go to the off-licence and buy two bottles of sauvignon blanc. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a terrible sin to buy anything with a German or Japanese label, no matter if it cost only a nickel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Betty and I have been looking at a house we want to buy”—he tried a chuckle—“you know nobody’s going to rent, not to me, these days!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he didn't much want to buy it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“To Miss Temple? Oh, no! I wish it did: she has to answer to Mr. Brocklehurst for all she does. Mr. Brocklehurst buys all our food and all our clothes.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, he told Kwang in Korean, this man bought the watch many months ago, during the winter, and he was being generous enough in offering him another one. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Diamant went with me to the market the next morning to use some of my savings and buy something that could be sold for profit in the shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I bought a milk shake at the snack bar and then went home. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The man who left it on the counter while he was looking at the reproductions of antique jewelry bought it. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wimmer felt for them, to the point that he at one point put up $1,000 of his own money to buy booster seats and give them away to any family who wanted one. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I remembered Mom bought you a fancy salad that you really liked. So I asked her to get it again!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I spend all evening cutting up the pumpkins, and boiling them for hours with sugar to make a sweet paste, and then I use my last sucres to buy loaves of bread from the bakery. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A store is where humans buy things they need to survive. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

So I might go looking for a shop with another lamp like that in its window—not to buy, but just to compare with my ones at home. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamá was saving to pay the moneylender, she was working in the fields to help, and Salvador was thinking of buying a motorcycle! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They bought their wives dishwashers and upright vacuum cleaners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Regina wasn’t buying his sales pitch and wrote back that Armstrong and his church were feeding Bobby a line of mumbo jumbo and engaging in fear mongering. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Arab returned to his tent to sleep, proud to have helped the counselor of the oasis, and happy at having enough money to buy himself some sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we get back to the tree, Rani stops again to buy some dried fish and some other food from vendors sitting on the sidewalk, selling things in baskets. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

On April 10,1 buy another one so that I can finish this project, which I have to do whether he’s here or not. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen my own brothers buy snacks they’d never usually eat from a pretty girl while avoiding delicious food sold by homely girls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few blocks, I bought a piragua from the old man dressed like a sailor who walked around the neighborhood pushing his piragua cart, which had fake sails. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We drank water because the soft drinks bought in the afternoon were finished. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Renting blacks cast furtive glances at these owned yards and porches, and made firmer commitments to buy themselves “some nice little old place.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some equate it to buying your way into becoming a permanent resident. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I trail off, suddenly realizing I forgot to buy breath mints. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It’s Fina and Ruby who finally go with me to buy some makeup at the drugstore. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

How many balls could I buy with eight thousand dollars? Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I knew I was supposed to feel grateful, and I did, but I also couldn’t help feeling like they’d bought me and I owed them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I watched our parents buy a sofa, then a rug, curtains, chairs to replace the orange and apple crates one by one, now to be used for storage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every three days, he went into town to buy a large block of ice, which he wrapped in burlap and placed inside a hole he dug in the ground by the entrance to our tent. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“One of these days I’ll make you all proud for all the help,” I told Uncle Piet after he had bought me a new white shirt and a pair of long grey flannels. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It brings far more people into poor areas to buy drugs, which then increases the likelihood that they will take an infection home with them to their own neighborhood. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had he bought each of them a crystal pen and taken them to the zoo in Cincinnati and made sure they received lemon pie and ice cream? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Malfoy, who had reached for the glass eye, said, “I thought you were going to buy me a present.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Manny, the farmer we bought our fruits and vegetables from, held my mom for, like, ten minutes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next day I bought a bunch of beauty magazines and started to study what I needed to do to be beautiful on the outside. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

My mother used to tell me that she was going to do such a job on my particular butt that I would have to go down to Macy’s to buy a new behind. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I bought a newspaper and coffee and looked through the Rooms to Rent section. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you notice the description? It’s of me, too. She may wear her hair differently and dress differently—she may even have bought a wig. But when you see her you’ll know what I mean.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now my dad knows and he says I’m such a breeze to buy for. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we can listen to the new one my momma bought me—Duke Ellington.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a saying that if you waited until then, you wouldn’t have to buy a tree; that “they’d chuck ’em at you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people give money to buy garbage cans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest of the address books, bought twenty- eight years ago at a stationery store in Harvard Square, has a pebbly black cover and blue pages, bound together by a rubber band. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were considered to be property and could be m bought or sold. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He used the money he made at work to buy us clothes and school supplies. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Do you have the money to buy all this, young lady?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

From a local tourist shop, he had bought three sets of fresh clothes, some towels, some soap, some bottled water, and, yes, a huge box of wet wipes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The salesmen bought me perfume and invited me to lunch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she went to buy a used car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later, she went to the store and bought him a big bottle of sunscreen, and the next time she visited, she saw it lying on his dresser, forgotten and unused. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

L’Hôpital bought himself the best teacher that money could buy: Johann Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician and one of the early masters of Leibniz’s calculus of infinitesimals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

So, having bought bread, a handful of salt alewives, and asked if anyone knew where Doctor Warren was, he quickly left. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kumalo had gone to a far place to buy cattle and would not be back until the next day—it would be safe for them to make the new wife work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

‘Did you really just buy a ticket - and not decide to use it?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took out her notebook and unfolded the map of the East Side that she’d bought the day before. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to him to buy a new blanket for himself. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me buy you a drink, my friend. I’m looking for news of this man. What tribe was it he joined?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had bought a small house in town for less than twelve thousand dollars, which is what she could afford. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love the exciting compromise between order and chaos. And who bought those exquisite curtains? I’ll bet it was you.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She bought us tiny wooden boxes of cajeta that was so sweet and sticky, it hurt my teeth for hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“My niece bought this at one of them outlet malls she likes.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I walk around the sparkling fountain slowly, taking my time, wandering through the crowds, past the people lined up to buy warm popcorn and steaming potato tortillas. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about I buy you a Coke from the snack bar instead?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I buy the book and carry it with me everywhere. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall need to buy bean seeds and chilli seeds, and perhaps a few young pumpkin vines...sweet potatoes of course...I have made a lot from my vegetables before.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought two large bottles of limeade, a chocolate cake, and a new bag of apples, and went back home and ate them for dinner. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He stood a safe distance away, legs apart and obviously ready to run, holding a stick of sugar cane nearly as tall as himself, which he had bought instead of fireworks. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coupons are needed for everything, from flour to shoes, and yet the Nazis continue to press for war donations—more woolen clothing for the soldiers and German marks to buy cannons, tanks, and airplanes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Texans who bought the land fenced it and posted signs in English and Spanish warning trespassers to keep out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy promised himself that, when he returned from Egypt, he would buy that sword. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I didn’t buy it out of my salary, either,” explained Neeley mysteriously. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushes the stroller back down Massachusetts Avenue, weeping freely, knowing that she can’t possibly afford to go back and buy it all again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day he bought the family a piano from his brother Harold, who had it in his home where no one used it. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I was limited in my wardrobe choices because I was stuck buying in the shops my mother let me go to, and my mother did not believe in spending money on clothes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They strolled around the lake, bought tea at a stall, and rented deck chairs to listen to elderly men of the Salvation Army playing Elgar adapted for brass band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Once I quit drinking and started making decent money at the little accounting firm I’d interned with, we bought the house on Overlook Road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One night, after Forrest had been staying with Jule in London for a week, he bought the two of them tickets to see A Winter’s Tale at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Holmes made his widow an offer: He would buy the store, and she could continue to reside in the second-floor apartment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

You tell him to take it and buy another horse.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was a Jew, that his faith could be bought? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And I ache for the day I bought it with Kara. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Finally one hundred paper dollars would not buy a dollar’s worth of food. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Business” has been her code word for drug dealing since I was seven years old and asked her how she made enough money to buy expensive sneakers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Did I think we should buy an American car or a Japanese car? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s really just a big warehouse that a bunch of families bought and refurbished a long time ago. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The little Jewish delicatessen was full of Christians buying Jew rye bread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it the entire walk home from Blue Spot, which is probably why I don’t remember which candy bar I bought that day. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His favorite aunt lent him some money, and a short time later he bought passage on a ship bound for the Hawaiian Islands. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said it was because he used to buy flour from a man who Papa suspected was cheating him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And he bought the first shoe she had had in his life not made by a woman, and they were black velvet shoes such as the Old Lord had worn flapping at his heels. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t buy eggs in Malta,” he confessed, with an air of slight and clandestine amusement that was the only departure from industrious sobriety Yossarian had ever seen him make. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I buy only British clothes for my baby because American ones fade after one wash,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the food ration is reduced, we supplement it by buying food from the Thai market at the edge of the camp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s high time somebody did something, said the woman behind the counter, at the store where I usually bought my cigarettes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do not buy for the generations, but only until a new model they can afford comes out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Joy Luck uncles begin to talk about stocks they are interested in buying. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down to the concession stand and bought three boxes of nachos and a diet coke for Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He catches them, giving me a look as I buy a pack for myself. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Ms.Fender had bought it for herself; it was hard to imagine being the kind of person who spent money on fake-marble water bottles. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

First thing Saturday morning, he drove to the hardware store and bought a sturdy new seat for the toilet in the trailer, plus a dozen jumbo rattraps. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of September 10, driving out of Cut Bank after buying some parts for a malfunctioning combine, he pulled over for a hitchhiker, an amiable kid who said his name was Alex McCandless. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Papito who paid the rent and bought them their winter clothes and spoiled them once with an outing to Lincoln Center to see the doll-like ballerinas dancing on their toes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then I get my mom to buy the Monkey House book, and I read Alicia a couple of the stories over the phone. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally we ate at another cheap burrito spot and went into Ross Dress for Less to buy some new gear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not trying to buy you off, you know.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My mother bought our food and other life necessities there. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It made him a little sad to think how many beans it would have bought for Mrs. Popper and the children. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In honor of Ezekial Freeman—what a handsome name her friend had chosen for himself—she bought Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another clerk came up to Billy and asked him if he was going to buy the book or not, and Billy said that he wanted to buy it, please. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good reason that Char will buy, so I won’t get my butt kicked. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, under that dizzying socialist impulse that marked the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the land was bought for the nation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The corner of Fulton and Hoyt. Downtown. It's where I buy my books,” I say. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She shrieked and the neighborhood ladies buying vegetables laughed. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We went and bought it, which by the way, was quite a situation. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But I bought another five hundred sols of life with my potato farm, so they have more time to work on it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not all the treasures of Egypt could buy him, he told them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house stayed empty until the gentlemen from Mobile bought it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I guess, I went home and bought the album. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He and Señor Diaz stepped inside the shop, which sold items that charros might buy such as jackets, ruffled shirts, whips, and elegant riding boots. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Nine times out of ten, he never buys.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Crazy for standing on her principles: no buying on credit, no giving up her children, no eating of unclean meat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

People bought their scotch as “medicine” in brown paper bags from selected “pharmacies.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I bought baby powder for the oil in my hair. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was printed on expensive stationery, the kind you buy if you want to be impressive. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he were inclined to buy into Lawrence’s vision, funds were scarce. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t buy it. I made it at school,” Roberto responded proudly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She buys in bulk and has to watch out for relatives wanting to shop in her kitchen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But even money would do little good now, for there was no food to buy. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Tell him about those things Bunny bought with your credit cards while you were sick.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“After that Harvard says I have to matriculate or reapply. Unless Daddy buys them another building. I’m messing with you, Matthew. I got in on my own steam, I swear.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I asked for the boombox, he bought it for me, so it kinda means a lot. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s probably the first and last suit anyone will ever buy me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

It is rankling, too, to be encouraged to buy all of one’s goods in white stores and then be refused soda-fountain or rest-room service. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that I will have to have a roommate and buy shampoo. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she broke the news that her aunt Norma had terminal cancer a couple of years ago, she bought Popkenchurch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hung back, trying to buy a little time in which to think. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We probably wouldn’t have the best seats in the Garden, since we’d have to buy our tickets late, but at least we’d be there. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

That night we stopped at a wayside inn where Reta bought fodder for the horses and a few other supplies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, once we were at the mall, since we never had any money to shop or watch movies or buy food, we’d just wander around inside. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And what about his inability to see anything except the grand gesture, and the fact that he bought the house without first consulting my mother? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The next day Joe, still feeling awash with goodwill, bought a little gas, drove his old Franklin over to Fremont, and parked in front of the Golden Rule Dairy and Bakery. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad had agreed never to buy each other anything on the day. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wanted to buy along the river where the land was fertile and there was water for the plants and trees. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For man-to-man talks and stuff. My dad’s like that about the Oak Bar at the Plaza. He took me and my brothers there to buy us our first drink when we turned eighteen.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when Dad’s at home, he’s not buying groceries just for him,” Candice said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or guardians would claim to be buying homes and land for their wards while really buying these for themselves. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“The sign read, don’t buy from jews,” said Gaston, who was nine years old at the time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know it wouldn’t shoot any better for it, but I bought the one with the pearl handle even though it cost fifteen dollars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I need to go to a tailor, for one. The two denim skirts I bought right before we left the States are a little too big. I should have tried them on.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Belle had to ring up a few kids buying their after-school junk food, so I wandered around the store. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was so, so nervous, but she was so, so awesome and lovely and everyone buy her music, please and thanks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The grouchy woman displayed some biscuits she must have bought in the village. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He needed more patches, he said, so he had to go out and buy another six-pack. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They spend billions to create a constant stream of these new foods and then spend billions more to get us to buy them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

How else could they afford to buy wives for their sons and insure that they would eventually become ancestors? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also had to fit in a pyramid tin from Rose City Teas: some loose leaf FTGFOP1 First Flush Darjeeling I bought as a gift for Mamou. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

By delaying publication of the dispatches, he bought time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jordan had bought doughnuts and milk, along with fresh fruit and a dozen eggs. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we were searching for some place to buy a takeaway sandwich, when he suddenly grabbed my arm, so hard I thought he was having some sort of attack. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earnings buy clothes, shoes, and paper for school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve saved a total of seventeen dollars from my lunch money in the last few weeks and should be able to buy two books. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Paid fireworks cash for our two gallons and bought three bottles of strawberry milk while we were at it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Arnold made an offer on the building he thought I should buy to house our operations. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a fleeting moment she wondered if Mother would consider buying an ambassador a pair of high-heeled shoes. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

We bought ten fortune cookies for a dollar. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess they can buy their own vegetables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bought it from Miracle Max and it works for sixty minutes.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No one even bothered to tell me! I would have bought more bananas!” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They bought an electric refrigerator on the installment plan, and Antonapoulos would suck the cubes of ice constantly and even let a few of them melt in bed with him as he slept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, apparently there’s a friend of my aunt’s who wants to buy it.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“God’s not buying a horse today, I am. The thin Cealdish man paused to collect his thoughts. “ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had an ancient sewing machine that they had bought upon their arrival in America. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“We won’t move permanently, but we should buy it. It’s like an heirloom. I finally have a chance to buy it back into our family.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I will never see Phnom Penh again, drive in our car, ride a cyclo with Ma to the markets, buy food from the carts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bought them clothes for her. Gotta keep my girl looking good,” she says, licking her lips. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Treats me to espresso and croissants at a little bakery with stools by a window, then tries to buy me books at the Edgartown bookshop. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And some of them were buying tickets at big black machines on the wall. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had made it with a penny test tube bought at Knipe’s Drug Store. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seriously came this close to buying them, just so I could text you pictures of their crime-fighting selves. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I showed interest in buying a fish and at that moment Rutledge walked up and asked the vendor if he minded being photographed with some of the fish. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in Japan or China, farmers didn’t have the money to buy equipment—and, in any case, there certainly wasn’t any extra land that could easily be converted into new fields. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Gogol buys Indian comic books to give to his American friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I see their faces -Greasy Sac and Madge and even the Peacekeepers who buy my meat cheering for us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Might I buy you a drink as a token of my thanks, Miss Martin?” he asks, after slipping the notebook into his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then Wang Lung cried out suddenly, “If I had the gold and the silver and the jewels, I would buy land with it, good land, and I would bring forth harvests from the land!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was bought by a national organization dedicated to the well-being of young girls. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Or: My father bought me a puppy when I was ten. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Believe me, ladies, when I collect enough do-re-mi to buy me a car, I'm clearing out." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was not at all sure Mike's rods would come from Scotland in time, so we hunted a tackle store and finally bought a rod for Bill up-stairs over a drygoods store. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“To buy the land and pay the back taxes, it will cost one thousand dollars.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And what better way to Americanize the children than to buy a car!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basically I was trying to buy us some time. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I am not hiding Jews. I’ve only bought cheap curtains from people who don’t need them anymore.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The night you went to the movies, you asked Clara to marry you, and gave her this tortoiseshell comb until you could buy her a ring.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway bought him for five dollars and drew up emancipation papers the next day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Stanchion, could you help us to the bar? I’ve promised to buy them a drink.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Dray…After that, he bought me a diamond necklace and took me shopping. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They had new cars and were buying their first condos and liked to talk about it all over martinis after work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“They decided they were too hooked on money and success, so they bought that old farm and they’re going to farm it and think about what’s important.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If they wanted to hurt you, they’d come to the house and hurt you. They wouldn’t buy you a train ticket and hurt you in New Hampshire.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

African Dad will tell you straight up, “No, no, no. I bought you that.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the explanation was really very simple.The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Not one of them made enough money to buy a wife. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel bad for her, so I buy the fish platter. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

If she could buy Drogo's life with the death of a horse, she would pay a thousand times over. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had plenty left over after buying five cans of frozen lemonade mix with his earnings from yesterday. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The statue we mean is the one you bought for $225.00. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re either checking in with Mom and Dad, saying everything went great and this is going to be the best yearbook ever, or they didn’t buy enough pizza and you’re heading straight for the kitchen. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“First time buying for a lady?” he murmurs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think you could take me to where I can buy some smokes?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He takes me down to this shop he knows, the same place where he buys his own zoots. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the one he uses on all the tutumpotes when they come in wanting to buy the cheaper policies. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So we turn in Gladiola,” Annabeth explained in her best strategy voice, “we get money, and we buy tickets to Los Angeles. Simple.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had gone to the market to buy fish for the evening meal. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They stated, furthermore, that they were not being paid in real money but in scrip, which was good only to buy Virginia ham in the company commissaries. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Eventually I saved enough to buy my horse and carriage. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was a glorious day; I was sick of being poor, so, before I thought better of it, I went into an expensive men’s shop on the square and bought a couple of shirts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She bought three packs of peanut M&Ms from a vending machine and sat on top of her bags. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That gun was no great shakes when I bought it second-hand fifteen years ago, and it has never got any better. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t buy her a T-shirt in Disney World over the weekend. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had enough to buy one extra item. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But I told no one I was buying ninety-nine grams of pork, seven-eighths of a bushel of spinach, four and three-quarter cubes of tofu. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She bought enough room for our entire family and a bed; she would stay days and nights, not missing even the repeating scenes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Drum bought that for me on my tenth birthday. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We bought an Instamatic camera with which to document our life together, and I took pictures of her posing in front of the Prudential building, so that she could send them to her parents. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Took five years before we were able to buy his way up to ground level. Didn’t see the sun once.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

To bathe, we put water in a bucket and splashed ourselves with it, using soap we bought from local vendors via the kids on bikes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I use a quarter of the sweater money to buy more old sweaters. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After asking Zannikos for advice, he bought a one-third share of a Greek diner in Jamaica, Queens. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Each had wandered through the open door in hopes of winning money to buy passage out of Smyrna. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I bought some of the highest quality fertilizing plasma available in California,” Barbour informed him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And there was a little woodden station, too, and we showed you how people who wanted to go on the train went to the station and bought a ticket and then got on the train? The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because if my condition did have anything to do with a bad electric blanket, there must be a lot of other people who bought that same electric blanket. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t one of the ordinary olive-green caps you could buy in a store. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could buy us ten root beers,” I said, missing the point. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

At intermission, Ethan bought one of the ten-dollar souvenir programs, and after the show he thanked my father at least five times for getting him a ticket. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Well...I mean...real emotional support dogs aren't allowed in school, unfortunately. Plus, I couldn't just buy you a dog. Your mom might not be okay with that. But I thought maybe this could help." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He has to emulate the other gallery staff as they help clients, advising people on what they should buy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Momma used the baubles to buy several hogs, and that was how Rose Hill came to have pork chops every Sunday after the Scripture was read. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Certainly not if you're buying cars, I wanted to say, but instead I asked her about the Pickett disappearance. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Let the scar on Goyle’s finger stand as a lasting tribute to his memory. Oh, come on, Ron, get yourself down to Hogsmeade and buy a new rat, what’s the point of moaning?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Who decided that for Henry Reed to become a scientist he had to work like George Washington Carver, as a bootblack, to buy a lousy microscope? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Aimee wasn’t hungry, and she hadn’t felt like negotiating the line, or trying to figure out how to buy lunch and where to sit or with whom. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, I was in line at Kmart, buying three spiral notebooks, a new calculator, a pack of unsharpened pencils, and a pack of Skittles. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he addressed it and bought a stamp and held the card close to him for a minute before dropping it in the mailbox. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happy that the meat business was over, Francie bought two cents’ worth of soup greens from the green grocer’s. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s already gone out and bought a Christmas tree, which I’m staring at. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the gloves were bought, and they had quitted the shop again, “Did you ever hear the young lady we were speaking of, play?” said Frank Churchill. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

That winter my mother and brother came and we set up housekeeping, buying furniture on the installment plan, being cheated and yet knowing no way to avoid it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d sent out for sandwiches, bought him Cokes from the machine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a white inspector came to our school and filled out a report sheet, or I might see white department store clerks when we bought various items. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple pulled at the hem of the kurta she’d bought with Mamma. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was the first time any of them had been able to buy gifts. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered when he had bought it, how proud he had been because it was a good hat, finely woven and crisp. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“You wish to know if I feel you are ready to duel to the death a man ruthless enough to kill your father, rich enough to buy protection, older and more experienced, an acknowledged master.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He changed into the warmer clothes and carried the rice in his backpack to a Gilju merchant, who bought it for six thousand won, about six dollars. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The next week he came back and bought another, then another and another. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Technically, Gale and I could be whipped on a daily basis for poaching in the woods -well, technically, we could get a whole lot worse -except all the officials buy our meat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Besides the material on chinchillas, he also brought from the capital the popular wartime booklets that had been created to propagate the image of the heroic soldier, and sentimental novels he had bought for Blanca. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom buys at secondhand places, like Goodwill and Salvation Army. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“If there was a market for rocks and snakes,” I told Mr. Whiskers, “I could buy up the whole of Dawson County.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Okay, how many do we want to buy?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She bought the designer jacket when I got my running shoes and I thought it was a waste of money. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The grain was not enough to live on, and there were other things to buy, soap and milk and thread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Using my allowance, I bought my mother and the baby some Christmas gifts. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He bought a ticket and traveled down the lake on Hydro, leaning over the rail, with one eye on the minute hand of his watch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And last he bought a typewriter and set about learning to use it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I dunno, saw it in a movie. We don’t need to buy real sleds, dummy. All we need is pieces of plastic to slide on.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the women of New England refused to buy English products and English tea. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Petra was wondering what had made Ms. Hussey buy that art book weeks ago, and whether it was just a coincidence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin Matthew bought a motorcycle and my aunt Patricia is not pleased about that. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom saved for two years so she could travel to Florida and buy me a “good” social security card. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a thick red rug on the floor, and he had bought a beautiful cloth of Chinese blue to hang on the side of the wall where the cracks were worst. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Into the slot at the top we slip our valentines, cut from books of them you can buy at Woolworth’s, with special, single ones for the people we especially like. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have had enough of corsairs. Let’s not buy a ship.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Deborah used hers to buy a small piece of land in Clover, so she could someday move down to the country and live near her mother’s grave. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You could use your half to buy Chumley school supplies. You know: designer handbags. Shoes. Those big sunglasses that look like bug eyes. They have all sorts of discount designer items at the outlet stores.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of “Hoyle” and learned many two-handed card games. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I should buy one of those cheap magazine subscriptions and say, “Yeah, I pay a bill, and what?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe we would be blown off course and land in a country without New York or people who bought and sold children. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d even bought Hazel a new box of crayons and a pad of paper. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Johnny, already jealous, for the first time in his life, over Rab’s taking Cilia out, buying her sweets—and never saying anything— tried his best to quarrel with a puzzled Rab over this apple. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No amount of money could have bought that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he just turns and falls into step beside me, and then I can’t buy what I need, because he notices the amounts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A little later, she said, “I couldn’t find exactly that brand of muesli you like so much, George, but I bought something similar.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They glimpsed the centaur and his lady; she held a parasol and he a string market bag, and they were just another couple out for a stroll, buying vegetables for their supper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My dad appeared with the attache case I’d bought him for Christmas two years ago — Guess what Dad? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chefs around the country, like the ones who buy from Polyface in Virginia, are trying to teach consumers that food actually tastes better when it is fresh, in season, and grown without chemicals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In St. Louis the grown-ups left us in the car while they bought necessities. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

No ornament; he had nothing bought with iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked and straightened it a tiny bit as he kept on singing: “And John would buy the gown for you to wear to the prom ...” “Does my hair look okay?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was still towing the wagon, which nobody had bought. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A record his brother bought at a shop on the rue Sainte-Marguerite four decades ago for fifty-five centimes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t want to wait, and he has no money to buy food, anyway. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the summer Mama took us to a farmers’ market to buy fabric to make new curtains for our bedroom. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly from evangelical Christian sites, which have bought Nathan’s devil claims wholesale. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’d give a couple of extra sticks when someone bought ten, which was five dollars’ worth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the only one like this in the store. I made my mother buy it.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had enabled them to have seven children and buy a house in the Sunset district with very little money. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to store and buy my food, but very fast. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1947, the laboratory bought an “electronic calculator” from Bell Telephone Laboratories, an investment in the ongoing need for transonic flight research. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And he said to himself again and again, “Am I not master in my own house and may I not take my own slave I bought with my silver?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He had in his hand his and Regina’s life savings — $12 — and with that money, he bought enough cloth to make ten dozen aprons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten to buy a sandwich with the quarter his mother had given him, and he had not eaten since morning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think I might buy myself a video recorder, so I can watch footage of myself as I practice. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He bought four pair—a profligate quantity of socks—and not only were they not gray, no two pair were even the same color. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Cars and buses pass in clouds of exhaust, and clusters of students walk by carrying steaming food bought from ven- dors along the street. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wally has bought a ticket to fly on Virgin Galactic's spacecraft, scheduled to launch in December 2013. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He also bought a starter set of oil paints and some canvases. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Summoning William, he asked if he could buy a secure code for private use. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One boy had gone home and put on a dough-face bought in advance for Halloween. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some of the black people who bought what was left resold it to others in the township, at a profit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought some beautiful earrings at a traditional shop for my best friend Cait. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One Friday she finds herself alone in Dimitri’s apartment; he goes out as soon as she arrives, to buy a stick of butter for a white sauce he is making to pour over trout. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And many of these patients were well-off from rich families, so their wealth did not buy them happiness or contentment. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might even help Finn buy new ones and put them in a brand-new backpack they couldn’t afford. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She went to the market with him, and after they bought the household items, she bought him a comb and a shirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was more, but I bought the candy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With money from a part-time job in Brooksville, he bought materials for landscaping and for constructing a fish pond across from the gangplank. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The last stop on our tour was at a small market where Akhi had me buy a package of plain crackers, bottled water, almonds, and two bananas. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

"What do you mean? I saw everything you bought!" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Joe Trace counted on flirty laughing women to buy his wares, and he knew better than to take up with any of them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him the money and a tip for running in and buying me one. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ricky bought it from the town dump with a jar of quarters—or so he claimed—a pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he’d hung from the mirror couldn’t mask. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I know. Still and all you always see them cut off and get the idea that they grow chopped down. Let’s buy it, Neeley.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning the money landed in my parents’ bank account, my dad said, “I think we should buy a car.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Holmes even wanted Ned to buy life insurance, for surely once his marital strife subsided, he would want to protect Julia and Pearl from destitution in the event of his death. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Here’s a likely theory: most parents who buy a lot of children’s books tend to be smart and well educated to begin with. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“My dad is so excited. Yesterday afternoon he bought us all these.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dad drives me to the hospital and we buy flowers at the gift shop near the cafeteria. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were using his share to buy popcorn. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next stop, an Elko Camera Store, where they “bought” an elaborate motion-picture camera. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The police were informed that you bought it for Miss Volker,” he replied smoothly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She took from the pocket of her shorts the package of cigarettes she had bought the night before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ishmael made his way down Main Street to Fisk’s, where he bought a one-gallon can of kerosene and a wick for his mother’s heater. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s barely enough room in the refrigerator for the groceries we’ve bought. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He -bought grain when it was plentiful and sold bread when it was scarce. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most evenings a meal was provided as well; otherwise, Min had given Tree-ear a string of coins to buy food as needed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Ranofer had no food to bring, no coppers to buy wine, no companion to talk to, and during his first few days he was too tired and sore to sleep or even rest. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, that meant Jesper had made it to the schooner, and she just had to buy the others enough time to make it there as well. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He shook Babe Ruth’s hand and bought him a beer, and Babe Ruth had winked at him and said, “You’re a helluva good guy.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This was the routine I’d had when I was small, before Mum and Dad bought me the trampoline. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although as I say this, I have no idea how I would buy next semester’s books if she accepted. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly just bottles of water or the cheap carnival masks that you could buy on any street comer. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In India, Gandhi also preached noncooperation—refusing to use or buy British goods. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And Father bought him a collar and a lead and I was allowed to take him for walks to'the shop and back. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When they weighed too much, he reportedly cleaned their pockets of their pennies so they couldn’t buy food or locked them up until they starved down to the right weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z