I proudly carried the blue ribbon in my right hand and the drawing in the other. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boy wanted to ask who carried in wood to keep the people in jail warm. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bear a hand!” and he cracked the black-snake whip he carried. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joanna carried her baby into the house not caring that the carriage stood in the middle of the sidewalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later there appeared from round a distant corner, the dark shapes of two men walking backwards and carrying tall candles. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

We were used to walking great distances over hard terrain while carrying things. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other four guys grunted with every step, which made me think I wasn’t really carrying much weight. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While I was carrying on like that, I heard the screen door bang shut downstairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They felt like someone sneaking down a hallway in the middle of the night, carrying their shoes in their hand—leaving without saying good-bye. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

There were many practical advantages to being classified as Coloured rather than African, such as the fact that Coloured men were not required to carry passes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In World War II, Germany built on Oberth’s ideas and developed the V-2, a rocket powerful enough to carry an explosive warhead all the way from northern Germany to London. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was talk from the white and black clerks carrying out the physical that some of the migrant workers had lice and needed to be fumigated. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the toolbox and one of the bottles of gas into the galley and went forward and made a last tour of the staterooms. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Three-hundred-year-old trees that are two feet tall that you can carry in your arms?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the knapsack that he always carried, he had taken a small handkerchief and on it he had placed two wine goblets. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a folded piece of paper that she held out to Ash, who was kneeling on the floor in front of the trunk. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about the stupid politicians in the Western House of Assembly that the police had to use tear gas on? Tear gas! And their orderlies carried their limp bodies to their cars! Imagine that!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I need your strength to carry the girl. Pick her up now and let us hurry along.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I rest my elbows on Al’s back and wave at Four as he carries me away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hu was carrying a large box which he handed to my father. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My main job was to carry stuff to people’s cars and to keep an eye on Robin. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You carried oil of vitriol knocking about in a sack? It is infinitely dangerous, my boy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Lee carried a tin lantern to light the way, for it was one of those clear early winter nights when the sky riots with stars and the earth seems doubly dark because of them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only other person I see is the Apple Lady, wearing her usual headphones and carrying a basket away from the orchard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

After some coaxing, Nettle was persuaded to take back his boots, tie them together and carry them round his neck. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her sturdy little legs carried her through the grass from one patch of wildflowers to another. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was carrying something in its mouth: a heavy golden bow and arrow. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Its red-gabled roof, nestled between two huge stone chimneys, also carried an aura of perfection. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed her down the short hallway to my room, carrying my bag of baby carrots between my chin and shoulder. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But when a person has an operation it has a picture in its head of the hurt carrying on for months and months. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for them, its front paws on the topmost bar, was a very large, shaggy black dog, which was carrying some newspapers in its mouth and looking very familiar. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Idas, one of the heroes of the Calydonian Hunt and also one of the Argonauts, carried her off from her father with her consent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the basement she found a jelly jar with a top and carried it out to the carriage house where the tools were kept. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other complained too much about the physical hardships—demanding that he be allowed to sit in a chair and be carried for the last two hundred miles. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And to Michael Antoniou: “Tessie is small but she is strong. How many plates you think she can carry, Father Mike?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sincerely, Maria Jon and Susan carried the letter idea to all the schools they visited, and when the week was over, six hundred were in the mail. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sound carried forever in the morning stillness. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If he’s talking to Malachy and I think he’s talking to me he might go into a rage and have a fit that will carry him off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looks regal and carries herself in a way that makes me sit up in my seat. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They carried the man down out of the rocks, lay him on open grass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neumann One hums in front of him as he carries a can of fuel through the stalks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Slughorn heaved himself out of his armchair and carried his empty glass over to his desk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had seen the girl many times carrying her sniveling little brother on her hip, with a bag on her shoulder or a water jug on her head. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother used to gather them every spring, carrying a basket to put them in, and David, Joseph, and I used to go-with her—and Faro, of course. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They dragged the excrement to surrounding fields or carried it on their backs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At last the dawn came and as the beasts crowding through the entrance passed out Polyphemus felt them over to be sure no one carried a man on his back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing the scarves, we pick up the wood, now the size of our bodies, and carry it horizontally on our backs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he’d cautioned himself to hold on for the two weeks, to carry it off, secrecy and all, and be done with it for good. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He untucked his shirt and put the book inside, hastily retucking it just as the hook-handed man reentered the library, escorting Violet and carrying Sunny, who was trying without success to bite the man’s hooks. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Naturally,” the emissary answered, “I have brought nothing of the sort. It's easy to understand that under the present circumstances a person can't carry anything that would compromise him.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We have not determined how far it shall carry us,” said Mrs. Gardiner, “but, perhaps, to the Lakes.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

They carried him in the litter, mounted on poles resting on their shoulders, so he wouldn’t tire on his travels. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As we carry on toward the car, she doesn’t even suggest it, and for some reason, this just upsets me more. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"Lyanna might have carried a sword, if my lord father had allowed it. You remind me of her sometimes. You even look like her." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Besides, the boys would not go in the kitchen because they were terrified of Betty whom they had seen on the stairs grimly carrying red rubber sheets toward their room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Matthias watched some of the tiny ants carrying off his fallen breadcrumbs as he answered, “As well as possible, Brother Methuselah. And how are your studies coming along?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It would have the capability to produce neutrons ten times more energetic than those emitted by the twenty-seven-inch machine, an intensity that “would make it possible to carry on actual clinical therapy of human cancer.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

How many more days could we carry on like this? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I stood in the front hall,” Elizebeth wrote, “and watched my husband being carried on a hospital cot out the door.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pulled out a folded piece of paper I had been carrying around since that night in Abuela’s apartment. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the quantum mechanical way of looking at the gravitational field, the force between two matter particles is pictured as being carried by a particle of spin 2 called the graviton. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they had carried their shell, the City of Seattle, down to the water, they were already drenched in sweat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This has no mass of its own, so the force that it carries is long range. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bats could barely protest as they were carried away, too, more in need of rest than medical attention. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I spotted a smart leather envelope that would be exactly the thing for a young lawyer to carry. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai and Rita were carried off by many hands—it was as if the whole village had risen against them with one thought and one purpose. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One Hitler Youth, about fourteen years old, was carried into a hospital tent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He picked the dying boy up, and carried him to a yard nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had something to do with the way he carried his books. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Or was the information in germplasm discrete and carried in packets—like an unbroken, unbreakable message? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They suggested that in addition to the photon, there were three other spin-1 particles, known collectively as massive vector bosons, that carried the weak force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashima’s initial glimpse, before the cord is clipped and they carry him away, is of a creature coated with a thick white paste, and streaks of blood, her blood, on the shoulders, feet, and head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I liked running to do someone a favor, to get some sugar or tea, or to carry a message. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Stella says a truck will arrive this afternoon carrying a baby elephant. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Laney, who carried the Beezerman’s bag of pastries, surreptitiously peeked into the brown bag while they were walking home. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The cat and the mouse had to make several trips back and forth between the drain pipe and the newsstand, carrying the money in their mouths. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dursley came into the living room carrying two cups of tea. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“The more you hold them in, the worse you get. When you release them, they got to go somewhere else. The Bible says He can carry all that burden.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We all stood—I reached up to press down my yarmulka—and he carried the Torah back to the reading desk. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But it was strange how life connected up; because I had carried Mr. Norton to the old rundown building with rotting paint, I was here. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trouble!” my uncle Juan whispered hoarsely, but his voice carried and I could hear, “trouble in town! Tenorio’s daughter, the one who has been sick and wasting away, death has come for her!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there staring at the marble block, trying to imagine what lol would’ve looked like, when the feeling of being a giant that I had carried with me all day started to wear off. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Turning he saw a man dressed in grey, who carried a staff of heavy wood that was not a wizard’s staff. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

His main rival so exhausted himself chasing Louie that he had to be carried from the track. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

From inside the truck, two men appear, carrying a couch between them. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as I’m carrying Ruth May piggyback through my days, with her voice in my ear, I still have her with me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bone-grinding fatigue and numbing hunger of the past weeks evaporated as we carried Grandfather’s mattress down from the bedchamber and set it in the middle of the yard. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he approached the last petal, the wind behind him picked up the row of petals and carried them ahead of Nathan, continuing the path. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Unable to carry a heavy chest, he put it on a mattress and dragged it up the stairs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He returned to the counter carrying a fat stack of files in his arms. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Olanna told you about the woman carrying her child’s head on the train?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Water was rare, but the elegant network of canals carried the life-giving fluid all over the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put it on a tray—also a jar of raspberry jam—and carried it out to the tent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was long before metal detectors and security checks, and I was carrying my pistol in a holster inside my jacket and the two hundred rounds wrapped around my waist inside my trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo gazed in wonder at this marvellous gift that he had so long carried, not guessing its full worth and potency. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It’s ironic that while the Freedom Writers were taking a symbolic stand against violence in our candlelight vigil at the Washington Monument, a murder was being carried out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That’s when I realized Miss Peregrine was still hidden in the sack that Horace was carrying. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I felt several sets of hands lift and carry me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tromped back up the stairs, feeling as if I were carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The messengers rejoicing started back to carry the news to the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had spoken peace and confidence into their troubled souls, had set a star before them and we were passing on to other scenes, still carrying the message. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe, for a first offense, the required number of lashes has been dispensed, sir. Unless your sentence is death, which we would carry out by firing squad.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I carried a child upon my back as her mother walked beside me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Jinny rose to carry the crabmeat to the pot, but she couldn’t bring herself to laugh at his joke. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In addition to the ready perspective it offers on relative risk, the safety index underscores the obvious fact that every activity carries some risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came quickly, took the woman in his arms and carried her to the boat. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched his face as he looked outward at the silent avenue and at the ambulance that raced to carry someone to healing, or to death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The bald man twisted in pain as he was carried off the truck. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But her young body wasn’t ready to carry a child. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I hunted for them and found them and carried them down-stairs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Louis Hatcher never even used his horn carrying it and that old lantern. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After setting up half of them, I figured out I could drag them rather than carry them, and that sped things up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I, too, ran to my mom, and she scooped me up and carried me away from the park, allowing my tears and snot to soak her shirt. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A grandfather-grey man emerged from behind the curtain carrying a long piece of leather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I came out of the subway, weak, moving through the heat as though I carried a heavy stone, the weight of a mountain on my shoulders. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later Eliza hurried in, carrying a silver platter piled high with fresh goose. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Patricia carried stacks of papers to all-night copy shops near Harvard, different shops on different nights, always glancing nervously over her shoulder before entering. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“And if you see them carrying her, what will you do? She will belong to them and not you.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He orders four other young soldiers to lift Lincoln back into the rocking chair and carry the president out of the theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We carried the stuffed chair and the couch to the front porch to let them air as best we could. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experiments carried out about a decade ago showed that after treatment with this chemical there is a sharp increase in the nitrate content of corn and of sugar beets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was frail and soft, and it barely carried as the warriors’ whooping grew. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was carrying her backpack now, wearing it across his chest and his own on his back, but she still had to walk fast to keep up. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Helena carries the kasha sack, and we start our slow ascent to Tatarska 3. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The story of the luxury trap carries with it an important lesson. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like nonsense but carried so much secret purpose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means they’ll carry the gene no matter what, but they could look totally normal. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I read the next line: I’ve been carrying luggage and pouring tea just to make money so my family can eat. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Unbeknownst to the commander, the ship carried an additional newcomer. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They would not carry me down that steep path through the woods to the grey cove and the deserted cottage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled good when she carried him and she spoke softly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Slopper, not having graduated to full Hunter status, carried a sharpened stick. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For example, four Russian submarines prowled the waters near Cuba, each one carrying a torpedo loaded with a nuclear weapon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Jack carries the cooler we brought, filled with cut veggies and sandwiches and juice boxes, and starts to transfer everything over to the fridge. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When she righted herself, she didn’t waste any time turning around and running to school as fast as her still-sore ankle would carry her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had gone back where no one else was and found the boys under a tree and carried Pierrot on his shoulders and Jackson in his arms, across the park. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Francie got the idea of tipping over the cans, dumping the ashes on the cellar floor, carrying the empty cans up to the curb and then refilling them with coal buckets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and the light changed in the room; one of the incomers was carrying a lamp, which he put down on the sideboard. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I picked it up and carried it back across the tiny 8-bit kingdom, then used it to pass through the magic barrier and enter the Secret Room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They reviewed what couldn’t be saved, the furniture too large to carry upstairs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Like he hadn’t just snuffed out two lives at point-blank range and watched the rain carry their blood into the gutters. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We struck out for Africa carrying all our excess baggage on our bodies, under our clothes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nurse came in and took out my IV. I felt untethered even though I still had the oxygen tank to carry around with me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Like her mother, her grandfather put a padlock on the door, and kept the key around his neck in the same suede pouch where he carried Clara’s teeth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hare was given a heavy piece and as he carried it along he sang under his breath a song which told all about a clever hare who had fooled a stupid lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She said that in France the people carried home loaves of bread without having them wrapped up. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A smallish savage was standing between him and the rest of the forest, a savage striped red and white, and carrying a spear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The reports that carry subtle threats and hint at revolution? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

An inmate moving from one cell to another often had big garbage bags full of property to carry; you didn’t help him with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He simply loves crossing bridges. You carry on. I’ll come behind, with Bigwig and Bluebell here.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Gales’ house my father honked again and out they came—Mr. and Mrs. Gale carrying a cage between them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watched numbly as the infant was carried into the horrors of the forest, believing it would keep those horrors away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He accomplished this through the establishment of shape note singing schools, which carried out his musical vision. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

People dressed all in white carried out full trays of food to the buffet and brought empty trays back into the kitchen. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The two of them went to work immediately in the supply closet, trying to figure out how much food we could carry with us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The boy tried to carry too much and when they stopped to rest he’d take part of his load and put it with his own. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Several of his male patients frequented the saloon, carrying on with the female patrons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It learned how the Matabele ants carried their young at the center of a line while the soldiers ran along the outside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It carried a small army: one hundred former U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He turned around to grin shyly at Gilly and then, as though carrying the crown of England, came down Mr. Randolph’s walk, the sidewalk, and into Trotter’s gate. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Unable to contain their curiosity, the defenders questioned the limp, half-awake fox as they carried him across the Abbey grounds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, yesterday carried quite the revelation,” he says, putting his forehead into his hand. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When everything was carried up, Janina’s father and Uncle Shepsel broke apart the cart with hammers and kicks and carried the gray, splintery cart pieces up too, even the wheels. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I know that,” Reynie said, “but why do you have one with you? Most people don’t carry buckets around for no particular reason.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The porter had carried out the large bottles, those that had held vermouth, and the straw-covered chianti flasks, and left the brandy bottles for the last. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His voice, easy and refined, carries in it the authority of someone who runs a huge corporation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cool air from the river had carried the voices of Jon and Leon to his ears. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She refuses to wear shoes and used to carry her children and grandchildren in slings on her back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Obinze had better hurry up and come to the U.S., before somebody will carry you away. You know you have the kind of body they like here.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Etienne comes down grumbling, one shoe on, and the whole kitchen goes quiet while Madame Manec fixes his tea and sets it on a tray and Etienne carries it back upstairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way, for they never sounded the same repeated in their own kitchens. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just trying to help my own brother,” said George, shaking his head as he carried the sauce back to the kitchen. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The birds are carrying on, and the streets smell like frying chorizo. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Yeah?" a woman's voice, startling in its carrying power, answered sulkily from a room off the balcony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried them to the car and put them in the backseat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What drew headline attention, however, was the academy’s finding that even low-level radiation exposure carried potential genetic consequences. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He carried him home to his own kitchen and saved his life, feeding him with milk from a nasal dropper until he was old enough to eat bran and greenstuff. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But so many people rush to protect the paper chain at the same time that the mass of kids bubbles through the door, carrying the three men with it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She carried her breath in a glass inhaler in her tattered handbag. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at the cafe, no one would have guessed that I was carrying luggage at the Sakubva bus station only months earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So that when they were asked to look up at the school motto and reflect on the power of the words, they could see too how their own words should carry the same respect. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, a medik was emerging from a cell accompanied by guards, one carrying a lantern. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Our family tried to carry on as normal, but we were tense all the time. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was at my mother all the time now, following three steps behind her as she swept or cleaned, carrying the black Bible and reading and reciting to her. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could carry on a conversation now about health and one about weather, but she couldn’t manage to say “Miriam.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We carry the cake out on a silver tray, lit and sparkling. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

At the hospital we went in and I carried the bag. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When I had finished, I carried the clothes beyond the beach and laid them on the grassy bank to dry in the sun. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he was himself growing old and stiff in the joints, the job was mainly carried on by his youngest son, Sam Gamgee. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a heavy snow, and with the ice intermixed, every shovelful took all his strength to lift and carry. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Contentedly, he returned to the town, carrying his rolled-up gown under his arm. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man, still carrying the lamp, was standing in front of a picture in a rosewood frame which hung on the other side of the fireplace, opposite the bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Many people carried blankets and hampers of food but quickly found that no room remained to spread a picnic. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"But what is it she is carrying in the other hand? I have asked many people, but nobody knows for sure." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She drank two glasses of water and filled the glass again and carried it back to Faye’s room and closed the door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them came straight from digging defensive trenches, carrying only a small bag of essential items with them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This guy who definitely wasn't Julia opened the front door for Kate as she walked up her drive, carrying her wine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They stuck their long spears in from different angles and carried it between them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unbuttoned her coat, carried it to the closet, and hung it up. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when the undertaker carried my pops out of here. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was over a year since he had carried charcoal or a bucket of water, touched a broom or helped Mrs. Lapham brew ale. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went into the back room and returned a moment later, carrying a small box, which he set down on the counter. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I drift off to sleep, carried by the sound of distant conversations. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody on the blue team picked up Luke and started carrying him around on their shoulders. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what? I can manage him alone, Neville,” said Oliver Wood, and he heaved Colin over his shoulder in a fireman’s lift and carried him into the Great Hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Why are you carrying money?” asked the tribesman, when he had searched the boy’s bag. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants flood through the doors, pushing steaming carts and carrying heavy trays. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The front steps of the building are slippery, and Bobbie and Clay carefully carry me down to the sidewalk where I used to play hopscotch in the old days. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Like Jane Eyre, I carry a candle to light my way. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s an eagle. She’s carrying a lyre up to heaven. See?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the suitcase from her hand so I could carry it for her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Seconds later Harry realized that it was his birthday cake, which Mrs. Weasley was suspending with her wand, rather than risk carrying it over the uneven ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

As a hedge against bad times, however, Kiowa also carried his grandmother’s distrust of the white man, his grandfather’s old hunting hatchet. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing about slices at Mother’s is that they are huge, so she stuck around to help carry it all outside. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Looking at the child, I suddenly became hungry for my country, for its fat bees carrying nectar from apple flowers and for the birds singing in clusters of hazel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If we knew nothing else about language distributions and history, we might have guessed that the English language arose in North America and was carried overseas to Britain and Australia by colonists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I danced a few steps as I carried my prizes up onto the back porch where Grandfather sat in the shade. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hela is the native name for the country of Sri Lanka, where activists carry signs demanding “Justice for the Hela Nation.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the Terrible Things threw their terrible nets down into the depths and they dragged up the dripping frogs and the shimmering fish and carried them away. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't until the ship had cleared the harbor and was heading out across the Atlantic that he suddenly remembered his promise to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she had come to see that nothing she had paid for had been carried off; and she wanted the keys. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Farid followed him, carrying the heavy bag, happy as a stray dog who has found a master at last. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a moment he was back, carrying a big book under his arm. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he managed to force himself awake enough to take Lyra from Audrey, who was patting her back, and carry her to where Alice was already curling up on the floor. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Maya and Grace had left their shoes back by the steps, but Joaquin carried his. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her strong arms seemed made to gather them in warm embraces, her broad shoulders to carry them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They watched P. T. swimming across, the current carrying him too swiftly, but he not seeming to mind. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But in Ember, there was no such thing as a light you could carry with you. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just then Trapis came back, carrying several flat loaves of bread under one arm and a squalling child in the other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The virus died with the bird, and she carried it back to Oksi. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Like most spies in the field, Ken carried no weapon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was as big as a soccer field, carried by a thirty-foot-tall giant with bright blue skin and icy gray hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Once home, I got out measuring spoons, cups, a mixing bowl, and an egg beater from Mom’s cupboard and carried them to the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I climb out of bed in the dark, grabbing my boots, carrying them so I can put them on once I’m outside. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She carried an Okeh record under her arm and a half pound of stewmeat wrapped in pink butcher paper in her hand although the sun is too hot to linger in the streets with meat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the game started, I never chopped so many lemons in my life and that’s when I wasn’t carrying big sacks of sugar. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Catchpenny rogues! I will not be exchanged for such a trifle. My mere weight? A paltry treasure you could carry on a shoulder? How dare you insult me!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Garden-lanterns linger above the giant geometric hedges, and blimps carry small candles, gliding along the intricate maze. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I carried my bags of groceries on into the kitchen and set them down. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her and the bundle I carried for her and the water and the bush and everything. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A man who carried not a golf club but a sample case of Cleopatra products. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others carried heavy residues; a sample of peas analyzed at Cornell University’s Agricultural Experiment Station contained 14 to 20 parts per million of DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She would hold my hand or carry me, but if the police showed up she would have to drop me and pretend I wasn’t hers, like I was a bag of weed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Still—the closer she got to “Sarsaparilla” the more her heart carried on like the entire percussion section of a marching band doing “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It carried the gas away from his eyes and nose. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What feeble objection of mine could carry the weight of ten pounds of currency? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"King's Landing, *my lady, as you did command, and never has a ship made a swifter or surer passage. Will you be needing assistance to carry your things to the castle?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They came running or hopping into the church, carrying the same heavy spears they would use later in the week to slew the animals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To frighten away rabbits. If you like, I will carry a stick. If you like, I will not come at all. Theo has only to say the word.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The owls were flying directly at the Burrow, three handsome tawnies, each of which, it became clear as they flew lower over the path leading up to the house, was carrying a large square envelope. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Husbands and fathers in Kentucky must have been awful glad when she carried Gerald off to Cambridge. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Camp walked in, carrying a glass of water clouded with baking soda for Mr. Flournoy, Miss Love spied Mrs. Predmore back near the millinery table, looking through bolts of cloth. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow Spanish Harlem would run faster, fly higher, stretch out its arms farther, and one day those dreams would carry its people to new beginnings. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Family legend has her trudging through the snow, carrying an empty flour sack. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we walk out of the kitchen carrying trays of our families’ favorite foods, ready to start the celebration. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In silence the two boys lifted the heavy stake and carried it between them out into the deserted street, in which the rosy light was graying into dusk. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When she was little he used to carry her on his back and pretend to be a beast. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The dust particles the wind carried generated so much static electricity in the air that barbed-wire fences glowed in the midday darkness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the time when Momma made us go to Mitchell’s, Byron would make me carry the bags from the store right up to the front porch. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried the conversation into the depths of depravity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This caused a brief argument because Boots had to ride with Gregor and that meant one bat had to carry both the Overlanders and the roaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d carried notebooks full of notations to school with her, and worked on the code every time the teacher looked away. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“That canoe isn’t big enough to carry a flying jib,” Nat said. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So here you are—newly released from prison—homeless, unemployed, and carrying a mountain of debt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture this, a child-sized lump on top of an actual child, but I could only imagine a giant balloon, carrying her away. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Next I gathered up the mouse bones that I’d kept in my pockets, realizing I didn’t need to carry them around anymore. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been six years now since the day she had been carried in from the sea, and five since the morning that Elen’s birth returned the memory of her son to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The river was a sudden ribbon of silvery light, flickering and sparkling and flashing, carrying the new light on its back all the way down from the high mountains. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He looks at me and the pig’s head and tells Mam it’s a disgraceful thing to let a boy carry an object like that through the streets of Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

A line of altar boys proceeded down the aisle, each carrying a long lit candle. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Luster was coming down the drive behind them, carrying the umbrella. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretending to aim toward the waves, he spit so the wind would catch the thick saliva and carry it back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Groups of boys and girls avoided her as though she carried a nameless danger. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not their fault that they were young and cheerful, he reminded himself as he carried the swinging beam of his flashlight back through the darkness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop smiling, not even when he was describing the thermodynamics of the fuel for the Saturn rocket that would carry the command capsule and the LEM. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dicey saw their grandmother walking through the vegetable fields carrying two large grocery bags. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried a long horn of bright metal from which dangled a flag of blue and gold. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had a blue strap so I could sling it over my shoulder, and I filled it with juice or tea and carried it everywhere. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She said she couldn't get it in her suitcase when she was packing it and she was just carrying it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Just then, a whole squadron of medical people ran by the open room door, carrying all sorts of equipment and shouting directions at each other. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had absentmindedly let the crowd carry her along like a current, and they had pulled her away from the main canal, onto a narrow street. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. Type like that, he’s just out for a litde fun. That girl better watch it or she’ll have more than that box to carry around.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nyanriak grabbed us and her five small children and herded us along with the crowd, prodding us to run as fast as our short legs would carry us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in the door, he saw two men approach; and one of them carried a lantern which lighted the ground and the legs of the men. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The going was loose and he was heavy, and more than once the scree shifted under his feet and carried him down again in a scramble of dust and gravel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

People said he carried another mamba in his pocket as a charm, and this snake was too afraid to bite. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I got to Miss Volker’s house I stacked up all three boxes on top of each other and carried them as if I were Hercules. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He carried him across the field, stopping to rest each fifty counted steps. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was carrying 130 pounds, 12 more than second- high weight Aneroid and as much as 20 more than other horses in the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A body that had carried her over the rooftops of Ketterdam, that had served her in battle, that had brought her up six stories in the dark of a soot-stained chimney. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A different, more ominous-looking forest backdrop had been unfurled, and an actor dressed as a young girl in red cape and hood entered, carrying a basket. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Richard carries Reverend Hunt’s satchel, heavy with his books and Bible and some extra clothes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He carried a pot of tea to her door, knocked softly, opened the door, and went in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Live wires carry electricity above the trains for 143 miles north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Peck had accumulated a personal mythology that included Indian wars, gold mining, and mercenary executions, and was known to carry a derringer pistol in a hidden shoulder holster. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The teenager wrapped his arms around him and carried him inside the restaurant door, Otto lolling in his hands. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A door had been opened, a table and chair carried into the vestibule. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t have to do that,” I say, and hand her a wrapped Clorox wipe because I don’t carry tissues. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I came over and handed him a hammer from the tool chest we always carried with us, and he got busy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The coyote ignores him, then moving so effortlessly she seems to float, she stops directly under me and drops the bird she is carrying. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carts carried coconut candy, sticks of sugarcane, molasses toffee, and dried papaya slices. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the turn of the nineteenth century, men and women like him carried progress on their backs, laying tracks across America, around valleys and lakes and through mountains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They noted the things he carried: “$20 in greenback, two silver dollars, and...a gold watch.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Every year Earth’s rivers carried massive volumes of eroded material–500 million tons of calcium, for instance–to the seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he muttered as we slowly approached the ticket table — he was carrying most of my weight, but I still had to shuffle and wobble my feet forward — “there are more than enough vampires present.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They each carried a shovel much like a soldier would carry a rifle, resting on one shoulder and held firmly at the bottom. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a crumpled magazine. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Tell me something I’ve always wondered. Why don’t you ever rob people in richer neighborhoods? They probably expect it less and are carrying more. You wouldn’t have to rob as many times then.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wish he could carry me with him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then, two women carrying a single fish, for they were all of about the same size and heavy, we lifted them up the cliff and brought them home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his question already written on one of the cards he carried about with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Revere was carrying a sensational piece of news: the British were coming. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever after, we have carried it with us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a black velvet doublet and carried the Saxon harp on his back. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He arranges both of their trays so he can carry them in one hand while holding tightly to her with the other. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“My enemies want to harm the pregnancy, they do not want somebody to carry on our family name, but we will defeat them.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he and Boori Ma carried the basins all the way up to the third floor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He carried himself with such self-assurance and pride that even those big bilagaanaas were impressed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another carried an armful of ballista bolts and a crate of Greek fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But his words were carried off by the stiff wind, and the others, tugging and twisting at the coarse ropes, didn't hear him, didn't reply. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But this day he knows where he’s going, and he’s carrying his own parcel. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We sat together and looked painful thing she’d been carrying a long time, and it was a relief to finally be rid of them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

They look like an older version of the Khmer Rouge soldiers that stormed into our city, except they do not carry guns. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She read the number tattooed on his arm and checked it against a list on a clipboard the soldier carried. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the ceiling as the procedure carries on. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She carried her basin of cracked pottery back into the fish shack, and came back a minute later. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As of 1492, all of those operations to which animal, water, and wind power were being applied in Eurasia were still being carried out by human muscle power in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you move often and lack vehicles or draft animals, you confine your possessions to babies, weapons, and a bare minimum of other absolute necessities small enough to carry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

James came up from the marsh, carrying two more bags of groceries. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried the bucket inside and poured a mug for Grandfather. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she went ahead of him, with a firm tread, carrying the tray. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

This time, she carried a small container that was camouflaged to look exactly like a wooden log, complete with real bark. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer drove a car or carried things like cash or house keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The guards smiled at him from their niches as he wound his way down the turret stair, carrying the sword in his good hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kino carried a bundle in his left hand, but the big knife swung free in his right hand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his hand he carried a covered wicker basket. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother comes closer, the thing in hand, and I’m distracted by how thin her wrists look, how frail her arms are carrying the heavy gray machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They carried Harley to the truck; his legs dragged behind him, wobbling and leaving long toe marks in the dirt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fact is that you carry part of your sickness within you, at least I do as an invisible man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a cool night, but carrying the heavy sack has us grunting and sweating like pigs. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But Doug went on in, and he came back out carrying the cardboard box for Number 166 from the Coat Room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I carried the water to the potato patch and poured it out too fast. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t have been so soon, but Amil spilled both his and Dadi’s when he tried to carry the two jugs as we packed up this morning. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’s persuaded her not to get the police involved, but if I carry on . The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one problem with the blue camel hotel food cellar: much of the food was in cans and jars too big and heavy to carry a long way. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The elevator doors slide open, and Barb, as if she’s heard my thoughts, emerges carrying an armful of my art supplies. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The men carried the two of you into a hospital. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some were naked and carrying their clothes; others half-naked, or more or less dressed, in school uniforms, grey, blue, fawn, jacketed or jerseyed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I set the note on a small silver tray and carried it into the drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alby leaned over to look in her face once more before they carried her off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But did he dare to enter this shop out of which a woman now casually walked, carrying a great round box? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The dwarf had been whetting the edge of his axe and making some mordant jest when Bronn spotted the banner the riders carried before them, the moon-and-falcon of House Arryn, sky-blue and white. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And even if it’s only for one night, even if I have to throw her over my shoulder and carry her a hundred miles up the highway, we’ll go to that concert in Detroit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I started working on weekends, carrying luggage for people at the nearby bus depot. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then as now, all racehorses were assigned a weight, called an impost, to carry in each race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early the next day, Paolo showed up at the flat carrying a tote bag. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The women sing Christian hymns as they walk, and some carry guitars, or they carry sacks of charcoal or salt balanced on their heads. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On swollen legs they carried out dishes of lamb and rice, okra in tomato sauce, Greek salad, rice pudding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I took it out of a paper bag I had been carrying and presented it to Guenter as I climbed on board, and we both had a good laugh. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was sick of the burden of carrying their secrets. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mom is jumping up and down, and I hear the sound of hundreds of people cheering and clapping, lifting me like a wave and carrying me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Understandably, the sight of Johnny wielding a broom, carrying charcoal, firewood, water, had not quickly lost its fascination for his erstwhile slaves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then paused, expecting his order to be carried out by whomever he thought was inside. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Cletus went inside the trailer and came out carrying the Reverend Young’s church handout. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next evening she hurried to the valley as soon as she could, carrying some sweet rice wrapped in a heart-fruit leaf. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The new Jews carried their luggage with them—everything they owned in the world—and they looked around with big, worried eyes at the buildings and streets of their new home. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then out of the cabin comes Theresa carrying a howling baby wrapped in a blue crocheted blanket. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the eighth-grade Tech Crew kids helped plug in the amps and carry microphone stands. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He carries a stack of the morning newspaper with him. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Why not? You have to carry the baby, don’t you?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s the only female chieftain among the Tribes. One of the most dangerous women you’ll ever meet. Also one of the cleverest. Her tribe carries weapons to the Marinn branch of the Scholars’ Resistance.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His face, just as it was, carried the impact, however oblique and slow-travelling, of real beauty. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She felt light, as if it were much easier to carry her own weight, but she was clearheaded; she knew what she wanted to do and what she was doing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was too drunk to walk, Morrison recalled, and so they carried her down into the ravine. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kennedy is already shouting into his walkie-talkie as the wave carries him by me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The odds were tremendously against the ball carrier, so that Phineas was driven to exceed himself practically every day when he carried the ball. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I took the envelope—sealed—and carried it back to Mrs. Baker—sealed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The current carried a drifting leaf into a little eddy. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She stomped and cried and carried on something awful. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He wore a black ski mask and carried a large, complex green water cannon. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I carried one end of the rope in one hand and the packet from Uncle Chester’s trunk in the other. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

That same morning I had gone to get his water from the pond—in the same general direction as the store—and reappeared carrying things of mine, milk can and knife. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She delighted in its secret thickets and in weaving between the trees as fast as her feet would carry her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

One night when she was carrying him in her belly she heard him weeping. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Scars are interesting things, New Voice. Ucho will carry the one on his nose for the rest of his days.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His attention seemed to wander, his eyes carrying over to the other side of the room, toward his computer and TV. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When she got out of her car she was carrying a brown paper bag and her purse. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So to avoid the stigma, one kid even turns in his homework wadded in a ball because he’d get beat up for carrying a folder. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jon brought the van to the shipping entrance and carried the hooded falcons and hawks into the auditorium. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was heavy and a pain to carry but neither of us knew whether he could manage for himself catching squirrels and rabbits. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants break down the burnt bed, carrying off bedposts scarred by the fire. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The hearer can carry it tucked away without it taking up much room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two defenders sandwiched him and threw him off balance, but his momentum carried him on. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was something she would have to carry, Mia had said to her, and for the first time, she felt that perhaps she could. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was carrying some folded clothes, a toothbrush, and the paperback chess book that I’d brought to Dad in jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s more fun than being carried away. Would you like to carry Cinnamon away for the night? He loves sleep'Overs.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The man carrying the feet pushed a button that rang a bell. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I carried my limp and worn five-dollar bill to the back table. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I carried my bowl over and stood next to her and kept eating, which, when I thought about it later, seemed kind of messed up, but at the time we didn’t know what was happening. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

You can tell a lot about a man by the way he speaks and the way he carries himself. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m carrying a backpack that I found in our coat closet, one of my dad’s extra ones. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And the gangling, shuffling loose-jointed boys carrying suitcases were marching awkwardly down Main Street to the Southern Pacific Depot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes of some of the men in the park followed Lupita’s hand each time it carried food to her mouth. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

On a Tuesday noon, I carry my lunch on out to the back steps, set down on the cool concrete. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It knocks me off my feet and carries me back to the third pedestal. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Bailey and I received one slice each, and I carried mine around for hours, shredding off the fruit until nothing was left except the perfume on my fingers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon setting out from Camp Four on May 10, each client carried two 6.6-pound oxygen bottles and would pick up a third bottle on the South Summit from a cache to be stocked by Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons lost to time, New York State correction officers are allowed to own and carry concealed weapons, and most seem to enjoy doing so. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Magpie had long gone, just like Basta, and Elinor came back with a triumphant smile on her lips, carrying a cordless phone. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I summoned up a current to carry us, and we started gaining speed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t especially tall, but something about the way she carried herself, always very straight with her head right up, made you think she was. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One boy among the last batch to cross the clearing was too slow, because he carried a big bag of things he had gathered from his house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Many parents seem to believe that a child cannot prosper unless it is hitched to the right name; names are seen to carry great aesthetic or even predictive powers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It can carry you through the long, cold moments standing there, trying to look like you belong. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But Pattie carried over one hundred shades in their squat little glass containers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They carried him back to the chief, tears streaming down their cheeks. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They carried off young Colin and his mum and dad, but try as they would there was no laying claws on Ambrose Spike, no sir. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then it was she who carried the gardenia smell. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tia Alicia appeared in a petticoated dress, carrying a parasol against the mild winter sun. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tuck Judith’s envelope into the waistband of my skirt so I won’t have to carry it visibly down the street. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Metro Gnome does make speaking easy, as easy as singing, but I can hardly carry one around with me, can I? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Rough concrete pillars stood proud above the courthouse steps, looking weathered and bored, like they were tired of carrying the weight of the law on their shoulders. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the water mill door he drops several small logs on top of others he apparently carried up earlier. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the bowl outside and said, “If you don’t come from this world, where’s your world? How did you get here?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this period the word ‘model’ is ambiguous: it can carry the modern meaning but more often it refers to a graphic representation, a plan or drawing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His stomach twisted as he imagined it, watching Ron and the others becoming wizards while he stumped around the grounds carrying Hagrid’s bag. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then they went into the night, their way home lighted by the chieftain John carrying a tin kerosene lantern. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bald guy was swearing so loudly that it carried clear across the water into the mangroves. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Joe and Marly carried the crate of chickens between them, trying not to jar them too much from one side to another. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Jude is busy right now,” she says, carrying his squirming body toward the door, where Gnarbone is waiting to take him back to the nursery. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was dressed differently than the ones around us: instead of a helmet he wore a black-brimmed officer’s hat, and instead of a rifle he carried a holstered revolver. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“All right, Biggs, get some dry clothes. You men, carry on your party! Spender, come with me!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was carrying a book of poems, a sketch pad, and some charcoal pencils. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

While Grandpa fed and watered the team, Papa and I carried our bedding to the shelter and made down our beds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the large sum they carried, there were still money problems. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When I carried on orbiting the pond, he was back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went much beyond what he would have dared have them do. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But I did not worry too much about that because I carried a bigger load—the worry of making sure I came first this term. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom believes that you should only pack what you can carry. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ms. Habibi handed him a tissue from an invisible supply she must have been carrying in her pocket. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One night she was carrying a tray of food to his bed when she collapsed on the back stairwell. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It struck him that it had been a long time since he had reared back like this, so he just let the laughter carry on as long as it wanted. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue carried the wood they had collected in case the flames did not find enough to feed on among the stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jemmy saw that the prince was wearing a black cloak and carrying a wicker basket the size of a sea chest. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the elevated tone indicates to you that it was carried on in French, you are wrong. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apprehension quivered in her as she tried to think of what she could be carrying that had been Elowen’s, and then her stomach dropped. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There he crouched and reached inside the sleeve of his coat for the short, heavy stick of lignum vitae he carried along his left forearm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He carried no gun, but there was a sword in his hand that Hashed in the steel-gray light. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few short months ago, I’d seen it as a magic carpet, carrying me to my dreams. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I danced all day and took trains and buses all over the city to auditions, and at night I carried around trays of food and flirted with the men for bigger tips. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As the lethal mass drifted down the Colorado it carried death before it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He is all unprotected, exposed, vulnerable, even to his sexual organ, which he must carry always outside himself; but he is strong, unbelievably strong. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why? I’ve spent an enjoyable afternoon with you. You must come with me to the stadium again. I will tie your hands and legs up and carry you if I have to.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tipple area of the mine seemed to be strangely lit—a big spotlight directed at the man-hoist—as my ride carried me past it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She should never have talked about the wolf dreams, Bran thought as Hodor carried him up the steps to his bedchamber. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“To that room. Does she carry it with her all the time. Mother.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he emptied his backpack, then he might be able to carry whatever he needed to bring with him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Waitresses carried trays of drinks and shouted at each other. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Arroyos might be dry for years, but when heavy rains did come, the run-off carried boulders and logs down the arroyo, where they snagged weeds and sticks and other debris. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see Nathan coming around the house carrying a can of turpentine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The trench, the CIA learned, contained special communications cables to carry the latest intelligence about the Soviets' nuclear weapons program. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So my mother carried all the pots, three by three, and put them by houses up and down the street. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I may have worn the same sweet face, but now I was carrying not just my child but that dead boy as well. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night falls, autumn in 1936, and Werner carries the radio downstairs and sets it on the sideboard, and the other children fidget in anticipation. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Beneath a long coat C.P. carried a shotgun, and in his pockets were more shells. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, he got into his car, drove several miles in the wrong direction on the motorway and ploughed into a van carrying seven people. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn't bear the smell and even carried the things he wanted to eat a little distance away. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried her to the rear of the van and put her in a carrying case. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m carrying things for myself,” he said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted Charley in his arms and carried him out and laid him in the front seat of the convertible, and the tufted tail twittered against the leather. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not really. But you know what I mean. I went to a funeral and had to carry a casket.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Those who did not carry pistols because they became pistols; did not carry switchblades because they were switchblades cutting through gatherings, shooting down statutes and pointing out the blood and abused flesh. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than anything, I hoped this was what they’d carry forward into the future—the ease, the sense of community, the encouragement to speak and be heard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa kicked and struggled, but Scipio threw him over his shoulder like an old sack of potatoes and carried him all the way to the house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He made them walk for miles, carrying knapsacks loaded with stones to make their shoulders strong. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part they carried themselves with poise, a kind of dignity. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young Smokies had all kinds of competitions, carrying weights or riding double, but no one was ever that stupid. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

With a clatter of hooves and paws and claws, the celestial mounts shot straight into the sky, carrying Aru and Mini with them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I suspect that the Korean language that was carried to Japan in 400 B.C., and that evolved into modern Japanese, was quite different from the Silla language that evolved into modern Korean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was suddenly a crash and a clatter of crockery which could only have meant that the tray the maid was carrying had fallen out of her hands. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon didn’t admit that he was carrying on his massive, clandestine bombing of Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One of the snakes carried the wood to the hole in her fangs and the other butted it into place with her head. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lifted me up on their shoulders and carried me around the gym. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was so carried away by my performance that I didn’t notice the policeman until he was right in front of me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were going to march, sweat, dig, carry, drill and tunnel, until they performed to his satisfaction. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A hunting party returned from the wood, carrying a deer's carcass slung from a pole. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Martin put her knitting in her carry bag, stood, and gathered her coat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The remaining cars carried Garfield's friends, attendants, President Arthur, the cabinet, and family. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He led me to my room, carrying my suitcase, and opened the door for me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The boyish abandon of that stout man was charming to behold, for though he ‘carried weight’, he danced like an India-rubber ball. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since backpacks were invented, no one—ever—in the entire school system, grades K through twelve, carries a book bag, especially a leather one. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bird was chirping when Claire returned from the beach, carrying her sandals. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was screaming and crying and carrying on. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Corinthians was careful; she carried no shopping bag of shoes, aprons, or uniforms. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, too—wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

On my return trip upstairs I carried two pots of coffee. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breath carried the stench of dockside garbage: whiskey and filth, hardtack and disease. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women carried her back to the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swords were not carried except on parade, but an officer would not be caught dead without a Sam Browne belt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the trees were bowed and twisted by the weight of ice they carried. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used as a raincoat or groundsheet or makeshift tent. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had gone no more than a hundred yards before a man carrying a pikestaff and a bell and leading a mastiff on a leash stalked up to us. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted him and carried him all the way up to the earth and on to Mycenae. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had said that a boy who carried a knife on his body carried the thought of using it in his head. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We continued the training exercises we had been doing earlier in the morning, but this time we carried with us AK-47S that didn’t contain any ammunition. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Children and women followed, carrying the largest baskets their arms were able to circle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nurse- slave carried an umbrella when my mother predicted rain and a parasol when she predicted sun. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a flash of a second, Frankie wondered what was in it and why Cas didn’t want him to carry it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She did not mind very much when Pa laughed at her for being such a greedy little girl that she took more than she could carry away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ashes blew away on the wind, carrying the message. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chest rose and fell and then kept falling, like it could carry us both straight down through the earth. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I said, “If you’ll carry Stew Cat, you can just lead me to the boat.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Death Eater on the ground writhed and shrieked; Harry was sure the sound must carry to the houses around. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Under the tree there were two carpenter’s horses, and little Ralph was busy putting a rock on top of one and then carrying it over to the other one. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Though married, Ogorodnik also carried on a secret love affair with a Colombian woman—who was pregnant with his child. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela is knocked aside when the crowd surges forward, but I’m carried high on the back of the beast as it forces its way through the gate. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is carrying a basket with an unplucked chicken, four lemons, and a brittle garlic clove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nomadic hunter-gatherers are limited to technology that can be carried. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. Well, I guess I liked knowing you were carrying something we gave you,” he says. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he knew I needed the comfort of his presence because he sometimes let me go along with him and carry his tools. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“All right, then,” she said, and she turned back to Alicia and carried on chatting with a bit of a grin on her face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You people,” Inspector Thomas Mathew said, “first you spoil these people, carry them about on your head like trophies, then when they misbehave you come running to us for help.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she had arranged to rent a red palanquin to carry me from her neighbor’s house to the wedding ceremony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again a woman was the reason, Chryseis, daughter of Apollo’s priest, whom the Greeks had carried off and given to Agamemnon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some ladies carried their salvation gloves in their purse in case they ran into a Catholic unexpectedly. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them—and then they leap. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would wrap her arms around me and sing me to sleep, her voice carrying me to a place where I could forget my misery. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hers was the twinkle and the laughter infectious as chickenpox, and hers the gaiety that colored a day and spread to people so that they carried it away with them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were protests from inside and he reappeared a moment later, half- carrying a man who was naked to the waist. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must only have been a few minutes later that men came and carried you and Muthu into an ambulance. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A woman carrying a giant ring of keys passed their bench and headed up the stairs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few carried short bows, with quivers of arrows slung across their backs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Johnny and Mirren carried the food down in metal roasting pans. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was tired of waiting while other people carried her children anywhere they pleased. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were alone, he swung me up into his arms, and carried me across the dark grounds till he reached the bench beneath the shadow of the madrone trees. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And your assurance of it, I suppose, carried immediate conviction to him.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Squatting in a cane field, stooping in a cotton field, kneeling by a river bank, they had carried a world on their heads. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried with me my quilt, a sandalwood box that held the silver earrings, and a photograph of my parents, my two brothers, and myself. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He carried himself, White thought, “like he owned the world.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He picks up my suitcase and carries it to the open cargo compartment in the base of the bus. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

August and June scooped their arms under May’s body and struggled to carry her to the bank. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She needs to learn that she can’t carry on this way. I mean, around us it’s one thing, but around some other people, she’s going to get in big trouble.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Dad has to start carrying his weight,” Lori said as she stared into the empty refrigerator. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen that cabinet many times when my cage was carried past it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I need to be strong enough to carry all the guilt of what happened to my family because of me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She seized them and carried them back to her place by the scruff of their necks. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Some of them carried bows and quivers of arrows. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I still carry a token of his esteem. Did Brandon speak of me too?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I begin sitting for many hours each day with Therese, for my own burden grows too big to carry with ease. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Many weeks later, the judge had collected a room full of golden eggs—the door to the room was locked with a special key only he carried. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She looked like she was carrying a ball of cotton candy the way she was beaming. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I took a handful of the denner resin out of the oilskin sack, carried it down, and threw it on the edge of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was carrying a candle in a tin candlestick. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then he carried the new samples back into the closet and turned out the lights and looked again into his microscope. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A banner written in English and Vietnamese is carried behind them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He put the bayonet in his teeth, carried the shot putt in his left hand, the sword in his right. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brad’s parents did come, and Brad’s father, along with some of the other boys including Patrick, carried Brad to the car. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As they all turned in that direction, they could see Clay Derby strolling toward them, carrying the baby girl. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My legs feel strong, and I start humming again as I look over my shoulder at the distance we have come, without my needing to be carried, the viola case safe in my arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She watched Wash carry the empty bottle of milk to the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The recruits lifted Blakeley by the arms and legs and carried him rapidly to the Dempster-Dumpster which sat behind B barracks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Miss Trotter’s tears fell, Vonetta placed her hand to her own lips, as if to tell herself to hush, to stop carrying their tales back and forth. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

More than 150 people had been hurt—carried away by the river of molasses, trapped in crushed buildings, struck by flying metal when the tank exploded. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He carried it out hugger-mugger—books, dishes, the downstairs rocker, all in a great mix—and carted it right down the middle of Parker Head. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Why,” said Snape, without preamble, “why did you put on that ring? It carries a curse, surely you realized that. Why even touch it?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"He's in his element. We'll have to truss him up and carry him back to the city like a captured deer." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The finder was a boy called Augustus Gloop, and Mr. Bucket’s evening newspaper carried a large picture of him on the front page. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And do you really believe the affair to have been carrying on with such perfect secresy?—The Campbells, the Dixons, did none of them know of the engagement?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Sam had begged and pleaded with the man not to take her away, but he had pushed Sam aside and carried her down the mountain to a pickup truck. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The strong current was carrying the cage out to sea, and us with it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I carried the same shield that I had used in Stamps: “I didn’t come to stay.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the diamond knife and the plug of plastic containing the toast crumb of cells into the cutting room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Templeton worked away at the job, and managed to cut the sac adrift and carry it to the ground, where he dropped it in front of Wilbur. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“They framed another on a trumped-up charge of carrying whisky in his car. He’s one of the finest boys in town. Never drinks.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a miracle,” I said, remembering how Mamá had made Torito an outfit just like the one the Holy Child Jesus wore in a picture prayer card Papá carried in his wallet. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had a laptop computer in a rugged military-style carrying case. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other thing I carried was a tennis ball. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Grandma said, “Skin down to the cellar and bring up fifteen or twenty bottles of my beer. Just carry two at a time. I don’t want any broke.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing by the water, looking out at the President Adams, the transport ship that would soon carry us to Bougainville. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Matthew! What are you doing? You actually carry those around in your pocket?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Smaller native societies were destroyed more casually, by small-scale raids and murders carried out by private citizens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had nothing to carry, so I filled my pockets with oranges, tied the laces of my tattered crapes, and I was ready to go. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She colored strips of parachute silk to use as scarves, and she carried a picture of roses on her Yak’s instrument panel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I keep my bow, arrows, and moccasins in a corner of my cabin, but I still wear the buckskin carrying pouch with my knife inside hanging at my waist. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the pad I usually carried in my canvas bag. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had a beautiful mane of long black hair and wore tight jeans, makeup, and Hawaiian shirts, and he carried a knife in his back pocket. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

My first job was carrying lunches to the men who worked in the roundhouse, for which I received twenty-five cents a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carries the mail upstairs and opens the package. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m carrying a printout of that email in my hands, just in case they need proof that I actually belong at this school. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“It was Ampai....Can you imagine? A little woman like that...carrying me like a baby?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The sheriff’s deputies were out, carrying shotguns, moving the drifters along, so they didn’t hang around town to beg for food. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After he closes the bag, he throws it over his shoulder; whether to keep or merely carry it, Werner cannot guess. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To the east was the Rio Puerco Valley, where the river had cut a deep narrow arroyo that now carried the water too low to benefit the valley land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he at once began to carry on Bilbo’s reputation for oddity. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The English papers carried excerpts of the senator’s speech and briefly mentioned my father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I'll get a library card tomorrow and carry back my first installment of books. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was carrying a large basket and walked off in exactly the opposite direction. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I go, "Is it okay if I carry him inside?" and the Fair Gwen says, "Of course." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked to have grown taller during the short time he was gone and he carried himself more like a white man than an Indian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tapping of rain carried his words away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here Sam and Eric were waiting, and Bill Jack, concealed from the sun, knelt by the pool and opened the two large leaves that he carried. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

So were my jet boots, and everything else I’d been carrying. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When it got too hot in the day, we took some of the clothes off and carried them on our shoulders. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had a younger sister who carried the family’s baby everywhere she went and hacked weeds with her mother in the manioc field. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can carry her home for now. The funeral parlors are already full. It’s gonna be a while before we get to everybody. ” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He is sure to be carrying some fairly heavy supplies and equipment. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In his pocket he carried a letter explaining why he was forced to act. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Three old women came out of one of the houses, and with some difficulty lifted him and carried him in. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried those questions around with me like a sack that got heavier as the years went by, even though I had become accustomed to the idea of it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Making a cage out of thin trees, the brother carried this to a lonely place where lions liked to walk. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

All such news, important and trivial, was carried to the thirty, meeting secretly at the Green Dragon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoisted a gas cylinder out of the boot, and Jaja helped him carry it into the flat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He brought rocks in wheelbarrows for undertakers to bury and carried away the deceased. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Choose quickly, then,” she said, “and we’ll carry the trays down to my car.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sound faded and was replaced by other voices. “.. . press conference about the crash of Corporation Flight A-617 carrying those missing Miss Teen Dream contestants, Bob . “Quiet!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He carried a three-foot wooden pole with him and used it to poke at the ceiling. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the Terrible Things covered them with the curl of their terrible nets and the porcupines hung in them like flies in a spider's web as the Terrible Things carried them away. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the stage, others were carrying pieces of scenery and furniture upstairs, and carrying new ones down. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Deydey gave tobacco to the deer’s spirit and thanked him, brought back as much as he could carry, then buried the rest of the deer in snow. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He shrugged his shoulders, picked up the tank, and carried it to the kitchen. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If these people you’re talking about—Tyrell? Lucy?—saw your mom carrying a big bag out of a bank, it was probably because she had a lot of ones and fives,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All moved slowly to the black grating where down it rushed, to be carried to the river, which would hurl it into the sea. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She carried the cage outside and hung it from the willow tree beside the hut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The woman had called Kathy four times in rapid succession, cursing and carrying on. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Before Sam could see whether it was a male or a female, Frightful was carrying it off toward their mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had recently carried off a little girl. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man had spoken the truth—the flashlights were pointed downward—and in the glow cast by their beams Reynie could just make out who carried them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two will lift his torso, while two will carry his legs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She now had a definite crystallized purpose, and in carrying it out, her life fell into a pattern which remained unchanged for the next six years. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for smoke and flames, but instead of a fire, I see a grinning fireman descending from the truck carrying a big wrench and an even bigger radio. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fadi carried his lunch tray through the rowdy cafeteria, oblivious to the noise around him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I might not miss these walls as a dead man, but I will miss the wind and the scents it carries, of faraway places where freedom can be found in life instead of death. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They withdrew from the ring, carrying the caparisons. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He runs toward the door, where two Dauntless' are carrying Lynn in on a makeshift stretcher, made of what looks like a shelf from a bookcase. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote the information in a small notepad, which I carried in my shirt pocket, and memorized it while I picked. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A catafalque carrying Harrison’s black casket led the cortege and was followed immediately by Harrison’s beloved Kentucky mare, stirrups crossed on its empty saddle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“But, Eva, dear, your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession—your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After he died, I started carrying it with me everywhere. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a thick stack of papers. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Why was I wasting my energy carrying along a sick boy who would most likely be dead before we got to Sachsenhausen? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the girl disappear into a room a few doors down carrying some sort of glass bottle. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried him to his bed, set him down. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bus was stopped for a brief layover in Fort Lauderdale, and the officers were “working the bus,” looking for persons who might be carrying drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone with a truck carried him away. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself being carried along into another big hall. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the robe from the drawer and carried it to the table by the window. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the dried barks for her, and she placed them in her carrying basket. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice carries all the fear and panic eating at my middle, and I squeeze my eyes shut like I can somehow hide from what comes next. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Each time the sparrow returned, it carried a bug or a worm in its beak and busied itself over the nest. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I carried the letter in my teeth until I was back in the house so I could pass the heavy mussel pail back and forth between my hands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Professor Grubbly-Plank’s voice carried over to the boys; the girls were all clustered around the unicorn now, stroking it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She carried Rachel inside to where Judah still stood, nervously pinching the rim of his sweat-stained hat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

All along the way were discarded greatcoats, left there by men too hot to carry them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You know how awful it is carrying a full pack?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up Jaime and carried her into her own bedroom and tucked her into bed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the doctor carried the baby out of the room, I asked to see it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

At the door of the honey house, Neil and Zach lifted the statue out of the wagon and carried her inside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bedclothes were burnt, but by the time they carried her off her thighs were bloody again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bassoonist, a man of sallow and heavy cast, said, “You carry tales.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He led us down a spiral stone staircase to an elevator that carried us down several more floors to Og’s basement. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Much to our amusement, Mrs. van Daan was carrying a hatbox with a large chamber pot inside. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Directly after her marriage, when Hercules was taking her home, they had reached a river where the Centaur Nessus acted as ferryman, carrying travelers over the water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you carry us all?” inquired the bug. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The workers carried oversized wrenches, cranks, and other tools, and were using them to make adjustments on some unseen apparatus beneath the water’s surface. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s an über-jock and a gym rat, but he lives in such fear of illness that he never wants to get close enough to anyone to catch anything they might have or be carrying. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salmakia was fitting her dragonfly with the harness she carried everywhere: spider-silk reins, stirrups of titanium, a saddle of hummingbird skin. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I quietly excuse myself and carry Uncle Paul’s duffel bag to my bedroom. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That evening Miss Trotter filled a tin pan with sliced venison and wrapped it tightly, placing it in Vonetta’s hands to carry. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Far down the course, his assigned lane was going to carry the Husky Clipper under the railroad bridge right at the point where water swirled around behind an abutment and flowed back upriver. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

These motors would burn fuel mixed with oxygen carried in separate tanks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the broom back in its place and went upstairs, where I stripped off the bedding, carried it outside, and pegged it to the line. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They could carry rabbits or falcons or cats or even you, Mole.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Next morning, he announced that they would stay where they were and let the drifting pack carry them northward into a better position to make for Paulet Island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The two people getting out of it didn’t resemble Bonnie and Clyde one bit: they were a middle-aged man with a potbelly and a young girl carrying a mangy cat. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wolf and the others had disappeared into the distance ahead of him a long time ago, even though they had been given 55-pound backpacks to carry. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

If this seems absurd, consider the situation in the citrus groves of California, where the world’s most famous and successful experiment in biological control was carried out in the 1880’s. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The noise of a fence collapsing and a kid falling through glass carries a long way at twilight. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We had to climb three sets of stairs to get to the apartment were setting up and are each carrying an armload of bedding. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The factionless flank her, but she doesn’t appear to notice them or the guns they carry. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pack looked to him when the wind carried strange scents or the birds cried nervously. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, the ones that weren’t carried off in the wind or dragged to the ground by the rain could be removed by people—or by enterprising squirrels. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Forty or fifty whites, carrying posters and screaming at the top of their lungs. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, I planted myself before the four teen magazines that Mr. Mack’s Candy Store carried. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, we turn and cross over to our house through the hibiscus hedge, carrying the bookbags of supplies the García girls left for us to use. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He’s getting on a griffin. There’s his herald carrying his golden umbrella—And there’s...Clivers. Oh, Clivers.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The door opened again and Peggy came into view carrying a pot of coffee in one hand and a folding card table in the other. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He carried it to the sink and there he drowned it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Laney set Paganini’s carrier on the doormat, then carried the little tree upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She carried something huge in her hands, something that writhed and twisted. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Horton had a network of support crews waiting at road crossings and other strategic points and so needed to carry nothing but a bottle of water. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It carried America’s secret weapon, a single atomic bomb. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro walked on the warm clods of plowed earth and felt them crumble beneath his feet as he helped his mother carry the tub of potato cuttings they had prepared the night before. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

All carried hankies in their fat dimpled hands. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“There you go!” said Ron quickly, before Hermione could carry on. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “One new item. I have confirmed some of your man Harrison’s information. The new commander is definitely George Meade, not Reynolds. The news is carried in the local newspapers.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They need some way of getting food from the farms at the bottom of the mountain to the city at the top. So they built these trams. They even carry passengers.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And where was Atman to be found, where did He dwell, where did His eternal heart beat, if not within the Self, in the innermost, in the eternal which each person carried within him? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black-clad people came out of the houses along the way to join the procession in back of us, many of them carrying homemade wreaths tied with purple ribbons. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was nothing for it but to carry on with my chores, pulling my overcoat even tighter about me as I slogged to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Those tracks still carry a dozen or so freight trains a day, which rattle windows and stop traffic. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

So the forces that they carry will have only a short range. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home Jenny hurried to make a pot of steaming coffee; when it was done, Matt carried a cup of it to Ellen. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will be near,” they said, “and carry you away with us when he is dead.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I saw the mayor heading back to the wagon accompanied by a tall fellow carrying a long cudgel, the constable unless I missed my guess. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of the villagers remained to carry Grandmother home when she was able to travel. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helped Nokomis take the bundles down, put them carefully in her net to carry. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Fruit of Islam men thoroughly searched them, as everyone else was searched—their notebooks, their cameras, camera cases, and whatever else they carried. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

About half of the tiny men were dressed in animal skins and carried spears. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried his canoe across the bridge over I-10 and continued on, reaching the residential stretch of the road. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She looked toward the shore as the slower current carried her downriver. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She screamed in anguish when he put her from him and turned to go, and she had to be carried to the train. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had been, the man said, and had already been carried out drunk. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We carried slingshots that we used *Sneakers. to stone birds and chase the monkeys that tried to cross the main dirt road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At night, when I couldn't sleep, I’d sometimes carry on fierce arguments with those people. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been living here since the night after Papa died, when Mr. Grasso carried her upstairs and tucked her into bed with the two little girls. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Why did you bother bringing that? You’re carrying enough weight around already.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

No less than four standard- bearers went before them, carrying huge crimson banners emblazoned with the golden lion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was carried on his charpoy to an empty place in one of the fields to be cremated. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was greatly relied upon by the Threarah and had more than once carried out difficult orders with a good deal of courage. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had taken them out before coming to see Bloom, since none of the other sessions carried pens in their breast pockets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After flagging down the durian boatman, the guards would carry the enormous spiky-skinned fruit to the wooden table under their shaded pavilion. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Around here it’s serious business when you got a quarrel with your neighbor and you got to carry it as far as the law. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried begging bowls, and the air was heavy with their chants. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, a recognized professional group from Selma’s black community had carried out an organized protest. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a true traitor at last, and he should carry the burden of it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She could carry three small bucketsful in her bucket, but it was so heavy she couldn’t lift it to dump it into the high tank on the flatboat. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Each person carries their own destiny. These walls tell of our destiny. And your destiny, Gregor, requires you to play a role in it.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Primus picked his father's body up, and carried him back to the furs of his bed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chess was tall for his age and Finn was small for his, but it still wasn’t comfortable for a twelve-year-old to carry an eight-year-old. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All of the visitors were smiling, sometimes adjusting their ties or taking notes on the writing pads they carried. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was weird, seeing real-life Iranians walking down the sidewalks, popping in and out of the stores, carrying plastic bags of groceries or whatever. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As they moved from discipline to discipline, the new scientists carried with them a set of assumptions about how to construct new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I carried one bite in my mouth all evening and spat it out behind the outhouse when we went home. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was carrying something in both hands, but his back was to her, impeding a view of what he held. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Every step in the decade-long process of designing and building the city predestined to carry his name was supervised by Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On a clear, sunny day, nearly sixty years after Hitler's Nazi saboteurs landed on America's shores, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger planes and carried out suicide attacks against the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was hard for Werfel to carry a handful of venison-pickle jelly while bounding along, so he thought it was best to eat it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse and his decoys had carried out their plan. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

You can tell them because the men carry cameras, and the women look as if their feet hurt; they wear high heeled shoes. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

This line of attack is being carried even further in experiments aimed at deceiving the male into attempting to mate with a spurious female. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There, hanging by unseen ropes, was the angel, played by Marcus, wearing white wings and carrying a sword and a lantern ...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He then told us to carry on and spun on his heel and was gone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping to find favor with Cluny he had put himself at the head of the party, helping them to carry the cumbersome object. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Others insisted that the dragon had carried her off to devour her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His whole body feels heavy as he carries the radio up to the dormer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In their keenness to demonstrate the incognitum’s bulk and ferocity, the American naturalists appear to have become slightly carried away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ice had broken between us and the gap was widening as the current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked, surprised, down at her own bare feet, realizing suddenly that they had carried her, unfeeling, down the iron stairway. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d heard stories of the North Vietnamese bringing supplies down on bicycles, moving from one place to another, carrying a few mortars and rounds of ammo on a bamboo pole. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Aravis went a few steps away into the wood and came back looking odd in her new, ragged clothes and carrying her real ones in a bundle. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Boys will be boys, Jacques. They have high spirits. Oh, once in a while they get carried away but it’s good to see all that energy and zeal and enthusiasm.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Obinze said little, and Kayode was left to carry the conversation, his voice getting boisterous, and from time to time he glanced at Obinze, as though to urge him on. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He mounted behind me, and the horse with its double burden carried us easily into the pathless wood as if it knew our destination. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It must have slid out while I was carrying the boy, and I hadn’t noticed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He disappeared around the back of the house and reappeared, carrying a few glass bottles. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The place wasn’t impressive enough to carry a stupendous fact like that. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truth be told, I didn’t notice when she left carrying the tray. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Doc’s car came back to the laboratory, Mack and the boys secretly watched Hazel help to carry in the sacks of starfish. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dressed the maiden as though for her death and carried her to the hill with greater sorrowing than if it had been to her tomb. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes Frith came in, followed by Robert carrying the table for tea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The first hanging that Tom witnessed was carried out in January 1894. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

During the night before, trucks could be heard rumbling through the streets, carrying wooden crates from the old railroad station to the soccer field. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

When their Dad went back to his watch work he carried Ralph with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was carrying the identical message, through just as many towns over just as many miles as Paul Revere. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men behind her cheered loudly and thrust forward into the room, one of them carrying the head of a stag, its dead eyes glassy, the tongue hanging out of its slightly open mouth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her poise was firm, direct, and carried an authority to it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She does not offer to carry any of the bags. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When they went into the hut, their hands were empty; when they set out from the hut, each of the men carried a sack with some small object in it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I carried on watching the video and Father went into the kitchen. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

California racing rules mandated that no horse carry fewer than 100 pounds, and Seabiscuit was clearly more than 30 pounds better than most horses on the West Coast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He folded some clean work clothes and underwear into a carry bag and grabbed the pillow off his side of the bed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal was in the form of coins, packed in small, heavy boxes, which he carried through the house and piled in the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mary always stared at them while she ate, just as she was doing when Gey walked into the lab carrying the pieces of Henrietta’s cervix. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His sinewy, broad back was more like a dragon’s than a horse’s, and he had enough strength to carry a legion of men. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I carry her home as best I can. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, they lifted Adaon from his steed and carried him to a hillock. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, she carried on about the Great Mother and the holiness of the body and sexual energy being eternal delight. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was no way he could have carried Zero all the way up from here. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In their panic, the healthy fled from the sick, carrying the disease with them to neighboring communities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From ’bout a mile off it sounded like one person playing and all you could hear was a steady, regular crack! sound that rolled toward you like it was being carried on the wind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Ben carried a basket into the school bus that was very heavy although he could not see the cargo since it was covered with a layer of Spanish moss. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, here they come, each being carried by one of those gray-suited men. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sun played across the surface of the river, and the breeze carried the scent of leaves and pine needles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And on the way he found the perfect slingshot stone, round and slightly flattened and heavy enough to carry through the air. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried her under their arms like a tube of carpet, with the chains slapping back and forth against her body. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did go in to help him—in spite of the sword— because he was carrying what was too heavy to be carried. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts up the bundle by the paper and carries it to me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was slow and hard and it made his shoulders ache, but he hated being carried. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I carried myself well, as my father had taught me, with neither fear nor regret on my face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The going-away fathers walk ahead, the mothers carry babies or push prams. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And away the cart went down the hill, carrying Roany with it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

This farm was hard work; I was whittled down at least two sizes what with all the chores and hauling and carrying. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The East versus West rivalry carried over to football with the annual East-West Shrine Game and added interest every January to the Rose Bowl—then the nearest thing to a national collegiate football championship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The clay hypothesis hardly excludes life on Mars, but it certainly carries us far enough to say that there is no compelling evidence for microbiology on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because he had been carrying no identification, the authorities didn’t know who he was, where he was from, or why he was there. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But jellyfish love a warm ocean, the chemicals don’t hurt jellyfish one bit, and they carry all the oxygen they need right inside their watery selves. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I will take no more risks. I have found a woman here—a good woman. She keeps me warm at night, and she carries no dreams in her heart. She is safe.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was such a noble animal, to begin with, that he carried a beauty with him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if they found Bri on the street, they could carry her home on it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a vice he practiced in secret, but at the same time he had felt no compunction about quite openly carrying away objects of greater value which he found unattended. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Segregationists never seemed to run out of ideas or the money to carry them out. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

More than two score of rodents carrying a strong rope net between them had stolen up on the sleeping badger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They whisper chants and spells that the wind carries through the leaves, back to my ears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hovered in the background as my brothers carried their suitcases down the hall. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“After thinking about her walking all the way here carrying that heavy casserole dish, I felt obligated to go tonight,” she said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Her mother carried a bottle of red wine. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture her mixing cement, carrying rocks around in her apron. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want a single other girl to carry what’s only his. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The powerful current would quickly knock him off his feet and carry him away. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had Peewee carrying a shotgun for the first time. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After locking the door securely by wedging a stone in the brace, I carry the vegetable to my outdoor kitchen and start off for the tree house and Alice. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have many friends to begin with—I had the kids who I sat with during lunch, the bare minimum—but once I started carrying flash cards around they sort of avoided me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The gods brought their net, and they wrapped it tightly around the fish and carried it between them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He seemed out of breath, and he was carrying a handkerchief in his right hand. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A hawk that could carry off a sheep. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Luke read a sentence at random: “While debate continues over the carrying capacity of the earth—” He skipped ahead. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Corporal carried a musket in his right hand while his left rested on Jonathan’s shoulder. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of demonstrators carried signs on Madison Avenue for a short while before Zannikos and his partners reluctantly agreed to settle. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I want to feel the sting of the sea in my eyes and be buoyed by the waves and carried across time to another life. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Nailer found himself wishing that Tool were big enough to simply pick them up and carry them as he jumped aboard. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was carrying the hamper, and mews came from within. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Then let me carry it a bit for you, Master,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’s young, with a beard, carrying a book and a backpack. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He carried dirk and dagger for closer work. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then, when the dog wouldn’t budge off the porch, he scooped him up and carried him. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My mom bursts in from the bathroom, using her phone as a flashlight and carrying a soaking wet Hector on her hip. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Eurystheus very sensibly did not want to keep him and made Hercules carry him back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they didn’t carry the same weight as a coach in the coach’s box, they soothed my soul and buoyed my spirits to no end. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My question went unanswered, carried away in a blustery moment. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Why are you carrying all these around with you?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Be careful what you carry off, child,” his mother said. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they returned they were carrying my cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neil and Susan carried the bags to a local copy shop and handed the papers to a man behind the counter. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And again, I struggle against it, but in the end it is too strong, and it carries me away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have a saying around here, the humpback never gets tired carrying his burden on his back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat carries around fifty Chinese men who have paid $20,000 each to smugglers to ship them to America. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed much more likely that the universe itself was expanding, carrying the galaxies with it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Papa and the judge made Grandpa comfortable, I carried wood for the fire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I owe them my life, and regret that I can’t recall a face or voice or even the rhythm of their step as they carried me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cleaned up the trickle of blood, which trailed away as if someone had carried a leaking jar of red watercolor all the way downstairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A single canal system could carry enough water to irrigate an estimated ten thousand acres. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Images crystallize ideas—and the image of a double-helical molecule that carried the instructions to build, run, repair, and reproduce humans crystallized the optimism and wonder of the 1950s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Turks carry large plastic sacks and thick sticks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Lurvy showed up at lunchtime carrying a pail of food for Wilbur, he stopped short a few paces from the pigpen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were also rumors that Leon was carrying on a quiet investigation of Room Nineteen. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those little girls weren’t as old as she when they were carried off by the typhoid. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were scruffy, maybe sixteen or seventeen years old, and both carried guns. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As it always did, their word game dissolved into nonsense and they laughed as they carried the basket back down the hill. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His tone carried with it a heavy dose of suggestion, and she realized he hadn’t told either of the adults the actual story of what had happened. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If Archie drew the black marble, it would be necessary for Archie himself to carry out the assignment, to perform the duty he had assigned for others. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we always refused to carry Van Rensburg’s “suitcase,” hence the nickname. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d know the scent of you, like I know how Papa always smells like hospital soap, smoke, and the pistachio nuts he carries in his pocket. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even though all the regulars are hard-core old-time hustlers, Small’s carries on as an upstanding, respectable place. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two girls and a boy from Mr. Jackson’s class would carry props onstage and off. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He ducked inside a stationer’s shop briefly and came out carrying a small parcel wrapped in brown paper and two fresh rolls, steaming hot, with butter oozing from their middles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried it back up the hill to where I parked my bicycle in the shade by the side of the garage. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was not strong enough to carry him on my back, not after pushing him so far. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could smell the foaming flood water, stagnant and ripe with the rotting debris it carried past each village, sucking up their sewage, their waste, the dead animals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were more earthworms in the bathtub, and I left them alone, watching the water carry them and send them down the drain. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the summer Lee came in off the street, carrying his big market basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In western Java in the course of the anti- malarial program carried out by the World Health Organization, many cats are reported to have died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t carry no guns”—Calvin cooled his coffee in his saucer—“and you’ll be all right.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evan offered to carry my suitcase and led me out to the street, a noisy place with crowds backed up waiting to cross the intersection, cars jammed together, and papers blowing every which way. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put the snow globe back on the mantelpiece, and carried on looking for her true parents and for a way out. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She brought them out proudly and, like a perfect hostess, carried the plate around, holding it over each person’s shoulder while they helped themselves to the desserts. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I walked two steps behind her, carrying a basket of daisies and a heart filled with dread. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered fearfully if a great eagle or vulture had entered and had carried all away in its cruel talons, the clothing with the baby. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rocco stood, took the box from Aaron’s hands, and carried it over to the car. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His mother carried the baby for five months, and then one night she got terribly sick and an ambulance rushed her to the hospital. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried an alphanumeric beeper and consulted it often; his plans were subject to constant change. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was a hymn, then ran from the living room and came back carrying a soft blue Bible with large gold lettering across its front. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Others carry empty boxes that they’ll fill up with kitchen staples from the supply area. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lou, who was so tired he’d let Rob carry his pack, staggered into camp looking pale and distraught, muttering, “I’m finished. I’m finished. Completely out of gas.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once we passed a cabal of figures in black cloaks and tricornes carrying torches and whispering together. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You can bet it’d be quiet over there. Nobody carousing or carrying on. Somebody you can work with when you have to. Better than a lot of other people that way.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This burden was heavier than the heaviest mountain and he carried it in his heart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As Dr. Fanning spoke to one of the waiters, a dancer approached the table, carrying a large straw basket with a strap that went around her neck. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She went back to the house, carrying the rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dave Jensen carried empty sandbags that could be filled at night for added protection. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maha wanted to carry the baby, but he was too heavy for her. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I carried ration water for traveling in a plastic tube in back of my saddle cantle and watered her in my hat. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” my father told me, carrying me to the car. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Gently, the boy lifted up the milk bird and carried it home. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The prisoners follow, carrying suitcases, disheveled and tired like they haven't slept in days. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My voice carries over the moans of the approaching shamblers, steady and assured. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Laboring, this woman who had carried her child as a foreign growth that sickened her every day, expelled it at last. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few confused ogres carried surfboards, like they’d shown up at the wrong party. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sour aunt carried on looking at me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"I don't, but just because I don't want to take your arm doesn't mean I'm following protocol. Maybe I'm worried you're carrying sickness. Or maybe you don't smell very nice." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Everybody carried a little evil in them, Momma once told me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The space to carry hate was located deep inside, below his lungs and behind his belly; but it was empty. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still they came to trees across the road where they were forced to unload the cart and carry everything over the trunks and then repack it all on the far side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The answer came at once: “A day’s journey away, carried there by the balloon after your crash; but hurrying this way.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

That night I am carried off into a deep sleep, lost in dreams about Mama. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“He couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He carried it with him everywhere, even into foreign embassies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The better they were in their sports, the more that Volpe found those qualities carried over to theater. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She’d taken to always carrying The Gold-Bug and the Poe collection of stories with her, too, but because her backpack was so bulky she almost removed them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She carried baskets of food, a bag of oranges, balls, and a guitar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet carry me up to the fifth floor. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He remembered being carried home in triumph after the fight with Head Buster. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She carried Doon’s bundle ashore, along with the boxes of candles and matches, and as she set them down, Doon came back. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He disappeared inside and came out carrying his finest sundari pole. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

If a colony was to be founded, the colonists carried with them coals from the hearth of the mother-city with which to kindle the fire on the new city’s hearth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, of course I wouldn’t, you stupid little man, how would I look carrying that down the street? Just don’t sell it.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For several days Aureliano carried a small bottle of pills in his shirt pocket. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The girls had taken turns carrying Tidbit during the last hours of the night, and he was much heavier than he looked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cara reached into her coat, pulled out a copy, and carried it down to Mr. Larson, who was surrounded by reporters. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The night before he left for the Tower a visitor came to his room, one wearing a brown traveling-cloak and carrying a staff of oak shod with iron. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We are too few to carry such a burden,” Taran said hopelessly. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then he made it his home away from home and began painstakingly to learn the town from the ground up, while searching for a family whose experience would carry a narrative. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pale red pennons trailed from the ends of a few lances, but many more carried battle-axes and great- swords and shields hacked half to splinters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she still thought I was the girl she had carried out of Thurmond, who had cried the first time she’d seen the stars. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Apparently, none of the jelly beans carried the chemistry he needed for the concept of “trace evidence.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

As he did before, Mr. Loomis was carrying on a conversation, and I could hear only half of it, but he was hearing both sides. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They talked about the monkey house, and then Nancy picked up Jaime and carried her into her own bedroom and tucked her into her bed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man they’d passed earlier lay on the muddy street, surrounded by the women who had been carrying him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They stopped the plane on the runway at Kennedy Airport and removed the doctor, who was carrying some $650,000 in negotiable securities, and jewelry that had belonged to his wife. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed into the front, Bud carrying his black satchel, an overnight bag, and a large cardboard box. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she was closer, he could see that she was carrying shoes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The dull beat made by that foreign drum carried no message and certainly offered no cause for celebration. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It arose, clumsy and big—carrying food—and winged back to the valley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

How far could she carry two people before she had to rest? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She took two dishrags and carried the pot impassively through the living room, down the front steps and across the yard, then poured the steaming casserole into the gutter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot carried it to the window and fell silent, examining the writing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On top of everything else you let those deliverymen carrying bread and beer tromp all over the store?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newton’s reply, although it could be interpreted as conciliatory, was totally out of character, and carries a subtext which is worth highlighting. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many sniffers openly carry their glue in baby food jars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

From the written evidence of Newton’s own papers that can be dated, there is nothing about the Moon in the work on gravity he carried out in the plague years. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, while the defeated advocate was being carried away by some leeches, Lancelot went to the royal box. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To cover his slip, he concentrated on finding a comfortable way to carry his leather bag that would leave his hands free. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Did they think you just carried a—” His eyes shot open. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Hodor," he sobbed between cracked Ups as he lifted Bran in huge strong arms and bloody hands and carried him back out into die rain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ll carry these far away where no one will find us,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was one reason I didn’t like the way Mama was carrying on so about Grandpa getting engaged. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Dad’s walking to his car carrying a suitcase. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I know why the Sealord seized the Goodheart. She was carrying slaves. Hundreds of slaves, women and children, roped together in her hold.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be right back,” I say and I slip into the kitchen, carrying my satchel with me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The smells around him carried no lethal meaning. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Demand for railcars to carry visitors to the exposition had spared the Pullman Works, but by the end of the fair George Pullman too began cutting wages and workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen he was always stopping to play for a while on the harmonica he carried around with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He bit his lower lip until the blood flowed, carrying the old man a hundred yards, then halting to rest for five minutes, then starting off again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate carried the sack, Milkman a small shovel. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lola carries in a tray of rice cakes wrapped in banana leaves and two glasses of milk. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

What would it be like to walk the bright and shining path and carry a lamp over your head? Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was such a hit with British readers that an American magazine, The Cosmopolitan, carried the serial, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Werfel’s clap and shout had carried far. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I think this is why I was the one who ended up carrying all the pots and pans down to the stream to wash them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I call out as they start carrying me away, into the crowd. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday it snowed, but it didn’t matter; Christopher and I carried Lucas into the pickup, and Lucas, my mother, and my father drove to Kingston early. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He carried the box in, looking all around for a place to hide it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even brought the little briefcase that she carries her resumes in. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Always donuts. He can carry all three of us if—” Suddenly the air turned cold. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I carry the linoleum block to the garbage can and throw it in hard enough to make everyone look at me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Victims tried to peel the flies off, but whatever type of poison those flying iron monsters carried, it was potent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But they weren’t Toby, so I carried on looking. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Food comes irregularly, carried out from the citadel by the guardian’s wife across the quarter mile of rocks at low tide while shells explode in the city behind her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cole imagined the cold, the rain, carrying water, keeping a fire going, doing school- work, and long, long hours of being alone and bored. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His appearance didn’t help, untidy as he was and carrying a soiled shopping bag containing a juicer and a number of hate books. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You pervert,” was the last thing my sister said before she left the room, still carrying the bowl of potato chips. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could carry the secret of Angel inside her for twenty years just as I had. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried Cathy into the house and put her to bed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They carried the stories from people to people. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We could all die, the world could end, and the universe would simply carry on. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She lay in the dimness, watching the sky darken, until Mia knocked on the door carrying a steaming mug of tea. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I watched as the nurse girl moved from person to person, treating each one with items she carried in a brown leather case. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lizzie set down the clam bucket and rake she’d carried from the dory and walked carefully up to him, a little wary because you never can tell what idiots might do. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When she arrived, they went together to Spencer Marx’s apartment, carrying empty shopping bags. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then the village priest enters, dressed in a brown cloak and carrying a shovel like our ancestor Adam. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I kept working my way backward through the parade so I would not be carried to the boxcars. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Osha would need to carry Rickon; his little legs wouldn't take him far on their own. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper ducked into the back room and emerged a few minutes later carrying a tray loaded with hot bread and steaming bowls of stew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She, too, is wearing the same baggy shorts and T-shirt, but she's carrying a clipboard and has a whistle around her neck. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They think we’re carrying these sticks home for our own fire,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the last people propped it open to carry their things out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But now the part, which had been carried into the house and left in the scullery, was missing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning, soldiers carried him into a roadside building and laid him on a cement slab. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And he carried a packet of wet wipes to scrub down his desk chairs and locker handle. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped out of the walk-in, carrying the tub of seafood, and then slapped the tub onto the metal table. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We have shot, hanged, gassed, electrocuted, and lethally injected hundreds of people to carry out legally sanctioned executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rachael carried the paper bag into the bathroom, got two glasses, returned; she still seemed distracted and uncertain—and preoccupied. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not long after dawn the Aleuts took down their skin tents and carried them to the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recognizing faces sounds like a very specific process, but Schooler has shown that the implications of verbal overshadowing carry over to the way we solve much broader problems. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He carried her back over his shoulder, like a sack of potatoes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She blew out the candle Doon had left and carried Poppy to the river’s edge. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The atom as a whole carried a neutral charge: the negative charges of its orbital electrons balanced the positive charge of the nucleus, the latter created by an excess of protons over electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then he was in the study, carrying a tray with three glasses of tea, sugar, spoons, and some of his mother’s cookies. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The mood I was in, I let myself be carried along. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all was sitting down for afternoon tea, carrying on what she called polite conversation, which, in her estimation, was something every gentleman should be capable of doing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mother is dead and I am on a train, carrying with me her dreams of coming home. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

HLAs carry their burdens to the surface by fitting them into a kind of slot. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soldiers splashed through the glittering puddles, toting wood, emptying wagons, carrying buckets hither and fro, and standing about on corners conversating with each other. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama hurried down the stair steps, wearing a bright smile and carrying her nicest petticoats and nightgowns to hang out for airing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We must cut its head off somehow, and carry that It would be enough if we took the head. We could carry it between us.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She showed the slip of paper that she carried to the woman who answered her knock at the back door of the farmhouse. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue and yellow eyes were following the heroine, who was gaily carrying a pail of water to what turned out to be her elephant. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crafted heavy chains and shackles in the forges of the gods, and they carried the shackles to Fenrir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On top of all that Carl broke his leg in ’36 and spent his time hobbling up and down the rows, chasing after posts or buckets he couldn’t carry on account of his homemade crutches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So if two boats carrying the same weight have the exact same stroke rate, the one producing more power per stroke will pull ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Xan carried Luna to the guesthouse of the mayor, where they happened to be staying. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

MidPass should’ve been a peaceful place, somewhere you could play, grow up, sing, dance, and let the magic of the world carry you along. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Walker ended up with seventy-one yards on fifteen carries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every nightmare that shook every sleeper in Weep carried the same subliminal warning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

What I needed, I suppose, was some sort of final confirmation, something to carry with me after she was gone. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would weigh the gold, every grain, and pour the ingots and wash the sweep, and he would not carry home the wineskin when the day was done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He lifted her gently, carefully, and carried her up to his bedroom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Robert would have stood there, that wooden expression on his young sheep’s face, brushing the crumbs from the snowy-white cloth, picking up the table, carrying it from the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up with more fabric than we could carry out ourselves, and Holly gave us two yards of the mum fabric for free. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Go see that my commands are carried out. And find the maester wherever he is hiding and send him to my cabin.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was unshaven, carrying a duffel bag in his hand. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The foreman and another worker carried a cot and blanket from the factory. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“These were for you. For you and Stan. I’ve been carrying them around for days, wondering what to do with them. Take them.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

These were the things, a rat and a knife and a candle, that Mig carried with her as she climbed up, up, up the stairs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

British ships continued to land at Staten Island, hundreds of them carrying thousands of soldiers armed with countless guns and bullets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was carrying the twins I had such desperate cravings I sometimes went out at night on my hands and knees and secretly ate dirt from the garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said that this was because readers cared more about people than dogs, so if a person was killed in a book, readers would want to carry on reading. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He put in their mother’s old skin trunk, which had carried her meager trousseau to this mountain and most of the food she’d managed to preserve before she gave up trying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I do not even have a donkey to carry the papyrus, and besides, there is Gebu. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He had tossed Meggie up in the air, he had carried her around the house on his shoulders, he had taught her how to make a bookmark of a blackbird’s feathers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nothing seems to change at all except Marie-Laure grows: she can no longer wear any of the clothes her father carried here in his rucksack three years before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This is what those boxes contain: 200 crates of ammunition, 164 cartons of artillery harnesses, and 96 carts to carry ammunition. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I felt achy as I weeded my fields and carried water to the garden and fed the chickens, and mucked out Plug’s stall. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, a dust cloud swept toward Nyame’s palace, and the faint sounds of screeching and rattling carried over the roar of the chaos in the bay. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In his left hand he carried a long staff with a pencil point at one end and a large rubber eraser at the other. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was like he wore an orange construction vest and carried those signaling flashlights they have at airports. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“After that you must go by yourselves. I expect the Dog Boy can carry the griffin's head.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The hamper weighed a ton, and I had no luck in getting Mary Alice to carry the other handle. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a lovely singing voice and a gallant habit of carrying pins in his pant cuffs, in case his dance partner’s dress strap failed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

What relief, to place it in the hands of women who could carry off my burden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his eyesight cleared, he saw the beast that was carrying him aloft. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The butterflies in my stomach carry me through the break room and to Ron’s office. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When Toby finally found some cereal, it took the dust from two different bags to make even half a bowl, which he carried out to the balcony of the apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It struck the surface with its talons and rose back into the sky, carrying a large struggling fish. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They carry, half concealed within their medical terminology, stories of such human tragedies as that of two young cousins in Czechoslovakia, boys who lived in the same town and had always worked and played together. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain rolled into the room twenty seconds later carrying a tall stack of newspapers in his lap. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph went first, limping a little, his spear carried over one shoulder. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“My dear boy!” she said in a very carrying whisper. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Swift horsemen carried the news to every corner of the kingdom, and, as the parade slowly wound its way through the countryside, crowds of people gathered to cheer it along. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pie was no burden to Grandma because I was carrying it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He got to wear the same uniform as everyone else and didn’t have to carry the burden of explaining our family’s religious practices every time we went to an away meet. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Coop rolls his eyes and carries the table and box over to the corner near my window. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I carried about fifty sticks in a small package inside my coat, under my armpit, keeping my arm flat against my side. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Equatorial Africa’s tsetse flies, carrying trypanosomes to which native African wild mammals are resistant, proved devastating to introduced Eurasian and North African species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They carried bags filled with books and looked old enough and well-dressed enough to be in college. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

On one occasion I was asked to show a book that I carried under my arm. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, after the plates had been cleared, Robb carried Bran up to bed himself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had stumbled upon a qualified nurse just minutes before the trains carrying mutilated men would arrive. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Last time I told her I planned to skip lunch to finish Uniforms of the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs: A Guide, she picked me up and carried me here. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She blew Magdalys a kiss and then set about loading the Winchester she was carrying. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“She ran out of energy, even when Baba carried her on his back.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one answered, and we carried on over to the pavilion, not saying anything more about what had happened. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in blue jeans and he carried a big push-broom in his left hand. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basement was not lighted as brightly as before, although the fairies carried their own luminescence with them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was carried on in the city’s newspapers, so that all citizens knew of the dispute. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Freddie carried his discovery not only into the homes in Ruth’s neighborhood, but to Southside, where he lived and where Macon Dead owned rent houses. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women carried leaf-wrapped packets of manioc and other things on their heads, food they were taking to their husbands in Bulungu, they said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man leads us to the coal hole under the stairs and tells us take what we can carry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Billy received a message carried by the radiations. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried them to the walk that runs along the shallow sea wall and ate. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see, I know my father would have wished me to carry on just now.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was me who’d carried them around for all these years, you’d have to be a pretty big liar if you’d say those rocks and flyers really belonged to me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A whispering wind, carrying the echo of the fife, floated high. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A guard came in, carrying something made of wire, a box or basket of some kind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was not what they said but what they carried in their eyes, something like sympathy, even pity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was said that, to pass into the next life, one of the gods’ animal familiars—represented by the figurines before them—carried each soul to the god of death, Fedu. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wind carries them across the school yard. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

If the number of field agents expected to see that the law was carried out was pitifully small, the resources devoted to patrolling the nation’s 4,993 miles of coastline were pathetic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He was older, and was carrying a small bucket. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abbot Mortimer closed his eyes for a moment before carrying on with his final instructions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, I...I left it. A bat’s heavy to carry around.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

More than any scientist before him, Bateson also grasped the idea that the discontinuous nature of genetic information carried vast implications for the future of human genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then she turned to stare at me with her sharp green eyes and twisted the parasol she always carried to protect her daisy-petal skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he preaches in the church, the people’s love for him is like a big wave: it carries him up, up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ambulance comes and my mother is carried out to it on a stretcher. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was followed by a thin fellow carrying a book near as big as Ruth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the only bag in Mother’s house I could find large enough to carry the Miss Myrna letters. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t carried very often, and I didn’t want to be because I needed to follow whoever was carrying Tabitha. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a gospel tune exactly, but it carried all the personality of one. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is so rare that the Journal or the Index or both carry editorials about it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He packed up the shoeshine box and carried it out, and chose a cream linen shirt from the three on the airer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The dearth of boughs and pine needles made it light and easy to carry. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But for a year on and off, I carried my arm in a sling. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Pa and Uncle Henry carried the cradles by their long, curved handles, and swung the blades into the standing oats. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few raccoons then found in the area carried residues of the chemical in their tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every cell, and every organism, needs information to carry out its physiological function—but where does that information come from? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bald guy was swearing so loudly that it carried clear across the water into the mangroves. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Lilya cut out newspaper articles and photographs of the brave and resourceful crew members and carried them around with her in a notebook. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He moved around the last ring of desks, tapping their tops, counting them off even though everybody knew his twelve was more than good enough to carry him to the finish line. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The Star-Telegram carried an excellent and accurate story as a follow-up to the effigy hanging. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while he heard the maids carry Felicia away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the woman carried everything, without a word, into the kitchen. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the constables half pushed, half carried her to the edge of the drive, she began to shout a single word so loudly that Briony could hear it from her bedroom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the PSFs at Thurmond carried the noise machines around with them, blasting them at small, rowdy groups, or just to see a few kids squirm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The thing Wormtail had been carrying had the shape of a crouched human child, except that Harry had never seen anything less like a child. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Last night I did some more research on finding dogs, and read about carrying treats. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And so after gazing on the beauty of his children’s faces, he lifted them out of the bed and carried them back to their own room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When the crockery was laid out, I carried my mug through the front room, past the polished tables and backgammon boards, past the beautiful new painting of a meadow full of flowers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in his right hand he carried a green-striped lizard, too. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next picture revealed a militia group carrying machetes, marching down the road in some dusty African country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As he got closer, I could see he carried something, but what could he shoot in the dying light? Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Stage managers always have headsets and carry clipboards. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The Cyclops carried a massive club over his shoulder, but Percy didn’t feel that he was an enemy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Flops were not allowed to carry guns, but each had a whistle and a wooden club as long as my arm. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn’t laugh at him. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They carried the pile of stiff tarry netting to the riverbank and spread it out on the grass, and Mary showed them how to knot a new piece of cord where it was worn. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Eventually a man carried her off while his wife and their children stayed on line. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Hana, let him carry it. Someone might take it from you!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Swing low, sweet chariot, Comingfer to carry me home. .. Jan joined in and Bigger smiled derisively. Hell, that ain’t the tune, he thought. “Come on, Bigger, and help us sing it,” Jan said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s carrying a beat-up messenger bag on one shoulder that’s full of books—college books? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She carried tissues in the pocket of her bathrobe and made a big show of dabbing her nose with them every so often. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Isabelle asked everyone to wait for a moment in the hallway, where Monsieur Tabard put down the large package he was carrying. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The other carried a camera on a strap over his shoulder. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone was running—men, children, women carrying babies. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men carried dispatch cases and brief cases and I gripped mine with a sense of importance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I then carried my plate outside to the backyard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As Mayor Clarkson approached city hall that morning, he carried with him the full weight of his city’s almost complete collapse. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

His face was all straight lines—eyebrows, mouth, nose, everything—and he carried his six feet of height straight as well. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came out, Bobby Gene was carrying the gunnysack, which could easily have been Susie all wrapped up in a blanket or something. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed him at all before then, other than that he was this skinny cutish dude with thick glasses and longish hair who carried a violin everywhere. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I finished mixing Mom’s drink I put the Amaretto away and carefully carried the drink to her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried me over to sit on his lap on the other side of the sofa. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

All these years, I never considered the possibility that my father—my well-meaning but occasionally whacked-out father—might be walking around with a broken heart, carrying a pain too awful to talk about. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their mother stands alone by the deep end, sari-clad under the red monsoon umbrella she carries as portable shade from the West African sun. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got it here. I always carry it, just in case I can see her.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the last of them had been carried off by the pale mare by now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His father starts in his direction, carrying a copperhead draped around his neck. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

While carrying heavy pieces of granite up the steep sides, they could slip and plunge to their deaths. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the Hermit took Aravis, whom he had all this time been supporting with his left arm, and half led, half carried her into the house. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It Eulled away from the house in the middle of the afternoon eneath a light drizzle, followed by a procession of cars that carried family and friends and all the flowers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Giant picked up the trembling Sophie with one hand and carried her across the cave and put her on the table. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when a bunch of tules and reeds and grasses mixed and blew and waved, I was terrified that it was she, that she was carrying them or parting them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I’m looking around the room, a young woman walks in carrying a huge pile of books in her arms. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The gypsies sailed along that route for six months before they reached the strip of land over which the mules that carried the mail passed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the line halts; I bump my face against the roll of wire carried by the man in front and curse. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I used to carry a spear and a shield. I held victory in the palm of my hand. I was so much more than this.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After digging out three smoldering logs, he carried them into a nearby larch forest, scraped away the snow from the ground, found some kindling, and managed to start a campfire. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In England, commoners do not carry weapons, but here almost everyone has them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Matthew held the letter at arm's length, the way Luke had seen him hold dead baby pigs when they had to be carried out of the barn. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She put her head on his shoulder and let him carry her to the car. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Six lashes and expulsion,” the Chancellor carried on in an official voice, ignoring my outburst. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was to carry vengeance beyond the ordinance of the gods, beyond the law of right; it was to punish the dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later Esequiel gave his son a piece of osha, warning him to carry it in his pocket at all times as protection against rattlers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two, so Gat carried a wrench and I carried a pair of heavy garden shears. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

John could only carry him for so long. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Ah, now. That is where I can help, as I said I would. I will carry you there on my back, the way I did before. And home again, of course.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Papa carried his own sack to the weigh station, but Roberto emptied it because Papa had a bad back. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, maybe that is why he carried his bag of stories. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only a man, one man and no other, who brought the snake in a basket or carried it stunned or charmed like a gift in his own two hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he descended the stairs he did not carry the sack of beers any longer, and he walked away thoughtfully without seeming to notice where he was going. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, they were too tired, and the sisters carried the little boys on their backs until the evening sun began to set and the girls were near collapse. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The wildflowers can’t push up, and when they don’t grow, the soil erodes and is carried into the streams by the rain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might want to stay back with the rest of the group down there,” said a man carrying a red box, like a tool kit, toward the shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then they carried me to my mother’s hut, where there were two big beds made of branches and covered with skin. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Poles carried identity cards, and the Nazis stamped the cards of Jewish Poles with a big / for Jude, which means “Jew.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Members of a local secondary school marching band, wearing rented tuxedoes and vintage top hats, practised a piece of the Mozart requiem, and children were given bouquets of flowers to carry. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A damp breeze, carrying the smell of rain and fall’s decay, made him shudder. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Of the four canoes stored there against the cliff, I chose the smallest, which was still very heavy because it could carry six people. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon, I walk to the market with Patti, and after I help her carry our groceries upstairs, Lakshman knocks on our apartment door and we run downstairs to play cricket. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As the sun climbed, its gleam raced upriver like a lit fuse, seeming to carry daylight with it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were escorting a group of young women who carried cooking pots, bags of rice, mortars and pestles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had carried some old firecracker fuse with me and carefully threaded it up into the nozzle until I could feel it stick in the zincoshine compound. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For there, gliding from the cottage, was the woman in the white cloak, carrying her wooden staff. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beating his wet wings, he was carried, rolling and tumbling, low over the marshland. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If the pack carried them north fast enough, they could reach the edge of the ice and be able to launch the boats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The fact that he carries a gun seems utterly redundant. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Mama had given me some freshly cleaned blankets to carry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I carry it with me everywhere I go ’cause all my things are in there.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

On this night against the Abilene Eagles, he gained forty-six yards on ten carries, and his return to action earned a single paragraph at the tail end of the Odessa American account of the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He walked out of the closet carrying a stack of oversized books with thick leather spines and dark green cloth covers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She carried Deborah on her back and gripped the hands of my two young cousins on either side. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Katie got the patient sleeping baby out of her crib and carried her into the warm kitchen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every moth, every wingbeat carried the oppressive burden of the ghost army, and of vengeance, and the weight of another Carnage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then we tried carrying him, Noodles gripping under his arms, and me at his feet. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

So fifteen years later, when I was selected to integrate Central High, Grandmother said, “Now you see, that’s the reason God spared your life. You’re supposed to carry this banner for our people.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My friends,” he said, after a moment’s pause, “will carry on without me, I am sure.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Jam? You home? Come help us with the bags,” Aloe called, his voice carrying through the house. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Lee Chong heard them and snorted to himself as he carried out the garbage cans. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seemed to carry some weight, or else to mystify the bear sufficiently to make him pause. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One, carrying a doctor's bag, quickly limped on crooked legs to the side of the writhing doorman. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many simple children’s games actually carry complex musical attributes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his cupped palms he carried a small heap of fresh jasmine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a box we carried with us that was not to be opened until we reached Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I tried to shut my ears, I tried to hear the priest, but he was moving away, moving to where Simon helped Christ carry the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What remained was to select the athletes worthy of carrying the American flag into the heart of the Nazi state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The prophets, ghostly in their white robes, carried blazing torches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt strange carrying his fatal weakness so openly, after months of keeping it hidden. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Soon the way was too narrow to carry Loki, and now they let him walk between them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Between them, they lifted up the woman and carried her into the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t carry myself proudly, as I knew that might turn them against me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finn moved to take one end so they could carry it to the truck, but Roza was faster and more insistent. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A group of red-cheeked girls playing soccer, ponytails flying, their shouts and laughter carrying faintly over the velvety, twilit field. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His voice had no conspicuous actor’s mannerisms, but it was rather excessively vibrant; it “carried” implacably when he had no interest in controlling it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

You said you couldn’t carry anything, and I guess that includes clothes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The light entering the room was preternaturally intense, carrying with it the surplus radiance of the lake and its frozen shore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore’s voice carried no hint of a threat; it sounded like a mere statement, but Fudge bristled as though Dumbledore were advancing upon him with a wand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He’s definitely too old to be carried but he gets away with it. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They wear heavy clothing and carry guns so big I’m not sure I would be able to lift one. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There is no wind to carry, bear, or even refuse to bear, a sound so heavy with regret. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent Watch had carried the letter around with him for weeks, getting a secret thrill from knowing it was in his pocket. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the tallest boy in the sixth grade, I was on the honor guard and was scheduled to carry the flag at the graduation exercises, an honor I almost missed because of God’s revenge. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He constantly worried that we would not have enough money saved at the end of the cotton season to carry us over the winter months. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

"But because that pleasure was another's, I shall carry you with me a little way and leave you on a high crag, to be eaten by eagles." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was carrying something: a long stick of some kind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

More pictures: women carrying pots of water or grinding millet in giant mortars. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They carried his cot and all his belongings right out into the bushes and simply dumped them there, and then they strode back slapping their hands briskly at a job well done. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They will carry the phone numbers of friends in Miami and the life savings of relatives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I uncapped Riptide and tried to swipe at the monster as it carried off another deckhand, but I was way too slow. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine, fine, let us carry on, please. What do those who signed the petition find so offensive?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Later he would return to find that his plans had not been carried out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

Someone whooped and jumped on Moss’s back, and he carried them for a few feet before they jumped off. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He brings over the box he was carrying and sets it on the floor beside me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The ideal tool is a roving vehicle carrying on advanced experiments, particularly in imaging, chemistry and biology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the picture home at night and showed it to the old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered the package of underwear I was carrying. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A warm evening wind carried a breath of honeysuckle and linden from the banks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They carried with them a hunger to own land and other forms of wealth, including gold. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He could carry buckets or sift through shards. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

After the banquet, our small wedding party pushed us and half carried us up to the third floor to our small bedroom. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arrival of the tray, carried up the stairs as if for an invalid. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “true” electron is a bit heavier and carries a greater charge than the electron that physicists observe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The thing is, I think they’re on an upper floor. Camilla said something about carrying bags upstairs. There might be fire stairs, but I wouldn’t know how to go about finding them.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I walked down the highway into the darkness again, carrying both duffel bags in my left hand and feeding myself the tasteless pineapple fried pie with my right. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so I have to carry the stolen goods? Nice. Real nice.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As they reached it, Hermione came out, but she wasn’t carrying an owl. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had expected our family to hoist us on their shoulders and carry us aloft in triumph. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was running, running toward something in the distance, but she didn’t know what it was she was running toward, and she didn’t know why she was carrying a scrunched-up cardboard box in her hands. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

His friend disappeared for a few moments, then returned carrying a wooden door, which he positioned like a warrior’s shield between Anderson and the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I will remember this," he told them all as they carried him off. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Ser Barristan will have summoned a pair of sedan chairs to carry us back up to the banquet, but the climb can still be wearisome.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tad dumped the stuff he was carrying on the ground, turned, and slammed the door behind him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But now as I carry my suitcase onto this ship of the prairie, I am suddenly in the Bresnicks’ living room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hermione was already queuing outside, carrying an armful of heavy books and looking put-upon. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The day was dear and carried the gaze out as far as the blue sky went; there were a few white douds suspended idly over the horizon. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep it up. Good grades are the only things that count for a girl. Tell your mother I’ll meet her at the game. That’s an order I expect to be carried out.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we pull into the crowded school parking lot, I spot Maddy and her mom carrying signs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Raesa and Tulan, like Pol, had quivers strapped to their backs and hunting knives at their waists; they carried their bows and moved with a stealth that Kaede knew she could not match. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A flood of Gwystyl’s pleading and moaning followed, but the dwarf paid it no heed, and began to carry out his threat. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, tired, he began to cry, yanking at his bow tie, and The General picked him up and carried him around. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These women carried themselves like queens, chins jutted out defiantly and eyes blazing with confidence, with power. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever Otto’s bottle went cold, I carried it to the water boiler my mom used to make tea, bathing it in hot water until it was body temperature. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two more boys emerge from the soot carrying a portrait in a gilded frame, twice as tall as they are, the visage of some long-dead great-grandfather glowering at the night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wounded were coming into the post, some were carried on stretchers, some walking and some were brought on the backs of men that came across the field. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The superior said that the opening in the membrane should be enlarged, and that a ladder should be put in the hole, so that the bodies could be carried out. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is illogical to say he is a misfit just because he chooses to ride a different animal, provided he can carry out his cowboy duties.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They carried baskets for picking herbs—oregano and mint, sumac and thyme. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I gagged and gagged again as I carried out overflowing chamber pots, and forced myself to take a blanket from a corpse. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he slowly looked around at the others with the expression of dazed determination he used when the object was to carry people along with his latest idea. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean you carry it back down again, too?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Not that Boyle had any need to carry out all of the experiments himself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Ellen,” she said, and carried the cup with her on her way, leaving the ghost, bewildered, behind her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He lifts me from the chair and carries me to the door. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the way home, I carried Aaron Copland’s Autobiography: Manuscript Edition underneath Joe Pepitone’s jacket so that nothing would happen to it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln’s body was carried into the dim hallway that led to the rear of the boardinghouse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those forty oars carried the ship over a hundred and fifty miles of wintry sea before sunset of the second day out from Serd. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when he reached the dais, with every eye upon him, Osha and Hodor undid his straps and buckles, lifted him off Dancer's back, and carried him to the high seat of his fathers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Walking down the street one day not long after he had gotten back, he had seen his cousin Hensleigh carrying a child in one hand and a round box in the other. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carries a stack of empty gold plates. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s too big for you to carry. You must stop trying. You’ll injure your back. All of our women have prided themselves on their carriage. Do you want to look like a washerwoman.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a bag from the backseat and carried it inside with us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I carry one over and smash it to the ground in front of her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I think, too,” says Dad, carrying several black vinyl bags. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The computers were being slowly carried in a long, continuous line along a conveyor belt, past the various scientists and technicians. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“All those bits of paper you see out there stuck between the stones are things May has written down—all the heavy feelings she carries around. It seems like the only thing that helps her.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two carried their heads low and darted glances at the strangers and shuffled their feet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hold him as close and careful as I carry Becky when she’s asleep, and I start off up the far hill into the woods, carrying my dog. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a witch. The owls don’t carry him messages.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The arguments against it were good, the strongest being that Mr. Clutter’s aversion to cash was a county legend; he had no safe and never carried large sums of money. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did some of the laundry, most of the cooking, and all the lifting and carrying. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A floating reception force of more than four thousand Indians—two hundred war canoes, each carrying twenty or thirty people—greeted the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There had been a brittle quality to her, something unyielding, a young person who carried about her a premonition of old age. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the three standard weapons—the M-60, M-16, and M-79—they carried whatever presented itself, or whatever seemed appropriate as a means of killing or staying alive. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's hard for one person to carry a sofa down three flights of stairs, so, seeing as I had nothing better to do, I offered to help. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Beans finally came out carrying a supermarket bag. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Now that they were closer, I could see that in addition to the sprinting lion-men were a pack of actual lions, including a pair harnessed to a chariot carrying two people. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He carries me out of the barracks into the blinding sunshine. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Many a slave carried the dream of freedom in his heart because of these words of Jefferson's. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is even reason to think that her mother may have carried an illness that will endanger others — — and the women need the space where their cott was. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

James and Dicey carried the full baskets back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were floors to be scrubbed, grime to be washed off windows, broken chairs and rotted beds to be carried off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We walked down the narrow aisle single file, carrying the popcorn and looking for a seat, Tommy first, then Liz, then me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoppers carry heat-lanterns over their heads like parasols to keep warm. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to carry enough feed for the horses, and Jones feared a passing cavalry patrol would hear their horses, which were hungry, restless, and noisy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might be an old man, but he still carried authority. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl and Antonapoulos carried the sacks of groceries, and Singer held to their arms tightly and smiled all the way home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She carried the chips in her apron pocket, and when no one was about she crushed the soft lime between her teeth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Toby helped Luke carry them up the long stairs. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The streets going up from the Dock Road are too hilly for Mr. Hannon to ride the bicycle and carry me, so we walk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Well, we did that all the time, but this time, I started pulling the paints from the old leather satchel she carried them around in and reading all their names. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It might be hard. I never tried pulling them out and carrying them.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Beach offered to carry me home in his buggy, I said, “Thank you, sir, I’d sure be much obliged.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The idea was to combine the spin-2 particle called the graviton, which carries the gravitational force, with certain other particles of spin Vi, 1, Vi, and 0. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Reverend Griffin carried the spitting clams into the house, Lizzie took Turner’s hand that held his bat on the knob, and they walked back down to the shore. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Around the courtyard, ghosts were forming a mob - hundreds of glowing Romans carrying spectral clubs or stones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“What am I supposed to do with them packages all afternoon? I can’t do nothing till after three. I don’t want to be carrying that stuff around.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now show the others this magnificent machine that’s about to carry you to the moon.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gunpowder smoke drifted across the crowd as soldiers started running every which a’way, carrying on about “orders this” and “orders that.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she came to the door wearing the nappy pink robe and carrying a plastic razor, we could tell that she was in better shape than the day before. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just as the emperor was being carried over the last carved ramp, a servant came running up with a large, steaming bamboo basket. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tehlu carried the demon’s limp body all through the long night, and on the morning of the ninth day he came to the city of Atur. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Behind her, carrying his sister, Temp struggled along with Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They carried muskets topped with long glinting bayonets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a handsome man, but he had a way of carrying himself as if he were—like my father. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He stood up and carried the empty platters toward the house. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Like each one carries a meaning beyond its definition. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“No need for me to be carrying his b-bags. B-besides, it’s too hot down here for me to be hauling stuff all over.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

First of all, I’m thirteen, but a lot of people think by the way I carry myself that I’m above my age. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dugout canoe seems such a fragile bird to carry that weight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means he probably didn’t steal it, and it has a different meaning for him and is worth carrying around with the risk of losing or dropping it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He had never felt more like a cripple than he did then, watching helplessly as Meera Reed and Coldhands butchered the brave beast who had carried them so far. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As he watched the current carry them away, he mumbled, “I am sorry about the flounder.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to move back to my room before Rose was at the door, the candle she carried throwing my crouching shadow and her standing shadow into knots on the floor. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I got off and began walking along Canal Street in the heart of town, carrying one small duffel bag in each hand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke gathered up Annabeth’s listless body and carried her away from the goddess. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I helped her carry the picnic things and tired, dirty children to the wagon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The shark carried me down into the darkness. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It moved and churned, foaming and dark, carrying leaves and sand and twigs from one place to the next. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two men who came with Doctor Nduoma carried Papa-Nnukwu’s stiffening body in their hands, one holding his underarms and the other his ankles. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His coat was white and his mittens were white, and he did not carry a gun on his back, but in his hands he had shining sharp tools with which he carved the pictures. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We recovered it and carried it back to the blockhouse to consider it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The guards pointed to a woman who carried a scrawny newborn secured to her chest. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She did carry a large canvas bag with a life-size sunflower painted on it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Others would not come out and so they burned: small flame-feathered birds, the churning insects, and a few female baboons who had managed against all odds to carry their pregnancies through the drought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gesture had to carry all that had not been said, and she answered it with pressure from her own hand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Others join, their voices carrying across the desert and resounding through the valley. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Half an hour earlier they had carried out a multiple amputation on a captain from the East Surreys—the regiment the boys in the village had joined. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Things were always better when he played music; the notes seemed to carry him to a different world altogether. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Women spoke loudly to one another while carrying bags in their arms and on their heads. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He argued ceaselessly for economic empowerment, carrying along in his wake less progressive blacks who were still getting used to the idea of direct action for even social goals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Winter’s daily routine settled into splitting firewood, carrying water from the stream, cooking, reading, and doing schoolwork. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Going up the stairs took a long time, and I had the feeling that I was carrying my suitcase. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mom had always been the strong and stoic one, carrying the family on her shoulders. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“See, they carry torches. They would not bother if they were not visiting us.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Agents were now empowered to make arrests and carry firearms, and the department was soon renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was definitely tired, like I had been carrying him on my back for miles, and all he ever did was dig his heels into my ribs like a jockey on a horse. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The truck was built to carry cargo, not people, and it was smelly and disgusting, packed full of bodies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Taylor’s legs were strong and they had carried her deep into the jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He’d held tight to his big brother’s hand as they journeyed through miles of sweet, rolling countryside, until they reached one of the major waterways and hopped a bog boat that carried produce to Ketterdam. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“February fourteenth. I saw it at Dollar-Eight, remember? On that piece of paper you carry around everywhere. Because your grandfather doesn’t matter to you anymore.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

If IOI security caught me before I made it out of the building, carrying a stolen flash drive filled with highly incriminating company data, I was dead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He trusted her to carry the awful aegis, his buckler, and his devastating weapon, the thunderbolt. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the next morning Nels had come yet again, carrying a manila folder. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Deep blue silk, silver embroidery — it was the bag the buffalo boy’s friend had been carrying that starry night. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was no plumbing, no pipes to carry water that a Tidemaker might abuse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible to have carried Zero up the hill from here, especially after walking all day with no food or water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They carry not only instructions about eye color, height, nose shape, enzyme production, microphage resistance, but a story, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The sewing machines were carried with considerable exertion into Veazy Hall. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance a bulldozer coughed into life, then roared down on a battered Ford Taurus, its metal claw smashing through the window to scoop up the vehicle and carry it away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

One carried a box of ambrosia up the stairs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We go outside and help him scrape the crust of ice off the car windows and then we carry boxes, and finally we squeeze into the car ourselves and drive south. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then it picked him up and carried him toward the harbor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They don’t look at all like the pictures of them I’ve carried around in my head for the past four months, shifting pictures in which only a few features stand out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After she explored the nearby waterways, it became clear that she would have to carry the pike through the forest and across the Great Meadow to the nearest bend in the river. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Volunteer firemen were carrying water from wells and trying to put out the blaze. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One by one, the houses emptied and the streets filled with people carrying bundles. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I knew him well and loved him, and I was there. "We had toured through several states to which he was carrying the message. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the police, they carried long wooden staffs at their sides. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Other people have money and things, but these are the pearls Roma women carry, these strings of names." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Each schooner carried a bunch of wooden dories stacked on deck, and when they got to the fishing grounds the men got into the dories and rowed away, looking for cod and haddock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at her, I knew she could carry the weight of the world and still walk tall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But then there were footsteps coming down the path toward them, and another woman appeared, carrying an armful of kindling. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a tray that held the same cups Papa had always used to drink his tea. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty, Roberto carried the twenty lunches in a box and delivered them, on foot, to the workers who were given half an hour for lunch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My momentum carried the hilt forward six inches. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She made her voice loud again, loud enough to carry down the hall to her mother. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some in the art world claimed the Amber Room carried a curse. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I would have to carry food—johnnycake, smoked meat, dried fruit, a bottle of water. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Keep me up half the night coughing not that I’m complaining God has blessed me with the strength to carry on in good times and bad. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They had formed a habit of carrying the refreshments into the Great Hall with their own hands, as soon as any knight got bade, so that they could hear the news while he ate. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on numerous factors, such as topography and psychology, the riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines, usually in cloth bandoliers, adding on another 8.4 pounds at minimum, 14 pounds at maximum. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squinting up at the shamrock, Harry realized that it was actually comprised of thousands of tiny little bearded men with red vests, each carrying a minute lamp of gold or green. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind blew and carried with it the first hint of fall: canoe-shaped chestnut leaves, turned yellow round the edges. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But when he came back, he had forgotten to swing by our house and get shoes for me. So he had to carry me home too.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We were unloading her station wagon, carrying bags of groceries from the garage into the kitchen, when Erik and Arthur pulled up in the Land Cruiser. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs barked at his heels wherever his long-legged stride carried him, and he snarled back at them, sometimes even spitting, which only made the flea-bitten mongrels yap more hysterically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the dream there was a peculiar horror in wandering on and on through the crowd and not knowing where to lay down the burden he had carried in his arms so long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Encouraged, he drew some sheets of paper out of a book he was carrying. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning and dusk and morning again I watched them trailing up to a hole in the peak of the roof, carrying their tiny burdens out into the light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they carried was partly a function of rank, partly of field specialty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was quiet except Mom, who was sobbing that she really did carry Lori for fourteen months. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I was to carry out my plan . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the village came out of their houses to see the astonishing sight—pale, unhealthy-looking men who carried large bundles and unusual-looking sticks as they marched into the center of the village. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main technical problem now is to find a carrying solution that will stick the bacterial spores to the needles of the evergreens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But when she came to her wedding she was carried to the altar to be killed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had planned to carry Frolic there, against his chest. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene held the door open, Styx rolled it through and I carried the helmets. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

During his entire advance through history, he has been waving the banner of Christianity . . . and carrying in his other hand the sword and the flintlock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She half carried me to her chair, pulled me onto her lap, and rocked me back and forth, back and forth, humming a lullaby I’d never heard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because most of our gear was carried by yaks and human porters, my own backpack held little more than a jacket, a few candy bars, and my camera. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

This used to happen when she carried her lunch tray in the cafeteria. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, she was carrying a large slice of cake on a plate. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If you have to carry this around, I will too.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

People bump into one another, carrying their children, covering their mouths, shielding their eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mama carries the kitchen things to the car, and I don’t help at all. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Forestry officials, fearing that another season’s defoliation might result in severe loss of trees, decided to carry out control operations in 1957. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’d rather pretend that I’m not sure what people think of me instead of being forced to carry around physical proof of it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I saw her go out, to the ambulance, on a stretcher, carried by two Angels. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flush of triumph over the dead mouse was carried forward to the next morning as we all met again to walk to school. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the front of my T-shirt way out and piled everything from inside my desk on it and carried it away. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s Bram, carrying a grocery basket, and his curls are damp and his eyes are luminous. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was thinking that we might carry it the rest of the way to the river and throw it in; perhaps he was just interested in looking at it, as he was in everything. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began to carry his wheelchair down the steps of the terrace. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I can already tell that I’m going to have to carry around a towel to protect myself. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Dad carried the twins, Mam carried a bag in one hand and held Malachy s hand with the other. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I carried their histories, along with those of my mother and grandmothers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Quickly she hid three goblets in her bellying dress to carry with her while I tagged along in my bewilderment. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas carried the pie basket and Matthew rode atop his father’s shoulders. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Perspiration poured off her body, streaming into her eyes, making her long for the water she carried with her in a plastic bottle. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I realized then and there that I could carry on the fight even within the fortress of the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very accurate clocks carried in airplanes slow down a little compared to stationary clocks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried her to the funeral pyre, and they placed her body beside Balder’s. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The bundle I carried, for all that it contained so little, grew heavier with each step; my neck was stiff with the effort of holding my head steady, for the bundle was poised on top. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then Sarah came into the kitchen and, as luck would have it, she was carrying four or five shopping bags and looking smug. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did, however, come across an old discarded rowing machine of Mr. Little’s, and becoming interested in this, carried it upstairs with some difficulty and spent the rest of the morning rowing. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Lynn. Look at me. I’m going to carry her, and it’s going to hurt her a lot, but it’s our only option.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I rode along the Kinshasa Highway as a boy, it was a dusty, unpaved thread that wandered through the Rift Valley toward Lake Victoria, carrying not much traffic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm was delighted to find that the police carried baby bottles, in case they found an abandoned child. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I carried a bag in each hand, one with clothes, the other with food. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I had too much stuff to try to carry it all home, so Manu, you know, Manu who be outside straightening up the carts? He told me to just take one and bring it back." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A pair of comely serving girls sauntered past carrying a wicker basket of rushes between them, but the sell- sword never looked, "Bronn, I despair of you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The man helps her carry down the stroller, and Ashima waits on the platform. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey got to her feet and walked smartly out of the room, but was back in thirty seconds carrying a thick book. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The force that carried her out was as smooth and powerful as water pouring over a weir; the particles of Dust were streaming along as if they, too, were pouring over some invisible edge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Each Easter Sunday parade, he invites them to carry the cross. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The next thing I remember is being carried. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They began to whisper kinder and more hopeful words about the king, and those words traveled with him as he carried on his tour. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in front of the trailer fooling with the calculator when Annie strolled over carrying one of her poetry books. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His spiky head was hidden behind the huge box he was carrying. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana wore a neatly pressed pink shirt, a bolo tie, beige, tapered western pants, and cowboy boots, and he carried a pack of filtertip cigarettes in his shirt pocket over the heart. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beastkeepers were also desperately carrying buckets of water and haphazardly throwing the water onto the fire, but it was no use. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They carried on for another month, every night inspecting to see how dangerous things had gotten. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze carries the shouts of children and the drowsy hum of bumblebees. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Laila kept shuffling between the house and the yard, back and forth, carrying stacks of clothes and dishes and box after box of Babi’s books. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She stored the roots in a carrying basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man and a young boy carrying suitcases approached me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

At the end, he carried my skate back over to my locker and pointed to my nickname. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Such a label, in some neighborhoods, can carry penalties that range from being deemed a social outcast, to being beaten or killed.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

To carry it out, he needed a gun. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stonesnake carried a bag of iron spikes 'as well, and a small hammer with its head wrapped in thick felt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The two pages, Denis and Lionel, carried the food from the table, then took the table boards from the trestles and transferred everything to the hall of the keep. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Speaks less and less until “uh” or “have mercy” carry almost all of her part of a conversation. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, no matter where you were, age carried some respect. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered him carrying her, holding her down as the healers stitched her leg... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly he caught him as he swayed, and lifting him gently, carried him to the bed and laid him there, and covered him warmly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

About fifty-four seconds before first period on Tuesday, I walk straight into Jeff Garnet and drop the books I’m carrying. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The manicured trees quickly turned wild, and within an hour of leaving Taninli and its pocket of summer behind, the air began to carry the bite of cold. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Had fed him from her own nipples, carried him close and warm and safe under her heart, and who had opened her legs far far wider than she herself ever had for him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It carries on till it’s back, way back under the waterfall. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

After one day of carrying luggage, I had made four dollars in tips. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“And He carried your sicknesses! Your sins! Forgave your transgressions! Your imperfections!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her sentence was carried out in an instant, but that didn’t mean that her heart was hard or that she didn’t mourn for her friend. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But British gunboats fired on the barge that was carrying Arnold across the river, and he was forced to return to West Point. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he pushed himself up, and they all left for the fields, Hanako carrying the food basket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Deza Malone was right, I was carrying Momma inside me and there wasn’t anyone or anything that could take away from that or add to it either. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The wide frame made it an awkward size to carry. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He spread the blankets he was carrying on the floor, and while Asta carefully lifted the sleeping Pan away, he bent and picked up the child, feeling a little surprised at her solidity. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before a regatta, the cox receives a race plan from the coach, and he or she is responsible for carrying it out faithfully. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I choose to fall down, but they don’t carry me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sneaky gets the school lunch, but he also carries a lunch pack with him, which is always stuffed with candy. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I expect the ladder to release me then, but I'm still stuck when a woman in a white coat approaches me carrying a syringe. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But soon the quietness is interrupted by excited voices carried on the wind. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There’s no use asking Dad to go because he will never stoop that low and even if he did he won’t carry things through the streets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dad strides across the back yard, wearing an oven mitt and carrying the steaming turkey by one leg. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were followed by a wagon carrying twenty thousand suffrage leaflets, which they shared with interested people along the way, taking every chance to discuss the issue of voting rights for women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Slughorn pulled himself out of his armchair and carried his empty glass over to his desk as the boys filed out. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe Oriana isn’t entirely wrong to worry that we might one day get caught up in it, be carried away by it, and forget to take care. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We watched them carry off an old man and his grandson before we remembered to run. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Like light, gravitational waves carry energy away from the objects that emit them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea breeze carried the news up and down Parker Head—“Did you see?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I carried these things until deep grooves grew in my hands. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The S.O.E. was a secret British organization tasked with carrying out acts of sabotage behind enemy lines all over Europe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And those are freighters, not passenger ships. To carry cargo.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I could hardly see them heaving an entire shark out of water, let alone carrying it on their backs and disappearing with it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I did not cut his tongue out, because since I left Estre I don’t carry a knife. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I notice that, in addition to his brown bag lunch, he’s carrying a folder with Hebrew writing on it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He carried the baby in one hand, holding Kathy’s arm with the other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But he carried it back and forth to Boys' Lodge and was able to work on it there in the evenings: carving carefully, smoothing, shaping. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On August 8, 1955, only a few weeks after Lake had gone on the offensive, Hodges unveiled his new school program in a statewide address carried live by sixty radio and ten television stations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He picked the boat up and carried it out. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their shoulders they carried a keg of ancient anger, lit with a recent fuse. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take one of them dames that’s always carrying soup to somebody—she wants something, and don’t you forget it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are a peculiar class of lotus blossoms. The smell is intoxicating, the taste divine. A tiny nibble of a single petal carries you away into a lethargic trance populated by vivid hallucinations.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

No way could that little country bank carry us another year. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When this was explained, she did a celebration dance, as the Resthaven girls had done when Tendai was carried home in triumph from his fight with Head Buster. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bishop, who wanted to stay, was being bundled away towards the church, while his crosier came after him like a standard, carried high above the tumult by some faithful deacon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around her dress, Taylor had constructed a makeshift bandolier out of airplane seat belts, a pink unicorn wallet, and a tampon carrying case. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I looked, but all I saw was three people moving through the dark, carrying stuff from a pickup truck to unit 2D. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“You’re supposed to carry this with you all the time!” he shouted, resisting the temptation to fling it at her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Someone, he couldn’t tell who, obeyed Newt’s order; he was being carried across the courtyard, through the front door of the Homestead, down the shattered hall, into a room, placed on a couch. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I gather up my schoolbooks, my pencils, my purple pen, and carry them to Mama Ya-Ya’s bedroom. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I had it hitched, I put onto it three fifteen-gallon milk cans; I had not used these when I carried water by hand, since they are too heavy. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wonder why Fist and Knife want to carry us off. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, like, obviously. But the way he carries himself.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She dropped the cigarette and took Louisiana from them and carried her through the automatic doors. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead a ragged stream of people crosses an intersection: a woman, a child, two men carrying a third on a stretcher, all three with cigarettes in their mouths. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A tall wooden shack housed the cage elevator, which carried miners one to two hundred feet underground, where they would disperse into various dugouts called rooms, each supported by a single wooden pillar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Old Mr. Antolini felt his pulse and all, and then he took off his coat and put it over James Castle and carried him all the way over to the infirmary. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I kiss him, in all his filth and stench, and I feel like I could carry the world in my arms tonight. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She carried her head proudly as she sang. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I soothe my conscience with the thought that it’s better for unkind words to be down on paper than for Mother to have to carry them around in her heart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Until we find someone to carry them for us,” said Katz cheerfully. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I produced these from the black file folder in which I’d been carrying them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked home carrying the heavy manuscript, I remembered attending one of Dr. Kerry’s lectures, which he had begun by writing, “Who writes history?” on the blackboard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This was a dream I could never share, one I carried deep inside my heart, tucked so far down that I hadn’t even realized it was there until it sprang out of me, fully formed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Though each comer in the corridor, each flight of steps, brought with it the possibility of new dangers, the children carried on. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He coughed and sneezed so often that he carried a handkerchief in one paw at all times. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Aunt Daisy brought Phoebe’s warmest coat, and George carried the extra life jacket. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The flute went up into regions beyond the hearing range and even there it carried its unbelievable melody. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They believed, as did all little kids in the West End, that he carried a hundred Mars Bars with him at all times. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried me back into my own bedroom and went out once again on to the balcony. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It crashed into the pile of bricks he had just been carrying. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Get in and start this thing. Oh, my God. Don’t stick that guitar in my face like that. Why can’t you just carry a purse like a decent young lady?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night Sarai split her mind a hundred ways, her moths carrying pieces of her consciousness through the city, and when they came back to her, she was whole again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Once Leo had anchored the Argo II between the pillars, Jason summoned the wind to carry him and Piper ashore. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On hands and knees, carrying his gun in regulation fashion, Kantorek shoves his absurd figure over the sand immediately in front of us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya watched the laborers haul building materials as the archer’s horse carried her up the hill. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She emptied and sluiced the bedpans, swept and polished floors, made cocoa and Bovril, fetched and carried—and was delivered from introspection. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He would carry through and blame the thing upon Jan. He got his gun from beneath the pillow and put it in his shirt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s carrying a grocery bag with coconut flakes and pistachios to garnish our ice cream. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She begged her mother to let her carry him a pan of water. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The precious time and hard physical labor needed to carry all their supplies and transport the canoes over dry land wasn’t their only problem. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

One night we carry the wrong message to some man. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

From now on, wherever he went, he’d be closely trailed by a military aide carrying a forty-five-pound briefcase containing launch authentication codes and sophisticated communications devices, often referred to as the nuclear football. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

You would have thought it was a million dollars, the way she carried on. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He really believes that he carried water for the elephants. He does.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But Leo had done his best, rewiring the sphere to carry out two completely different functions. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They carried the boat right to the edge of the water and set it down carefully, its front end pointing downstream. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The largest river I’d ever seen surged along beneath it, roaring and carrying branches over sharp rocks and around twisty turns. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had to force himself to carry through every action: Now wrap your hand around the doorknob. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The antiques they carried out a while ago must have been worth a million all by themselves.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the waiter to get us a carriage and he took Catherine’s package that I was carrying and went out with an umbrella. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Neil and Buzz carried their own breathing supply of oxygen in packs on their backs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my gym stuff, but he said I could carry my own stinking jock. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

While he was being carried on Wind Being’s back to meet with Pond and Darkness, Nathan had practiced many different ways of saying that he wasn’t going to the Third World. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I still carried my shoulder bag Brooklyn-style, but it was now lighter and I wasn’t worried. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex led the way through the front gate, carrying a plastic food container under his arm. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Could be a ship. Could be what you carry around on your back day after day. Could be family. Or maybe just one person you love more than any other. That’s home.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He stepped to one side as Secret Service agents swarmed past him through the door, carrying what looked to be guns loaded with tranquilizer darts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So as long as I carried a pair of sticks and kept the humor coming, nobody was going to guess anything was up with me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw some wood on the fire, lit a candle from the flames, and carried it to the long dining table covered with maps and countless papers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His large row house is trafficked by us rushing in and out, depositing papers, carrying file cabinets, computers, lamps, makeshift desks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you knew Richie, you’d nod and say, “Uh-huh,” because it was perfectly in character for him to forget he was carrying around ninety precious dollars, which was a huge sum in those days. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman had paid them no mind as she took Koffi from him and carried her to a large hut in the clearing's center with surprising ease. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You have to be quiet,” I warn him as I carry him into the storage closet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The queen's image holds all the weight of her title and the worries she carries. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she had asthma attacks and would summon her granddaughter with a tiny silver bell she always carried on her person. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We need, like, a designated medic to carry the potion - somebody who can react quickly and heal whoever gets killed.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By and large they carried these things inside, maintaining the masks of composure. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After tea he wandered off on the pretense of carrying out some fictitious task. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And the virus escaped and spread throughout the Yanomami heartland, carried by people who did not know they had been exposed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sperm from the father, egg from—and carried by—a woman who seemed a suitable match. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was what I had heard under the braided rug, that when you die an angel carries you off to a place called Heaven. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The medal the miners carried with them provided identification in case they were hurt or killed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed and started toward the house, carrying the wrapped deer’s haunch. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The general prisoners carry the ‘suitcases’ of their warders, but we won’t carry yours — so we call you Suitcase.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried a spangled peach-colored fan that she opened with a theatrical fwop as she met the other guests. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She watched passively as Grandmother was bundled into a carrying chair. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They threw out the body on the way. And you, do you carry this evil blot on your soul as well?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for the most part the new scientists avoided the word ‘evidence’ because it inevitably carried with it an implicit reference to the law courts—a reference that Sprat was willing to make explicit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She carried the pretzel in a little white paper bag. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When I got fussy, Lefty carried me around the room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nell walked between us for a few blocks, then asked me to carry her. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the remaining piece, lush with meat and fat that would nourish Gray for days, and carried it over the fallen trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When it was time, he carried him down to the Great Hall, where a long trestle table had been set up near the fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That hollow ache I carried during the early months of internment had shrunk, over the years, to a tiny sliver of suspicion about the very person I was. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposedly Volkheimer has carried three first-years across the river by holding them above his head; supposedly he has lifted the tail end of the commandants automobile high enough to slip a jack under the axle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not safe carrying you around in my pocketbook on the street of his mother or the avenue of his little boy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z