| 单词 | castle |
| 例句 | “Most will be housed in one of our abandoned castles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their leader smiled at the dagger in her hand and said, "No need for that, m'lady. We're to escort you to the castle." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “He could be using one of the passages on that map to get into the castle! The teachers have got to know!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Exploring the meadows and bogs surrounding the castle, she discovered new insects, species she had never seen. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was an old castle, but not a strong one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sound grew in anguish, and it filled the night sky as it spread across the castle grounds, over the walls, even into the Great Square beyond. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Ask? I asked you to be Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North. I require these castles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Had some enemy stormed the castle and murdered King Robert? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Don’t think about it. Just stay in the castle, and be patient. Perhaps God will look after us.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a detailed plan of every one of the castle’s floors and, moving around it, the tiny, labeled black dots that signified each of the castle’s occupants. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Is Draco alive? Is he in the castle?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He felt as if there were something inside him that didn’t fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "My lord father would be most honored if you would share meat and mead with him in the castle and explain your purpose here." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The kingsroad was just beyond the sprawl of castle and town. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Beyond the castle lay the market square, its wooden stalls deserted now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "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 “You offer me empty lands and desolations, yet deny me the castles I require to reward my lords and bannermen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Celaena’s eyes brightened, and she tilted her head back so she could see the castle looming above them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This was evidently the portion of the castle occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more air of comfort than any I had seen. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Four of them met in the great council room of the castle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “And then once we’ve stormed the castle we have to stop the wedding, steal the Princess and make our escape, allowing space somewhere in there for me to duel Count Rugen.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the suburban house, however, the castle bustled with people. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z "The work I do does not permit me to travel the streets amid a column of knights. So when I leave the castle, I adopt more suitable guises, and thus live to serve you longer." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On that trip, we visited a bunch of old castles, including Boldt Castle. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In afterdinner conversation, he sometimes referred, in a tone of utter boredom, to summers spent with the European nobility in the castles of Liechtenstein or the Cote d’Azur. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get out of my castle,” screamed the Queen at the top of her voice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Watch now had garrisons at Icemark, Long Barrow, Sable Hall, Greyguard, and Deep Lake, all badly undermanned, but ten castles still stood empty and abandoned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron, and Hermione left the castle together, crossed the vegetable patch, and made for the greenhouses, where the magical plants were kept. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They were in a house that looked like a princess’s castle! Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Until Theon had sent for her, she had lived all of her eighteen years in the winter town without ever setting foot inside the walls of the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were over the lake — the castle was right ahead — Ron put his foot down. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z As he walked past the city’s castle, he interrupted his return, and climbed the stone ramp that led to the top of the wall. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the warm months, a foul odor rose out of its dark depths and permeated the whole of the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The castle was a modest holding a half day's ride south of the Trident. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hundreds of smallfolk had been admitted to the castle, and allowed to erect crude shelters against the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This was where he had assembled Stark’s people the night Bran and Rickon fled the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the morning, before the people of the castle had got up, Lancelot heard the heavy door opening quietly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On the battlements of their castle at Camelot, during an interval of peace between the two Gaelic Wars, the young king of England was standing with his tutor, looking across the purple wastes of evening. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The candles within Renly's pavilion made the shim-mering silken walls seem to glow, transforming the great tent into a magical castle alive with emerald light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This realization momentarily stunned me, which was unfortunate, because Sorrento’s lightning weapon was still firing, moving in a fast sweeping arc, cutting across the ground, then diagonally up the castle wall, toward me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Harry, who had wandered the castle at night several times before, had never seen it so crowded after sunset. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z That they live in the catacombs under her great castle in the forest and operate her fell machines and stir her great cauldrons and do her bidding from morning till night. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There were many stories of zombie slaves and a vampire king who lived in a castle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Why would he have one in his own castle?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She allowed herself to be dragged from the garden, away from the shadow of the clock tower and into the marble halls of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In his head he drew the shadowy castle with the tortured prince pacing the parapets. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Jeyne had been feeling ill, she explained; she had helped her back to the castle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Stannis has sworn that the garrison might go free, unharmed, provided they yield the castle within the fortnight and deliver the boy into his hands, but Ser Cortnay will not consent." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They went out onto the grounds in the afternoon; the snow was untouched except for the deep channels made by the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students on their way up to the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z When they toss away all the toys she loves from the tallest tower of the castle, she laughs, even though she feels terrible. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z More than two dozen had been driven at spearpoint from the nests they had made amongst the castle’s half-ruined keeps and towers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, dear. Have you boys been playing that castle sewer game again?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “I see no castles marked there. No roads, no towns, no villages.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "It won't fool a soul, that note. How could you have written it? Everyone in the castle knows you can't so much as sign your own name." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z If you look closely in a ruined castle even nowadays, you can sometimes find the hooks from which these flashing tapestries were hung. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows no ladies in blindfolds, has been to no crumbling castles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Although it did not have lion statues guarding the front door, it was close to my dream castle. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I listened to the mournful calls of the doves in the stone crevices of the castle walls and envied the lowly birds who nestled freely and without fear. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Snow had started to fall outside the windows, and the castle was very still and quiet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Every night when I was a girl in the castle,” Xan said, “you came to feed on the sorrow that seeped under my door.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Late at night, when the castle was dark, the serving girl Miggery Sow climbed the stairs to the princess’s room. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z "Take my betrothed back to the castle, and see that no harm befalls her," the prince told him brusquely. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When I got out of the car, the house seemed as big as a castle. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z When Robin crossed the outer bailey, going from the workshop along the wall to the inner castle gate, he could see only a few steps ahead. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Giles de Retz had been found to have no less than a ton of children’s bones, calcined, in his castle, after having murdered them at the rate of twelve score a year for nine years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The noise receded as she moved deeper into the castle, never daring to look back for fear that Joffrey might be watching ... or worse, following. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Can you tell me the way back to his castle?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Brullo shouted something at the other nineteen remaining Champions scaling the castle walls, but from seventy feet up, the wind carried his words away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Still, she acknowledged none of them, her blood-red cloak brushing the stone floor of the castle. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Only as he walked blindly back through the crowd did he realize, from a trace of flowery scent on the air, that it was Ginny who was leading him back into the castle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Ron said as they walked up the drive to the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Trusting to the fact that Hagrid wouldn’t miss him, with the attractions of four dragons and Madame Maxime to occupy him, he turned silently and began to walk away, back to the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Beyond the town and castle lives my own mother.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z After cutting short their lesson in favor of a stroll, Celaena and Nehemia walked through the spacious halls of the castle, guards trailing behind them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was like the day they had gone to the castle, all over again, the smell of the car reminded him of the long, green tunnel of trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Outside, wagons and riders were still pouring through the castle gates, and the yard was a chaos of mud and horseflesh and shouting men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It looks like a castle, gray brick rising high in the sky and left and right too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “We know not what transpired while she was immured in the slave castle.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z At the edge of the wolfswood, Bran turned in his basket for one last glimpse of the castle that had been his life. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Two hundred men were not an army, but you didn't need thousands to hold a castle as strong as Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When Peaches was young he used to take her to the park and he would get right down in the sandbox and make castles and stuff with her. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will be something to do with the provisions of the castle.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I pretend out loud that I’ve built him a majestic castle, describing every brick and barrier and weapon that will protect him from the monsters outside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And I felt like a queen, walking the turret of my castle. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So he was accustomed to the kitchen, quite apart from the fact that everybody who lived in the castle was a friend of his who might be visited on any occasion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten other Sixer avatars emerged from the castle and positioned themselves behind Sorrento, each of them standing a good distance apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I knew they would not believe me if I said she lived in a castle and had three cars and mouth jewelry. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Tall, bright buildings loom over the treetops, but they are nowhere near this castle that seems to have fallen out of the sky and landed in the heart of this vast park. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The single unblocked window revealed distant bursts of light where the castle stood, but inside the room it was dark except for a solitary oil lamp. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But it was way better than the cold and dusty castles they’d seen in England. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z One day she relented, and we set forth from the castle in a fitter enclosed by curtains and borne by servants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The castle entrance led into a massive foyer whose walls, floor, and ceiling were all made of gold. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There had been roasting heretics on the one hand—forty-five Templars had been burned in one day—and the heads of captives being thrown into besieged castles from catapults on the other. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Does the castle look as you remember it, milord?" the captain's daughter asked as she pressed herself against his arm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z How could Elena expect her to defeat some evil in this castle, when there was so much more of it out there? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And he walked on, around the edge of the lake, taking in the outlines of the beloved castle, his first kingdom, his birthright.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The loop it makes is manifestly as close to Dracula’s castle as can be got by water. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A solemn mouth, a broken branch for a nose, two eyes carved deep into the trunk, gazing north up the kingsroad, toward the castle and the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now flying by some magical means, Aech’s avatar swooped down, passed over the bottleneck of gunters clustered at the castle entrance, and disappeared through the open double doors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Leading the horses across the castle was the worst part. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Off on the right, almost closing the harbor, was a green hill with a castle. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z "They can keep their red castle and their iron chair as well." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The fog was lifting somewhat with the wind, and Robin, looking back once, caught sight of the castle he had left behind. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Who will save the princess locked in the red castle?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z They were gliding quietly toward the upper floors of the castle.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Well, at least the skrewts are small,” said Ron as they made their way back up to the castle for lunch an hour later. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He didn’t know what the convent looked like, but he made up a description to entertain the little boy.“Its a castle on a hill,” he said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “And why I’m telling you to get out of the castle while you can.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Tyrion spurred to his sister's side, yelling, "Back to the castle. Now." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He remembers the garden in Zundert as he builds a sand castle on the beach with the boys. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z No bold, swaggering expressions strutted across her face as the glow of the castle rippled in her eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Inside her, grand castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Each day they delved more deeply into the secrets of the “castle,” and each day turned up additional evidence that Holmes was something far worse than even Geyer’s macabre discoveries indicated. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We have arrived before sundown and can enter the castle before the gate is closed.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z You are, of course, free to read as many of the books in the castle library as you wish, but I command you to read these first so that we might discuss them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z With a roar he charged across the corridor and when he was close he left the castle floor with both feet and the door splintered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The illuminated castle rose from the sleeping city like a mound of ice and steam. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He piles the bubbles together like he is making a sand castle. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Instead, I'd just imagine myself living in a moated sugar-cube castle, floating from room to room on a king-size magic carpet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z At the southern end of town, he crossed a bridge over a moat and came to a castle built by a Prussian prince in 1690. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Only my sweet brother would crowd all these useless mouths into a castle that might soon be under siege. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This gave me a fright, for if there is no one else in the castle, it must have been the Count himself who was the driver of the coach that brought me here. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A man’s home might be his castle, but the four fences of that yard became my mother’s prison. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z His sisters Arya and Sansa would marry the heirs of other great houses and go south as mistress of castles of their own. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It has lots of woods but also castles and farms and steepled villages and winding river valleys—the whole, as it were, European package. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He lowered his head and sniffed the castle floor. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The castle was completely empty; even the ghosts seemed to have joined the mass mourning in the Great Hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The members of the Mouse Council sat atop three bricks piled high, and spread out before them was every mouse, old and young, foolish and wise, who lived in the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “I must go back to the castle and find him. Will you show me where Achren might have imprisoned him?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The Test was simple: climb the castle to where the flag waved ninety feet in the air and retrieve it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Big Rose stared at me, then at my castle, then back at me again. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z When Harry, Ron, and Hermione left the hospital wing at noon the next day, it was to find an almost deserted castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Built entirely of stone, it seemed a fortress, a castle at the crossroads, with sparkling glass windows and a high, peaked roof. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z In King Ban’s castle there was an uncle of Lancelot’s, whose name was Gwenbors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "A pity. Well, the threat may serve to keep the Marcher lords close to their castles, at least. What news of my father?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He dreamed of burning castles and dead men rising unquiet from their graves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The ancient stronghold of the black brothers was no Winterfell, no true castle at all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Or the place where the castle had been, anyway. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We steal both my ma’s and Ritchie’s barbecues, I ring up and book a jumping castle, and we borrow one of those karaoke machines from one of Marv’s mates who works at the pub. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Only Bran the broken boy, Brandon of House Stark, prince of a lost kingdom, lord of a burned castle, heir to ruins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Turned over a new leaf, Preacher Kane turned over a new leaf so there's no booze for anybody on Christmas Eve, even in our own house where a man is his castle." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Anthills had risen in the newly softened red soil in the yard, like miniature castles. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She remembered Old Nan's stories of the castle built on fear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was very brave and smart and he tricked the giants and escaped . . . but no sooner was he outside the castle than die Others took him, and drank his hot red blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Trees can be felled for rams if rams are required. Amolf Karstark writes that fewer than fifty men remain at the Dreadfort, half of them servants. A strong castle weakly held is weak.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To be sure, butter and honey were seldom seen in King's Landing of late, though Lord Gyles kept them well supplied in the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z More recently, the youngest of Lord Yronwood’s daughters had taken to following him about the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nox swung wide, the rope wrapped around his middle going taut as he collided with the castle wall below. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “If you consider this structure of madness to be a castle,” Nehemia replied. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The effects of the Cataclyst had been undone, and all of Chthonia appeared to be have been restored along with the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It’s a castle out of a storybook: eight or nine stone buildings sheltered below hills, rust-colored roofs, narrow windows, spires and turrets, weeds sprouting from between roof tiles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They were now the property of the eldest son by Leon’s second marriage and installed in a castle somewhere in the Scottish Highlands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And if, as a boy, Hagrid had heard that a monster was hidden somewhere in the castle, Harry was sure he’d have gone to any lengths for a glimpse of it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Twas he had driven them forth at first, without his killing e’er a one of them, and he himself was ben the castle at the very time. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A vast collection of troops, tanks, weapons, and vehicles surrounded the castle on all sides. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Most had been given freedom of the castle in return for their pledge not to attempt escape. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The Court of Shadows will grow beneath the castle, fed on being both the High King’s spies and his keepers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A long column of armored lancers was crossing the moat between the walls when Bran emerged from the tower,- Karstark men, following their lords into the castle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He must not be allowed to restore the castle to its former strength. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It looked sort of like an old castle, with dozens of windows and an archway entrance. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z "Lord Frey has pulled his whole strength back inside his castles, and his gates are closed and barred." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Taking you from the castle, that will be the hardest. Once you're out, there are ships that would take you home. I'd need to find the coin and make the arrangements, that's all." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They dragged boards and other materials down from the scrap heap by Miss Bessie’s pasture and built their castle stronghold in the place they had found in the woods. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The governess had red hah and some mysterious wound from which she derived a lot of prestige by showing it to all the women of the castle, behind closed doors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Something large, much larger than a broomstick — or, indeed, a hundred broomsticks — was hurtling across the deep blue sky toward the castle, growing larger all the time. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Sooner than she would have liked, the iron and glass gate of the castle appeared, latticework doors opened, and a dozen guards flanked the cobblestone path that led through the archway. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "Best I could afford. Catch me some castle rats and I'll make a special feature. The king's own rats!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Outside, there were shouts of "Fire!" in the yard, screams, running footsteps, the whinny of frightened horses, and the frantic barking of the castle dogs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They had been singing in the sept all morning, since the first report of enemy sails had reached the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Our advance team instructed us that the Queen and Prince Philip were planning to meet us when we landed and then personally drive us back to the castle for lunch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The castle with its towers and battlements looms below them like some misty vision of foregone glory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The duke was ambitious, but certainly not a threat to the castle or its inhabitants. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I didn’t go to the castle,” he said gently, “because I had an accident Something happened to me which was outside my own plans, and after that I went where I was taken.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z All I had to do was fly into the castle and join them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z From this vantage, the distant castle on Aegon's High Hill was directly behind him, with the comet hanging forebodingly over its tow-ers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z First he set fire to the top floor of his castle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Nobody would want Harry to leave the safety of the castle until Black was caught; in fact, Harry suspected his every move would be carefully watched until the danger had passed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Thank you, Mrs. Gause,” said Dr. Zinchenko, striding into the room from a section of the fiction bookshelves that swung open like a hidden passageway in a castle. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z And in the still, cold nights of winter, terrible howls issued from the dark place, as if the castle itself were weeping and moaning. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z "No. I want him taken on to the castle." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A few guards paced along on the gatehouse battlements, but otherwise the castle seemed empty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They march down the hallway, leaving the bloodied form of Baxter behind, prisoners in what has become their castle over the past few weeks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The first years were now moving around the castle in tight-knit groups, as though scared they would be attacked if they ventured forth alone. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Some of them even took her beyond the castle walls, out into the mud and madness of the camp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Finally, they saw the front doors of the castle open in the distance and the rest of the school spilling onto the lawn. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I should have had those beasts put down the day we took the castle, he thought angrily. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As it turned out, the old man never castled. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Rocks came bouncing down horn the castle to crash among them, and arrows and spears as well, but the angle was steep and the missiles seemed to do httle damage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Bran and Rickon have fled," he told the castle folk, watching their eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Theon had captured the castle by stealth, sending his best men to scale the walls and swim the moat under the cover of darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Un-Dead. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Dumbledore’s been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of me!” he hissed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She knew enough about the castle to know that she was on the southern side, and if she went through the game park, she’d reach a stone wall and the Avery River beyond. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “He’s going up to the castle with her!” said Hermione indignantly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Anya let out a laugh that ended with an audible chattering of teeth, and Misha said, “I’m sorry. Let’s get you back to the castle.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The Sixers had installed some type of magical shield over Castle Anorak, a semitransparent dome that completely covered the castle and the area around it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I felt like the princess going up to the castle. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Shapes moved out in the darkness, swirling figures of concentrated blackness, moving in a great wave toward the castle, their faces hooded and their breath rattling.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “They look just like those boots from the old castle,” he said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z So he sent our Grandfather a letter winch bid him to stuff him and garnish him, far within forty days he would fetch him out of the strongest castle that he had!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She was perhaps half an hour from the castle, and her daily ride was three-quarters done. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They came over to inspect my castle keep. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If the castles thought themselves secure, the cabins needn’t worry. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Had they come to take the three of them to the castle? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Rats and ruins. It is a niggard’s gift that costs the giver nothing. Your own man Yarwyck says it will be half a year before the castle can be made fit for habitation.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Reader, you know that the mice of the castle feared the dungeon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The castle was silent and dark as he walked back to his room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As the castle loomed nearer Harry twitched the Cloak to make sure their feet were hidden, then pushed the creaking front doors ajar. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z This was in the castle courtyard, and when the Prince appeared, the Count was, as usual, with him, although, not as usual, the Count seemed preoccupied. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Too bad for the soldier that when the war broke out, curators removed The Night Watch from Het Rijksmuseum, rolling up the canvas and trucking it to a castle in the country somewhere. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They went to the castle gates in silence, and rode up and down in front of them for half an hour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Stay and sleep to the doves cou-rou while we cross the mighty River of the Carp to build our father’s castle in the hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She picks up the card with the knight from where it sits and places it on top of the crumbling castle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Hours later, as the castle slept, three of them paid a call on his cell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It had been making that same noise since the first day I had started building my castle in here. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Arya had been staying as far from the castle as she could get, yet even from a distance she could see the heads rotting atop the high red walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Inside the castle, in the royal chamber of the Pele Tower, King Lot and his consort were laid in the double bed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “That Quidditch Cup’ll have our name on it this year,” said Wood happily as they trudged back up to the castle. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It showed a room that probably was in King Jerrold’s castle, because Char was there and the crest of Kyrria was painted on the wall above a tapestry. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We passed a little boy and his mom doing a sand castle. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Soon, in a matter of centuries, the sea would make an island of the castle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Tell us, have you been setting anything mad and hairy loose in the castle lately?”’ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It’s not the same, though, without Freak along to turn the houses into castles and the swimming pools into moats. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll be back at dawn,” said Filch, “for what’s left of them,” he added nastily, and he turned and started back toward the castle, his lamp bobbing away in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z "The castle folk will turn on us soon as the fight begins." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "It comes to me that Jaime Lannister did not join the hunt the day Bran fell. He remained here in the castle." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Thereafter he scowled whenever he saw Bran or Jojen about the castle, and muttered under his breath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the distance, City College was lit up on the hill, looking like an ancient castle complete with turrets. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We are encouraged to think of this castle as our ancestral home, and of Dame Flora as our spiritual leader. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I think you two are safe to go back to the castle.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He might prefer to cut the castle off from the outside world and starve out its defenders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Every shelf in his office boasted pictures of his kids: building sand castles at the beach, swinging baseball bats, waving from sailboats. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z If not, if the old man gave the command to storm the castle regardless, Winterfell would fall; Theon entertained no delusions on that count. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Green waters surged below, sending up plumes of spray to smash against the foundations of the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They watched the four men climb the castle steps and disappear from view. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The sound hung over the castle like a flag of mourning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But she could see the interior was made of stone, and it seemed to her that the glass castle had been dropped on top of the original building. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "Look at your Shah, Mom. Here's your king sitting in a castle. Bet you never could have imagined this." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the castle, roots were regarded as peasant food. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z At last the term ended, and a silence deep as the snow on the grounds descended on the castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Kyle stared at all the kids blasting through outer space, flinging catapults of fire at castle walls, or scuba diving with dolphins on the glowing game screens surrounding him. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It was a different castle to the one in which King Arthur used to scamper. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent his days as he wanted: He wandered through the rooms of the castle, staring dreamily at the light streaming in through the stained-glass windows. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Hagrid raised a gigantic fist and knocked three times on the castle door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The letters came later, from the Cigrands, Williamses, Smythes, and untold others, addressed to that strange gloomy castle at Sixty-third and Wallace, pleading for the whereabouts of daughters and daughters’ children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They had strong castles and wicked retainers, who found more opportunity for wickedness under their leadership than they would have found in a settled state of society. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a scene that could easily have accommodated, in the distance at least, a medieval castle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “That’s my house right there,” Kasim says as he slows the car down in front of what looks like a castle. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Mermaids, lions, castles, and palm trees swirled with mist when Matt looked inside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We had a lot of dates where we visited the virtual castle. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "A bribe. She begs leave to return to her castle. Your leave as well as mine. I suspect she fears you'll arrest her on the road, as you did Lord Gyles." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Bring down every bird that leaves the castle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She slides out of the castle, smooths her white sweater-dress over her leggings, and adjusts her headband. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z This side of the castle, perhaps a hundred feet high, was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The school was a different world from Jefferson, with a leafy campus straight from a movie: The main building looked like a castle, surrounded by a sprawling lawn of freshly cut grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They didn’t dare build a fire in the castle, though sometimes they would build one outside and huddle around it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “To say the least,” Celaena murmured, watching the shifting colors of the fading sun turn the castle gold and red and blue. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z On our last morning in Paris, we visit the Conciergerie, an old castle that served as a prison during the Revolution. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “What of the lands and castles we were promised?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With stone walls two levels high and small windows, the manor was to me like a castle, high, mighty, and impenetrable. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z As they neared the castle, he saw a third raven flap from the maester’s tower, only to be feathered by Black Balaq himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “If an avatar doesn’t have a copy of the key, he can’t cross the threshold and enter the castle, even if the doors are already open.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “So what should we do? You want to build a sandcastle with a moat? See how long the castle can last? Deepest moat in Cape history.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z As the northern lords studied the castle, a sally port opened, a plank bridge slid across the moat, and a dozen knights rode forth to confront them, led by four of Lord Walder's many sons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The armory adjoined the castle smithy, a long high-roofed tunnel of a building with twenty forges built into its walls and long stone water troughs for tempering the steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I wanted to build a really big castle. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “If she puts a guard around the castle we’ll never get out.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She helped the kid put a shell on top of the castle just before the wave destroyed it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “His body decays in the marble tomb in the grounds of this castle, I have seen it, Potter, and he will not return!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The foundations of die Great Pyramid of Meereen were massive and thick to support the weight of the huge structure overhead; even the interior walls were three times thicker than any castle’s curtain walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the Scientific Revolution, Bacon and Descartes were amongst those with plans for thoroughgoing intellectual change, but their plans were castles in the air, and neither of them imagined what Newton would achieve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Soon or late, they will come to take this castle back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "If you had a hundred archers as good as yourself, you might have a chance to hold the castle," a voice said softly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z People who had occupied the carriages in front were already hurrying up the stone steps into the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps a few months in the castle hadn’t been enough. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I didn’t care about the saints, but I was fascinated by the castles perched on distant hills, the towns on outcroppings with switchbacks leading up to them, the ruins in the shadows. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She remembered a story Old Nan had told once, about a man imprisoned in a dark castle by evil giants. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Same castle, different doors. Don’t forget. I mean it.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Inside the sphere, thousands of power-armored Sixer avatars stood in silent formation, completely encircling the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "Not now. Sweetling, I have . . . well, call it the seed of a plan. I think I might be able to bring you into the castle kitchens." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was worn and shoddy in comparison to the resplendence of the castle, but it was comfortable, and it was her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “And why is that? Do you believe I’m going to kill her? Why would I kill the one person in this castle who isn’t a babbling idiot?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He looked up at the castle and began counting the windows to the right of the West Tower. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The queen had given her freedom of the castle as a reward for being good, yet even so, she was escorted everywhere she went. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Nor can we take it by siege, without an army on the far bank to invest the other castle," Helman Tallhart said gloomily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was an orange moon behind her, and a melting castle. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Night had fallen before Madam Hooch awoke with a start, told Harry and Ron off for not waking her, and insisted that they go back to the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z With these majestic violins, you’d think we were in some castle on the English moor instead of a dingy church basement in Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The castle rose from the shores of Cape Wrath, on a lofty crag of dark red stone surrounded on three sides by the surging waters of Shipbreaker Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z First, there was the castle ruin, and beside it, a lake. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “As long as this boy brings his rat up to the castle” — he jerked his head at Ron — “I’ll come quietly....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Pump boys were feverishly bringing water to the great tubs —it was one of those futile castles, which appear to have originated in Ireland, whose bailey was without a well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, love. No. I didn’t buy a castle.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The roofs fell away from the castle on the hill. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There was nowhere in the castle to summon or hide a creature like that, except for the endless, forgotten chambers and tunnels running beneath it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He knew that not all who lived in the castle were good. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z When I was in the castle, the book flipped open without my help. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He built sand castles with us, and swam and swam until it got dark. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Audience seekers entered the castle through a set of three richly carved doors in its eastern wall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Only avatars who possessed a copy of the Crystal Key could cross the threshold of the castle’s front entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He dared not risk having them on the wrong side of the moat should the castle rise against him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then you say, ‘Who will save the princess in the red castle?’ P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The Queen herself gave orders that a special house with tremendous high ceilings and enormous doors should immediately be built in Windsor Great Park, next to her own castle, for the BFG to live in. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Harry, I’ve been thinking — you know what we’ve got to do, don’t you? Straight away, the moment we get back to the castle?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z "There's folks gathering in the square, Y'Grace, asking to take refuge in the castle. Not a mob, rich merchants and the like." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “De nada”I glanced back through the castle’s open entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Out in the yard, night was settling over the Dreadfort and a full moon was rising over the castle’s eastern walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Outside he heard sobbing as the castle folk were pulled from their beds and driven into the yard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I flopped onto my bed and closed my eyes, imagining the world inside our castle. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like she could go poking about the castle whenever and wherever she pleased, either! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Fifty men inside a castle are worth five hundred outside.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Patches of bright blue sky were beginning to appear over the castle turrets, but these signs of approaching summer did not lift Harry’s mood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Alice’s castle,” I say, clambering up to a ledge where a stone wall with stones placed one on two, two on one, protects a natural cave from rain and wind. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My idol wished always to be first in the telling, to regale others with the story in its fullness, from beginning to end, from miller’s hut to crown and castle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The castle is quiet, and you have guards posted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It showed his avatar, Anorak, sitting in his castle’s library, mixing potions and poring over dusty spellbooks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Lord Eddard was no friend to me, but he was not without some sense. He would have given me these castles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was flour to last for a short time, but the yearly portion from the peasants’ holdings was to have been brought to the castle the following week. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Your lord father had no cause for concern. Why would I want a rock? My manse is large enough for any man, and more comfortable than your drafty Westerosi castles. Master of coin, though...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The entire mouse community, as instructed by the Most Very Honored Head Mouse, had gathered behind the wall of the castle ballroom. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Treasure had been cemented into castle walls, in the form of gold bars, and the builders had been executed afterwards. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z With one long jump, my brother flattened our castle. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z "I give you fair warning. If you force me to take my castle by storm, you may expect no mercy. I will hang you for traitors, every one of you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There was silence in the grounds and from the castle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Didn’t Professor Flitwick let her in earlier this evening, at your urgent request? Perhaps she could open the door for you? Then you needn’t wake up half the castle.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Inside the castle, the guards remained loitering about, talking amongst themselves. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Men called out to him as he crossed the castle yard, but Ned ignored them in his haste. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Tonight I start with three kids who live in a castle and don’t have electricity, and I go from there. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “This shield is going to drop on its own, at noon on Monday, about thirty-six hours from now. And then we’re going to walk right through the castle’s front entrance.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Despite the ostentatious nature of the glass castle, she had to admit that it did look rather beautiful at times. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His enigmatic beauty seemed better suited for dim Gothic chambers and the silence of ruined castles, aristocracy that had cracked around the edges, clothed itself in ivy, and crawled back into the wilderness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She was helping this little kid build a simple sand castle, fast, between when the waves rolled up the shore. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I was showing him around the castle pleasure gardens, which bobbed around us, when a bunch of rich kids came into the lobby from the garage. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For a minute, it was like the castle was important to her again. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I will put an enchantment on him so that he does not wake for six hours. When we have got him safely into my castle, he can choose which of us he will have, himself.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'll return to the castle when I'm ready. When I choose. And not a moment before!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “I have no hesitation in saying that James would have been highly disappointed if his son had never found any of the secret passages out of the castle.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The redbrick armory stood in the distance on Bedford and Atlantic Avenues like a fortress, or as Uncle Darnell would tell us, like a princess’s castle. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “The Welsh, yonder, long have wanted this castle, for it be strong. Now, with fog to help, and so few to guard the walls, there is chance they might get it, God forbid.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “He moves into the toy castle with the ballerina and they live happily ever after—no melted heart, no burnt paper, nothing but their blissful love.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He grew up in his father’s castle, far from the sight and smell of suffering, much less the experience of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They walk across and pose for me in front of the clown jumping castle. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z But then, how could this man have built her a house, then a castle, then brought her here? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But with the threat gone and his family arrived from Dresden, Tycho began to settle in at the castle, sending his eldest son back to Denmark to fetch four large observing instruments from Hveen. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He was wandering the empty castle, searching for his fa-ther, descending into the crypts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “There are ... there are hundreds of Lannister guardsmen in this castle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One of the tricky things about castles was getting your turrets lined up. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z They dreamed of finding abandoned mansions in the woods and vanishing into secret chambers in ancient castles. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z All would make for useful hostages if and when Red Ronnet should return to try and take back the castle that his father had stolen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Hoots!” cried various auld wives who were in the castle delivering eggs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Above it all, the glass castle loomed, so high she had to tilt her head back to see the uppermost towers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z That was not the only astonishing thing: Caitlin's house was as big as a castle, and in one photo, she was wearing jewelry on her teeth. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She likes helping second and third graders build castles. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z His habit was to his captives into his grimly castle, where he took off all their clothes and whacked them to his heart’s content, as a hobby. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was another difficult journey through the castle, dodging all the teachers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It had been built above the original stone castle, and cost a kingdom’s wealth to construct. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He was walking back to the tower to give himself up to sleep at last when Sandor Clegane and his riders came pounding through the castle gate, back from their hunt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He knew there were true dungeons down in the castle cellars—oubliettes and torture chambers and dank pits where huge black rats scrabbled in the darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When I’d cleared the Third Gate, the eighteen Sixer avatars who were still inside had been ejected from the gate and deposited in front of the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “We can take him to the castle infirmary!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It seemed a long journey from my father’s quarters at the outskirts of the castle to Gertrude’s rooms at the heart of Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t it be...forgive me...more prudent to call off this battle, enter the castle, and seek him y-yourself?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Lord Tywin's host was still many days to the south . . but Walder Frey, Lord of the Crossing, had assembled a force of near four thousand men at his castles on the Green Fork. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The walk from the outer wall to the main castle gate was slanted slightly down, not much of an incline, but a steady one. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She left the castle and went deep into the woods. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “I’m a shepherd, and I have been to many places, but I come from only one place—from a city near an ancient castle. That’s where I was born.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "My lady, you are safely back among your own now, a day's ride from your brother's castle. Give me leave to go." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I swear. I didn’t buy a castle. I didn’t.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I shall join you in the castle shortly,” he said in his high, cold voice. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We entered the prison yard near a corner of the main structure, beneath a guard tower that stuck out from the outer walls like a castle’s turret. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He had never thought to find a stone castle on the far side of the Wall, but he had pictured some sort of motte-and-bailey with a wooden palisade and a timber tower keep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z SD-03 continued rolling directly to the center of the roof, where a high-level Sixer wizard sat holding the Orb of Osuvox—the artifact generating the spherical shield around the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I know all these men by their deeds. We should be fitting them for nooses, not giving them our castles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z These castles were about one foot high and were decorated with shells, withered flowers, and interesting stones. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z If she is also thinking about Jack and Sarah stealing through the hobgoblin king’s castle, looking for a way to the dungeons to free the fairy princess. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Dad drives me over to Tim’s house, which is as big as a castle. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Beyond the castle walls, a roar of sound went up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z How they managed to get the crate back up to the castle, they never knew. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z And there were little arched bridges coming out of three sides of the castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He would miss the shelves of books he'd left behind in the castle. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "One of the king's own. A horse can always find his way home, can't it? That fine beast will make for the castle stables, note and crown. No questions asked!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Then I spun around, powered on my jet boots, and flew into the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For the moment, the whole castle had quieted to hear the falling snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I searched high and low until my breath grew labored, but I found the castle strangely deserted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” he said, when he was right under the mysterious figure, “but can you tell me the way back to Sir Ector’s castle?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It had never occurred to Harry that there would be exams with the castle in this state. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Sure, she had money, but it was her parents who each had a car and bought the castle that Caitlin lived in. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Thank the gods I gave you rooms in the stone castle. I’d hate for you to be uncomfortable.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "And where we end. Esgred is yours, sweet prince. Take me to your castle. Let me see your proud towers rising from the sea." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I no longer noticed the press of the crowd, nor its unwashed smell for I was no longer there among them, but in a castle in Denmark. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but you wouldn’t be able to Apparate in here, not in the castle...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Farms, villages, castles, septs, bams, it made no matter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There were no castles, dungeons, or orbiting space fortresses for my avatar to raid. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They were halfway toward the castle when Harry, glancing to his left, saw something that made his heart turn over — a pair of eyes, gleaming out of the darkness. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They have castles like in the movie Aladdin. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I walk around the graveyard in the old abbey at Mungret where my mother’s relations are buried and I go up the boreen to the Norman castle at Carrigogunnell where Dad brought me twice. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Wizards trained on Roke went commonly to cities or castles, to serve high lords who held them in high honor. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “How did you get out of the castle?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When the bell sounded from the castle at the end of their lesson, the three of them dropped their trowels at once and hurried through the grounds to the edge of the forest. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “I trust I have more fields to plant than when you went into that castle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Eilonwy, listen,” Taran interrupted, “if there are tunnels and passages under the castle—can you get to the other cells? Is there a way outside?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I had fantasized about how wonderful it would be to get inside the huge beautiful castle I knew as Central High School. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The castle was darker than it usually was in daytime because of the thick, swirling gray snow at every window. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z No, but I don’t trust you in the castle in my absence. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Genie took one hesitant step forward, then another, until he saw, tucked between all the foliage, five birdcages all made of wood and wire and set up like small castles. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z "We shall not be going to the castle. Perhaps.you can suggest an inn, someplace clean and comfortable and not too far from the river." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was when I looked up at a lifeboat on the bridge castle that I started to worry. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He slipped past her with a whispered “Thanks!” and set off through the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z People shouted below, and the light bouncing off the glass castle blinded her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "Drink to our understanding. I promise, there are no boars in the castle that I know of." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Ahead, Cain turned a corner, heading north—back toward the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the king’s own castle, against the king’s law, right under the king’s very nose, Cook was making soup! The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z As they directed their steps back toward the castle, Harry saw that many of its windows were lit now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z On the grounds were the ruins of a castle where the wicked king, Henry VIII, had shut up one of his wives. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She had difficulty imagining that such a space could be forgotten in a castle filled with so many people, but— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Harry climbed onto the windowsill to look right down into the shadows of the castle, but they weren’t there. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z How could Stannis cross to the north bank* Belatedly he realized that the deck was turning, and somehow he had gotten spun about, so castle and battle had changed sides. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A common boy was kept in the castle to be punished in his place. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z It was like a room in Sleeping Beauty’s castle, with cobwebbed candles mounted in wall sconces, a mirrored vanity table topped with crystal bottles, and a giant oak bed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The rooks look like castles and travel in forward, backward and side-to-side lines across the whole board. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z In the glass castle—no, in the stone castle beneath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But instead of heading for the castle, he banked and flew straight at Sorrento, closing the distance between them in the space of a few seconds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Some passed the castle to their own sons and grandsons, and offshoot branches of House Stark had arisen; the Greystarks had lasted the longest, holding the. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t listen to them. My Lancelot must stay in the castle, and there will be a happy ending.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Schmid’s castle housed the largest known privately owned chess library in the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Are you having a tour of the castle?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I followed Hamlet through a maze of corridors to a far tower in a wing of the castle where I had never been. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The buildings were like castles in pictures and we who had cleaned up everybody’s mess since the beginning knew better than anybody how to keep them nice. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So,” said Wood, at long last, jerking Harry from a wistful fantasy about what he could be eating for breakfast at this very moment up at the castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z "Kings are allowed to stay home alone in their castles, Mom." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On the south side of fire castle, moss grew thick upon the palisade and crept halfway up the towers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One glance was sufficient to tell Catelyn that the castle would not be taken by storm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He saw Winterfell as the eagles see it, the tall towers looking squat and stubby from above, the castle walls just lines in the dirt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Have I mentioned that beneath the castle there was a dungeon? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I held a porcelain castle no bigger than my two fists, with six wee towers, each ending in a miniature candle holder. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z While they were sitting in the castle on Wednesday, it began suddenly to rain so hard that water came through the top of the shack in icy streams. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z His pride in his work spilled over into our home, where he was clearly the king of the castle, even if the castle was just a modest apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Move side to side,” instructed Furlough, scrabbling across the waxed castle floor. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Their Booming Tower was named for its immense bronze bell, rung of old to call the townsfolk and farmhands into the castle when longships were sighted on the western horizon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After some searching, I found them rehearsing in the castle foyer, Hamlet directing their actions. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Beneath the floor the sea was rumbling and restless, pounding at the castle’s feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The creature that was lurking somewhere in the castle, he thought, sounded like a sort of monster Voldemort — even other monsters didn’t want to name it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z At five to three they left the castle and made their way across the grounds. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Harry was pleased to get out of the castle after lunch. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Hello from a castle in Scotland, where my father ate a haggis. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The appearance of the sign in the entrance hall had a marked effect upon the inhabitants of the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She peered into the gloom of the hidden castle. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The castle maids and guards kept their distance from Roza and her ferocious new companion. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “I hear that you are wont to throw off your skirts and swim! That you run about the castle grounds rousting with boys!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z So that evening after dinner, the three of them left the castle once more and went down through the frozen grounds to Hagrid’s cabin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Loki said, “Tell me about last night, in the castle. Was that illusion too?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Why else would Maegor the Cruel have ordered death for all the builders who had worked on his castle, except to preserve such secrets? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Beyond the castle walls, winter was waiting with its icy teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She’d seen Nehemia’s rooms; there were no signs of a demon beast lurking about, and nowhere in the castle where she could— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Dorian put his hands in his pockets as he strode down the halls of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was a village under the castle of Corbin, which seemed a prosperous one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If the swords came out his chances of getting back to the castle alive were small to none. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lady Whent had held the castle as bannerman to House Tully, but she'd used only the lower thirds of two of the five towers, and let the rest go to ruin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Gareth untied her hair—and suddenly she was off, running for all she was worth away from the tragedy, toward the castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Away from the gates and the stables, the great castle was largely deserted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had surrounded the central, older Tower like sentinels, and the castle had wrapped around the whole of it like a snake eating its tail. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Sarah and Jack and the clover elves are just about to celebrate their victory over the troll army when an ogre kidnaps Jack and sweeps him off to the hobgoblin king’s castle. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He goes on to explain that he’s footing the bill for all these ‘castles in the air,’ as he calls them, gesturing to the paintings. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The cockpit canopy popped off, and I jumped free of the falling mech a split second before it impacted on the castle steps, killing several dozen of the avatars crowded there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The journey through the dark and deserted castle corridors wasn’t enjoyable. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z On its surface, darkened by near three hundred years of varnish, were painted the Seven Kingdoms as they had been in Aegon's day; rivers and mountains, castles and cities, lakes and forests. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps, when she was outside this very strange castle, or when she was not doing that kind of magic to tempt the appetite, she was able to assume more beautiful forms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a castle made entirely out of food, except that on the highest tower of all a carrion crow was sitting, with an arrow in its beak. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gawaine,” he asked painfully, “don’t follow me. I will accept the banishment. I will live in my Preach castles. But don’t follow me, Gawaine. Don’t keep the war forever.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For both women the castle was suddenly too dark, too empty, too lonely, too northerly, too full of night and winter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, the lady appeared in the castle—as stated by the feigned priest—and she confirmed the story. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z With slow, silent strokes I would glide until I reached the bend where the brook curved away from the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z After a few songs some black brothers remembered skills learned at the courts and castles of their youth, before their sins had sent them to the Wall, and took the floor as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It’s only the wind,” the people of the castle assured each other, “nothing but the wind. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z "Nothing you have not done before. Only land a boat beneath the castle, unseen, in the black of night. Can you do that?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z People like France, so that ended the conversation, even though the French kings pooped right in the hallways of their castles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z All the same, one morning the castle woke to the sound of the little dog barking wildly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It surely wasn’t Hogwarts; he had never seen a room like that here in the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z There was no rubble from the destroyed castle, and no wreckage from the thousands of spaceships and aircraft that had filled the sky a few moments ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And the prince replied, "I won't go back to the castle unless you go with me." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Then I left the castle, intending to seek the mallow root I had promised for Elnora’s medicine. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Conant knew Lawrence well enough to have confidence he was not drawing castles in the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Miniature golf was ruined with a lengthy dissertation on impact, trajectory, and wind velocity, and our sand castles were critiqued with stifling lectures on the dynamics of the vaulted ceiling. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Harry reached the castle, slipped in through the front doors, and began to climb the marble stairs; he was very out of breath, but he didn’t dare slow down. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Chaol remained silent until they entered the stone castle, when he turned to her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The strange threesome made their way down the golden stairs of the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He knew that something was wrong, that something had changed in his castle—something to do with her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z High above the dungeon, upstairs, in the castle, a small mouse stood alone one evening as his brothers and sisters sniffed for crumbs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Theon made his way deeper into the ruined parts of the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “If she comes, tell her to hide at her castle ruins...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Two small castles, scarcely altered since the Middle Ages, stood in the center of the island and could be explored by curious children. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There is something in this venture, worth more to you than coin or castles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When that doesn’t work, they accept it, along with their usual plastic plants and little castle. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something wild about a godswood; even here, in the heart of the castle at the heart of the city, you could feel the old gods watching with a thousand unseen eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z For twenty minutes, we explored my castle in the air together. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Deep within the castle, there was a dungeon I called the Pit of Id, which was a murky place with thin staircases leading through dank air. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She knew how she appeared, seated atop a horse like some prize lady being brought to the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z To Laney’s disappointment, Goethals Hall wasn’t the huge castle building visible from the Vanderbeekers’ brownstone roof. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Later, of course, they would, when he was lying in bed or sitting in the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z If so, the guards would raise the drawbridge, cutting off Maegor's Holdfast from the outer castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But then — when they had walked so far around the perimeter of the forest that the castle and the lake were out of sight — Harry heard something. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Now it was hard to hear on the castle walls, now it was gone from the castle walls. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She imagined that the whole world was asleep, enchanted by the sea-green light of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Now that they were married, they needed a bigger, nicer place than what they currently occupied in the castle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z No one had given him freedom of the castle, but no one had denied it to him either. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “His Grace has seen victory in his fires,” Foxglove said, “a victory that will be sung of for a thousand years in lord’s castle and peasant’s hut alike.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To this my father added our few possessions that were fine enough for our mean castle lodgings: some embroidered cushions, goose-feather bedding, and pieces of silver plate. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then, wand held out in front of him, he moved them away toward the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Wherefore, husband, I counsel you that we depart from hence suddenly, that we may ride all night to our own castle.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The councillors and politicians began their procession from the castle, followed by guards surrounding the king and queen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There is a grand stone castle in the distance behind her, and she is dashing toward the rustic stables. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z "Stone walls cannot be fired. How are we to take them? We do not have the numbers to storm even a small castle." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sounds of the city vanished as they passed under another arch, this one made of sparkling glass, and then the castle rose before them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z That night in the great hall the victors feasted on roast meats and fresh-caught fish, washed down with rich red wines from the castle cellars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’m going back to the castle. The princess can’t avoid me forever.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z So it was just bluster that you might never go back to the castle. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I hurried back to the castle, thankful that the black curtain of night concealed me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Under the doors of the castle the piercing blasts tortured the flapping rushes of the floors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Shall I name my longship after you, and play you the high harp, and keep you in a tower room in my castle with only jewels to wear, like a princess in a song?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were greeted with cheers at the castle gate and followed across the courtyard to the inner gate and to the keep by the cheering crowd. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z It would be easy to find her way back to the castle, she reasoned, because she could see it up on the hill, and she just had to keep heading that way. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I took a long look at the sea of avatars around us, then shifted my attention to the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the afternoon, I haunted the busy outer courtyard of the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z So Lancelot must be stopped at all costs, until the castle had been put in posture of defence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They were still inside the castle, with every gate closed and barred and the battlements thick with sentries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Let’s find a place to build our castle stronghold.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z "Can I be a king's councillor and build castles and become the High Septon?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “We will take you to the castle and they will set you up fine. You no longer will be a slave. Tou will be a paid servant. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Purplish-gray clouds hung low over the castle and a constant fall of chilly rain made the lawns slippery and muddy. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She glanced longingly at the glass windows that lined the wall of the castle, and then at the frost-covered garden. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The place was a town, not a castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared to our airy house that rose above the village streets, the castle rooms felt close, dark, and damp. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There was another castle half-way up the single mast, which gave it the appearance of a dovecote. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Picture also the interiors of such castles as were visible from Guenever’s window. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, after about a minute, he stood up and strode away, not back to the castle, but off out into the dark grounds in the direction of his cabin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I am planning to allow some Muggles to glimpse me soon, a long way from Hogwarts, so that the security on the castle will be lifted. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The castle was not ready for a siege—but if it could be got ready, there would be a fair prospect of making terms with the besiegers, considering that the Queen would be inside. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But now she remembered the castle—she remembered! The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Shagwell the Fool hacked the heads off two dead knights and pranced about the castle swinging them by the hair and making them talk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The wheelhouse in which they had ridden, a huge double-decked carriage of oiled oak and gilded metal pulled by forty heavy draft horses, was too wide to pass through the castle gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Me and Vega walked quiet for a while until he asked me again about my castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z With both Robett and Galbart warring in the south, it would be lightly held, and once the castle fell the ironmen would have a secure base in the heart of the north. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I am only a guest there. The castle and the town belong to Lady Dustin, and she cannot abide you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “No, it’s okay, Mr. Bagman,” said Harry, suppressing a smile, “I think I can find the castle on my own, thanks.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Outside the main gate he reined up, and one of his men shouted for the castle to open. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They entered a part of the castle that Celaena had never seen before. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Will the castle look like heaven, such as Saint John saw? Will it have towers sparkling with gold and bright gems?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We read he’s building himself an actual castle with spires and a moat near Brussels, to provide a respite, I guess, from his villas in Paris and Spain and Italy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The bell rang overhead in the castle and both Hermione and Ron jumped to their feet, looking terrified. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z "They don't like being walled up, and who's to blame them? Wild things belong in the wild, not in a castle." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Something evil dwells in this castle, something wicked enough to make the stars quake. Its malice echoes into all worlds,” the queen went on. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Celaena dangled from the stone wall of the castle, her legs trembling as she dug her tar-covered fingers and toes into the cracks between the giant blocks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She was a French mouse who had arrived at the castle long ago in the luggage of a visiting French diplomat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Only a thin trickle of food was coming into King's Landing, most of it earmarked for castle and garrison. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She still loved to ride, and every afternoon, weather permitting or not, she rode alone for several hours in the wild land beyond the castle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But any house in which a man is free is a castle when compared to even the plushest prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They set off back toward the castle, walking slowly to keep themselves hidden under the cloak. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The vuvv reaches up with a limb and flips through images of my paintings of castles, mountains, and walled towns. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "The castle won't grow no smaller, I promise you that, only now there'll be fewer hands to tend to it. You lot of slugabeds are going to learn what work is now, yes you are." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The wicked people burned our castle on the hill. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not my line o' work in the castle, Smudge." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z They were falling, gathering speed, heading straight for the solid castle wall. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Dorian watched his friend disappear into the castle, and then returned to the assassin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They left the castle at noon the next day to find a weak silver sun shining down upon the grounds. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z We dug a secret bunker deep beneath the castle and locked the crates inside. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Oh, what a lovely landscape!' for instance, or, ‘That’s a very fine castle!’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The castle was starving; no good would be served by Jaime stealing food from their mouths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "See that my litter is readied, I'll be leaving the castle as soon as I'm done here." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When they had first come to King's Landing, she used to have bad dreams about getting lost in the castle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They were walking back up to the castle with the rest of the class. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Half a mile from the castle, she passed through a large encampment where the scarlet banner of the Blackwoods waved above the lord's tent. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Next time he was in Hogsmeade, Harry decided as he walked back up the stone steps into the castle, he was going to buy Dobby a pair of socks for every day of the year. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Achren had learned of his escape, Taran guessed, for at the moment of the castle’s destruction, she had sent out a company of guards. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Wood creaked, canvas cracked, and water splashed, so loudly a man might swear the castle was sure to hear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z No one must ever see the tattoo that tied Matt to Dreamland and to the vampire who lived in its castle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She sang with those inside the castle walls and those without, sang with all the city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She couldn’t believe how much work I’d put into the castle for her. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And with that she left the balcony, reappeared a moment later on the great steps of the castle and, quite alone, walked open-armed down into the crowd. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In this Vision there is a description of a castle made out of different kinds of food. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be singing and caroling in the Hall and Robin remembered his father’s letter and hoped that Christmas would bring his father and mother to the castle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z One of the good wizards from the castle—no one remembers his name—saw the Witch on her fearsome dragon as they flew across the broken land. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z On the other side, the staircase continued downward—in fact, it went so far down that she wondered if she were beneath the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Percival had gone off, crying, and Johnny was left in triumphant possession of the castles. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Robin looked up in amazement, for there, rising high against the racing clouds, stood a town with a church tower and castle complete. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I myself have no memories of sand castles, but there must be some sense memory attached, because I feel I know how to do this, how to shape this. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Eventually, a team of gunters tried to dig a tunnel under the dome wall, and that was when it was discovered that the shield was actually a complete sphere surrounding the castle, above- and belowground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Eyrie was a small castle by the standards of the great houses; seven slender white towers bunched as tightly as arrows in a quiver on a shoulder of the great mountain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Professor McGonagall, please go to Mr. Filch at once and tell him to search every painting in the castle for the Fat Lady.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z And upstairs in the castle, the princess had met a mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The industry of Angolans doesn’t subsidize foreigners, or any castles with moats, and their children are likely to get vaccinations and learn to read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "You may live in the castle, but you're only a whipping boy. Do as we say!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He carefully strategized its safekeeping and after much deliberation the twenty-seven crates were secretly shipped to the castle museum in Königsberg. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I almost felt relieved until I heard the sound of bronze gongs high in the castle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them?” said Jo, after a little pause. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z White families had gathered as usual, looking forward to a lazy Sunday away from work and household chores, a chance to relax, children entertaining themselves with sand castles and water play. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "There's our castle, Your Young Majesty," he said, chuckling. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the castle, King's Landing rose on its hills behind the encircling walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z From there the lord of the castle could look down on his walls and battlements, and be-yond, to where the waters met. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Pierre told a good story: one meeting of his secret society had, he assured Boyle, been disrupted by disgruntled employees who had blown up the castle in which the society was meeting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Harry had prowled the castle at night many times before, but never had his heart hammered this fast, never had so much depended on his safe passage through the place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He scratched and pluttered away, and laboriously bit the end of his pen, and the castle room darkened about him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On her first day on the job as a castle servant, she was sent to deliver a spool of red thread to the princess. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The only thing that seemed to help was building my castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Holmes led him into the castle and upstairs to a windowless room with a heavy door. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “We’d better get them up to the castle and tell someone,” said Harry, pushing his hair out of his eyes, trying to think straight. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Ned Stark’s tree, he drought, and Stark’s wood, Stark’s castle, Stark’s sword, Stark’s gods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Time enough for such play at the castle, in the privacy of his chambers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Alan was a gruff old fellow, for he was long hours in attendance on duty and was responsible for the safety of all within the castle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The sun was well up now, and the castle was stirring. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He had a man's needs, after all, and they had spent that year apart, Ned off at war in the south while she remained safe in her father's castle at Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Biscuit tins with sumptuous pictures of English castles and ladies with bustles and ringlets. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that they were approaching the castle and strained his ears to distinguish, above the gleeful voices of the Death Eaters and their tramping footsteps, signs of life from those within. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The Starks were made for the cold, he would tell her, and she would laugh and tell him in that case they had certainly built their castle in the wrong place. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “The castle entrance will open for an avatar who holds a copy of the Crystal Key,” I explained. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Their path through the castle took them from the opulence outside the throne room into gradually less grand areas. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z When at last she had regained a grip on herself, she, Harry, and Ron went back to the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Come out of the castle now, kneel before me, and you shall be spared. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When they were gone, the albino came out, pulled the cups from the corpse, decided to burn the body on the garbage pyre back behind the castle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And the people who lived in the castle—not just the wizards and scholars, but the cooks and scribes and assistants as well. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The boat had a sort of castle at each end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “A castle and a bishop and a couple of pawns, at least until you get the hang of it. Come on. It’ll be something new for us to do.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The carriage picked up speed on the long, sloping drive up to the castle; Hermione was leaning out of the tiny window, watching the many turrets and towers draw nearer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He followed Jack toward the castle where the ground rose slightly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "Tell me of your father. Will he welcome me kindly to his castle?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Although Johnny might have been more cordially received by Merchant Lyte, he was satisfied enough with his welcome to build up air castles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They have one tower built, and Spencer checks the box to make sure they are building the second tower just like in the medieval castle in the picture. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “He’s asking us to leave the castle at night and he knows security’s a million times tighter and how much trouble we’d be in if we were caught.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I am told you have been wandering the castle,” Lord Bolton began. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His feeling of elation increasing, Harry strode off through the castle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The Watch had once manned seventeen castles along the hundred leagues of the Wall, but they had been abandoned one by one as the brotherhood dwindled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Mama and Papa let him stay with the tsarevna because the tsar specifically asked for him, and they don’t want to make enemies in the castle.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The king of Mutal, the biggest and most cosmopolitan city-state in the Maya world, he lived and worked in a sprawling castle a few hundred yards away from the great temples at the city’s heart. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "I was never very safe in my father's castle either." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Nan had come to the castle as a wet nurse for a Brandon Stark whose mother had died birthing him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The ruins of an old castle clung to the ridge. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I imagine a lonely queen in a cliff-top castle, looking out at her subjects below. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Outside the castle, the starlings and green plover searched anxiously in the stiff grass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I was through it, I turned around just in time to see the Crystal Gate transform into a large wooden door set into the castle wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As Ser Kevan made his way across the inner ward, the castle seemed an alien place, where every keep and tower had grown icy teeth, and all familiar paths had vanished beneath a white blanket. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He really knew they were air castles, for at bottom he was hard-headed, not easily taken in even by his own exuberant imagination. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “The curse didn’t even make it into the castle. Not what you’d call foolproof.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There’s a good smith up at the castle. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The yard was still, the great castle lost in haunted dreams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z An eccentric nobleman of my acquaintance, some years ago, quietly bought a castle without telling his wife. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Outdoors we strolled through the castle gardens while I kept listening for chimes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There had been other places, remote villages like this one, houses, abandoned farms, even a fortified castle once. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They completed their walk in silence, and when they parted ways, Celaena quickly wished Nehemia a pleasant evening before striding to her part of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Excuse me, sir,” said the Wart, “but can you tell me the way to Sir Ector’s castle, if you don’t mind?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “And since you seem unable to stop them, I wish to change some plans. All the gates have been sealed to my castle except the front one, yes?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But the gate was now floating in midair, suspended several dozen meters above the planet’s surface, over the crater that had been created by the destruction of the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A moment later, Aech emerged from the castle entrance and ran over to join us. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The visitors poured through the castle gates in a river of gold and silver and polished steel, three hundred strong, a pride of bannermen and knights, of sworn swords and freeriders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I do talk about “after the war,” but it’s as if I were talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Grawp came lurching around the corner of the castle; only now did Harry realize that Grawp was, indeed, an undersized giant. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Like some giant crab, all spines and legs, but larger than a castle. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I go up the steps and enter a stone castle. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The imposing brick buildings on the campus looked like castles. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Despereaux’s sister Merlot took him into the castle library, where light came streaming in through tall, high windows and landed on the floor in bright yellow patches. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z And Ser Loras was young, prone to all the rash judgments of youth, and had been grievously wounded storming the castle besides. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This afternoon, he had stood on the castle wall, and that had happened to Hooper, the soul had flown from his body. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Leave him alone, Hermione, he’s earned a bit of a break,” said Ron, and he placed the last two cards on top of the castle and the whole lot blew up, singeing his eyebrows. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “That allows time for all companies to be in place, and with the sounding of the bell to move in about the town and castle wall at once.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Yet as I was riding up, I saw Tully banners flying from the castle walls, and the direwolf of Stark as well. That would seem to suggest that Lord Tytos has not been subdued.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the living room Daddy made a big fuss over my castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Sheep and swine huddled in their pens while the castle dogs ran free. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The building reminds me of that piece in chess that looks like a castle. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That was Edmure's battle out there on the river; hers was here inside the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They set off together, leaving the inn and the harbor behind them, up past the castle of Lord Botley into the stony hills. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was brought from the castle by Szgany, and probably they delivered their cargo to Slovaks who took the boxes to Varna, for there they were shipped for London. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The land under the castle swelled—it rose and rose and rose, and great plumes of smoke and ash came billowing from its center. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z "Will we be going back to the castle now, my lord?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Jack-that time you went the whole way to the castle rock." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He remembered the old stories about Maegor the Cruel, who murdered all the masons who la-bored on his castle, so they might never reveal its secrets. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then the bell rang up at. the castle, signaling the end of the lesson. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z "With the Mud Gate under assault? Folly. Tell Ser Osmund I want him out of there at once, it's too dangerous. Fetch him back to the castle." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Had he not climbed to the towers and turrets of the castle many times? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She decided she’d rather freeze walking back to the castle, and she scrambled out of her seat. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They were carried along a dark tunnel, which seemed to be taking them right underneath the castle, until they reached a kind of underground harbor, where they clambered out onto rocks and pebbles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z "A strong castle, and well garrisoned, but His Grace shall have it, if I must kill every living soul within to make it so." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “He hid the diadem in the castle, the night he asked Dumbledore to let him teach!” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Across rain-sodden fields and stony ridges, she could see the great castle of Storm's End rearing up against the sky, its back to the unseen sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The Prince picked the spot himself, in the quietest, remotest corner of the castle grounds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z That’s what I thought, anyway, as we rode in the sweet-smelling car, through the garden estate of the emir, past marble beds full of black tulips, to his castle by the sea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The castle dominated the broad fertile valley that maps and men alike called Blackwood Vale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I am alone in the castle with those awful women. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In the castle yard, when King Pelles had gone dot-and- carry downstairs, there was quite a crowd of castle folk standing round the Wild Man in admiration. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long the whole thing collapsed with a tremendous crash and the startled Humbug leaped to his feet just in time to see the castle drifting slowly off into space. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z They heard uproar from the distant boundary of the school as what sounded like hundreds of people came swarming over the out-of-sight walls and pelted toward the castle, uttering loud war cries. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They rose above the tallest towers of the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had left the Hogwarts grounds completely; they had obviously traveled miles — perhaps hundreds of miles — for even the mountains surrounding the castle were gone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Trees loomed just beyond the stream: she must be in the back of the castle—the side that faced the sea... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Roza woke in the dark chill of her castle prison, the taste of honey on her lips. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A hooded figure came swifidy down the front steps of the castle. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z "If my sister can take a castle, so can I." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The unfortunate Rabadash appeared to be suspended from the castle walls. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Brangwain Spurge and the archivist Werfel stood for several minutes, staring around in wonder at what they could see of the underground castle that stretched above them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Do you think Black’s still in the castle?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z All the field, and all the people in the field, and all the towers of the castle, seemed to be jumping up and down like the surface of a lake under rain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Karstarks came in on a cold windy morning, bringing three hundred horsemen and near two thousand foot from their castle at Karhold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But there was another way out of the castle . A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I tensed my shoulders and started rearranging blocks on one of the castle’s towers. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z "It's castle- forged steel, you stupid," she snapped, turning in the saddle to glare at them, "and you better shut your mouth." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The four guards were the only ones left inside the castle, for the Prince needed no spectators to the events that were soon to happen. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z "What else would you call it? Father sits in one castle, and Robb Stark sits in another, and no one does anything." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Outside the castle window, it was summer and she had her own lake, and there was a stone library for her with a big Renaissance-y window. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If there were such a goddess in a book of olden tales, she would be the villain, tormenting the innocent from her high castle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A company of knights and men at arms rode toward the castle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Nox left early that night, slipping out of the castle without a word to anyone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He was making good money, living in a big Victorian house, and it looked as if he’d found his castle at last. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The towers of a castle on the cliffs peek through the distant mist. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He imagined enemy horsemen thundering over the grass towards the castle, hundreds of them, bunched tight together at the front and widening out behind in the shape of a fan. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z A distant fanfare sounded, announcing an arrival at the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Welcome to my humble castle! Make yourself at home.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z No harder than asking them to give up their coin and castles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had topped a low ridge now, and below them the whole scene suddenly opened out; a little, many-towered castle with its gate towards them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z At the castle, for the first time in her young life, Mig had enough to eat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z One night it was an exhibition of trained police dogs at the castle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My stomach complained for its supper and my back cried out for its bed, but I finally had a suitable castle for my winged herd. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This story begins within the walls of a castle, with the birth of a mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z From that point on the path led through a wood and downward toward the valley of a stream which joined the one surrounding the castle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The thick walls shut out the clamor of the castle, and he could hear birds singing, the murmur of crickets, leaves rustling in a gentle wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Geyer found the city transfixed by the revelations emerging from the castle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After an audience with the Emperor, he was appointed Imperial Mathematician, granted a good income and offered a choice of three castles in which to set up his observatory. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “But I wish we went actually out more. The fake castle’s nice, but I want to meet more people from school.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a moment before they caught—a moment just long enough for the falcon to fly over them and to settle inside the castle, and then, with a whoomph, they burst into flame. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z "He was no man of Winterfell, m'lady, but some says they seen him here and about the castle these past few weeks." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “How about I distract him while the three of you cut around and head for the castle entrance?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The tour guide said that George was so heartbroken that he never visited the castle again, but kept it as a shrine to his wife. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I circled the castle mews and followed the hedgerows past the fields and beyond the village. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Instead, it was like a miniature version of the more impressive castle. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I did not look behind me at the castle where I had been brought up to be a lady, favored by a queen, courted by a prince, and then betrayed by him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He threw his daughter from the castle and had the bridge drawn up behind her so that she could not return. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Inside the castle, the mood had grown more hopeful. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Beside her, Nox swore colorfully when his dagger hit the third ring on his target, and her smile broadened, despite the shredded corpse that lay somewhere in the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Big Henryk, are we going to sleep in a castle tonight in big soft beds and eat all the chocolates we want and the Jackboots will be our servants?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The walls would have shamed any proper castle, and the ornamental iron spikes along the top looked strangely naked without heads to adom them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Tell me about how you became Adarlan’s Assassin, and how you wound up in this castle, exactly—and what the details are of this absurd competition.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Dear old Hogwarts,” he said, looking up at the castle and smiling; his teeth were rather yellow, and Harry noticed that his smile did not extend to his eyes, which remained cold and shrewd. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z That was what I had named my Lego castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I think he had expected something the size of when he had seen my castle on Late Christmas. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I hear voices approaching so I throw everything into Max's backpack and steal out of the castle, ignoring my hunger pains. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She’d win, and serve the king, and then vanish into nothing, and think no more of castles or kings or assassins. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z On the opposite side of the castle, there are moss-covered boulders. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A Karhidish village is like an ancient castle of Earth in having few or no separate, private dwellings. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The rooms of the main castle—which he could see from the windows—were mostly small, because people can’t afford to build for luxury when they are making a fortification. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was waiting for the moment when Ron’s labeled dot would reappear in the corridors of Hogwarts, proving that he had returned to the comfortable castle, protected by his status of pureblood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z With a roar that shook the castle, the ridderak ran for her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Behind them the ancient castle loomed against file stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Lily and Snape were walking across the castle courtyard, evidently arguing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Squirrels prepared their winter hoard; ants labored in their earthen castles. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z "I'll get where I'm going, and you can find your own way back to the castle." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Through their thick, diamond-shaped panes of yellow glass Jaime glimpsed the gnarled limbs of the tree from which the castle took its name. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen,” observed Jo mysteriously. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z His reputation with women was well known in the castle—so well known that he had to seize courtiers as they arrived or go into Rifthold for a different sort of woman. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We built sand castles, ran in the surf, rode a merry-go-round, a miniature train, and bumper cars. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But the man who was leading them up to the castle was wearing furs of a different sort: sleek and silver, like his hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He remembered, from his reading, descriptions of besieged medieval castles, and armies of men with bows sending so many arrows that the sky seemed thick with them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They were hampered, of course, by the fact that they weren’t allowed to wander off on their own but had to move around the castle in a pack with the other Gryffindors. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Some of them, in fact, did not ever find their way out again and died there in the dark heart of the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He was there, as huge and shaggy and ugly as always, but the castle had vanished. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Potter has work to do in the castle on Dumbledore’s orders. We need to put in place every protection of which we are capable while Potter does what he needs to do.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When Arthur had been unable to take a strong-arm castle by assault, he had caused tunnels to be dug under selected parts of the wafl. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Find the evil in the castle...But the only truly evil thing in this world is the man ruling it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This subterfuge would be assisted by the fact of his staying at Corbin castle, instead of at the actual place of the tournament. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered how Zosimos hid the castle within each stone in the circle. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Briares was building a sand castle with about fifty of his hands. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The queen had given her freedom of the castle, but even so, he would want to know where she was going if she tried to leave Maegor's Holdfast at this time of night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If he could catch it good and early, there might be a chance he could get back up to the castle, seize the Marauder’s Map, and find out what Malfoy was doing... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Hundreds had come to the castle gates to bear witness to the burning of the Seven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When I got closer, I spotted an open patch of ground directly in front of the castle’s entrance, just outside the shield wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And every time a new king was crowned, they added on a new wing to the alien castle, which was why I had to build it so enormous. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Even if Alfhercht could hear what Ilya said, she knew the elf would never allow his brother to be taken into the city, let alone the castle. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Inside the castle walls, however, a bit of the forest still remained. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The castle’s front entrance, which had been impregnable for so many years, swung open as Sorrento approached, like an automatic door at a supermarket. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He bustled back into the castle, and Harry sped off to Hagrid’s, delighted with himself. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When I try to go to sleep, I still hear the battle outside the castle walls. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He jabbed his bony finger back at comet and castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When the King’s nephew, a boy called Castor, came to be knighted on the following Saturday—this was the ceremony which Elaine was coming home to attend—there was gaiety in the castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “We must take our little journey while it is still dark and while the rest of the castle sleeps on—ignorant, oh so ignorant, I am afraid, of your fate. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Below them, looking small and upside down from this height, the Questing Beast could be seen sitting in the ravine which bounded the castle on that side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your Grace gave her freedom of the castle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For the castle, we used a blue-and-yellow color scheme with gold around the edges. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Once you were inside the curtain wall, you found yourself in a kind of wide alleyway, probably full of frightened sheep, with another complete castle in front of you. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Hares will soon overrun the castle. We'll be eating hare thrice a day." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Well . . . the Princess Pea gave him free access to the upstairs of the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The door to the spiral staircase that led back into the castle was closed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The subjects stormed the queen's castle with such fury that the stones of its very walls tumbled. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z There had been a good deal of talk in Camelot about a certain King Pelles, who was lame and lived in the haunted castle of Corbin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a long time to get the instruments to Benatky, and the castle had to be adapted to make a suitable observatory. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z One day in the fine summer, he was riding through the park land of a castle which was strange to him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Let us pass. We are expected back at the castle. What do you think you're doing?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I thought of the twenty-seven crates hidden far below the castle in the secret cellar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The last time the Vanderbeekers went to the castle was for a spring fair their school was hosting with the college. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z For an instant he could see black castles in the air; he could create centuries of screaming, eons of torture. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Fudge could answer, two wizards came through the castle doors behind him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “I know what kind of foods you prefer, I know what color is your favorite, I know you like simple things. The house was an error, the castle was an error.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He opened the postem door and led her into the castle, his burned face twitching and his eyes brooding, and he was one step behind her as they climbed the tower stairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Leave that to thy betters. Such castles are the King’s.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because I’m in the sewers underneath the horse stables. It’s the secret way out of the castle. I’m going to win another game. That’s two for me, Keeley. How many for you?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Like suddenly, instead of being made of baseball and castles and superheroes and Jack-ness, he was made of something scratchy and thick. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z With a tiny hint of sarcasm in his voice, he said, “Oh, no — er — Professor,” then he smirked at Crabbe and Goyle and led them up the steps into the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The Selaesori Qhoran was a wallowing tub of five hundred tons, with a deep hold, high castles fore and aft, and a single mast between. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But they’d been in the tomb; there was no way they could have been in the castle halls without someone noticing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z At the Holmes building at Sixty-third and Wallace, now known widely in the neighborhood as “the castle,” the Conner family was in turmoil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But by dawn the runaways, double-mounted on a horse from the castle stable, were hopelessly lost. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The great grey sailcloth pavilion that the Tattered Prince liked to call his canvas castle was crowded when the Domish- men arrived. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were pictures of castles and lakes and pretty girls on the walls. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And cold and footsore as well, in no condi-tion for a fight... but the storm will make them desperate to get inside the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was the one who brought Xan to the castle, all those years ago. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z How have I stumbled upon a castle in the middle of New York City? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She walked in the castle garden with her companions, dressed in the white clothes of a novice, and there was a clumsy action in her walk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And speaking of consequences, the same evening that Despereaux stood inside the castle hearing music for the first time, outside the castle, in the gloom of dusk, more consequences drew near. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Up ahead at the circular entrance is the biggest fountain I have ever seen, and a building that straight up looks like a castle. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I wasn’t in a good mood because me and my moms had been arguing lately about my Lego castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Chaol would throw her in the dungeons if he found her in some secret passageway—especially if the passageway led out of the castle! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He took to pacing with the baby from the swamp, past the workshop, past the castle ruin, and back again, reciting poetry as he did so. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He looked up: A giant stood before him, twenty feet high, its head hidden in shadow, nothing but its treelike, hairy shins illuminated by light from the castle doors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She was no patient princess waiting to be plucked and taken off to a castle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Damp, foggy winds blew through the castle’s every hall and chamber and whistled in the ramparts, sounding like faraway screams. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "The only palace I desire is the red castle at King's Landing, my lord Pyat." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes they were rain clouds, heavy and dark, and sometimes airy tufts of white that cast delicate shade and twisted into shapes like hunting ravids or castles in the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z On television, she saw New York City’s spectacular skyline, Las Vegas’s shimmering lights, Disneyland’s magic castle. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was harder down here because the size of my castle had tripled. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z It was colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Even Hermione grinned a little, though her smile faded as she looked up at the castle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And, of course, Howard, studying his fort plans like he was building a castle, then heading out to the edge of the yard with that up-down walk of his. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z A movement of his hand had already erased the picture of the castle. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “You lads,” she said slowly, looking around at the grubby faces, “have been evacuated to a magic castle.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The northmen were spreading out to encircle the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Two years at Hogwarts hadn’t taught them everything about the castle, and they had never been inside North Tower before. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The blast wave arrived a second later, disintegrating everything in its path—our avatars, the floor, the walls, the castle itself, and the thousands of avatars gathered around it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The sky was greying over the castle walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Malfoy elbowed past Hermione to block Harry’s way up the stone steps to the castle, his face gleeful and his pale eyes glinting maliciously. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She ran out of the barn, away from the castle, through the frosty predawn streets of Kiev. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Barely two minutes later, the castle doors flew open yet again, and Snape came charging out of them, running toward the Willow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z What the men and women in the castle had done to Xan was not fair. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A Norman would hardly have recognized it as a castle, except for the pele tower. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Harry, you take the place of that bishop, and Hermione, you go there instead of that castle.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Directly ahead, a familiar-looking castle had just appeared out of the fog. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She made him get up and arm himself, and together they rode off to the Collibe Sea, where, beyond a strong castle, they found the blessed barge with Bors and Percy waiting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, even if she could leave the castle, where would she go? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But he could see her if he squinted—standing with the other magicians from the castle as the walls crumbled around them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z As I approached the door, which I knew to be locked and guarded by Edmund, I feared that the castle would remain my prison forever. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In the sky behind the castle, the fine red tail of the comet was visible through thin, scuttling clouds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The darkness didn’t make anything easy, and neither did the fact that they were afraid to travel too long on any road near the castle. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Thankfully, the Weapons Master forced him to swallow the antidote, though the Champion still had to be rushed to the castle infirmary. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A wagon driven by a king’s soldier and piled high with spoons and bowls and kettles was making its way to the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z There had been a circle of stones in the courtyard of the castle, once upon a time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The horn had stirred the castle from sleep,- men were coming out into the ward to see what the commotion was about. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I try to recall the entrances into the main part of the castle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “See that you don’t, or I’ll have to come have words with you. Now, should we get back to the castle, where it’s warm?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “We were all worried. My father said blessings for you. And when I came back to the castle to look for you, I brought a gift from us.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The solemn procession wound its way through the sacred grove homeward to the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z This isn't a pretend quest, or making houses into castles or swimming pools into moats. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z She stared at the castle unflinchingly, her form silhouetted against the blazing brightness that sat on the edge of the Avery River. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I showed him my castle walls and how I had constructed new merlons along them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Harry and Hermione walked back to the castle feeling Saturday couldn’t come quickly enough. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Because the castle’s protected by more than walls, you know,” said Hermione. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The castle felt more like home than Privet Drive ever had. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She could easily walk right out of the castle, stock up on supplies in Rifthold, and be on a ship to the south by morning. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “It says that Queen Guenever is at the castle of Case, five miles from here, and she wants you. It says the King is not with her. There are some kisses on it.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Food and clothing, land and castles, now weapons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The tunnel opened on a cavern under the castle, where the storm lords of old had built their landing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Robert Baratheon would have seen that at once and moved swiftly to secure the castle, with the forced marches and midnight rides for which he had been famous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When I arrived at Chthonia a few minutes later, I did a cloaked flyby of the castle, just to gauge the lay of the land for myself. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Sansa could go where she would so long as she did not try to leave the castle, but there was nowhere she wanted to go. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This, to defend a castle crammed full of women and children. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He waddled across the yard almost at a run mid crowded into the back of the castle sept as Joffrey fastened white silk cloaks about the shoulders of the two newest members of his Kingsguard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Round the inner fort with its small rooms there was a wide byre, or shell-keep, into which the castle herds were driven during a siege. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Ned would not speak of the mother, not so much as a word, but a castle has no secrets, and Catelyn heard her maids repeating tales they heard from the lips of her husband's soldiers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Veil, ve have a castle also, not as big as this, nor as comfortable, I am thinking,” he was telling Hermione. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I began to run along the perimeter of the castle foundation, still scanning the ground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Not that the thought of something wicked dwelling in the castle scared her or anything. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As he climbed into bed that night, C.P.'s thoughts lingered on the upcoming game at the newly built ballpark, with its unique round tower that reminded the boy of a castle. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Harry went back to the castle later that afternoon with Ron and Hermione, unable to banish the image of the happy expression on Hagrid’s whiskery face as he had imagined Harry winning the tournament. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Surely it is the barrow of the king who built this castle,” Taran said in a hushed voice. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z "Your Royal Highness," said Thornbut, drawing him aside, "our march to-day will bring us through the pass and right to your royal father's castle. We may be in battle before night." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z By midnight, the castle was silent and dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She knew she was dreaming—a dream within a dream, or rather, a dream within a nightmare—but, like everything at the castle, the sounds and smells felt real. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Around 1921. The owner of the castle where he was buried needed money and put him up for sale. And we bought him.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z A male physician who for a time had rented an office in the castle and who had befriended Holmes—they were seen together often—also had decamped, with no word to anyone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Voldemort was flying again, whether to the underground lake or here, to the castle, he did not know: Either way, there was hardly any time left. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Central Park was okay, but building my castle soothed my nerves. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Beyond the main boulevard, the city was a hodgepodge of medieval castle towers, Roman walls, limestone town houses with red-tiled roofs, and modern office buildings all crammed together. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was no place to sit with the benches stacked against the walls, so the castle folk stood in small groups, not daring to speak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The journey through the castle to North Tower was a long one. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I hadn’t yet tracked the degrees they must have earned to gain access to the tall corporate castles lining Van Buren. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She had cast it loose from its golden chain, by a spell, the moment her castle disappeared. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow was falling thickly upon the castle and its grounds now. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Leaving the castle grounds by a roundabout way, I looked back, expecting to see a spy set upon me by my father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was true—and if this relationship became something more, then it would only complicate matters when she eventually left the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Later that day, garbed and gloved once more, Connington made an inspection of the castle and sent word to Homeless Harry Strickland and his captains to join him for a war council. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When the portcullis of the outer bailey of the castle was raised to admit the yeomen, the townspeople swarmed in. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Celaena stared at the sewer that ran past, flowing straight out of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Cold air told him that the side of the castle had been blown away, and hot stickiness on his cheek told him that he was bleeding copiously. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z "That's the real king of this castle right there," one of the gold cloaks had told her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Small bundles seemed to litter the lawn at the front of the castle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Harry noticed too that the castle seemed to be undergoing an extra-thorough cleaning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The shadow of the castle grew across the city like a hulking beast. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "Yes you were. You were a lord's daughter and you lived in a castle, didn't you? And you . . . gods be good, I never . . ." All of a sudden Gendry seemed uncertain, almost afraid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had built castles in the sand at the bar of the little river. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "Boy, how did you come here? You have no business in this part of the castle." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He did - not wait for a reply, but wheeled Smiler around and rode back toward the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If they didn’t get there soon, he was going to turn around, go straight back to the castle, and leave Hagrid to enjoy his moonlit stroll with Madame Maxime. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He pointed to the hologram, which showed the Sixer troop positions around the castle, just inside the sphere. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “It’s from Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass. My grandpa read it to me a gazillion times. It’s the game that uses a checkerboard and the castle pieces, right?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z It housed an ancient castle as well as the Tombs—where Twelve Towns criminals went to receive punishment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “There is but one working castle gate and it is guarded by perhaps a hundred men.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He could also see that the man was making for the castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A hard frost was settling over the castle, and Jon could hear the soft crunch of grey weeds beneath his boots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By the main door of the castle, Yellin heard it, and it also frightened him, though he couldn’t imagine what it was either. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She was the most confusing person he had ever met, and surely as wicked as everyone else in the castle—although he could not quite bring himself to believe it completely. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Seconds later, out of one of the castle’s shattered windows, something that looked like a misshapen bird flew through the half light and landed in Voldemort’s hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I see an old castle on the edge of a cliff they call el Morro. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z In the distance, near the city center, spires of midnight black and dream silver stood proudly next to ivory domes and marble castles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Parzival here still hasn’t told us how we’re going to get past that shield, fight our way through the Sixers’ army, and get inside the castle.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "Realm's got more kings than a castle's got rats." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I wrote to Winnie in Brandfort that I hoped the voting might have for a moment turned her humble shack into a castle, making its tiny rooms as grand as the ballroom at Windsor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even then, she found the castle tasteless, a waste of resources and talent, its towers reaching into the sky like clawed fingers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the light of the setting sun, the castle hallways were awash with red and orange and gold, the colors bleeding together. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Ralph dismissed Simon and returned to his personal hell They would reach the castle some time; and the chief would have to go forward. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z With the pealing of the bells, flares went up from castle and town, windows and doors opened. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s hard to predict,” Inigo said, “since the first thing we have to do is storm the castle, and you never can be really sure how those things work out.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She knew what made it worse, though: the thought of returning to the castle. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Below, beneath the stone-and-timber battlements of a small castle, a melee was in progress. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She wondered if the key would open a door in the castle. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They said good-bye to Hagrid and walked back up to the castle, Ron hiccoughing occasionally, but only bringing up two very small slugs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The Welsh could not get beyond the outer wall of the castle, and the English inside could not tell what strength the enemy possessed. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Like in The World at the End of the Tunnel when Jack is taken to the hobgoblin king’s castle and thrown in the highest tower. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The entrance was designed to look like the facade of a castle, and you entered the maze through its open gates. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The sun had set behind the castle on the hill, and the lights from the city sparkled on the water. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My fingers traced the route to the old castle and on to the menagerie. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She was right; once we set up all the spider webs and stuff, it 100 percent looked like a room in a castle. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z "He feasts every night in a different castle, and holds court at every crossroads he passes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “By this time on the morrow we ought to hold three castles,” he said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It looks like the tiniest castle ever built, with round stone walls and a pointed red-tiled roof. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “And if the other archers knew I’m Jewish, I don’t know if they’d accept me. So I wear my kippah for my father, and take it off in the castle.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I listened but could detect no disturbance in the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “We will be caught before we leave the castle. Even if we do escape, Lord Ramsay will hunt us down, him and Ben Bones and the girls.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Even the outer walls of the castle were hidden from the watchman at the top of the keep. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z It was Hagrid, making his way up to the castle, singing at the top of his voice, and weaving slightly as he walked. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z From my vantage point in the sky above, I could see that the Sixer forces surrounding the castle were already being overrun by the endless mob of enemy avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I spoke to the presence of the river and it allowed my brothers to cross with their carpenter tools to build our castle on the hill. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only safe to let go of him when Snape had seen them out of the castle and they were making their way across the vegetable patch toward the greenhouses. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A seventh castle he raised, most massive of all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There were green playing fields and such and a huge sand-colored brick building that looked almost like a castle. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some were like small castles, while others looked like ships or space stations, and still others grew like trees, with fanciful balconies and rooftop gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The news of the castle's fall had come as a wrenching shock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Only the Third Gate remained, a crystal doorway floating in the air above the crater where the castle had stood a moment before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "Now listen. We might go later to the castle rock. But now I'm going to get more of the biguns away from the conch and all that We'll kill a pig and give a feast." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Inside the castle, there was a buzz of Christmas in the air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Anya tried not to gawk at the castle as they moved through it, but it was nearly impossible not to. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z "As the gods will it. Bring on your storm, my lord— and recall, if you do, the name of this castle." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But they could not take so strong a castle, surely,” said Robin. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He, Ron, and Hermione left the castle together on Saturday and set off through the cold, wet grounds toward the gates. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They knew that the castle was being searched again, and the whole House stayed awake in the common room, waiting to hear whether Black had been caught. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Big grey elephants were not uncommon either—huge beasts with castles on their backs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “This will be a tale to tell our grandchildren,” Cletus had declared the day they set out from his father’s castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We kneel together and disassemble the castle towers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Arya's only plan was to saddle a horse and flee, away from the castle and the city. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Father says that the town steals our freedom; he says that we must build a castle across the river, on the lonely hill of the mockingbirds. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard my mother enter her kitchen, her realm in the castle the giants had built. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then all at once the crowd parted and seemed to dissolve, and there were the castle gates before her, and a line of spearmen in gilded halfhelms and crimson cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He’s not even sure there are any castles in New England. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The walls, the paneling, the pervasive heaviness of nearly new fixtures, the colossal firedogs, the walk-in fireplaces of bright new stone referred back through the centuries to a time of lonely castles in mute forests. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His brother Furlough took him on a tour of the castle to demonstrate the art of scurrying. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Harry didn’t have a very clear idea of how he had managed to get back into the Honeydukes cellar, through the tunnel, and into the castle once more. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Harry, Bill, and Mrs. Weasley whiled away the afternoon with a long walk around the castle, and then returned to the Great Hall for the evening feast. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And sure enough it was not only there, but also—Bernabe having checked his watch with the time-of-day recording on the free long-distance line to Sierra Bell’s castle in the capital—right on time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The castle was too crowded to withstand a long siege, and too many of the lords here were of uncertain loyalty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “But I’m afraid no dementor will cross the threshold of this castle while I am headmaster.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It was a rude question, but the shame of being stripped before half the castle made it seem like nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bereft of players and properties, it bore no resemblance to a castle in Denmark. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Her chambers were in a wing of the stone castle, and much bigger than she anticipated. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He made plans to keep himself sane, built castles of hope in the dark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Hagrid’s roosters were killed! The Heir of Slytherin didn’t want one anywhere near the castle once the Chamber was opened! ‘Spiders flee before the Basilisk’! Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The fleet would have to pass below the castle to reach the harbor and city beyond. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z North of here the kingsroad ran along the Green Fork of the Trident, through fertile valleys and green woodlands, past thriving towns and stout holdfasts and the castles of the river lords. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For a fleeting second he thought of the knife Sirius had bought him for Christmas — locked in his trunk in the castle a quarter of a mile away, no use to him whatsoever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “You can’t jump to the top of a castle,” I said, and Joel started to laugh and laugh and laugh because you can too, you can too, so go ahead and read it! Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Elaine remarked, with hesitation: ‘.'My father would give you a castle, if you like, and we—could live there together.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When we reached the entrance of the castle, I pulled back on my “reins” and brought my “steed” to a halt. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then they would help the other person escape through the cellars of the castle, with some hard bread, a wheel of dried fig, some dried beef. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Returning home, he was attacked by cannon fire from a castle, and combed the cannonballs from his hair with a 900-foot-long rake. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Strong hands wrenched Rabadash's sword from him and he was carried away into the castle, shouting, threatening, cursing, and even crying. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Now it occurred to him that perhaps Terabithia was like a castle where you came to be knighted. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps he knew what sort of threat Nehemia posed; but why bring her to the castle? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z So the ambush was sent out post-haste, and everything within the castle was at sixes and sevens. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I had quit my search for the mallow root in my haste to return to the castle, and I tried to ignore the pricking of guilt, trusting that Elnora would forgive my broken promise. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I left my father, my mother, and the town castle behind. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not, I grant you, but what his manners is given to blusterous,” said Joe, apologetically; “still, a Englishman’s ouse is his Castle, and castles must not be busted ’cept when done in war time. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The halls of the castle were silent as they strode to her room, taking the empty servants’ passages to avoid any too-curious courtiers learning more about her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "Send it to the castle in the hands of my whipping boy." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Silently they tramped through the grounds, the castle lights growing slowly larger. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The castle ghosts were there too, barely visible in the bright sunlight, discernible only when they moved, shimmering insubstantially on the gleaming air. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Arya had started to roll it up when the colors caught her eye: the blue of lakes and rivers, the red dots where castles and cities could be found, the green of woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The Armoury, where the small boy who was later to be Sir Lancelot was standing with his morion, was the largest single room in the castle of Ben wick. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “We must do the matter properly, and cut its insides out, and sling it over a pony, and take it home to the castle, like proper hunters.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma had loved my castle when it stayed in my bedroom. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z We are young, they sing, we are steadfast, we have never compromised, we have so many castles yet to storm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The book was later confiscated by the German army, and it was eventually found in the basement of a castle in Germany by American soldiers in 1945, just before the Nazi surrender. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Across the castle, he could see candlelight shining from the windows of the King’s Tower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My surmise is, this: that in London the Count decided to get back to his castle by water, as the most safe and secret way. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And they told how afterward Ned had carried Ser Arthur's sword back to the beautiful young sister who awaited him in a castle called Starfall on the shores of the Summer Sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She built castles with Maybeth, decorating them with bits of shell and colored stones, telling stories about princesses and giants. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Frankenstein thought the castle wasn’t flammable, but the villagers proved him wrong. flounder/founder. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not much of note. Though I met a very interesting young woman,” she said casually, leading him down a window-lined stairway into the glass section of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “So many times I tried to walk to my father’s palace ” She pointed to a large black castle in the distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The grounds were very dark now; the only light came from the distant windows of the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Meanwhile a delegation of Ministry officials, including the Minister of Magic himself, was being accommodated within the castle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Fred shouted as the castle quaked again, and Harry sprinted by, elated and terrified in equal measure. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Hagrid’s hint about the spiders was far easier to understand — the trouble was, there didn’t seem to be a single spider left in the castle to follow. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Hoster Tully, Lord of Riverrun, lay abed in his solar, with its commanding view to the east where the rivers Tumblestone and Red Fork met beyond the walls of his castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She thought about pretending to be ill and escaping back to the castle, but Dvorah had put her coat somewhere and she didn’t know where. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Just as she had at the suburban house, Roza had the run of the castle. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In songs, the hero always saved the maiden from the monster’s castle, but life was not a song, no more than Jeyne was Arya Stark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That was the last sight he had seen the day the castle fell: Smiler burning, the flames leaping from his mane as he reared up, kicking, screaming, his eyes white with terror. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "I need to start back to the castle. If you do not come with me, I may lose my way for grief, and all the islands would be poorer." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Just like up in the castle, nothing happened. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z However, King Pelles was only slightly mad, and his castle was certainly haunted. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At nine o’clock, Hagrid walked them back up to the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “He’ll be glad o’ sensible company, he will, alone in that castle with them young rascals from Glasgow.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Silhouetted on the dark horizon, high on the cliff over the lake, stood the many turrets and towers of Hogwarts castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The villagers went to church in the chapel of the castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And he set off back to the castle with Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I began filling a bucket and packing it, then turning it over to make towers of a castle. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They ran, climbed, and dug in the sandy dirt, building sand castles as if they were at the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The woods were on the move, creeping toward the castle like a slow green tide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the castle was impregnable and always had been. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The evil spell is broken, and the little ragged girl and her poor mother are given a nice house next to the castle where they live happily ever after. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z My dad barely spoke English, but walked into places as if he was returning to his castle. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And there was a small hearth in the house, like a miniature version of what one would find in a castle’s keep. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A swollen red sun hung low against the western hills when the gates of the castle opened. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I could fire my jet boots again now and make it inside the castle before Sorrento could fire on me again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The childish painter had put a picture on the wardrobe here too, of a castle and town and a queen, wearing an impossibly tall crown, walking in the garden. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The coarse hair that sprouted from his did not stop him hearing most of what went on in the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z How was it possible that there was light so far beneath the castle? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t you have a master for your castle in the air?” asked Laurie slyly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In the castle of Benwick, the French boy was looking at his face in the polished surface of a kettle-hat It flashed in the sunlight with the stubborn gleam of metal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dark Mark was glittering directly above the Astronomy Tower, the highest of the castle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Other stolen pieces were hidden in salt mines, abandoned factories, castle ruins, and the basements of museums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Hermione told Harry that it would do him good to get away from the castle for a bit, and Harry didn’t need much persuasion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Right, queen,” Jesse mumbled and crawled out of the low entrance of the castle stronghold. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Outside, snow swirled through the castle gates, and the yard was all noise and chaos, but inside the thick stone walls it was still warm and quiet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Our band will come with you to the castle. You will only have to do the going-in part at the end.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When it receded, my eyes focused back on the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Find and destroy the evil lurking in the castle indeed! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Because of her castle, she was able to escape the popular uprising and to wait until help arrived from Milan in order to regain her state. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But a couple of weeks later, while the King, Frederick II, and a party that included the admiral were crossing the bridge from Copenhagen castle into the town, the King fell into the water. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “No, Sire. I agree these castles must be garrisoned— “The boy commander agrees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The city, the castle, the slums, the river.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The block castle towered over the foot of my bed, stretching so tall, it nearly touched the ceiling and so wide, we could only partly open my half of the closet door. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Two huge towers flanked the castle’s main gate, and smaller ones defended every angle of its walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A lantern was bobbing at the distant foot of the castle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Yet they walked all that day and most of the next before at last they reached the fringes of Lord Tywin's army, encamped west of the castle amidst the scorched remains of a town. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The mood in the castle as they entered June became excited and tense again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z "The castle gatehouse. He wanted to command the crossbowmen. There's a mob howling outside, half of them gold cloaks who came with him when we left the Mud Gate." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And if the icy-eyed man was powerful enough to build castles overnight and flip the world upside down, couldn’t he come for her anytime he wanted? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z On the other side of the river, which ran directly beneath the castle wall, there was a man ploughing in the fields, with his plough tied to the horse’s tail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a number of huge bangs shook the castle, and a great cavalcade of transparent figures galloped past on horses, their heads screaming with bloodlust under their arms. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In towns and villages, large halls or great castles were decorated with torches and banners. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Leslie’s favorite place besides the castle stronghold was the pine forest. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z One hundred thousand golden dragons, fifty hides of fertile land, a castle, and a lordship. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Exam week began and an unnatural hush fell over the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z "I know you like stories about robbers. See that ruined castle? A notorious robber band once lived there. I must ask Elinor about them. She knows everything about this lake." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Exactly. And in that castle game, Charles snuck out through the sewers. Anyway, when my brother Curtis beat me at Bibliomania...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z "Do you need an escort back to the castle?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The castle itself had 120 rooms—including a ballroom and a piano room. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There were movements from the watching crowd in front of the castle, and as one, the Death Eaters raised their wands, holding the fighters of Hogwarts at bay. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It felt like slamming into a castle wall, but this castle stood upon a shattered leg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The castle was quiet; it seemed that the feast was over. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Then he said, “Your courage is admirable, Lord Karstark, but courage will not breach the walls of Winterfell. How do you mean to take the castle, pray? With snowballs?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I had been given to understand that those castles were ruins. Dismal places, bleak and cold, hardly more than heaps of rubble. At Eastwatch we heard talk of rats and spiders.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were in the heart of Winterfell with the castle all around them, but no sign of it could be seen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At first, I pretend I’m a girl living in a drafty castle that I hate because my parents don’t got enough candles to light the place. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Wherever he rode he could look back at the hills, dominant as castles. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the ease of life in the Protectorate, she had never again been so happy as she had been in the company of those magicians and scholars in the castle. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The Mews was one of the most important parts of the castle, next to the stables and the kennels. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I say, ‘We will save the princess in the red castle.’ P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She could do the woods in winter, and the grimness of a castle wall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Arthur had been begotten on the night when Uther Pendragon burst into her castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Many times a day he went in and out the castle gate, and he had already made friends with Alan-at-Gate. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The castle garrison had sworn their swords to his cause, one and all, and no man of them had suffered harm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were great tapered blocks, each as big in its own right as a castle, but they appeared entirely smooth, windowless and doorless. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He took no joy from those heads, no more than he had in displaying the headless bodies of the children before the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “How would I know? Ask her septon. When your father burned our castle, she decided the gods were punishing us. Now all she does is pray.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Some of the castle women sobbed to see him go. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Like something had slipped past the drawbridge at the castle, but then her forehead smoothed out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was a long walk to the old castle, but I wanted to make a wish, and I wanted to make it in the place where it would have the best chance of being granted. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And because the queen loved it, soup was served in the castle for every banquet, every lunch, and every dinner. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She saw carved stone pavilions, manses of woven grass as large as castles, rickety wooden towers, stepped pyramids faced with marble, log halls open to the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That was one thing the castle was missing. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z A black and mighty whirlwind arose, scattering the flowers and cracking the trees, carrying screams upon its currents and making the very stones of the castle shudder. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Theon had been out hunting that day, riding with Lord Eddard and King Robert, with no hint of the dire news that awaited them back at the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Two riders had emerged from the tidy little camp beneath the castle, and were coming toward them at a slow walk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At best Jonos Bracken had five hundred men about the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But there were no lights in the castle windows, and he could conceal himself...and in a second he had cast upon himself a Disillusionment Charm that hid him even from his own eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And what was our own favorite member of the mouse community doing while the sound of the Mouse Council drum echoed through the walls of the castle? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z "Twelve thousand foot, scattered around the castle in three separate camps, with the rivers between," her uncle said, with the craggy smile she remembered so well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Alfhercht had let them out after they had agreed that he couldn’t go into the castle looking like a feral, forest-dwelling highwayman. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They were at the foot of Aegon’s High Hill, the castle above them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Four thousand, Your Grace. They will help us garrison our abandoned castles, the better to defend the Wall.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mum Olga wanted it to take place in our manor, but Father said the castle would be more romantic. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “For aught we know the Welsh may be encamped out here on this side of the castle as well as on the other,” he explained. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Something evil dwells in this castle...Destroy it... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He lifted his stubby number-2 yellow pencil and began to trace the route to a damsel imprisoned in a castle cell in the puzzle’s center. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The castle was but lightly held, and I took them unawares. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The andante—the third movement—is his favorite, he explains, because he read once that it was written to evoke the image of a castle in ruins, which he found darkly funny at the time. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Brian nodded at the front door, and we all went outside and started making sand castles for scorpions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He held her eyes for a long few seconds and then said softly, “I know you won’t be a weak ruler. Because you won’t be a ruler at all. Return to the castle.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z But now, her memories came tumbling toward her—a kindly old man, a decrepit castle, a clutch of scholars with their faces buried in books, a mournful mother dragon saying good-bye. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z "Don't be too long. It is past time the Hand and I returned to the castle, before our absence is noted." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I glance up and down the wide street before stepping into the haunted castle that will be my new school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Immediately they were circled by guards who swept them toward the safety of the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Grateful the service was finally over, Dorian Havilliard strode by himself through the castle grounds. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Their voices echoed through the yards and halls until the castle rang and it seemed as though some great pack of direwolves haunted Winterfell, instead of only two . . . two where there had once been six. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He felt the castle walls streaking past him, and the ground and the moat swimming up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, you ninny. The Queen isn’t coming. How could she? She’s got ten children to take care of, plus all them castles.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountains beyond, brown mountains with a little green on their slopes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I think from there I can climb directly through and be in the part of the castle most likely to be deserted—and the part with access to secret tunnels. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A roped-off room in a castle somewhere, a room made entirely of blocks of stone, icy and cold, even though a fire burned low in the hearth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Even so, it was full dark before they reached the stout castle that stood at the foot of the Giant's Lance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A tall castle with a drawbridge that moved up and down, and a pulley with a string that hoisted soldiers up over the wall. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Who’re you going with?” he yelled after Hermione, but she just waved and disappeared up the stone steps into the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But there was another castle nearby, vastly larger and impregnable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The palace towers weren’t so round as the ones in the movie, and the real castle had helicopters. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He kept up a relentless flow of encouragement all the way back to the castle, and by the time they reached the second floor, Ron was looking marginally more cheerful. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They had both been sneaking sweets from the castle pantry. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He wants to know how I took the castle, but not to make a song of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I laugh, and my voice echoes against the cool stones of the castle. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z What a ridiculous idea: a castle made of glass. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And Mom took us down to Ocean City for a day at the beach, where we built a sand castle with Emily and jumped around in the waves. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Or jewels, or gowns, or castles. But where do they go?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I liked the one with the...ah, bat? And the, ah, castle? It was such a great castle.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, there were good wizards and good witches, and they lived in a castle in the center of the wood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Then they clambered up a passageway in the rock after Hagrid s lamp, coming out at last onto smooth, damp grass right in the shadow of the castle. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Did Manderly have a Stark heir hidden away in his castle? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Tell me something before I leave: this mystery lover of yours...he doesn’t live in the castle, does he?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The Wall stretched east and west as far as the eye could see, so huge that it shrunk the timbered keeps and stone towers of the castle to insignificance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Imagine that at the same time the rat steps from the dungeon and into the castle, a mouse is being born upstairs, a mouse, reader, who is destined to meet the light-bedazzled rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Just beyond the cornfield was Snowberger’s, its tidy white fence holding a tiny kingdom safe within its arms—with the old sawmill boardinghouse that was my home rising up like a castle in the countryside. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "I took this castle and I mean to hold it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "I don't need to go to your castle. I can stay in some town, and be your salt wife." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Thor and Tyr left the castle together, untethered Thor’s goats, and climbed into Thor’s chariot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z And you are made of baseball and superheroes and castles, and of lots of Hazels-past, even if you lost them to the wind, it doesn’t matter. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Did you buy a castle, H ?” she asked. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A castle in the clouds of the Caspian Sea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The wedding was held in the old castle. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Clummer was creeping over the grounds around the castle; sky L_Jand lake alike turned periwinkle blue and flowers large as cabbages burst into bloom in the greenhouses. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The ship slid by for what seemed like a mile, a mile of high, black canyon wall, a mile of castle fortification with not a single sentinel to notice us languishing in the moat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Is Stannis fool enough to storm the castle?” a sentry asked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He would probably be with his father at the forge, repairing pikes and lances and heating oil for pouring onto the enemy in case they should pierce the outer castle wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She was trotting by the time she reached the castle bailey, with Tris dogging her heels, but even so she came too late. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It's dark in the castle, but there is a small window above my head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The castle stood on a hill to one side of the valley, and there was a handsome pele tower on the bill of the other side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A god who listens is your mom who lets you sit in a kitchen and tell her stories about castles in the mountains. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The lifeguard’s turned to talk to someone behind him, and the beach girls are on the far right, peering at a sand castle. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z From his window he could see the streets of White Harbor beyond the castle walls, but he was not allowed to walk them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We can’t have this noise. I shall have to go, or they will wake the castle.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It took the rest of the morning to make a slow circuit of the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They knew this because the entire Sixer army was now encamped around the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She smiled to herself as they strode through the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I glanced back up at the castle ahead of me, already aware of what was waiting for me there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I take the road past the castle, a fairy-tale place of turrets and etched stone where my sisters used to eat picnics, but those memories are like old photographs faded by the sun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Off you go, move along there,” Lockhart called to the crowd, and he set off back to the castle with Harry, who was wishing he knew a good Vanishing Spell, still clasped to his side. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The whole castle, from Lady Stark to the lowliest kitchen scullion, knew he was hostage to his father's good behavior, and treated him accordingly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Every gate was closed and barred and heavily guarded, though; no one was allowed to enter or depart the castle without Lord Bolton’s leave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Here, round the King's castle, there were streets—not just one street—and castles of dependent barons, and monasteries, chapels, churches, cathedrals, markets, merchants’ houses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Heat rose shimmering through the chill air; behind, the gargoyles and stone dragons on the castle walls seemed blurred, as if Davos were seeing them through a veil of tears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Your tower? This is my son's royal castle." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And suddenly the madness was behind and they were clattering across the cobbled square that fronted on the castle barbican. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Yet Storm's End endured, through centuries and tens of centuries, a castle like no other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She touches one card, a lady in flowing robes holding a set of scales, and another that Bailey cannot see as well but looks like a crumbling castle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This was not the castle he remembered from the summer of his youth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was too late to return to Sir Ector’s castle, or even to get back to the outlaws’ camp by the big tree. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with the love and purpose in his heart, Despereaux was very, very tired when he reached the door to the castle kitchen at midnight. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z And I knew where Elnora kept the key to the castle apothecary, which held the other ingredients and tools I would need to make the deathlike potion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The images in them were distorted and two-dimensional; gigantic, flat knights peered out of tiny, misshapen castles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Jon had seen this one about the castle—a knight of great renown, to hear him tell it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z By the time Connington made his descent, his men had gathered the castle garrison and surviving smallfolk together in the yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It buttoned with gold-colored buttons, and every button had a little castle and a tree carved on it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought only nice people were allowed to work in the castle.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He was made of superheroes and castles and baseball, but sometimes he had trouble remembering that. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “The castle is in danger!” said Robin at once. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z As she reached the doors to the castle, the duke grinned at her, and her dreams shattered. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “But even if that shield does drop, to reach the castle, we’ll still have to fight our way through the largest army in the OASIS.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Far across he could see the castle entrance and the armed soldiers flanking it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The secrets of Holmes’s castle eventually did come to light, but only because of the persistence of a lone detective from a far-off city, grieving his own terrible loss. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Everyone could tell from the way he talked and from the car and clothes that he was rich and maybe had a castle out in California. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere die gold cloaks found a litter, but the trip back to the castle was a blur of agony, and Ned lost con-sciousness more than once. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I managed to land on my feet in front of the castle, just clear of Leopardon’s flaming wreckage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They moved themselves and the children far away, to a castle on a windswept island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z A group of men was walking down the distant castle steps. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z "Child, child" Dontos shook his head "Out of the castle, yes, we could do that, but the city gates are more heavily guarded than ever, and die Imp has even closed off the river." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There were LEGOs all over the place, including part of the castle we’d built. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I think it was the sand castle she built with that kid. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "Soon as I'm within a squint of the castle, I'll turn the beast loose. Guard our prisoners!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Both schools of thought are castles in the air, connected to the ground by the thin strings of meagre archaeological remains and anthropological observations of present-day foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago detectives began their exploration of the castle on the night of Friday, July 19. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Before they reached the castle, twenty pairs of eyes were watching them from the gatehouse ramparts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot,” I recited. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Unbolting a door near the pantry, I slipped out of the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They set off for the castle once more. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Stopping only to sink a foot in a soggy, collapsed castle, she was soon out of the area reserved for guests of the hotel. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Copernicus was given command of a castle at Allenstein, and held the town against the invaders for several months. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z "I could castle," he told Tristran, "but there's no one I could castle with'd be any better off here than we are....There's no escape by flying, not judgin' by that thing." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A few guests were still arriving when my carriage reached the castle. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z "You don't need my whipping boy to get into the castle. There's a better way." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z With king's men, Darry men, Lannister men, and Stark men all crammed into a castle far too small for them, tensions burned hot and heavy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Round the joyful castle there was the camp of its besiegers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The transparent blue sphere generated by the Orb of Osuvox appeared around the castle, surrounding it both above- and belowground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Save Humperdinck,” one Brute said, and with that they all dashed into the castle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Told him ter let me down at the castle, so he shoved me through the window, bless him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Is this part of a huge castle or something?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He sat in the clear space between the bank and the first line of trees and bent a pine bough into a circle, tying it with a piece of wet string from the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, I’m too old to throw rocks. But I should be getting back to the castle anyway.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We watch as the scene on TV changes from the happy couple in the wildflower meadows and sunshine to the dark, dreary cellars in the castle’s dungeons. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “If my father knew, he’d never let me go back to the castle.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It does not matter where it was— what does matter is dud Cochin was the castle where the now childless Elaine lived out her lonely middle age. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the same part of the wall that led, shortly, to the Zoo, in the farther corner of the castle grounds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z How can this be, a castle with spires and a moat? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another told how pitilessly Galahad had dealt with a fiend in a tomb, how he had cooled the well of lust, and how the castle of the leprous lady had finally been tumbled down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As he leapt the wreckage of armor, Harry heard more shouts and screams; other people within the castle seemed to have awoken... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “And I took Melyngar from the stable. They are hidden in the woods outside the castle. It’s all done now,” Eilonwy said gleefully. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “But I’d like to see the castles in the towns where they live,” the boy explained. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Filch, the caretaker, has asked me to tell you that the list of objects forbidden inside the castle has this year been extended to include Screaming Yo-yos, Fanged Frisbees, and Ever-Bashing Boomerangs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The sounds of the assault on the castle were muffled and distant. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The castle was old, and most of its halls and stairwells went nowhere; escaping would require some thought. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The castle had been abandoned when King Jerrold was a boy, although it was reopened on special occasions, for private balls, weddings, and the like. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a dark, primal place, three acres of old forest un-touched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “The colossus lay like a medieval castle, built in the most inaccessible place, protected by precipices and rivers.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were just a little — overenthusiastic. Still out cold. Er — perhaps it will be best if we don’t revive him until we’re safely back in the castle. We can take him like this....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Had he broken into my apartment or the secret room below the castle? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Er . I’ll try,” Harry said, though privately thinking the only way he’d be visiting Myrtle’s bathroom again was if every other toilet in the castle got blocked. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z At noontime, Prince Humperdinck appeared at the balcony of his father’s castle and raised his arms. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I shall not remain alone with them; I shall try to scale the castle wall farther than I have yet attempted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The story of Bors, allowing the twelve supposed gentlewomen to be hurled from the castle turret rather than save them by committing a mortal sin, had shocked her to the heart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not stop me as I descended the stairway and left the castle, but they followed at a distance. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I wonder what his rationale is for giving me the keys to his castle. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Asha cursed beneath her breath, wondering if it had been a mistake to leave the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She told me about the dark times when Denmark warred with Norway and a long drought brought starvation to the village and hunger to the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was peaceful in the fields which were close to the castle, and no arrows needed to be apprehended. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Twins—two squat, ugly, formidable castles, identical in every respect, with the bridge arching between—had guarded the crossing for centuries. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He also didn’t say anything as they walked out of the castle and away from the city’s upper town and into the southern area. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “The game he’s playing is all about medieval castles and dungeons!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z He did not even look back at the castle that had been his home. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the rest of the castle, the usual magnificent Christmas decorations had been put up, despite the fact that hardly any of the students remained to enjoy them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He placed the castle on the mantel, put in candles, and lit them. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They had seen Brandon the Builder set the first stone, if the tales were true; they had watched the castle's granite walls rise around them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After granting him one final kiss, I dashed through the dewy grass back to the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Euclid controls the gate to the castle of knowledge, where a mortar and a cannon are being fired to illustrate the path of projectiles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was staring at the light pouring in through the stained-glass windows of the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Only one out of three, I’m afraid. I have not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don’t want Harry dead....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z There was mutton, to be sure, but it was all on four legs and scattered over the downs beyond the castle and town. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “I hope she stays, that woman!” said Parvati Patil when the lesson had ended and they were all heading back to the castle for lunch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Get out of here!” shouted the king, stamping his foot harder and then harder still so it seemed as if the whole castle, the very world, were shaking. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z No one would miss them, but the fear would seep into the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I leaned back and closed my eyes as I waited to arrive at a more suitable final destination—preferably, a castle with turrets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z As we drew nearer, the castle appeared more vast than the entire village, and the sun itself was not able to brighten its gray stone walls. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Could it be that the boots had made their way back to her old castle? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The Prince selected the location—the farthest corner of the castle grounds, away from everything, so the roars wouldn’t bother the servants—but the Count designed the entrance. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Outside the castle, the sun set and the stars came out one by one and then they disappeared and gave way to the rising sun and still Despereaux slept. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z When the ferryboat was ready to leave, the gate, which looked like it belonged on a castle, went up with a rattle of chains. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The Captain of the Guard rushed through the castle, still freezing with the early-morning chill, and they soon entered the barracks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This time, the only ships in sight belonged to Stannis, and the only danger would come from watchers on the castle walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z |
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