And stares at the ceiling like some truth is up there. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were four fluorescent lights in the ceiling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The ceilings rose to six meters high, decorated with elaborate paintings of owls in the branches of white poplars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I have to look past a wide beam of bright white light shining down from the ceiling, but I can see into that corner. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The only light now came from the silvery ghosts, who were drifting about talking seriously to the prefects, and the enchanted ceiling, which, like the sky outside, was scattered with stars. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The night slipped into another day and the body was still lying in Eva’s bed gazing at the ceiling trying to complete a yawn. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We screamed as the bubbles slammed into the ceiling and . The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dried plants, beige and fragile, hung from the ceiling rafters. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Stalactites made of paper spiraled down from the ceiling. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A man was peering into the ceiling space. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are all kinds of lights hanging from the ceiling that are different sizes, shapes, and colors. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Up overhead, in the shadows of the ceiling, Charlotte crouched unseen, her front legs encircling her egg sac. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Hermione screamed, but the dragon opened its mouth and belched flame again, blasting the tunnel, whose floors and ceiling cracked and crumbled. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Rows of stone pillars marched off in every direction, holding up the ceiling about twenty feet above. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mineralized logs stuck out of the walls and ceiling. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the big Death Eater had just fired off a hex that caused half the ceiling to fall in, and also broke the curse blocking the stairs,” said Lupin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

So there I was, holding this trash can underneath the eight bulging asbestos ceiling tiles, and Mr. Vendleri started to push up on one of them with his mallet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The crawl space was tight, with a slanted ceiling covered with tiny saw-toothed stalactites. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They stay with me even then, as I lie awake and stare at the wooden beams in the slanted ceiling. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Bran gazed up at the rough stone ceiling above his head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Former congresswoman Constance A. Morella recalled, “That glass ceiling is being shattered.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the ceiling panel slid aside that night, Kate’s was the only face that appeared. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls away from Alex and rolls back over, looking up to the ceiling again like a man seeking penance from a wrathful god. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Enormous screens stretching from floor to ceiling line the walls, as well as the backdrop of the main stage, rotating through an animatic of each Warcross team. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A large chunk of flak had ripped up from the floor through Aarfy’s colossal jumble of maps and had ripped out through the ceiling inches away from their heads. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell, and Winterfell his prison. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I watched as Alice drew a square room with dark beams across its low ceiling. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bundles of herbs tied with tan string hung from the ceiling. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Panels of mirrors formed the ceiling and floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But most of the time, if the ceilings are high enough, he prefers hanging out in full centaur form. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“At,” repeated Mr. Jaggers, still looking at the ceiling, “the—rate—of?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It displays high-definition images shown from the projector hanging from the ceiling across the room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Inside that small space were framed gold records and instruments hanging from the walls and the ceiling. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He moved so quickly he forgot to duck the green sack hanging from the ceiling. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at the stains on the ceiling, and waited until they gave up or fell asleep, and then she rolled out from under them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

While outdoor pictures did away with the hazard of being blown through the ceiling, they did not eliminate the hazards connected with Dad’s temper. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taped some to the asbestos tiles on classroom ceilings. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing his too-large electric guitar, playing as loud and fast as he can while the drums and bass jar the flimsy walls and low particle board ceiling of the tiny church. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

If we were tall enough, I bet they would have made us do the ceiling too. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Three chandeliers hung from the ceiling, and a grand piano stood in one corner. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m in a hospital bed and my right leg hangs from a strap tied to the ceiling. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Every head in the room looked up in dismay and exhaustion at the canteen’s pasteboard ceiling, as if they could see through it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Even in the noise that swelled to the cobwebbed tavern ceilings, they spoke of her in hushed, reverent tones: “Current will never steer you wrong.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She recognized what the stress fractures in the ceiling meant, all emanating from a single point—the top of the stone arch just above her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stare up at the ceiling, waiting for my eyes to adjust in the dark. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I lean back in my chair, head tilted toward the ceiling. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Cigarette smoke had dirtied the diamond shapes of the tin ceiling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He looks up, like he’s waiting for some Death piñata to drop from the ceiling. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I get back, the white of my bedroom ceiling is too bright, and so I turn it blue with what’s left of the paint. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ash lay on her back for some time, staring up at the ceiling, not in the least bit weary. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is lit by small, bright bulbs on strings, but the strings are so densely packed that a web of yellow and white covers the ceiling. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My gaze follows his chubby finger to what I realize is the enormous, barrel-vaulted ceiling of the train station, laced with skylights. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She grabbed Leo and pushed him aside as a row of spikes shot upward, impaling the ceiling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was especially fond of hanging from the ceiling. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of darkness began to crumble again, pushing Annabeth against the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Eight asbestos ceiling tiles had started to bulge down, which meant that either Sycorax and Caliban were getting fatter or the ceiling was getting weaker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

After he finds only two dimes, Joon bounces the soccer ball off the ceiling and starts to sing. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Dr. Arnold Lehman, who is the chief pharmacologist of the Food and Drug Administration, says there is neither a floor below which DDT is not absorbed nor a ceiling beyond which absorption and storage ceases. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My head practically hits the ceiling because someone’s retied the seat springs too tight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dust falls from The ceiling Where spiders breed In shadowy corners. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odd dried plants and flowers hung from the ceiling, and the walls were covered with pictures of Inti and Mama Killa, as well as of the stars, the rainbow, and Illapa, the thunder god. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He wished that he could rise up through the ceiling and float away from this room, forever. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey lay on her back with her arms under her head, staring at the blank, black ceiling. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look up, I see cured hams hanging from the ceiling and shelves and shelves of dry goods. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Several lamps made out of mason jars filled with light bulbs dangle from the ceiling. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Dried herbs hung from the ceiling: rosemary, thyme, and a bunch of other stuff. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He loved to draw and grew obsessed with the angel on the ceiling of the theatre. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We entered the kind of room they only have in museums—vaulted ceilings, paintings on the walls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The reception area was the same, with gold-dyed walls and thick Persian rugs and grooved patterns on the exposed ceilings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun slices through the thick ceiling of trees and the breeze tastes like fruit. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

As tall as the tower was, the ceiling was yet another 126 feet above. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Next time I’ll paint a licorice ceiling,” my dad would say. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Each barracks was divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gladys backed away and lay on her bed, hands on her chest, her huge eyes fixed on the ceiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He hears the sound of a television faintly through the ceiling. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The men watch the news on the box TV in a corner of the ceiling. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was lacquered—walls, windows, and ceiling—with grease from the flying pans. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris took a huge pumpkin and a huge ear of corn and a bunch of cornstalks that touched the ceiling in the high exhibit room. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the door was a place with drawers up to the ceiling on both sides. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Overhead, moths clustered on the ceiling beam like a branch in dark bloom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

People that been in my house have seen the sagging ceiling, the cracked wdndow, the broken plaster on the wall and they know that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The labs have vast ceilings and blackboards across the front. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We had come to a large, almost round area constructed of stone from the floors to the low, vaulted ceilings. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Except maybe the eight bulging asbestos ceiling tiles, which now had about as much bulge as asbestos ceiling tiles can. take. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The long hallway had narrow wainscoting halfway up to the high ceiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the interior was unexpectedly cheerful, with a colorful quilt thrown over the bed in the corner and dried herbs hanging from the ceiling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now her legs were pinned under a gray-and-black steel air-conditioning unit that had fallen through the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the porch ceilings in Key West were this color. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at the ceiling, then back at her. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They saw a jagged hole in the thin ceiling above, and, dangling through the hole, the wiggling leg of an electrician. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glared at the ceiling as if she could beam lasers from her eyes and decimate the upstairs occupant. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The walls and ceiling are painted with planets and stars. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful room, not an office at all, and much bigger than it looked from outside—airy and white, with a high ceiling and a breeze fluttering in the starched curtains. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The plane of wooden planks was riveted to the undercarriage, without walls or ceiling. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It had a high ceiling and sparse furnishings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And then we follow Boy21 up into his room, where the walls and ceiling are now entirely covered with glow-in-the-dark stars, which seem to pulse energy. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your spirit lifts to the ceiling where it floats for a bit looking down with pleasure on the dressed-up nakedness below. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the ceiling first, but then I remember: the windows. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The time hovering over the ceiling of my bed tells me that it’s four a.m. in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But after he leaves, I fall back down into my bed and stare at the ceiling. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

We’d lead the cow to the Jaffe slaughterhouse down the road and the butchers would tie it from the ceiling by its hind legs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It failed at the seam where the wall met the ceiling. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel had an arched ceiling, Lina saw, like the tunnels of the Pipeworks, but it was much wider than those tunnels. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The attendants all wore black and pointed their noses at the vaulted ceiling. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Bunting of yellow and red hung from the ceiling. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He raced to the ground floor, clinging to the banister as the house shook and huge chunks of the ceiling collapsed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I laid there quietly, staring at the paint-chipped ceiling and thinking about stuff. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I’d never known. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bran hunched down as best he could, but even so, the top of his head was soon scraping and bumping against the ceiling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stared at the ceiling, then closed his eyes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The blades of the ceiling fan were encrusted with woolly dust, so I knew there had been no power in a while or the dust would have flown away as the fan turned. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Clinging upside down to the ceiling, she settled down for a nap, leaving Wilbur very much worried. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were two beds pulled up to the ceiling through a clever construction of ropes and pulleys. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her long legs grabbed it and she darted back into the ceiling area. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A bare bulb hung on a wire from the ceiling. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I look at the dark ceiling and think about the door shutting between Mabel and me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Any second, I knew she would run out of strength and the cavern ceiling would collapse on top of her. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He lit the cigar and blew a long pennant of smoke to the ceiling. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt I could reach out and touch it; it was so unlike home, where the high ceilings gave our rooms an airy stillness. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a crack in the wall I’ve never noticed until now, and a spider is building her web in the corner of the ceiling. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pale stalactites dripped down from the ceiling, jagged and sharp, and crowded so tightly that they reminded her of teeth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stared at the ceiling—mind gone, body wiped—before fading out completely. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There isn’t a ceiling, just four columns surrounding the wooden square where several strange plants and vegetables are growing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Other times I just lie on my bed and stare at the ceiling, imagining the kind of life I want to have when I get older. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A single light bulb glowed white behind its ceiling fixture. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Shivering, I crawled over to Chou and grabbed her wet hand and lay on my back, staring at the ceiling. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fancy purple strip-lighting of the Pleiades Corp still runs along gunmetal floor and ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The building whined. Inside it felt like there was an earthquake shaking the foundation, the walls, windows, and ceiling. “‘Take me down, please, James.’ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Scoob stares at the ceiling, which seems lower than the previous night, his heartbeat chugging between his ears like a runaway train. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

As he said it, there was an explosion from overhead: All three of them looked up as dust fell from the ceiling and they heard a distant scream. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Cloud-shaped mobiles hung from the ceiling, strands of paper raindrops suspended in midair. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we walk inside, it’s kinda dark, and soft music wafts from the ceiling. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Thick sparkling ribbons from the gift-wrap box crisscross the ceiling. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The roots of the ceiling begin to worm, lengthening like vines and crawling across the underside of the hill. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Danuta tilts her chin to the hole in the ceiling and stares. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I leaped up, hardly knowing where I was, struck my head on the low ceiling, and sat down again. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We get closer and closer to the glass ceiling, and for the first time in days, I see the sun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She stuck out one pretty boot so that the green leather tip pointed at the ceiling. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hurried into school, checked to make sure no one was around and the ceiling wasn’t wired, then delved into my bag in search of superglue. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They ended high above where the ceiling should have been, as if they held up the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was a hopeless task, given all the stacks of Mom’s junk and the hole in the ceiling and the disgusting yellow bucket in the kitchen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my eyes back to the ceiling of the elevator and try not to think about how tightly this woman is holding her baby—like she'll never let it be taken away from her. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A dozen were squeezed in, trying to sleep, suitcases and luggage stacked to the ceiling. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Their room had no ceiling either, and it was possible to hear people squabbling in other barracks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We entered a large room in which one entire wall was hung with Italian-red draperies that fell in rich folds from the ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy couldn’t see very far in the shadows, but hanging from the ceiling were pulley systems, sandbags, and rows of dark theater lights. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This was followed by another series of crashes as, one after another, all the kettles in the kitchen were knocked down from the ceiling and destroyed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Three, and then I was thinking about that and lying in the bed staring up at the ceiling, and I could see the stars that we stuck up there in like sixth grade or whatever. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

When Owen the Oaf began to dance with Patchface the fool, laughter echoed off the vaulted ceiling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The hostess pushed open a wood-and-paper sliding screen to the private room, and inside there was a low Korean-style table and sitting mats and a central ceiling vent for the grill smoke. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling consisted of large rectangular panels set in a framework of metal strips, and the corner of the panel above the picture had lifted slightly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the bronze lantern swaying from the ceiling and thought about how easily Chrysaor had beaten him at swordplay. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled a string dangling from the ceiling, and a dozen naked bulbs flooded the large room with pools of yellow light. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the rain starts to pound the ceiling. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Four columns jutted from the floor, going only halfway to the ceiling. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Spider plants and rhododendrons hang from the ceiling, dangling their leaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flicked her eyes toward the ceiling, and her face became grave. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A single bare bulb dangled from each ceiling. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He murmured a word and the canvas ceiling of the wagon rustled around us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was painted a watery blue-green that looked like the sky. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all excited and everything, but Jeffrey was bouncing off the ceiling. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the high vaulted ceilings, narrow deepset stained-glass windows and elaborately carved altars made it a miniature cathedral. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes move, looking at the ceiling above me, and she smiles sweetly, as if she is seeing angels. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

This was a large rectangular room, with walnut paneling, a walnut desk, leather chairs, and walls lined to the ceiling with books. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Different-colored lights circled all around the room, specks of light traveling over the floor and walls and ceilings, and right over kids’ faces. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The wooden floor, the light blue walls, the peaked ceiling, the yellowed lace curtains around the window — these were all a part of my childhood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They hung red, orange, and yellow balloons and shiny paper lanterns from the ceiling. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bundles of dried herbs hung from the ceiling, filling the air with the mixed aroma of feverfew and bitter orange. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Every night, before I fall asleep, I touch the pictures hanging on my ceiling. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it was too much apparently, because it always looked as if he'd tossed the whole thing at the ceiling and let it rain down wherever. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The little shed was lined to the ceiling with shelves full of nuts and bolts, wires, tools, jars filled with shards of glass and broken bits of sheet metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She made them close faster, shaking the floor and cracking the ceiling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He points to these metal boxes attached to the ceiling that light up like exit signs, only they say Applause instead of Exit. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was collapsed in places to his right. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I tried to push away what was in store by lying back and imagining the ceiling was the unmapped surface of a G-class planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Celaena paused beneath the grate in the ceiling, peering up at the light flowing through it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His tie is unknotted and his hair is dampened and mussed and he has a gauze patch taped above his left temple where his head glanced the ceiling of his sedan when it crashed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset the wind died, and the ceiling lifted 150 feet off the glacier, enabling me to locate my base camp. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling weighs ten trillion tons; it gives off a permeating cold; it drives his nose into the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it might be soundproofed like Alder Whin’s, but looking around I saw the walls and ceilings were bare grey stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The only real noise was the creaking from the ceiling of the leather belts that connected the wheels in the weaving room to the gigantic waterwheel in the basement. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of the Great Hall was serenely blue and streaked with frail, wispy clouds, just like the squares of sky visible through the high mullioned windows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Jeweled chandelier-lanterns drop from the high ceiling, like spiders with bellies full of candlelight. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Three a.m. would come and Maya would lie awake in bed and watch lights from the cars outside pass across her ceiling, lighting her room before it fell dark again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Pipes across the ceiling led to the drinking fountains and to the toilets in the next room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goodbye to the three electric lights in the ceiling that seemed always, no matter where you sat, to cast the shadow of your head over the page you were writing on. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in a large room with low ceilings and a silvery light. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dark water pooled between the rails, fed in steady drips from the station ceiling. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The malls seemed so phony—all that glitter and shiny stuff—giant green balls and red ribbons hung from the ceiling, with signs like, The Magic of the Season Is at Midtowne Mall. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed a crumbling staircase to the ruined ceiling, then reached out to grab onto the beam. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The tips of Dumbledore’s long, thin fingers were together and he was resting his chin upon them, staring up at the ceiling through his half-moon spectacles as though lost in thought. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the limousine’s sunroof, and I imagined the world before there were ceilings, which made me wonder: Does a cave have no ceiling, or is a cave all ceiling? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gryffindor cheers nearly raised the bewitched ceiling; the stars overhead seemed to quiver. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Gregor’s eyes traveled up the distant rows of people as he tried to find the ceiling. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird that the ceiling is so far away. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The ceiling grows lower, until, in the back, it’s no more than a few feet off the ground. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He smelled clay and old pine from the vigas in the ceiling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every time it rained, the plasterboard ceiling would get all swollen and heavy, with water streaming steadily from the center of the bulge. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His jaw dropped even farther when he saw the life-size merman hanging by its tail from a Woody hook and chain in the ceiling near the staircase. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Daddy stares at the ceiling like he could cuss God out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

To stand in the farm equipment warehouse, surrounded by a million links of paper chain, piled to the ceiling, is an emotional experience that’s hard to describe. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When he stood up, I thought his head was going to go right through the ceiling, he was so tall. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In the back seat we were all thrown around, flung from door to door like rag dolls, with Mama bouncing in front of us and Papa’s hat crunching up against the ceiling. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a gorgeous old place on the water, with high ceilings and windows always open to the sea breezes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Most of the bombs fall on the lower city and the train tracks, but a few make the dust crumble from our ceiling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A speaker tucked into a corner of the ceiling started to cackle and hum. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A red and white banner with the school’s motto, “Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve,” hung from the ceiling. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The path before him went in only one direction; the ceiling was an inch taller than his head. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Both of them had their eyes open too, reflecting the starry ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It had carved wooden beams on the ceiling and wallpaper decorated with hundreds of birds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reilly had added a new touch to the office the day before, streamers of mauve, gray, and tan crepe paper looped from lightbulb to lightbulb across the ceiling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stare at the ceiling and imagine my prayers traveling up, up, up and hovering over my bed until they lift all the way through the roof. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people filled the room; they stood along the walls or danced under a ceiling festooned with red and white crepe paper. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

For, on the old beamed ceiling of the parlor, streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright mirage, reflected through the windows from the sunlit surface of the pond. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, God, oh, God, Yossarian had been pleading wordlessly as he dangled from the ceiling of the nose of the ship by the top of his head, unable to move. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Flecks of loose limestone crumbled off the cave ceiling and rained onto her shoulders. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Tobias searches every corner of the room, and then shoots at the camera attached to the ceiling on our right. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I leapt from my bed, and—thunk!—cracked my head on the sloped ceiling. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the end of the passageway and saw before them a brilliantly lit chamber, its ceiling arching high above them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

From above them came the rustling sound of a ceiling panel being slid aside, and in the glow of a flashlight beam they saw Constance’s dusty, cobweb-covered, exasperated face. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure he’s in the fray,” she said, rolling her eyes at the ceiling, which thrummed with the thudding of feet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He flopped down on his mattress, letting its itchy stuffing feathers poke into his back as he glared at the ceiling and tried to figure out how it had all gone wrong so fast. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s important to let the kids know you mean all this metaphorically, honey,” he says, sitting straight up so that his head busts through the ceiling. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

What if they also saw the dark silhouette perched in the ceiling’s scaffolding? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lay on my bed, on my back, with my arms spread like I’m on the cross, staring at the cracks in my ceiling. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One light from the ceiling was still hanging down by a wire, dickering and swinging back and forth, and every once in a while I could see stuff inside. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I watched the whole thing from a corner up in the ceiling,” Miss Spider murmured. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

They projected a sea of stars on the domed ceiling, and we all oohed and aahed as, one by one, the constellations were highlighted and morphed into Greekish-statue versions, making the formations easier to see. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head back, looking up at the shelves that stretched toward the ceiling. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But, pretty soon, I opt to just lie on my bed, looking up at the ceiling and listening to the wheezing sound of my breath ing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The walls of the room appeared, and then the floor and the ceiling, and she had the distinct feeling that she was trapped in a box, a lovely cage filled with tapestries and cushions. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had made it about halfway to the bronze jar when the ceiling opened over them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I go back to the ceiling, a little shocked by what she’s said, by what she knows, by the iPod dock and the tattoo. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I broke my toes attempting to swing from a lamp fixture on the ceiling. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It hung by a string from the ceiling just above where the robbers were sitting on the floor but, being dazed and dum-founded, they looked all around and didn’t see what he was talking about. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the ceiling, then at the floor straining to remember. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The visitor center was huge inside, with high, towering ceilings and great open spaces filled with displays about Mount Rainier. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Because of the way the house was settling on the eroding hillside, the floors and ceilings and windows tilted at different angles. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The domed ceiling was about fifty feet above. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And when we’ve covered the entire ceiling, Russ shuts off the lights. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas lights lined the ceiling—the only lights in the whole place. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Barrels of slimy stuff stood on the floor; jars of herbs, dried roots, and bright powders lined the walls; bundles of feathers, strings of fangs, and snarled claws hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The hole we’ve carved into this building gives a little light, but I can’t even make out the dimensions of the room, or whether there is a ceiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I keep my eyes on the ceiling, as if he might reappear if I look long enough. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were paper swans in the corner, paper herons on the chair, and tiny paper hummingbirds suspended from the ceiling. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The hard k sound bounced off the ceiling. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They circled and circled, creating a whirlwind, a dirt devil of debris and dark moldy hay that swirled all the way up to the ceiling. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I come down from the ceiling for a second only to see if she’s seriously about to put on some old-lady jams. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The lodge was very congenial in a basic and rustic sort of way, with a high ceiling and plenty of room to move around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I keep close to the ceiling, away from the fighting below. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Pink streamers and balloons draped down from the ceiling with the words Happy Shower emblazoned on them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But this room’s walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tai says, standing and stretching her arms to the ceiling. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

In every room water dripped down from the ceiling, so when we had a hard rain outside, it was like a small rain shower inside. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Second, dig a perfect circle hole all the way down to the wooden ceiling here on the inside of the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The gymnasium floor was freshly waxed and the basketball goals were folded to the ceiling. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Or to turn on the ceiling fan that makes a breeze inside just for me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Father looked up at the ceiling and started humming "Rescue me, and take me in your arms, rescue me." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When she comes back, she is looking up at the plastered ceiling, her arms folded, pinning the sheet tight against her chest. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grins in his chaotic way, then turns the camera up at the wooden ceiling, clicks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Beneath them, the floor was polished marble, and the ceiling was a strange twisting river of names that, Aru imagined, belonged to the dead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stark fluorescent lights glowed along the rock ceiling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A stepladder was set up underneath a wooden loft door in the ceiling. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there was a woman on the ceiling. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Plastic stars wait on the cold ceiling, watching the light switch, nervous, ready for the dark and their cue to glow. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The bell in the ceiling kicked itself two hundred times. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the ceiling creak because he was walking quietly up and down, drinking a cold orange crush and studying the chess men laid out on the table? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One night in the middle of winter a fierce storm came along and shook the shack as if it were made of matchsticks, and shrieked at the ceiling like a poltergeist. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I stood in this spot and stared up at this ceiling, I was on a mission to destroy the simulation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate and dirty though I was, the faint promise of happiness glimmered before me like sunlight through the ceiling of the forest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And then I basically spend the evening staring at my ceiling fan. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I tried to kick it off but couldn’t, so I crawled beneath it, my hands and knees pressing into the ceiling of the van, which was upside down. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She pushed the platform to the ceiling and into a pathway that snaked its way upward into a round opening in one of the crystal spires. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The room was dimly lighted, almost dark, but at the far end of the aisle Linda’s white casket was illuminated by a row of spotlights up in the ceiling. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the smell of diesel, and the screech of air brakes, and the big engine of the bus echoing off the cement walls and ceiling. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were clouds painted on the ceiling, and the few pieces of furniture left seemed too small for an average adult. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Every one of these “creatures” was at least as big as James himself, and in the strange greenish light that shone down from somewhere in the ceiling, they were absolutely terrifying to behold. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The gleam led me around a corner and into a small room with part of the ceiling caved in. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There were no orbs inside, just the dim moonlight shining in through the slatted windows near the ceiling. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She opens her eyes and looks up at the ceiling. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Light through the open transom fell on the ceiling fan, casting distorted shadows of the four motionless blades against the opposite wall. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed awed, either by the chandeliers that hung from the dark ceiling, or by the countless candles that burned everywhere in their heavy holders. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hole in the ceiling was so big they both could have jumped through it at once. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she sees the screen, her eyebrows jump to the ceiling. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Gramps was already up, but Gram was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

"It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow," he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The domed ceiling of the enormous hall was covered with delicate hand paintings and Latin phrases written in decorative script. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I climb up to the top bunk and stare at the ceiling while I wait for my parents to be done talking. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Here Zooey, still looking at the ceiling, simultaneously grimaced and shook his head. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see the walls or ceiling, but there appeared to be a floor, because I was standing on something. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His legs flopped in a V. His arms stretched up to the ceiling. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

My current sanctuary was a room with thorny branches covering the walls and the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They went from floor to ceiling, and they seemed to me to contain everything of importance that had ever been written on any subject in the world. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The adobe ceiling was low, the dirt walls entirely bare, and the only light came from a pair of lanterns set in a corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chantal points to the ceiling and I know it’s because of me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He kept his mouth shut and concentrated on reaching his hand toward the ceiling. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The stars that I know are on the other side of the gym ceiling don't make sense. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had the candles ready on the countertop, standing in brass holders shaped like lotuses, but they ate under the glow of the copper-shaded ceiling lamp that hung over the table. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And in the darkest corner of the ceiling, hidden among the dark oak beams, sat a man no larger than a hand span. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Papa puts one finger to his lips and then points to the ceiling. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Miles laced his fingers together on his chest and stared at the ceiling of the gym, not answering. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Full, from side to side, all the way back until it touched the ceiling. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

One young man had taught me how to put a sticker on the ceiling. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the cavern rushed eight of the strongest miners carrying an immense caldron which bubbled and sizzled and sent great clouds of savory steam spiraling slowly to the ceiling. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the hours that I lay awake, staring at the ceiling, I decided that while I wasn’t going to participate in Nita’s plan, I also wasn’t going to stop it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Above me the lines between the ceiling tiles warp and twist into monstrous creatures. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry flung his arms over his head and ran, slipping over the coils of snake skin, out of the way of great chunks of tunnel ceiling that were thundering to the floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The ’tween deck reminds me of the root cellar at the orphanage, with its close walls and ceiling. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A huge octopus of a furnace reached across most of the ceiling, and cobwebs hung on its tentacles, drifting up when I walked beneath them. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were cool enough inside, especially the ones with the high ceilings. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inej gestured to a pair of big metal doors set into what looked like a giant chimney that jutted out from the wall and stretched all the way up to the ceiling. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Before I can even register my own movements, I’m on my knees, phone light aimed at the ceiling, trying to get my fingernails under the loose floorboard. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Ropes stretched across the ceiling, attached to a makeshift pulley. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were shelves and shelves of them, on every wall from the floor to the ceiling, and separate shelves and shelves of them in the middle of the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The walls and ceiling were covered with mirrors, whose reflections danced dizzily along with them, and the footmen bowed coldly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Joe stares at the ceiling brightly, filled to the brim with memories. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It can be reasonably assumed that she was surrounded by a frightening cacophony of sounds — wood igniting and burning wildly, the glass of windows exploding, stairways and ceilings collapsing. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When it cleared, Nathan saw rows of rock spires on the ceiling that pointed downward like fangs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They took elevators to the second floor—blacks in one elevator, whites in another—and stepped into a large, dark, wood- paneled courtroom with a spacious, high ceiling. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He’s maybe a little bit in awe of how Henry arches up off the mattress, at hearing his sweet, posh voice reciting a litany of profanities to the ceiling. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Inside, the ribbons have fallen from the ceiling and lie twisted on the floor. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The cage he had just been hanging from was now rising toward a hatch in the ceiling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Inside, the luxurious palace featured gleaming marble walls, high ceilings, and spacious rooms filled with fancy gold-leaf furnishings. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They stand there staring at each other, fifteen days removed from Henry swearing at the ceiling of Alex’s bedroom and unsure how to proceed. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And home was our apartment on Euclid Avenue, with its fading carpet and low ceilings, my dad kicked back in the bucket of his easy chair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Other pictures hung from the ceiling or were mounted on boards. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It was as if he simply fell from the ceiling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The basement has bumpy gray walls and a few lightbulbs hanging down from the ceiling on neon-yellow cords. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The walls expanded away, and the ceiling rose. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We step through the debris of charred cabinets and chair legs used as firewood, and move through the offices skylighted by gaping holes punched through the ceiling and roof by the firefighters. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took out her phone and dialed Tim, while everything around her creaked and wires hung from the ceiling like a scene out of a bad movie. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ron went speeding in the direction that Harry was pointing, crashed into the ceiling, and nearly fell off his broom. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Good to know,” I say to the bathroom ceiling. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Tally settled back and counted the tiles on the ceiling. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dad brings down the cover of the laptop so hard it’s a miracle there aren’t computer keys bouncing off the ceiling. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It felt as though his feet were glued to the grass, which had now become the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The ceilings are high and arched—without any foamy pop-out panels. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Fortifications fell and ceilings collapsed, and when the queen was found in her chambers, the mob seized her and dragged her to the stake right then to burn her alive. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Flames crawled up the walls and ceiling, casting off billowing black smoke and the whip of sparks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bunches of herbs—I recognized parsley, sage, and rosemary—hung from the ceiling, as did onions and leeks. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I think of you every day, Ronan. With this stain on the ceiling here.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But after lunch I felt as if I was sitting on a giant spring and it was all I could do to keep it from launching me head first up into the ceiling. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own face was looking back at him from the ceiling of the room above. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A large wooden desk was arranged in the center of the room, and two of its walls were covered from floor to ceiling with bookshelves. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I take a long look at the ceiling and I nod in case she's watching me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He lay in his bunk, staring at the ceiling and trying to control his racing heartbeat. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She pulled a chain that hung from the ceiling of the air lock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as she spoke she looked up at the ceiling. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I remember the ceiling over every bathtub I've stretched out in. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you will find the sinks clogged up with paper towels or see wadded toilet paper hanging from the ceiling. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The room was dark, the ceiling filled with shadows from the dinnertime lights of neighboring flats. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blew a smoke stream up to the ceiling that seemed to go on forever, and then he looked over at me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was like the ceiling was slowly pressing down toward her face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We entered a large room in which one entire wall was hung with Italian-red draperies that fell in rich folds from the ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the downstairs bedroom in the cabin in the holler, Tiller climbed into bed beside Sairy and stared at the ceiling above him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The men in the room got quiet, like we were all holding our breaths, and I reached my arms up toward the ceiling. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

An oil lamp hung from a hook on the low ceiling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I studied my father as he stared at the tile work on the ceiling: endless geometric patterns that made me think of traveling through a wormhole. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Miles turned to the ceiling again and closed his eyes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A ceiling fan blew the warm air around without really cooling it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The clicking of their heels echoed off the polished floors and bounced across the high timber ceiling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Uncle Arthur examined the hole in the ceiling that Papa had made during the Great Plumbing Accident, shaking his head in disbelief. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Henrietta lay back on the table, feet pressed hard in stirrups as she stared at the ceiling. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even if I’m completely exhausted, even if my body is screaming and begging that it needs to rest, some nights I just stare at my ceiling for hours and hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Over my head, a glass ceiling etched with the Orléansian royal emblem lets in light from the early evening stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Music was reverberating against the walls and ceilings, the bass pulsing in my eardrums. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A late fall of snow threw the evening light upward into the chamber, shining on the ceiling more than on the floor, so as to alter the usual shadows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the cracked ceiling are light bulbs with slow, twirling blades. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Next to her, attached to the ceiling, Wilbur saw a curious object. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The large “store” area was partitioned into two rooms by beaverboard planks that did not reach to the ceiling. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give everything. Even if we go under—” Her head hit the ceiling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Because I’m different, Matt thought desperately, staring up at the ceiling of his bedroom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ngoma placed one hand behind his neck and blew smoke rings at the ceiling, “It was a little off.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It covers the walls and the ceiling and spreads out over the floor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They went all the way up to a sky-blue ceiling with tiny lights in it, hanging there like stars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She watches the shadows that the passing traffic throws onto their ceiling, listens to a truck wailing in the distance like a solitary, nocturnal beast. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They may have no past,” he said, smoking and looking up at the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had reviewed the floor plan of the actual buildings, memorized everything from the ceiling heights to emergency exits to electrical outlet locations. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Harry felt the ropes fall away and turned, rubbing his wrists, to see Ron running around the cellar, looking up at the low ceiling, searching for a trapdoor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now Genie pretended he was firing a rifle at the ceiling. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The forty-foot ceiling has been transformed into the night sky, and the stars look exactly as they do at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo nodded; he looked at the medicine pouches hanging from the ceiling and tried to imagine the objects they contained. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Floating angels and trumpet-wielding infants danced all over the walls and ceiling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I change into the bathing suit and lie on my bed, staring at the ceiling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to describe—hands reach upward and dozens of yellow crosses race across the ceiling like stars or airplanes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When it was just a foot away, Thomas tensed his muscles and swung the spear up, around, and toward the ceiling as hard as he could. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Inside, a teenage boy was hanging light bulbs on an oak beam that ran across the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“This is where they came to enjoy themselves,” Theodora said, and her voice echoed shakily from the high ceiling. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed my mother and twirled her around, and they danced beneath the newly plastered ceiling of the living room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I went beyond the ceiling and asked God. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Only here there wasn’t even musty straw to sit on, and the lightbulb hanging from the ceiling didn’t work. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Most times he don’t even put the TV on, he just sucks on his beer and stares at the cobwebs on the ceiling. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Believe it or not, she lived for six months like that, upside down on the ceiling with her legs stuck permanently in the paint. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned her head back against the wall and raised her eyes to the ceiling before correcting herself. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She frowns at a few cobwebs on the ceiling. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, she said ‘Aaah’ a few more times and then that angel started to walk off the ceiling. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute, I just stare at the ceiling fan. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Jupiter looks up at the ceiling and sighs. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The walls turned to gray cement, and die ceiling got so low that pretty soon we were hunching over. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was thick with cobwebs, the floor coated in grime; moldy and rotting food lay upon the table amidst a mass of crusted pots. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The cave ceiling trembled, and bits of black rock flaked down. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The enormous room beyond was lit dimly through narrow windows in its stone ceiling. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some chatted with neighbors, some looked up at the gilt ceiling, some studied the pattern of the Oriental rug. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come down from the ceiling long enough to meet her eyes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was daylight, broad daylight, and he wondered why it was that he would be lying on his back on the dirt, looking at the ceiling in the middle of the day. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I lay down and stared up at the smoke stains on the cottage-cheese ceiling. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A roach crept across the ceiling, nearly reached the center and fell off. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had awakened when Lazlo did, then collapsed back on her pillows, squeezing her eyes tight shut to block out the sight of the mesarthium walls and ceiling that hemmed her in. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On one end was a massive wall-size screen and overhead there were cameras in the ceiling for teleconferencing. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had held a candle up there for hours, flicking the flame all over the ceiling, stopping often to move the table he was standing on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stretched my hands and feet from my top bunk to the ceiling, like usual. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a large room with a high ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fairy lights and paper snowflakes covered the ceilings. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Right,” Valerie agreed, and the minute Max had shut the trap door, she clambered silently up the ladder and pressed her ear to the ceiling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’s standing on a small ladder looking up at a big metal tube coming out of the ceiling. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Beams of light stretch across the polished tile, slanting through the ceiling windows. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Missus Wilhelmina yanks me into our classroom of cinder blocks, with ceiling fans pushing hot air around in circles. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He likes it back here in the bakery where the floors are white with flour—whiter than the sooty walls and ceiling. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He points to the corner of the ceiling. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The rough fibers of the fabric allow light from the fluorescent bulbs on the ceiling through. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Little fine drops fell sometimes from the ceiling. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Levant led the way to the records room on the second floor, which was stacked floor to ceiling with wooden crates, file cabinets, and duffel bags. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It hit the ceiling and bounced on Scott’s head before rattling to the floor. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

After we turned the lights out, I stared up at the ceiling, watching the shadows of the dogwood tree dance in the moonlight. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"No, look at the ceiling," she says, whisking the brush across my cheeks. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We hang the fabric mural on one of the blue walls, and the Christmas lights across the ceiling. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Briskly he retreated into the lobby of the headquarters building, where the ceiling lights flickered twice and faded out. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay quietly staring up at the ceiling, and I didn’t want to disturb him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Plaster rained from the ceiling, and all the excitement was stricken from Sarai’s face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We marched down salt stairs, we crawled along salt floors, we passed stalagmites formed from salt water dripping off the ceiling. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like crowns, quartz crystals jutted out of the sides and the ceilings and even the ground, which made it difficult to walk on the path. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Its barred ceiling was low, its floor piled deep with rank-smelling hay. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The arches of the ceiling feel empty above me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The first shower burst against the tile floors of the shower room and plumes of steam inched along the ceiling and flowed down the walls. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was almost to the top of the chemistry room’s ceiling when she spotted her red backpack in the wreckage beneath her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At first he could see only shifting shadows, but they soon turned into the shapes of bodies— people bending over the hole in the ceiling, looking down at him, pointing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The sun pours into this central atrium from a pyramid-shaped glass ceiling, flooding the place with light. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boys and I lie on the kitchen floor and stare at the ceiling for a while longer, until I realize, with some embarrassment, that they have both fallen asleep. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The preacher rubbed his nose and looked up at the ceiling. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the floor beneath us shivers and then lifts us up through the ceiling and into the lobby of the Department of Hidden Places. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Emerson Lapp rolled his eyes to the ceiling and banged his pencil down against the legal pad. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember his eyes shifting to the ceiling, to the corner. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She stared up at the ceiling, stared at the big black hook in the middle of the room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The shop is small and dark and musty and filled with books from floor to ceiling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given that it’s subterranean, the place seems surprisingly vast, the ceilings high. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the aurora borealis, meteor showers over tumbling black waves, night skies so clear the stars seemed within reach, hung from a ceiling by fishing wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“No, sir,” I answered truthfully, fearing that the ceiling would crash down upon my head. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing with his feet in the bright circle of sunlight below the center of the log ceiling open for smoke. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But anyway, as long as he goes away when we are busy with ceiling.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gore’s office is covered with bumper stickers—floor to ceiling. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I inspected a paper leprechaun that was dangling from the ceiling on a string. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The rounded walls and ceiling are painted a deep, vibrant blue and ornamented with stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A sudden blue flash illuminated the seating area for a second as the fly zapper on the ceiling took out a bug. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“How many stars in the sky?” he repeats, cracking open an eye to stare at the ceiling like he’s imagining the night sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fie tries to sit up, but the ceiling has become lower, and he strikes his head. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Genie looked up at the bathroom ceiling as if he could see the clouds through it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As he turned toward me I saw the top of his head was white from his helping to paint the War Veterans’ Club ceiling. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The walls and high ceilings were white, and the room itself was sparsely furnished with a few pieces of antique furniture. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were down in Carlsbad Caverns, and Billy was praying to God to get him out of there before the ceiling fell in. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tenants downstairs complained of the banging noise coming through the ceiling, and bed-to-floor leaping was declared off-limits as well. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wiped her eyes on her shawl and leaned her head back watching a spot on the ceiling. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zander puts his hands together and looks at the cafeteria ceiling where the god of birthday cakes must be. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Olive asked from her perch on the ceiling. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A chunk of ceiling collapsed and crushed a waterwheel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Where do you want to go?” he asked, looking up at the ceiling. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“No, I didn’t, Arthur,” he said, his eyes on the far, dim end of the room, where the wall met the ceiling. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I demonstrate, swinging my gaze to the ceiling. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This made her feel as if her whole family could float up and up into the sky, right up through the hole in the ceiling, like they had no weight. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Four cameras dangle from the ceiling, one at each corner of the table. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like chickens drinking, the students lifted their eyes towards the distant ceiling. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He splits it with Bea, but there’s not much of either of them in any of the high ceilings and heavy, jacquard furniture. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

James punched his fists in the air and tilted his head back to shout at the ceiling, “STEVE SURVIVES!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Arturo had dropped his head back against the mattress, but I could see that his eyes were open and that he was staring at the ceiling. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Most climbed to the balcony, but three stood on an elevated platform near the ceiling, holding buckets full of cadmium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was smooth and only about ten feet above their heads. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before I ascend the metal stairs that will carry me above the glass ceiling, I wait in darkness and watch the light cast on the Pit walls by the sun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The shiny, sparkling material of Didu's saris softens the walls and ceilings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Russ keeps climbing and I follow until we have to push up what looks like a trapdoor in the ceiling. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw bits of light coming through the ceiling and walls. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Back in his bedroom, Nathan lifted his hand to a corner of the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They did not speak of sorrow or worries or black-haired women on ceilings. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They passed through a bazaar in a cavernous building whose latticework ceiling was home to a thou-sand gaily colored birds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Light pours in from a glass ceiling atrium and down to where we stand, in the middle of an open space decorated with towering indoor vines. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He lit the fire and smoke curled up over the painted wooden lintel and rose to the ceiling and curled down again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The station building was heavily damaged, but there were workers atop scaffolding at the ceiling. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The other end he slings through a bent strut wedged into the congestion of timber, stone, and plaster that has become their ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

THE committee was assembled in the hall with the high Gothic ceiling when I arrived, sitting in folding chairs around two small tables pushed together to form a unit. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad flicked imaginary lint off my bed and looked up at the ceiling. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have gone temporarily deaf and haven’t any idea what you said, Harry,” said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was no ceiling now, only an endless sky awash with red and gold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I soak in the Grand Banquet Hall: candelabras and centerpieces dripping with white and gold, animated ceiling frescoes of the royal family's bloodline, roses opening and closing to release their scents. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Feet shuffle so loud the ceiling sounds ready to rain. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I keep my gun in hand and start toward the path that leads to the glass ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I’m lying on the bed staring at a print on the ceiling of Munch’s The Scream, an off-the-hook painting I wish I made of a guy blowing a gasket. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There was no rug on the floor and the plastering on the walls and ceiling hung loose in many places. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Pensieve was sitting on the desk again, casting silvery specks of light over the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’m squeezing my phone so hard I’m surprised it doesn’t shoot out of my hand and hit the ceiling. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A hall appeared, carved out of stone and marble, and the ceiling soared overhead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Doug raised his arms, pointing his index fingers to the flaking gilt ceiling in the I'm- number-one sign, and acknowledged the clapping with a victory lap around the room. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the desks and broken ceiling boards that she would have to move in order to get out. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Lying on his back, staring at a ceiling he could not see, Ben felt discarnate, a voiceless body buried accidentally, smelling the top of the coffin for the first time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the ceiling were those yellow energy-saving lights from the seventies. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The hallways were decorated for Halloween with orange-and-black crepe paper strung in sagging zigzags across the ceiling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It had escaped behind the ceiling tiles, never to be seen again. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I followed him into the long room where the lots of paint were stacked along the floor beneath numbered markers that hung from the ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she gazes at the patterns of light on the ceiling until her eyes seem to mist over. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The trouble was, our house had the wrong kind of ceilings. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I look up at the ceiling, the round circle of plaster flowers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put her mug rugs down and walked to the bathroom with my eyes pointed directly up at the ceiling. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dad’s eyes dart from the windows to the doors to the ceiling, like an escape hatch might be up there. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The hole in the kitchen ceiling widened, and then the ceiling on Brian and Maureen’s side of the bedroom started leaking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dust and bits of tile fell from the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A donkey pinata with button eyes hung from the ceiling. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling light came on, very bright, and as Elinor stumbled back in alarm she fell over her own handbag, which she had put down on the floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Piles of them function as tables, others hang suspended from the ceiling, along with large golden cages holding several live white doves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And lying there on my bed, tracing the maze of cracks in the plaster on my ceiling, I face a fact: What I've actually got is only slightly more than nothing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found the little girl beneath a slab of broken ceiling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stared at the shadows on the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Throughout the entire service, Reb Saunders stood with his back to the congregation, sometimes raising his head toward the ceiling, or raising his hands to cover his eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She placed her feet onto the wall and crawled the rest of the way to the top of the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There are only two ceiling lights in the ward and they’re switched off when the tea tray is taken away and the nurse gives me pills. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was lying on the sofa with those unopened boxes all around me, staring at the ceiling. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Deeper still, we came to Throughbottom, a room like a cathedral, so big that neither Auri’s blue light nor my red one reached the highest peaks of the ceiling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They ascended the wall to meet a circular, person-sized door in the ceiling, through which shone a single gleam of light. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I turn the TV off, then bounce on the bed, so high my fingers touch the ceiling, and it feels, for a mo- ment, like I am flying. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hands under the back of my own head, like Rondell always does, and stared up at the ceiling. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He lay down again on the cot, on his back, and stared at the tiny bright-yellow electric bulb glowing on the ceiling above his head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And why did they come here, night after night after night, calling out to a God who cared nothing for them—if, above this flaking ceiling, there was any God at all? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Zooey was now gazing abstractedly at an old root-beer stain on the ceiling plaster, which he himself had made nineteen or twenty years earlier, with a water pistol. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The drone of the slow ceiling fan filled her head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shed was full, the bags stacked to the ceiling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Fangor and Shed could easily leap ten feet in the air, and the sparkling ceiling of the cavern over the beach was not much higher. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo nodded, but now his eyes were on the ceiling logs where pouches and bags dangled from wooden pegs and squareheaded nails. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was summer and from a high ceiling was suspended a huge electric fan that whirred. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of people have crumpled their programs into balls, and are lobbing them toward the ceiling. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They recommended hanging metal buckets of ice from the ceiling. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And in the very center of the gallery, a spotlight falls through the ceiling onto a pedestal; there, inside a glass cube, glows a small blue stone . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She twirled her finger through her curly hair and let those big blue eyes roam over the ceiling. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mark was almost to the door of the barracks when he heard a strange scratching noise above him, like rats scurrying across the panels of the ceiling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was always so beautiful to stare up at that white ceiling and imagine only clean beautiful places, where the reward for living a pure life was a great loaf of warm bread. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Both of them looked up at the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Groaning and complaining, he pulled himself slowly to the ceiling. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Greene had advised me not to shine my flashlight into inmates’ faces while they slept but rather just to aim it at the ceiling or the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Glue. The nano kind. You can stick your shoes to the ceiling with this stuff and hang upside down.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was on a bed made of silky woven kelp, in a .room paneled with abalone shell Glowing pearls the size of basketballs floated around the ceiling, providing light. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Panels in the ceiling were often missing or stained. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She glanced up at the ceiling as if retrieving a distant memoiy. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He did not watch the process, but surveyed the ceiling as my fingers, slippery now with his gore, worked to tighten the tourniquet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the paper birds hanging from the ceiling. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The minute the Count brought the candle close, Westley raised his eyes to the ceiling, dropped his eyelids over them, and in a state of deep and steady concentration, he took his brain away. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was staring blankly at a little TV suspended from the ceiling, but she looked up when I slipped into the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After rummaging through bags and boxes, and yanking open kitchen cabinets and drawers, she sighed to the ceiling separating her apartment from James’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They found petrified bones sticking out of the ceiling and walls. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scan the ceiling again and again—perhaps the lights have blinded me so much that I can no longer see him—but he’s nowhere to be seen now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Support struts shored up the wooden ceiling and stones embedded in the dirt floor made her stumble. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat, raising his eyes towards the ceiling. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A thousand live bats fluttered from the walls and ceiling while a thousand more swooped over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles in the pumpkins stutter. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We follow him into a large room with high ceilings and wood floors and lights that glow orange-yellow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The lazily turning ceiling fans did little to cool the heavy air, and several people around us were smoking, but we hardly noticed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hopped off the bag, thrust both hands to the ceiling, and shouted: “Aaaay-men!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at our popcorn ceiling, closed my eyes, and took in a quivery breath. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Grandfather’s eyes were wide open and fixed on the ceiling. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind came Hodor, with Bran crouched low on his back so his head wouldn't hit the ceiling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A broad ribbon of wet seaweed was hanging down from the ceiling. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Silver lights burst from the ceiling and drifted down like glittering confetti. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was white, and naked bulbs hung from it on dark wires, flooding the room with harsh light. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Other inmates slumped listlessly, staring at the floor or the ceiling, but Richard always had the same quality of alertness. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My father’s bed was directly beneath a ceiling fan, which was circulating cold air from a stand-alone air-conditioning unit on a side window. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, I stared at the small shadows and big emptiness of the starless ceiling. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The lanterns swinging from the carriage ceiling cast a bright light over the scene: Harry could read every word of Crabbe’s comic directly below him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was those eyes, those unseeing, terror-stricken eyes, fixed: on the ceiling. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Things float in it, flakes of ceiling plaster, maybe, and there’s grit on the floor beneath her knees, but she puts her lips to its surface and drinks her fill. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ceiling and walls are awash in neon blue from the liquor mart across the street. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ceiling is smooth and black; slabs of it descend over him as he treads. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Its head slammed against the ceiling and its body splashed back into the water, creating massive waves. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I showed him the listening devices Hoagland had installed in the drop ceiling. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet said, “I love the great feeling of Coke’s carbonation going down my throat, all the pain, like ...” She waved her hands in the air and looked at the ceiling, trying to think of something. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A row of fluorescent bulbs hanging from the ceiling. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I don't know if they looked up to see the missing ceiling tile or not, and I don't care. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This fifth-floor apartment is indeed nicer than the second-floor one—the ceilings high and decorated with punched tin and stucco flourishes: fruits, flowers, banana leaves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Seven prayed that a dragon would crash through the ceiling and take her away. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s also the myth about a python in the ceiling tiles, being fed by the lunch ladies. But that one’s not too interesting. Do you know about Red Witch Bridge?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The water had risen up to the ceiling of the tunnel, so even assuming he could swim in temperatures that must be close to freezing, he would be unable to breathe. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He saw windows framed by blue curtains that went from floor to ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mom and I sit in the waiting room and find separate parts of the ceiling to stare at in silence. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The whole ceiling was a maze of rafters crisscrossing and flying up from wooden columns on the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hung each heavy core from the ceiling, made a series of measurements, then took the core down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sends the solar system, in the form of a plastic mobile, and stars you can stick on the ceiling that light up at night. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We walk across the glass, which is now a floor rather than a ceiling, through a cylindrical room with glass walls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“There are cracks in the ceiling,” she says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room which she found most to her liking had a bunk bed with brown corduroy spreads and models of airplanes hanging on delicate wires from the ceiling. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When they finished, they rolled onto their backs, shook their legs at the ceiling, and laughed as long as they had fought. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me that noise always sounded as though the Headmaster was firing a pistol at the ceiling of his study. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other men look at the table, the ceiling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At one point she must have broken open a pen and spun it around, because if you look closely, you can see small, dried drops of ink all over the walls and ceiling. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was back in that barren cave, the ceiling heavy and low above me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ground sloped upward, and the ceiling sloped downward. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The noise rose sharply, echoing, bouncing off the high ceiling and the walls. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I stared up at the ceiling: gleaming white lines intersecting and weaving together into a twenty-four-sided star, which cascaded outward into interlocking diamonds as they followed the curvature of the inner dome. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The legs were stumps, the ends were logs, and there was a ceiling of branches. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At first I’d come in here and just lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling, thinking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They could guess from the echoing sound of their voices when they spoke that they were in a tremendous room, though the ceiling was low—they could see it just over their heads. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The whole apartment was painted pale yellow, except for the ceilings, which were smoky gray. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a thunderous crash overhead, a ceiling giving way or a piece of the roof collapsing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, from the bottle, a thick bluish smog spiraled to the ceiling, spread out, and gradually assumed the shape of a thick bluish smog with hands, feet, bright-yellow eyes, and a large frowning mouth. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The junior officers cleared out their cots, clothing, and maps from the second-floor drawing room so we could scrub and polish it from ceiling to floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight men in official patterned clothes moved about a litter, a structure with a wooden base and ceiling surrounded by beautiful hanging cloth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He pulled the wattles of skin at his throat again and gazed at the ceiling for a moment. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The room’s ceiling was barrel-shaped with brick arches, but Annabeth didn’t like the look of the supports. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The stacks reached the ceiling, and then the living room filled up, and Mom’s collectibles and found art overflowed into the kitchen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls and floor and ceiling were made of wooden planks notched cunningly together and decorated with all the creatures of the sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He just lay there and stared at the ceiling and looked sad. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above him, in the dimness, a nine-foot-long queen bee, with multiple eyes and golden fuzz on her abdomen, curls across the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then he is quieter to say, “You hit the ceiling of the root cellar! Sweet!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In Granddad’s study I stood on the desk, splashing bookshelves up to the ceiling, holding the gas can far away from me. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then she put a foot on a chunk of ceiling and began to climb. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The ice on the floor evaporated and quickly turned into thick fog that rose to the ceiling, covering the rocks’ eyes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A voice spoke from the study ceiling: “Mrs. McClellan, which poem would you like this evening?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was eerie, silent except for the beeps and pings of the equipment, the walls and ceiling lit by the cold blue glow of the monitors. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The shower is enormous, with a rain showerhead installed right into the ceiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stare at the ceiling, and Pomp sings songs beneath his breath he learned while herding. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Doon sat back on his heels and gazed up at the ceiling, as if the answer might be there. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was also dimly lit, just a few pink and blue light bulbs in the low ceiling. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the ceiling's coming not Abbey Road but “The Man with the Child in His Eyes” by Kate Bush. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“SILENCE!” yelled Uncle Vernon, and a couple of spiders fell from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Rasheed buried his face into her pillow, and Mariam stared, wide-eyed, at the ceiling above his shoulder, shivering, lips pursed, feeling the heat of his quick breaths on her shoulder. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She stared up at the light on the ceiling. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Did she see the ceiling when the black American touched her? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“These are my friends, Dad. The ones I was telling you about. This is Emma, and that’s Olive, on the ceiling.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Its pine floors creak, windowpanes rattle, flies buzz near the ceiling, curtains flap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In a mirror image above, at least forty people dangle from the ceiling by harnesses, squeegeeing off the already pristine dome ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sixty feet above, the domed ceiling sparkled gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It had been decorated with hundreds and hundreds of candle-filled pumpkins, a cloud of fluttering live bats, and many flaming orange streamers, which were swimming lazily across the stormy ceiling like brilliant watersnakes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The hanging globe lights, which lined the edge where the ceiling met the wall, cast a heavenly glow over his room, but Moss needed more. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He leans his head back again and watches the mini basketballs hanging from the chains of his ceiling fan. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“And we, my dears, everything we are and ever will be are just a twinkle in her eye,” Chacko said grandly, lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not aware of turning the ceiling light off and the night light on. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on a warped ceiling tile and tried to breathe deeply despite the ache in my ribs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He opened his mouth to continue, thought better of it, and at last pretended to notice something on the ceiling, as if he hadn’t been about to say anything at all. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tinfoil had not done its job too well, and the ceiling was black with soot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What is that stuff? It’s all over the ceiling.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He lay back on his bunk and crossed his arms behind his head and stared at the ceiling. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the Sleeper covering it, the ceiling now looked like open sky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I turned around and saw Dylan looking at the ceiling, all innocent. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Or maybe up in the asbestos ceiling tiles. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I lean against the wall, tipping my head back to stare at the stains on the ceiling. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I lay there in the dim light and stared at the pattern of squares on the ceiling... noise-absorbing tiles with thousands of tiny holes soaking up every word. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Kindly report to your assigned library cart,” said a soothing female voice oozing out of the second floor’s ceiling speakers. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, for most of the day, he had stared at his bedroom ceiling, at the three beige blades of the fan churning at its center, their edges grimy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Great beams of black oak supported the high ceilings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He nodded at the single Violet orb hanging from the ceiling. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she looks at the eyes of her older colleagues and wonders what they did when the electricity was out, when there were no candles, when the rain came through the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Alfred stared up at the ceiling, at the white streaks that flashed overhead when cars passed on the street below. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next night a dozen frogs, together the size of a pair of year- old babies, jumped from the ceiling. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes drifted up to the stains on the ceiling, and he tried to see if he could recognize a pattern in them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Fabiola, I know you’re family and all, but keep my father’s name out your mouth,” she says, and kisses two of her fingers and raises them up to the ceiling. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The ghosts wailed and trembled and looked at the ceiling, but Annabeth knew they didn’t see what she saw. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The room went round in the calm, chrome center of the silver ceiling fan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceilings were low and the walls were close inside the Palace of the City, and everything was made of stone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the cellar beneath the Hotel of Bees, the single bulb in the ceiling winks out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His big eyes would wall up to the ceiling with a look of fear in them, and afterward he was very sulky and would not let his friend speak to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His bedroom is blue now—walls, ceiling, floor—and all the furniture has been moved to one corner so that the room is divided in two. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Shelves lined the walls from floor to ceiling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lay down and stared at the ceiling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One corner of the kitchen ceiling leaked like a sieve. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling swam with bright reflections, and sunlight streamed across the dusty, chip-strewn floor. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcia was walking around, still stunned, looking into the trays of catered food spread on the dining table, and then up at the mass of balloons bobbing against the ceiling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Please stand by,” said the soothing ceiling voice. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A ceiling slams onto the walls around us with a crack, and Four hunches over, groaning. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A great hall of a room with ceilings twice the height of the doors. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The intricate molding on the copper ceiling sparkled in the afternoon sun, and the comforting smell of mudbean juice filled the air. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He looked up as if seeking answers in the ceiling bosses where the arches met over the nave. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

From the very high ceilings, a single bulb burned. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pictured her on the floor in front of the bench, flat on her back, staring at the ceiling, her feet pointing in opposite directions. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He spent the rest of the night blowing bubbles at the ceiling. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge room with gold decorations on the ceiling and big mirrors around the walls. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I leaned back and stared at the ceiling. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Each step echoed against the iron ceiling and made him sound like a giant walking. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling lights in the limo changed color from violet to blue then to green and to yellow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Bland Muzak plays in the Vista Lounge through speakers that are built into the ceiling, so we couldn’t grab them and rip them out if we tried. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The plushness extended floor to ceiling, like the inside of a jewelry box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in stained glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

For he also was furnished with a ceiling bulb that burned eternally, but, unlike Hickock, he had in his cell a broom, and by pressing the broom-brush against the bulb he could unscrew it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blinks once more and then turns her face so she’s looking at the ceiling again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And then I step into a room that glows from floor to ceiling. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Zbyszek stood next to his father, hands behind his back, studying the ceiling, and I could see that Mrs. Diamant and Izio had both sidled nearer, listening while pretending not to. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The ceiling light glinted wickedly off her spectacles. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fans on the ceiling made a soothing whir. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The tissue bombs are still stuck to the ceiling, but I guess she couldn’t reach up that far. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Turner was thinking of a quiet room and a square table covered with a green gingham cloth, with one of those French ceramic oil lamps suspended from the ceiling on a pulley. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The walls, the ceiling and the floor of our bedrooms were made of plain unvarnished pine planks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petra, three houses away, followed the flashing lights on her ceiling, her thoughts falling into rhythm with the pulse of blue. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, except for knocking plaster all over the floor, they had done no real damage; they had gone through the wall and almost straight up into the ceiling and hit nothing on the way. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

More chunks of stone tumbled from the ceiling. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There are lights hanging from the ceiling, and ornaments in all different styles and colors. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

He looks at the ceiling for a second. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It grew almost to the ceiling, wrapping itself around the cord to the blinds, all the way up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Like tiny specks of floating dust, people hang from their harnesses far above, cleaning the ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they walked into Ugwu’s room, he pointed to the ceiling, patterned black and white. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Is that a—” Celia clutched the floaty dress/shirt contraption to her chest and rolled her eyes to the ceiling, in a remarkably on-point imitation of Mamma. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Strings of garlic and chiles hung from the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fireplace is crackling and bright, casting light across the ceiling and the walls. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was lit by a huge iron lantern that hung from the ceiling like a glowing cocoon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Books on shelves that rose to the high ceiling, books in stacks on the floor, books holding up a potted violet in desperate need of water. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She bent over Loki and placed the thing she carried above him, winding it about the stalactites that hung from the ceiling of the cave, so that its head was just above Loki’s own. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Where are all the bats?” asked Kojo, swinging his flashlight beam up to the ceiling. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Flames lick the ceiling and block the door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They lay side by side, staring up at the ceiling, trying to catch their breath and stifling laughter. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I flung back my thin cotton sheet and stretched my arms to the ceiling and luxuriated in the chill air. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“They got Jose down there in the Chamisa V. cage hanging by fishhooks stuck in his ears and attached to the ceiling.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate the bratwurst with sauerkraut for lunch, but the sausages, which were going to be canned, had to dry first, so we hung them over a pole suspended from the ceiling. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It hit the ceiling, broke up, and fell disembodied back into the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chris, why don’t you open your mouth, look up to the ceiling, and we’ll see how many of these carrots I can make from here?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“See the fish ponies? I put them on the ceiling!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Without seeming to, Will was memorizing the exact layout of the cave: the shape and size of every rock, the slope of the floor, the exact height of the ceiling above the sleeping girl. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I watch his Adam’s apple bob up and down and his eyes lift to the ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

With a little bump her head touched the ceiling and then she went bouncing along it till she reached Mr. Wigg. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Praise the Lord,” Leon said, raising his eyes to the ceiling. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough out of both of you! Look at my ceiling. Blue paint is no good inside a place. If something gets in here with one of us, it’s already too late.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my hair as I stared up at the ceiling, pressing the wadded-up shirt against my nose to stop the bleeding. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rain drips through several holes in the ceiling, but Peeta has built a sort of canopy over my head an upper body by wedging the square of plastic into the rock above me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’m wide awake now, lying on my back, looking at the ceiling. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My guides lead me into a narrow corridor with a ceiling that gradually slopes higher and higher. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The raft climbed higher and higher, aiming for the circular hole in the ceiling, until we shot out of the darkness of the Thicket and into the red-orange glow of the afternoon sun. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The three splintered beams in the ceiling hold up God knows what load: ten tons of carbonized hotel and the corpses of eight anti-aircraft men and untold unexploded ordnance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The man’s laughter echoed in the darkness, shaking the ground until it seemed the whole cavern ceiling would collapse. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Perry, his eyes glitteringly immense in a face now almost phosphorescently pale, studied the ceiling; and presently, after placing a picture postcard on the patient’s bedside table, the rebuffed visitor departed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coins flew to the ceiling, then ricocheted and spun around the room before landing on various parts of the red tile floor with tiny pings. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lies on the cot, stares at the ceiling. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Frank almost hit the ceiling when Hazel put a hand on his arm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Purple stains were absolutely everywhere, on the ceiling and even in drawers that had been a little open. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Forgive him, Lord, for he knoweth not what he says,” I say to the ceiling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She walked through several rooms with low, slanting ceilings until she came to the final room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

My head jerks up to the security cam in one corner of my room’s ceiling, wondering if they are hacking it to watch me, and then my attention goes back to the message. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seven had the attic bedroom; it had a skylight and tall ceilings, and she’d begged her parents to let her move up there when she was ten. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Banners hung from the ceiling at Wilfrido’s office, and people swatted playfully at gold and silver balloons tied to their chairs. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I scratch my cheek, look up at the ceiling, sigh. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I lay next to Harry in his bed, watching the changing light reflect on the painted angels peering down from the ceiling. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He puts on his cap, shoves his hands into his trouser pockets, sighs and looks up at the ceiling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent mirror, as high as the ceiling, with an ornate gold frame, standing on two clawed feet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Here’s something I was thinking about last night in bed, when I was staring up at the ceiling, reliving every second of the kiss for the zillionth time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I leaned back and stared at the ceiling, pretending to consider the offer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Standing on a stage above the singers with the headmaster beside me, I looked up at the ceiling—at the majestic artwork. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We slept upstairs in small rooms with dormer ceilings. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Templeton bared his long ugly teeth and began snipping the threads that fastened the sac to the ceiling. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then we studied geotropism by observing how our plant grew toward the ceiling, even after we tipped the plant on its side for a few days. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It was a single massive room the size of the chapel at church, with a vaulted ceiling that rose some sixteen feet into the air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then they turned their beams to the walls, the ceiling, along the floors and into the corners. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He sighed, looking up at the ceiling as if he was praying for God to give him strength. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I waited for Martha in the lobby, which still has the original arched wooden entryway and the faces of Bacchus peering down from the ceiling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My feet rang on the flagged stones, echoing to the ceiling, and I felt guilty at the sound, as one does in church, self-conscious, aware of the same constraint. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling glittered with different- color crystal formations—white and purple and green, like I was inside one of those cut geodes you see in souvenir shops. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I point at the glass ceiling above us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I stared up at the ring light on the ceiling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the blind plaster eye in the ceiling. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did a lot of stuff together—we climbed through ceilings, we trashed classrooms—we were wild! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and he took me downstairs to the basement, except it wasn’t really a basement because the ceilings were like fifteen feet high. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So the two of them stay on the ground floor while I climb, up and along the beams with no ceiling covering them, up again to the attic. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would get a broom and bang on the ceiling. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Staring up at the ceiling, I asked, “Why sharks? Why’d she pick sharks?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Its tail dangled down so far, it looked like one of the flypaper strips that hung from her kitchen ceiling. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He can reach up and touch the frosted white light fixture suspended from the ceiling, filled with dead moths. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel spiraled gently downward, the ceiling supported by white stone arches that reminded Frank of a whale’s rib cage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I saw him put his palms under his head on the pillow and lie there, staring vacantly up at the ceiling. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I sat back down, wide awake now, my noggin sporting two lumps—one from the ceiling, one from the mosquito. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They finished just as the girls made their appearance in the ceiling. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A gray, canvas bag, as large as a loaded army duffel bag, hung from the ceiling on a long chain. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They grinned from pikes at the back of the stands and hung on chains from the ceiling like horrible chandeliers. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I want to say something to calm her, make her feel a little less horrible, but a tiny black fish-eye camera attached to the ceiling distracts me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It hovered above them like an attic ceiling. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared for a while at the rows of tiny dots in the ceiling panels. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I woke one night to find him staring at the ceiling, his profile lit by the glow of streetlights outside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was a network of vaulted hallways, each lined with coffin-shaped sleeping capsules, row after row of them, stacked to the ceiling, ten high. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It is simply a term. The ceilings would be ten feet high and be adorned with moldings and bosses. Plaster swags.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Van Houten closed his eyes and puffed his cheeks as he exhaled, then looked up at the exposed wooden beams crisscrossing the ceiling. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“That was another clue. The Bibliomania game was pointing us to the ceiling, too. Because in Dewey decimal mode, the Wonder Dome looks like a giant 3-D version of the board game’s spinner.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Peggy moved from his side toward a light that swung from the ceiling at the far end of the room near the stairs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stretched her neck, looking up at the ceiling in order to wipe the sweat from crevices between her rolls of neckfat with the end of her pallu. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weapon was headed for the glass ceiling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All around them, uneven ground stretched into darkness under a low ceiling of stone. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t quite six feet tall, but somehow his presence made the ceilings seem low. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Was it a phantom, to whom stone ceilings didn’t matter? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“This is librarian One,” said Dr. Zinchenko, loud enough for the microphones hidden in the ceiling to pick up her voice. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There were still windows in the thick walls, but now they were irregularly cut in the ceiling or at floor level. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If you look in the top right corner, you see that ceiling panel?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jim and Buck and the football players disappeared, almost as if they got sucked up into the ceiling, leaving Quentin and me standing exposed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I tried to sleep I would see huge wobbly white bags, like the full udders of cows, suspended from the ceiling above me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

An inflatable solar system hung from the ceiling, with the sun and eight planets scaled to size, along with various starship Enterprise models. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Murmur drifted toward the ceiling; people were waiting for her to get started. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There is glass in the curve of each hallway’s ceiling and along each lower wall. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

What remained were enormous rooms with high ceilings, and a chandelier that reflected the light like a thousand mirrors. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crack on the white ceiling of the room, and I could faintly hear the deep voice of the city lieutenant and the quick laughs of the nurse. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A naked globe hung from the ceiling and the room was heated by kerosene stove. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was ten, Daddy tried to install one in the tin kitchen ceiling without asking Constantine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The ceiling slanted on the far side, and there was only one window. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The walls were exposed Sheetrock, which contrasted spectacularly with the wood paneling on the vaulted ceiling. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Spider rappelled down from the ceiling into the light of the stars and moon that shone through his window. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I climbed onto a chair and yanked the alarm out of the ceiling, but it kept shrieking until I popped the battery out as well. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was coming in through the vent near the ceiling, not far from where a clock used to be. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Stunned, Harry followed as Dumbledore strode away from where the flayed child lay whimpering, leading him to two seats that Harry had not previously noticed, set some distance away under that high, sparkling ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The way the air moved made Percy suspect the cave’s ceiling was far, far above. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I came to the top of the mound, reached out with my gloved hand, and touched the ceiling. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry went right after Black, who was still making Snape drift along ahead of them; he kept bumping his lolling head on the low ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Staring up at the popcorn ceiling over our heads, I join in. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Behind them, row after row of spikes shot toward the ceiling with a persistent thunk, thunk, thunk. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The computer says it’s located right above us, and sure enough, when I look up, the magazine drops from the ceiling and glides right into my arms. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Not only were there a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling, but enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We came to a cave where stalactites hung low from the ceiling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was suspended by two jointed robotic arms anchored to my apartment’s walls and ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Claire glanced through the window that displayed Sophia’s group of infants, who were dangling in swings suspended from the ceiling, kicking their bare feet against the carpet. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was just lying in his bed looking at the ceiling. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He lay there with his eyes open, staring up at the ceiling and not noticing me looking at him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She lay on her back, her bedcovers kicked away, and stared up at the ceiling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The invisible bird chirped and footsteps clicked across the ceiling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When she asked “What’s this?” he rolled his eyes to the ceiling, mock moaning, “Goat meat. Kid goat meat.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water trickles down the walls; a bat comes in for the day and hangs upside down on the pointed ceiling above me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when the dogs came to, they would lift their heads to the ceiling and gape in a soundless wail. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is cavernous, with high, slanted ceilings and exposed wooden beams that give me the feeling of being in a giant barn. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For a while I just lay on the bed, checking out how the cracks in the ceiling looked like a map. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He used his long ears to shade his eyes from the rays of sunlight leaking in through the Thicket ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And the lights in the ceiling—they were chandeliers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The word Harmony in bright green starts to flash across the otherwise blank ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The others agreed, the meeting adjourned, and in a few minutes the girls had disappeared into the ceiling and the boys had gone to bed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stared into the bright ceiling lights until my eyes hurt. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mom reaches over and squeezes her hand, then says to the ceiling, “Me too, Cassandra.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A wasp goes tap tap tap along the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ceilings are really high and beautiful with tons of natural light, and I see actual trees and lush greenery in the terminal right next to luxury-brand cosmetic stores. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Water dripped from the ceiling, and the smell of old swamp and rotting vegetation filled the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She looked wildly around and met Lord Roke’s eyes for a fraction of a second, glittering in the darkness near the ceiling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He won’t even look at me^-his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the rope that hung on the wall and disappeared through a hole in the ceiling. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They all lay in bed and stared up at the ceiling. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

With the mirrors on the ceiling and floor, they should have been able to find it easily. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then a bell rang, and from the ceiling of the lift: a loud speaker began, very softly and yet very imperiously, to issue its commands. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling fan spun round and round, and the light bulbs attached to it clinked against one another. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t see the ceilings dusty with flies, the ugly maroon walls, the bottles and sticky spoons. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Expectant eyebrows over her silver glasses, the middle part of her hair, go up to the ceiling. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Annabeth rushed in just as a crack appeared, and the whole ceiling dropped. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We could hear Sycorax and Caliban scurrying in the walls, climbing down from the ceiling to find someplace warm to burrow in. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Together they spent several minutes searching the high ceiling above. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Safer blows out his cheeks in exasperation and throws his arms toward the ceiling. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A lantern hanging from the low ceiling of my cabin swings with the motion, and shadows reach and retreat, each time seeming to get a little bit closer. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The ceiling's like the one in my basement at home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exposed pipes crisscrossed the high ceilings, snaking in and out of some fleshy-looking gooey substance. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I stare up at the ceiling as he gets to work, powering the machine on and rolling it even closer. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After that, I kick off my beat-up, round-toed black flats and flop onto the bed, turning to stare at the ceiling. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She turned her face to the ceiling, closed her eyes. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She was lying on her back with her mouth slightly open, snoring at the plaster angel on the ceiling above her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She stared up at the ceiling and grinned sedately, exposing a crowded row of long gray teeth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re blocked in. It wasn’t the ceiling coming down fifty feet away that knocked us over. It was our own ceiling. The shock’s tumbled it!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The cavern ceiling was so high above us it might’ve been a bank of storm clouds, except for the stalactites, which glowed faint gray and looked wickedly pointed. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She returned to her bedroom, snapped off the ceiling light, groped for the lamp, and switched it on. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Cloth on the ceiling? Who ever heard of paperin’ with cloth!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was an empty glass case bolted to the wall above me and I stared up through it to the ceiling and tried not to pass out. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Only hard wooden floors and an intricate, diamond-shaped design in the middle of the ceiling. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’m about to comment on how lovely their home is when an automated voice comes on over speakers somewhere in the ceiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was then I saw that the walls and ceilings were covered with images of holy souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the train cars, giant hunks of meat, covered in flies, were piled almost to the ceiling. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Too terrified of crevasses to wander far from camp, I spent most of my time recumbent in the tent—the ceiling was too low to allow my sitting upright— fighting a rising chorus of doubts. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to the mirror and look at the ceiling lights through it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Dutchy is standing in the middle, looking up at the sky through that glass ceiling, and then he takes off his cap and flings it into the air. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, inside the gatehouse, there was a neat little hole in the middle of the vaulted ceiling, which had painted tracery and basses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should I thank you? You drag me up into the ceiling, through a heating vent, crawling through spider webs in the dark, across all these hard boards saying, ‘Don’t put your knee there! The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He blinked and stared up at the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Moisture damage caused the tiles on the ceiling to erode or fall off. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There had to be thousands of words crisscrossing the walls, even the ceiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I stare at the lightbulb on the ceiling to stop myself. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I stop before I reach the dining room, where another wide chandelier hangs from the ceiling and a long wooden table is pushed aside and covered with snacks, boxes of pizza, and more alcohol. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The tunnel has a high ceiling and curved walls, and it is roomy enough for a freight train, but the walls close in. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

First of all, sunlight filled every cranny, because the entire ceiling was glass. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime Kate was tossing grapes into the air—so high they almost struck the cafeteria ceiling—then catching them in her mouth, where they made a satisfying plock! The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling, trying to recap the night before. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Jenny looked to the ceiling for an exasperated second as she stood behind her father’s chair. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the ceiling, huge lamps hung down and bathed the room in a brilliant blue-white light. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hit the ceiling a few inches above me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At least a new lightbulb was hanging from the ceiling, so they didn't have to sit in the dark the whole time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The first time they raced to the ceiling and back, Coach Swieteck won by four seconds. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had hung a dozen or so kerosene lamps from the ceiling at various heights around the old slave quarters, and you had to watch your head. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

On the ceiling, moths fling themselves at the dull gray light tubes running the length of the corridor and I hear the papery flapping of their wings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She listens patiently but stares at the ceiling the whole time. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I turn the ceiling into a cloudless, starry night sky and let the aurora borealis glimmer just beyond their fingertips as shooting stars zip across the auditorium. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They installed shelves and perforated the ceiling for ventilation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The small room was filled from floor to ceiling with linens. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Unbelievably loud, with engines and pulleys running up and along the ceiling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were no angles; walls, floors, and ceiling faded gently into each other and in the cold, metallic glittering of the hidden lights, one was surrounded by six chilly reflections of one’s bewildered self. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The ribs carried the webbing, which was the ceiling itself. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

On the domed ceiling of the hall, the colour organ had momentarily painted a tropical sunset. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there was a woman who lived on the ceiling whose hair waved like the branches of the sycamore trees in a storm.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The slow ceiling fan sliced the thick, frightened air into an unending spiral that spun slowly to the floor like the peeled skin of an endless potato. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s medium clean, and although there’s no air- conditioning there are ceiling fans. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my lab. I’m responsible for a lot of the technology you’ll see around Summerland. Electric lights,” he says, pointing to the ceiling. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The shrouded corpses and the pulley system stretching across the ceiling were my own contributions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum at full brightness. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Teddy slid out, he was head up, facing the ceiling, so that the first thing he saw was me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled open the hatch in the ceiling and a blast of hot air came down. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m in!” called Grace, her voice echoing off the high ceiling of the treasure chamber. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I found the”—bright fluorescent lights blinked on along the ceiling, making everyone squint “light switch.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Along with the ceiling getting lower, my clothes were shrinking, too. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey opened her eyes to the gray ceiling of the living room. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gym was dynamite with glass backboards that came down from the ceiling. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were eyes painted on the ceilings, and scratched into the grimy wooden floors. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the bed, back propped against the footboard, legs stretched along the bed’s length, gazing up at the ceiling, as if testing it out. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She exhaled and looked up to the ceiling, patting her foot, wringing her hands. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The farm god raised his eyes to the ceiling, like, Why me, Demeter? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ceiling is dimpled white, the familiar foam-board squares that always top off a grade school classroom. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A fluorescent light shines from the ceiling above. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

All those Friends reruns, the soaring loft ceilings and funky-colored walls? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bridge rolled to her back and stared at a small hole in her bedroom ceiling. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The room is small but the ceiling is high, a golden chandelier draped with crystals suspended in the center. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A cluster of red sparks hissed through the swinging kitchen door, kissed the ceiling, and rained a shimmering shower down and around the petrified hostess. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed back down the ladder, which Ron returned to the ceiling, and rejoined Hermione, who was still sorting books. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A black staircase wraps around it, leading up to the viewing end of a telescope that stretches up to the ceiling. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was then that she noticed the beams and ceiling of the corridor were painted with hundreds of scenes from different stories. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A spider mended its web high up near the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His figure stood out grotesquely and his face, deformed by the light from below, floated halfway to the ceiling, while his giant shadow danced against the walls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt ridiculous, hanging there from the ceiling, his arms outstretched. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My eyes rise up to the ceiling and stay there, glued to the dried-up wet-tissue bombs hanging on for dear life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A wide-open space, bright and clean, a hall larger by far than the Great Hall, with that clear, domed glass ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Try to touch your feet to the ceiling. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Guards try to yank the calla lily down, but I push it to grow higher toward the glass ceiling. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He flopped back onto his pillows and looked up at the moths on his ceiling beam. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They passed under where the water touched the ceiling, and then Ivan pulled threads to close the ditch of air behind them, forming an oblong bubble around them instead. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Suspended from the ceiling were cages of live animals—a lion, several zebras, a whole pack of hyenas, and even an eight-headed hydra. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The walls, floor, and ceiling were a white so clean it hurt to look at. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, trying not to think about anything, but my stomach churned and my eyes kept tearing up. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He went to the end of the hall and flashed the light on a dirty ceiling and saw a wooden stairway leading to the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the rows of cribs with most of the little occupants sound asleep, and those who were wakeful staring quietly at the ceiling. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Olive asked, and without waiting for an answer she did, and promptly floated to the ceiling. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Choosing a less densely covered area of the ceiling he aims at the spot, and as he throws he lets out a bloodcurdling scream which would not be out of place in a bronco-busting rodeo. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The low ceiling made us all walk like old crones, and I noticed that even when they could, some of the old-timers never stood up straight anymore. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could practically stand up inside it, running my hands over the cloth-covered ceiling. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She was in too much pain to say anything for a full ten seconds, so she just lay there staring at the ceiling as the merry tunes of “Dil Na Diya” blared into the room. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bunches of gray herbs hung like diseased fruit from the ceiling. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This room has ceilings that slope downward toward the pillow of my bed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing there, in the middle of the floor, in front of everyone, I lift my hands and reach for the ceiling, the sky, the stars. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper sighed and looked up toward the ceiling where the darkness hung over them like a black cloud. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Warning,” announced the calm female voice in the ceiling again. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I ducked a particularly nasty collection of thorns dangling from the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth and then dropped her head back as if she were searching for an answer somewhere on the ceiling. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a huge hall with ceilings so high it was as if they would have nothing to do with people. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bats roosted in the ceiling of the room near his desk. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up at the camera that’s mounted near the ceiling and stick out my tongue. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The ceiling is so low that the teachers duck their heads as they walk from darkened room to room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The entire ceiling glows with a soft yellow light allowing me to see that I'm in a room containing just my bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the chains hanging from the ceiling, dangling the skulls of his enemies on hooks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two lights on the ceiling gave off a dim light. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed in my sheets and stared at the ceiling, dismayed at the thought of six laborious, interminable nights of yelda until I saw her again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I dream that the nurses are in the room with me, crawling up, up the walls, to listen at the ceiling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Its walls and ceiling were white, its floor was covered with squares of light and dark brown tile. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Guitar stood up, his head almost touching the ceiling. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finished, I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and I smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The machine was heavy, maybe eighty pounds, and was suspended from the ceiling by a thick rubber cord. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pounded on the ceiling from below and on the floor from above. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone ceiling was low and angled, the paint cracked and blackened from the heat of a raging fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I lie down flat and stare up at the ceiling. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Inside the Convoy, cigarette smoke mingled with fumes of grease from the back-room grill to create a filmy substance that hung near the ceiling like a patch of stubborn fog. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rhaegal was chained to the wall and floor the last time I was here, the prince recalled, but Viserion hung from the ceiling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Shadows danced wildly back and forth across the ceiling as my candle’s flame moved from side to side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wednesday led them all up some stairs, past life-sized models of the four horsemen of the apocalypse hanging from the ceiling, and they followed the signs to an early exit. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I noticed that high up near the ceiling, above the side-bench, there was a long shelf crammed with saucepans and frying-pans. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The church had one of those low, dropped ceilings with the fluorescent lights, which made the room feel instantly tight and obscenely bright. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Becca was alone, lying on top of her covers, staring at the ceiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Several strings of onions hung from the ceiling. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pocket of air constricted, and we pressed our mouths and noses up into the fabric on the van’s ceiling. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Fire rising from a pan on the stove, licking the ceiling and walls. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The paint on the walls and ceiling was peeling, paint chips tumbling to the floor like dried-up petals, resembling the leaves falling from the September trees outside. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The statues threw horrible distorted shadows onto the ceiling, because all the light in the room came from the front. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their voices bounced off the walls and ceiling of this ancient hall and fell into a glorious harmony the likes of which I’d never heard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Herbie rolled off her and lay on his back, staring at the ceiling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trio of moths swim against the ceiling of his bunkroom. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

August sat on the porch swing that was suspended from two chains in the ceiling. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the ceiling, everything coming into focus, the pain from the surgery radiating across my entire body. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The ceiling above glittered with constellations—even the newest one, Zoe the Huntress, making her way across the heavens with her bow drawn. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Scipio rolled onto his back and looked up at the ceiling. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was an alarm strobe light on the ceiling that would be triggered if the air system failed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought for a moment it had exploded; a roar of sound filled the huge hall, shaking dust from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Which was soon cut off by the crackling speakers in the ceiling. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

James punched his fists in the air and tilted his head back to shout at the ceiling, “STEVE SURVIVES!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“How did you ...” Finch points to the black-light bulb in the ceiling. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A scroll of parchment unraveled from the ceiling. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s really peaceful, like a library, with a high ceiling and dusty old wood, and it smells like a pumpkin patch. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I went in the first load, with Mama and May and a back seat heaped to the ceiling with dishes and lamps and bedding. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights from the naked bulb on the ceiling gleamed off his satin caftan. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It mirrored the ceiling when Seed Collector held the light higher. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Instead I lie on my bed and stare at the ceiling. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re our third visitor!” boomed the jolly announcer in the ceiling. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He cleaned off a leg of lamb, readying it to hang on a ceiling hook along with the day’s other fresh cuts of meat. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She looks up at the ceiling and declares, “I always loved your cooking, Grandma.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But not as mad as the stain on the ceiling of the Perfect Living Room made him. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Curious, he aimed his light first at the walls and then up toward the ceiling. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The broken sugar bowl used for an ashtray, the damp spot on the ceiling where the roof leaked, the laundry box in the corner. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The others agreed, and so Kate fetched her rope and replaced the ceiling panel, and they set out down the corridor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped before a golden trapeze, suspended from the ceiling, on which hung a disjointed life-size puppet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed, stare up at the ceiling, and think about the dictionary definition of cider—juice pressed from apples. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Vines with tiny wildflowers crept up to the ceiling, filling the air with the scent of summertime fields. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A crimson bird the size of a swan had appeared, piping its weird music to the vaulted ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I stare up at the ceiling, and when I look over at him, there is this strange look on his face. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Menemsha house had ceilings so high and windows so wide that everyday activities seemed to have extra room and light. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Percy’s enjoying work, then?” said Harry, sitting down on one of the beds and watching the Chudley Cannons zooming in and out of the posters on the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A few people are still at stations, folding blankets, cleaning floors and ceilings, preparing bioloaf and mystery diluted juice drink. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a light on the sea front outside shining straight up into the room, and in the glow reflected from the ceiling she looked down at the sleeping boy. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo squinted into the darkness and saw for the first time that they had entered a vast cavern lit only by a soft, eerie glow from the great stalactites which hung ominously from the ceiling. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through an open door behind her, rows of seats have crumpled beneath great slabs of ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was going to collapse, or a flood was rolling in, or burning hail would rain down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He craned his head back and looked up at the ceiling. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it is the sand paint from working on the ceiling. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The prince lay abed, staring at his ceiling, dreaming without sleeping, remembering, imagining, twisting beneath his linen coverlet, his mind feverish with thoughts of fire and blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He took a couple of steps into the room, ran into a string hanging from the ceiling, and pulled it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It came from long tubes that ran the length of the ceiling. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rustic cabin with wood paneling everywhere, high ceilings, and an astonishing variety of animal heads on the walls. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A straight line of light appeared across the ceiling of the room, and Thomas watched as it expanded. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Once, she barked at the ceiling in our basement so insistently that my father pulled down part of the insulation and found a possum’s nest made out of leaves. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He peered up to see his captor standing over him, a concrete ceiling and walls behind him, fluorescent lights on either side. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Afraid to sleep, Grandma stares at the ceiling. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She warns us we are not to touch the beams for they hold up the ceiling and the house itself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The walls of the Hall had all been covered in sparkling silver frost, with hundreds of garlands of mistletoe and ivy crossing the starry black ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Its flames licked the ceiling, so cold tears trickled down upon them with every step. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Franny looked thoughtfully, without blinking, at the ceiling while her hand was held. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The voice filtering through the ceiling repeats itself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Volkheimer’s technique, apparently, is this: he crouches beneath the buckled ceiling, panting, holding a piece of twisted rebar in one hand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My eyes skim across the ceiling, down the far wall, over to the bookshelf. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Back home I could touch my ceiling with my hand if I stood on a chair, but here the ceilings seemed to graze the sky. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a large, wooden rectangular building with high ceilings and small, square windows on the sides. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That evening I lie on my bed, staring up at the ceiling as I do my nebulizer treatment without Stella. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The sides, where the metal ceiling curved down to the cement floor, were jammed with wooden crates, sprinkler heads, wheelbarrows, and all kinds of equipment. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie rested the book on her stomach and stared at the ceiling. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a big room with a high ceiling and wood floors and lots of old windows to let in the light. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The magician stood up as straight as a pillar, stretched out his arms in both directions, looked at the ceiling and said the first few words of the Nunc Dimittis. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was Halloween, a cloud of live bats was fluttering around the enchanted ceiling, while hundreds of carved pumpkins leered from every corner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head, looks up at the black mark on the ceiling from where Miss Celia burned up the turkey that time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The ceiling collapsed, and the second floor fell into the first. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Seth wiped sleep from the corner of his eye and stared at the ceiling for a moment. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I was carried on to the platform with my arms and legs held tight by many hands, and I lay there suspended in the air, facing the ceiling. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I collapsed on the bed and stared at the ceiling, because to sleep on my side meant that I would wake with a clear view of Yakov’s empty cot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ceiling tile slides easily to one side, and I've got my clothes bundle. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere Agent Fiona appears, standing upside down on the ceiling, and draws a bow and arrow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She tasted the goats’ blood and spit it toward the ceiling, then she sampled the blood of many more creatures. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he followed the light, wending his way down the narrow aisles beneath barrel- vaulted ceilings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Shelves reaching to the ceiling were filled with old books that gave a leathery, dusty scent to the air. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The class gazed dreamily at the bank, half-expecting it to shoot up to the ceiling in a puff of smoke. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then his blue and yellow eyes focused slowly, and, through his headache, he realized that he was looking at a ceiling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman didn't stir, just stared up at the ceiling. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He looked at the ceiling, the red trim on the closet door, the bullhorn that hung over his bed, the radio station sticker on his door. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Inside, sunlight spilled through windows set high in walls so tall that Kaede could barely make out the ceiling far above. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cascades of dust hiss out of the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Together, they walked down the long corridor, climbing up and over the broken pieces of hallway and ceiling in their path. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Harry stepped in, his head almost touching the sloping ceiling, and blinked. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He sat down and stared at the ceiling, his hands crossed under his belly as if he had to hold it up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The shine of the electric streetlights lay pale here and there on the ceiling and on the higher parts of the furniture, but underneath around Gregor it was dark. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on black stools at black tables in a shadowless room with floors, ceilings, and walls painted black. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I point to the ceiling, and she somehow just knows whether I’m talking about the ceiling fan, the moon, or the dark spot where the rain leaked through during the last thunderstorm. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The sound of their voices would echo to the ceiling, and then the band would play from the gallery where I was leaning now, the man with the violin smiling, swaying to the music. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The area around his ceiling light fixture is pimply with little wads of once- chewed paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The house with the cathedral ceilings wasn’t his home. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, Taisin recognized parts of the fortress—the long, sloping corridor; the cavernous ceiling hung with icicles sharp as swords; the endless ranks of golden cages. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The glass ceiling and boarded-up walls ended, and whatever lay ahead was covered in silence and blackness. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Shackles were locked around his ankles and tied to the chain that hung from the ceiling. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The construction had come a little further along on this floor; half-finished plaster dividers rose up between the metal beams, and electrical wiring snaked alongside the ceiling pipes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The windows near the ceiling were small and dirty, the old leather furniture spilled its innards, the tables were mutilated, the walls ash-colored, the floor concrete. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sargon buried his fangs into the disgusting creature's shoulder, and a fountain of green blood sprayed the ceiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He crosses the room and slams the point of a knife so hard into the table that it sticks there, handle toward the ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The calm, chrome center of the silver ceiling fan went round inside her head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boy, did she hit the ceiling when I said that. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A blue haze of human breath and dust blurred the intricate bracing of the ceiling 246 feet above. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then I lay the rope over the ceiling hook, pull it taut, and fasten it to the leg of a nearby chair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the semidark I stare up at the blind plaster eye in the middle of the ceiling, which stares back down at me, even though it can’t see. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jen leaned her head back and stared at the ceiling, as if an answer were written there. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stared up at the ceiling for a second, then turned back toward me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

So still, it feels like the world goes on forever in the darkness until you look up and the earth stops in a ceiling of stars. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Half a mile up to the raftered ceiling hung with red, dusty drapes or banners all ragged with the years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She grasps each hardened point firmly between thumb and forefinger and pulls one breast so that its nipple points at the ceiling. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Looking up at the ceiling, she rotated her raw, burning joints and gave a sigh of contentment. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When she wakes, barn swallows are chirring beneath the eaves and music is raining down through the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Uri pulled down the hatch, snipping off the daylight, then he flipped a switch and a bare lightbulb burned among the cobwebs in the ceiling. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He wanders into the kitchen attached to his guest wing, where the ceilings are high and the countertops are shiny marble. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and feel the hum of the ceiling fan against my cheeks. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Fred and George rounded off the evening with a display of Filibuster fireworks; they filled the kitchen with red and blue stars that bounced from ceiling to wall for at least half an hour. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They ran along the ceiling of another corridor, the floor running over their heads. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the ceiling, affixed with yellowed tape, is January 1959, the first month of the revolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls, the high-beamed ceiling, the wooden floors, and the thick carpets were all varying shades of white. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The enormous aquarium reaches all the way to the ceiling, the collections of rocks and coral that once were a part of the aquatic ecosystem still intact. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Under this dark weight the walls leaned, under it the ceiling, with a great crack like lightning in its center, sagged. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The top of the robot’s head now protruded through the open launch doors in the hangar ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The walls, the columns, even the ceiling, were vermilion, the color of raw meat or dried blood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When she talks blah blah, I usually count the dots in her ceiling tiles. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bed was modern, but the room was old with beams running across the ceiling, a stone fireplace, and narrow windows in an ornate wooden frame. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I stared up at the storage-room ceiling and up through it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“What about the wires in the ceiling? It’s not like they’re being used for electricity right now.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It has a ceiling so high that I feel like I’m in church, and the one bed has see-through sheets covering it so that it shimmers in the light of the window. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed staring at the ceiling, I don’t know who I am, There’s little that I can Fully recognize. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought something was different,” I explained, pointing at the ceiling. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His grandma looked up at the ceiling and sighed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And I will be, Matt promised as he stared up at the blurry ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edward shook his head slowly, rolling his eyes toward the ceiling before he met my gaze again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then Marge shows up in the kitchen and points out the row of copper pots and pans hanging from a rack near the ceiling. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several pairs of argyle socks were draped over one of the exposed pipes hanging from the ceiling. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The ripples returned and more moisture dropped from the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Halfway to the ceiling, seemingly in midair, were five gigantic electric chandeliers, the largest ever built, each seventy-five feet in diameter and generating 828,000 candlepower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

A bronze lantern hung from the ceiling, glowing at whatever brightness Piper wished. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ruth’s doll lay next to my head, her eyes staring up at the ceiling. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cave wasn’t really comfortable: The ceiling was too low, and she hated the feeling of being trapped. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back of the room was lined with vending machines, and between those and us were carefully aligned rows of tables and chairs, identified by letters that hung from the ceiling. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I admire the intricate tiled ceilings and imagine artisans working together to create them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“No, not that he’s actually Dr. King. That he’s someone who—” I lay back on the floor and looked up at the ceiling, frustrated. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hallways were decorated for Halloween with orange-and-black crepe paper strung in sagging zigzags across the ceiling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The last time, torches had burned all along the tunnel, and the eyes of starving men had peered down through the murder holes in the ceiling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bare wooden beams form triangles that hold up the ceiling. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Where is it, boy? Where is it?" roared the giant "boss" creature, his hulking, fly-infested body bent over so his head wouldn't scrape the ceiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigarette and watched the smoke climb toward a light in the ceiling. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a scraping noise somewhere beneath her feet—close, as if someone were running a fingernail along the ceiling below. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A room there revealed two things—one, a prophecy that promised—the return of darkness—two, written on the ceiling, a proclamation — that the Dark Lord had a—that Voldemort had a child. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The ceilings of some of the rooms in Montclair bore charred, black circles, in mute testimony to his intrepidity as an exploder. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dank hallway with exposed pipes in the ceiling greets us, but it’s only ten feet long. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Piper ran towards their rope, which dangled from the ceiling. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The dried meat, beans, and onions that usually hung from the ceiling had vanished. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just stayed flat on his back, staring up at the wires dangling from the ceiling as his heart thudded. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I say, looking up at the ceiling from where I’m lying on my back on the floor. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The younger child, Monty, age six, noticed blood on the ceiling. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no ceiling, just the cavern roof, far above. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Customs Officer II, who I had imagined stringing me up to the ceiling and interrogating me before he decided to let me go. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After what seems like an eternity, we step into an enormous main hall with a high ceiling. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She sees them—two still, white ghosts, hovering near the ceiling. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Bones climbed up a stage rope and perched on a beam near the ceiling. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him to the back of the house to check on Dadi, her pale face turned up to the ceiling, breathing weakly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Worse still, heart-shaped confetti was falling from the pale blue ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Mami glances around at the gleaming wood furniture and at the ceiling lamp that has big teardrop crystals dangling from it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I read some more poems, but something on the ceiling caught my attention. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Soon I lie awake, staring at the ceiling as the light shifts across my room, everything giving way to numbness as morning drifts into afternoon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the sappy bumper sticker, ceiling lady.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He put his hand up as one might reach to adjust a dimly burning globe in the ceiling of a dark room. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor and ceiling are so black I’d think we were floating if I couldn’t see the metal rails that guide Lord Kensington through the center of the space. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“If you stood very tall up there, and if you had some tool, you could hit the ceiling and I would hear you.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Midfolk ran screaming left and right as patches of the thorny ceiling fell to the ground in explosions of heat and sparks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The light in the room arced up to the ceiling, a half vault of stripes, below which he could almost make out the rise and fall of her body. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was velvety black once more and most of the school seemed to be packed beneath it, all carrying their wands and looking excited. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, I stood on a chair and hung them from an iron hook in the center ceiling beam. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when my eyes opened and I saw the ceiling, I knew for sure I was awake. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The lamp hanging by its chain from the ceiling cast a yellow circle and lighted Alice and her mending basket on the table in front of her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore was standing in the middle of the cave, his wand held high as he turned slowly on the spot, examining the walls and ceiling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Its single narrow room wasn’t air-conditioned, but the cool morning air came in through the open door and was moved around by big ceiling fans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling screens are not Earth’s sky, only a blank field. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he was done, he leaned back in his chair, and looked at the ceiling thoughtfully. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We round a corner, shoes squeaking on the tile, and an empty hallway with a mirrored ceiling stretches out in front of us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The shelves were filled from floor to ceiling with books and objets d’art. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a single round room, and bookshelves covered every wall from floor to ceiling. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The painted ceiling bellied overhead like a sail, and down below the green desk lamps glowed, illuminating faces bent over books. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was just a series of crumbling halls and rooms where ceilings were propped up with thick wooden support beams. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Looks like a big gray ceiling—close enough you could almost touch it.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Walls, ceiling, and everything else except a bureau and a writing desk, were pink or blue or white. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phosphorescent moss covered the ceiling, bathing the room in a blue-and-green glow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We had ceilings this time, and linoleum floors of solid maroon. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the door thundered shut behind Celia, Dimple sat back and looked up at the ceiling. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

From the high ceiling one of the celebrated Devon chandeliers, all glittering tears, scattered thin illumination. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to get back where he could merge with the walls and the ceiling, shimmering white, remote from everything. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Me: Yeah, but they seem to stay in the ceiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ceiling crept down so low that even I felt like I was in danger of scraping the top of my head on the doorframes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I saw him stare up at the ceiling. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

About halfway between the floor and the ceiling, musicians float on what look like fluffy white clouds, but I can’t see what holds them aloft. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Pull the chain on the ceiling light,” she said, and I did. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was a modern room with a curving steel desk near the center, carefully positioned halogen lights, and a spiral staircase leading down from a perfect circle cut in the ceiling about fifteen feet high. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There were no doors off this landing, but Ron nudged Harry and pointed at the ceiling, where there was a circular trapdoor with a brass plaque on it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Vendleri replaced the bulging ceiling tiles with eight new ones, then stepped from the ladder and stood back. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Elaborate crystal chandeliers hang from the high ceiling. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the center of the thickly carpeted room, directly beneath an adjustable ceiling lamp, was a large round table covered with green baize. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl stands silhouetted against a huge picture window that stretches floor to ceiling, corner to corner, in a room the hospital has labeled the “Vista Lounge.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The walls were bare, the ceiling high and shadowy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was plain plaster, but it would do. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “I think we’ll hit the ceiling boards about five feet down. Maybe six. We have to keep the hole super perfect, Mason. We want the Sonotube to fit tight.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In its windows were a series of twinkling flames from floor to ceiling. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a brown nicotine ring around that room that ended about a foot from the ceiling, like the tide-line in an old bathtub. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall was dark and scattered with stars, and below it the four long House tables were lined with disheveled students, some in traveling cloaks, others in dressing gowns. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If you stepped on this you would find yourself falling through the ceiling of the room below. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The basement is the storeroom with shelves, shelves clear to the ceiling loaded with jars of preserved animals. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells the men, God bless you for your kindness.They nod and look at the table, the ceiling, the walls and tell her send in the next woman. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Evil-looking masks stared down from the walls, an assortment of human bones lay upon the counter, and rusty, spiked instruments hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Harry caught a whiff of damp earth and fertilizer mingling with the heavy perfume of some giant, umbrella-sized flowers dangling from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to breathe, stared up at the vaulted ceiling, the fluted grooves in the richly stained molding, hoping nobody would speak to me more—make me speak. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Imani cries out, lifting her hands up to the ceiling like one of those fake TV preachers. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Behind Corporal Nettle’s head was a wide strip of deep blue sky and, etched against it, the ragged black edge of the cellar’s ruined ceiling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This one was much smaller, though the ceiling was quite as high; it gave the claustrophobic sense of being stuck at the bottom of a deep well. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster until it rose right up through the ceiling and out the roof of Rocky Creek Baptist Church, disappearing into the sky and leaving me there in the fellowship hall with a stomachache. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of that room was glass too. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with knickknacks and baubles, keepsakes and trinkets that mounted up the beams to the corners of the ceiling, all crammed together in a chaotic jumble of odds and ends. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I lay for a few minutes, finding patterns in the ceiling, then put on my shoes and run my fingers through my hair to flatten it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were all still there, settling on the ceiling beams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nok lay on her pallet for a long while, looking up at the ceiling while the sunlight warmed the room. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But as Filch lowered his quill, there was a great BANG! on the ceiling of the office, which made the oil lamp rattle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There were three potted plants hanging from the high ceilings in the front room, and it made the house seem impossibly larger than the outside led you to believe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Booth then walks the five blocks to Herndon House, where Lewis Powell is in his room, lying on the bed and staring at the ceiling. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It would be one of the largest buildings in the neighborhood—two stories, with very high ceilings and the steepest roof of any house she had ever seen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the ceiling, so high up, so piercingly white. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The room was cold, its cement walls whiter than I remembered, the window shaded by a breadfruit tree, its large leaves shedding pale reflections against the ceiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s a small, windowless room attached to the stables, fragrant with leather polish and stained wood from floor to ceiling, the walls lined with heavy saddles, riding crops, bridles, and reins. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Miles of rope crisscrossed the space, running up towards the ceiling, turning on pulleys, and coming down the walls, where weights and other mechanisms held the rigging in place. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were lined with shelves from floor to ceiling, and on the shelves stood—Mrs. Frisby dredged in her memory. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Shelves of books extended from the floor to the ceiling. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I sit there listening to the rest of the album, eyes glued to the ceiling. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A leaky ceiling, a match and some kerosene would finish all this off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His voice comes reflecting down from the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond the library the floors change from wood to white tile, and the walls glow like the ceiling of the aptitude test room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His embrace lifted me to the ceiling and his smile brought me safely down. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three men, or rather the mossy, spider-webbed skeletons of three men, hung from a ceiling beam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he stood still, very erect, raised his beak to point at the ceiling, and made a loud, almost purring sound. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the next thing Harry knew, he was lying in a remarkably warm and comfortable bed and looking up at a lamp that was throwing a circle of golden light onto a shadowy ceiling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Four walks up a flight of metal stairs leading through a hole in the ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton paused, frowned, and looked up at the ceiling. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Conor’s ceiling buckled under the blows, and huge cracks appeared in the walls. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly exhausted, I sat on the bed—his bed, maybe—and for reasons I can’t quite explain, I stretched out on those filthy sheets and stared at the ceiling. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The other two officers watch me closely, the picture of Mary and the Christ just behind them, while the boots make the ceiling creak over my head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The warehouse ceiling was gone, and a bird soared in the sky above them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sobbed in desperation and turned, but the thing pursuing him now stood in his path—a colossal being wrapped in shadows, its shape vaguely humanoid, its head almost scraping the ceiling twenty feet above. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Drink, says Volkheimers mouth as he holds his canteen to Bernd’s lips, and shadows lunge across the broken ceiling like a circle of wraiths preparing to feast. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I look at the floor, the ceiling, under the table. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Hanging down from the ceiling in drapes are colorful banners of the competing Warcross teams, each one displaying a team’s symbol in celebration of the current championship season. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The place was vintage Woolf, decorated floor to ceiling in flamboyant cowboy memorabilia. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in the doorway, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin’s hand, was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Behind them Baby Kochamma’s Christmas trimmings hung in loops from the ceiling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon light slanted down through the high windows, so that up close to the ceiling the air was flecked with glowing gold specks. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

As Daddy’s van crept along the quiet street, we both crooked our necks up to stare at the ceiling of the tree cave. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Blue walls covered with superhero and comic book posters, a solar system slowly revolved from the ceiling, a stuffed boa constrictor stretched across the foot of his bed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Later the ceiling turned to wooden planks, and I could hear voices above us and the creaking of footsteps, as if we were walking under some kind of bar. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She repeated the gesture, this time pointing firstly at him, then at herself, then at the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He looks up at the ceiling, finds the word there: “Human.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A table folded down when it was needed and a brass lamp hung from the ceiling. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the last light fled from the holes in the ceiling, I found more books above other bookshelves. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The instant I saw the blood I looked up at the cotton- white ceiling and covered my nose. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the kolba, she could touch the ceiling with her fingertips. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Powell scowled at the ceiling and pulled at his brown mustache. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It arched up and hit the ceiling of pine branches above me, slamming back to the ground not a foot in front of me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A lush garden dripped from the ceiling, eclipsing the previous illusion. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The question echoed off the vaulted ceilings of the auditorium at Hampton Institute’s Ogden Hall. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The house is in a state of disarray, or as much disarray as a house crammed from floor to ceiling with antiques and books and objets d’art can be in its inherent cozy, cluttered way. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The intoning went on, its bulk bloating and bloating so that Turner thought the very ceiling might be pushed up. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The drug dealers who’d lived there before had spray-painted curse words and psychedelic patterns on the walls and the ceiling pipes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next room is more like a hallway: it is wide, but not deep, with blue tile, blue walls, and a blue ceiling, all the same shade. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They lick along the floor, then rise to the ceiling, glowing strangely, serenely. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The light came from the sun, which shone down through a jagged crack in the ceiling. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kiowa lay on his back, looking up at the ceiling, and for a time he didn’t speak. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If somebody put a wrong book on a cart, the lady in the ceiling said, “Sorry, Northeast team,” or “Sorry, Pacific team.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

While she slumped on a bench near the barbecue drum, I stepped through the screen door into the mingled smells of pick- led eggs and sawdust, beneath dozens of sugar-cured hams dangling from the ceiling. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with book shelves up to the ceiling. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned my face to the ceiling, I just couldn’t watch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slime was bat guano, digested vegetable matter that had been excreted by a colony of fruit bats on the ceiling. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is soothed by the chill of the air-conditioning, by the beautifully carved plaster ceiling, by the voices that echo pleasantly in the marbled interior. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything. Food, clothes, boxes, cans. Light bulbs, stacks of them. Everything. Piles and piles up to the ceiling.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The gilded mosaics of angels, kings, and saints, which decorated the walls and ceilings, only shined at certain times when the sunlight fell through the church windows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This woman!” my dad said, looking up at the ceiling and pressing his hands together like he was praying. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I picked a corner of the ceiling where a spider had spun a web as my focal point. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Upon the porch were hairy geraniums and an old swing which was hooked into the porch ceiling and which now swung back and forth, back and forth, in a little breeze. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the ceiling had fallen in, and the end of Luna’s bed was hanging through the hole. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He’s working on it,” Gabriel whispered to himself, lying all the way down on his back and staring at the ceiling to see the all-too-familiar rough whiteness sprinkled with the tiniest flecks of gold sparkle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Before long he was flying around the cavern, weaving through the long stone teeth that hung down from the ceiling, even flapping out over the abyss and swooping down into its cold black depths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ayanna held on to a metal pole that ran from floor to ceiling, an exasperated look on her face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The floor, the walls, and the ceiling are all made of the same light panels, dim now, that glowed in the aptitude test room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And here, at the back of a shelf near the ceiling, two small miracles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From my position flat on the floor his head appeared to touch the ceiling beams far above. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all his anger at Dumbledore, how odd it was to sit here, beneath the high, vaulted ceiling, and defend Dumbledore from himself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I lay on my bed and looked at the ceiling, trying to guess when Judy would return, trying to think of what to do in the meantime, when there was a knock at the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

What was that—hanging from the hook in the ceiling? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The ceiling opened in a series of panels. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Blue walls covered with superhero and comic book posters, a solar system slowly revolved from the ceiling, a stuffed boa constrictor stretched across the foot of his bed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The room was large, with windows up to the ceiling. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I find her at her computer where she’s supposed to be writing a book but instead is staring up at the ceiling like it’s full of stars. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The smoke gathers in the high ceiling and escapes through a hole in the roof. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The corridor opened into a vast room with twenty-foot ceilings and rows of support columns. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She didn't like that hook on the ceiling. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I hike up the back of my shirt so that I can feel the cold tiles against my skin and I stare at the light fixture on the ceiling. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Paul looked at the ceiling with a dreamy expression. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Above them, the ceiling light dropped haloes in their hair as they listened on. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m staring at my ceiling and I really wish he was here. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Her hands rested on her belly, and she gazed up at the ceiling. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed, staring at glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The reporter points to a catwalk just under the high ceiling. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The van’s rear doors had no windows, so I was hunched over in total darkness for a second, until my fingers found the old power strip I’d duct-taped to the ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I lay on my bed and stared at the ceiling. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Tiles in the ceiling of the elementary school would shift like they were made of paper, and for weeks after, debris would be discovered scattered across nearby backyards, roped off with yellow police tape. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I stare up into a ceiling so big and bright, seems like God himself is looking down. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

For this reason, every night after dinner and executions, he would retire to his secret bedroom on his private yacht, which had been wallpapered ceiling to floor in photos of Ladybird Hope. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Thank God the glass ceiling is bulletproof, or the glass would break and I would fall to my death. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The whining creature skimmed the ceiling the entire distance to the wall, where it impacted with a revolting crunch. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Over them, the ceiling of rock shook loose and fell. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A woman comes through the door below my spot on the ceiling. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Enjoy staring at the ceiling, Keeley. I’m off to win yet another game!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kane puts on his glasses, takes them off, polishes them, puts them on, looks at the ceiling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Next to the file cabinet she put a tall bookcase, and straddling them, a small, wide one that only just cleared the ceiling. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plaster ceiling was bellied in great swags and the yellowed dentil molding was bowed and sprung from the upper walls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

What we didn’t know was that a spider had also settled itself near the ceiling. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My eyes flew to the ceiling, slapped with dirty white paint and a fresh, ringing silence. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

From all quarters of the room they were rushing upon him, their shadows huge on the ceiling. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

We wipe down the baseboards and the light covers on the ceiling. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After the ambassador had been escorted to the elevator, with apologies, my parents marched me right into their study—a library with a high vaulted ceiling and bookshelves lining every wall. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The stairs and the ceiling and roof had caved in, making the prospects of getting down this way slim. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Alex was at the start of a long tunnel, the uneven walls and ceiling held back by wooden beams. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But even after everyone else fell asleep, I lay wide awake, looking up at the stars through the wide hole in the ceiling. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The twins are awake, crying with the hunger, but Dad stands in the middle of the room, staring at the ceiling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everything, for a moment—mirror, ceiling, floor—was unstable and radiant as a dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She flushed the toilet and a fountain of water gushed toward the ceiling. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Squinting up at the ring-stained ceiling, he tried to make the sound she was making. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After several turnings, the ceiling went lower still, too low for crawling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The terrible ghosts of impossible-to-forget toys clustered on the blades of the ceiling fan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands by his schoolbag, shaken and confused, looking up at the ceiling and down at the overturned plant in a pile of dirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Warning,” said the calm voice in the ceiling speakers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Walls and floor and ceiling drank the light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she was in Gaea’s cave in Alaska, where Hazel and her mother had died as the ceiling collapsed and the voice of the Earth Goddess wailed in anger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Near one wall there was a black cast-iron stove, its stovepipe going straight up through the ceiling. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black fly, up on the corner of the ceiling, seethed with resentment and irritation. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the dream, Freckles lifted me up and put me on his strong shoulders, and in the dream the Aw Shucks ceiling was another three feet high, so I didn’t hit my head. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As if it reads my mind, the word Sacrifice flashes across the Collective’s subliminal ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To his right stood a tall pine tree that did not touch the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was lying on my bed, watching the shadows my feeble lamp cast on the ceiling, when I heard my father’s voice at the door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It contained spinning wheels, moving targets, and racetracks that curved from the floor to the ceiling. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But, to me, there was a fire—a huge fire, and I continued twisting to duck red hot planks hurtling from the ceiling toward me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Shorty just lay there with his hands clasped behind his head, staring at the ceiling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therese leads us through the maze of metal to the back of the room, where several bulbs dangle from the ceiling over a table. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She lay in bed staring up at the coffered ceiling until she heard the first rooster crow. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the hologram vanished and Dr. Zinchenko’s voice came over the ceiling speakers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The main part of the museum was one huge room with rockets and airplanes hanging from the ceiling. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

You could see the sky through the broken ceiling. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mark didn’t think he could get up to the ceiling and climb after the man—and he could be hiding anywhere, with instant and certain death pointed right at whoever came his way. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There’s a hole in both the wall and the ceiling, and the wallpaper is curling and brown. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

From the ceiling she heard a thud, then three fast thuds, followed by another thud. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As Z grabbed a fistful of wires and tugged them another foot or so out of the ceiling, Frankie stepped toward the window to see what was happening. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She used the handle of the broom she’d found in the kitchen to repeat the knock on the ceiling before sending the note up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Tyson said happily, pointing at the hole in the ceiling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then she stood still and looked at the ceiling. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance away, he found a hatch in the ceiling of the tunnel—a square wooden panel that must lead, he thought, up into the storerooms. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the slamming of cabinet doors, the tapping of shoes on hard tile, the whir of a ceiling fan. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Three hundred hams and three thousand long black sausages hung from ceiling beams below the smokehouse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He could creep along the ceiling like a fly and reach the well opening. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a red brick building with skylights in the high ceiling, so that whatever sun made it in lit up the dusty beams and long fluorescent light fixtures suspended from them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A fern sits in the comer, and more plants dangle from the ceiling, a forest creeping into the house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the broom and pressed the bristles against the light bulb that burned in the ceiling. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blinked a few times and stared at the ceiling. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was a strange, rather small room with large potted plants—some of them floor to ceiling. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Grover began to play with pipes, and stalactites rained down from the ceiling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Together they worked in a stale little infirmary where Mr. Kapasi’s smartly tailored clothes clung to him in the heat, in spite of the blackened blades of a ceiling fan churning over their heads. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Millions of blue lights twinkled on the ceiling like stars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But you didn’t hear Granny complain about having to trim wicks, clean smoked-up lamp chimneys, and fool with kerosene when other ladies could just pull a ceiling cord to get light. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The last day of the year finds me struggling to keep my tears inside while staring at the ceiling above Jupiter’s bed. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

At the top of the ceiling, like golden chandeliers, yellow-tinged quartz ignited in the same color as an evening sun. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sefia crouched beneath it, scuffling at the splintered ceiling, and unlocked the door. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Consisting of wire mesh stretching from floor to ceiling, it was rigged to set off a siren if anyone tampered with it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland moved his eyes from one corner of the ceiling to the other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The room beyond slanted down until the ceiling was only three feet high. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was held up with a combination of steel scaffolding and old granite Roman columns. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and lifted one of the ceiling tiles with his mallet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a high ceiling, with lights shaped like morning glories hanging down on chains, and a plain gold cross up at the front with a vase of white flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth seed, a river reed, ascended and pressed against the rocky ceiling of the Third World. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Typical “Hot Buttons” are baseboards, windowsills, and ceiling fans—never, of course, poverty, racism, or global warming. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the ceiling, trying to push away the growing panic eating away at my insides. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A handful of people watch the news on the old box TV in the ceiling or read magazines that have been there since I was little. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I said nothing for a long time, only looked at the shadows the lamp cast on the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The room has no ceiling; the room has no walls. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My ceiling was sky and an eyelash of a moon. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I eyed the ceiling, but I couldn’t hold back the big, embarrassing sigh. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was waiting for the ceiling to come down. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was done, he would stare at the ceiling until finally dozing off. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The barrel-vaulted ceiling was stained black with soot, the floor was hard-packed earth, the air smelled of smoke and spoiled meat and stale vomit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, a dozen gigantic punching bags descend from the ceiling. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeomas voice rang out so pure and high it seemed to come from the ceiling. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Z pressed his hands against the ceiling tile next to the light and shoved it upward. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was low and lined with dark wooden beams. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It would take me six days to get home, six undays of staring at acoustic ceiling tile and watching television and sleeping and pain and wishing for time to pass. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She looked up to the ceiling, then back at us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There aren’t any patterns on the wall; only the ceiling has porous tiles that could be fun to look at. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The nets hung from the ceiling, and we tucked them in under the mattresses each night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Solid ceilings, she enthused, a room for Mona and Callie, and a dining room that could be made into a room for Theresa. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered down narrow streets lined with narrow houses and up broader streets where the houses were grander, where the street-level windows rose from floor to ceiling of the rooms within. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shone on the ceiling, the metal desk, the filing cabinets. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The halls of Clairmont used to be decorated floor to ceiling with black-and-white family photographs, paintings of dogs, bookshelves, and Granddad’s collection of New Yorker cartoons. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Dusty wire cables stuck out from the ceiling where there had once been large chandeliers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“O yes, I constantly expect to see him,” returned Herbert, “because I never hear him, without expecting him to come tumbling through the ceiling. But I don’t know how long the rafters may hold.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shards from the domed ceiling broke and tumbled down in slow motion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the last moment, Nathan jumped to the side, and the angler fish’s body launched above the surface, its head bumping against the ceiling again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“And then their uncle comes in, and tosses them up to the ceiling in a very frightful way!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Blue-and-green paper chains hang from the basketball hoops to the lights all across the ceiling. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I clumb up in the chair and the barber tilted the whole thing backward, having me looking up at the tin ceiling of his shop. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

A KGB technical crew drilled a pinhole into the ceiling of his living room and photographed him in action. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Oil lamps swung back and forth on the ceiling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

That night, Magdalys lay in bed staring at the dark ceiling, her fingers laced behind the silky headscarf Miss Bernice had lent her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that if I ever succeeded in praying, my words would bound noiselessly against the ceiling and rain back down upon me like feathers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little light in the car ceiling is off, so there’s only the dark—and the cold. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad also scavenged a couple of tables and chairs, and he built some makeshift closets—which were actually kind of nifty—by hanging lengths of pipe from the ceiling with wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After these dreams I do awake, and I know I’m really awake because there is the wreath, on the ceiling, and my curtains hanging like drowned white hair. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust and gray particles exploded in what seemed like slow motion toward the ceiling, and something slapped against her face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He saw a bulb hanging on a wire from the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took a stair to the third floor, entering a large room beneath a high Gothic ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The size of the room had not been lost in the clutter of boxes and trunks stacked almost to the ceiling beams. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I'm done, the bedroom will be two adjacent hexes with walls around them and a crude ceiling. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner blinks up to see the Viennese girl in her cape descend through the ceiling as if it is no more than a shadow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly, slowly the night came in to fill the room, swallowing the pillars and both of them, like a dark wine poured to the ceiling. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl with thick, short hair stretched up to the ceiling, then bowed down to her feet, holding her position and letting her arms dangle toward the hardwood studio floor. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of our shack began to crumble, and the door and wooden window frames began to rot, and in the winter icy winds would whip through. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were scribbled all the way up to the ceiling with monkey writing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust and bits of tile rained from the ceiling as the light now hung an inch or two below it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mom looks down, ceiling to floor, the same dance I’ve done a million times in this room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As for the floor, you couldn’t have found a greater confusion if the ceiling had been lifted off and the sky had rained down ticket stubs and newspapers and Baby Ruth wrappers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes sir, but—” Dr. Finch looked at the ceiling. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the center blazed a bonfire made of pitch and bone; yet the smoke was white and odorless, rising through the hole in the middle of the ceiling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Spider said and then crawled back into the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He shook his fist at the ceiling, as if he were mad at somebody upstairs. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“A stalagmite might climb up to the ceiling someday.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Carol comes to my house and takes it all in—the unpainted walls, the wires dangling from the ceilings, the unfinished floors, the army cots—with incredulous glee. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned his head back against the seat, staring at the ceiling of the car. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I sat in her room, by her side, and she stared at the ceiling. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mixture of fear and excitement gripped him as he stared at the dark ceiling; how could it be moving upward? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I tell him about my broken leg and how I stared at the ceiling for a long time and how I read two or three books every day lying in bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was domed and painted with stars, which were echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Politely he admires the plaster cove moldings, the ceiling medallions, the marble mantelpieces, things he knows how to speak intelligently and at length about. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been a thousand of them on each wall, and another thousand on the ceiling! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sunlight trickled in through gaps in the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He appeared to consult the ceiling plaster briefly, then closed his eyes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We hung the flowers from the ceiling in little bunches. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I sigh and stare at the immobile ceiling fan. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As in the mica mine in North Carolina, long wooden planks and struts buttressed the walls and ceiling. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Bare fluorescent tubes and a rack of ribs hang from the ceiling, obscuring his profile. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were looking straight into the eyes of a monstrous dog, a dog that filled the whole space between ceiling and floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I had no money, but I unclipped the Romanian leu from the end of my watch chain and passed it through the trapdoor in the ceiling. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He put out the flashlight and tiptoed, looking at the ceiling, searching for a trapdoor leading to the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not ever,” said Cathy and continued to stare at the ceiling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stuck it into the wooden ceiling to steady himself as they halted to look for the next loft door. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Steam rises from the surface so thick it obscures the walls, the ceiling, the dark shape in the corner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He heard people shouting to each other, a hail of stomping boots through the ceiling above. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“No, we haven’t,” I said, looking up to the hole in the ceiling above our nest. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Several nights later, I lay staring alternately at the block tower and the bedroom ceiling, trying to think of how to say I’m sorry to Maxie. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kronos stood in the middle of the throne room, his arms wide, staring at the starry ceiling as if taking it all in. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And Kyle took off.“The store will close in fifteen minutes,” announced a voice from the ceiling speakers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Above the ceiling of the main waiting area was a cluster of secret apartments that had been built for the people who ran the train station years ago. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Freezing water dripped from the ceiling and ran down the walls in a steady stream. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“That sounds just like the angel Leo drew, the one on the ceiling of the theatre!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was such terrific noise following Paganini’s show that at first no one noticed the persistent banging on the ceiling, dull thuds that came in short spurts before starting again. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

What I’d thought was the ceiling was really the bottom of a giant room carved into the mountain peak. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the house was stained to its very foundation and that smell of something long dead and dried would always cling to the rooms and the rustle of rats would always come from the ceiling. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only a few of the rooms have light fixtures; the others have wires dangling out of the middle of the ceiling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite feeling terribly dizzy, he managed to find four of his fellow firefighters trapped almost out of sight under parts of the second-floor ceiling that had collapsed into the first floor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She sprayed the entire basement thoroughly, under the stairs, in the fruit cupboards and in all the protected areas around ceiling and rafters. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The walls are partly painted, and bare bulbs hang from the ceiling. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Theon was given a suite of chilly rooms with ceilings so high that they were lost in gloom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Staring at the ceiling, listening for the sound of helicopters and the pounding of combat boots on the roof. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

That night Coraline lay in bed, all bathed, teeth cleaned, with her eyes open, staring up at the ceiling. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“He added an angel, with a sword and a lantern, and Billy knew it was his brother, Marcus, who was now immortalized on the ceiling of the theatre...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest room Mrs. Frisby had ever seen, half the size of a house, with a ceiling and floor of hard gray rock. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Piles rose to the low ceiling and leaned against the walls, blocking all but a small space in the center. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The walls here are completely mirrored, each long mirror placed to align with the striped ceiling visible above and the floor that is painted to match. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even when they speak to him, he continues to look at the floor or the ceiling, not answering. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shows me a tube stuck into the ceiling of a house. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It is an attic room with slanted ceilings, just like their childhood bedroom in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The ceiling and walls had been draped with emerald, crimson, and gold hangings, so that it looked as though they were all inside a vast tent. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Cubbies hold food rations from floor to ceiling, enough for all of the Monitors for hundreds of years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a small click, and the ball of light from the lamp flew back to the ceiling and illuminated them all once more. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was lower than it used to be. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in my chair, the wreath on the ceiling floating above my head, like a frozen halo, a zero. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning he’d awakened, and the ceiling he opened his eyes to was different: smooth and white and peaceful, instead of swirled and shadowed and cobwebbed. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Its head hung down between ceiling tiles that had been shifted to the side for some reason. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

After being blindfolded and marched from his cell, Shin met them in a dimly lighted room with a high ceiling. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of the building was high up and baring its rafters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s empty now, a drop cloth on the floor, a tangle of wires poking out of the center of the ceiling. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re orange,” he said in a strained voice, addressing the ceiling. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“My sister made that mistake, too. She jumped up and down so much, the top flew off. Our ceiling is still stained from the fizzy soda.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

An aerie of giant eagles could’ve done manoeuvres under the vast ceiling. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She peered at the other end of the massive hall; there were a few other grates just below the ceiling, though she could see no other squinting eyes beyond their ornate metalwork. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Three massive hand-hewn beams, hauled here from some ancient Breton forest and craned into place centuries ago by teams of horses, hold up the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The room was dingy and windowless, lit by a single oil lamp dangling from the low ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I lay there and stared at the ceiling, catching my breath. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Through the ceiling we could hear Black Dog snoring upstairs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the enchanted ceiling overhead began to fade from blue to a dusky purple, Dumbledore rose to his feet at the staff table, and silence fell. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His eyes flicked up at the hole in the ceiling and then swept over the massive metal air conditioner wedged into the floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Two men with State Athletic Commission badges on their jackets were staring up at the ceiling. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Terupt had hung a single link from the ceiling on the first day of school, and he attached a link each time we had an outstanding day as a class. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A guard escorted us to a large room with a strangely high ceiling, maybe twenty feet. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The guy looks up at the ceiling fan above the dining room, shudders, and forks food into his mouth. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Kem, the ghost footman, said it had been the butchering room before, and the channel was for blood and the big hooks on the ceiling were for hanging meat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Uncle Shepsel stood in the middle of the room and raised his hands and shouted to the ceiling, “This is it! It’s over! This is it!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Overhead, the ceiling was higher than a cathedral, sparkling like a galaxy of stars. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They hung on a big round rack from the ceiling. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A minute later, I hear the squeak in the ceiling. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I think it had been a bathroom back in the holiday camp days, because the only window had frosted glass and was really high up near the ceiling. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of the thatched-roof house where I was lying on a bed was blurry. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Just as in the main tunnel, there was a string of bulbs along the ceiling that provided dim light. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I gaze around the airport at the high ceilings and the wide windows, excitement coursing through my veins as we walk to gate 17 for our flight to Rome. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Lolo looks up at the ceiling and clears his throat. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It had been a while since Park had been inside the RV—he couldn't stand up now without hitting his head on the ceiling. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Mom has her hands behind her head, staring at the ceiling, and I can hear her sighing, sighing. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“There are some who seem to find it possible,” remarked the minister, staring meaningfully at a ceiling beam. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A whirring began that snapped and cracked with static, and suddenly I seemed to be crushed between the floor and ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the stove was gone, nothing left but a hole in the ceiling where the pipe had been. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When she told him, that first day, “I always saw the ceiling with other men,” he wondered how many there had been. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Its glass ceiling winks light over the queen's throne, making her glow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But Keisha gasps and looks at the ceiling—frustrated with Albert. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I look at the ceiling light fixture, opaque yellowish glass with the shadows of two or three dead flies caught inside it showing through as if through cloudy jelly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He realized he had lost Temp and Tick somewhere and turned back to see the entire tunnel, floor to ceiling, filling up with roaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Homes, stores, and restaurants lined the water’s edge, stacked one on top of the other, lit ceiling to floor in a rainbow of orb lights that blurred together through Pong's tiny basket window. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

One of them, entitled Afloat, flapped its endpapers, drifted to the ceiling, and refused to move despite Artful Guile trying to tempt it back down with a bookmark. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see the stars on your ceiling because the lights were on. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s packed earth on all four sides, with walls that curve inward and a rounded ceiling. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A single lightbulb dangled from a cord in the ceiling. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As he spoke he leaned back on the throne, clasped his hands behind his head, and stared thoughtfully at the ceiling. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Trees were carved into the stone ceiling, and they stretched above the sleeping female figure. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All around were red columns, decorated ceilings, court attendants, and guards, but Pinmei noticed none of those. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The floor of the room was smoothed concrete; dusted everywhere with flakes and chips from the painted plaster that had peeled away from the top of the walls and the ceiling. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was no paper wads on the ceiling or ashes on the floor, and there was no stall doors missing like the bathrooms at school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There, crouched high in the ceiling’s maze of beams, is a dark, virtual figure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy lit a cigar and politely blew the smoke toward the ceiling. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Shirley clutched her seat, afraid joy would launch her through the ceiling and whisk her high above the clouds. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly was questioning the ceiling with her eyes, seeking an answer among the grease and cracks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is only one Jewry left now in the world,” he said softly, staring up at the ceiling. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the water wasn’t halfway to the ceiling yet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I never knew a ceiling in a house could be so tall up in the air. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was looking up at the ceiling when I came in, listening to the scrambling and pattering of feet scurrying across the asbestos tiles overhead. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

High above, the blue ceiling glittered with constellations. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Above us, on the ceiling of this great big cavern, are thousands and thousands of blue-green shimmers that I recognize instantly from my fifth-grade world geography class. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"It should be functional yet attractive, with lots of copper pots hanging from the ceiling." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued to stare up at the ceiling. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Only Candy continued to stare at the ceiling. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roar of the crowd swelled up to the ceiling—a terrible thunder of shouting and stomping and mad laughter—and then it broke across the room like a flood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She held Barbarossa firmly by the hand, and when everybody turned to look at him, he just stared moodily at the ceiling. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dirt and pebbles spilled off the ceiling of the cave. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited for something to drop from the ceiling or climb up from under the straw scattered in the corners. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He could see what looked like some huge white serpent uncoiling inside the wall, up where it curved to become the ceiling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He climbed into the carriage, closed the door, and rapped at the ceiling with his knuckles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking into the library, I took in my breath sharply and stopped: glass-fronted bookcases and Gothic panels, stretching fifteen feet to a frescoed and plaster-medallioned ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Delicately made models of creatures Harry did not recognize, all flapping wings or snapping jaws, hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pink lightning wiggled across the ceiling, and everything faded. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She did flamenco dancing, and we could hear her heels pounding on the ceiling and the distinct clicking of castanets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

With my head still spinning, I leaned back and stared at the ceiling, waiting for the dizziness to pass. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The three of them stood in awe, swinging their flashlights across the stalactite-dripping ceiling, admiring the vast cathedral of glittering stone they’d just entered. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Candice was already sweating by the time she pulled down the ceiling door. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stare at the ceiling, my neurons on rapid fire. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was a small, closed- in space, with sweating water pipes climbing across the walls and ceiling. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds go by before I see definite edges in my surroundings, the lines of door frame and countertop and ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu was tired and her back throbbed and the salon had begun to nauseate her, with its stuffy air and rotting ceiling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Horace thought of her now, gray and washed, the needles in her throat and the rubber formalin tubes hanging down from the ceiling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was slanted, with dark wood beams cutting through the white. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Having regained his attention, she sketched a rectangle in the air and pointed at the ceiling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was frozen halfway up his stepladder, placing a new case of mousetraps next to a ceiling fan. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They had better be at the house first thing in the morning, ready to fix the ceiling permanently and to offer restitution for the property damage their carelessness had caused. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The ceiling is at least three floors high, and lights of neon blue, green, and gold strobe the room, blinding us with color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thin layer of loose dirt on the flat rock floor was cool against his palms, and his head touched the jagged rock ceiling. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the stools, wire mesh ran from a small ledge up to a ceiling twelve feet high. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Ron, you’re making it snow,” said Hermione patiently, grabbing his wrist and redirecting his wand away from the ceiling from which, sure enough, large white flakes had started to fall. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Out of habit, she gazed up toward the ceiling, as if she might see her father there on his ladder, tinkering with the sprinkler system, the temperature gauges, and the lights. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Stalactites hung from the ceiling of the cave, and bats fluttered and flickered. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She missed the creaking timbers of the Argo II and the constellations her lamp used to make against the ceiling of her cabin aboard the ship. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My head nearly touched the ceiling, but not quite. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Daily Prophet Lupin had brought was still lying on the table, Harry’s own face staring up at the ceiling from the front page. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He led them down long corridors of gray-veined marble, past banks of sunny windows, and through a rotunda in which a statue of a unicorn lifted its head toward the arched ceiling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It also meant that, once upon a time, the sky had been their ceiling, and now the citadel was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So I read the first page, then put it down beside my pillow and stared up at the ceiling. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A herd of miniature bronze hippocampi hung on wires from the ceiling, so it looked like they were swimming through the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not one of them seemed to have noticed that a fourteen-year-old boy had just dropped from the ceiling into their midst. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The office space next door was empty and had been vacated some time ago; the electric power was cut off, and ceiling panels were falling down. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was like a circular cathedral, with a ceiling so high it was lost in the gloom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I follow the gold organza that drapes the ceiling and trails the flower-strewn aisle leading to the mandap—the traditional wedding canopy under which the vows will take place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And then her eyes popped open, staring at the ceiling. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the upstairs room of the crumbledown Calvin sits on the bed tucked under the low part of the ceiling. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

This was the first time I’d ever seen her not in command, the first time I'd felt disconnected from her, as if I were somewhere on the ceiling looking down at her life. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I ask, still staring up at the ceiling. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of my tiny room slanted downward in two corners, making it seem even smaller than it really was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A snake hanging out of the ceiling was exactly the sort of thing my mind would cook up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She isn’t reacting the way some of the other transfers’ parents are— her neck bent, looking around at the Pit walls, at the Pit ceiling, at the chasm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In my dream, all of the collapsed ceilings reformed above us. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sound echoed in the vaulted ceiling of the practice room, and for once she gave in to the overwhelming feelings rushing through her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"This is a nice restaurant here," said Mr. Wolfshiem looking at the Presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The flutter of cards, motion of hands, of eyelids, the drone of the time-voice in the firehouse ceiling “...one thirty-five. Thursday morning, November 4th,... one thirty-six... one thirty-seven a. m...” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balloons were bumping and plummeting against the ceiling as children batted them high. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them stretched a stone tunnel with a low ceiling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The first thing I see is a ceiling like the ones in school: plaster tile rectangles spotted with holes and separated by thin metal strips. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

But then on the twenty-sixth of April last, Aunt Sponge—the late Aunt Sponge, I mean—happened to glance up at the ceiling, and she spotted her. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Deeper into the house, in a small kitchen, city-made pots and pans hung from the ceiling, their warped, blackened metal still shining through in a few spots. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I pushed off, using his force to catapult me toward the ceiling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are two sets of barbells, a burlap sack of sand, a jump rope with red wooden handles, and a pear-shaped leather punching bag nailed to the closet ceiling. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fired shots into the ceiling to get them out. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But Matt never knew, just before he opened the bathroom door, whether the dead man might be lying on the other side, staring up at the big light in the middle of the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d disappear from my hands, and I’d look around for him, getting panicked, until I’d hear a telltale raspy laugh and find him dangling from a ceiling fan, revolving on one of the blades. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mo shrugged his shoulders and looked up at the ceiling, where a few moths were fluttering around the naked lightbulb. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes, blinking up at the ceiling. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I walk in circles staring up at that ceiling and bump into a woman with books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Jam exhaled when they sat in their seats, welcoming the dark of the large room, the artificial light of the screen that stretched from floor to ceiling, curving in on them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Before her, a set of thick black steel bars reached from ceiling to floor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The veil on the other lamp cast a pattern of moons and stars onto the ceiling. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the big fan whirring around under the ceiling, the air was so muggy it could have been bottled. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Later, when Hale was being held on a separate tier from the cell housing Blackie Thompson, he passed him a note through a hole where a radiator pipe went through the ceiling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z