| 单词 | chop |
| 例句 | “Come on, we got some bar-b-qued pork chops on the fire.’ Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A day was named for roads and they all agreed to bring axes and things like that and chop out two roads running each way. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Rogers had chopped a certain amount of firewood before he had been killed. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I got me a knife and chop celery. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In exchange, Nelson would chop our firewood, boil up steaming pots of lumpy manioc, and bring us fruit, greens, and bark potions collected from the forest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I could climb almost any tree I had ever seen but I knew I could never climb the big sycamore and it would take days to chop it down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where do you want to go? Want to get some coffee at the Automat or would you like chop suey?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If I saw him coming into the tavern, I’d go out to clean the barn or down to the woodlot to do some chopping. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom was chopping lettuce while Baba ground the lamb. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Then Celia’s arms were around him, and Matt could smell the cilantro leaves she chopped up when she was cooking. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he shouts “No! Molto bad! No!” and he chops himself in the head and falls onto the ground. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I made us a good dinner of pork chops that was grilled with special sauce and potatoes cut thin and sauteed in butter and fresh green beans. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Invigorated by their plan, the Baudelaire orphans swung their axes at an amazing speed, and soon enough they were done chopping firewood and ready to go to the bank. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I didn’t have the energy to tell them my arms were chopped off in a guillotine or something like that. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The waiter at Ruby’s put two bowls of chop suey and a fat pot of tea between them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was still chopped straight across her shoulders, and she wore the same wary, serious gaze. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The villagers agreed, and so the miller who had listened to the Devil did not have his hands chopped off, but only stood one day in the rain with his millstone tied about his neck. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Roosevelt craved a mutton chop with a tail to it; Kermit was hungry for strawberries and cream; and Cherrie couldn’t stop thinking about pancakes smothered in maple syrup. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Alan-at-Gate directed the dropping of the heavy iron gate, and it came down so quickly that the last man to enter narrowly missed having his head chopped off. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The landlord had sent two men and they had chopped it down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She served him a plate of pork chops, butter-drenched green beans with bacon, and mashed potatoes with brown gravy, and she got out the piece of lemon cake she’d tucked up in the cupboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The only activity is two laborers chopping firewood and a soldier sitting outside his cabin cleaning his musket. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I hope he chops himself in the leg. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Celia learns to cut the cane straight across at the base, strip its leaves with her machete, then chop it in even pieces for the gatherers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She took out her sharp hatchet and expertly chopped into the tree at regular angles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Wilson had grown up eating his mother’s fried chicken, pork chops, and macaroni and cheese. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We went back and forth that way for a time—pork chops and spinach, chicken and grapefruit, beef Stroganoff and eggplant—and she was right, dead right every time. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She chopped up old termite mounds and used the clay to make pots, firing them in heaps of coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Quit your bellyaching," he'd say, tossing a family pack of anemic pork chops into the cart. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was chopped right out of the forest and had picnic tables made out of giant logs. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They held up her head and made a little funnel of her chops and poured the cool soup in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up the chopper and was just about to start chopping away again when he heard a shout behind him that made him stop and turn. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Ogonna said, using a fork to stab at a pork chop and put it on her plate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I leave Max chopping beets and take Helena out to the storage shed, where we can’t be seen by whoever is on watch at the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I could tell he was hesitant to take a bite of his pork chop. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Belet flipped a knife and chopped up a banana into neat slivers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Out the open window of the Cadillac, the fields look chopped and burned. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z One overcast morning, as I was pushing the boiled egg around on my plate, Ali walked in cradling a pile of chopped wood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z This time she wielded an ax, and despite his cries of, “Oh, Roxie, don’t!” she chopped his head off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who’s going to chop the wood while Tiller’s getting his strength back?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The hands had been chopping the weeds for weeks, slashing hoes into the furrows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Take some of the cress with your chop; it’s so biting and crisp. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Hazel did not know how long she crouched there, while the bird skittered about the cage and outside the boy chopped wood. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “One time, the tsar tried to chop down that big tree. We’re pretty sure that’s where he lives. But the trees attacked the lumbermen.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z One day, after completing his shift chopping vegetables, Wes took a detour on the way home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When I woke later on, I opened the lunch bag Mameh had packed for me and inside, tucked between the knishes and matzoh balls and chopped liver, was her Polish passport, with her picture inside. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I have, thank you,” said the Wart He went over to the sideboard to get a chop for himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s okay. He chopped wood all day in the forest. He said to tell you hello.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Newspapers and books spread knowledge, but require that trees be chopped down. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t even look down as they chop, and I’m surprised they don’t cut off their own fingers by accident. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When it’s time for Dee to chop veggies, she stops every few minutes and smiles at me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I'd rather push a guy out the window or chop his head off with an ax than sock him in the jaw. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes I looked at the blades of the machetes and thought about how much it would hurt to be chopped with one. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “If I can get a good night’s sleep,” I said, “and a couple of meals under my belt, I can do a lot of chopping.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Until today, you got your finger chopped off in a door and everyone realized they should have let you stay home. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She followed him as he rummaged in the fridge and found himself a beer and a leftover grilled pork chop. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They also chopped down trees and lined them up, side by side, along the newly cut path. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I scoop the Spam into a serving bowl and add two eggs and seasoning salt, and I chop up the last few pieces of old bread we have. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A minute later, Three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other's limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He chopped off a strong piece of root with a curve to it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy had a chop suey date at five and she got ready to leave. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "If he doesn't give her back, chop off his manhood and feed it to the goats," iyrion promised. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The way he worked on those square holes, he might as well be chopping wood. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “You think he's chopping people up and putting them in the suitcases?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I chopped and chopped until I was hungry and exhausted. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “First you gotta go in and lop off the branches. Then you chop down the trunk.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Various bits of people were chopped off, as the pod had been quite full. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay there unable to move, watching in horror while the man reached under his cloak, withdrew a gleaming hatchet, and chopped off half of his right foot. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Tigris has prepared us a hash of chopped ham and potatoes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She start explaining, but I stop her talking by saying, “You want me chopping the onions and celery and measuring out the ingredients and such as that.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We were to chop them up to dry for firewood. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I stuck my head into the kitchen, where fat pork chops sat burning on the stove. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Being with deep dizziness, I pray that I do not chop myself with my machete, or fall and break my neck. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z "Pork chops, grits, one egg, hot biscuits and coffee!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Having finished chopping his roots, Harry bent low over his book again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In no time the house smelled like spaghetti and fish sticks, instead of the chewy and mushy three p's Clayton’s mother left for them: pork chops, peas, and potatoes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I guess it’s no wonder my mother and I never had an interesting conversation when all we eat is canned soup, chop suey, and instant coffee. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z A man was selling apples from a barrow, and a woman was offering herring with chopped onions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mom was in the kitchen chopping mushrooms and dill for a chicken soup she was cooking for the old ladies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I folded and put away all the laundry and chopped up the onions for dinner. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps he should have crushed some leaves of oleander, or chopped up nightshade root, and somehow found a way to sneak the poison into Trademaster’s food. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Parvin helped us as always, doing laundry, washing dishes, and chopping vegetables for dinner, but the work kept piling up. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Like well-run factories, cells are thrifty; part of the cellular machinery chops up and reuses anything that is floating around inside, including bits of the cell and foreign invaders such as viruses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She could chop fish, meat, and vegetables on a butcher-block cutting board—all with one hand. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was good to see him not dead nor chopped up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “My, my. Okra and pork chops for lunch. What’s this about?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I found Kazi’s favorite big clay bowl he always used for chopped vegetables or mixing dough. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I chop them very fine and add them to the pot, switch out the rocks again, put on the lid, and let the whole thing stew. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She kept her back to us as she chopped potatoes and onions for hash browns. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Chen leapt on it, prepared to chop its neck and bite its throat, but the villagers stopped him. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Next we go into All Flesh, which is marked by a large wooden pork chop hanging from two chains. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She chopped wood better than Miig and was stingy with her words. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z At dusk I could see the remains of other people’s suppers floating by the window, chicken and pork chop bones, lettuce leaves, breadcrumbs, sometimes noodles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z My mother would just have to let me chop down the door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The chops I had put out to defrost over two months ago were still icy. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Then one day she helped herself to one of his fried pork chops, and was soon eating the same meals he was. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As the family settled down, Gul Khan’s teenage son brought a starter salad to their table, along with glasses of dogh, a yogurt drink filled with chopped cucumbers and mint. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She brought out her old wooden board and cleaver, then chopped the ginger and scallions, and poured soy sauce and sesame oil into a shallow dish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He steadied a log upright on a tree stump, and with an ax that looked bigger than he was, he gave it a whack and chopped it in half. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was there she became the powerfully strong young woman who could handle mules, bale hay and chop wood as good as any man. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And he lugs them out, yards of them, with mustard greens, and racks of pigs' ears, and pork chops and black-eyed peas with dull accusing eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We chopped ham and onions for the jambaIaya; then we played cards while the rice cooked. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The smell of baking bread and sweet spices mixed with the pungent coppery scent of raw animal flesh being chopped by seasoned butchers filled my nostrils. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Dallas saw himself, Pioneer Boy, chopping wood and hauling water. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Silence terrifies you more than the pounding of a million pieces of steel chopping away at your flesh. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z After sweeping I went into the kitchen, sat on the stool, and watched Kazi stir and chop. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “We picked cotton, chopped wood, plowed. I never knew what it was to fold my hands. This here is as close as I ever been to watching my hands do nothing.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert left earlier, with the excuse that he had to chop wood or see how the little apple trees behind the house were doing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Tiller and Sairy gaped at the ragged hole chopped in the side of the barn. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z They’ll get their necks chopped off and jump around squirting blood, ha ha ha, poor them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As I chop up the white rock on my special makeup mirror into very fine powder I start thinking about the past week with Zlata and our infamous toast for change. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I should have chopped the bill off to fight them with, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "That day when Gopal told me that I had chops, that is the day I would like to live over." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She focuses her attention on the chopping block, which is covered in onions, garlic, and cumin seeds. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The meat had been chopped into pieces no larger than a finger Joint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Or at least communicate that this wasn’t her job and that he wasn’t such a useless idiot he couldn’t chop some potatoes like a normal person. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z ‘We are chopping off people’s heads like you are chopping parsley.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "They say it's a blight—the trees are diseased. They have to chop them all down. Those beautiful trees." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There were cold omelettes with chopped ham in them, and cold chicken and hot coffee for the grown-ups, and hot crisp rolls baked in the hotel kitchen, which we ate with butter and cranberry jam. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Rita stops chopping the carrots, stands up, takes the parcels out of the basket, almost eagerly. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Working swiftly, she chopped off the best pieces and dragged them to her refrigerator. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sea glittered with chop, but Leo had fixed the stabilizers well enough that Hazel didn’t look too seasick. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “You just going to chop her fingers off? ” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Back in the room with the creepy bunny paintings, Annabelle touches the chopped, uneven edges of her hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I would have happily chopped off the heads of a barrel full of eels to escape another afternoon trapped with men whose voices droned on and on and on like rumbling, dusty grindstones. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The endless cycle of work for Min continued: chopping wood, cutting clay, draining clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She chopped the meat fine with her chopping knife in the wooden bowl, she seasoned it with pepper and salt and spices. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I fry up a plate of pork chops. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I never liked eating the traditional American things: pork chops, steak, rack of lamb...I still don’t. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She could see now why David had wanted to chop the scrub trees into pieces. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In most martial arts schools, you are taught how to punch or chop or kick, how to grapple or use holds or escape them. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The laughing girl, the girl who chopped wood and danced in the dirt and talked to pigs and carried dressers and grew enough vegetables to feed a city would leave? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “And if I’d dropped that bucket and bundle, I wouldn’t have had to shoot him. I could have stood and watched him eat what’s in them and lick his chops.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Eating starch, choosing when to tackle the yoke, sewing, picking, cooking, chopping. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For hours, his father desperately worked to save the farm, chopping away brush and digging ditches. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The first thing they decided to do was to chop off part of one of my legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z At the same time, an imp darted in from behind, knocking the pouch from Seth’s grasp with a chopping motion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I even managed to sing a little as I chopped away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet when I get home and Dad chops my head off with an axe, I could go as my dead self for Halloween if he throws my face on ice quickly enough. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I fished it out with a spoon and then downed the acid drink, proud to have resisted the pork chops and grits. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “If that thing ever comes near me again”—he made a chopping motion—“I’ll whack it.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “Let’s see, I put the green beans in first, then I go on and get the pork chops going cause, mmm-mmm, I like my chops hot out the pan, you know.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They also were attempting to “chop” photons into pieces by passing light beams through a rapidly rotating mirror. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Next to it was Gulmina’s hand, which had been chopped off by the metal fence. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was a sixty-foot gaff-rigged ketch with a wide beam—a real tub—but as I stood on deck it felt solid against the harbor chop. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z There was meat to be chopped, and vegetables to prepare for the midday meal. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z "Are you kidding? Tina's a monster. She's what would happen if the devil married the wicked witch, and they rolled their baby in a bowl of chopped evil." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He looks up from the tomato he’s chopping. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Chop, chop, chopping for hours through the ice! Just so they can throw in the coffin! The emperor will do anything to get her to marry him.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She shredded the little orange stick monsters into pieces with her furious chopping. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z You wouldn’t catch him offering to chop wood or gather in a corn crop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z But as he stood there a vague, soft chopping sound came. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The Greek, big apron, sleeves rolled up, was frying pork chops in two big skillets, turning them over with an ice pick. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z For some odd reason, he thought of a time when he had been on the mountainside, taking a break as he chopped wood. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Order the modern lamb chop, and it's likely to look no different than your companion's order of shackled pompano. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, Reginald! In all our years together you have never shown me such affection! Finally we can be happy. Tonight I shall cook you a nice lamb chop to celebrate....” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In A Tale of Two Cities, when the guillotine chops off a head, the sound effects team hacked a cabbage with a cleaver. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z There was only the swirl of snow and wind and the chopping of the helicopter blades. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “To be hung by the neck until dead, then have your body chopped into four pieces, which are sent to the four corners of the kingdom,” the mayor continued. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that afternoon Stella could hear the raw sounds of chopping and hacking, the pounding of ax against wood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I hope we’ll get away with just chopping down one or two for the fire tonight.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I chopped and diced and minced, and then a thought started up in my head. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The next pitch was too high, and the boy chopped at it, lost his bat and fell forward on his hands. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Baby lamb chops ?” “In the cutest little pink paper panties you ever saw. Are going for a song in Portugal.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They chopped it down two decades ago when the tree got sick, but according to old Batavia lore, when the leaves were green and full, the elm looked exactly like Abraham Lincoln’s profile. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Loomis worked for us off and on all my life—milking till I got big enough, plowing the garden till I got big enough, fixing fences and chopping wood till I got big enough. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He picked one of the limbs that seemed right and began chopping where the limb joined the tree. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “You better be careful out there,” she says, setting a plate of pinto beans, rice, and pork chops down on the table. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He’s such a champion they could chop off his fingers and he’d carry on regardless. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Every time they say the word, Lally and I take karate chop at each other. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I raised the rake over my head again, closed my eyes and swung it like I was Paul Bunyan chopping down a tree with one blow. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z From the Haitian side of the river, she could still see the soldiers chopping up her mother’s body and throwing it into the river along with many others. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z At the lumber mill they chop up trees that end up getting turned into furniture and houses. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Some are chopped up right then and there if they miss the jump to get on. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Someone’s going to get chopped to pieces one day.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z One afternoon, one of the Finns left his wood chopping to urinate. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I arranged the kebabs on a platter and sprinkled them with chopped cilantro like I did at home. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z At first they tried to use the bodies as bait, chopping them up and trolling the pieces behind them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Isa was doing her own chopping on the kitchen counter, her knife pounding against the scarred cutting board. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Mom is chopping parsley on a cutting board. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The port oars went crazy, chopping up and down and doing the wave. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I’m going to chop down trees in the daytime and write about timber at night.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the house he chopped at the wood around the haspstaple and finally jammed the blade under the staple and pried it up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z "If Essex was the queen's favorite and she chopped his costard off, who kens what she might do to someone she doesn't care for?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A chopping board lay on the counter next to him, littered with onion skins, chili ends, and squeezed limes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Up ahead, off to the side of the road, Dale was chopping a fallen tree into firewood. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Dinner was prawn cocktails in wine glasses for starters, lamb chops with chef’s hats with duchesse potatoes and braised celery for main, and a Baked Alaska for "dessert," not "afters." Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When it became apparent that the mast had been chopped down, rather than felled by lightning, Hiram Wallace became the butt of all the watermen’s jokes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A dusty gloom hung over the chicken pen where the five remaining roosters uneasily preened their gorgeous feathers as they waited for the Angel of Death to chop, pluck, and disembowel their youthful, awakening bodies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. Still and all you always see them cut off and get the idea that they grow chopped down. Let’s buy it, Neeley.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As a surprise for George’s tenth birthday, Aunt Daisy took them to see the Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn’t like you. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z He clubbed at heads and heard the jaws chop and the shaking of the skiff as they took hold below. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A fierce kick in the ribs and a swift chop to the claw sent the rat and the cutlass in opposite directions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z That night at supper Mrs. Byrne serves chopped beef, potato salad stained pink by beets, and rubbery cabbage. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And I swear on the dictionary, if Freak ever tries to eat American chop suey again, I'll dump it on his head or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Its engines rumbling loudly and its propellers chopping explosively underwater, the ship churned past us and left us bouncing and bobbing in its frothy wake. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We watched as he fried the onion in a big pan and sprinkled in some mustard seed, garlic, salt, cumin, turmeric, and chopped ginger. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Calvin looks back at Shayleen with her dark hair chopped so it points at her chin. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Freak has this thing about American chop suey. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “Looks done to me,” he said, and he reached over and picked up a tiny chop by the bone end and began to gnaw on it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They ate tiny lamb chops and a mushroom risotto. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z His arms chopped the air like khaki windmills. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Part of the floor must’ve had planks laid down in it, ’cause when my head hit, there was a loud sound like a axe chopping a thick oak. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z This was exceedingly hard to do, because one of the heads was immortal and the others almost as bad, inasmuch as when Hercules chopped off one, two grew up instead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z No pork, either—no pork chops with potato salad, no bacon and eggs, forget all that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I’d walked a spell I could hear him chopping in the south. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “For goodness’ sake don't talk about chops and things,” said Digory. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “I can start chopping wood into boards tomorrow,” Leo said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The old woman had been chopping vegetables, and she was holding a very large, shiny knife when she turned to see the three visitors enter her home. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I cut off one and chopped it into bits and scraps. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the game started, I never chopped so many lemons in my life and that’s when I wasn’t carrying big sacks of sugar. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Obediently Matty moved the wooden ladle around in the pot and watched beans and chopped tomatoes churn in the thick mixture as it simmered. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z All the while she’d been chopping fruit, and she made a broad gesture with her knife. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I could see the backs of three women, stirring and chopping and moving pans around on a couple of giant stoves. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “And mama said to chop up this onion in it.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll bet your mother just fries pork chops and wrings wet clothes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He came home to the smell of his favorite meal, smothered lamb chops. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When his father got up, he chopped some wood and sat by the fire. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Near us, two sailors with axes chopped at lines, and two big life rafts plunged toward the water, which looked blade except for pools of fire from burning fuel oil. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, he thought now, if he chopped enough wood quickly, there would still be time at the end of the day . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops and mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit, a chocolate cake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The rider chopped viciously at Taran’s head, swung around, and struck again. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “Now you got me making rat stew, and I’m chopping squash, not little whiskers and feets and tails.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And somehow, even though I’ve cut bangs and permed my hair over the years, I haven’t been able to chop it off. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She weeded the fields carefully with her hoe—chop, chop, chop. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I call Tats back while assembling my weekend breakfast: chopped bananas, peanut butter, yogurt, and granola. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z And the whole book was a big map of London, but it had been chopped up so it could be made into a book, and I liked that. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Which meant that each year, during budget meetings, Peer Communications was on the chopping block. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Perched beside the stove, their family’s house spirit examined the mess of chopped herbs and leftover stems that littered the countertop. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Going to be a cold one today,” Dad says as he chops the rosemary. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z When she got back, she handed Loo off to Ben, who was chopping something green in the kitchen, and then headed for her cabin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Papi turns around from the onion he’s chopping and points at me with the blade. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They all sat at the table without saying anything while Ekemeni chopped up some greens over on the counter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I gripped the knife, felt myself much more eager to chop him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The place where he chopped wood was nice. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Now that Russell Quitman’s fate had been sealed, I was feeling very guilty for all the zombie fantasies in which I had chopped off his head. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z They had forgotten, for a moment, that Mia was there, yet there she was, chopping a pepper for dinner and sounding like no parent they’d ever encountered. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Farther on some teen-agers halfheartedly chopped at weeds along an irrigation ditch behind the junior high school football field bleachers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a hard-faced, pretty litigation lawyer who smoked constantly and wore her blond hair in a China chop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The only problem was that the heart of palm was inside the tree, and first you had to chop down the tree and cut it open. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “They contain egg yolk and bread crumbs. And so are lamb chops.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You weren’t supposed to chop it up and put it in sauce!” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He sauntered in, peering over Charles’s shoulder at the tray of chops he’d just removed from the broiler. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The remaining camaradas who weren’t sick were tasked with chopping down some trees to make spare paddles—also at Roosevelt’s insistence. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Quickly they gathered dry grass and leaves, and bits of bark; and made a pile of broken twigs and chopped sticks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But I doubt the professor was much impressed by my observation that, “When you chop a chicken’s head off, you shouldn’t smile because you might get blood and feathers in your mouth.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Soon they got up and left, for they had decided to try their luck with the fishing nets let down through big holes chopped in the ice. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z "What do we do with all those mice who have had their tails chopped off?" asked the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z And yet there she sat, in a chair right next to him, devouring a plate of greasy pork chops and fried okra. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They sat down at the Gryfhndor table and helped themselves to lamb chops and potatoes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z "You could end up chopping off your brother's arm in the middle of a battle. Trust me, I've seen it happen. Better to rely on your other skills." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And there they sat, these two ghastly hags, sipping their drinks, and every now and again screaming at James to chop faster and faster. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid’s husband fitted the shirt sleeves over it with a karate chop between the shoulder blades. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At lessons, the knives remained Celaena’s favorite, but the wooden staff became dear; naturally, it had to do with the fact that she could freely whack him and not chop off an arm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z That afternoon, they put me to work chopping firewood to heat the soldiers’ quarters. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z And they chop them off and the shoes keep dancing by themselves, her feet still inside them. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He was gasping loud whilst he waited for his breathing to catch ahold of him so’s he could do a proper job of chopping me up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z We wash and chop fruit together and grunt occasionally. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Dumbledore, however, looked carefully down at his own menu, then said very clearly to his plate, “Pork chops!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He rode past a banner planted in the mud, one of Stannis's fiery hearts, and chopped the .staff:in two with a swing of his axe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The Caribs use its sap to poison their arrows and it burns like fire. Our men must have chopped into it.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Dad pulled out a cutting board and started chopping onions and carrots. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “Took me twenty minutes to chop it down and fifty years to set it back.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad coughed and choked on his mouthful of pork chop. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He whimpers, begging Axel to leave the chopped tree for a better adventure. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Let him come, let him come, and then when his arm is out far enough, when his nose is extended, I will chop it off with a chop they’ll feel in London. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I chop vegetables and boil pasta, pour a carton of chicken stock into a pot. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When all had been chopped off he disposed of the one that was immortal by burying it securely under a great rock. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He began to cut the celery on an old chopping board. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She hand me an apron and point to a chopping table. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The one with the tangled white beard said, “Maybe we could chop the fungus out.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Frustrated, she took me by the hand and led me out to where Nigel was chopping firewood. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Of course humans can’t eat grass, any more than you could eat a mutton chop.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The hogs were the first order of business, chopped on the long pine table and covered in dipney sauce. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I curl up and try to cover my head, waiting for a machete chop to come. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “A good thing, your chopping the wood. He is not as young as he once was . . .” Her voice trailed off. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And right before the sun goes down, before the rush of knives chopping, food flying, and “Order ready!” singing out, Uhmma will come out of the kitchen and give us our dinner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z She leans far, far over to wash her chopped hair, but when even a drop of water hits the back of her neck where that tag was, it burns. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The noise of a knife on a chopping board. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z And, with one savage, angry blow, which held in it a curse for every hour of every day of his life that he’d spent chopping wood, he busted the log neatly, downright exquisitely, in two. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had cut down a small ash tree and was chopping it into lengths of about eighteen inches each. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As they neared the end, Pinmei could see the black gash of water where the ice had been chopped away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She chopped and mixed and moved so quickly that I couldn’t always follow what she was doing, but every action was confident. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Those who escaped from being chopped to bits later died in horrid agony from smallpox the conquistadors spread to Mexico from Europe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They dashed to the crash site and used axes to chop a hole in the floor of the cockpit of the upside-down plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She was holding to her chest a doll with yellow hair that looked as if it had been chopped, as a punitive measure, with a pair of dull scissors. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Ain't her fault that its pork chop night and I missed lunch because I was taking remedial etiquette training with Miss Anderson. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the winter, children cleared snow, chopped down trees, and shoveled coal for heating the school. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem right that they thought singing and dancing would change Cecile into someone who cried for her long-lost daughters or fried pork chops and made banana pudding. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I had hardly chopped the moss away with my ax before I hit frost. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Z tossed a handful of chopped cherries into the mix. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The girls shared a plate of pork chops. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Memo chopped up mango, honeydew melon, strawberries, and orange slices, some with intricate patterns. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She told them about the waterfront cookhouse where she’d worked chopping onions and frying potatoes for hakujin stevedores who looked right through her as if she weren’t even there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Was this because he thought Johnny too cripple-handed for chopping open sea chests—or merely because he knew Rab better and he was older? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Too bad Mama didn’t trust him about chopped meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The men dragged the equipment crates to a nearby hunting cabin, chopped open the locked door with an axe, and slept in their clothes on the floor. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sitting at the kitchen counter while Dad chopped vegetables and Mom browned some beef in a skillet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Uncle rushed out and bought a pair of dogskin gloves, some ugly, thick shoes, and an umbrella, and got shaved à la mutton chop, the first thing. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dragons were hungry, so she chopped up a snake and charred the pieces over a brazier. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After Harriet Tubman freed the slaves, Hirohito and the boys showed off their karate kicks and chops and jujitsu moves. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Hassler was a fine butcher for bones but a bad butcher for chopped meat because he ground it behind closed doors and God knows what you got. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I sliced through the top of my finger while chopping the onions. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s chop him up and put him in the stew pot.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Please, it was easier than planting Trojans in Canadian discount drug spam. You know, Spaceman, you just might have the chops to run this dude down.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He walked back to the house, with the sun climbing behind him, warming his back, and he chopped wood and waited until he smelled smoke from the stovepipe. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I look at her, then at Mr. Nielsen, who lifts his fork and knife and begins cutting his pork chop into small pieces. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He held him and floated him about, the boy gasping and chopping at the water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma boiled some yam slices, and we ate them dipped in palm oil that had chopped red peppers floating in it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She doesn't look like she has any idea what I'm talking about, even when I clarify that a Rototiller is a machine with sharp blades that mechanically chop soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z But he does not get up, and Madame Manec keeps chopping potatoes, and when she is done, Marie-Laure hears her push a load of them into the water with the back of her knife. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They were equipped with shovels, picks, and axes to chop a path through the chaos of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z No, the memories I had were of the pain from being cut open, chopped up, and sewn back together. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Once, chopping onions, she cut her finger down to the bone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Yvonne chopped the bread into chunks and slices, then distributed them among us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As Elizebeth later explained, the Atlantic coast alone, “with its coves and inlets, its chopped waterline, with its many secluded spots where boats might secretly dock and unload, created a problem which defied description.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Instead of getting tired, every chop comes a little harder. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He was always wandering through the woods, tinkering with a discarded two-stroke engine, chopping wood, or carving a block of wood into an animal head. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Again it was time for the family to plant; Yellow Kettle chopped at the tough winter-packed earth of their family garden. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Every time I stopped chopping they would come over. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At times she sat cross-legged, at times with legs splayed, surrounded by an array of colanders and shallow bowls of water in which she immersed her chopped ingredients. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The She Elephant chopped the heads off chickens and doused them in boiling water to loosen the feathers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Licking his chops he walked up the steps, lifted a bold demanding paw and scratched at the door, then sat down, pricking his ears expectantly. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet Bliss tried to push hard-to-digest foods on him, such as steak, lamb chops, and beef. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After Harriet Tubman freed the slaves, Hirohito and the boys showed off their karate kicks and chops and jujitsu moves. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s like he spit you out,” Uncle Jack says, chopping through the silence in a way that makes me jump a bit. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Violet looked around the small, scraggly yard, in which she had not been since she and Klaus had been forced to chop wood. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I raised the knife and chopped at the first stalk. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm said, “You turned our dinner party upside down, Tandy. This chop is appropriate, fair, and equitable, and furthermore, for your penalty, you must execute this task while standing on your head.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Mamá Jacinta gives me a giant plate of beans, rice, and shredded beef tostadas covered with sour cream, lettuce, and chopped tomatoes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A half-dozen men took to chopping the King and his steed to bits. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Notice, for instance, the veneer headboard of the bed, made from “pure cherrywood,” as Milton likes to say, just like the little tree George Washington chopped down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Go chop wood, then you can play it,” Andrea’s mom said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But he went to work with two cleavers chopping the onion up into the meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was stuffed with chopped nuts and fruit and cheese, the crust flaky and still warm from the oven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z To gather the felled trees and chop the standing dead ones was part of the field pay too. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And just when you relax, the ax murderer will chop off your head. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He asked his wife if she would chop it down, but she warned him that this could be dangerous. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z ‘Us can just rest back and know they going to be chopped up with pitchforks and fried everlasting by Satan.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He chopped the onions every which way and didn’t mince the ginger anywhere near as fine as Kazi would have. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But when Luiz, the steersman in Roosevelt’s canoe, took his ax and chopped into the hollow of the tree, Roosevelt could see a waxy formation. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Her formerly shoulder-length hair has been chopped asymmetrically by one of her friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I asked Cecile for some money for dinner, and Fern and I went out to pick up chop suey from Ming’s. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of stepping aside, he took a single step forward, and, as if punting a football, he kicked the sow squarely in her fat jowly chops so hard that she fumbled the chicken. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I start to chop off a potato’s end as wide as a thumbnail, then decide to slice off only a sliver. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z You couldn’t hear no trees being chopped nor no mules nor horses being pushed on to pull harder, nor no sounds from the road. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I had come to think of the horses as so real that for a moment I was surprised to see blond, splintered wood instead of blood and bone where the legs had been chopped off. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I remember Captain Smith’s answer when I asked if the Caribs chop people up for their cook pot. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Pork chops, brown beans, corn on the cob, and biscuits sound good to you?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A pig's tail that was never allowed to be seen by any woman and that cost him his life when a butcher friend did him the favor of chopping it off with his cleaver. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Ron seized his knife, pulled Malfoy’s roots toward him, and began to chop them roughly, so that they were all different sizes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The car skidded, then rolled when the shoulder turned to cliff, a blurred, chopped nightmare where sound and light cut through us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He closed the door behind her, and in a blink of an eye she heard the sound of wood being chopped. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Boats clattered against their moorings in the heavy chop but none left the harbor; to take one out in such a gale would’ve been suicidal. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She has aunts and uncles in Bastrop chopping cotton with the short hoe and pulling the long sack.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Right then my mother came in with scissors to chop off my long straight hair. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The other was chopped off in a sawmill accident. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then Pa put the roof back again, climbed down the ladder, and said to Laura: “Run over to the chopping block and fetch me some of those green hickory chips—new, clean, white ones.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as the kite climbed upward, becoming the size of a name chop mark, the string continued. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subde clue that nobody wanted him around. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “My husband says all these big estates will be chopped up in time and bungalows built,” said the woman. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The dark liquid picked up chunks of onion and chopped herbs, and swirled them around the pieces of meat. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He could chop off my ear and I’d say nothing about it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z "If the first one is stupid, I'll chop off your head and find a smarter wife. When do you think you'll be able to have children?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “But I guess he never had time to study. Where he lived, they chopped up pianos for firewood.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s a very good wheeze, my dear Sponge. But let’s make him finish chopping up the wood first. Be off with you at once, you hideous brat, and do some work!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “We should eat. I cooked pork chops and asparagus for dinner. It’s getting cold.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z At nine in the morning, there was nothing more than a light chop on Lake Washington, a typical gray, late fall day with light winds out of the southeast at perhaps five miles per hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Shackleton chopped steps in the ice and they inched their way down. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It took us two days: chopping candied fruit, mixing the cake by hand, and lining cake tins with cut-up brown paper bags. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They’re full of women and kids preparing vegetables, frying potatoes and chopping cucumbers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The wheelhouses of sunken fishingboats standing out of the gray chop. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was more than annoying, because he had been careful to lay the wood neatly as he chopped, and each bump led to further disarray of the tidy pile. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The men pulled their dugout canoes onto the river’s sandy bank and started chopping through the thick vegetation with machetes and knives to make their way around the main rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It's a Friday in December and my mother is frantically chopping tomatoes, cucumbers, and cilantro. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Chipper’s tail was cut short because he had caught it in the wheel and chopped about a quarter of it off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He could chop open tea chests all night, and ride all day. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Hit it, hit it, hit it, chop it off! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Most of the poplar trees had been chopped down—the trees Hassan and I used to climb to shine our mirrors into the neighbors’ homes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The hydrofoils kept the Dauntless above much of the chop, but as the waves grew higher, the prow of the ship was starting to bury itself in foam. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I got to work, rolling up my sleeves and clearing a space for chopping. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes we left camp to chop ice, shovel snow, or work on roads. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Ruth hummed quietly to herself, shelling peas into a large wooden bowl, and Becky chopped kale. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was of him in the kitchen with a towel thrown over his shoulder, chopping vegetables. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Alys watched as the girl pushed the chopped onions into a neat pile with the side of her hand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I was never much of a hand around the kitchen—I’ll admit that I tried to get out of chopping vegetables or cleaning dishes whenever I could—so I didn’t linger there long. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I devein six hundred thousand million shrimp, and Dee chops broccoli and cauliflower into twelve million trillion perfect little trees. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Remember those pork chops we had that time?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The charms you use I chop up For relish on my porridge. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We made fried pork chops or heaping plates of spaghetti and meatballs and sat around talking about Welch, laughing so hard at the idea of all that craziness that our eyes watered. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Momma used the baubles to buy several hogs, and that was how Rose Hill came to have pork chops every Sunday after the Scripture was read. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Jesse Oliver! You leave that baby alone. Whatcha mean lying there in the middle of the floor doing nothing anyway? Didn’t I tell you I couldn’t cook supper before you chopped wood for the stove?” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z There she is, chopping vegetables, unaware of her posture, unaware of the wildness of her hair, even unaware that I am staring at her with so much love. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The robot swung her flattened hand, and the sounds of chopping wood echoed across the water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z You could have taken a hatchet and cut the man's lips right off his face, chopped them off at the quick, and he still would have played better than anyone else out there. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Still, she couldn’t get out and mark hogs or kill meat or swing a chopping axe. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z And the broken metal—and flesh—would then be chopped into sections. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She chopped onions fast and hard with an outsize heavy knife, something she had learned to do from a cooking video. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z After the chopped meat deal they went to Hassler’s for the soup bone. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They had spread out, and one of the other women was using an ax to chop the wood. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was not far from City Hall, along a street where soldiers with heavy axes were chopping down the row of tall poplar trees. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He would take an axe in his left hand and chop, chop, chop ... so he fell asleep. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent the afternoon chopping a field’s worth of cabbage while a half pig roasted in the pit dug by the men in the flower garden. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z With all the chopping and peeling we weren’t talking much yet, but it didn’t seem to bother her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no interest in those shorts, and I could never wear them anyway: My dad would literally chop both my legs off if he saw me wearing them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When Rowan turned off his shower, he heard the chop of helicopter blades, and when he came out onto the lawn, it was waiting for them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The pork chops hissed and swished in the pan. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Volta shouted over the deafening chop of the blades. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was as if the Scavenge God had come amongst the ships, slashing and chopping, dicing the huge iron vessels into pieces, and then left the corpses scattered carelessly behind. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I help her cook soup, chopping the potatoes and onions, just wanting to get the visit over with so I can go back to the hotel and school, places where I’m comfortable. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Way back in the freezer, under some frozen chopped collard greens, and wrapped in aluminum foil, was something special I had saved for myself. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z She lines up the halves of the scallions and starts to chop. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Then another boy with a big pair of scissors chopped off my hair. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She sliced the soft, fuzzy plomms into quarters on the big wooden chopping block. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “You see that corn? I want the dirt chopped up so fine I can sift it through my fingers,” he tells me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where is the big scissors?” she asked, and when Ifemelu brought it to her, she raised it to her head and, handful by handful, chopped off all her hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Her hair looked like chopped meat when I was done. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon enough, most of those centuries-old trees had been chopped into wood to build ships and railroads and buildings for America’s brand-new cities. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Or figuring out ways for people to live in outer space, so they wouldn’t be too crowded on Earth and chop down beautiful woods just for houses. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Later, the game over, Ralph approached Helen as she chopped vegetables. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z To help the wine merchants out, Kepler chopped up the barrels—in his mind—into an infinite number of infinitely tiny pieces, and then added them back together again to yield their volumes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The smell of cabbage was stronger in the hall and pork chops were frying. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was difficult to get around them and chop them down. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z A half-dozen black puppies and the odd pig or two skulked among the benches, while women in ragged deerskins passed horns of beer, stirred the fire, and chopped carrots and onions into a kettle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She could chop wood, haul the water from the hole Nokomis kept open in the ice with an ax and a long, sharp pole. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I told him about how my hands had gotten so sore I couldn’t chop any more, and how I had asked for strength to finish the job. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z So Sunflower bounced up, down, sideways, and backward, rearing and kicking and chopping, snorting furiously, only Herbie still wouldn’t come unglued. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were supposed to be pork chops, but John said they looked like fried dwarfs ears. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I pick up my cutlery and carefully slice my pork chop. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Mr. Beaver was incredibly skilled at taking down trees, but even he couldn’t keep up with Roz’s powerful chopping hands. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I picture Mr. Park in the kitchen, chopping up huge amounts of vegetables. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z No more chopping for the day, or for the rest of his time here. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “I needed a cooking job since the restaurant I worked at closed,” he said, and paused his chopping again, holding the knife still above the sliced chilies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He couldn’t bear to have it simply chopped up for firewood, so he had part of the timber made into a wardrobe, which ho put in his big house in the country. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The storm had weakened some and the sea’s violent chop died down, but the idea of rowing another stroke, even in a perfectly calm sea, was unimaginable now. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He made a chopping motion in the air with his hand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Other times I saw a man with an ax chopping wood, and sometimes a woman cradling a baby at her breast. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Then I heard the chopping of helicopter blades getting louder and closer. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He chops all de wood he think Ah wants and den he totes it inside de kitchen for me. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z When Blaine came home, she sat at the dining table, watching him chop fresh basil in the kitchen, and said, “If only the man who wrote this book could be the president of America.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He made a gesture with his hand as if chopping something into sections while he spoke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Alys tended her there, holding her head so that she could sip warm liquid made from chopped wild sunflower roots simmered in spring water. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Mike was sitting at a table with several men in their shirt-sleeves, eating from a bowl of tuna fish, chopped onions and vinegar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It’s piled high with pork chops, collard greens, mashed potatoes, and baked apples. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I can cook,” he said, “and chop wood, and ride a horse, and tie all sorts of knots!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Upon arriving the next day for work, Tree-ear learned that it was Min’s turn to chop wood for the kiln fires. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She sliced eggplant, chili peppers, and onions in tiny, even cubes the way Mother liked them, instead of chopping them quickly into thick chunks the way she usually did. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z A boy next door called Rupert Entwistle had told her that if you chopped off a newt's tail, the tail stayed alive and grew into another newt ten times bigger than the first one. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She’d chopped off the ponytail that she used to tuck up into her swim cap and she’d bleached what was left of her hair a bright white. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The dwarf had pulled the stubby axe from his belt and chopped furiously at his enemies. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Spurge played with the half of his chicken pie that hadn’t been chopped by a battle-ax. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I watched her sideways as I went past, with my basket of oranges and lamb chops. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not fed that he could manage more than one chop himself, and, as for Kay, he had stayed away from the breakfast-room altogether. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I chopped a little harder, hoping the day would move faster. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The anger in her strokes as she chops it is unmistakable. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A big diamond- back rattler struck at Papa and Papa chopped his head off with one quick lick of his scythe. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z ON a hot Saturday in late September, the cotton fields chopped and empty, Daddy carries a new RCA color television set into the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then we came home one evening and found the cats strung up by their tails from our front gate, gutted and skinned and bleeding out, their heads chopped off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He worked all through the morning at die wood, breaking down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them in smaller pieces, storing them neatly beneath the overhang. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z So if he chopped off your head, you still had to buy it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I leave him and go to chop wood for the cook fire. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I cut and chop and mince and dice and mix most of the morning, then I clean and sort stuff in the back. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “And you shouldn’t try to chop yours in half.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She laid down her knife and swept the chopped fruit into a bowl, which she passed to Lazlo. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her mother stood in the kitchen chopping vegetables for soup. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I watched him from where I was standing, and could see he was obviously doing his best to chop the right way and show off his strength. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I knew that I could get away with not having a fresh shape-up easier than they could get away with not chopping that Sunday dinner off the tops of their heads. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “For years our group had been trying to find ways to stop the lumber company from chopping down those beautiful old trees,” she’d explained. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I flick a little chopped herring on the water and watch it settle. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Momma started chopping the onions a little harder. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Sorry, Hemingway, but this old guy murdered some of your best chops for a generation of students. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The dirtiest jobs fell to me: water hauling, wood chopping, and chamber-pot emptying. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of our friends helped by chopping eggplants, onions, meat, and the like in the kitchen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The driver, Mr. Post, chops wood, tends the stove, sweeps the leaves from the front walkway, and does mechanical repairs on the truck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Each square contained layer upon layer of white cream and blintz-thin cake, the top adorned with crumbs and chopped nuts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They gave me the feeling that I still had time to chop. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was taken down and the roots chopped up, and I think everybody in town took some home to boil for sassafras tea. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Miyax dug to the frost line, then whacked at the ice until, many hours later, she had chopped three feet into it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He made the first cut and almost chopped off his finger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma chattered as she put the rice back on the stove and chopped two purple onions, her stream of sentences punctuated by her cackling laughter. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Much to my surprise, the debils did not shoot us or chop off our limbs. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a silly thing, to care about what someone thought of a bunch of roughly chopped fruit, but for some reason, he did. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And then quiet, followed by the sound of wood chopping. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She then disappeared into the cabin, and Deydey spent the day chopping wood, hauling water, hunting, and talking to Old Tallow, who had come near in grim worry. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z An animated talker, she flips her waist-length hair from her face with a toss of her head as she speaks and chops the air for emphasis with small, expressive hands. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I chopped several logs, cleaned the henhouse, and swept the front porch. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “They said the Caribs chop people up for their cook pots and eat them.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Max dropped off me as though he were a tree that had been chopped down. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z So I get to work, chopping and cutting. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z On the chopping board in front of her she’s cutting more, with a paring knife, her large hands deft, indifferent. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s probably up on some mesa right now, chopping wood,” Rocky said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Time freezes as I chop off its hand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He chopped the fish and pushed pieces at each of us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They have their hands cut off and their brothers turned into swans, their lovers chopped up and planted in basil pots. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When we came out of the movies, I started kicking and chopping and stuff, telling Charlie I wished I was Chinese so then I could know karate. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z If necklaces of pork chops were accepted, it would be a sad child who could not wear pork chops. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That is nice, Uhmma says and chops the scallions in half. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He climbed the ladder to the loft, and I followed; during the fifteen minutes he was chopping wood, we didn’t say a word either. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There he hung or hoved, his vast ironic mouth permanently drawn downward in a kind of melancholy, his lean clean-shaven chops giving him an American expression, like that of Uncle Sam. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When Jay and me were about six years old, Daddy had chopped the posts and used his big sledge to pound them into the ground nice and sturdy. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Theon watched them charge and wheel and charge again, chopping the larger force to bloody pieces every time they tried to form up between the houses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Out in the open bay, though, the chop was even heavier, heavy enough to threaten to swamp the boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were looking for a highborn girl, daughter of the King's Hand, not for a skinny boy with his hair chopped off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But the smartest thing I can do, if Mister Johnny’s got a say in this, is plant my pork chop in his hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Their necks make a small crunching sound as he chops off their heads with his little knife. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe grabbed a hoe with which to chop the obnoxious cat in two, and entered the henhouse expecting to catch the animal stalking one of his prize egglayers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the base of that, the land rose hundreds of feet in jagged steps, as if chopped with a giant hoe. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Nathan lost track of time, and before he realized it, he had chopped a large mound of firewood that needed to be stacked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She situated Princesse over to one side and made sure she chopped the tree so it would fall in the opposite direction. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She was chopping up onions for spaghetti sauce and I guess the tears made it so she didn’t feel like talking. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The pile of logs they had made was still lying there untouched, as if Count Olaf had merely made them chop logs for his own amusement, rather than for any purpose. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Cal hadn’t just won it—they’d done so in a near record time of eighteen minutes and fifty-two seconds, despite a stiff crosswind and heavy chop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Besides never leaving their things lying around, and always making their beds, they put rice on for supper and chopped vegetables. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His body had been found two days later, up in those woods, tied to a tree with the hands and feet chopped off. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z By midnight we had chopped down four lightning trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m tired of hauling water and chopping wood.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z So when I wasn’t in school, Daddy kept me busy working ’longside him chopping firewood, clearing brush, fixing things ’round the house needed fixing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She bobbed below the next chop and sprang straight up, her boot catching him in the throat. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He even painted in the mutton- chop sideburns with a grease pencil. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z She chops her arms against her thighs and takes a deep breath. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Were hands chopped off in Africa as well? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The answer comes to me as I’m chopping fruit for the orangutan. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The man’s wife chopped it up and they used the wood for their cooking fire. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The men chopped off the larger pieces of meat and laid them in the smokehouse to begin the curing process. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique watches workers pull strips of meat from a vat, put them on large chopping blocks, and cut them up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the hospital, he’d said one of the first things he was going to do when he’d rested up was to teach Dallas how to chop wood and light the lanterns. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Ghost came streaking out from the woods to meet them, licking his chops, his muzzle red from prey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At first only two came, then five, and soon I had a ring of large-eyed white-tailed deer waiting at my tree at twilight for me to come out and chop off limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “A small one because when my mom finishes with me I’ll be chopped into little pieces.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They helped Severo carry his daughter’s body into the kitchen and set it gently down on the slab of marble where Nana kneaded pastry and chopped vegetables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the beautiful black horse, chopped off at the hooves. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Behind Cole sat Garvey and Edwin, joking with each other and gripping the gunwales to brace themselves.There had been a heavy chop ever since they left Drake an hour ago. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Now the man fell to chopping; when he paused twenty tall trees were down. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been chopping sticks in preparation for lighting the kitchen fire. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z But I know for a fact that with roses, you could chop them off at the ground with an ax and next year they would probably come up all that much better for it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I forgot about the vegetables Mom left out for me to chop. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Loud, staccato beats, clattering and banging—hacking and chopping—a trampling of green stems. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Easy enough,” said the Angora, licking her chops. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z We should grab the radio and call for the plane and go home and eat a hamburger and a malt, maybe eight or ten Cokes, a steak, some roasts and pork chops.... The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I stand in front of my window and imagine myself a fearless knight, imagine myself a witch who hid her heart in her finger and then chopped her finger off. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He said that he hadn’t had enough poik chops and white women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, I’m standing in the kitchen, keeping an eye on the pork chops so they don’t burn. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He jerked the tiller free from the rudder and beat and chopped with it, holding it in both hands and driving it down again and again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Jet was cooking some flank steaks on an open-fire grill, while his dad chopped wood to keep the fire going. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Didn’t my father always say I chopped wood like a man? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mami is standing by the kitchen window, chopping lettuce and talking with her brothers on the phone. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “She’s in all this trouble and she still busts my chops about giving me a ride to and from hockey practice? She’s got nerve.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Laughing, Mr. Chris had said once, “Now, Marly—I guess you’re not going to eat any more drumsticks or any more eggs? No more pork chops?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He was on a river called the Yazoo, not far from Vicksburg, digging ditches, chopping wood, and building bridges. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a bit of chop offshore, plenty of wind, and it was difficult to navigate our way from buoy to buoy. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z We stood against the chain-link fence in front of the dead man’s neighbor’s house watching the gargantuan canine panting and licking his chops and whining inside the car. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But anyway I remember it ends up, Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your headr It was like the two halves of a countersign. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In a little while, the water was boiling, and they had chopped up the potatoes and turnips into one pot, and the chuck beef into another. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z This was on a sweltering afternoon as Nelson and I chopped firewood to carry into the kitchen house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Now as the bamboo steamer gets going, and Pattie has me chopping up green onions, the buzzer rings. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Hey, like the menu says, ‘We serve pork chops on Wednesday.’ Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And you grabbed the chopping board and you threw that and it hit my foot and broke my toes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She was a blowsy woman with dyed yellow hair, and from time to time we saw her out in the front yard, chopping wood or filling a scuttle from the coal pile. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite the late addition of chopped fresh mint to a blend of melted chocolate, egg yolk, coconut milk, rum, gin, crushed banana and icing sugar, the cocktail was not particularly refreshing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He shook his head and chopped his hand across his throat. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Tiller had an image of Dallas wildly swinging the axe, maybe chopping off his foot. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She literally chopped down a tree once while watching Princesse, who was a baby at the time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Unless you were a real expert, the only way to find out which was which was to chop one down and see for yourself. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you were to come against me like that, with all your posing, and bouncing, I should have you chopped into bits by this time.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Boys who hung about and eavesdropped on the men’s conversations would be called upon to perform certain tasks—slaughter chickens behind the cooking huts, chop firewood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I looked out over the field at the black men, the backs of their shirts stained with sweat, bent over their hoes chopping weeds among the cotton plants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of Negroes surrounding me, they were hands in the fields, who chopped the cotton, who worked the roads, who sawed the lumber to make our houses. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z As he chopped hot dogs into the spaghetti sauce, he told the group how Garvey had taught him that life was a hot dog. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Milton wasn’t the only writer in history to give Satan the rhetorical chops he deserves. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And six months after that—three years ago—when my mother had both her legs chopped off, which, I'm telling you, would've left the whole stupid cabinet empty. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Some girls are measuring turmeric and coriander; others are chopping onions and tomatoes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I go off to chop some wood, then come back and wait with John. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Papa didn't see Caleb's tears, and he sent him with an ax to begin chopping up the tree by the pond for firewood. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z He was eating a pork chop, the juice dribbling down his chin. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I dodge and turn, but he expects the blow, and I have to stumble inelegantly back, blocking yet another heavy chop of his blade. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She talks in a sparkling way, and fast, while the scissors chomp chomp, and I worry she may be chopping chopping big holes where there should not be any. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z We chopped off the blackened wood, made one bed, and started the second before he had to return to his teaching. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “You didn’t chop me another window, did you?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She would chop vegetables and I would peel potatoes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It definitely wasn't the one Jazz chops onions with, that's for sure. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z And it was all right with me because we had chopped off at least fifteen minutes of the period. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z She made a series of perfect cuts down the side of the tree, and then chopped sideways and split from the tree ten perfect wedges of the hard ironwood. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He chopped the edge of one hand against the palm of the other, answering his own question before Anya or Håkon could. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t realize I was stabbing the pork chops until Momma comes over and takes the fork from my hand. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Her hands had rolled dough and chopped potatoes and milked cows and prepared slides and made things grow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I raided the kitchen, got plenty of warm milk, made myself an omelet with chopped mango on the side, and settled in with my mom’s laptop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She kept chopping a mound of herbs the size of a basketball. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “You’ve landed with your bum in butter, and no mistake,” said the Afrikaner, wiping his vast chops with a napkin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But I don’t ask him anything, because he’s driving with that weird fake-happy look on his face, as if he’s about to chop me up into little pieces and feed me to a tiger. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I could relate to this story because having my legs in a cast feels like they’ve been chopped off. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Just alike. Both of you. Never was no difference between you. Want some oranges? It’s better for you than chop suey. Sula? I got oranges.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’m all kinds of useful. I can chop wood and carry water or messages.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I chopped onions with a stick in my teeth and didn’t even cry. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I follow Sandy back into the shack and look away when he grabs a cleaver from the kitchen and chops that fish’s head clean off. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Parts of my hair were singed off completely; the rest has been chopped off at odd lengths. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I look on at how carefully Hideo fries meat, chops vegetables, and sets rice in the steamer. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He chopped down with his hand, a furious, angry gesture . . . and screeched in pain when his arm brushed against one of the sharp metal fangs that surrounded him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Spurge looked up when he discovered that for some reason, nothing had chopped his head in half. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I thought whilst I chop and dice at the Brown Cow. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I peeled mangoes and chopped cucumbers and onions and mixed the turmeric and coriander for the curry. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside, men were standing knee-deep in snow, chopping down trees. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A small, white-haired woman in a diamond-patterned dress identical to mine stands at the worktable, chopping an onion with her back to us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We fired into the village, trying to chop down anything we could see. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z How could they be chopping through a statue with simple axes? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z This year we celebrated by eating lamb chops. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “He chopped the back of his shoes off. Like slippers.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Spectators were asked to help and many responded by chopping up fences and sidewalks, hoping to deprive the fire of fuel. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Get back over there immediately and finish chopping up those logs!” she ordered. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I chopped a large pile of wood and stacked it close to the kitchen door. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The excitement in the room is palpable as Noah and Dad continue chopping and dicing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Uhmma and Grill Woman spoke in a language of mixed and chopped Korean and Japanese, glued together with pieces of English. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Trotter moved to the kitchen table and started chopping the carrots on a tiny round board. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Hernando filled in, “He chopped a whole bunch of people up, long time ago.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Using axes, the men chopped away at the rope that tied the two canoes together. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z August 17 American Chicken Most food our cowboy brings is wrapped in plastic or pushed into cans, while chicken and beef are chopped and frozen. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The kitchen table is covered with food—my favorites, potato salad, lemon meringue pie, pork chops. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z This is why he can build things and chop things: everyone there could use an ax and a saw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Two-hundred-year-old pecan trees were commonly chopped down just to make it easier to harvest the nuts on their topmost branches. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Kazi chopped onions holding a wooden stick between his teeth so he wouldn’t cry. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Varney used his head and nose when he spoke, slashing the air with his sharp aquiline face as though it were an ax chopping at some invisible woodpile just below his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If it wasn’t for us servants, the food wouldn’t get cooked, the water wouldn’t get toted, and the wood wouldn’t get chopped for the fires. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I scooted back to my barstool as Shady came in, presenting me with a plate of cold, more than slightly burnt biscuits and half a leathery pork chop. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Still, the big chop was about number 117 on the list of life-changing things that had happened over the past couple of years. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I looked up and squinted, and saw a black shadow knifing through the dusk light, the blades chopping as it drifted closer, dropping lower and lower as it approached Fullbrook. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z With her sleeves pulled up I saw the new bands in her arms as she chopped and minced. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d chop down a tree, trim off the branches as far up as I wanted, then cut away the rest of the top. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z She finishes chopping the onions and stirs them in a frying pan with a teaspoon of lard. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bill and I talked it over and decided it was our only chance for food, so we picked a likely-looking tree and started chopping. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would you like a pork chop?” she asked. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Well, anyway, that summer morning when I was gathering material for a bed, I was singing and chopping and playing a game with a raccoon I had come to know. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your mama got plans for you, you know that? Just last week she says she wants you to come out. And now this. No, sir. Can’t have no debutante chopping cotton.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Mama, should I chop the door down and let you out?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to keep right on chopping,” I said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He frowns and turns back to the onions, and chops a little harder. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Let’s get this firewood all chopped and we’ll go to the bank.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He could chop wood and measure things with a ruler. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Swinging that chopping axe was sure hard work. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up my pencil and wrote as she paced back and forth and spoke wildly off the top of her head while her arms sliced through the air like karate chops. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He's got my invisible hands busy chopping celery and carrots while he cuts up chunks of chicken for a big pot of soup, and he's gushing about his talk with Dr. Van Dom. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They beckoned him to throw himself under their passing weight, inviting him to be chopped into pieces and left bleeding as the train roared on. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And if it did get to the base of the hill, there was no way it was going up the hill through the trees unless somebody chopped out a path for it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided not to: after a while Father would notice that there weren’t any chopping sounds and come up to see what I was doing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Die," the man grunted, chopping at him savagely. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “And then, then it’s old and gets chopped up for firewood. That’s pretty sad.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Iorek,” he called, and the bear lumbered along the bed of the stream, licking his chops, for he had just swallowed a fish. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In return for a place to sleep in the building, Joe was to chop enough kin-dling and split enough wood to keep the school’s huge stone fireplace stoked day and night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “There’s pork chops in the icebox and I’m not eating lunch today,” I say and stomp out of the room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He felt like rushing forth with the meat knife and chopping off the offending hand. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z But one day I noticed Fred was slower at chopping wood than he had been the day before, and at dinner he wouldn’t eat his bread. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But this tree in the yard—this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up its stump—this tree lived! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A cactus that’s been chopped down is all there is to see. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It made me go all jumbly in the belly to chop off heads. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Already, she has smelled like wet dog and dripped on the floor, and changed out of disgusting clothes, and is wearing no makeup and has chopped hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He started chopping again, cutting the aluminum away in small triangles, putting each one on the raft as he chopped—he could never throw anything away again, he thought—because they might be useful later. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Pop slams each card like he’s trying to karate chop a board in half, while Erin places hers lightly on the table. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "I would have sworn you were a pork chop man. Is that juice large or small?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry began to chop wood over on his side of the fence and she hollered to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The minute after that she’d be telling me about some European king who chopped off people’s heads and stuff. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In the chickenyard she caught a little pullet, took it to the block and chopped its head off, and held the writhing neck over the jelly jar until it was half full of blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Harris went to hit Petra with the gun, and she karate- chopped his arm. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z That afternoon the sound of chopping wood rings out over the rumbling of the waves. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Taft and Will grab pork chops off the platter and eat them with their hands. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Clydas was with him, carrying a bucket of chopped meat as they shuffled from cage to cage. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He could not bear the thought, and Rab had promised him that in twenty days he might learn to chop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Really? What did they do with it? Did she go to the doctor and get it chopped off?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I walked a broad circle around Mami, who looked up from her vegetable chopping whenever I went by. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Dad dumped the chopped veggies from the cutting board into a big baggie. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The head wind was strong, and the engine groaned as the boat struggled to chop through the waves. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped chopping and lifted a hand to wave. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Those chops haven’t done you wrong. Why don’t you let them be?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z It was the same as always—chopping wood, breaking rocks, building new camp buildings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She felt like ordering them to go chop wood or mulch the trees. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen is an immense fireplace with two ranges, pots, pans, and kettles—everything, even to a stack of small chopped wood in an outhouse—a regular cook’s paradise. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And by that he meant so ugly that if I wanted a dog to play with me, I’d have to tie a pork chop around my neck. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z All we need to do is sauté olives, capers, anchovies, garlic, chopped parsley, and tomatoes together in a pot, and prepare spaghetti to go with it.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The cranky Minute Man threw a handful of chopped walnuts at him. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z By the time a suitable chopping block was found, Lord Janos had retreated into the winch cage, but Iron Emmett went in after him and dragged him out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Too many times he had seen the destructive machine that chopped down anything standing in its way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I learned how to chop fish, meat, and vegetables on a butcher-block cutting board from her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I swung my chopping axe high and wheeled, aiming to cave in the she bear’s head with the first lick. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay,” Bunny said, but he reached over and stole another chop when Charles’s back was turned. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He finishes plucking the last of the parsley leaves, watches as Donald grabs a knife and chops them, expertly and swiftly, a hand held flat over the top of the blade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I kind of liked the turtles; I didn’t really want to see one chopped up. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “First I use this scissor tool right here to chop up the sample like this,” he says. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z They chopped it up with an axe, dropped the pieces into a pot with snow, and set the pot over a fire. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No one else cared to go out on the river, where hippos could chop your boat in half or crocodiles could pull you overboard. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She placed it on the dusty chopping board and took a sharp knife. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z For a second, the only sounds in the room were the muted shouting coming from the rescue workers outside, the chopping sound of a helicopter, and the siding-company commercial playing on the radio station. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Well, not to bust your chops, Mr. Keeley,” said Clarence, “but I think you’re looking in the wrong place. The books aren’t here in the library. If they were, they wouldn’t be missing.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I was now in the hard good wood, and chopping it out was work. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As he chopped, the branches of the tree shook; leaves, blossoms, and seeds flew through the air and dropped into the water like raindrops. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z At 3:00 p.m., in a light chop, the freshmen maneuvered their shell parallel to California’s, did their best to settle their minds into the boat, and waited for the start signal. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The pork chops hissed and swished in the pan. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But he still took great pleasure in food, and he now prepared the pork chops slowly, enjoying himself as he worked. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Momma puts the chops on the cutting board so they can rest, and checks the rice. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The window was the same, open only a crack, and the wan sunlight lit up the blade of a chopping knife on the table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I chopped it up into pieces with the hatchet and put it in the bucket. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The little pieces of meat, lean and fat, that had been cut off the large pieces, Ma chopped and chopped until it was all chopped fine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His left arm shot out, sort of like a toy with a spring-loaded karate chop. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She took pictures of the jungle gym at the local park, of streetlights at night, of city workers chopping down an oak that had been struck by lightning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And then there were two chickens that no longer gurgled after their heads were chopped off. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He mowed lawns or chopped wood or cut hillside weeds with a scythe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She could hardly remember the countless ideas that used to spin in her mind as she washed clothes or chopped vegetables. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He sailed a rough chopping sea above which clouds drooped and drifted in vast mournful veils. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They chopped the edges of the ditches and dug mud out of the bottom to build up the sides. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, with all his might, he chopped at the branch with his knife. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Hugo had also gotten one of the biggest chops in the history of the family, but that was another story. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z She built up the fire, high, to a greater heat than Nokomis had dared, for she knew she could chop more wood as needed. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Finally, in exasperation, I went to the kitchen, grabbed a heavy wood axe and went back to the bedroom, determined to chop the wardrobe down and get my mother out. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Wondering why I now have to watch the mind movie in my head of a furry, meowing pork chop with a tail. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Billy stopped chopping and waited for Sister Redempta to open her eyes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was an awful tangled mess, but after chopping some braces away there was room for him to wiggle through and get inside. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept on chopping ice off the back window and ignored By’s mumbling voice. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She put me in charge of chopping off their heads, but 1 didn’t like chopping off the head of anything looking back at me. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When he texted his friends and his mom back, he felt a little proud to tell them he was able to chop wood and haul water—things they couldn’t do. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z This is the one who tried to chop me down. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I turned to Wynn, who was already in the kitchen setting up to fry pork chops. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Andrea grabbed the ax and soon got into a rhythm of chopping, stumping, and tossing firewood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Your bus leaves at six a.m. tomorrow. You don’t want to be late. Come on. Chop chop. Your teeth are brushed?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I gritted my teeth as the daily value of pork chops was tabulated, longing to be at home with my writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Aymo had a basin of spaghetti with onions and tinned meat chopped up in it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, there was already a decent amount of wood chopped and stacked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It didn’t occur to her that she was teaching herself as she laboriously chopped apart the words that had rolled like rainwater off Betsy’s tongue. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Her blond hair was chopped short, much like his own, to keep it from catching in the thousands of crevices and whirling bits of machinery that studded their work place. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Three days later, with an anguished groan, Herbie chopped his first snake in two: it had been curled up on his sleeping bag, happily snoozing in the glow of his bodily warmth, when he awoke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings he trudged back up the mountain to the schoolhouse to chop more wood, do his schoolwork, and sleep as best he could. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They taught metrics and agriculture: how to count potatoes, how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Miss Love chopped up two big carrots and put them in her apron pocket, along with some shriveled little yellow apples out of Granny’s bowl on the work table. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You driving me crazy hanging around this house twenty-five hours a day. Get. Go chop down that poor mimosa tree you hate so much,” I say, because Mister Johnny never did chop that thing down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We all looked at our cold mashed potatoes and cold pork chops. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He yelled out “Ow!” and instead of catching Dimple, used his arms to fend her off with a deftly executed karate chop. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "You've heard it? Now, there's more to chopping someone's head off than giving them a healthy whack. A real master aims for the gap between the second and third cervical vertebrae. That's the sweet spot." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Hey. I have one whisker. Right here under my chin. Just one. I’m thinking of giving it a name, but I don’t know if I should let it grow out or chop its head off.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He jerked his hands from the strings of the mandolin so that a phrase of music was chopped off. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It seemed almost physical now, as if it were speaking from a real body instead of ... whatever he’d been in his chopped- up condition. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I think I understand,” Milo said, still full of questions and thoughts; “but which is the most important——” At that moment the conversation was interrupted by a far-off chopping noise. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He could often be found baling hay and chopping wood at his country home on Long Island, refusing to let any physical limitations get in his way. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Working in the brush factory also meant I could be inside, where it was warmer, instead of outside chopping ice or shoveling snow. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We mixed and chopped while Audrey told us all about the Fall Ball committee. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Bruno Jenkins may have been a bit of a stinker but I'm dashed if I want to watch him having his head chopped off! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know any better than to let my grandchild play with that tool? I ain’t paying you to be a slacker, so you got no reason to be resting when you should be chopping.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Along the straight area of beach on the southeastern shore of the island was where our Marines would take their first bite of the meat of that “lamb chop.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The women in our culture are known for working incredibly hard, juggling so many things—raising the children, working on the farm, harvesting, fetching and chopping firewood, and then cooking dinner for the men. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After school, I’d go out to the woodpile next to the basement and practice karate chops and droplocks on the kindling while laying down some pretty wicked curse words. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Actually, I could kinda relate to the men chopping the heads off the fish, too. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It looked like an ax chop, except that the edges weren’t sharp, but smooth, as though they had been melted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I felt that pork chops were a fundamental item in life, but I preferred that someone else chart their rise and fall in price. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She noticed that the baboon’s tail ended in a lumpy scab: Something had recently chopped it in two. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After Mama saw that there were no broken bones, or legs chopped off, she smiled and said, “I never know any more. I guess I’ll just have to get used to it.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even though it is halfway down, you must remember you’ve been cutting on it half of one night and one day. You might make it, but it’s going to take a lot of chopping.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Piper chopped through the last empousa, who vaporized with an anguished wail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One evening there were so many deer that I decided to chop limbs on the other side of the meadow. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally we rowed past the breakwater and into the great blank open, and the glassy surface of the harbor gave way to little waves that chopped at the sides of our boats. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, when it’s wet,” I say, and wonder what it would feel like to chop off all of my hair. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She set up a chopping block across the armrests of her wheelchair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We have less than six hours left, and if he goes first, I’ll be a zombie who’s well aware his head is on the chopping block. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You want these onions chop, dice, or mince?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Ever eat a pork chop? A roast beef? A liver?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do the Carib Indians chop people up for their cook pots and eat them?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “First you chopped a handhold, then a kneehold, and then chopped off ice hastily but carefully, with an occasional sea washing over you,” Worsley explained. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z So instead of chopping the tree down he went to see a certain woman who was well known in that part for using charms to solve difficult problems. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I noticed that they weren’t the big, even, solid chips like my father made when he was chopping. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "If this tree is growing out of your head,” she said, "then you might bleed to death if I chop it down.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z There was blood on the chopping board, the room smelled of raw meat, the steak was still sitting out on the countertop, turning grey. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept myself to myself most of yesterday and Jen and Ellen purty much give up trying to get me to be friendly, so I fret and chop and clean without no one bothering me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But there’s a reason trees are chopped into firewood. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The Serjeant thought himself clever, and smiled an awful smile in his spotted chops. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The leader makes a sawing motion to cut down this fist tower, “chopping” off a hand or two from the top when they say “hit it, chop it!” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He had never had anything Chinese except chop suey, but he was awfully fond of that. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z By late morning, I’m just another menagerie man: cleaning dens, chopping food, and hauling manure with the rest of them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She swipes August’s bread, slaps it on the other side of the pork chop, and storms off. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But Trouble had done a Sound Recognition in-service for his captain’s exam, and he was pretty sure the “Arrkk” had been caused by someone getting a chop across the windpipe. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A guard tower rose from the fence line about a quarter mile to the north of where the prisoners chopped wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Throw another chop on her plate, daughter,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He thinks it’s funny he’s about to chop me up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z One day the bucks cleared the trees and at night when they returned from the fields they got in chopping logs for the new row of cabins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I’m at peace here in this kitchen—seasoning, chopping, and stirring pots. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Any diehards staying home should have an axe, in case they needed to chop through their attic to reach the roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The waves chopped briskly as they rushed out to the bay and to the sea beyond, and Turner gave up any notion of trying to make it back to the island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “I’d like to try some of this here chop suey I heard about.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I chopped away until I found a cold white grub. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The big summer kitchen is out behind the left wing of the house, and I can already imagine the crisp fried deliciousness of Cook’s pork chops, my stomach giving its own noisy approval. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There were always subtle differences, but for the most part, a lamb chop tended to maintain its basic shape. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He commanded the serving men to bring them mutton chops and a slice off the aurochs and fill their trenchers with beef-and-barley stew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Shah-jan, don't run," my mom calls out, though she's practically hopping to put away the chopping board and the strainer, that metal sky full of stars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And, everywhere he looked, Milo saw little men no bigger than himself busy digging and chopping, shoveling and scraping, pulling and tugging carts full of stone from one place to another. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Violet roasted the garlic and washed and chopped the anchovies. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Now the hair was gray at the roots and chopped into a bob. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Mark gripped the handle of the axe tightly and leaned in, taking little chops instead of full swings at the small but stubborn brackets. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We remained like this for a long while, and by the time he had to go to the loft to chop wood, I knew he was a good, decent boy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That was the ice she had to help Nokomis chop every day from the deep hole they fished through. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He showed them how to chop carrots and blanch greens, shifting our family away from the fluorescent sameness of the grocery store and toward the rhythm of the seasons. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The woman’s voice goes from compassionate to alarmed as she takes in the fallen girl with the chopped hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The aroma from Mom’s chopped herbs and sprinkled spices swims through the house. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They sit around the grill in a half-circle while the chef chops madly and simmers the beef and vegetables on the grill and makes the jokes he’s likely made a hundred times. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I was hungry and her lamb chops looked pretty good. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She had just set some knives to work, chopping up steaks for Griphook and Bill, who had preferred his meat bloody ever since he had been attacked by Greyback. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I chop and mix and did my job without talking for the rest of my shift. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This time he was chopping wood for the kitchen stove. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z She’d go out scrubbing floors like Mama or graft chop suey off of her men friends like Floss Gaddis did. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This familiar gesture of human friendship that I have become so unused to is made all the more unfamiliar as he chops the air with the knife. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was positive Calypso would strangle him on the spot, or order her invisible wind servants to chop him into a Leo purée. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Dr. Gazzaley listened quietly as he dug into a chopped salad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Hiring himself out to neighbors and relatives, he chopped wood, plowed fields, brought in hay, and built barns and cabins. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Marigold often wondered if it would be possible to smooth out her brother’s prickly personality just by chopping off that hair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z "On the day we docked, Gopal said that I had chops." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I needed another excuse; and as I chopped I tried to think of one. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The salt air felt good on our faces as we ran against a light chop. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I don’t like that they put chopped onions on their burgers, but I like the Happy Meals ’cause they come with toys. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It had been chopped to pieces, but some of the branches still had golden birds in them, and they whirred around when Grover picked them up, trying to flap their wings. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I sat on a stool and watched Kazi chop vegetables and grind spices. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Signalmen had been chopping off fingers doing KP duty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were several girls of sixteen, voluptuous, happy creatures who thought school something of a holiday from chopping cotton and feeding livestock. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My mother has been silent for most of this conversation, trying to shrink behind the pork chop on her plate. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Seems pretty ethical to get your secret out in the open, miss. To stop innocent schoolkids being chopped up.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When she came to the nearest dummy, she attacked viciously, chopping its head off with a single blow and driving her sword through its guts. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A loaf of stale bread was made into pulp with hot water and mixed with a dime’s worth of chopped meat into which an onion had been cleavered. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked as though he wouldn’t mind chopping her boat in two! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Has he had an appointment with the chopping block? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z January 5 Night Mother runs in after work, hands clenched into white balls, words chopped into grunts, face of ash. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The door squeaks and I twist at the waist to see who’s come in, then twist back to chop an onion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By then Eliot understood that when Mrs. Sen said home, she meant India, not the apartment where she sat chopping vegetables. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Then he found the cookbook and flipped to the page for breaded pork chops. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z She grew up on her mother’s fried pork chops, spare ribs, and meatballs—all cooked with lard—and had become a pizza, hamburger, and french fry enthusiast in the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Charles had the oven open and was poking at some lamb chops with a fork. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I imagined him in his crate, crying against the bars, someone lifting him out only to chop off a finger. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Death hacked at me with its sickle, tearing, chopping, unbearable. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He has black, curly hair that hangs in pieces around his forehead, looking like he’d chopped it off with a knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she leaves, the waitress also puts down a plate filled with fresh bean sprouts, lime slices, chopped scallions, whole red chili peppers, and mint leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She quickly occupied herself with tossing the chopped cucumber into the pitcher of salted, watered- down yogurt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She ran into the bathroom and rummaged through the medicine chest until she found a pair of nail scissors with which to chop out the offending hair. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “Reach it again, and I chop it right off with this here butcher knife.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A girl who couldn’t have been more than nine years old chopped onions but paused to smile at me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The children of these families wouldn’t look at us, and they jumped at the sound of chopping wood or as stones landed on the tin roofs flung by children hunting birds with slingshots. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Going to do? Do you have any other stupid questions? You can’t imagine I’d let it sit there, can you? I’m going to chop off its head, to begin with.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z And of course whatever had chopped off half of Rumpy’s tail. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She served him a plateful of rice and beans and fried up a pork chop or two. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Another loggerhead turtle surfaced in the chop off the beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z We had to chop it into small pieces, too, because neither of us was strong enough to carry off a whole side of beef by ourselves. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good lamb chops ?” “The best,” said Milo, “that the black market has to offer.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He took two pork chops out of the freezer and thawed them in the microwave. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Walt Disney bought 160 acres of orange groves just a few miles from Carl’s Drive-In Barbeque, chopped down the trees, and started to build Disneyland. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z My mother left me at the lobster tank in the middle of the main aisle while she went to get Dad’s pork chops from the deli counter. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He felt his chest chopped down and split apart. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z She sets her plate down, stabs a pork chop with her fork, and slaps it on a piece of bread. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I fervently hoped Becky would chop off their heads and strip off their skins. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Each day, Min sent him up the mountain with the cart to chop more wood. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Then the film cameras chopped short and the theaters turned dark, and the print presses trickled down from a great Niagara of reading matter to a mere innocuous dripping of ‘pure’ material. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t believe that Mom called Mrs. Cadaver. Mrs. Cadaver is making it up. Mrs. Cadaver proba-bly killed her and chopped her up. I’m calling the police.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Every extra bite of pork chop or boiled potato or spoonful of peas gets made into soup. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, Deydey worked continually, emptying pots from inside and chopping holes in ice, fishing to keep them strong, making sure the water in their kettle was always fresh and clear, their wood piled high. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I left the horses back in the woods, where they wouldn’t get stung, and then I chopped the tree down and split it open.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A little kid asks my father why that man is chopping down the tree. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z His cheeks were high and flat, and cut to his jaw with the abruptness of an ax chop. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Each day, when chopping and delivering wood, we dumped extra behind the pile. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z First I cut off his leg with one sword swipe, as Chen Luan-feng had chopped the leg off the thunder god. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He went back to the hole in the fuselage and began to chop and cut again, peeling the aluminum skin off in pieces. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The work was backbreaking: digging out boulders, chopping down trees, dynamiting tunnels, and hammering in railroad ties. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Fatima swept up crumbs from the floor while her father stored chopped vegetables in the refrigerator. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z So Laura ran to the block where Pa chopped wood, and filled her apron with the fresh, sweet-smelling chips. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The Red Queen is bossy, impatient, and orders people’s heads chopped off unless they do what she wants. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z And even if I could, how could I kill something that had already been destroyed—chopped to pieces and cast into eternal darkness? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Sarah was there chopping meat with that frightening speed and coordination of hers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She muttered and prodded me all the way back to the house, “Little girl chopping cotton. White girl chopping cotton. Tate girl chopping cotton. Lord help me.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She despised the endless chopping of kindling to feed the woodstove, the early mornings and the late nights. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For three days straight, every time I or another boy misbehaved, we had to go over there and chop wood. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The potbellied stove was already stoked with logs the older students chopped each afternoon. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But I wasn’t interested in any beautiful tree- chopping. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to embarrass himself with his imperfect chopping technique. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She was leaving him to fend for himself, leaving him to chop holes in the attic with an axe? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Even the golden stack of pork chops on my plate can’t erase the sick feeling in my middle. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z High dune grass hid the paths up to the houses—in fact, almost hid the chopping block one man was using to split his cordwood. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” I said, “but I didn’t chop the big tree down. The wind blew it over.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Chester was very curious to see what it tasted like, since he had never even had chop suey. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair’s been chopped short, in a sharp angled bob. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z On the way back, she wondered why none of the captives had their hands or feet chopped off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They sat in the kitchen and rolled dough, chopped green onions, minced garlic, offered bits of cucumber to Aziza, who banged spoons nearby and played with carrots. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She and Henry were eating their dinner, from room service—lamb chops, bottle of burgundy, yellow rose in a bud vase. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “He means to chop our legs from beneath us....But if he has truly awakened, then why are the agents of the heavens...them?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z By the time Eliot’s mother arrived at twenty past six, Mrs. Sen always made sure all evidence of her chopping was disposed of. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A diet of pork chops, pie a la mode, and chocolate was obviously better for your skin than healthy, nutritious plankton. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got back from the trailer park, my mother was in the kitchen chopping up onions. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Then they chopped off their hands, their feet, their heads. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z When she was not hunting, or carving, she danced, sewed, chopped wood or made candles. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Old Nan told me about him. He had a long staff with blades at both ends and he could spin it in his hands and chop two men at once." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The field, overgrown with wildflowers and the occasional tree sapling, was nonetheless fenced in by an interweaving series of chopped logs. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He thought of watching a family dog, Nina, “licking her chops.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She scraped the chopped onion bits into a bowl, which she covered with plastic wrap and placed in the refrigerator. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A ragged line of chopped nettles on the grass marked her progress, as did the stinging white bumps on her feet and ankles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The Greek, big apron, sleeves rolled up, was frying pork chops in two big skillets, turning them over with an ice pick. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys told Dallas and Florida that if they tattled, their tongues would be chopped up into tiny bits. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Dad lays the turkey on the chopping block and picks up his hatchet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Pork chops smothered in gravy, green beans floating in butter, cornbread hot and fluffy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Without it, he is lost: he used it for sitting, chopping food, washing his feet, and earning a living. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Lydia extended her hand to him again—more forcefully, as though karate chopping a board. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Even though we hadn’t started lunch yet, she had bitten into a piece of pork chop and was chewing and talking with her mouth open. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw him. He’d better watch out. What would you do if Mrs. Cadaver chopped up your father? Would you go live with your mother?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I saw this vastness in the students chopping it up in front of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, where Muhammad Ali had addressed their fathers and mothers in defiance of the Vietnam War. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z With no spare oars, they were forced to stop, chop down a tree, and make new ones. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z One day, while I walked to chop wood, trucks arrived with officers. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Our people had lived off the land and counted on cotton-picking and hoeing and chopping seasons to bring in the cash needed to buy shoes, clothes, books and light farm equipment. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The bucket crashes to the floor, splattering chopped entrails everywhere. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He chopped the air with his arm, directing us to scatter left into the trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was pretty boring hanging around the tavern day after day, making fires and chopping wood and cleaning up and looking after the chickens and Old Pru and the pigs. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is chopping down—with machetes—a tree of huge tallness. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z And my mother and father and all of us filled our plates with mashed potatoes and green beans and a pork chop each, and Lucas and Christopher and me, we started to eat. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If I ever stepped on one in my bare feet I was sure it would chop my toes off with those big pincers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next few days, instead of calling the fish market, Mrs. Sen thawed chicken legs in the kitchen sink and chopped them with her blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z |
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