The clock said eight, just fourteen hours since he’d left Naomi on the porch the afternoon before. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Martin Luther King, Jr., was referring to this reality when, asked what motivated Rosa Parks that afternoon in Montgomery, he replied, “She had been tracked down by the Zeitgeist.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon as soon as she finished playing on the piano in the gym she walked down the main street past the store where he worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But most of the time we had no money, so we spent our afternoons in hunger and dreams. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, I wrote another blog post. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I decided to ask him my last big question, the one that had been bothering me all afternoon. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, we walk a fair way and end up at Marv’s place, where a lot of guys are hanging around out back. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was glad she’d made plans to go book scavenging with James that afternoon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday afternoon and they sat on her front porch. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

By Tuesday afternoon, the first loads of lumber were being delivered to the relief society. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Early that afternoon, Roza tells me a rumor about a faint ship on the horizon behind us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But so breathtaking were the streets that late afternoon, with their sentinel trees and tender gardens, that the sun itself seemed to waver, unsetting, reluctant to leave; it was the onlooker whose presence weighted everything. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would pick up the “shooting irons” Mary Surratt had ordered Mr. Lloyd to get ready that afternoon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought and thought all afternoon, and I could see that Chester had done a good job of isolating Bunnicula from his food. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I peered over the side of the skiff and squinted against the afternoon glare. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

At their Test the next afternoon, Celaena stood in the training hall with her arms crossed, watching Cain spar with Grave. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"I’ll probably be in the library tomorrow afternoon, doing some reading in psychology. Why don’t you come over there?" The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But they had hardly crossed the lawn when Lustig stopped and looked off across the town, down the quiet, dreaming afternoon street. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think they ran the incinerator this afternoon.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It took place on what began as a mundane afternoon in her home in Tehran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Therefore, late on a hot Sunday afternoon, I presented myself at his door. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“All right, guys, thanks for watching! Gotta double-check my afternoon and evening meds now. You know how anal I am. I hope everyone has a great week. Bye!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It is a Sunday afternoon in winter, so clear it appears hard glazed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You in Hob now,” Moses told Cora one afternoon when she came in from helping with the baling. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon she harvested wild cotton plants to use in her pads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towards the end of the afternoon, when all the heat had gone out of the sun, the woman stacked up the grass she had cut and loaded it onto her back. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on a Saturday afternoon, we just set the whole pack of kids loose in somebody’s playroom and cracked open a bottle of wine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was about noon, and the next flight to Syracuse wasn’t until four in the afternoon. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Sam that he had only dozed for a few minutes when he awoke to find that it was late afternoon and Faramir had come back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

That same afternoon, the Liars get the kayaks out. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was little to do in the late afternoon. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had never been planned and it was never discussed, but every afternoon, if Trip didn’t have practice and Lexie didn’t have a meeting, they gathered in the family room and turned to Channel 3. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fadi retreated to the bathroom and locked himself in a stall for the rest of the afternoon. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And projected on the whiteboard behind me is an image of the packed bleachers of Dodger Stadium on a sunny afternoon. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A few nights later, after a riveting afternoon answering Miss Myrna letters, Stuart and I sit in the relaxing room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My Little League field was right outside the fence, so if I had a game in the afternoon, I brought my uniform and changed into it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dell comes in this afternoon from his exercise regime and he's red-faced and sweaty. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

David must have mentioned the hairy-eyeball treatment to his lawyer that afternoon because the next day there is a videocamera set up in the back of class. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We checked our gear and watched television in the afternoon. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course. If you want to look up some more things in Chambers, help yourself any time. But”—he smiled—“after the chandlery closes, eh? Not in the middle of the afternoon.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” Father went on, “we obviously had to make the decision. Even 1 voted for Gabriel’s release when we had the meeting this afternoon:” Jonas put down his fork and stared at his father. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally got together that afternoon, Maya was cranky from homework and Claire was exhausted from watching her little brother. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon,” I said, knowing it was too late and Mrs. Baylor probably wanted it to be too late. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was late, noon, afternoon maybe; I reached for my watch on the night table and started again, more violently this time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The giddy fury of this afternoon will fade, and I will regret what I’ve done. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Detention that afternoon was with Mr. Ferris, because the eighth-grade teachers took turns monitoring After School Detention—which probably put them in really good moods. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His appointment that afternoon seemed a long time away. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But better late than never. We can move the money to a Flyers Account this afternoon.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the afternoon of the following day. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I coaxed Mrs. Diamant down from her chair and into the exercises I’d seen the students doing outside the gymnasium. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“How could all our work just fizzle out in one afternoon?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Around one in the afternoon, Piper finally put her charmspeak to work. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She flipped it open to the drawing she spent all afternoon working on. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She clung to Mother through the long afternoon, becoming hysterical if the woman had to leave for a few minutes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning has rolled into afternoon, afternoon into evening, evening into night, and I still haven’t heard anything from her, the threat she gave yesterday buried under what has come to pass. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Iii went out the door he was busy looking at his fingernails They straggled along the corridor in the dull, silent afternoon light. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I tell myself that every Tuesday afternoon, after class is over, I get to stop there and have some ice cream.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting at the bottom of our porch steps one afternoon, eating orange Popsicles after riding our bikes around the neighborhood. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

By the time I smell lunch cooking on the gas burners in the kitchens, I’m hungry and fed up and already dreading the long afternoon ahead. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

That same afternoon, I went back to the A classes, and by the end of the day I realized that they weren’t for me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It felt like afternoon, about the same time of day we’d gone into the casino, but something was wrong. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes—no. I’ve got a meeting on. How about Monday? Hank, do we have anything on for Monday afternoon?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It had turned out to be an all-right Wednesday afternoon after all. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Turn that down,” my mother yelled one afternoon. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He liked it so much that for the rest of that afternoon he did the same with all the official documents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon Mrs. Sen lifted the blade and locked it into place, so that it met the base at an angle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I was telling you about that afternoon Jane and I came close to necking. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dusk fell early in the afternoon, and it was night by half past four. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Still pale, still dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

That afternoon the train station is crowded with crying mothers and sweethearts, stoic fathers, and children, waving red, white, and black flags. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, Mom calls to say she needs me to come home tomorrow. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Early the next afternoon, Charles dropped by for a visit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to get my stitches out this afternoon.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sleeping pill was an extraneous gesture; I didn’t need it, but the mere possibility of restlessness, of an afternoon full of bad dreams and distant plumbing noises, was too unpleasant to even contemplate. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We walked all afternoon by the goatherd’s side. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The garbage can was smack in the middle of the lawn, ten feet from any shade, and the afternoon sun was strong. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I went to see Esther, and she could tell that something was bothering me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was that that saved me this afternoon. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons she met the bus on time, some afternoons she was late. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

When I call him at the hospital late Saturday afternoon, I'm all set for a big yelling match. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was how it would be; he figured it out the first afternoon he was home. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the progress of the southern black civil rights movement, which was gaining prominent notice in Sacramento’s afternoon newspaper. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All those afternoons at my place. I didn’t ask for anything. You came there because you wanted to.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

People were going home from work now in the late afternoon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the afternoon goes by like a warm summer breeze. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon the friends would meet again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When varsity turnout commenced on the afternoon of October 21, four boatloads of boys showed up, all veteran oarsmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That afternoon they finally saw it—the place they had dreamed of for so long. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate that there’s never anything good on TV on Saturday afternoons. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the late afternoon, the sun shone directly on the jar and lit it up so that it looked like a lamp. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was going to give her an excuse, an apology I worked on all afternoon at the machines, but I tell her the truth instead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Okay, this had never been spelt out exactly, but it was definitely, as I say, an understanding, and until the afternoon of the Daniel Deronda business, neither of us had come anywhere near breaching it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the peculiar status of the Fox Brothers baggage stock—whose numbers have been depleting all afternoon—I’ve seen for myself that they were fed and watered. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I ate some lunch and in the afternoon Miss Van Campen, the superintendent, came up to see me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He didn't want to talk on the phone, so I drove down to meet with him one afternoon. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As for why the three Keeley brothers were running around their neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon like crazed lunatics, grabbing all sorts of wacky stuff, well, it was their mother’s fault. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In long afternoons aboard the pony’s back, Johnny discovered a gift for riding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, he would prepare the goods, keeping careful tally of what we had found and who had retrieved what. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon I set off with Papi for my first piano lesson. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He spent the soggy afternoons working on homework projects and reading a cowboy novel. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old courthouse stood white in the afternoon glare. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock that afternoon, Ben Bradlee got a call from Assistant Attorney General William Rehnquist. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It might be the best afternoon of my life. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A wind hit the forest in strong gusts in the afternoon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She could fold towels, Brave Orchid decided, and handkerchiefs, but there would be no clean dry clothes until afternoon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not have a wristwatch and I often thought it was the middle of the night when it was only late afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in business clothes, a suit and tie, like he was maybe just getting off work, even though it was too early in the afternoon for that. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon I sat with Pops a while and we had a light rap. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the movies could compare with the glamour of that afternoon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon there was talk of tonics and purgatives and cod-liver oil, but at that point I managed to rally and take some plain boiled chicken, averting such drastic management. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At four in the afternoon, I jam the manuscript in a cardboard letter box. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I got my chance in the afternoon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At four-thirty in the afternoon, when Officer David Delinko normally got off work, his desk was still piled high with paperwork. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I stare out the window, watching the afternoon winter sun slowly near the horizon as the steady vibrating of my AffloVest thrums away at my chest. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The echo of our lunchtime laughter sits in my belly for the whole afternoon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s the iron gray of the afternoon sky overhead, casting gloom as it always does this time of year, but today the two of them look especially worn down and tired. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She has the afternoon shift at the library, sometimes even the evening one. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They remained to trouble me after I’d leave the library each afternoon and feel myself shy—unsteady, speaking simple sentences at the grocer’s or the butcher’s on my way back to my bed-sitter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Abby filled me in after Mr. Griggs called this afternoon and told me what you kids were planning, and I think it’s brilliant. I’d like to help. I’m the mayor, after all.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

As midday turned to late afternoon, she remembered why she was there. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a month before school started she was mean all morning as usual and in the afternoon, instead of settling down to knit, she kept getting meaner and meaner. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She returned in the late afternoon but brought no food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Miss Celia and I make a list of what to cook that week, and the next morning I do the grocery shopping. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All Friday afternoon, Nan and I sewed, rolled up rugs, and packed as much pink as we could into the old shed in the backyard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And third: the moment my butt hits the bench in the dugout this afternoon—you know, for this practice I’m sitting out of—Britt-Marie appears in front of me. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

"Good afternoon, young ladies! It's a beautiful day in a beautiful city!" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a flash she understood the color of Blanca’s aura, the bags under her eyes, her listlessness, her silence, her morning sleepiness, and her afternoon watercolors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun shone through the steel-mesh side of the freight car, casting a shadow across Thalia’s face. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He repeated it so many times and with such conviction that one afternoon when he was putting together a little gold fish in the workshop, he had the certainty that she had answered his call. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we were sitting on the beach eating our stew when Lieutenant Terblanche, who was then head of prison, made a surprise visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting together in the clubhouse that afternoon, husband and wife felt a pull of intuition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon Smith went into the track secretary’s office to see the weight postings for the Santa Anita Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man Baba and I spoke with on the first evening was right: afternoons are the busiest. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he dawdled as the clouds turned their mackerel undersides to him and the cool of the late afternoon started to settle in over the town. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when Andrew was hanging out at Sasha’s house, the two of them began looking at unisex names on Wikipedia. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All afternoon at her desk, Liyana felt lifted up by the glint of her secret. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was afternoon by the time Dany found the stream she had glimpsed atop the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had breathed it before, touched it surely, that very afternoon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon before the debate, the city announced that that location was “unavailable.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad because we’d probably be spending most of the morning and afternoon outside. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

That afternoon also found three men who stood around an open grave. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I saw Annie that afternoon, we went over to the old backboard and I rapped it to her. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She left the tobacco fields of her youth and the hundred-year-old oak tree that shaded her from the sun on so many hot afternoons. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, Ben made one more trip. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon it began to snow, in huge, slow flakes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Tryouts for the possible revival of the Under Fifteens were set for Monday afternoon on the sandy field behind Indian Creek Elementary. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Double Divination this afternoon,” Harry groaned, looking down. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The sun reached its apogee and started down the blue sky of early afternoon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got back home later in the afternoon, the house was empty except for Erma, who never set foot outside. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon, Mack and George add my new pictures to the billboard. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And in the afternoon Mother took me to Hampstead Heath in a taxi and we sat on the top of a hill and looked at the planes coming into Heathrow Airport in the distance. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought the bank closed on Saturday afternoons,” Ms. McMillan said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Arobin,” she complained, “I’m greatly upset by the excitement of the afternoon; I’m not myself. My manner must have misled you in some way. I wish you to go, please.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was quiet except for the sound of the waves against the hull The fog had burned away to a blue sky, as if the island of the Sirens had never existed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were extra rations of fresh meat, and during the hot part of the afternoon he and the others were served chilled fruit juice or chilled chocolate milk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On chilly afternoons, the park is mostly quiet, except for a few bicyclists and people walking their dogs. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Toward late afternoon, when one side of the shed was already deep in shadows, she heard footsteps, the bolt drew back, and the constable’s face peered through the door. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If I had Sunday afternoons free, I’d figure a way to earn my pennies. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I leave of an afternoon for Judd’s, Shiloh goes with me just so far, then he gets to whining and turns back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers swayed in the cool afternoon breeze as I strolled through the garden toward the bushes bordering the main verandah. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart goes out to all of us who in those afternoons at Small’s enacted our scene with Fewclothes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her chain mail glittered in the afternoon sun. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He sentenced us to kitchen patrol—scrubbing pots and platters all afternoon in the underground kitchen with the cleaning harpies. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

This woman, with whom she sometimes spent an hour or so in the afternoons, and her landlady, were the only people she saw. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sounds and smells of the tantalizing May afternoon drifted in through the window. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lay down for a nap this afternoon.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Its old bricks glowed garnet in the late afternoon sun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dad would come home one afternoon after a really long, long haul gig, and he’d wonder what all the hubbub was about. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when her mom was working from home, Grace leaned her head into the office. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo had slept at home because the rain had caught him there and at three in the afternoon he was still waiting for it to clear. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is afternoon, and the guys are in the backyard just as...Nipper swoops in to land on the porch roof. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Until they gave me my own cross that afternoon. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They steamed and dried in the afternoon sun. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon after Lawrence delivered his budget, Sproul had called him in for another meeting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Once in the afternoon the line started to rise again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have asked Sister Agatha to beg the Superior to let our wedding be this afternoon, and am waiting her reply.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You guys will have to tackle that on your own,” I say, thinking about my doctor’s appointment tomorrow afternoon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Looking through the front window, he had seen no people: none of the busy afternoon crew of Street Cleaners, Landscape Workers, and Food Delivery people who usually populated the community at that time of day. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I close the door behind me and change into my pajamas, even though it’s still just afternoon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She’s the one who worked at the bakery for an afternoon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this connected to that ‘science project’ you were supposedly working on this afternoon?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think Arthur Ashe meant the remark to be taken seriously,” I said to David one afternoon as we were reading the paper heralding Ashe’s pending arrival. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind of the afternoon was gone and only a little breeze like a sigh was stirred by the restless thermals of the warm, dry hills. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dream stoked my faith in the judgment and justice that will come someday or this afternoon. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, as we stood in the snow waiting for our ride, we were attacked with snowballs filled with rocks. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about how Little Jimmy and I had had our Coke by the pool, how we’d eaten a burger at Krystal and gone skating at Troy’s on a rainy afternoon. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know from the moment I open my eyes that we're into the afternoon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One afternoon he asked if I wanted to join the softball game that was about to start. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I dropped through the roar, giddy and vacuum-minded, sucked under and out into late afternoon Harlem. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the afternoon, ten finalists would be chosen. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“The fire in the library is not usually lit until the afternoon, Madam,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after she was in bed and we were having supper, and I wasn’t feeling so shaky, I told him about the afternoon. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sultry afternoon, on his way home from the menagerie, he went to the Colosseum and bribed his way into the cellars where the wild beasts were kept. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The moment their acne clears up, they’ll be ready for repotting again,” Harry heard her telling Filch kindly one afternoon. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Would he have been unable to convince his professors to move his classes to the afternoon? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He’s perched at the kitchen table on Saturday afternoon, and the sun is streaming through the window. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The policeman spent the afternoon watching baseball on television, but both Florida teams got creamed—the Devil Rays lost by five, the Marlins hy seven. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Tom," I inquired, "what did you say to Wilson that afternoon?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon as soon as school was over she hung around at the corner near the store where he worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Your father called this afternoon,” she said, in English. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Five times that afternoon he decided he wouldn’t go. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was out on the back lawn at that moment, testing its capabilities in the late afternoon sun. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Harlem’s numbers industry hummed every morning and into the early afternoon, with the runners jotting down people’s bets on slips of paper in apartment house hallways, bars, barbershops, stores, on the sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the watery horizon of a Valley afternoon, I’d see them. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry thoroughly enjoyed double Divination that afternoon; they were still doing star charts and predictions, but now that he and Ron were friends once more, the whole thing seemed very funny again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Children who brought home poor grades were made to study during the afternoon, and were tutored by the older ones and Mother and Dad. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scythe arrived late on a cold November afternoon. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Or back to their various barracks and lodgings, anyway, for an afternoon’s rest. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

By afternoon it would be too hot to stand on without shoes. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday afternoon and the work went forward with never a hitch. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paid me thirty bucks for watching him that afternoon, and she wasn’t even gone four hours. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I can give up my morning latte and afternoon sugar fix. And maybe we could even ask Gran for an extra loan, but...” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

One afternoon we couldn’t use the toilet because there were visitors in the office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I noticed then that everyone had adopted the hushed voices of the afternoon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea why it had been nearly a year since I’d sent him work, so when we met in his office one overcast July afternoon, he suggested that I quit. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You have not had a morning bath?” her mother asked him one afternoon, when she came back from work looking drained, clutching files to her chest, wet patches under her armpits. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon they called P. T- and headed for Terabithia. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Elsbeth’s bedroom is where I spent so many afternoons: practicing dances, pretending to do homework, ranking our favorite film stars. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That Friday morning Concha was in a better mood, and she promised she would cross the street to the post office on her afternoon break and mail Lupita’s letter. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to learn more spells, but getting most of the afternoon to play wasn’t bad. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She thought of Fiona whose day off she had taken, and of their afternoon in St. James’s Park. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When Reggie came in on the afternoon of January 27, just after he accepted the plea, Kaylene’s first impression was he was either arrogant, or very quiet, but probably the former. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Don't take it personally, Bobby. She gets mad at almost anything. Maybe give her a call this afternoon, okay?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the corner of Sterling and Commonwealth was the old Masonic Temple, where one Saturday afternoon thirty-five years before, Milton had been runner-up in a spelling bee. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the afternoon, though, he had no choice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Students voted all day Friday and that afternoon the results came in: Paul and I had won. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, as I’m dusting the Doctorita’s room and making the bed, I catch a glimpse of myself in the wardrobe’s mirror, at the two blue-yellow crescents beneath my eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited many an afternoon to catch sight of the beautiful golden carp as it swam by, and while I waited in the sun I pondered over his legend. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at those green pastures that afternoon, I thought the only thing missing from the scene was a happy shepherd. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Months ago, not long after Christmas, she went into the library to wake him from an afternoon sleep and saw a file open upon the desk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Papá took advantage of one of those afternoons to try his new hair clippers on my younger brothers and me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, while we were searching for food in a deserted village, a crow fell out of the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Calder arrived at Powell’s that afternoon just as Mr. Watch was folding the top closed on a large paper bag. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was returning home after a long afternoon of playing soccer at the stadium on Twelfth Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon clouds drifted over the mountains, over the Little Baldy: it was the rainy season; hail began to fall. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, this afternoon with Don Antonio was the first time I ever saw Mama stand up for herself, or actually, for me and Papa. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been sewing all afternoon, practicing making pockets and handkerchiefs so I can work on getting the stitching perfectly straight. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Kindergarten through third-grade students filed noisily into the old wooden seats for the afternoon performance. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

When we part, he doesn’t wish me a good afternoon or thank me for the time we just had together. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Is this why you’ve been a pain in the neck all afternoon?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, Rodriguez recalls, six migrants along the tracks asked a young man from the neighborhood for some money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The world seemed to get stranger and stranger by the hour, but the waning afternoon stayed stubbornly beautiful. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The boat heeled a little now, in the afternoon wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the buzz of flies in the air, the lazy afternoon humming. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was a bright sunny afternoon aboveground, the deep well that now cradled Gulliver was a dark, dark place. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the practice field, a trio of men gathered one afternoon to joke about his plight. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a good many Wethersfield citizens curiosity got the better of loyalty on the next afternoon. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, when it’s too hot to pick berries, we swim in the lake, in the same water the fish come out of. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents were coming to pick them up this afternoon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And then one Saturday afternoon I’m doing a long, slow distance run without the wheelchair when a funny thing happens. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Papa had told me that was a real sight, the way the bats come out in the late afternoon. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided she’d give him until the afternoon to talk to her, and then she’d start back on the hunt, with or without him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I got the group to talk about talent show details before we wrapped up for the afternoon. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Hazel shuddered, remembering her close call with Don that afternoon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the afternoon, but the village seemed to be asleep, the boats bobbing in the harbor, the streets and pavements empty. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

All of us felt terribly sick that afternoon, but Martha was in agony. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the captain retires for afternoon tea, or whatever a man like him does with his free time, I climb to the crow’s nest, to get as far away from the Abyssal Serpent as possible. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes. The basic one everybody knows. A frog does not run in the afternoon for nothing.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The slaves erected Khal Drogo's tent beneath a jagged outcrop of black rock whose shadow gave some relief from the heat of the afternoon sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Visiting hours were only on weekends and no one ever came to see me anyway so I was surprised when the hospital guard rapped on my door one weekday afternoon and unlocked it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A lot of pictures had been ruined that afternoon when eager club members had opened the door, exposing undeveloped prints to light. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We slept late every day, cruised around on our boards in the afternoons, and, except for some moms with little kids, we had the neighborhood to ourselves. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The colors of the Roman afternoon suddenly seemed sharper, as if the world had switched to high definition. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The earlier breeze had died down, and the water was placid, smooth and glassy, tinged with bronze in the slanting late afternoon light. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She considered reminding him about the jersey when she saw him that afternoon, then decided against it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ten or twelve below zero every morning, and when it warmed up to zero or so in the afternoon, it snowed. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Everything of which he could control the locality he did in front of her all that afternoon. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, good afternoon to you too, honey biscuit,” June’s voice says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s unanimous, then—congratulations, Boom Chachalacas. You can start making your band posters this afternoon.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All afternoon I pottered about in my study with my housekeeping chores, and by the time I finished, there were six new box files on the shelves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I arrived on a Saturday afternoon, the pavilion was crowded with people. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I spent the afternoon watering and watering and watering. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon I would stand on the school’s front lawn and watch with envy as these ships filled the sky, zooming off to explore the simulation’s endless possibilities. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m meeting with carpenters this morning, but I will talk to you more about it this afternoon.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And the fuselage—the cockpit where he and Toby had spent countless afternoons, pretending to fly and then, when they got too old for make-believe, planning to leave—was curled in on itself. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When he got on the bus that afternoon, she was already there. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I met a man who had been section hiking for twenty-five years with a bicycle and a car. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were Matlock reruns on TV every afternoon at exactly this hour, and I was not embarrassed to admit out loud that I loved them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Violence was like the fog that swept in from San Francisco Bay on summer afternoons to cloak the city in damp shadow. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, Shawn and I saddled the horses and fought our way up the mountain, the horses half-jumping to clamber through snowdrifts that reached their bellies. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So, it was late afternoon, and screams were coming from Finsterwald’s. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet shook his head to clear the sound, closed his eyes, saw Barksdale go streaming to his death against a flaming fence in the brilliant afternoon, hair blazing out behind him like white fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called me at the office this afternoon, crying. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the first day of Passover, I walked beneath the early spring sycamores on my street, then turned into Lee Avenue. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We decide to go and see him this afternoon. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the third time, I tell the story of what happened this afternoon. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He also played exactly four hands of poker with Hurley every afternoon. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

During the afternoon, he told me this was a freak storm, because most did not come until September or October. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Say," said Bill, "do you know that gang of Pilgrim Fathers have cornered the dining-car until half past three this afternoon?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I still don't know what made me stop and talk to her that afternoon. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was the hottest, sleepiest hour of the afternoon. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

They crossed the bridge into the city late that afternoon. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Real way with babies, huh? Then you can watch Buddy this afternoon.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, Potions will be almost empty this afternoon, with us all off doing our tests ...Try and soften Slughorn up a bit then!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They sail at dark and fish all night so they must play in the afternoon. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thinks she longs for rest, a carefree afternoon to decide suddenly to go to the pictures, or just to sit With the birdcages and listen to the children play in snow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nah, man. My aunt said she was taking us all to church this afternoon, and me and PJ said we had to get home and catch up on schoolwork." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Every spring, Culver Creek took one Friday afternoon off from classes, and all the students, faculty, and staff were required to go to the gym for Speaker Day. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Grandmère woke up that afternoon, I read her the note. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was barefoot, and still in his pajamas and a bathrobe, though it was late afternoon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Returning home one afternoon from her hospital shift, Regina was approached in front of her apartment house at 560 Lincoln Place by two sunglassed men, conservatively dressed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That long afternoon we took turns flying the glider. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about one-thirty on Tuesday afternoon, Holly Goldsmith, an eighteen-year-old freshman from Taos, New Mexico, decided to take her golden retriever, Milo, for a walk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ishmael realized, in the early afternoon, that the sweetish smell coming at him from off the beach was the odor of dead marines. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only the very recent part of this afternoon, actually. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Meeting always ended with the singing of Beasts of England, and the afternoon was given up to recreation. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Worst of all was sitting down for afternoon tea, carrying on what she called polite conversation, which, in her estimation, was something every gentleman should be capable of doing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The whistle sounded again, and then the train appeared around the bend through the trees and rumbled toward the station, its massive twin headlights pale in the bright November afternoon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last year around the time of my birthday it was pouring down rain every single afternoon, come heck or high river, but this summer, not a drop yet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah, awfully nice. And besides that, they would like this crew not to die this afternoon so as we can come to work for them tomorrow morning.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the first day in a month when there hasn’t been wind in the afternoon.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were in the shadow of the mountains, but the shadows of late afternoon hardly mattered next to the glare of flame that bloodied the stone. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Dr. Agar and Mrs. Brewer came to our house to talk to my parents about the next step for STOP. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bees buzzed through honeysuckle and jasmine, which filled the afternoon air with a dizzying mix of perfumes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The tantrums, the afternoons she spent locked in her room with the drapes shut, her severe manner with the children occurred less frequently. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One of these girls will wear a new color or style of belt or a button-plate hat tilted to one side, and that afternoon I’ll pore through our vendors’ catalogs to find similar designs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And so they spent the afternoon practicing up on the ridge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But as I walked into B-block one afternoon, I saw Sergeant Murray es-corting him out of the block with all his belongings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By afternoon, only one other horse remained in the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late Sunday afternoon, as the grand total of $129 was being stuffed into several coffee cans to go to the bank, there was news about the theft. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know who you mean,” I said slowly; “no one is going to put you in the asylum. Good afternoon, Ben.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

To my relief, the afternoon was less taxing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois would come home by five every afternoon from her job at Baptist College. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to tell you I won’t be in school tomorrow morning. I’m not sure about the afternoon yet.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a nice, quiet afternoon, with cattle grazing in front of the family compound and Nyanriak in the yard grinding millet—a kind of grain we Dinka eat a lot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, the marchers’ ranks were packed with thousands of newcomers carrying banners and placards telling where they were from and why they had come. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Ben set up his mother’s dining room and kitchen chairs in a straight line, at intervals of three feet, from the back of the paved driveway to the front. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the afternoon we reached a fork in the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On those afternoons, she picks up her kids and takes them to the same park I sat in with the Doorman when Sophie came and talked to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They wept and talked until eight o’clock at night, and that afternoon in the Hotel Frances they sealed a pact of friendship that would last for many years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon she sat in the mess hall and wrote her own letter addressed to the parents of the boy Ishmael Chambers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She still loved to ride, and every afternoon, weather permitting or not, she rode alone for several hours in the wild land beyond the castle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, this afternoon I just hung out around the house. ...” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She shoulda thought about that before she kicked me out of the apartment on a hot Sunday afternoon. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His timing turned out to be flawless, for the catastrophe that had struck him that afternoon had plowed under the entire nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thewindows ate up large chunks of the walls, and Obinze imagined the room in the afternoon, flooded gloriously with light, and himself sunk in the armchair by the door, lost in a book. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, Otto and I were video chatting with Dad when I heard bicycle tires grind the gravel out front. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That very afternoon he was at her house, asking again. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Late one afternoon, a few days before Minnijean was to leave, I sat on the side of her bed, watching her pack. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window revealed the afternoon sky, slightly pale, but still lovely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I was driving by CSA, the fine arts high school, this afternoon and that’s when Grandma swooped in to say what an absolutely perfect fit it would be for you two.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was late in the golden afternoon when the first little boys ran hysterically in the town and spread the word that Kino and Juana were coming back. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I overhear Mami talking to the canasta group on the patio. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She was glad she’d made plans to go book scavenging with James that afternoon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was rare to spend an afternoon in the house without hearing some kind of recitation of the miracle, and occasionally these recitations were less than accurate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"But what do they expect you to do every afternoon in an empty house?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A course. Can’t have no proper sandwich on no raw bread. And this afternoon I’ll make one a Minny’s famous caramel cakes. And next week we gone do you a fried catfish...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That afternoon when Gabriel was collecting some of his things from my room, and I was jotting down some ideas in my notebook, he looked up at me and froze in place. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His wet eyes glisten in the soft afternoon light. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But Mya sent me a behind-the-scenes Snap video earlier this afternoon, taken seconds after this picture, which revealed that Camila still has no clue how to surf. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He read with fire in his brain through the afternoon; the next day, he rushed through Virgil so that he could read again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Exactly two weeks later, at 3:20 in the afternoon, Singleton called the Cache County Attorney’s Office to see if they’d heard back from AT&T. No, the company had not complied. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Over at his place on Friday afternoon, he tells me all about it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The man had visited Judge Tennyson that afternoon and made an official request, although the judge had been enjoying his customary Friday whiskey and might not remember. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

James carried the bag of trash and dumped it into a garbage can near the little store Dicey had shopped in the afternoon before. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t look at a newspaper till afternoon because she didn’t want bad news setting the tone for the day. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is what happened: At about four o’clock this afternoon I knocked on his door and went in. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This afternoon, a block from school, a gang of kids were yelling and hooting near a stop sign. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m Rodney. I’m sorry, man. I forgot her class had a day trip this afternoon.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Grayson stopped by to check on Stella with a gentle hand on her shoulder, Stella mumbled something about a stomachache, and the teacher left her alone the rest of the afternoon. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, in New York City, Nixon joined his family in a suite of rooms on the thirty-fifth floor of a Manhattan hotel. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Long strolls were her favorite pastime, and that particular afternoon, the temperature was breezy enough to prevent her from getting too hot in her coat and head scarf. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had been waiting for more people to show up before he began his speech, but Rocky and Tayo and old man Jeff were the only people out in the wind that afternoon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon rush hour, scores of weary passengers were lined up behind signs reading “Colored” and “White.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In Lagos, the harmattan was a mere veil of haze, but in Nsukka, it was a raging, mercurial presence; the mornings were crisp, the afternoons ashen with heat, and the nights unknown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The room presses in hot and heavy the way it does when you wake up from a nap in the afternoon sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

So there was no time for self-improvement until well into the afternoon. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were both very quiet, thinking over the lovely afternoon. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

That was late afternoon and just when I was finishing, she came by. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of town where people got together on weekends to build a new church, to hold Sunday- afternoon ice cream socials, or to kick up their heels at Saturday-night square dances. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But he had to be there for the visitors who came throughout the morning and the rest of the afternoon. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I had just started my first real job, as a camp counselor, which meant leaving my house every morning at seven thirty and not getting home until four thirty in the afternoon. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

From then on, for several years, they saw each other almost every afternoon. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If she had, it would’ve become a thing, and neither of us wanted a thing this afternoon. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The note requested Dicey to come to camp the next afternoon at two, an hour before the children went home. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, I was taking one last walk along the beach when a familiar voice said, “Good day for fishing.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

One December afternoon when An Yi and I came home from a walk, we saw a big crowd gathered in the middle of our alley. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an afternoon in early spring and everything outside the window looked beautiful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I’d have to work another two in sometime this afternoon. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons he played pickup basketball at the Y, and then at night he drove around town in his father’s car, mostly alone, or with a six-pack of beer, cruising. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in front, far away at the horizon, he could see lots of them, glittering blue in the late afternoon sun. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was misty, with heavy, lowering atmosphere, one afternoon, when Edna climbed the stairs to the pianist’s apartments under the roof. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, during our free period, I went over to check on the caterpillar. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s horrible to see her, like walking out of the best movie ever into some same old afternoon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And then one afternoon I got home from school and there she was. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told him she’d gone to the doctor that afternoon to have it refitted, and so he’d put it out of his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try to think about what other kind of work I can do that would pay me more, but except for delivering the county paper on Friday afternoons, nothing else comes to mind. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod and Scarlett wandered the graveyard together every weekday afternoon, tracing names with their fingers, writing them down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“A lovely summer afternoon full of sunlight and sleepy scents.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon he harnessed his draft horses to a buckboard and took Joe upriver, hunting for cedar. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Thus it was that later that afternoon, we saw the Loyalists begin their own evacuation of the city in preparation for its occupation by the rogue militia. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The tears that hadn’t come in the afternoon came now. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon before business they sat together in Faye’s room and drank tea. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in the afternoon, it's the walk through the Residenz palace gardens, Papa and Maria on either side of me, holding my hands as we stroll to rehearsal. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Orr was in Rome, due back that same afternoon from the rest leave he had won by ditching his plane in the waters off Genoa. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna go get my medication so I can sit through this afternoon with my head completely whacked.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was barely afternoon, but it appeared the group was settling in here through the evening. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hearing had been set in the late afternoon when there were no other proceedings scheduled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One afternoon as we walked home from the bus stop, I asked Mommy why she didn’t look like the other mothers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of December 18, 1959, young Mrs. Johnson was expecting guests; three women of the neighborhood were coming by for coffee and cake and perhaps a game of cards. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was quick to claim my trophy, though, heading home that afternoon with my head up and one of those gold-foil stars stuck on my shirt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So were many people from the meeting, to see the young businesswoman, and we sold half our inventory in an afternoon. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But late one afternoon some white men came and called until the women came out of the lean-tos, and then the men yelled at them and threw empty bottles, trying to hit them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson and I spent the afternoon catching up and just hanging out, which was nice after a morning of getting attacked by demon cheerleaders. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon I caught two more bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, they began to emerge onto their decks in peacoats and slickers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He howled with rage as the rest unglued themselves from barstools to lunge at me, but I slipped through their fingers and ran out the door and into the bright afternoon. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I remembered Monday afternoon when I had awakened with the curtain around my bed and Mrs. Carpenter bending over me, and I wondered what had happened to Mr. Savo. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The prospect of an afternoon in the fields and woods was tempting—until I thought of Falconer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

When they came back in the afternoon, he sat and listened again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One cold winter afternoon, Erasmus gathered some friends and family around his dining room table. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went home to a good Thanksgiving dinner of pot roast and home-made noodles and spent the afternoon listening to Papa reminisce how he had gone around Thanksgiving Day as a boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon when I was still a little crazy with grief, I ran out of Mama’s house, barefoot, with Jacqueline in my arms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met in the forest on Saturday afternoons to sing and pray. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home that afternoon, after eight months of searching New York, I was exhausted and frustrated and pessimistic, even though what I wanted to be was happy. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon died away; the circular spots of sunlight moved steadily over green fronds and brown fiber but no sound came from behind the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the silver chill of the Maine afternoon, as I bucketed and lumbered over the pitted surface of a wood road, I saw four lady mooses moving with stately heaviness across my bow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bean field, drowsy in the late afternoon heat, Mary heard Atal’s voice, and she couldn’t tell excitement from alarm: had another tree fallen? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A week later, on Sunday afternoon, before the dinner shift, I put on Susana’s anacos and blouse and jewelry—which she insisted I keep as a gift. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one afternoon Hughie came in with an army cot which had a torn canvas. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He arrived back in the city in the middle of the afternoon, but went directly to his club, where he played a few hands of poker and dined, without successfully quelling his anxiety and impatience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My Sunday school shoes pinched my feet, and I’d forgotten how hot my funeral dress could be on a warm afternoon. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They found short work at a sawmill in Bear, then an afternoon pulling stumps at Crossland, finally steady work in Goshen. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late that afternoon, Joe and his father had moved all the lumber into position, and with the rain falling harder than ever, Harry started to retreat into the house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then Dicey saw that the last afternoon bus heading south to Cambridge left Wilmington at two-thirty. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single trumpet blared through the warm afternoon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in the attic yesterday afternoon working on our French when suddenly I heard the splatter of water behind me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“So on Wednesday afternoon you attend neither Hebrew School nor Catechism.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, he stayed most of the afternoon, going to the grocery store for Monique and even sweeping the living room. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall once working in our courtyard on a sunny afternoon, while some men from the general section were working on the roof above me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At four o’clock this afternoon, Monsieur Farival,” Robert replied, in a high voice and with a lofty air, which reminded Edna of some gentleman on the stage. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spring weather set in, and on one of the first warm afternoons, Maxie and I stayed late at school watching some kids playing ball in the schoolyard. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She spent many an afternoon staring blankly through the window while singing songs of sorrow to herself, as though she were going mad or something. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal made arrangements in school, by doing extra and excellent work, to make up for his absences on Monday afternoons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a strange relief when they reemerged into the afternoon light on the north side of the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the doctor arrived in the afternoon, I went to tell him that my father was very ill. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father died one afternoon while Ishmael was in the newsroom at the Seattle Times banging away with his five fingers at a typewriter. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girl he picked up that afternoon had rattled his mobile cage. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After the departmental presentations, we’re given the rest of the afternoon off to get ready for the Welcome Social at 6:30. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, Mama,” Olanna said, but did not make an attempt to go any closer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was still raining softly that afternoon as I pedaled home from Arnold’s, but the sun was coming out and I knew we’d be able to work the next day. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

All afternoon he’d been fretting about those elusive cottonmouth moccasins, wondering why the reptile wrangler hadn’t been able to find them. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still in his uniform as I had seen him through the glasses in the early afternoon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

AT four o’clock that afternoon, I walk as fast as I can from the bus stop to the Church a the Lamb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the air there is always the heavy, cloying odor of the alcohol distillery on the river, an odor that becomes suffocating on hot summer afternoons when the breeze blows in from the river. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three days of weeping, one afternoon as she was stirring some sweet milk candy in the kitchen she heard her son's voice clearly in her ear. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Cade read my father’s check-in message, shook his head, then tossed my phone out his window, into the Arizona afternoon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I painted in two of the waves behind the Arctic Tern. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m too tired to go this afternoon,” replied Meg, rocking comfortably as she sewed. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon by the time Peralta and his children headed home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Yesterday afternoon, as the door was closing behind me, I heard Coin say, “I told you we should have rescued the boy first.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was about half-past two in the afternoon when the train came to a halt. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon the wind and rain calmed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Edging over to my left, I groped for the ropes I’d set up that afternoon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the afternoon, Kathy tried to convince her husband to come with them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By the afternoon before the mayor's dinner party, Katherine's anxiety seems to have retreated into the background as well, and she is beside herself with excitement. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Reverend Ralph Abernathy, the pastor of the First Baptist Church, called our house and invited me to a private reception there. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As the afternoon wore on, I sat there deep in thought. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kropp reached his high camp at 26,000 feet on the South Col on Thursday afternoon and left for the top the following morning just after midnight. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“James, you’re a lazy guy,” he told me one afternoon, “and if you don’t tighten up, Mrs. D will find you out.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, my mother spoke of her unhappiness for the first time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on his side and stared at the orange rectangle of afternoon sunlight that shone in through the window. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, they made it to the Alameda docks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Talked about bringing the littles to Edgartown to see a movie in the afternoon, about sharks and whether they really ate people, about Plants Versus Zombies. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

So she set about clearing out the house, arguing with the intruders as she shouted at them, and by four in the afternoon she was successful. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If I made small talk, maybe my parents wouldn’t insist that I see the kind of doctor you can talk to, which is what I would be doing this afternoon, after today’s field trip. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Either Regina or Joan would drop him off in the morning and fetch him in the late afternoon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Vinny’s father had been there that afternoon, seen you, and demanded that you all come down. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wake up the next afternoon with the taste of poison in my mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Our Shabbat afternoon Talmud sessions had stopped; my father spent all of Shabbat resting so as to be prepared for each coming week of furious activity. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Genesis. His choice. By the way, what kind of an experiment were you working on this afternoon, Mrs. Murry?” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam moved the slats of the blind so that the late afternoon sun would not shine in his eyes, and he gazed down at the harsh parallel lines the sun threw on his desk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, we weren’t the only ones skipping the last two classes of the day, but it still wasn’t as Busy as it would have been on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Yesterday afternoon at four o’clock, as I had decided, I took my gun and went down the hill to the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The meeting will be over in the afternoon. I’ll be back in plenty of time.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

On Saturday afternoon Tar Baby had stumbled drunk into traffic on the New River Road. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Your girlfriend is here, Ishmael. Are we going to see you at all this afternoon?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Lula can make a pair of socks in an afternoon,” Mrs. Gates went on. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered I had seen her in the afternoon, out by the wall, pulling a load of stones in the wagon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared out into the hot afternoon sky—a habit of his. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

On this afternoon, trekking across the bleak Plateau of Drume, he hated elves with a passion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I climb out on the fire escape almost every afternoon now, writing while the sparrows dance against the darkening sky. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon he’d filled up on sleep, and we played airplane. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon in early spring, the light was beginning to fade, and people on McDowell Street were locking up their shops and heading home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next Thursday afternoon, Mom drove me over the mountain to the McDowell County Science Fair in Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I watched him shout at his wife, May, for what seemed ten straight minutes as they sat inside their white sedan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was hot and the sun intense as she walked up the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, his control room supervisor alerts him that the water truck they’ve been waiting for all day is at the gate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That was the final business of the afternoon, Sansa saw with relief, but her ordeal was not yet done. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In round two the contestants were given dozens of inner tubes and instructed to stack them into tall, puffy towers, which were immediately knocked down by the afternoon's second vachette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Your shirt’s cool,” Mena said to me as we three made our way into Burke’s one afternoon. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The afternoon, as Sam supposed it must be called, wore on. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I go down to the Zoology Building on Saturday afternoons to use the microscopes in the empty labs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe it might be more than a crush, what with that afternoon by the river. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, after Robert told me a bit about what happened this afternoon, I asked him what he wanted to do and he said he wanted to stay with you, bowling on Saturday mornings.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You-know-who left a message for me on the telephone this afternoon,” I said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There had been a rare afternoon when Judith had invited Kit to go with some other girls of the town to pick flowers and picnic along the shore of the river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The best parts of the days were the afternoons, when Chandra and I had the courtyard to ourselves for our baths. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Kit climbed to the attic and surveyed the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Since it rained for the rest of the day, we spent most of the afternoon goofing off in the rec room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon,” returned Robert, with a shade of annoyance. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never missed a practice or one of the afternoon tutoring sessions Luma made her players attend, she explained. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They are pictured on the grounds of the Coronado Hotel near San Diego, standing in the pale light of a winter afternoon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Munawar’s home was near a lot where young men played soccer in the afternoons. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The afternoon paper’s supposed to have a big spread about the game.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They smoke their two pipes of opium in the afternoon and it rests and sharpens them, and they sit through the night and their minds are wonderful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was why she failed to recognize the swarthy, awkward, slow- moving young man with the cruel eyes of a rodent who knocked one afternoon at the door of the big house on the comer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll need to go to rehearsals, and the first is this afternoon. Can you do that?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, as the man and the woman were in the fields, the two children crept up to the bird’s hut and opened the door. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We drank water because the soft drinks bought in the afternoon were finished. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In their afternoons in the hospital, Pollard wooed her with quotes from Old Waldo while she tended to his leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not appreciate that I wanted to read books and that I saved money to buy an easel when I turned fifteen and that I would spend the afternoons painting pictures of trees. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you come and work for me at the sports shop?” he said one Saturday afternoon as he was driving me to the black bus stop following a tennis lesson. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon I returned to Miss Sadie's place in a mood. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the fruit and candy store where he had bought the newspaper that afternoon he selected a basket of fruit wrapped in cellophane. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kay says, “There’s going to be a march this afternoon. We stopped by to see if you want to come.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was furry and soft as the kitten that Prudence had held in her arms that summer afternoon. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m leaving this afternoon, but I wanted to come over and say good-bye.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Like this,” he said to Joaquin one afternoon, and had tucked his thumb carefully around Joaquin’s small hand so that it was a perfect, solid fist. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Peeta stops shading a blossom and looks up so suddenly that I start, as though I were caught spying on him, which in a strange way maybe I was. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

By five o’clock that afternoon, when the concert was scheduled to start, an estimated 75,000 people had gathered on the Mall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Ophie completed the rest of her afternoon tasks, which were few, and sat with Mrs. Caruthers until it was time to leave. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This is not how I expected my afternoon to go. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It took the better part of the afternoon before the ironbom were ready to depart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I’m clearing my schedule for the afternoon,” she says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I myself had often been happy at Devon, but such times it seemed to me that afternoon were over now. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon she heard a most interesting conversation and witnessed a strange event. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Clay’s three friends stopped their cheering and stared in astonishment at this slave girl who had nerve enough to try to interrupt an afternoon’s sport. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five of us landed in Houston on a warm afternoon in March 2000. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I used to love watching those sleazy crime dramas on Saturday afternoon TV. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That afternoon of her arrival she sat in the front parlor of a boarding house waiting for a man named Franklin B. Sanborn. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

JimmyTrotter took a chance and ran through the pines and over the creek to check on Butter and to get whatever afternoon milk Sophie was willing to give. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

At five in the afternoon, I hear a car pull up and see Stuart climb out of his truck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She felt as if she’d just woken up from the best nap ever and still had a whole lot of afternoon left before dinner. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Late one August afternoon the boy and his mother sat on the shaded corner of the porch. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, in the late afternoon,Teacher said that Matt had been very good and he was going to make his mommy very proud. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Saturday afternoon Roberto and I stopped picking carrots at four o’clock and went home to get ready. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The cannery was changing shifts, letting out the afternoon people, and still we were here at school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

On a bracing afternoon, he escorted Weaver into the Radiation Laboratory and showed him the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron, not skimping on the vaudeville of the lavender deuteron beam shooting into the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Monday afternoon at three o’clock, I’m waiting on Judd’s porch when he pulls up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

First a kind of perverted pride that my meek mother had bested the old woman, if only for an afternoon. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wedding had taken place that afternoon in a gaily striped tent in Billy’s backyard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says she is very sorry, that he must know she usually works afternoons and is not accustomed to the liquor and then the lateness of the hour. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this particular afternoon, I’m about halfway up the road along the river when I see something out of the corner of my eye. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro, understanding the situation more fully now that he was older, wondered at his father’s intervention that afternoon. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says that there have been two burglaries recently in the neighborhood, both of them in the middle of the afternoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until afternoon that Joel Robinson, the foreman, went down to the tannery. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up at six-thirty, breakfast by seven, private study time for three hours in the morning and in the afternoon, and orchestra rehearsal before dinner. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept off and on that day and night, and the following afternoon, Mamá drove me to Santa Maria County Hospital. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The afternoon flew by, and when I finally looked at my phone, I saw that it was already after five. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On late Sunday afternoons before evening church services, old women who were carbon copies of herself came to the apartment to share leftovers from the Sunday meal and religious talk of a Bright Hereafter. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like she might have been waiting for me, which is ridiculous, because when we fight she always pretends I don't exist at least until the afternoon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Which is why I’m surprised when he comes home one afternoon from some kind of practice session and lays into me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had already studied two and a half pages that afternoon. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When the afternoon began to die away behind the Park, Mrs. Brill and Ellen came to give them their supper and to bath the Twins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon Jody went to the house and brought his bedding down and made up a place to sleep in the hay. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her crimes had seemed minimal, but now Ophie could not help but see her afternoon respites through her mother’s eyes, and shame ran through her, hot and itchy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I spoke to Missus Stein this afternoon,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the appointed day, Smith took Seabiscuit to the track for a short morning gallop, in preparation for the afternoon’s public workout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday afternoon, Mom and I went for hot chocolate at the pastry place on Lexington. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll come over to your house Saturday afternoon. Where do you live?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

That’s why it was such a jolt to have Ruth suddenly bring it up the way she did in the middle of the argument we were having that afternoon in the field. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. I’m still not feeling great. My mom’s taking me to the doctor this afternoon.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But, late that afternoon, the warriors reappeared from behind a distant fringe of trees. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I came home from school and cornered Mommy while she was cooking dinner. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon we prepared the broth for a fish stew with wild onions—dinner for my guest. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I hear what feels like the last knock at my door, and standing there, on my cracked front porch, is Audrey. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He became something other than himself that afternoon. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone arrives in the afternoon. Nobody gets through.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Shine, our lawyer, was at the house when the detective and two deputies returned that afternoon with a search warrant. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

August said he wasn’t feeling well enough to go trick-or-treating later in the afternoon, which was sad for him because I know how much he loved to trick-or-treat—especially after it got dark outside. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Just the thought of those cozy afternoons in that warm house, talking about books, hearing about the history of ideas! The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon she drives me to town, one foot hesitantly on the gas pedal and the other, at erratic intervals, on the brake. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Parked vans with big antennae mounted on top, stretching around the corner toward the church where the funeral will be held this afternoon. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Derek had just done the weekly check-in the afternoon before, so they wouldn’t think it odd that there were no calls. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I figured they needed some exercise. I was gonna move them at lunch. You don’t ever do music until afternoon. I didn’t mean to scare you.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Smith tried plan b: working Seabiscuit in the afternoons on Mondays, when Santa Anita was closed to racing and the dockers and reporters had gone home. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on Wednesday I came home from school with a fever, and by Thursday afternoon I was running 103.6. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The radiators didn’t kick back on until late that night, but with all the people packed into our apartment that afternoon, it started to feel a little more like Christmas. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon the snow was falling steadily, but the river of wildlings had dwindled to a stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time they returned to the surface, the shadows of the afternoon were growing long. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He knew what he would have to do when the bell rang the following afternoon. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was, of course, nearly impossible once they were assigned the same tasks in the afternoon, day after day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ugwu could feel the heat of the bright afternoon sun even under the thatch awning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It tasted of mulled blueberries and wild honey and afternoon sun. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, James and Dicey started patching up the holes in the porch screens, where the screens had pulled out of the wood or just ripped. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon the seas had been thickening, and now, as they came out on deck, the water was running high and rough. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We spent that afternoon cutting out the triangles, planning each patch. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only shoes I can find are my dress shoes, worn to Dr. Minerva’s office this afternoon, a lifetime ago. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She remembered those eyes from that afternoon so long ago when she’d been only five. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This afternoon the party guests would start to arrive. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We said nothing else to each other that whole afternoon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then, in the afternoon, before Matthew or Mark or the kids in the neighborhood got back, he could put something on for supper. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

On Halloween afternoon, October 31, CBS arranged for Orson Welles to meet the press and answer questions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I was coming to that It is the plum of the story. One afternoon I was out in the forest for half an hour’s questing, when I was set upon by two knights from behind.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

About four-thirty on Monday afternoon, Charles showed up at my room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They found Joey in the woods, not far from O-Hall, at about three o’clock that afternoon. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Byrne appears in the sewing room one Tuesday afternoon at the end of October, it’s clear that something is wrong. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Later this afternoon, I know that the band will do a sound check. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I don’t, I’m thinking about him out in the rain all afternoon, head on his paws, watching our door. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wagon train returns later in the afternoon with balloons tied to their chairs and silly hats on their heads. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They had allowed her to sit for the afternoon session. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as they spoke, I was composing in my head how that last afternoon went. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Moss took several children to an appointment, leaving the rest of us with Melissa, who was either the wife or girlfriend of Ricky, one of Mrs. Moss’s sons. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon McNamara drove back to the White House for a National Security Council meeting. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One Halloween afternoon police cars flooded our neighborhood and announced that Halloween was canceled because there had been a prison break upstate at Raford. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because I had turned nine, I could walk alone to Mrs. Hinton’s house for my music lesson on Tuesday afternoons. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And that afternoon playing bezique with Mrs. Van Hopper was not so tedious as it might have been, though my courage failed me and I said nothing of my morning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was already afternoon, she had still been asleep when the smoke detectors had sounded. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon all the trash was cleaned up and in a plastic bag he’d found. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon is bright enough, but Berlin seems not to want to accept the sunlight, as though its buildings have become gloomier and dirtier and more splotchy in the months since he last visited. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are a few more people on the beach now, mostly older men and women taking an afternoon walk. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the special way of women, Joyce knew she had made a conquest, and managed to hang around the Store in the late afternoons and all day Saturdays. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meme had met him by chance one afternoon when she went with Patricia Brown to get a car to take a drive through the groves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That first afternoon we spread out food on an old picnic blanket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, the siblings worked on their Acts of Kindness projects. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He aimed the denuded prow of the wagon toward the Algiers ferry ramp, where the longshoremen gathered in the afternoons. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed the soft yellow globes of chamomile flowers on the path I hiked most afternoons. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She attempted to paddle in the afternoon, but the oar threatened to slip out of her fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dolls were becoming less interesting, and without air-conditioning our apartment got unbearably hot in the late afternoons. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon, for sure,” Jude’s saying to Dad. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A dollar for afternoon dreams is expensive and cheap. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon when they reached the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Tickets for the showdown at Midland High didn't go on sale until Tuesday afternoon, which explained why the first handful of Permian fans started camping outside the gate of Ratliff Stadium Sunday night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mrs. de Winter wants the car this afternoon at three o’clock.’ Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman would be awake now, thinking about going shopping as she did each afternoon. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I sat in my East Wing office with my entire staff, all of us crammed into the room on couches and desk chairs that had been pulled in from other rooms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon Hazel called everyone into the Honeycomb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And every afternoon, you can pick it up. Now, do you know why I’m doing this?” she asked. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when I got home that afternoon, I created an e-mail account and wrote my old friend Jason Worthington. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

That afternoon we met Mother at the market and walked with her as she purchased ingredients to cook for us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The gym instructor was a short, chunky man in his early thirties who taught in the mornings in a nearby public high school and supplemented his income by teaching in our yeshiva during the afternoons. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Willie showed up at the apartment one afternoon, Ishtar knew to alert her mother on her cellphone. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I send a quick text to both my parents, telling them to head home and get some rest, since it’s already late afternoon and I need to sleep a bit longer. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The anxieties about the situation in France that had been absorbing the country had for the moment dissipated in the afternoon’s sunshine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But this room gets the best sun—all morning and most of the afternoon. So we made the other into the guest room and kept this one as a place for Mirabelle to play.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We are driving around in the rain in San Francisco, getting our last- minute errands done before we leave for the capital this afternoon to petition for Papa’s release. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parking is always tricky in front of Graeter’s, especially on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, it was purplish blue beneath a flaming golden sun. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I was playing soccer when I attempted to steal the ball and felt a searing pain in my heel. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “I’ve already been in the right place at the wrong time, you lowlife creeps. You pathetic losers. I was under the bleachers on Tuesday afternoon.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Went cycling with Amélie and Mitraillette, my first sortie looking for landing fields—three girls on bicycles, you know, having a jolly afternoon out together, what could be more normal? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock that afternoon it had made thirty-five trips aloft, to an altitude of one thousand feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The perfect afternoon when he held my hand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Only when the last white wing had vanished in the afternoon haze did the mulefa ride down the highway again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was late the next afternoon, a Sunday, and I’d been at my desk nearly all day reading the Parmenides. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, we learn to assemble our guns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her baton flashed brilliantly, violently, in the afternoon sun. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

With his father’s grudging approval, Mohammed crewed on local fishing boats in the afternoons and evenings, and even at fourteen, after a full day of fishing miles from land, Mohammed insisted on swimming to shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Friday we were going to play Country Day, then on Saturday afternoon we were going to play Trinity. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, I drag myself into this classroom and hand my phone over to Mrs. Murray. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She read all afternoon so she wouldn’t go down and tell. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now, though, the air turned brisk late in the afternoon. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took the rest of the morning and most of the afternoon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had wanted to help me into the flat when we arrived earlier in the afternoon, and Chima had insisted on carrying my bag. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A group of men, some of whom she recognized from socials and afternoons on the green, filled the adjacent room while they waited for their blood treatments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Speaking of the weather, as we sat there tucked away all afternoon I watched the thick rain clouds I’d seen earlier creep slowly toward shore and us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Taker cries, and slams on the brakes one afternoon as they leave her neighborhood. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Friday morning was food line, and Friday afternoon was probably the best time to barter what he could, since he suspected a lot of Harvey’s supplies conveniently fell off the food line truck Friday mornings. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her afternoon naps grew shorter, which meant that Ophie was forced to wait on the old woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This story begins a day earlier, on the afternoon of Friday, April 5,1996. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And then this: Sarah leaving with the car like I didn’t even exist, as if there might not be someplace I needed to go in the afternoon. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, they were riding through a forest of trees with trunks wider than the length of the wagon they had left behind in Jilin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were making such an awful racket that the mullet scattered out of the eddies, and I knew that the fishing was pretty much shot for the afternoon. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My cousin, who’s in medical school, is doing a rotation at a clinic in the mornings, hanging out with us in the afternoons, and studying at night. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When we get back to the dorm that afternoon, Al is there. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We trade in our morning books for our afternoon books and then Boy21 says, “They don’t want me to wear my outer-space clothes. They say it disrupts the school day. Do you agree?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soaphead was reflecting once again on these thoughts one late hot afternoon when he heard a tap on his door. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sunny day a whole empty afternoon stretched unexpectedly before her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I bet he knew her favorite color, what she ate for afternoon snacks, everything she loved. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he’d said no more than a couple of words to me in the last few days, not since that afternoon I saw him in the dance studio. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One afternoon she found herself watching Jonas as he rode his bicycle away from the school building, which she could see from the front of the Hatchery. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

High tide was indeed late in the afternoon, but it did not. bring any clearing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My stomach twinges and I am sure it's nervousness about practice that afternoon. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His television, the only one in the neighborhood, would draw a big crowd of men who wanted to watch the afternoon news and drink tea. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the afternoon, we work to the tune of a Hebrew chant and Link struggling to repeat it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Years had passed since that afternoon on the slide. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the afternoon, he ignored her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was, all in all, a very pleasant afternoon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wednesday afternoon I was in the media center, reading my favorite book, The Invisible Man, or pretending to. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

If someone mentions the Cottages today, I think of easy-going days drifting in and out of each other’s rooms, the languid way the afternoon would fold into evening then into night. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had stood near it all afternoon and evening praying that no one would buy it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Walasi-Yi was run by an Englishman named Justin and his American wife, Peggy, and we fell into a running conversation with them as we drifted in and out through the afternoon. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But then one afternoon a group of eight or ten Hispanic students came to my office. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over at Brick's place in the afternoon, there's a bunch of us just chilling. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I visited the office of a friendly, thoughtful man named Art Sussman, who was the in-house legal counsel for the University of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From here she had a view of the driveway and the lake across which lay a column of shimmering phosphorescence, white hot from the fierce late afternoon heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Of course. You can take Justin with you, and I can spend the afternoon studying.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

None of them, that is, until suddenly, one memorable afternoon, we found the dead mouse. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he was going to have to walk seven miles home and the snow was already darkening the afternoon. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She hung the bag on a doorknob and cleaned the apartment all afternoon. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon when we were scouting, we saw eagles again. They were a long way off, but closing fast. Octavian is on the warpath.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Only in strict emergencies did Bailey allow me to speak Pig Latin to him in front of adults, but I had to take the chance that afternoon. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon and the place looked pretty empty, but we ripped off our wings as quickly as we could. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, I decide to build a small fire to cook the meat, betting that dusk will help conceal the smoke and I can quench the fire by nightfall. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Celia remembers the afternoons on the porch when her infant granddaughter seemed to understand her very thoughts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Been home all afternoon, just loafing and goofing, not a care in the world. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Eight hours later...so it’s late afternoon in Paris. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I gave my mother the stack of photos to store with the rest of Caitlin's letters. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A dozen people stopped in their tracks and stared at the half-white girl emerging from the wilderness, wearing a bulky poncho in the afternoon sun and pushing a motorbike. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, without stirring from her daybed, Emily had guessed that Lola was undermining Briony’s play, a suspicion confirmed by the diagonally ripped poster on the easel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Stay here until we come back for you.The men must clean the village of its dead bodies,” he says before he goes off to the village that afternoon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If something slipped up this afternoon he would be out of a job and in jail, maybe. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The party were expected to arrive on Thursday afternoon, in time for dinner at six. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As Bobby sat with the referee, not a word was spoken; the afternoons crept slowly into summer twilight. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The day was hot, not unlike this afternoon. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know that I’d call afternoon early,” she said with a frail smile. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It had been afternoon and raining when we entered the hall. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff said, “Wide-set eyes, yellow hair, and a scar on her forehead, and she came in Sunday afternoon.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once we were home, I spent the rest of the afternoon in my garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon when he stopped in Ventura, so late in fact that when he stopped in Carpenteria he only had a cheese sandwich and went to the toilet. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Tiller had paid Florida twenty dollars for the first afternoon’s work, she rushed up to the loft to show Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Maples acquiesced to the inevitable and did combat with the defendant that afternoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No afternoon ever lasted as long as that one, nor had Gryffindor Tower ever been so crowded, yet so quiet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun hung low in the sky as Harry and Hagrid made their way back down Diagon Alley, back through the wall, back through the Leaky Cauldron, now empty. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Trains chugged up all afternoon; one of them, from San Francisco, had all seventeen cars filled to bursting with Seabiscuit fans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon a tall white man wearing a cool white suit, a Panama hat, and white shoes came toward me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t understand. He’ll give you his time for nothing. He’s coming to see you this afternoon. And I’m meeting Cilia, sort of behind her mother’s back, to make plans.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you going to tell her we did all afternoon?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Nosir. I’m leaving this afternoon. If it’s okay, though, I wanted to ask you a few things before I leave.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of all, though, I told Liz about how I went to the zoo, every Tuesday afternoon, by myself, and thought about her and the past year. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many fleeing, tired, homeless people that Ugwu was not surprised the afternoon Olanna came home and said that Akwakuma Primary School would be turned into a refugee camp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But boarding the train it is impossible not to think of the afternoon, two years ago, they’d met. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was late during this Friday afternoon that I got into the quietly moving line, thinking about the Malcolm X with whom I had worked closely for about two years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, in Egypt, she’d put her books down on the edge of the temple floor and Ken had been fooling around and knocked them off. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon they stopped to rest the animals in a canyon surrounded by red-rock mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sat at her desk one afternoon, listening to the pitter- patter of the rain on the roof. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, when we left the town, Bear told me to play. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We worked all afternoon, and I learned enough. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I could see sunlight through the closed lid of my right eye, and I dreamed about waking up in the hospital yesterday afternoon and the nurse moving the curtain away. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Unaccountably, after the bad storm, the sun had come out in the late afternoon. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was actually seeing a therapist this afternoon, so it was just Dad and me, and he wasn’t about to let me out of his sight. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Very well, thank you, miss. Is it morning or afternoon?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when Aunt Queen was taking a nap, Gerald quietly took the go-cart to that driveway, got on, and rolled cautiously down the big hill. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon Sass went off to the village to get medicine for Hari, saying she could not trust a girl my age to get what was needed. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon the sick child got to play many games of backgammon with Papa, or hear stories read by Mama or Papa. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d moved out of Fang's on the weekend and had been hanging at my place Sunday afternoon when my parents were due back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I spent practically a whole afternoon collecting chestnuts and when I got back Piper looked at me with as close as she ever got to contempt and said Those are Horse Chestnuts and Inedible. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With school over this afternoon in late August 2004, she has already been dropped off at her soccer practice blocks from home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Three afternoons later, Pearl and Moody were in the living room watching Ricki Lake when they saw Izzy stride calmly down the hallway, a six-pack of toilet paper under each arm. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sprawled across my bed, Sir Fig Newton paused his afternoon tongue bath. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

“This afternoon, we can take you as far as the bus terminal in Manhattan. After that, you are on your own.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I was back where I started, I still wasn't ready to go home, so I sat on a dune and watched the waves in the afternoon sun. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, I had them walking in pairs, a good ten feet apart from each other. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One afternoon in May of 1936, driving a filly around the far turn of California’s Bay Meadows Racecourse, Neves was on the lead and looking like a cinch to win. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, by not mentioning his name, she knew that she had drawn him into the tousled intimacy of that blue cross-stitch afternoon and the song from the tangerine transistor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the afternoon creeped along so slow I couldn’t hardly stand it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon, school was out, and several schoolmates of Nancy’s were among the spectators when bidding on the horse began; Susan Kidwell was there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking back, Palmer recalled that as the gang was leaving the house that afternoon, Henry had rushed back in, claiming he had forgotten something. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I must take an afternoon nap. It may look funny when I go home again, but I can always tell them that it was part of my schedule at Hill House.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Little be expecting us by afternoon, and with him giving you a job and even a place to live, it wouldn’t look proper to be late.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he went out every afternoon at that time and Amaranta Úrsula had set aside a weekly sum for him for his personal expenses, his room looked like a branch of the wise Catalonian’s bookstore. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The smells of cabbage, potatoes, and meat on top of burnt cornstarch, lavender, and metal from an afternoon of ironing saluted me when I walked inside Ma Charles’s house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She would be walking home from school on these May afternoons and suddenly she would have to think of something quick. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

An afternoon fireworks display explodes over the Royal Harbor to celebrate the princess's birthday. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When he walked in the back door at four in the afternoon, he found his family sitting in the kitchen listening to Arrabelle reel off stories of her late husband. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cobb did not have to say her last words that afternoon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, we’re beginning to get uneasy about Tigris’s long absence. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The soldier in white had been filed next to the Texan, and the Texan sat sideways on his own bed and talked to him throughout the morning, afternoon and evening in a pleasant, sympathetic drawl. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, late in the afternoon, he came outside carrying a plate of food. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even though the rain continues, the afternoon’s an improvement because we’re on the shooting range. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That afternoon in social studies, Mr. Quisling asked for any final attempts to break James’s cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I and my pupil dined as usual in Mrs. Fairfax’s parlour; the afternoon was wild and snowy, and we passed it in the schoolroom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The lunar module separated from the command module and landed on the moon’s surface that Saturday afternoon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was after midday when we began the walk back to the camp with a couple of rabbits and one patchy-furred squirrel for lunch before an afternoon march to the next bunking. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Some people stand and line the walls like flies on a humid summer afternoon. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A golden glow filled the room as the afternoon sunlight tried to force its way through the shades. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was at work during the days and sometimes in the evenings, and his sister was generally busy in school until later in the afternoon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, after another eight dull hours of desk duty, Officer Delinko decided to swing by the Mother Paula’s site once more. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sidewalk cafés, European teenagers were hanging out, speaking a dozen different languages and enjoying the sunny afternoon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The next time she saw him, she mentioned that "the door doesn't hang straight," and she got to spend another afternoon with him while he fixed the door. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I thought hard until I remembered hearing the church bell ring that afternoon, and looking down at the bell on my wrist, shaking it to make it chime along with the real one. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I instructed my comrades one such afternoon, then scrambled on knees and elbows through the red dirt. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

One cold afternoon Mrs. Little was shaking her dustcloth out of the window when she noticed a small bird lying on the windowsill, apparently dead. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

This is interrupted only by his afternoon nap, food and—his favorite spot—the bathroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After guards had passed along the fence as part of their late- afternoon patrol, Shin heard fear in Park’s voice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The only problem was that I couldn’t just lie there on the springy pasture for the rest of the afternoon. back in time. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I looped the basket over my arm and went down the pavement toward the store. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon light, his skin looked golden. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But when the light signals late afternoon, I’m out of time to humor them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, given what she’s saying now, whatever made her cry this afternoon has nothing to do with me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I try to keep my eyes on something other than Jamie and my portfolio, but all the passing strangers out for an afternoon stroll are making me nervous. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rebeca waited for her love at four in the afternoon, embroidering by the window. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Whenever she falls asleep on the sofa or takes naps on weekend afternoons, Nino Carlitos slips into the kitchen to talk to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You all right, Javier. I admit this is not how I expected my afternoon to go.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon Frightful flew back to the culvert. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Soot from the smokestacks made his parents’ small white house look like it had been permanently charred by fire and left the afternoon sky dark. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She burst into warm afternoon sunlight and found that the street hadn’t changed — the crumbling pastel houses, the blue cobblestones, dozens of cats sleeping under cars or in the shade of banana trees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, however, I got leave to stay at home, because I really had a cold. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A hot afternoon, a bright August sun, and the war was over. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello there, you two! Are you staying up here all day? You’ll miss afternoon tea if you don’t hurry. There’ll be precious little left with three squirrels, three voles, and Basil Stag Hare as guests.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, sir,” said the man in front. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Oak, maple, and poplar; sumac, wild-grape, and dogwood—they all smiled at him that afternoon, and they said, “What war, little boy, what war?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the worst duty by far was having to read to Mrs. Caruthers every afternoon. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

On a late afternoon Nanny had called her to come inside the house because she had spied Janie letting Johnny Taylor kiss her over the gatepost. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

One wet afternoon the following November, a Greyhound bus deposited Perry in Worcester, a Massachusetts factory town of steep, up-and-down streets that even in the best of weathers seem cheerless and hostile. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pauses, looks up at the bright blue afternoon sky, rubs her chin, and says, “My reputation for playing ball? Yep. My reputation for playing guys? Nope.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So Hamlet was scheduled for this very afternoon, and here was I with no table-book in which to set it down. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

One Sunday afternoon, I helped Mother prepare a roast for dinner. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But it’s all good, ’cause this afternoon I came up with a new and improved plan. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had been reading an old fairy tale that afternoon, and when she finished the story, she looked up through the leaves across the river and saw a woman there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lost track of time, but a while after the sun had passed top a man came walking and we exchanged good afternoons. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Johnson is also suspected of assaulting another man that afternoon—Brian Trellis?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His antlers are threaded with a few thin cobwebs, and his coat is a white so bright that it seems silver in the afternoon light. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the midst of further fiddling that afternoon, a call came through from King’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

One afternoon she is in the attic, looking at old photographs, when a woman in black appears in the room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon Joe laboriously dragged it all the way up the wagon road, to the top of the mountain, pointed the contraption downhill, climbed in, and released the brake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon, after classes, Joe made the long trek down to the shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It had taken a special effort to get him to the track that afternoon. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours before I leave for work on Monday afternoon, my mom asks me to fill a prescription for her, because she’s scared the pharmacy will be closed when she gets off work. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But as much as I’d daydreamed about attending gymnastics camp with some of my elite-level idols, I had something else on my mind that afternoon. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Ron reckons I should just hang back after Potions this afternoon...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons when Tom was at work Mary sometimes gave tea parties for the neighborhood cats. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was golden, for the yellow dust in the sky gilded the light. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had learned that in the short span of one afternoon and a night. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was like the old quarter of Tours, where they roasted coffee at the spice shops each afternoon. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass by the afternoon drills I’m supposed to be participating in. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The air is damp from the afternoon rains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon his wife appears, a tousled little woman with anxious, quick eyes like a bird, in a sort of black crinkly mantilla with ribbons; heaven knows where she inherited the thing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Simba Quix was still willing to underwrite my expenses, and I was able to continue playing tennis each afternoon, instead of being out working to pay my way through school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon I join a group of Candor and Dauntless cleaning up the broken windows in the lobby. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We have three weeks until our presentation. If we work Monday, Wednesday and Friday after school, and Saturday afternoons too, I think we’ll be ready. Maybe. I hope.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time my teacher reads the story to the class I cry all afternoon, and am still crying when my mother gets home from work that evening. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I never did really run away, not even for an afternoon. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, I slipped out of the manor to the greenhouse near the menagerie. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I rushed into the house, plopped my backpack in the hallway, and pitched my sweater in the middle of the living room floor. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They’d spent the afternoon at the courthouse, working out the final settlement of the Coral Queen case. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There are three afternoon announcements after the usual list of kids who need to report to the vice principal for disciplining. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't been doing my afternoon jogging, I wouldn't have lasted for more than a minute on my feet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Father doesn’t address the question I threw at him before I ran out the kitchen door this afternoon. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And then, on the afternoon of August 21, the sky suddenly turned black. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I waited on the long line; it became afternoon; still I was not attended to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had gone down in the afternoon and he had spent the whole night out cold. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, they put me to work chopping firewood to heat the soldiers’ quarters. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the afternoon, the first week in May. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, with eight days left, I come downstairs, dizzy and blinking from staring at pica type all day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As Ulbrickson stood watching the new crop of freshmen that afternoon, Royal Brougham, the sports editor at the Post-Intelligencer, edged close to him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They stayed put for the rest of that long, early summer afternoon, but when the evening cool came into the air and the families on the beach left, the Tillermans went down by the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon, and raining heavily, when I came home and found my clothes on the front lawn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now, in the late afternoon, it lay calm and smooth, a good audience for silence, a seven-mile circumference that could be traveled by slow car in twenty-five minutes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slugged the whole lot down like a sailor before anyone could take it away from me, and spent the rest of the afternoon being sick. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra had returned to the village that afternoon by a different route and hadn’t seen it; the priest lay undisturbed where Balthamos had laid him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon of a day when the sun was like a circle of fire in the sky, Sassur came home early from school. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the next afternoon the white-out was but a frosty mist. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kept Buddy from asking me what I knew he was going to ask, and what he finally did ask, in a low, nervous voice, at the Belsize afternoon tea. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At about five that afternoon, Truman stepped into the office of the Speaker of the House for a scheduled meeting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon the police came to take her back to the station to look at some men in the lineup. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Tomorrow afternoon. Three o'clock sharp. The Conte will wait for you in the first confessional on the left. And don't be late. The man is always very punctual." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

On this particular Friday afternoon in October, Mr. Larson was reading an important article about the baseball pennant races. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

If they kept moving, the soldiers of the Sixteenth New York would reach the same spot where the fugitives had crossed the Rappahannock by tomorrow afternoon, April 25. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After finishing in the early afternoon at K&B, she would walk across the highway to Webster and work there until closing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So here she is on a late spring afternoon in her SUV running errands in the old neighborhood. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The box took up most of the afternoon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the afternoon, I mope around the house, until Mami sends me over to help Chucha move in. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

One bright afternoon, while I’m walking down the street to our house, swinging a bag of sugar and dried lentils, I see MacGyver. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka did not talk much the rest of the afternoon, until Father Amadi arrived, in a whiff of an earthy cologne. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He left his biology class on Wednesday afternoon, walked right past the hallway they’d run down to escape Daley after he had tripped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the afternoon hunting alone, walking the ridge, searching the shadows for signs of pig, looking and listening as hard as I could to will another animal out of the woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At three in the afternoon, he left for Seoul, departing early enough, his wife said, to continue his preparations at Kimpo International Airport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was during one of these moods of thought that I met Tenorio one afternoon on my way home from school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went for the doors and stepped out into the cold afternoon. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Late Sunday afternoon, they hear the first whistle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon sun, tall trees growing along the bank cast long shadows over the starting stalls and the boats, but the heat had not abated appreciably. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The skin and tube look much better. You’ll be up and around by this afternoon. No crunches, though.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The afternoons were spent at a gymnasium learning how to fence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of November 16, 1942, Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves stood together in a deep canyon in northern New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the afternoon unwinds in slow motion. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It is late afternoon, and we are still standing, still waiting at the detention center. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A vicious thunderstorm hit in the late afternoon and knocked out our power for about ten seconds. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I received a call from Channel Thirteen in Baltimore. They want to come out this afternoon and do an interview.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dona Zaida, once a formidable matriarch who ruled her eight sons by a resolute jealousy, spent long afternoons watching novelas on television and perfuming her thickening wrists. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s more about how Papi and I didn’t watch Lolo—which was Abuela’s main thread when she saw his blistered ears this afternoon. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Cora kicked her beggar’s cup, the few coins flew into the hubbub, and she continued on her afternoon errand to fetch flour for her son’s birthday cake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to sit down anyway because of the soft, uncomfortable load in his pants, which had been there all afternoon and which felt cold and squishy when he moved too much. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now late afternoon, almost time to stop and get the dinner. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then in the afternoon of the eighth of October there was a sudden cry of pain from the room where they slept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I just found out that I have an early showing of one of the houses I designed this afternoon, for one of my biggest clients. I’ll meet you at the university by four.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

This was pretty much the way things went for the rest of the afternoon. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

An air-postman will check their compasses and sweep them to their destinations this afternoon. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

To quiet the doubters, he gave his word that the public would be able to see Seabiscuit work a full ten furlongs—the race distance—at three-thirty on the afternoon of May 24. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, I sit on my bed and stare at my laptop, wondering if I should send Rabia a message on Google Hangouts. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Coming from the bright afternoon, the subway entrance feels dark and cavelike. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of afternoon when every car in the city seemed to be having trouble with its horn. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played marbles all afternoon in his backyard. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And where were you this afternoon.'1” Lourdes suddenly shouts at her husband, but she doesn’t wait for an answer. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon, Wash looked up from the river to see Naomi coming toward him and the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet afternoon opened up between them like a woman stretching her limbs. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked in silence, side by side, for the rest of the afternoon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We hung out for most of the afternoon. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“It could be important for him,” he told my mother after a session one afternoon. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I told him what Reb Saunders had talked about that afternoon. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One afternoon when I was alone in the honey house, June wandered in looking for August. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe you could go online this afternoon, Bobby. You could go to the website of the journal Science and do some poking around, search their database for articles on light, do some reading— okay?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want her to be able to see behind this body, to see me inside here, to know that it’s the same person she spent an afternoon with on the beach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

ON a Monday afternoon, a few weeks after my date with Stuart, I stop by the library before going to the League meeting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Me, without any hat, in the middle of the afternoon, having to chase up and down back alleys because of my mother’s good name. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't the afternoon in his house when we listened to the radio. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon, Miss Leefolt come home with her hair all teased up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Dicey went early to meet James. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re sure it was that same day? His crime took place on October 26. It sounds like police believe the victim was killed in the late afternoon.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

LaToya leaves to get Mama, who she says is working the afternoon shift in the library. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sun was just beginning its long summer afternoon journey toward the Manhattan building tops. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you’ll want to go to the circus this afternoon?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His hair, still the color of afternoon sunlight on ripe wheat, fell to his shoulders, revealing a high and wide brow over his frank brown eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ben grabbed for a history book Mary Anne was taking to her first afternoon class. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve hardly seen him all week, since he’s been at practice every afternoon until pretty late. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was four o’clock in the afternoon when Jody topped the hill and looked down on the ranch again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting here, shaded by the afternoon sun, I'm using my Vietnamese whenever I can, which turns out to be often. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Irish lace, hanging in the windows, filters the afternoon light, softening the lines on her face. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon the Woods had returned all the birds to their perches and mews. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

During the afternoon, when the trader was at work, his wife sat on the porch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asked why, as I knew she would, and I told her that I had to buy a present for a party I was going to later that afternoon. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We finally finished the day in the late afternoon, before the sun started to set, and the air cooled enough to carry a slight chill. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All day long I played soccer in various neighbourhoods, and toward afternoon, as hunger began gnashing at my guts, I left for home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I was in my room making a CD when Sizwe came over to pick up his inventory. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I was kind of a baby this afternoon,” she explained. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

So we let that burn for the whole afternoon. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Afterwards we could go to the Eagle for lunch, leaving the afternoon free to discuss how we could all proceed with the final phases of the problem. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the afternoon breeze turned into a real wind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, she was sitting at the kitchen table, reading the newspaper. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The woman’s brown hair was cut in a short bob and looked mussed, as though she had just woken up, even though it was late afternoon. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then the truce party turned and strolled up the lane through Central Park, like it was just a regular sunny Sunday afternoon. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

That afternoon he’d taken her to the stables where he worked as a groom. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Who knows? They made dirt in the morning and me that afternoon.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, with the afternoon sun setting behind him, he fixed his eyes on the first island to the east. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I drove into Fort Worth in the afternoon to discuss the project with my old friend George Levitan. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I settled my hands back down on my hips, recalling an afternoon in early April when Digger said he had something to show us—and the “something” turned out to be a cigarette. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Me and Mr. Mancuso here just having some coffee. You been nasty all afternoon. You don’t care where I raise that money. You don’t care if they lock me up. You don’t care about nothing.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What security? I left this building at three o’clock this afternoon and there was only a porter on duty, as usual. I should be asking you for identification. Who appointed you? And why?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benton Sage said, louder than necessary, to a local in Awasa, Ethiopia, where he had ended up one afternoon after he realized he was in over his head. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But one afternoon the women did not bring any food, and a whole day went by with the grumbling of men. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he straightened, he said, “Good afternoon, Your Highness.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the second day, I start to put on my AffloVest, jumping in surprise when Barb busts through the door, ready for the usual four o’clock fight that we have over it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For a year and a half, I went to classes in the morning and worked in the afternoons and evenings until midnight. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

April 4, 1942 My Love, I still go to our cedar tree in the afternoons every day. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One afternoon during swimming hour, the tin door of the changing room clanged open and shut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She’s staring straight ahead, wearing a white dress with a necklace this rainy afternoon, her long nose and dark eyes seeming to blend in perfectly with the mostly eastern European faces surrounding her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been plowing all afternoon, holding a green cedar club between the plow handles. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The challenge match was set for five o’clock that afternoon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the hall for a few minutes, the afternoon sun shining golden on the polished oak floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At one point in the late afternoon an unidentified boy dashed onto the shooting field and retrieved a wounded pigeon. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was standing there waiting when the bus brought him back that afternoon. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After days of calisthenics, the coach had said that probably he’d let them use the ball this afternoon. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went over there in the middle of the afternoon to help. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melchizedek, the king of Salem, sat on the wall of the fort that afternoon, and felt the levanter blowing in his face. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon we heard there was to be an attack up the river that night and that we were to take four cars there. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The trees creaked in the mocking sunlight of the late afternoon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the dog did not return that morning, or by that afternoon or that evening. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, my father walked eight kilometers to a place called Masaka where the trader lived. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Our afternoons together taught me that there was no formula for motherhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He reflected upon the pleasant afternoons they’d spent walking in Oldwood Park, discussing this thing or that—her mother, or the aged trees in the park, or baseball, or dogs. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bus dropped us off in Santa Monica in the late afternoon, and we wandered around for a while in clothes that were still a little damp from the storm. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I felt that if I had to die—and that afternoon I wanted to die —then I would die like a gladiator. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in December, in the course of a single afternoon, two of the cafe’s steadiest customers announced plans to pack up and leave not merely Finney County but the state. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon Mrs. Sen stood in a grove of pine trees by the main road where the school bus dropped off Eliot along with two or three other children who lived nearby. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even as a little girl she hungered for learning as a child does for cookies in the late afternoon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, the trip wire quivers, and the bell hidden beneath the third-floor table gives a single ring. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No. I just drew it this afternoon,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I checked the mailbox every afternoon as soon as I got off the bus and felt disappointed each time there was nothing for me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

On one of those afternoons, Marcela brought Alfred Vanderbilt up to join them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is late afternoon and his long shadow sways back and forth on the gravel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered where Papi had gone, who he had to see on a Sunday afternoon in San Juan. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“In the afternoons, a little bit. We have our chores with Cory in the morning and all. We’ve been real faithful about that.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On Saturday afternoon Ben rounded the corner of River Street and heard Toomer’s voice calling out in a wailing summer canticle to the last shoppers of the day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry. We have an elevator in the back, but it went on the fritz this afternoon. The technician is coming to fix it first thing in the morning.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And yet, how lovely it had been, that last afternoon in the cabin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Giver,” Jonas asked the next afternoon, “Do you ever think about release?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the Mother’s Day celebration, three municipal police visit the camp. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was locked up for twenty-three hours a day, with thirty minutes of exercise in the morning and again in the afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called Lauren to see if she wanted to go shopping later that afternoon. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I stand too, feeling jittery, wishing we could just sit around and eat donuts all afternoon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Atticus said, “He came in late one afternoon hot from football practice and raided the Kappa Alpha icebox. He also ate a dozen bananas and washed ’em down with a pint of whiskey. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hoodhood, I have been thinking about our Wednesday afternoon routines, and we need to make some changes.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“In my judgment, there is no question that the track will be fast for the race this afternoon. The race is on.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still talking about the baby on Monday, and when Mia arrived in the kitchen that afternoon, Lexie was delighted to have a fresh audience. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the King’s Huntress, and when she reached the iron gate she called out, “Good afternoon!” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started thinking of all the things I had to do this afternoon. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, on a visit to his family, he had summoned up the courage to tell his father that he didn’t want to become a priest. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could ask Pascagoula more about what Yule May said, but Pascagoula called this morning and said she had a problem and wouldn’t be coming in until this afternoon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When WE ALL GOT home that afternoon, Mom and Dad were eager to hear about our first day. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon in Idaho, nearly midnight in England, when my mother, unsure how to place an international call, found me online. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have to make rounds this morning. We can talk this afternoon. I know you can handle it, azizam.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The next day, Connor had to help his father with more setup for the Faire, then attend an afternoon council meeting. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She had thought that alone at her window on an August afternoon she would be far from where she could do any harm. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I was going to wait until this afternoon to tell you.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was a sunny September afternoon when I heaved my suitcase through Harvard Yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But one afternoon, just after her thirteenth birthday, Mr. Wilkinson had called to her sternly from his front porch. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon he could be seen returning on horseback, with his hunting dogs and his double-barreled shotgun and a string of rabbits hanging from his saddle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That afternoon I asked Mitchell Sanders to give me a hand. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d be told what “sport” we were going to play for the afternoon. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They knew, even as Frith had known, that the library fire was not lit until the afternoon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I would be spared an afternoon of listening to Sals basketball. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She was so focused on her work that, on the afternoon in March when the man with the briefcase began staring at her, she did not notice right away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay. So, I was thinking the three of us could grab brunch together? He has a golf thing in the afternoon, so maybe late morning.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then one afternoon in the spring, they were out, by chance, at dusk. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon she rose from her desk and walked down the aisle and stopped beside me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, I saw Papa coming. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late the next afternoon April and Melanie lay across April’s bed and chatted. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone who writes stories for the Cucaracha Voice heard about our mouse exhibit and wants to write it up for the paper. She is going to come Friday afternoon and bring a photographer.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sisi had drawn the curtains and turned the chandelier on, even though it was afternoon. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Mama had to change him often. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, when the reporters were watching the races, he would sneak the horse out for his real workouts on the training track or another track altogether. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a hundred years ago that Dana Matherson had tried to strangle him inside the janitor’s closet, but it had happened only that afternoon. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tom,” he said, “what did you do this afternoon?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after an intense afternoon, Houseman saw that the show had magically come together. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even though we only had a week before finals, I spent Monday afternoon reading “Song of Myself.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It marks both time and astrological movements as it ticks steadily through the afternoon. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By early afternoon, the end of the driftwood log had been roughly formed into a flat point. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She saw it on one burning afternoon sewing with her on the porch a short time after Meme had left for school. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s like she’s got some auto-service set up, so these are set to go out at certain times. Tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, then...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It loomed up out of his life like the shadow of a building falling over you in the cold afternoon—a building you do not want to enter, though you know you must. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A box arrived in the office in the afternoon: Team Lawn Boy T-shirts and uniform pants, and truck magnets for the crew to slap on their pickups. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the harsh afternoon light they seemed to me tacky and sad. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In one city, a famous gangster robbed a bank of five thousand dollars and spent the whole lot on candy bars that same afternoon. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

According to him, it had all started one afternoon in one of Miss Geraldine’s art classes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon we feasted on Popsicles to keep cool. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Health note: My valve did close quite violently this afternoon when Mr. Gonzalez asked me to add a column of figures for him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon Parkhill did some target practice in one of the dead cities, shooting out the crystal windows and blowing the tops off the fragile towers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In die afternoon, toward evening, with his face smoke smeared and his sldn red from die heat, he finally began to think ahead to what he needed to do. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems to be all right. I cant tell until I go over it, though. I’ll go into it this afternoon.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had met Brother Leon in the corridor late one afternoon after football practice and had seen hate flashing in the teacher’s eyes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was Wednesday afternoon the tenth of November, though it felt like September. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Therefore it was always a relief, every afternoon, to march out the Academy’s back door and across a dirt parking lot to the gym for Physical Training. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read my ticket and then went through a reprise of the just-the-facts interrogation he had administered that afternoon in the Watch Commander’s Office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beetee essentially gives us the afternoon off while he works with the wire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The weather deteriorated as the afternoon wore on. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived in this town yesterday afternoon, and have decided to remain a second night here so as to allow myself this whole day to spend in a leisurely manner. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had worked on the stitchery throughout the afternoon, after her return from the forest. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it might be that some coaches somewhere would delay a tryout on an afternoon when some of the tryoutees have just been traumatized by two gigantic rats falling out of their classroom ceiling. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He could have just walked into class, poured himself a cup of coffee, and hidden behind his newspaper all afternoon. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

But on that Sunday afternoon when our two little temples assembled, perhaps only two hundred Muslims, the Chicagoans welcoming and greeting us Detroiters, I experienced tinglings up my spine as I’ve never had since. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, at the beginning of his rule, Arcadio paid them a surprise visit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then the light winked out below the haze again and all three pilots were left blinded in the dull gloom of a showery autumn afternoon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Later, in the afternoon, after the professors had huddled and made several phone calls, the college held a press conference. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

If they believed her story, and it was doubtful they would, they almost certainly would fail to realise what an astounding event it was that had taken place in the classroom that afternoon. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first afternoon they went out together was particularly fine. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned at about five in the afternoon to find her nearly dead from loss of blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the grandparents’ house in Oslo and my mother said to me, ‘We are going to the doctor this afternoon. He wants to look at your nose and mouth.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was getting late, and he thought this sudden sleepiness uncanny. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I began work by cutting the lawn, which took me about four hours with their riding lawn mower. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rain would probably keep him in front of the television all afternoon. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday afternoon, January 17 Minerva just left for the capital to go back to school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he did an end-around on the unfortunate taste by drowning his java in cream, for which Katherine gently teased him that afternoon. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It was the winter afternoon years ago when I’d come in to find Gram looking out the window at the snow, and she’d been angry at me for not knocking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Keep them asking,” he said, “and exit clean and sharp. Thank you and good afternoon.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hear and see everything, and that first afternoon he somehow managed to talk the girl Egyptians into doing all their ceremonies and rituals over for him to watch. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Mrs. Frisby told the children that she must leave them to confer again with the rats about moving the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But that Sunday afternoon, as I actually stood watching one, it seemed the easiest thing in the world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, they retrieved their buried money, and that night in the loft, they stashed some in their shoes, some in their pockets, and some in their backpacks. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of May 8, Richard Nixon announced that American planes had begun striking industrial targets in and around Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I am so glad to see you here this evening, because this afternoon my optometrist gave me eye drops and I couldn’t see a thing! Before I officially illuminate our Olympic torch...” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was fading as they came back to the glade where Boromir had fallen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Even in late afternoon the day was hot. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Mr. Daniels moves his king, placing it on a black square between his own bishop and my knight. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bringing a book outside to read, I would fall asleep almost immediately in my chair; when I took the boat out I soon tired of rowing and allowed myself to drift all afternoon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got home that afternoon, I showed my mother Caitlin’s letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She spent the afternoon trying to keep me from finding out she’d been vomiting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He would drive into Manhattan after work, during the afternoon rush, three days a week. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

On a drowsy Sunday afternoon, a man in a long dark coat hesitated in front of a house on a tree-lined street. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This is going to be a long afternoon. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In the fading afternoon light the stubble on his throat looked like only a shadow, but she knew it for what it was. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon I woke to find a sympathetic note and a packet of flu pills on the common room table. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“When somebody had my car all afternoon? Whether or not she was in school today is already past,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This afternoon a familiar face looms in the train station, maybe four or five back in the queue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I also phoned in radio reports every morning and afternoon. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the later afternoon, everyone would come home, looking tired, hardly noticing the demons who lit the gas lamps. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, let’s go to Albania. Shouldn’t take more than an afternoon to search an entire country,” said Ron sarcastically. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Some day, Miss Lucy told Cora one afternoon while they walked the green, all the numbers and figures and notes would make a great contribution to their understanding of colored life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, Cole rolled black tar paper over the roof and tacked it down. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She dressed exactly like any well-to-do Salinas woman out shopping on a Monday afternoon—except that she always wore gloves, which was unusual for Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You children stay in the house this afternoon.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, my name is Leonardo. Pm the new priest. Pm here to serve you,” he said. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It had only been one afternoon, but already I missed him. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“David’s been looking forward to this all afternoon.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernestine, after playing outside most of the afternoon, came to supper one evening with flushed cheeks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon his mother returned to the corner to guide students across the street, Mr. Munch found Canton in the bathroom after school, sitting on the nasty tile floor in the corner. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

One Saturday afternoon he puts all his best marbles—his puries, his waterbabies and cat’s eyes, his gems and wonders— into a single jar. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Across the nation in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon two policemen discovered a fire beginning in the San Francisco Black Muslim Mosque, and quickly extinguished it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All morning and afternoon, we wait for Pa to walk back to us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On late afternoons like this there would be no light in the kitchen except the glow from the oil-burners of the big stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It didn't have time to soak up much juice. If I leave it connected all afternoon, the orb will burn bright for a few days—even longer if I keep it switched off.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had blackmailed another ten dollars out of the urchin, also forcing the waif to watch the wagon while he spent the afternoon at Loew’s State watching a film about drag-racing teenagers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set up an appointment for my brother to see the owner of the Buster Brown Shoe Store on Broadway that Saturday afternoon. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon—eighteen hours after the president's death—he made his first incision into Garfield's wasted body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Charlotte liked to do her weaving during the late afternoon, and Fern liked to sit nearby and watch. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Willard and I waited in the reception room for the end of the afternoon rest cure. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I quite fail to see what is 'good’ about this afternoon, when you have rubbished the founding principle of the comprehensive school. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Joey sat next to Cara on the bus that Monday afternoon. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I walked back to the Perfect House slowly that afternoon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The wooden houses, the cool terraces for breezy card-playing afternoons, seemed to have been blown away in an anticipation of the prophetic wind that years later would wipe Macondo off the face of the earth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It said that Bobby had been invited to be a contestant on the television show I’ve Got a Secret at four-thirty that afternoon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, one of the Finns left his wood chopping to urinate. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It took the jury less than an hour to decide his fate that afternoon. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The process would resume at five o’clock the next afternoon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He just wanted a quiet afternoon, that much was clear. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One rainy September afternoon I was the officer escorting four R-gallery porters back from the Laundry Building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora held Royal’s head in her lap, just as she had the afternoon of the picnic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon Beatrice would change into a cool frock and a shady hat and watch Giles play cricket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if everything went well, I could easily be back by the middle of the afternoon, which might even give me time to catch a few shad to show Father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave him a little thrill, knowing that his very presence could upset someone’s walk or their afternoon searching for craft toilet paper holders and heirloom tomatoes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His first Gymnopedie of 1888, as well as sounding like a long, hot afternoon in the Midi after a liquid lunch, can be seen as a deliberate attempt to debunk pomposity and de-clutter music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, you always say good morning and good afternoon to the teachers.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she knew that his excuse, that he’d spent the afternoon jogging, allowed him to take a shower when he got home, first thing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The chanting of Ali’s name, however, continued throughout the rest of the afternoon, well into the night. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost blindingly white in the late afternoon sun; it looked as if it had been white st washed several times for the brick to be so completely covered, Polly surmised. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t been outdoors since I got sick, so I don’t know what it’s like. I mean the weather. But today, this afternoon, I noticed something.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The pages of my mind flip back once more to the snowy afternoon when I’d run into her room to find her staring out the window. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

All afternoon I kept going back to the balcony to look. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go this afternoon. When we get back. Okay?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’m back where I was, where I stand every single afternoon, in front of the pond of a thousand dragonflies. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Over the roar of the engine, I told him I’d found a job but that I would drive the crane in the afternoons, until he could hire someone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At first, all he was aware of were the heels of the shoes beating rapidly against the floor, and he wondered if Lalo and the afternoon customers in the bar downstairs could hear it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon’s two hours in Egypt turned out to be mostly a long discussion of the What and How of the Egyptian Oracle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

From three o’clock to four o’clock in the afternoon there was no policeman on duty in the block where Blum’s Delicatessen was and it would be safe. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A boat had arrived in Ch’ulp’o that afternoon; those aboard carried the news that a royal emissary would be a passenger on another boat sailing in the next moon. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, while Joseph’s things were drying, they boiled maple syrup and Joseph put on the gardener’s boots and they took the pan outside. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You were out of the Near Hind burrows this afternoon?” began Woundwort. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got used to the morning fog over the beach, the smell of hot strawberry fields in the afternoon, even the weird noises of monsters in the woods at night. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At five that afternoon, some twenty minutes after the stolen Chevrolet rolled off the Nevada desert into Las Vegas, the long ride came to an end. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And late Friday afternoon, one copy of The Landry News ended up on the desk of Dr. Philip K. Barnes, Principal. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon, the two teenagers’ journeys overlapped for a mere eight minutes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It would be nice, after the rough afternoon, to spend a little time with Ess, alone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Consider: Is it Coach Reed or you who is sitting in this somewhat dreary room that smells of vinegar on a beautiful October afternoon?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s better in the afternoons with Brother Vu, who just wants us to do front kicks and back kicks, at times adding one-two punches. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It may have cost Jerrod what we consider a state championship team,” she said in the soft afternoon light of the practice field, “but it may have cost Gary a career.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it’s way more important to find a group to huddle with to help body-block the rising winds, and some afternoons anyone will do. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When Silly’s mother or uncle could drive her, she would come over for a couple of hours in the afternoons and help me with my homework. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon in early winter, nearly dark outside. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon they were roused by the watch, and took their chief meal: cold and cheerless as a rule, for they could seldom risk the lighting of a fire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s two in the afternoon. We said three o’clock for a rendezvous.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The reprimand came about after Grosie handed Mother a list of six close friends of the family, and suggested that Mother call to pay her respects that afternoon. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he mumbled something about coming to see him later that afternoon to go through the forms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This particular afternoon, Cora walked out with Molly once the bell sounded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Yesterday afternoon was the first time we’d said a word to each other in practically three months. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I tried to pretend she was taking a nap, her hands folded at her stomach, just sleeping away the afternoon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon, the boys learned how to handle weapons and dig protective coverings, such as trenches, foxholes, and earth bunkers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon wind had dropped away and left the air raw and wounded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon he found that the engine of the swings had been deliberately damaged and he had to work three hours overtime to fix it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We paused once in the afternoon, to allow the animal to drink from a stream. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Free when the afternoon sun gets hot to take a nap on my soft bed for as long as I please. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When they returned the next afternoon, we were not surprised. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If only it weren’t quite so hot,” we said in the afternoon, when the windows had to be shut. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, someone fired a bullet through a second-story window. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports, and after I got to know her, the whole summer long we played tennis together almost every morning and golf almost every afternoon. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, they lay spread out, sunbathing in front of the library, reading Swift or Engels or Beckett. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day last December, Pap come home in a turrible state after he spent a afternoon working on the Tanner plantation. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I look back down at my phone, remembering the encrypted note I’d received earlier in the afternoon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun suspended above it in the afternoon is a pink, round dot in the distant white haze you may stare at and never go blind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

During library period, which came next, a lot of people got stuff to read about oracles, and that afternoon there was another discussion in class. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Hall’s furrowed brow betrayed his concern. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange for Mama to be home at three thirty in the afternoon, right when we were getting home from school, and even stranger to see her leaving the house again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And then Lenore adds: "Transitions are important. We want you to spend the morning at Jamison tomorrow and then go to the hearing in the afternoon." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As they began the long walk back to their mother, the heavy languor of the afternoon soaking into them, Ben studied his mother. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the afternoon was a blur. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you brought your fresh minds and open hearts this afternoon,” Ms. Hawkins says, smiling wide. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon by the time the pit was deep enough, and the light was becoming dim. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Janae doesn’t have anything planned for the rest of the summer—no job, no internship, so her butt isn’t going anywhere on a Monday afternoon in July. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when I was around five years old, my gran left me at home for a few hours to go run errands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Why I never saw fifty dollars until I was twenty-one years old, with all the other boys with the afternoon off and all day Saturday and me working in a store. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dashed up the cement stairs and out into the dimming afternoon light, then bolted across the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We had swimming for gym class that afternoon. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, when Luke was still in flight from his wife, when I was still imaginary for him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is the end of Hitler, may his name and memory be erased,” Reb Saunders said to me that Shabbat afternoon. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There are more people on the sidewalks this afternoon than usual: the warm weather must have brought them out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was the Champion who’d tried to escape this afternoon. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, my host looked at me with friendly alarm. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My capture had been scheduled to go down at exactly 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On a warm afternoon I had grown bored and decided, against my better judgment, to go to the east ridge of the valley to gather berries. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She looked like she was ready to catch a movie, have a cool afternoon hanging out together. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Over soup that afternoon she said they were her cousins. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He talked to the teacher for a while one afternoon; that night he gave Jethro permission to remain at home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I crept into Reverend Matyolo’s garden and stole some maize, which I roasted and ate right there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon passed slowly on the ridge above the Greasy Grass River. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

After the Evening Service, Danny said he would walk me part of the way home, and as we turned into Lee Avenue he asked me what had happened between me and his father that afternoon. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My mother is gone this afternoon, a rare excursion into the outside world to visit her sister in the country. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Are you waiting for someone, my dear?" asked a pleasant-featured young woman, as the afternoon dragged on. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much light in the land of Egypt that afternoon, which didn’t make it all less strange. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the southeast, a city was nestled in the foothills of a mountain range, blue and purple in the afternoon shadows. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the months went by, her sad moods drove away her friends, and the courtyard was now empty in the afternoons. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most afternoons, after making the morning rounds with Madame, Marie-Laure sits on her bed with the window open and travels her hands over her father’s model of the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I was invited into our smoke-filled dining room to make the acquaintance of Stonewall Jimmy, Just Black, Cool Clyde, Tight Coat and Red Leg. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to have late afternoon practice too. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over at Brick's place in the afternoon, there's a bunch of us just chilling. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rest of the afternoon was unnervingly quiet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I awoke later in the afternoon I found a package resting next to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It had been several days since Miss Sadie had left me hanging with her last story, about Jinx and Ned at the county fair, and that day I had the afternoon off. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The early August afternoon was growing hotter and more humid. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

All afternoon Frizel, Junior, the leather-dresser, had been standing outside on the street waiting for one or the other to come out. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer would leave the town in the afternoon and travel all through the night and until the early morning of the next day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

You, Emma, are the color of afternoon light settling on the trees in the Spinney, Gram had told me, and I had been proud. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

At some point that afternoon, Booth made the final arrangements. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, late afternoon light filtered through the vapor and broke into colors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

On a slow Wednesday afternoon, she handed in her resignation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s late afternoon and David is only on his third delivery of the day. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful September afternoon, bright sun, cool breeze, blue sky. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just need you to sign this, and I’ll be back later this afternoon.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

An assembly of well-intentioned people had marched right up to the elderly man’s front door one rainy afternoon to escort him—by reason, or by force—to a facility for proper care. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Father and I had a long talk yesterday afternoon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Outside, the afternoon was a riot of noise, movement, and color, smeared to shades of red and gray. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, the TV announces an emergency message. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon by then and it would be dark soon, for the days were growing shorter. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kabuo pulled into a turnout one rainy afternoon and explained to her in grave tones that he intended to repurchase his parents’ property as soon as the chance arose. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I set out in the early afternoon, hungry because I couldn’t find any bread to steal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Now you go on back to school this afternoon, you hear?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ruth”—Rodney’s voice was steady and had a warning in it—“let’s forget about it and go and see Martin. He’s off this afternoon. You’ll like him, he’s a real laugh.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always saved the tea bag from his morning tea to use it again in the afternoon. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I didn’t see Samantha at all through the whole morning and afternoon. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before I learned how to cross a street, my parents taught me to keep track of time in the afternoons to make sure I didn’t get caught outside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the brightness of the afternoon and watched the hem of light under the Venetian blinds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, both boys had carved mice into their logs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, as the low sun reached long yellow fingers through the tall grass, he had stopped beside a meadow to listen to just such a noise. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder made two pumpkin pies that afternoon with his mom, and played three games of solitaire. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the deep light of the fading afternoon, Grandma raised her arms, the way she did at sunrise near the water. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He prided himself on having favorite love positions for different days and hours of the week; all he had to whisper was “Wednesday afternoon” and I’d shiver. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I was standing outside my Spanish class when Leonard Rodriguez, who sat next to me, came hurrying down the hall with a revolutionary’s fire in his eye. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for this afternoon: centaur polo at 2:30. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He and Candice then spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon driving to every electronics store in Lambert before finally purchasing a new, top-of-the-line laptop. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Chew Wong opened the oven door and was leaning in, on tiptoe, to see whether a cake was browning on all sides. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly heard the sounds of battle in the living room when she came in from school the next afternoon. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

"You can pretend you found it first thing in the morning. Then you can get the whole day off, instead of just an hour or so this afternoon." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"Tomorrow,” he told us at dinner, "I’m going to make a cement bird bath. All those who want to watch me should come home right after school, and we’ll make it in the late afternoon.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent the afternoon lounging in the shade of a tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said nothing else to me until her friends came over that afternoon, when Aunty Ifeoma and Jaja were in the garden and the boys were playing football out front. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was just remembering what he used to say as I got off the bus every afternoon when the man before me sang it out: “End of the line, Portman!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She stood on the slight downgrade of her front lawn, with the low, glaring, late afternoon sun at her back. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I just know she didn’t. She says she went for a car ride with one of the boys this afternoon and you followed her.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They agreed to travel east to search for a better place to ford the Kell, and when they came to a shallow beach in the early afternoon, Con stopped. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He worked steadily all afternoon in his own lab, hot zone AA-4, at the center of the building, where he fiddled with the flasks of virus culture from the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ajnd that was all until this afternoon when I got up with a hangover. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the afternoon, the staff had pulled off an extraordinary top-to-bottom flip of the residence, whisking the Bushes’ belongings out and our belongings in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So late in the afternoon of the gentle April day, Johnny came down upon Lexington Green. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I did not see her again until the afternoon, when, as I say, I came across her in the dining room, replacing crockery into the sideboard. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon, but already the daylight was beginning to fade. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was rare that Grandpa left the house at all, but that afternoon he’d invited me out for a walk. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

By the end of the afternoon we’d all ended up down by Beaver Creek. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was afternoon before we sat down at the dining-room table under a cobwebby gasolier. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon peace and summer rested on the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon the elevator was papered with notices and filled with tenants facing sideways and backwards, reading as they rode up and down. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their morale was low because they did not want to march in parades every Sunday afternoon and because Lieutenant Scheisskopf had appointed cadet officers from their ranks instead of permitting them to elect their own. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In London, night came too soon, it hung in the morning air like a threat, and then in the afternoon a blue-gray dusk descended, and the Victorian buildings all wore a mournful air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Ammu traveled upwards through a dream in which a cheerful man with one arm held her close by the light of an oil lamp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sunny Wednesday afternoon my mother, George, Florah, Maria and I were returning from visiting my grandmother when, turning a corner, we walked right into a police trap. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cooked and sewed for Nusan, studied at night, and had a few hours in the afternoon when she met Pearl at the quonset. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the humming heat of a midsummer afternoon the little boy Jody listlessly looked about the ranch for something to do. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the jet this afternoon, flying home from New Orleans, and looked out the window to the patterns of a December countryside far below. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brutal afternoon workouts left him exhausted and sore but feeling cleansed, as if someone had scrubbed out his soul with a stiff wire brush. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed a waste of a good afternoon to sit in church for a silly old brooch, which was not only not gold but was too old for me to wear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Betty Jean was waiting for me in the kitchen when I got home from school on Monday afternoon. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spend the afternoon wandering through downtown Athens—past music venues and into vintage clothing shops, where Abby spends her food money on a pair of faux leather ankle boots. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They played cards in the afternoon, and asked us if we had heard anything more about Hawaii. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon there, Mrs. Tate. Sorry to interrupt you, ma’am, but I got a telegram for Captain Tate. It’s from Washington.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I want to spend the afternoon traveling to higher ground, hunting as we go. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They had good luck in the middle of the afternoon. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Go back to bed and sleep a while longer. We’ll all pray this afternoon for God’s forgiveness.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She pulls him toward her and it begins to rain, a hard afternoon rain that is rare in winter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without Theresa and Ralph knowing, she spent large parts of her afternoons listening to the radio, or reading the magazines she kept under her mattress. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been in the afternoon near the “dead hour”—when the lessons were finished but there was still some time to go until supper. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of pastel icing, pink candles burning in the pale November afternoon light, and there is a sense of shame and failure. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home from school that afternoon, Mom was still curled up on the sofa bed, a small pile of paperbacks next to her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Billy and his group joined the river of humiliation, and the late afternoon sun came out from the clouds. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cab is crawling through afternoon traffic, I'm three feet away from two other people, and I can't talk to either of them. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons he hitchhiked to Paguate to see his girl friend. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He went to work at one in the afternoon and Mack would keep his door closed, not even come out of his room, until after his father had left. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be an accident of course and later on in the afternoon, when I came back from my walk, I should find Frith white and frightened waiting for me with a message. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, late that afternoon, he rousted him out and put him on the bus, with the rest of the boys, headed for the regatta course. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Word of our good fortune came on a stormy afternoon, brought by Ulape, who was never idle. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well!” she cried, picking up the pocket-handkerchief, “if that don’t make seven times! What ARE you a-doing of this afternoon, Mum!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu thought often of that afternoon early in her babysitting: Kimberly was out, Taylor was playing and Morgan reading in the den. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ishmael remembered following his father one afternoon as he roamed the grounds of the Strawberry Festival in search of photographs and winning quotes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At three in the afternoon, Yeste said, “Enough. I am exhausted from the watching.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, they crested a dome of stone and found themselves staring out at Elfland. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He’s also not allowed to sit in Mr. Kugler’s office anymore on Saturday afternoons or Sundays, because the manager of Keg’s might hear him if he happens to be next door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We’d also shared hilarious moments behind the scenes, trying on each other’s makeup, giggling about boys, and coming up with spur-of-the-moment games on long, boring afternoons. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She decided to close early, because it was hardly worth the trouble of keeping open on an afternoon like this. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But by afternoon, I know the end is coming. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’d had rotten luck this afternoon, hadn’t sold a single box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon now only a few customers were scattered at the tables. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. General Pettigrew claims he saw them yesterday afternoon. General Hill says he was, ah, overeager. General Hill says he expects no opposition but perhaps some local militia, with shotguns and such.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nurse Ramirez looks like an entirely different person from the one who arrived here yesterday afternoon. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mary Surratt’s afternoon visit, he took the “shooting irons” from their hiding place so they would be ready for the callers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Louie was out walking one afternoon, a convertible fringed in blondes pulled up, and he was scooped into the car and sped off to a party. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They spent the afternoon playing with Boots, trying to make each other eat and often, without any particular reason, reaching out to touch each other. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You may as well start on something happy to get the chill out just in case I survive the afternoon.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The afternoon had been wasted on the cat; Ignatius had tried to trap the cat in the bun compartment and take it home for a pet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon he and Ron escaped Hermione’s baleful presence again, and under the pretense of scouring the bare hedges for nonexistent blackberries, they continued their ongoing exchange of news. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then, when the sun passed the meridian, we put another marker on the afternoon stone-shadow. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard, James, and I spend the afternoon bringing buckets of water from the river to dump on the tiny new shoots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I stayed in bed yesterday with a sore throat, but since: I was already bored the very first afternoon and didn’t have a fever, I got up today. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A nervous moment arrives one afternoon when I go shopping. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We drove all night to Cape Town, and arrived at the city’s docks in the late afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows from late afternoon pushed into the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, every day at the ringing of the three Congregational bells, Turner left his kindling and set off to Mrs. Cobb’s house, and every afternoon Lizzie would be there. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My mouth watered at the memory of double-dip cones on hot summer afternoons, sticky and cold and sweet. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sam drags me in and out of stores for the rest of the afternoon. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When she woke, the late afternoon sun was already sinking over the Hudson, and she got to work. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He said he did when she had first asked him, one afternoon in Palo Alto as they sat side by side in a darkened, nearly empty movie theater. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The week they’d arrived, Mia had gotten a job at Lucky Palace, a local Chinese restaurant; several afternoons and evenings a week, she took and packaged up takeout orders at the counter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From then on, every afternoon, as soon as her mother had left for bingo, Matilda would toddle down to the library. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon she grew very hungry and flew up the river to Sam’s mountain and the one hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, I haunted the busy outer courtyard of the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I changed into a t-shirt and sweatpants and went downstairs so I could sit on the couch and watch television for the rest of the afternoon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s the tunnel, Chief. We’ll have it ready by this afternoon!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was a typical summer Miami afternoon where the humidity punishes any and all. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The wind came up as it did every afternoon, and the yellow dust ran into the sky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I maneuvered my work shifts so that my brothers would work the afternoons, when he usually came lumbering into the laundry, but he caught on and began coming during the evening, the cool shift. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife tells me that I’m doing fourteen-hour days,” Miele mused one afternoon, slicing cold chicken and piling it with fresh tomatoes on toast. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Where was I keeping myself, he asked, and why wasn’t I coming over anymore on Shabbos afternoons? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the afternoon, they discuss no more than fashion and art movements. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys’ school, especially in the winter. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked me to swing by the house later that afternoon; he had a few ideas he wanted to run past me. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Saturday afternoon, late November 1992. A couple. They came in with this glazed look on their faces. I said, ‘Folks, have you been shopping for cars all day?’ Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dad had promised him he could run through the sprinklers that afternoon even though the governor had asked everyone in the state to conserve water this summer. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon,” said the perfectly ordinary-sized man who answered the door. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since that afternoon I dreaded even the sound of her voice down the house telephone, and by using Robert as mediator between us I was spared this last ordeal. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

So, on Sunday afternoon, Papa would drive me back to work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one of those afternoons I wandered by Henry’s house and found him in his back yard digging a flower bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

During those long afternoons in the pool, he paddled and laughed and tossed our small bodies into the air, his diminished legs suddenly less of a liability. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A bargeman, poling away from the shore, found Chicken late that afternoon stuck in some rocks and weeds, his knickers ballooning about his legs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

About the middle of the afternoon we stopped at a small stream to water the team. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gold sequins that covered his tunic glittered in the afternoon sunlight. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, like Mr. Lapham’s boys, they swam secretly, silently, on Sunday afternoons, but usually only after dusk had fallen and the day’s work was over. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as he waited at a traffic light, he had to admit that the drawing, coupled with the imaginative and dedicated coloring that Quang-ha had done earlier in the afternoon, was disturbing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The third important arrival was Sir Aglovale, who came rather late in the afternoon, when the rubies had left the table and climbed the wall. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Mia were still close, but there were long afternoons at the baseball diamond in the park, long hours practicing passes and practicing layups. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once a man gave me two bits to rub down and watch his horse for the afternoon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was wearing away when they scrambled and stumbled into a fold that was wider and deeper than any they had yet met. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

However, Kreacher did not return that morning or even that afternoon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, driving with Mrs. Baker, the American Revolution was here. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Gebu was in and out of the shop all day, usually remaining for several hours in either the morning or the afternoon, personally overseeing or working alongside his craftsmen. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It’s late afternoon and I’m studying in the cellar when my mother summons me to the phone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They washed each other afterward, taking their time about it in the friendly way of certain married people, and then Carl got into bed and slept until one in the afternoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joe was outside, down on his hands and knees, tending his vegetable garden that afternoon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m perfectly able to do my share,” said Eilonwy, who had not stopped being irritated at him since the afternoon. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

That afternoon the girls and Marshall got to the storage yard first, and they were all sitting on the edge of the temple floor just waiting when Ken and Toby arrived. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cheddar waits on the ledge of the front window for me to come home from the salon in the afternoon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Ishmael, one long afternoon, helped Dale Papineau—self-appointed caretaker for half a dozen summer families—prune back the alder branches overarching their long drive. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

By the time we finish grocery shopping and get to Burger Palace, it’s almost two in the afternoon. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We arrived at Kabati, my grandmothers village, around two in the afternoon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We recited Lil’s lines together all the way down into New York City that afternoon. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of shutting herself up in her room all afternoon, she began to come down when Mia arrived and linger in the kitchen while she cooked—much to her siblings’ amusement. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon light I look scrubbed and serious. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Aureliano continued getting together in the afternoon with the four arguers, whose names were Alvaro, German, Alfonso, and Gabriel, the first and last friends that he ever had in his life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I told him how I had felt that afternoon when I had come home from the hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was again late afternoon when we were ushered into the same office of a month ago by the same black policeman with the gun. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The indirect afternoon light, reflected from the gravel and filtered through the fanlight, filled the entrance hall with the yellowish-orange tones of a sepia print. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One afternoon when I arrived for my session with Dr. Luce, there was a movie projector in his office. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Late one afternoon, after a long period in a cushioned window seat behind a painted screen, I emerge and turn left instead of right. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was a warm afternoon, and it felt wonderful—you can’t believe how wonderful—to be at large without a pack, bouncy and unburdened. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of June 17, 1873, Susan B. Anthony climbed the front steps of the Ontario County Courthouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was sitting next to him that afternoon, and as he took up his pencil, I grabbed it away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was almost as though that very afternoon did not exist, had never happened. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prepared breakfast for them and made them tea in the late morning and afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men in uniform and men with obvious power and authority strode across the sand all afternoon, clearly preparing for something. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was unconscious through most of the afternoon. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a relief to be doing something after sitting around all afternoon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The two of them spend the afternoon at the piano, with Zach teaching Didu a few old hymns that he learned as a kid. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You do that. Then come back in the afternoon so we can touch base again.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And furthermore,” said Nels, “after the defendant left that afternoon you and your husband sat on the porch and had your own conversation?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Wednesday afternoon, just before it aired, Bebe dropped by to tell her how the interview had gone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

We passed through the border without a problem and arrived in Lobatse in the late afternoon, where there was a telegram for me from Dar es Salaam postponing my trip for a fortnight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, Pong’s throat seized up as if he'd swallowed a fish bone. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I was last outside yesterday afternoon, when I was coming home from visiting Dad, an uneventful Labor Day. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stayed by him the rest of the long afternoon while he slept When he awakened, it was early evening and had turned cool again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, he was brought before the tribal chieftains, who asked him why he had violated the Tradition. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nelson spent part of an afternoon demonstrating to me that fine linguistic difference while we scraped chicken manure from the nest boxes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock in the afternoon Lee was sitting at his desk, turning over the pages of a seed catalogue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were silent for a long time, each thinking his own thoughts in the steamy afternoon. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lost his fear, and forgot about his need to go back to the oasis, because, one afternoon, his heart told him that it was happy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You came in the late afternoon, my mother said. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was the hot, sleepy feeling of a summer afternoon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This huge room was filled morning, afternoon, and evening with inmates, and my day shift spanned two of those times. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, when I get home from school, I change into my home clothes and wander over to Abuela’s house. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When I went in the afternoons, right after school let out, it was usually just the two of us in the store. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came up with a whole new strategy for the organization those afternoons. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On yesterday’s trip, a Sunday afternoon, there were no less than six checkpoints to get through, more than one every 10 miles. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon he built a mold, mixed his concrete confidently, and poured his bird bath. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catching the afternoon sun, the petals filled with color, a clean cup of lemon in the winter light. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature had dropped ten degrees, and more snow fell in the afternoon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Don Luciano closes his shop on Sunday afternoon to have lunch with his family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon we will go to her place of business and glean her.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Pit is almost empty; it is the middle of the afternoon, though it feels like it’s been night for days. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then, late one afternoon while I was studying the messages of the spiders with my teacher, Mama herself came to his wasi in need of healing. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, how many houses have flute music playing on the stereo in the middle of the afternoon, and loud? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You could get tired of carrying that stuff around all afternoon. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon Amari, peeling potatoes in the corner of the kitchen, listened as Lena, one of the house slaves, gossiped with Teenie. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late in the afternoon, steamy hot, and few golfers were out. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon on the way home from school, when I told her we’d lived for a while in California, she lit up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll make sure I run home this afternoon, just in case.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

So he lets her in on an important reason for trusting him this afternoon, just in case she needs another. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But she couldn’t walk in the rain all afternoon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Only the clock beyond the gates makes any motion, slowly ticking by the afternoon hours. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Wisps of smoke still rose into the grey sky, but no more than might have risen from Winterfell's chimneys on a cold autumn afternoon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We ran past other junior high schools and got jeered at by baseball players who warmed up with a couple of sprints and then shagged balls the rest of the afternoon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A year later they guided another group of seven to the top on an afternoon when forty people reached the summit in a single day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother’s been here all afternoon. She knew all along, apparently—‘something not right about that girl, something off, no family, no friends, came from nowhere.’ The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only later, after I’d left the office and forgotten all about them, that I learned whom they belonged to, and that maybe I hadn’t been quite so safe that afternoon as I’d thought. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By two in the afternoon they were less than ten miles away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In the early afternoon, he saw a large group of soldiers up ahead. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon a soft gold light bathed the Court of Honor and storm clouds walled the northern sky. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She first spoke without the American accent that afternoon at Thirtieth Street Station, leaning towards the woman behind the Amtrak counter. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I joined him there every afternoon, and frequently my father came with me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Baba sings in a fake deep voice as he passes through the family room, making me laugh for the first time since that afternoon. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, after another dreary Sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb’s with the sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons he takes her on his rounds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This afternoon Mr. Ali and Ms. Jenna brought our after-school group into the storage room so everybody could snoop at our progress. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet entered, standing in the warm orange afternoon sunlight that came in from his bedroom window. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s late afternoon and stormy outside the Residence, and he’s on his back in the middle of the Solarium, catching up on drafts for work. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On Saturday afternoon Billy Buck, the ranch-hand, raked together the last of the old year’s haystack and pitched small forkfuls over the wire fence to a few mildly interested cattle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the rain started back up that afternoon, it was even harder than the night before. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, as soon as school had let out, I went to the address. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The final afternoon bell has just sounded, and the room is beginning to fill up with students arriving to audition for the fall play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She said maybe I should have a think about whether I preferred to play on Tuesday afternoons or Saturday mornings with Frank. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The boys put their hands together a final time, chanted, “One, two, three—go Fugees!” and jogged back onto the field to try to save the afternoon. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was a gentleman, kind to little children...or so everyone thought until that sunny afternoon when he inveigled a little girl into his dismal back room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right before homeroom I corner Roger by his locker and ask him if we can get earlier appointments, like for this afternoon. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The mall is crowded for a Tuesday afternoon. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In our top story, tragedy in Oak Ridge this afternoon, where two young men in an SUV were shot at a traffic light. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Pennfield Middle School is just down the street from Hatfield Quality Meats, a pig slaughterhouse, which my school bus passed every morning and afternoon. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My mind went back to the many afternoons I had spent watching movies about powerful and fearless white gladiators with sharp swords and glistening daggers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sky was getting its regular afternoon storm organized: wind whacking the palm leaves together, red dust ghosts flying up from the road, little kids running like bansheets for cover. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the last sparks from Beckendorf s fire curl into the afternoon sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You have to grow up, Merci,” Edna told me when I sat next to her in class one afternoon, still sweaty from the game. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One afternoon when she gone, a man walk into shop with coat to clean. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around to get revenge if Shirley Temple Wong dropped even the tiniest hint of what had happened that afternoon. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She says, “Oh. Okay. I have two afternoon meetings. Hmm...let’s see when we could do that?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

During the afternoon, Timothy was busy and we did not talk much. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon when she had completed her first circuit of the ward and came a second time to the soldier in -white, she read his thermometer and discovered that he was dead. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I felt the afternoon had been too much for her. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before the gale ended that afternoon, the men had had to crawl onto the deck three times to get rid of the boat’s shell of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Robert's sextet is now impossible to buy. You encounter his music only by serendipity in vicarages in July afternoons. This is your one chance in your life. You can work this gramophone?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I returned home from school that afternoon, I went to see if he was waiting for me by the creek. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves of the cottonwood trees that crowded the canyon caught reflections of the afternoon sun, hundreds of tiny mirrors flashing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Louvenia work all day for Miss Lou Anne and then come home ever afternoon and take Robert to blind school so he can learn to read with his fingers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When she would return in the late afternoon and find him waiting for her she would explain, “Why, I was shopping. I have to go shopping, you know.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Ben walked into the Officer’s Club that afternoon, he did not see his father at first. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon they cleaved eastward never turning nor slackening pace. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Back when we were in school, we had time in the afternoons to check the line and hunt and gather and still get back to trade in town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when I felt that I could no longer put one foot in front of the other, a voice boomed out of the dense bush. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your friend, Hazel Grace Lancaster She responded late that afternoon. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon I had no choice but to meet him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a strange way, the Dark Lands reminded her of San Francisco, where her dad lived—on those summer afternoons when the fog bank rolled in like cold, wet packing material and swallowed Pacific Heights. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I walked up to Reynolds and asked him to tell me about the work. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Root was in his office at the Rookery on the afternoon of New Year’s Day 1891, shortly before his departure, when an employee stopped by to see him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Late Friday afternoon, after we had finished cleaning the last of the supers and storing them away, Zach went out to take a look under the hood of the honey wagon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One warm afternoon, Tyler took me to visit Grandma- and Grandpa-over-in-town, who lived in the same house where they’d raised Mother, a house that could not have been more different from ours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One sweltering summer afternoon, I attended a Harlem street rally which contained a lot of these teen-agers in the crowd. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Crispin,” he scolded, “I waited all afternoon for you to return. Did you forget me so soon? Is this the way you repay my kindness? I should give you a sound whipping.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Sophie gave all that she had for the afternoon, JimmyTrotter said, “Let’s make a run to town to deliver the milk. Last stop will be Aunt Naomi’s and her two quarts.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon over three hundred girls from the naval auxiliary arrived. They are at the very bottom of the ship. In the drained swimming pool.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun slanted in from the other side of the platform and most of the children, feeling too late the smart of sunburn, had put their clothes on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It is not appropriate for the two of you to watch together,” and she flips the channel, stops on an afternoon rerun of Lawrence Welk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. But the motor we can trade for is a ways away, and there’s some timing to consider. We have to leave in the morning, come back in the afternoon. No other way.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Although usually we hung out just the four of us, because I had band right after lunch, and we wouldn’t be together the rest of the afternoon. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Stanpole had told me in the corridor that he was going to set the bone that afternoon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon before lunch, she approached us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After school the next afternoon, I put my hand in my purse and then made a look, as if a mouse had bitten my hand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leslie waited, and when he looked up, she continued in a moony voice, “‘Meet me behind the school this afternoon after school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I think about my dad’s face earlier this afternoon. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I duck as servants set the veranda for afternoon tea. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As I went to my afternoon classes, I couldn’t help being very anxious about what was happening to Minnijean that caused such a jovial uproar. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons she makes herself a cup of tea, which does not smell entirely like tea but of something else she puts into it, out of a small silver bottle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They spent all day on the wide hills, and in the heat of the afternoon, they visited their gold-and-silver grove. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the afternoon before the dance, Laura came in full of excitement. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

George hiked to Kelly’s house, her short afternoon shadow leading the way down the main road. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I invited Adele to go with me, and we had a lovely afternoon, our tensions fading. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder just how many outcasts have been driven to suicide because of just one too many tauntings or practical jokes on a particular afternoon? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was two o’clock in the afternoon, too early for the school bus or Mother or Dad. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The workouts went on for three hours every afternoon, and as the days grew shorter they stretched into the dark and increasingly chilly October evenings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Howard dropped into the seat next to me and said, “You can borrow my brother Lenny’s bike.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was mid- afternoon when Elijah Muhammad turned back to his seat with some three thousand Black Muslim men, women, and children shouting “Yes, sir!... So sweet! ... All praise to Muhammad!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can tell me about this building all afternoon. That would be marvelous. That’s how I want to spend my time.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was just before three in the afternoon. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘If we is leaving now,’ the BFG said, ‘we will be arriving just as the giants is having their afternoon snozzle.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quinn House was cold and dark when they returned later that afternoon. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the afternoon winds blowing inevitably down the valley started a dust that was like fog and raised it into the sky almost as high as the mountaintops. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived just after one o’clock on a crisp December afternoon. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon at Valley Forge I was talking to my college adviser about what to do after I received my associate’s degree. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They kept filling out in separate detachments into the afternoon. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She remembers a hot and humid afternoon early in the year she got married. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the ride back to the ranch in the late afternoon Tom was depressed and sad. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

How good it felt—warm, cozy, and comforting—after all he had been through this terrible afternoon. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

On a Sunday afternoon in early June, the fifteen members of my team met with our gym instructor in the play yard of our school. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon, teams of fellows left the school, loaded down with chocolates. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoons were gray and quiet, charged with the air of ripeness and belonging. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon was colder as he drew closer to home. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And besides, no one wants coffee breath on a hot afternoon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The afternoon Madame’s car was spotted coming across the fields, it was windy and sunny, with a few storm clouds starting to gather. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We raised Neah Bay an hour ago. We figure the snow isn’t going to let up until tomorrow afternoon.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A phrase comes to me, a remnant left over from boys, from Saturday afternoons, reading the comics: Pick on somebody your own size. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Puerto Rican jíbara who longed for the green quiet of a tropical afternoon was to become a hybrid who would never forgive the uprooting. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the afternoon passed too quickly for Ash to dwell on the differences between Quinn House and this one. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent a whole afternoon driving around to shops and looking at costumes together, evaluating whether they were roomy enough to do handsprings in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of September 10, driving out of Cut Bank after buying some parts for a malfunctioning combine, he pulled over for a hitchhiker, an amiable kid who said his name was Alex McCandless. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got older, I went over to Mrs. V’s every afternoon after school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I gotta get my energy up for our run this afternoon. I was thinking we could just run down to the Chipped Cup and get a doughnut today. We could get there and back easy.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It took Sam a week to fix the roof, because he could only work in the afternoons, after school let out and before night classes began. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The healthy and the sick, the assured and the sick in spirit, all make their way to church in the gray morning or in the dusty afternoon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the column has come three times, each time in the late afternoon. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Having an operation in the late afternoon meant having to skip breakfast and lunch. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was a sweltering afternoon, and the heat had put everyone in a bad mood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a windy afternoon in late March when Mrs. Byrne slips into the room and asks for Mary. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The afternoon had become as hot as meanness, and since the shirt he was wearing had enough starch in it to mummify two, maybe three, pharaohs, he began to feel he could hardly breathe. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the afternoon, so we had the whole place to ourselves. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Get it back to me by midday tomorrow. Not a minute later. I’ll put a check on it in the afternoon. It needs a service.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At 3:30 that afternoon, they were sitting behind a stack of books in the library. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Getting hooked up with volunteering here. My mom came with me that first day, just to check it out, and now she’s here every afternoon. She comes to laugh.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“He was very famous in my country,” Qendrim explained as he thumbed through the book one afternoon. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

So Johnny was surprised one afternoon, riding back from Plymouth where he had delivered a letter for Major Pitcairn, to find her sitting in the shop with Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sumac remained silent all afternoon as I cleaned the remaining alpaca fur for Mama. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Ranyinudo had introduced them one afternoon, months ago, when Don dropped by Ranyinudo’s flat on his way to his club, wearing tennis whites, and Ifemelu had left almost immediately, to give them privacy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m setting the record straight about my, er, vitality this afternoon, but after all you’ve been through I wanted you to hear the news directly from me first.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Would you like to see the UN this afternoon?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Lancelot,” said the King, finding him one afternoon in file rose garden, "you have been looking wretched lately. Is there anything the matter?" The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he stomped downstairs and locked himself in his room for the rest of the afternoon. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

After fishing and foraging in the mornings for the family, Baba was doing carpentry for Gupta in the afternoons. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, a week later, there was a knock on the door, and a tall woman walked in. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I caught a boat over to Oakland to spend an afternoon with them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She will be ready for burning this afternoon,” the guard said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“He got mad because...Well, he got mad Friday afternoon and disappeared.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Friday afternoon, and he was sitting alone in a dark house, waiting for his wife to fight her way home through the rush-hour traffic. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

But the soup came back in the form of an afternoon snack. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They tried to get everybody’s spirits up, but it wasn’t easy after that afternoon's bird attack. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon my brother and I went to pick up the books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom wrapped herself in beach towels and released them all one afternoon when Dad and I were at the movies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing, Slinkey. I’ll send out three lieutenants this afternoon to get the job done. There’s no sense in procrastinating any longer.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the other campers went off to their afternoon classes— gladiator fighting, Latin lessons, paintball with ghosts, eagle training, and a dozen other activities that sounded better than a suicide quest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When it came time for Pagliuca to take the afternoon readings, the wind was so strong that he tied a rope around his waist and had two colleagues take hold of the other end. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I looked for Maxie in the yard when I came out of school. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She hugs Sydney each afternoon before she goes home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At practice that afternoon, Grace asked Luma if next time he could bring a kid from Willow Ridge who had just arrived from Burundi. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, it was usually packed with students from a dozen different elementary, middle, and high schools. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Four months after she began spending afternoons in the superintendent’s room, Shin heard from another former school friend that she was pregnant. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I ignored Scott’s calls all afternoon, I turned up to my session late and walked straight into his office without a word to the receptionist. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That muggy summer afternoon, the strikers and deputies exchanged insults, sparking gunfire along the route from the store to the mine. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

This year I have afternoon classes, plus Saturdays. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Outside of birthdays and special occasions, all we had were our Sunday afternoons. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the prayers end and the doors open the Bells hit center stage and the curtain opens up on the afternoon pick-up game in the gym at the county recreation center. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the twelfth, Lizza and Nat got the paper from its hiding place and hurried up the street. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drank lemon-scented water and ate sandwiches with the crusts cut off at three o’clock in the afternoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Todd Lincoln had noticed his recent optimism and now, during their afternoon carriage ride, she spoke to him about it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That particular afternoon, coming back from Sally’s, Annabeth had felt even more drained than usual. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was getting on to late afternoon by this time. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They told jokes all afternoon and Francie laughed at them all, whether they were funny or just plain dirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next sixty minutes, the Capitol feed alternates between the standard afternoon newscast, Finnick, and attempts to black it all out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I remember the afternoon I spent with the incomprehensible old geisha at Manzanar. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first murder in Odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water-drilling camp one afternoon and demanded something to eat from the cook. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama asked when me and Jay came in the house from school that afternoon. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the Eve of Christmas Robin was at his post on top of the keep, with Adam Bowyer, who was on watch. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, Emily went to the U-Haul to grab her Book Scavenger notebook, but the empty cab reminded her that she’d already taken in her stack of books and papers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I turn, ready to give my usual spiel—Monday afternoons in the art room, we cover all kinds of justice and gender issues, blah, blah, blah. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, before I accompanied Farmer on his last rounds of the day, he sat across from a sad-faced young man named Ti Ofa, who was approaching the final stages of AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

By that first afternoon the soreness in my ribs was already lessening. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was two o’clock in the afternoon, and this time his office was filled with sunlight barely softened by a flimsy curtain. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

And what’s more, now I think about it, I’d say what Miss Lucy said to us that afternoon led to a real shift in our attitudes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the afternoon sitting wrapped in the blankets and eating apples. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, as a matter of fact, she does seem a little mopey this afternoon. No, I take that back. She’s downright monstrous.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that. Get the teacher recommendation and fill out your part of the form. Bring it to me this afternoon at the office.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons she spent time reorganizing the massive room so that she could find things more easily, although it was too cold to stay in there for long. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If the morning sounds and smells were touched with the supernatural, the late afternoon had all the features of the normal Arkansas life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he cannot picture his family occupying a house like this, playing board games on rainy afternoons, watching shooting stars at night, all their relatives gathered neatly on a small strip of sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Park noise was her clock: It was late afternoon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We should be there by early afternoon. We’ll take the quiet road and meet up with main traffic routes closer to the border.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lights flickered off again the next afternoon. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s from Nazi shrapnel! I was a war correspondent and ended up attaching myself to a British tank corps going up the Rhine! We were ambushed one afternoon, toward the end of ’44! Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only the next time Dev came to visit her, on a Sunday afternoon several days since the last time they’d seen each other, he was in gym clothes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The appearance of the mummy-to-be when he was removed from his brine bath, on the following afternoon, was something of a shock to everybody. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two minutes before four in the afternoon, his father sprang the trap. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I believe the little car had a taste for mischief but I can't be certain, as both the movie and the afternoon proved unremarkable and have faded from my memory. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Life has got awfully dramatic all of a sudden, hasn’t it? Just like a fiction....By the way, did I tell you that some men came round to see me yesterday afternoon?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The smell of death had been festering in the afternoon heat, and now it was unbearable. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He drew a few blank lines and spent the afternoon trying to recruit everyone in the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By afternoon, the trail was a running stream. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a recess and in the afternoon five doctors said that they thought Bigger was “sane, but sullen and contrary.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her work raising funds for the new hospital assisted in this regard, in addition to her afternoon lunches with the other ladies of the neighborhood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There, we wait all afternoon and into the night for the truck that the chief arranged to come and take us far away to where no one knows us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black smoke floated out of the ceiling into the scalding afternoon air. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We took Katz to National Airport in Washington, where he was booked on a late afternoon flight to Des Moines. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

White would run the machine for the permitted hour starting at one in the afternoon, and then power down, returning for another hourlong run at three in the morning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He said nothing of his life there, no word about himself, but he told me how the sun set there, on a spring afternoon, leaving a glow upon the headland. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And it was on one such afternoon that they noticed something mysterious far out at sea. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon, just in time to catch Auntie Su preparing Sunday dinner. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My name is Jane McKeene. I'm begging your pardon for disturbing your afternoon repose, ma'am, but I was directed to see you about lodgings, a bath, and the possibility of some sustenance.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z