He unwound several folds of old cloth, and held up a small shirt of mail. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Yet as she went by, she pressed a silken cloth to her nose as if to block the offending street stench. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He found a beer bottle and an old rag of a curtain and he tore an edge from the cloth and stuffed it down the neck of the bottle with a coathanger. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She wiped my face with a cool damp cloth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth fell open as he brought it out, and the gold glittered in the dim light. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The drapes are kept closed at night, folds and folds of cloth drawn against the winter, hoarding the dim heavy light, keeping it in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even Vivi is drawn to run her fingers over the cloth, an absent smile on her face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wrapped the book carelessly in a bit of cloth and set off for the village. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

First I cover Finway’s bowl with his night cloth to protect him from sound waves. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The wind began to pick up again, causing the cloth shreds to flutter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph loosened his cravat, took out a cloth and polish from the pantry, and got on his knees. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He reached into his coat pocket and withdrew a folded half-circle of cloth; he unfolded it, kissed it, and smoothed it over his hair. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

With one hand he fidgets with the cloth of the other sleeve. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But he knows he's not cut from the same cloth as they are, and he knows their worries about him are not over. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His stallion’s spotted hindquarters were covered with ragged strips of cloth tom from the surcoats of men his master had slain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a moment I smelled cloth burning and knew he was holding the wrapped piece of wood toward the sky. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let it bum, he prayed as the cloth smothered the corpse, gods, please, please, let it bum. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To make her feel better, I put cool cloths on her forehead and told her stories. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin was wearing an old tunic, the cloth soft with use. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As he worked gently with his cloth a huge warmth crept over him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The white man that was folding up sheets of cloth for women’s dresses behind a counter looked up at me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

That she seemed to float back and forth like a ghost, dipping cool cloths to lay on Popo’s bloated face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed she was crying, but when she brought the cloth down to her lap, she just looked pale. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He kept his eyes on his hands, which were raking the gold scraps aimlessly about on the cloth. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The knife is still thru the cloth of the rucksack and the book inside. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She has about twenty pounds of gold on her—at one point, when they are sitting face to face, their hands wrapped up together in a checkered cloth, he counts eleven necklaces. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She saw some terry cloth and a rubber shower clog at the end of a hairy leg. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a chamois cloth from his tool belt and made a big show of wrapping up the physician’s cure. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The white cloak of the Kingsguard was draped over his broad shoulders and fastened with a jeweled brooch, the snowy cloth looking somehow unnatural against his brown roughspun tunic and studded leather jerkin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He moved away and stood with his back to the fire again as the Porter came back with a brush and dustpan for the glass and a bowl and cloth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It took only a moment to bunch the fresh cloth and douse it with chloroform. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know why he kept the bag, except that it was made from a scrap of bark cloth and had come from Myanda. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth was soothing, but Irri seemed so sad, it frightened her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The napkins are white cloth embroidered with fleur-de-lis at the edges. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two telkhines shuffled forward and knelt, holding up the scythe on its wrapping cloth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rufus had thrown off the damp cloth and was knotted on his side in pain when I got back to him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He mopped his brow with the cloth that Ethyne had embroidered—his name surrounded by a series of skillful knots. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was a white cloth in the center with hay and fir boughs in front of each person. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But, going down before the scarlet cloth at the foot of the golden cross, it came to her that she had forgotten how to pray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Viola went to lie down with a cold cloth and a headache powder and was given an unprecedented two whole days off to recover. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was on a day so hot that we had to wipe our sweaty hands on a cloth to keep them from soiling our work that Mala was fired. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get a cloth,” she said, her voice husky, and departed abruptly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Loud, flapping pieces of cloth, larger than a hut, were attached to the poles by ropes, some of which were thicker than her whole body. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, I hold it out to him, but all he does is take it gently and wrap it in a green cloth from his pocket. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then, inspired, she tied around her head one of the red scraps from the cloth in which she was to have married Zororo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is Brahman, the world soul, the sustaining frame upon which is woven, warp and weft, the cloth of being, with all its decorative elements of space and time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The window is as open as it goes, there’s a breeze, hot in the sunlight, and the white cloth blows across my face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wrapped the stump in a piece of cloth and we tied a rope above the wound to stop the bleeding. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the first floor, all of the chairs are covered in white cloth and tied across the back with flowing pine-green ribbon that has silver piped along the edges. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wore my nanga, which is a red cloth, tied around my waist. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The piece of cloth barely covered my body, and I kept trying to make it longer and pull it close around me, but it wouldn’t stretch. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tied our heads with the green cloths that distinguished us from the rebels, and we boys led the way. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One was made of wire, but provided food, and the other was made with snuggly cloth, but didn’t offer any food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The “bulto” was just that, a bulky remnant of thick, white cloth tied together at the top in a vagabond’s knot. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A shadow fell over her, and when she looked up, it was not Taisin but Con who handed her a cloth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then they’d apply another bandage, a big gauzy cloth, to the burns. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a kitchen, a room for sleeping, and a room in back to store cotton and weave cloth. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother wore a gauzy white cloth over her hair and held a bunch of flowers trimmed with ribbons. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kia nodded at a sheet of cloth covering the doorway to the other room. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm, like bread dough rising under cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Martin and Teresa had taken pieces of warm cloth from the bed and tied them around him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Red cloths were hung up upon their doors to mark their festering and convalescence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny bathroom and a little living room, too, with four chairs, a table with a plastic cloth, and a transistor radio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Their hands and arms are tied to their bodies— the men’s with ropes, Mary’s with white cloth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were so deep in the doings of the Four Farthings that they did not notice the arrival of a man clad in dark green cloth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Soon the Frog was covered with cloth, cushions, drying sails, ropes, rags, and towels tied into all the lines that supported the mast—the shrouds and stays—and along the handrails. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped it with the cloth and bit into it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dayah pulls off his filthy clothing and stained blankets, washes him with a damp cloth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was clever of him,- the blood did not show so badly against the red cloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She held her breath, hoping that the cups of water at the edges of the well would weigh the cloth down, letting it take the weight of the key without collapsing into the well. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

In another, heaps of stained cloth, bent nails, and bones had been sorted into even piles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A chador is a large cloth that's draped around a woman's head and body, leaving only the face exposed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The cloth of her shirt seemed stuck to her rolls of fat, and her hair was long and spiraled into a large ball pinned to her head. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were finished, I rolled the cloth into a tight bundle and gave it to him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His father kept it sheathed and rolled in cloth, an undecorated and highly useful weapon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lockton had freed the top buttons of his waistcoat, and two of the officers had loosened their lace neck cloths. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smoothed down the cloth of her skirt nervously. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ellen drew a flat loaf of white bread from the ashes of the fireplace and wrapped it in a clean cloth. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under her arm Desdemona also carried her silkworm box containing a few hundred silkworm eggs wrapped in a white cloth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some wore sumptuous robes of ermine, ruby velvet, and cloth of gold. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cloth was worn to a shiny film on his knees, elbows, and behind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pried it up and removed the lead piece from the king’s statue and my cloth packet of seeds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their torches illuminate bolts of cloth and suits on hangers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lupita pressed the old cloth sack with their food to her breast. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The soldier salutes again, then stuffs a cloth into my mouth. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The courtier wiped the spittle with a special cloth and stored it for safekeeping. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I felt ashamed and I ran to the toilet to clean myself and change my cloths. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

"That is so. Once it takes fire, the substance will bum fiercely until it is no more. More, it will seep into cloth, wood, leather, even steel, so they take fire as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All ten of us climbed under the ropes and allowed ourselves to be blindfolded with broad bands of white cloth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sailors, again with cloths tied around their mouths and noses, unceremoniously tossed the dead men overboard. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Min’s wife placed the cloth package in his hands. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Often, he dressed himself quite handsomely—full turban, beaded velvet vest, calico shirt of fine red cloth, a bandolier bag, earrings. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We then rolled each pile into the middle of a piece of oilcloth, tucked the ends of the cloth over, and tied the bundle with plenty of wire twisted with fishing line. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They returned the toys to the cloth sack and handed it to my father. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Paqo pointed low in the black cloth of the night sky, and there, in the pattern of the stars, were the ground animals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Food was in short supply and so was everything else, and we could sell anything we could get our hands on—cloth, farming tools, wheat, sugar, rum, anything at all. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed the cloth tighter to his nose and mouth and forced himself to look away from the carnage. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They covered the gourd with crossed cloths, then killed a black chicken and laid it over the offerings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the blue cloth, not sure what she meant. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And I can’t move fast in a saree. Yards and yards of cloth that you have to wrap around yourself! They look pretty, but I feel as if I’m wearing a big bandage.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie replaced the paper towels with the cloth towel and panicked all over again when he saw how much blood there was. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Like my mother, she used a pressing cloth, and when she was finished, my hair was as straight as a white person’s. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She reached up her hand and pushed at the cloth. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She removed one of the cloth flowers from her bouquet and twisted it into the top buttonhole of his green suit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then she’d draped a cold cloth on her head and gone to bed for the day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He wore a knee-length bark cloth with a zigzag pattern. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She comes back with a damp cloth and wipes my face gently then cleans the blood from a broken plate off my hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

A yellow blanket covering me and my cloth doll, Maya. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Frantically he thought of tourniquets and could even hear the rip of cloth he should have been tearing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she wriggled the cloth down and around, until two thin arms found their way into the wide sleeves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I finish wiping the top, I show him the cloth. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He tugged it out, jerked the cloth away impatiently and went numb all over with the shock of what he saw. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Dallas lifted a cloth off a wide wicker basket. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They both picked up the little cups from on top of the folded cloth, then dipped the cups in the water. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bed, in an alcove at the far end of the room, was draped with a splendid cloth embroidered over its entire surface with intricate designs. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would not rip and I bit the edge of the cloth to start it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She runs into the church to see if Stephen Carey, the sacristan, would spare her a rag and he gives her some kind of canvas cloth that makes my nose sore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Isa started wiping down her violin with the soft cloth she kept in her case. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Leo slept outside on a bed of drop cloths under the stars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They paused at the gate, and I saw a yellow-feathered head peek out from behind the cloth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The Devil’s Tongue was a very useful knot, and when Violet tied the cloth strips together, end to end, it formed a sort of rope. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even though his clothing was fastened all wrong, it was still made of fine cloth, with delicate embroidery in places. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He tightened the cloth mask around his face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She leans over my shoulder and lifts a dusty rag, one of my old cloth diapers, to remove a tape measure hidden underneath. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Metal and cloth were thrown in the back of a white wooden wagon, pulled by two tall black horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Only one drop went astray, discoloring the linen cloth, which he promptly willed clean again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Or, “Here’s some cloth, Dana. Maybe you can make yourself something from it.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sir Urre was carried there in a litter and laid on a cushion of gold cloth, for the attempt at healing to begin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a cloth tied across his face. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids in the Home keep their things in a paper or cloth sack, but not me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He signed to one of his guards, and he came forward bearing a bundle swathed in black cloths. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I gagged and Ultima held a cloth before me into which I vomited a poisonous green bile. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the back of the jeep I found the small cloth bundle I’d carried over from the States. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This cloth Loki placed in front of Frey. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I wore a cloth mask over my nose and mouth. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Stepping out of her pants, she slipped off her tights and cut a swath of cloth from the hip with her ulo. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was certain that at any moment the cloth would tear, or the hook would slip, and Violet would be sent tumbling to her death. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I sat at the kitchen table, which I had set with my mother’s good service and cloth napkins and glasses for water and wine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left him sitting at the kitchen table, staring down at the white cloth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had to have two or three swallows of whiskey before he’d talk; he took out the little cloth sack when he was ready. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in golden cloth, and she was as beautiful as her mother-in-law was alarming; she carried two of the tiniest giant thimbles, which she had filled with beer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was slow work, turning silk strands into long strips of cloth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A yellow blanket covering me and my cloth doll, Maya. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even Rukia Marshall looked like a sixth grader, and she wore a cloth on her head. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They say nothing, but the woman nods and I realize the cloth I’m holding to my nose is a headscarf. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only trouble with this change was that Beta cloth is also very fragile, and if your knees or elbows got even a little bit worn, the glass fibers would come loose. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby was strapped to her body with a pretty cloth, which she had embroidered herself, no doubt. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Four pence,” said the barber, beginning to pass a black cloth in and out of the, hot water. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Its wings were wrong, flimsy like cheap cloth. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice dims the lights, and my mom puts out cloth napkins, and everything feels really fancy. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He sat there unflinching as the maester dabbed and squeezed and cleaned the pus away with squares of soft cloth boiled in vinegar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The steady wiping and polishing with the “clean, dry cloth” fell into a rhythm that began to calm her inner frenzy. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It had a kitchen, stairs, and a bedroom with a miniature bed and a real cloth blanket. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The cloth was so smooth that it seemed to run through her fingers like water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He went to the granary in a corner of which the small cloth bundle of our savings lay buried. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticky was casting about for his polishing cloth. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wiping off the piece with a cloth, he placed it beside the typewriter. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So whatever you were thinking might have got ahold of Leah out there, snake or leopard, you couldn’t say anything out loud but string or spotted cloth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what it was, at first—a wad of dull gray cloth—but when I touched it I realized it was silk, so I took it, in case it was important. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Put a cloth on top to cover the big L-shaped crack, move that red flower centerpiece to the sideboard to hide where the wood all scratched. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two of them picked up Grandfather’s body and laid it on a large canvas cloth that reminded me of a sail. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson sat on his porch, cleaning his French horn with a white cloth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the door closed behind Jamison, she stroked the cloth, seeking its solace, but it seemed to withdraw from her touch, almost as if it were trying to warn her of something. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she felt disappointed that it now seemed no more than a scrap of cloth; she wanted Thomas to understand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his glasses and wrapped them in a piece of cloth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her stiff little pigtails were bound at the tips with bits of crimson cloth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Tonight we’ll pick our special cloth from the trunks and get going on a design for all of our dresses and for Conrad’s shirt.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out another cloth and started wiping again, just so he wouldn’t have to look at her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I looked out too, hoping I hadn’t thrown the burning cloth onto a porch roof or too near a wall. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning, Ranee folds and tucks a long, plain ivory or white cloth around herself, fingers recalling the complicated maneuvers she learned as a teenager. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There must be a limit to how much cloth you can cram into any one house, but of course it’s disposable. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A red and brown alpaca cloth hung in the doorway. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Where we had a table with a cloth and a vase for flowers and some chairs, they only kept a empty blue baby crib with a tired old white sheet over one corner. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She produced the chamois-cloth package, but when she unfolded the cloth it was empty. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The white man with the walking stick tied a blindfold ’round Madame Sabbar’s face then pulled a cloth sack over that so’s we could tell she waren’t seeing a thing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At the same time that he was force-feeding us tribalism we were learning other ways of life, modern ways, from mingling with children whose parents had shed their tribal cloth and embraced Western culture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unwrapped four chapatis from a cloth and warmed them on the stove and stuck them on the sides of the bowls. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In a blaze of smoke and bullets, Safaa’s bag bursts into a million shreds of carpet and torn clothing and scraps of cloth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He attached a small square of cloth to the end of a metal stick and began jabbing it down the barrel and through the chambers—eight times. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The paper had grown soft, and folded like cloth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having sold some ribbon syrup in town, Papa headed toward the cabin with some store-bought cloth for Mama to make a dress with. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The armorers of the 587th made pillows out of their foot cloths and decorated them with planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My mom places a cloth napkin in my lap and fills my water glass and then Carla’s. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I had no cloth to cover my body, no goat for the people who dug my grave! I had no food for the people who mourned me! These things I demand now!” screamed Aunt Chipo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book was entirely too special-looking: a hardback bound in linen cloth the color of a pomegranate, a gold beetle embossed on the front with flecks that sparkled when you tilted the book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Many shed their tribal cloth and embraced Western culture, a way of life over 350 years of white oppression had deluded them into believing was better than their own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a strip of cloth made of blue-striped fabric, frayed and faded. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A bit of the rennet, tied in a cloth, was soaking in warm water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira, clutching the cloth talisman in her pocket, became aware suddenly that its warmth and comfort had returned. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we often passed other people leaning out to trail their hands in the cool water, some drifting by asleep beneath a cloth canopy or oil-coated umbrella. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a thrust of Ayanna’s stick, the raft jerked forward and I toppled head over heels, landing in a pile of cloth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then she and Lupita boiled a dozen eggs, which they packed into a small cloth bag along with some corn tortillas and a bottle of water. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I saved my mango slices wrapped in a cloth napkin so I could eat them all at once before bed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ma also joins me to watch The Brady Bunch for half an hour before bending over the cloth, shears in hand. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He nudged a body on the ground with his foot and Olanna noticed, then, how many bodies were lying there, like dolls made of cloth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His eye patch was frayed around the edges and the black cloth was faded, like he’d been wearing it a long, long time. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ba hurriedly took out his cloth sack and gathered blankets and filled an empty bottle with water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And instead of the white oilcloth and paper napkins of the dining room, Faye’s table was covered with a white damask cloth and the napkins were linen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man pulled a penknife out of his pocket and slashed the cloth banner off the poles. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Seeing my eyes slowly closing, Meng takes me to his cloth hammock. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must buy some cloth and make you a dress to wear in America!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fish out a small block of cheese wrapped in a cloth that Ben packed. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He fastened it around his neck again and wrapped the cloth around his hips the best way he could figure. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were stacks of garments—folded tunics and pants, sleeping shifts and wraps for the occasional cool evenings—all of them cut from the same soft gray-green cloth. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the scrap of cloth from Kiras pocket, the one which had created itself so magically in her fingers, fluttered where it lay near her head. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a big piece of cloth and a safety pin, my writing arm hangs in a sling. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now, secret in her hand, the cloth seemed to speak a silent, pulsing message to Kira. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wrapped in a rough bark cloth and wore no shoes; yet she did not look poor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was hidden on top of her head with a tightly knotted cloth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She comes out with a tightly tied bag of chicken meat lined with cloth rags. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He wore gray trousers and a shirt of porous cloth that did not hide his skeletal appearance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He worked at a desk in a room piled with cotton cloth at the back of the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Easter was always a time when we each were allowed to choose the cloth we wanted. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After making eight of them, she tied them in her cloth again and kept it with the podaegi. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She’d hang a cloth cockpit cover on one side of the wing to shield her aircraft’s pilot and navigator from the wind. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Kira’s hand, in her pocket, felt no warning from her scrap of cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four students unfolded a mass of white cloth to lay out over the tarp. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She leaned over to tug at the laces of the wet, sandy cloth shoes, but Ess gave a cry. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Screaming noise, ropes slamming against the mast, cracking of cloth being whipped or snapped—everything so loud it hurt his ears. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jess wiped her eyes on the decoy cloth and sniffled piteously as she answered. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Setting it on the table, she dipped in a crisp cloth and started gently wiping my swollen lips and dabbing around my eye. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His stepmother was standing over him with a damp cloth in her hand, and he could feel the little running pains as the water cut through. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers leaped to my shoulder, finding wet cloth but no blood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Roscuro wanted, what he needed, was not the cloth, but the light that had shone behind it. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The old city walls wove in and out of the hillside like stone thread through a green cloth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the confusion of those early moments, Powers could not reach his survival gear—including the money and the cloth with its message in fourteen languages. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to my heart, going dull and fast in there under the layers of cloth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I held the bag in my hands, this little bundle of cloth and bits of things. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He kept one hand on the cloth and with the other dribbled more of the liquid between his fingers into its folds, delighting in the sensation of frost where the chloroform coated his fingers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I put the ammunition in my pack, careful not to disturb the small box wrapped in a cloth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Twisting the wet cloth around the mass of sweepings, Ranofer cast about for some way to change the subject. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

About twenty feet downhill, two telkhines were placing something on a big rock— something long and thin and wrapped in black cloth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her hair was held back by a cloth headband with sequins sewn in. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They’d wrapped their gifts in something Mama had bought for very cheap in the village: it was “cloth” that seemed to also be paper. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As I was picking up from the back steps, I noticed a clump of stuff: pieces of paper, cloth, thread, dust balls, Kleenex, all wadded up. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

When the crates were opened, they were found to contain loose bits of wood, metal, and painted cloth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben could manage solid food pretty well for himself, though even now, with cold food before him, Dilsey tied a cloth about his neck. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother removes the white cloth covering him, leaving him naked. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The opposite wall was adorned by an enormous banner with no discernible pattern, a patchwork of slender strips of cloth—mostly red and blue, but some purple, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As the fish stew boiled away, Anya opened the special cupboard in the kitchen, where she had gotten the challah’s white cloth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Faster than a sewing machine work­ing a piece of cloth, I hooked down the tarpaulin on both sides of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She applies lotion to her arms and legs, reaches for a peach-colored terry- cloth robe that hangs from a hook on the door. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Archer squeezed her fingers once and let go again, tucking away the cloth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Many of the small rectangles of fabric sewn by hand into interlocking circles have dissolved altogether, the ghostly remains of stitches holding snippets of colored cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was the ferret who was rewarded by the sight of the scarlet cloth being shoved through the doorjamb. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bunny pinched a piece of the rich, yellowy cloth near the cuff and rubbed it back and forth between his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His casket was loaded onto a car draped with black cloth. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there was a cradle beside the altar, a blue cloth draped over it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, good,” says my mother, examining the cloth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I twist the cloth of my shirt in my hands. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo dressed the dead woman again and wrapped her in a cloth to await the funeral. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might start out in the morning with the river like a velvety shimmery cloth, and by noon it could be full of ripples and waves and splashes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Plucking a handful of silver straight pins from her plump cloth belt, she stuck them one by one, standing up, into the sheets around Liyana’s body. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bandages are no longer made of cloth, but of white crêpe paper. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bone in Shae’s shin was exposed where the wolves had torn out her flesh, and Con had to hold her down while Taisin and Kaede wrapped her leg with a clean cloth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she comes to the door, he hands her something wrapped in a piece of cloth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Good night,” I whisper to Finway, covering his bowl with his night cloth. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

But whatever affectionate insult he offers is lost in the cloth of my suit as I circle him into my arms. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the wall, leaving little room to squeeze by, was a table covered with a yellow gingham cloth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The woman in the yellow head cloth worked the pump for Grandfather. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was on his knees with a pail of water, and a cloth, and as I drew nearer I saw that he was washing not the flagstones, as I’d thought at first, but a rosebush. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dany clutched the soft cloth to her cheek and sat cross-legged on her sleeping mats. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Robert would have stood there, that wooden expression on his young sheep’s face, brushing the crumbs from the snowy-white cloth, picking up the table, carrying it from the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dinah tapped my leg with her cloth hand, and I knew she wanted me to tell Doc my story. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He just swished a cloth off the top of it and said, ‘Well, it isn’t ours yet, but it will be in a couple of weeks.’ Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Bowing, the man left the room, only to return a few moments later, bearing a long knife with-a slender saw-tooth blade, a basin of water, a pile of soft cloths, and several flasks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He shook out a large cloth and draped it over me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There was no glass in the windows—most were covered with something white, either paper or cloth. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I cannot find the letter, though I turn every stone, every page, every fold of cloth in my tiny cell. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At the general store we could trade a barrel for just about anything; nails, shotgun shells, and, if times was good, store-bought cloth and such things. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God’s foot soldiers, while our mother’s is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot looked on the table, and moved his hand in a gesture to stroke the cloth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wrapped the cloth around him and quickly sewed the shroud shut with thick curved needles. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon unsheathed his dagger and cut it, groped for the edges of the cloth, and pulled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He checks each of his tires, then pulls out a cloth from the trunk and wipes down the big, shiny silver things along the insides of the tires. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then the “sergeants” of the fair would walk through the streets crying, “Pack up, pack up,” and all the cloth must be put away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Neda and Mitra were best friends who were cut from a very different cloth, and I wanted to cherry-pick their greatest qualities so I could be the perfect combination of the two of them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He comes to expect the weight of their flatware in his hands, and to keep the cloth napkin, still partially folded, on his lap. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Anne picked up the table cloth and looked under the table, but Bill had anticipated her and retreated to the other end. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked embroidering: the cloth stretched tight within my embroidery hoop while I filled in the stamped pattern with cross- stitches and lazy daisy flowers. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a wet cloth ready and placed it on Cora’s brow. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a round table, already spread with a white cloth, and on it was a large hand-bell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I walk slow around him fluffing his pillows, pressing cool cloths over his forehead telling him the stories that come to me again and again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Chronicler smiled again and wiped his pen on a piece of cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The smell of the garlic would make the very shopkeepers in the cloth shops raise the price of blue cotton cloth as they might raise the price for a foreigner. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“She was looking for her husband at the Vast Wall. She traveled a great distance, all on foot, with only a bundle of cloth...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even the stout cloth bindings caught light immediately, the linen turning black as the flames licked around it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kira’s voice was weak, and muffled by the cloth covering her mouth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Carefully she refolded the cloth around the dried petals and leaves and replaced the little packet in the carved trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fragments of cloth, trees, chewed bits of paper littered the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cars roar past the covered bazaar, through cheering throngs in the Turkish Quarter where every street- lamp, door, and window streams red cloth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Log-a-Log ripped the cloth band from his brow and flung it down. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There were ruffledy yellow and brown checked curtains at the windows and the same cloth was on the ceiling, glued up there like wallpaper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the back wall, wrapped in a cloth covering, was a smallish rectangular shape. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, she could see the tent was anchored closely to the snow-cleared ground, the cloth tightly stretched without a wrinkle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Depending on numerous factors, such as topography and psychology, the riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines, usually in cloth bandoliers, adding on another 8.4 pounds at minimum, 14 pounds at maximum. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big metal pots sat on the counter covered with muslin cloth to keep the bugs off while it cooled. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I am here. Be quiet. Do you have the cloth bag and the matches?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She added a large stack of clean folded cloths to the bag and pulled its drawstring tight. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Still she took it and put it in a deep pocket in a very loose fitting white dress that she had made herself from the cloth that I had brought her on my last visit. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Matt indicated a pile of objects wrapped haphazardly in a dirty woven cloth on the step near him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took my shoes, and watched me wind my feet in cloth to protect them from the extreme cold. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She carried the ammonia bottle to the bed, saturated a handkerchief, and, standing well away, held the cloth over Faye’s nose and mouth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wet cloth on the president's forehead cooled him off. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The calico slipped out of its knot; I pushed back the layers of muslin and uncovered a rainbow of patches—ticking and shirt cloth, gingham and calico, in faded blues and greens and yellows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For a moment she thought he meant time for the next toast, and then she realized he meant time to steal the afikoman, the matzoh wrapped in the blue embroidered cloth. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unwrapped a piece of gray silk cloth, and inside was a small stuffed dog, white with black spots. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When they had cooled she dressed the three dolls with scraps of cloth which she took from her black bag. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My papa had him some cloth much like yours, Mr. Rat, ” said Mig. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He set it down carefully on the baize cloth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She kept gnawing on the cloth and looking at my face. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mummy bends and wipes their paws with a wet cloth, then absentmindedly swipes the floor where their muddy paw prints were. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, then poured a little water onto a cloth and began to wet the lips of one of the men on the sand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I decided I would just tell them the truth, and with the help of the new overalls, cloth, and candy, I would weather the storm. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Free folk don’t follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic,” the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The room smells of old cigarette smoke, old rubber, the worn intimacy of cloth too long against flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He dug a little hole in the side of the tunnel and buried the cloth there, to honor his or her memory. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she never took her eyes from the eyeholes in the face cloth that hung from the man’s pointed hood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Cloth on the ceiling? Who ever heard of paperin’ with cloth!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Their house was total chaos, babies screaming all the time, diapers everywhere, dirty burp cloths thrown over the backs of couches and chairs. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then the unbelievable bright loveliness of the English Channel, a shimmering infinite lamé cloth of silver and blue. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As for a sail, the lovely nymph Kalypso brought him a cloth so he could make that, too. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they had examined the yarrow stalks and the book, they folded the cloth over them carefully and put them with the book into her rucksack. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the first floor there they kept their extra supplies—tools, paints, brushes, drop cloths, everything—and on the second floor they had their offices, with their computers, files, maps, invoices, deeds to the properties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He pulled free for an instant, his mouth full of leather and cloth and bloody flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Amari had often imagined new patterns for the cloth, and longed to join the men at the long looms, but girls were forbidden to do so. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we get busy cleaning up the soggy drop cloths and dump the buckets of gray water in the grass outside. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He chipped out a clump of earth, with a bright square of cloth still attached, and took it to the light. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nondescript shade of dirty cloth now. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It looked smudgy, so I wiped it with the little gray cloth. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Put them into a cloth bag and tie them around your neck,” instructed Ambuya. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disappointingly, it turned out to be some banal utterances about dying and cutting cloth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The hostess seats us at a long table in front of the soda fountain counter, with pink polka-dot chairs and intricately folded white cloth napkins. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Uncle Kufa knelt beside her and tried to wipe her face with a cloth, but she threw him back with surprising strength. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women and men carry their belongings in cloth bags on their backs and their heads. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had nothing to cover him with, so I just sat beside him holding the cloth, which was already beginning to dry, to his forehead. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned his face with a damp cloth, took off his clothes, and then got completely undressed and lowered the mosquito netting so that her children would not see them if they woke up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had brought the alethiometer with her, and now that it was light enough to see, she took the beloved instrument out and laid it on its black velvet cloth in her lap. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of the helpers wipes Janine’s forehead with a damp cloth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, grabbed my pillow, with a cloth wrapped around it, and we went up together. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

First she tossed her bundle of bones to the upper level, wincing at the dull clatter of bone against bone inside the cloth. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

With fluid movements she wipes my arms, legs, and face with a damp rose-scented cloth and cuts and buffs my nails, then paints and dries them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, they block off a section of the sidewalk and put out wooden folding chairs, tables covered with white cloth, fancy plates, and wineglasses. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Thomas looked at her, and at the cloth that lay motionless in her hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And far back, under a huge tent of silk and brocade and cloth of gold, shining with a weird, otherworldly light, was Ghohg, being rolled across the desert on a gilded platform. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The snakelike hiss of cold metal being rubbed with a polishing cloth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She held out a parcel tied up in cloth. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The men in the white hoods were now all raising their arms to the sky, and they cried out as one, but their exact words were muffled by cloth and wind. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ben goes to the pantry and starts throwing dried foods and fruit into a cloth sack, then he goes to the toilet and takes out a small medipak and throws that in, too. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Others look like makeshift cloth tents or small thatched-roof huts floating on the water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore her hair cut short, like all women in the camp, and was required to cover her head with a white cloth folded into a triangle that tied around the back of her neck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I duck out of the backyard and through the neighbor’s lawn and onto the street, my elbow wrapped tight in a cloth bandage. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Shaking, I wipe it with the cloth I had on the handle a the pitcher. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their faces were so beautiful, the cloth of their dresses so fine, the scent of their perfume so delicate, I was unsure what to do or say. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s a lovely thing,” he said, seeing the small cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to his desk and wipe my hands against the rough cloth of my dress, trying to leave no trace of sweat, trying to memorize the pattern of papers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was made from a piece of brilliantly colored cotton cloth. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bunch of huts and shacks throwed together out of pieces of boxes and wood and cloth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I could trace the shape of it through the cloth of the mattress. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They took the bikes into the barn and dried them off with the tack cloth there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger monk used a yellow cloth to wipe dirt from a belt of ammunition. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Silly,” Camilla was whispering—and I caught a glimpse of ragged, fluttering cloth, streaked with mud—“you took the wrong ones. We can’t bring them back like this.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ranofer pointed to the coarse linen straining cloths hanging below the bench. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But you mustn’t think just of incense in the ship, or precious cloths on it There were these, but they were not the loveliness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coat and trousers were made of cloth that was as shining and blue as the sky. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena, Hannah, and I have made a huge pile of buckets, garbage bags, masking tape, and drop cloths in the main office. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Although the room was dark, light touched the metal fastenings on a wooden box, a fold of blue cloth on the table, the curve of the woman’s forehead, the creamy lemon of her jacket. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the alley, a faded cloth banner swung over an open doorway. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The leap had shattered one of his legs, and a jagged piece of pale bone jutted out through the rotted cloth of his breeches and the grey meat beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he folded the cloth up neatly, gave his nose one more confident swipe, and jammed the hanky back in his pocket. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

In one awful flash, I sank into a cavern of dark cloth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We sit on our benches, facing one another, as we are transported; we’re without emotion now, almost without feeling, we might be bundles of red cloth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on: “His father was an innkeeper in Delft, but was also a weaver who manufactured a fine satin cloth called ‘caffa.’ Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It has a table nextside of the bed with a fancy cloth on it that reaches all the way to the floor. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Finally he dug out some catch cloths and tied them on Boots’s head. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His tent is made of some heavy cloth, painted in silver and green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It has cloth seats and air conditioning and a separate place to store luggage. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The babies would always choose the cloth mother, even if it meant they didn’t have any nourishment to live on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She put the food carefully into the cloth sack, and then the two of them went out into the Avenida Revolucíon. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It looked odd—a flat yellow cloth of some kind, perfectly clean and smooth with brilliant light shining on it from somewhere inside the girl’s bedroom. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The state of her own hair is a mystery, since she always wraps her head in a dazzling cloth printed with peacock feathers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It held a large cloth trash bag, a dust broom, a sponge, and toilet supplies. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They adjusted her blankets, set up clean cloths and towels close by, and made sure the hot water was ready in the basin. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used bits of discarded woven cloth from the weaving shed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baby felt warm and close on his shoulder, and her little silk skirt was white against the dark cloth of his coat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stand on the edge of the truck bed, holding the structure that supports the cloth cover. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had in his hand his and Regina’s life savings — $12 — and with that money, he bought enough cloth to make ten dozen aprons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He got a cloth from the cart and a plastic jar and came back and wrapped the cloth over the mouth of the jar and sank it in the water and watched it fill. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was wearing my oversize terry cloth Victoria's Secret bathrobe over pajamas while we waited for my parents to return home. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was simply cold and in need of another layer of cloth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile, then reach down to untie the cloth. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It stank of formaldehyde and, even through the cloth, felt unpleasantly moist. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The cloth must be sturdy and inexpensive—that’s the only kind that makes sense for a ..She pauses. “A nine-year-old girl.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He sewed skillfully, and the calluses on the tips of his fingers were so hard that he pushed the needle through the cloth without a thimble. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The untended cows trampled into the palaces of the gods, and the gods themselves began to wear tattered robes because there was no cloth from which to make new ones. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few doors down, Zeitoun and Frank came upon a house with a large white cloth billowing from the second-floor window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in red cloth, it was considered something very special. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Inside, wrapped in muslin cloth, was a loaf and a wedge of cheese. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She owned more—furniture, wedding jewelry, cloth, photographs—but she had left such troublesome valuables behind in the family’s care. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid slipped the cloth off her head and sat up. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Doctor Warren wet a cloth in a basin of water and wiped his bloody mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stripes were parallel silver lines on a black background sewed to the cloth of the sleeve about eight inches below the shoulder. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Phoebe triumphantly produced a rectangle of folded silvery cloth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She put the herbs into a small cloth bag, one by one. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She leads the way into her room, hung with purple cloths at the windows, a sweet, herbal smell in the air. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Anya didn’t need to get a good look at the cloth to know what it was: one of Papa’s shirts. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was standing with his arms out straight while they draped him with ermine, velvet, samite, brocade, and cloth of gold. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

About its open ribs lay shreds of old cloth. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Leeuwenhoek’s microscope evolved from the magnifying glasses employed by drapers to examine the quality of cloth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were things you might expect—produce and meats, tools, bolts of cloth, handmade jewelry. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He takes the watch and folds it into a soft cloth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Family pictures show Marcy at Sunday picnics on the grounds of the state hospital, always in a colorful summer dress and holding a cloth parasol. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a white linen cloth laid on the grass, with bowls piled high with food—she could see salads and sandwiches, nuts and fruit, jugs of lemonade and water and thick chocolate milk. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Many of them are secondhand, all the classics for example, one volume in blue cloth boards cost one mark twenty pfennig. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She filled six baskets with crocks of butter and big wedges of stinky cheese wrapped in cloth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my! You really are a woman now. Turn around. The Jongwes didn’t pinch pennies on that cloth. And those earrings! You look beautiful!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then went into his study, and from a large strong-box took out a bundle wrapped in old cloths, and a leather-bound manuscript; and also a large bulky envelope. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The grandmother screams and curses us, but the nurse continues to jab the cloth at the wound, wiping away the caked brown blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Axel wanted to, he could reach out from under the table, from under the table cloth and run his hand over a smooth wheel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I focus my attention on the cloth until I can breathe evenly again, until the panic dissipates. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She took off her glasses and cleaned them with a cloth before replacing them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We cleaned up after ourselves carefully; we learned to use the water taps and the dusting cloths we found in the kitchen closet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

With alarming speed, inches of finished cloth rolled up on the beams at the front of the looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She scrubbed them on the cloth and said, “It was successful. No help from me.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Their headlights bathed the area in glaring light as if a bright cloth had been spread out in the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sitti placed a thick cloth pad on her head and heaved the full jug back up there, to carry back to the house. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other woman was short with thick dreadlocks that were wrapped in multicolored cloth and piled high atop her head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“What are all these small pieces of cloth for?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My face and ears were wrapped in a cloth, with only my eyes exposed. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Women sat behind bright cloths heaped with mangoes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked down at his clean hands and was momentarily surprised to see the cloth he was holding in them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Luckiest girl I know. New dress and bonnet, train ride, holiday with a handsome man ...” She took the cloth from Rachel’s hand, tipped up the child’s chin, and began to wash her upturned face. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Max finds a cloth, wets it in the water bucket, and starts cleaning Helena up while I hold her. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was dark behind the thick red cloth that draped the stage, and the air smelled musty, but once the curtains were pulled, the light from the auditorium windows would fill the stage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The mirror in the den was covered by a black cloth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What you talk about? We move on from you tell about cloth. We talk about make skirt now!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The walls, ceiling, and floor were all padded with thick white cloth, muffling even the faint noises from the hallway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It fits perfectly,” I said, taking the cloth between my fingers and fanning it out to the side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was wearing shirt and trousers of coarse cotton jean—the kind of cloth the Lowell mills spit out by the mile. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mama Mwanza’s legs didn’t burn all the way off but it looks like a pillow or just something down there she’s sitting on wrapped up in a cloth sack. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpop whipped the cloth from his shirt pocket again, like a magician does before turning it into a bird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Thinking of that special scrap, Kira went to the carved box, unfolded the bit of cloth, and put it in her pocket. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the book—brown, with a silver title, and the cloth was broken and the boards thick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She clutched the tom cloth of her bodice to her heavy breasts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’d wrapped it up in a piece of cloth and written on a card made from Adah’s notebook paper: For my beautiful firstborn child, all grown up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s in his shirt sleeves, bare arms sticking shamelessly out from the rolled cloth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside him, a bottle of red wine and a baguette are spread on a checkered cloth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His suit was made of the whitest cloth she had ever seen. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle and White Deer set his leg—there was plenty of wood for that—and we bound up his sides tight with some old lengths of cloth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He inched forward a fraction, touched the cloth and felt the cold bite into his fingers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s super embarrassing, though, you know. Someone wiping your face with a cloth. Please,” Aileen continued. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She accompanied Alys one morning to Bryns cottage, where the baby girl, now named Elen, was swaddled in layers of woven cloth and warmed in her cradle by wrapped stones made hot in the fire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She put this in a little pan of milk on the stove and when the milk was hot she poured milk and carrot into a cloth bag. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered that she had placed the scrap of cloth there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red cloth was almost black with dirt, but it was the only surviving link to her life in the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Boss told him he had to fight, he just grabbed these thin cloth gloves with the fingers ripped away and went to the middle of camp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tess helps me wrap both of my hands in cloth before I go to avoid leaving fingerprints anywhere. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Slumped against one wall was a large, stuffed cloth bag embroidered in black and green designs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A few brightly colored shreds of cloth fluttered gaily where our tent had been. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Today, though, I notice a folded note inside one hole and a piece of red cloth inside another. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But up there on Lenox, in Violet and Joe Trace’s apartment, the rooms are like the empty birdcages wrapped in cloth. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I opened the music case, took out my trumpet, and wiped the mouthpiece with the little gray cloth. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I have to concentrate if I don’t want my clothes to burn. And I’m not concentrating, see? This is totally fireproof cloth. Which means your firewood won’t burn in that pouch.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He cinched the strip of cloth behind his neck, making sure his mouth and nose were entirely covered. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He turned; he could not see her but he could hear her hurried breathing and then a rustling of cloth. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there was an Asian man stabbed next door, words on cloth pinned to his corpse. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamita tied a cloth around my shoulder and made a sling where she put a few handfuls of beans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My little sister held on to our grandma, her tiny fists grabbing the cloth of her blouse, her face pressed against her shoulder. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Gently, carefully, she peels scorched and smoking cloth from my raw skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie sat in an orange cloth recliner, nothing fancy, right out of the 1980s. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He took my arm, a thin man who carried a large cloth bag slung over his shoulder. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tied her things in a cloth that she put on her head, and walked out through the big gate, never to see that country any more. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Grabbing a piece of pink terry cloth, she said, “That’s an old baby bib.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She rubs the cloth across her teeth a few times, but her gums are too sore and she quits. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He allowed one paw to touch the magical red cloth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Kira half listened to his tale as she continued to smooth the cloth in her hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unknotted the cloth and found an object hidden within: a little wooden horse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t keep the cloth on his head because he was tossing from side to side. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held a red bag in his hand, a bag Pinmei recognized as made from the same cloth as Yishan’s clothes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She reached into the folds of cloth at her breast and brought out a bag chinking with coins. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I remember Ma taking my measurements, holding the soft chiffon cloth against my body, and asking me if I liked it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wide copper bowl and a white cloth were brought to Faramir and he washed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You look like you could use a rest, Alter,” Mrs. Brenner said with a small smile, taking the bloodied cloth back from me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They reached into the basket again and again, changed threads in a motion so fast he could barely follow it, and the needle entered the cloth, and entered the cloth, and entered the cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The gwythaint did not struggle when Taran applied the poultice; soaking a piece of cloth tom from his jacket in another healing brew, he squeezed the liquid drop by drop into the bird’s beak. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The wind blew through the cloth, chilling her skin. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You have need of a clean catch cloth,” she said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The women covered the windows with paper and cloth. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He found laid ready clean garments of green cloth that fitted him excellently. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before I put on my coat I cut the cloth stars off my sleeves and put them in the inside pocket with my money. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Finally he climbed up and lay on top of the layers of cloth, his body curled in a tight knot. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before I could reach for a towel, my mom wiped my face with a warm cloth. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They unfolded the cloth and ate some bread and cheese. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Five. Look at the fine cloth. Here, feel it. Not a sucre less than five.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got my first real glance at him out of the corner of my eye as he ripped the polish-stained cloth out of my hand and moved to my side. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I laughed and wet a cloth in the basin to bathe his face. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You know any kind of glue that you can stick cloth to iron?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had trouble finding the brilliantly colored pieces of cotton cloth she needed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other guard tied Ayanna’s and my wrists in front of us with strips of cloth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After telling the storekeeper how big my mother and sisters were, I bought several yards of cloth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ignored her and unfolded the cloth, disclosing the golden splendor of the alethiometer resting in his palm. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He frantically searched for the cloth kitchen towel because he thought that would work better and found it wrapped around a pot on the stove. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I look at her, and I can see the way time has worn through her like an old piece of cloth, the fibers exposed and fraying. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m keenly aware of the amount of skin showing through my ripped dress, and I try to draw the remnants of cloth together. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I tied a string around the neck of the cloth, making a tea bag, then placed a kettle on the stove. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They had brought coal and made a great fire in the kitchen range and put a fresh white cloth on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, there was a baby tied to someone’s back with a piece of cloth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I rushed to the bathroom and dampened a cloth from Mama’s clean rags bin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The tables were covered with spotless, white cloths. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father muttered sweet, delirious things to Roy, and his hands, when he dipped them again in the basin and wrung out the cloth, were trembling. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After I take a shower, and Johanna sort of wipes herself down with a damp cloth, she makes a cursory inspection of the place. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Hodor washed the sweat from him with a warm, damp cloth and dressed him with deft and gentle hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We've given our word not to tell anyone about it,” Prosper muttered, nervously tugging at the filthy cloth that was holding up his arm. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This was all I could find,” she says, handing me a fistful of cloth. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He handed me and Jay a small cloth pouch each. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I dipped the cloth again and held it to my eye. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think putting black cloths over the hives will help May get to heaven?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra waited till she was sure he was asleep, and then took the dishes into the kitchen and ran them under the tap, rubbing hard with a cloth until they looked clean. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet my eye could not decipher those vendors: they wrapped their heads in bright-colored cloths as cheerful as a party, but faced the world with permanent vile frowns. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came now to my side, cloths wrapped about their faces to repel the contagion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A cloth curtain separated his place from the rest of the shop so that it was like a small private room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I learned from here. I just make a paper pattern, and when it looks right I pin it to the cloth and cut.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed in the bloodstained cloth, just as her daughter did. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When he refused to get in the tub, Mrs. Moss would wash him roughly with a cloth, pour shampoo on his head, and then dunk him to rinse it off. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Rusted razor blades and bloody cloths were the most innocent items. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have traditionally avoided tropical forests, because the climate destroys all wood, cloth, and organic material—except for ceramics and stone, there is little left to dig up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jacqueline took a long piece of black cloth out of her bundle and wrapped it around her belly. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The jeweler slides the watch toward me by pushing the soft cloth across the counter. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had tied rabbit skins around her hips to save the precious cloth for her eventual arrival in Zimbabwe, so everything from her waist up was bare. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's full of people wearing Jodensters, carrying suitcases or cloth grocery bags. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kira always stood at her mothers side, never touching the fragile ancient cloth, marveling each time at the rich hues that told the history of the world. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their offerings were laid out in stalls, low tables, on pieces of cloth, even on the ground. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were all essentially cut from the same cloth, so to speak. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Does the cloth remind you of what you have done wrong?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The table was covered with a red cloth, and the cookstove was polished shining black. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know what Clytie thought, what life she led which the food we raised and cooked in unison, the cloth we spun and wove together, nourished and sheltered. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pour some oil of rosemary steeped in cloves onto a cloth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"I put a cold, wet cloth on it as soon as I could, but it was destined to make a scar. Always to remind me of my carelessness." It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She falls into a cream love seat tufted with multicolored cloth buttons and stares into the fireplace. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I laid the pillowcase over the carpet like a drop cloth. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Most villages had craft schools, where boys and girls learned how to weave cloth, carve wood, and master other skills that would land them steady work when they grew up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He finished folding the cloth and picked up his crutches to take me back to the post office. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I reached out my crooked arm and touched the hem of her royal blue robe and her matching cloth slippers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A woman behind the ticket counter says the Germans carry fog pills and wear rocket belts; their uniforms, she whispers, are made of a special cloth stronger than steel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She tore the cloth into small strips, then ate some stew, and started off to hunt birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the idea of curling up with Treasure Island and a cold cloth wasn’t such a bad one. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the 588th, people embroidered their foot cloths with flowers—using blue thread pulled out of their regulation men’s underwear again! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His cloth whipped over the black saddle leather. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had had fever in Virginia, and at Schar- loo, my mother had given me aspirin and then put cold cloths on my head. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m done, I wrap all a Miss Hilly’s silver up in the blue cloth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“How do you get through it? Do you tie a cloth around your nose and mouth?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The ground is an olive green, the toreadors cloth is a light pink. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her dress was so silky, it seemed to ripple, as if the cloth were ink spilling off her shoulders. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The man spoke in soothing tones as he wrapped the swallow in a measure of cloth and bound it inside his coat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I felt a cool cloth being placed on my forehead. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At Jesus’s feet, people had thrown piles of change, wilted daisies, and two roses —one fresh with thorns, the other cloth with plastic dewdrops. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was naked except for a dirty little piece of cloth around his bottom. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Ferula wrapped it in a cloth and placed it in a leather hatbox. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she walked to the table, her cloth shoes making no sound on the cold stone floor, her pulse quickened with curiosity. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rose was cut from the same animal cloth as Violet. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A white square of cloth appears in front of me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“This is too long,” complained my father, wiping his brow with a cloth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was made of dark-blue cotton, had a belt, and the cloth was so heavy that Lupita did not need to buy a petticoat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It has an abandoned quality with no fire on the hearth, no cloth on the table. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother brought us a cup of water, and as we drank she fanned us with her head cloth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the blink of an eye folds of silk are glossy black feathers, large beating wings, and it is impossible to pinpoint the moment when it is fully raven and no longer cloth. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper strolled over to the boy, wiping his hands on a clean linen cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You know that flameproof cloth? You think you could make me a little bag of that fabric?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the guard towers, banners of frozen blue cloth shimmered in the arctic sun. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Made me feel just good to see one again after all those years and I said, “It’s a loom for weaving cloth.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water flashed below her, and Tally dropped the swatch of orange cloth as they turned. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then the folded rectangle of cloth went into Jinny’s fetch bag, and they had to run home fast, so that Ben could put it all in the honey pot before it oozed through the sheet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He ripped down one of the triangle legs, and I heard cloth tearing. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, she had walked through fabric stores where there was cloth so beautiful, it was like magic. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His fingers found stiff cloth where they should have found flesh, lips, teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As it was, the point just cut the cloth of his coat, making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank-notes and a stream of gold fell out. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mama lifted the corner of one muslin cloth and stuck a spoon into the jam. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I bought some food for my journey, some candies for the little ones, and a dress pattern and some cloth for my mother. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could unwrap the cloth to see whose head it is, but I don’t want to, because I know that if I do the head will come alive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Booth’s right spur tangles in the folds of the cloth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You takes this piece of cloth, you hear, boy? Keep it safe, ’cause all my memories be tucked in it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The altar was covered by a simple linen cloth; above it hung a plain wooden cross. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid a cool cloth across my forehead. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It appeared simple, but I knew it was made of a handwoven cloth called king’s muslin, the very best you could buy. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A young girl pulls the least rickety chair under a fan and wipes it clean with a cloth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They each have a cloth square with their District number on it pinned to their shirts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

With a jab of the thumbs, he pressed the sodden cloth between Mr. Sharpe’s lips. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But knowing Pop Pop, he’d rather give me a raggedy cloth and a belt and tell me that’s what women did in the old days. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the fall he burned brush piles and raked leaves for Virginia Gatewood, a stick figure at twilight in cloth gloves and a threadbare mackinaw coat ragged at the elbows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Touching her scrap of cloth, she shook her head no. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth was as rough as a floor brush, but it would help him fit in with the others. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the case in front of him was a square of black cloth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There are several chairs onstage with seats and backs also in dark blue cloth. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes’ walk took them to a grand stone-fronted building where they sat in a wide dining room with snowy cloths and bright silver on the tables, and ate calves’ liver and bacon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The doors and windows were tightly shut, and the cracks of the window frames stuffed with cloth, to keep out the cold. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Mama, a precious dress length of calico cloth, deep red with blue and pink flower sprigs all over it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

On market days, traveling merchants and local farmers came from miles around, selling everything from bolts of cloth to scented soaps and balls of twine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Inside was a folded square of cloth that was obviously a piece of Lin Nai-Nai’s embroidery. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped the hammer into a cloth ring on his pants, then picked up his level and measuring tape. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Her apron has its share of it,” Heather said, referring to the darkened, spattered patches on the cloth, and she and Claire both laughed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He has opened the boot, and I am about to bring out the plastic bag of fruits and the cloth bag with the food and plates. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had torn a square of fabric out of Cade's T-shirt, and I kept my hand pressed against it until the blood dried and the cloth bandage stuck to my head. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They had no loom and paid the village weaver in spun flax for cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kote set aside the clean linen cloth and gave his best innkeeper’s smile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The scythe wiped her blade on a chamois cloth the same pale lavender as her robe, and that’s when Citra lost control. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They handcuffed him, blindfolded him with a strip of black cloth, and pushed him into the backseat of the jeep. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to see her?” one asked when it was over, and a nurse held out the baby, swaddled in a white cloth, in her cupped palms. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A round young woman with frizzy brown hair kneels on the floor in front of a cloth mannequin, stitching tiny pearls onto a bodice. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They wore white shirts and their heads were tied with white cloths. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They leave the cloth in a pile on the desk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about it. They were dirty anyway. Here,” he said, holding out the cloth, “you better get cleaned up.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were much finer than the towels—the cloth ran silkily through his fingers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She caught the mingled odors of incense, candle wax, flowers, and the good black cloth and shaving lotion of the priest. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see,” I said, and slapped a clean cloth diaper in his outstretched hand. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

After wiping away the blood, he wrung out the cloth into a bowl. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her hand landed on the linen as the rusalka’s hand did the same, and the water spirit’s cold fingers touched Anya’s as they both grasped the cloth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

C.P. considered himself a radical, but Jacobs was clearly cut from a different cloth—one that was beginning to unravel. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The red cloth was still draped over his shoulders. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Behind the light pink cloth, her face was rigid and gray. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I went back, seeing him remove a white cloth from his hip pocket and wipe the glass face of a pressure gauge, then bend close to squint at the position of the needle. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift it up, and underneath is a bolt of beautiful fog-gray cloth that ripples like smoke. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a booth that sold bangles and another with bolts of brightly colored cloth for saris. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She told me that it was a cap that has a flap of cloth attached to cover the neck, named after Sir Henry Havelock, the man who invented it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mopped his side with a wet cloth, gently wiping away the blood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His right hand, tangled in a clean white cloth, made a slow fist. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the cloth is soothing at times too. I was fearful here at first, the same as you, when everything was so new. But when I held the scrap, I felt reassured.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The black cloth draped around town,” he replied. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the small north wall gate, Plumpen drew a scarlet cloth from his habit. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Before I could ask Grandma more about it, she put a cold cloth to my face and rushed me into the bathtub. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They collected piles of rocks and stones and tied them up into bundles using sturdy cloth. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have the river Jordan, here, Grandfather,” the bald man said as he retied the wet cloth around his neck. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She covered this with another clean, wet cloth, and laid on top of it a round board, cut small enough to go inside the cheese hoop. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one hand he held a little cloth bag. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He bought Pinch some calico trim for a pair of makazins, and a piece of velvet cloth for Angeline to use as she wished. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

With her hand in her pocket, she fingered the small scrap of woven cloth and pictured its colors in her mind. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table is covered in a white lace cloth and dotted by silver platters with lids, bowls of grapes, baskets of bread, and glasses of bubbling liquids. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He used his other hand and his teeth to wrap and tie the cloth into a makeshift bandage. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He poured the chloroform into a bunched cloth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The tables were covered with white cloths, but the food had not yet been put out. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not only was the fire’s heat burning the firefighters, it was also creating a powerful updraft that sucked flaming embers and pieces of cloth and wood into the air. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He dumped Chicken Little into a burlap sack and tossed him next to some egg crates and boxes of wool cloth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Shimmering there on the cloth was a cooler version of Percy Jackson—with just the right clothes, a confident smile on my face. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly, listening to the creak of her limbs, the crinkle of the cloth that clothed her, Linda roused herself, left the room, turned into the bathroom to draw a tub. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smelled the cloth, but found no trace of Mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young man staggers out from the station, one hand pressed against a bloody cloth at his cheek, the other dragging a gun. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

On retrieving the bowl after the day’s work, he unwrapped the cloth as he always did, to check on the bowl’s contents. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The huntress handed her a cloth bag cinched shut with a leather tie. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed it to Anya, and she unwrapped the cloth to reveal a shining sword beneath. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The contents were surprising, but the cloth was even more so. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lee’s wife grabbed the baby and carried him outside, while Lee rounded up a few valuables and some food and put them in a cloth sack. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He straightened his friend’s body, placed the other dog tag in Charlie’s mouth, and tied his mouth shut with a strip of cloth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked very quietly across the grey carpets of the department store, towards School Outfitting, and the rooms smelled of perfume and new cloth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see if they’ve stopped staring when I notice a dark man in the back crying quietly into a cloth handkerchief. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She spread over him some of the bits of cloth they used as blankets. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Verrazzano’s next stop, the Maine coast, the Abenaki did want steel and cloth—demanded them, in fact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I handed the stuff for tea to Jay, and he placed it all in a clean cloth for Mama to sort through to make the blend she liked. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cornflower and Silent Sam kept busy supplying cool drinks and sweat cloths. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Perkins apologized awkwardly, and went and got a cloth from the sink to mop it up. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Her hair and the pillow were the same color, beneath the wimple of the medicated cloth she looked like an old nun praying. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Shuvai dipped the cloth in water and bathed the sick woman’s arms and chest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the black “leather” on one has rubbed off, revealing white cloth. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her mother would clean off the headstones with an old cloth and burn sage in a shallow pewter dish. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those skimpy sleeves did not even cover her elbows, and the scratchy linsey-woolsey cloth kept her thin shoulders constantly twitching. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Dakota was wrapping himself in a long piece of red-speckled cloth —a toga. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They had autumn peaches picked from the trees and sliced in golden cream, mounds of wild honey, and apples that Nancy’s little boys had polished until they gleamed rosily against the white cloth. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue cloth Muff had chosen was so pale it looked white. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a piece of cloth that he intended to use to collect seeds from the haybales but when he got to the barn he stopped and stood listening to the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I bring the cloth up to my face and inhale the fragrance. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

First she dabs at my lip with a wet cloth. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sweat is already trickling down my neck as I settle in among the buckets and drop cloths. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Koffi stared at her hands, still loosely wrapped in the bloodied strips of cloth Mama had torn from her own tunic to help her climb the vines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“When you get marry, you will have many present. I will get you myself! I will sew you hundred skirt. Somehow I will find money for cloth.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The trousers were big and bunched up when Obinze tightened his belt, but the jacket, also big, shielded this unsightly pleat of cloth at his waist. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Corinthians and Lena busied themselves picking them up, wiping the snow from the cloth on their coats, all the while peeping at the man in blue wings on the hospital roof. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I picked it up I found her cloth bag beneath. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He raised a cloth and revealed a huge boar with bristles made of gold. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

With a cry of triumph, he threw the cloth wrapping to the side and exposed a beautiful kimono, red and orange with white birds and white flowers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had little red flannel stockings and little black cloth gaiters for shoes, and her dress was pretty pink and blue calico. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter nodded his head and swept the crumbs from the table with his cloth. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In her hands, she holds up orange, red, and blue checkered cloth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a cloth back and a shiny metallic palm. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He went back and sat by the boy and refolded the cloth and wiped his face and then spread the cloth over his forehead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo wrapped the remaining six carefully with the cloth and tied them up into a little sack. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

From his shirt pocket Sticky took out a thin piece of cotton cloth and polished his spectacles with it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cloth stuck to my face, with ointment oozing out from the edges. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When boys came over, Kaprice and her stepsister would be sitting at a table with brush, rod, and cloth, expertly taking the guns apart, spinning the barrels, polishing the grips. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The plain white sheets that we usually covered the bed with had been replaced by a large piece of purple cloth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Like someone draped a heavy black cloth over a bright star. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It poked me hard, too. Maybe tomorrow I’ll wrap some cloth around my feet before I put my sandals back on.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And on top she is wearing a Westernized suit jacket, awkwardly stylish on my mother’s small body, with its padded shoulders, wide lapels, and oversize cloth buttons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave each of them a cloth bag, and they worked as they listened to the next part of the story. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder where all this cloth ends up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered standing there in his rags while she measured him and then put on her thimble to stitch the cloth­ ing for him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Finally she puts clean sheets on the bed, stretching the cloth tightly at the four corners. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I brought out a little piece of cloth, unwrapped it, and found the clipping of moonlace. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Beneath his bare chest, he felt the soft folds of the magnificent cloth that covered the bed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The faster she pedals the faster stitches appear on heavy brown cloth. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“A few weeks, maybe a month,” he said as he ran the wet cloth under his arms and the hard planes of his chest, water trickling down his torso. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We also made our own clothes, from parachute cloth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could buy a whole bolt of cloth for that much.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ma put her wooden cheese hoop on the board, spread a clean, wet cloth all over the inside of it, and filled it heaping full of the chunks of salted curd. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a thin white cloth around his loins, looped between his dark legs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the Europeans’ confusion, their steel and cloth did not interest the Narragansett, who wanted to swap only for “little bells, blue crystals, and other trinkets to put in the ear or around the neck.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Anatole took one of Mother’s cloth napkins and blotted his face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leather packet was lined with broadcloth and into the cloth two needles were stuck. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I have been wearing it for six years, Djo, and the clean strong cloth of my uniform still pleases me. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month later we hooked up in Boston, at a fancy restaurant with cloth napkins and good wine, which Farmer seemed to thoroughly enjoy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Removing his yellow cloth riding gloves, Grant steps forward and shakes Lee’s hand. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I love the jellyfish, which remind me of streams of shiny cloth, and the lion- fish, which really do look a little like swimming lions. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then she dried everything on another cloth and stacked it neatly on the drainboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot cloth felt glorious on my face. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stood at the sink in Miss Sadie’s tiny kitchen, wrapping an assortment of exotic tea leaves in a worn piece of cloth. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the tin and cloth and began looking for the dish she’d brought. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Presently, the muvuki emerged, still wearing his suit but with two ceremonial cloths crossed over his chest and tied behind his back. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought them a large plate full of jumokbap, small fist-sized rice balls mixed with barley, seaweed, salt, sesame oil, and toasted sesame seeds, sitting on a white cloth to prevent sticking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When she finished, she showed the scrap of cloth to Marmalade on her left before passing it to Archer on her other side. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He told the people how to purify water and how to make cloth from nettles. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She handed Claire a dry cloth and together they dried and tidied the dead woman, folding her arms finally across her gaunt chest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They dripped from the corners of his eyes onto his cheeks, leaked through the folds of cloth at his neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And he dipped the cloth in again and wrung it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The two never figured out who had reported the stolen cloth. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Gently she unfolded the cloth and showed her bits of torn brown shreds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man yanked the cloth from the back of the bike. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’d made it out of crocus, a gunnysack fabric, and used scraps of bright cloth to make a dress and headwrap for her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She dug into the diaper bag and pulled out a burp cloth and a big sheetlike thing that looped around her neck that she used when nursing in public. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She grabs hold of the wooden pole holding up the tent, and instantly everything around it disappears—the orange cloth, the stool, the reed mat, and the bowl of golden mangoes. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

We bought fresh new cloth diapers because my mother liked to see diapers hanging on the fine outside. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She got the cloth from her father’s store. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at her own hands, resting there on the table, still holding the damp cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Although it’s covered up by his sleeve, I can see that a sizable circle of blood stains the cloth there. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The door flung open, punctual to the minute, and the performance, never-varying, of the laying of the tea, the silver tray, the kettle, the snowy cloth. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred jammed his hands into his pockets, and pressed his fingers through the cloth into his thighs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women stumbled back, dropping their wiping cloths and pressing their hands to their mouths as the coins tumbled and leaped about their feet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Laura just kept sponging my face and wringing out the cloth until the water turned from pink to red and I thought I was going to bawl. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a loud explosion and the smell of burnt cloth as the hole in Katie’s apron smoldered. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleaning pads—part cloth and part rough plant husks—were handed out along with buckets of soapy water. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

White cloths covered all the statues, so it looked like a room filled with poorly dressed ghosts. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only the poor fool knew nothing, and only she smiled and twisted her bit of cloth as she smiled. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My daughter would sit beside me in the room, a small scrap of cloth and a needle and thread in her hand. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She repeats this process over and over, working until the cloth burns without charring, remaining bright and white within the flame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Do you think a few bolts of cloth will make you king?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he examined the layers of cloth on top of it, unsure whether to sleep on them or to remove them and put them away before sleeping. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I like the sensation, the soft cloth brushing my skin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A turban made of kente cloth, necklaces made of glass beads, and a rainbow of bandanas are spread out on the stairs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cloth is uncut velvet in a deep burgundy, with ivory velvet at the lapels, shoulders, and waistcoat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Kira smoothed the herbal salve on their upper lips and wrapped cloth around their noses and mouths to filter the stench. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Give him his small comforts,” shouted a voice at the top of the stairs, and a red cloth was thrown into the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He took from his girdle a small greasy pouch of grey cloth and counted the money in it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Within were three long hooded cloaks made from myriad small squares of cloth sewn together, three cudgels, three shortswords, three masks of polished brass. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Besides the Virgin’s blue robe, it was the holiest cloth on earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A babe swaddled in a crimson cloak, the cloth stained with his blood and brains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re sewing?” she said when she saw the patterns and cloth spread all over the bed and table. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears it in a ponytail with small white cloth lilies of the valley wired around the elastic band. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the back was a crate, covered with a cloth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were moments when all three looms were running as they ought—all the shuttles bearing full quills, all three temples hung high on the cloth, no warp threads snapping. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She made a little pillow with stuffing from an old mattress and cloth from a white flour sack. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk was filled with a silver tea set, a small portrait of a yellow-haired man, something wrapped in velvet cloth, dusty sacks, small wooden boxes, and packets of letters tied in a ribbon. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I return Walden to the center of my desk and take my dust cloth to my closet to drop it in the laundry bin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Then, a minute later, she turned her head one way, then the other, then she looked right at me before she pushed her little round cloth arms under her stuffed body and stood up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And it’s not new, it’s been worn before, the cloth under the arms is crumpled and slightly stained, with some other woman’s sweat. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re scarce as hen’s teeth. Remember to tie a yellow cloth to the front railing. This coffeehouse is officially closed.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under Dinah’s headscarf, the little patch of hag skin was gone, leaving a paler brown piece of cloth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Clearly, Chomsky and Rand were cut from a similar cloth as Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Hours later the stitches appear in slow motion, the needle a worm laying tiny eggs that sink into brown cloth. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a thick red rug on the floor, and he had bought a beautiful cloth of Chinese blue to hang on the side of the wall where the cracks were worst. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then they swam on ahead of the canoe, crossing back and forth in front of it, diving in and out, as if they were weaving a piece of cloth with their broad snouts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she put the table cloth down again, Bill crawled forward and licked her hand. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, from the river’s sunbaked hollows, it was possible to buy Titanic carpets, and Titanic cloth, from bolts arranged in wheelbarrows. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She washed me with a cloth and soap and warm water. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then he went to a box that had been his mother’s and drew from it a fresh suit of blue cotton cloth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In Arabic, she would say batkhayyal, which also means “to see the shadow of a thought,” as if one is separated from it by a thin cloth. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He took the blue cloth out of the dirty clothes basket. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up, found him watching me, closed the book, put it away, and picked up my dust cloth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then the scientist went a step further and installed a device in the cloth mother that would make it kick out and hurt the baby monkey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was the litde cloth purse with the safety pin on the chair beneath her clothes and the money just wasn’t nowhere in the room. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the women had newborn babies too, teeny fawn-colored frowning things, which the mothers wrap up in great big bundles of cloths and blankets and even little woolly caps, in all this heat! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was wearing a flannel shirt and a cloth hat. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I nodded and he handed me a small book with a blue cloth cover. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Big scratchy brown bags with manioc and bananas and little cloth bags of something hard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stripped the girl of the drenched, ripped clothing, setting it aside, then rubbed her dry with rough cloth, and wrapped her in soft wool. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Peeta puts me in a chair and holds a cloth filled with fresh snow to my cheek. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were covered with the blue cloths, and their eyes showed fear. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the ground radiating up through her finespun cloth soles. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Teacher, I saw a stolen piece of cloth.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I handed her the loaf of brown barley bread wrapped in a piece of cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As she came closer, Pinmei’s anger reignited, for Amah had a white cloth tied around her mouth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And so the prisoner took the cloth and draped it around his shoulders as if it were a cloak, and the soldier of the king said, “Right then, Gregory, he’s all yours. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He wets the cloth and sweeps it across my eyelids, cheeks, nose, and lips, tenderly removing the dust from my face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I kept water boiling for the midwife and stuck cloth in my ears to keep out the noise. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy got down some old towels and ripped them into cloths. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw, again, the red cloth spinning against the backdrop of gold. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Still, thought Loki, the magical ship that folded up like a cloth was every bit as impressive as an unstoppable boar that shone in the dark. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The newcomers then offered gifts to the chief: small ropes of sparkling beads unlike anything Amari had ever seen, casks of wine, and lengths of fine cloth—so shiny and smooth that Amari marveled. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth could then cover a pillow or the back of a chair. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The broad, circular table was laid with a cloth of pale gold silk printed with twining crimson and green flowers, and there were eight courses. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the booth, Mama gave Anya one more hug, handed her the cloth packages that definitely smelled fishy, and said, “Home.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He wet a cloth in the stream to clean the cut. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Where’s my patch box?” he asked then, and Mary gave him the little tin box full of little pieces of greased cloth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers wrapped pieces of cloth around their flintlocks but didn’t bother with Jonathan’s gun. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She straightened up, sighing, and went over to the sink to wash the coffee from her cloth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other women carried plain cloth panels showing the colors of the American women’s suffrage movement: purple, white, and gold. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

That morning Laura had to stand still a long time while Ma unwound her hair from the cloth strings and combed it into long curls. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I go home, I bring her a present—usually some cloth. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

People often compared him with his fellow man of the cloth Archbishop Desmond Tutu, but of course that didn’t mean anything to me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His body was placed on a bed of beaver pelts, covered by a scarlet cloth, and surrounded by a copper pot, a rifle, and a sword. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He brought out an object wrapped in cloth, about the same size as a pair of glasses. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some lay under spiderwebs of white cloth that suspended their arms or legs. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Pain you much?” asked another, her hair wrapped in a worn yellow cloth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gently wiped the old woman’s face and arms with the wet cloth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thin lines of moss and mold threaded through the cloth so the bra clung to the dead wood more than hung from it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe some new cloth for a dress or a hairbrush. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had no time to ask her, for at that moment several sailors, with cloths tied around their faces, came down, unchained the feet of the women, and led them up out of the hold. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at the riverbank, the other girls said that they would all need to take off their makgabes, as the cloth would be damaged if it got wet. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Doc told of how Bigger had cut the cloth of his pool table and said that Bigger was “mean and bad, but sane.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They filled the tub with scalding hot water, bathed her and washed her hair and gave her a cloth to wear between her legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lying on an unfolded cloth was a square of something that was yellowish-white in color. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

McIntosh walked Jule into the ballroom, where tall tables were being covered with white cloths. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even her hair, usually so thick and curly, was pulled back severely, held at the nape of her neck with a cloth scrunchie like a lot of the girls wear at school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When our hands blistered from the buckets and shovels, we tied scraps of cloth around our palms. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Although Andean troops carried bows, javelins, maces, and clubs, their most fearsome weapon, the sling, was made of cloth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a kapo in front of me with four big loaves of Czech bread slung over his back in a cloth sack. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he threw them to us, each cloth opened to silk robes and we screamed and paraded around in them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He’d put a handful of dried raisins in a cloth in his pocket and at noon they sat in the dead grass by the side of the road and ate them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now she reached through the things within and took from near the bottom a fragile bit of folded cloth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At a bear feast, the bear’s skull was ribboned and set out on a good red cloth, spoken to, honored. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The cloth of his doublet appears ripped, a gleam of metal underneath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Here was the cloth, snagged on a shrub—and there, a few paces farther into the brush, the bowl. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I put cool cloths on his head, but they warm up almost as soon as they touch his skin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She looked a bit nervous, and she held out something wrapped in a white cloth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We knelt clumsily at the railing and tucked our hands beneath the white cloth that stretched over the top. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a ragged strip of green cloth. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tear in his shirt in the center of his back and blood was soaking through the cloth, but sweat was running off his pale face and he was breathing hard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of Alice’s wounds were new, and the cloth came away from them easily. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Mom,” I said matter-of-factly with the binoculars still pressed against my face, “how come blood on a sword dries red, and blood on cloth dries brown? How come?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We knelt next to Falconer, who had sunk onto the stones of the street, and tried to wrap the cloth about him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

One held a few wild mushrooms; the other, bits and pieces that might come in handy one day—scraps of cloth, twine, flint stone. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The cloth sign hung against the planks in the hot sun. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She handed me a piece of cloth to dry myself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She understands, too, how Javier’s anguish attracts the eligible women of Santa Teresa del Mar, who bring him casseroles covered with starched cloths and look into his night-sky eyes, imagining themselves as his bright constellations. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath its arm, wrapped in a white cloth, is Cordelia’s head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He flicks the cloth out of the way irritably before coming toward us and sitting beside me at the table in the Gathering Place. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some cloth was still on him, but his bones was clean and dry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came home with gifts: jeans or a wallet for me, a new skirt for Bushra, Turkish delight and embroidered cloths. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A waiter came with a cloth and picked up the glasses and mopped off the table. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Within just a few minutes the guards emerged from the crowd, gliding on their forebears, carrying something covered in cloth between them on a little stretcher. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The cloth muted the noise of the wooden stick on the tiled floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, Grover . . .” He wiped under his eyes with an oily cloth that left his face grimy, like he had on war paint. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

For socks, they had to wear portyanki foot wraps, squares of linen cloth like those used in the Russian army since the seventeenth century. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The old man held in one hand the end of a loop of cloth which O-lan had torn from her girdle, and within this loop the girl child staggered to and fro without falling. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you find comfort in this cloth that you sold your child for?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They tried to pull my arms from my body, ripping the arms off a cloth doll. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would wear a red cloth over her head until she sat beside the ceremonial pot shelf in her new home. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In every room, save Radar’s, their home was awash in black Santadom—plaster and plastic and marble and clay and wood and resin and cloth. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then Kaisa turned to an attendant behind her and gestured for him to bring the stag’s head, which was wrapped in a dark green cloth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’ll do the actual work,” the Turk said, indicating the Sicilian, who was wrapping cloth around his cuts. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cot in one corner and an old-fashioned loom in the other, a length of white cloth half woven on the frame. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her jacket was made of bottle green acetate cloth with green viscose fur at the cuffs and collar. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there, staring at the back of his head, at the pink neck beneath the cloth cap and the iron-gray hair. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford strode in as regally as an African princess, her noble head swathed in a turban, her tall body draped in yards of handprinted cloth. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled me up by the cloth until his face was close to mine. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used thick oils and rubbed them into the wood with a soft cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fingered its hem, just a little heavier than the rest of the fine cloth. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She crossed back over to him, picked up the damp cloth, and pressed it into his hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The white cloth came out as a nice reddish-brown color. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An empty shuttle might damage a few inches of goods, she explained, but a broken warp could leave a flaw through yards of cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the first twelve days one could sell only woven cloth—which is what the traders from northern Europe brought. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He showed us batik, letting us paint wax patterns on cloth and T-shirts and spill dye everywhere. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

No more sounds of bark beaters everywhere, pounding out bark cloth from dawn until after dusk every day! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the terrible itching that gave the disease its name started, Omakayas wrapped their hands with cloth, bit down their fingernails, anything to keep them from scarring themselves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stood back and watched with satisfaction as the cloth moved. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even though it was the second biggest ship there had ever been and would hold all the Aesir, Frey could fold Skidbladnir up like a cloth and place it in his bag. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then he stuffed one wadded strip of cloth into the space between the boards. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then Mona was smearing an ointment over the cut, and she pressed a cloth against it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She kept on doing this for several minutes, then put the cloth down and tapped May’s cheeks with her hands. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andeg stole and hoarded bits of bright cloth and shiny metal shards, he wasn’t a human, he was still a crow, and she couldn’t change that. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lupita threw a leg over the tailgate and slid down into his arms, clutching the cloth sack to her chest. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The charred stick was wrapped carefully in three layers of cloth in his coat pocket, next to his heart. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My gown slides into a puddle of cloth that I can easily step out of. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He makes toys for her as well, and lets her play with ends of wood and leftover pieces of cloth and some of his less dangerous tools, while he’s working. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the white cloth out of its cupboard and ran to the table, draping it over the loaves before Dyedka could pick pieces out of them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Not that I could hope to trouble you—” “Fine,” the innkeeper interrupted as he pulled out a white linen cloth and began to polish the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He used a swatch of military uniform cloth to cover a hole in his pants. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now she rinses the cloth again and wrings it tight. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

While her mother slept restlessly, Kira sorted the dyed threads in her basket and began to weave them into the cloth scrap with a bone needle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“All you have to do is let go of that scrap of cloth and let it drift down here to me. The moment you do, your loved ones’ safety is assured. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Close your eyes, dear. I’ll put a cloth over your eyes.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, she found a cap, a lungi cloth, and a kurta shirt. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

A little boy dropped a cloth bundle and scampered after it, and I stooped to pick it up at the same time he did. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Roscuro went, as Botticelli told him he must, to torment the new prisoner and to take the red cloth from him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She put them in a cloth and squeezed out every bit of the lard, and then she put the cracklings away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was delighted with the new cloth, though. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she saw the cloth tremble slightly, as if it had life, in the pale light. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a plug a Pine-Ola cream and start rubbing it onto the silver, working the cloth around the rose design, the lip and the handle. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The shoemaker quickly lifted the wheel out of the strong wooden block which held it covered with a flat board and cloth. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Bran glimpsed skin tear like cheap cloth, heard the splintering of bone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With Frank directing the fishing boat, they made their way toward the couple who had been waving the white cloth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Once Pacific peoples spread beyond the range of wool-yielding domestic animals and fiber plant crops and hence of woven clothing, they became dependent on pounded bark “cloth” for their clothing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried out into the middle room, drawing on his blue outer trousers as he went, and knotting about the fullness at his waist his girdle of blue cotton cloth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Ben pushes a cloth desk chair and it spins, creaking rhythmically. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Before she could tuck it away, Fadi saw a trace of blood on the snowy white cloth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In moments, the long kitchen table has been cleared, a sterile white cloth spread across it, and Gale hoisted onto it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And tell her to send some clean cloth for bandages. Clean cloth.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sky stretched above the black hills like a cloth embroidered with tiny beads. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The final layer of cloth clung stubbornly to the wound, and Crane-man had been trying to pull it off. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They’re made of fuzzy cloth, red like valentine hearts, with a black spot and a pin through the center. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would take the coarse blue cloth Weylin bought for the slaves and make neat sturdy clothing of it while small children played around her feet. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He ran to the fencerow where he had left two pieces of bread and the cuts from a particularly tender haunch of beef that Nancy had wrapped in a white cloth for him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kin fiddled with the magical sword’s cloth wrapping for several long seconds, saying nothing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And at last Bergil came running in, and he bore six leaves in a cloth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The cart was covered over with a cloth. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

When he finally woke up, he was on his stomach, and someone was placing soothing cloths on his injuries. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Angrily, he blinked away the tears and set about tearing a strip of cloth from the bottom of his tunic. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A group of babalawos tried apanaldo, an exorcism, and thought they had trapped an evil spirit in the rooster they buried in a knotted cloth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stand like that for a long moment, then he looks up, takes my unbandaged hand, and kisses the back of it, mouth against cloth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I strip off my crumpled dress, dip a cloth in the chipped bowl we use for wash water, and scrub everything I can reach until it tingles. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I place the cloth down first, the cross in the center, then the other items around it. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Smearing the bolts with grease from the cloth, he silently worked them loose. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, you could riot be in a better place. The spinners weave all our catch cloths,” said Solovet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth tent had been set on the flatlands in the middle of a field near the railroad tracks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny first, though hardly able to walk; then Durgan; Kannan with his wife, bearing a few jasmine buds; and Kali, bringing with her a muslin cloth to cover the bier. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The face of Christ was imprinted on the cloth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, instead of the plates made of bread, there were covered dishes, scented finger bowls, sumptuous table cloths, a plethora of napkins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

British purchasing agents roved about the country, buying food and cloth and metals and chemicals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I comply, and Phil slips a soft cloth over my tightened lids and ties it behind my head, taking care not to tangle my hair. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Auri nodded, satisfied, and sat down, spreading out the small cloth and arranging her food with the same care as always. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She saw a pallet of horse blankets and two buckets placed against the wall, one with a bloody cloth peeking over the rim. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thomas ripped a length of cloth from the hem of his loose shirt. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would often have me help her make desserts: fruit rolled in pastry, wrapped in cloth, tied and boiled, then taken out of the cloth, topped with icing, and baked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

An hour later, the three girls set off with large cloth sacks to hold the sweet fresh snaps. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Thus, we often see princes given horses, arms, and vestments of gold cloth, precious stones, and similar ornaments suited to their greatness. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

And so Naomi gave herself permission to be extravagant with the cloth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her special scrap of cloth lay folded there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clarisse La Rue sat next to her, wiping the nymph’s head with a cool cloth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even the Latest Model was aware that all hell was liable to break loose at any time after Dad submerged under the black cloth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Pa would take the ramrod from its place under the gun barrel, and fasten a piece of clean cloth on its end. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, the books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In front, Pa ties a large white cloth to the antenna while Meng ties another piece to the side mirrors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the centre of the cloth is a single Arabic word, intricately woven, four letters: an alif, two lams and a ha. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Caton appeared and furtively handed me the nozzles and nose cones in a cloth flour sack. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Adam wiped off his shoes and dropped the cloth on the floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hand him a cloth to dry with. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well,’ said Gimli as they bound a cloth about his eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Inside the drain pipe, Tucker’s nest was a jumble of papers, scraps of cloth, buttons, lost jewelry, small change, and everything else that can be picked up in a subway station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Serjeant gave me then my uniform, which was but a shirt of coarse cloth, emblazoned upon the breast with the words, Liberty to Slaves, to be worn with my own breeches. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Thinking bitterly of his birthday, he attacked the mirror with the cloth, watching his face appear as out of a cloud. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Wrapping wet cloths over our faces, we ventured into the house, entering through the collapsed wall. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One afternoon August and Zach and I went out to the hives and took off the black cloths. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the outlines of the nose, the chin, the lips through the white cloth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your maa is angry with me over the earrings and would never give me cloth for the quilt or money to buy thread.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A cloth was wound tightly about his chest. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My job is done,” she announced, pouring the remaining black ash onto the red cloth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he scarcely heard Hermione: He had pulled out his Invisibility Cloak and was running it through his fingers, the cloth supple as water, light as air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Each of the flanking booths had a small pile of onions on it, and two thick packages wrapped in cloth sat on Mama’s cart, probably fish she had traded onions for. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The flame seared the tip of the oiled cloth and sizzled toward the bottleneck. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of the cloth, a small pocket held a lump of fragrant, summery yellow beeswax to use in strengthening the sinew thread. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The first villager reached out his hand to Amah for his completed job, a cloth embroidered with the dark blue color of a burial robe. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I suck in a breath when the cold cloth touches the sensitive part of my eye, but he is far gentler than I would have been to myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The waiting room was all brown carpet and brown overstuffed cloth chairs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But the elder daughter knew nothing of anything, but only sat in the sun against the wall of the outer court, smiling and playing with her bit of twisted cloth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In that very first moment, when Houghton swished off the cloth, all Harrison had was a hunch, an instinctive sense that something was amiss. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The policeman’s hand squeezed her shoulder, and his fingers dug through the thick cloth of her coat. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the smoky room filled with customers who wear the cloth caps of working men, a barmaid whispers a name. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each one was fitted with a cloth bag over her udder to keep the milk from being stolen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the hardwood ashes in a little cloth bag. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any attempt to free it made the cloth disintegrate into mold no different from the earth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the milk was heated enough, Ma squeezed every drop of water from the rennet in the cloth, and then she poured the water into the milk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied the small heap of light blue cloth still held in place by the machine’s presser foot. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cap had a piece of cloth sewn on the back of it, for neck protection. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, in the dining room, there will be candles on the large mahogany table, a white cloth, silver, flowers, wine glasses with wine in them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Kufa and the other men traveled to a trading post to barter for tea, sugar, salt, cloth, and matches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back a few feet in the wall, it opened out into a pocket that Tucker had filled with the bits of paper and shreds of cloth he collected. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this he drew a flat rectangular package, and he undid the plain cotton cloth about it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe my fingers on my pants, making sure they are clean of dust and grime before lightly touching the cloth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her cloth down and for a few long, still seconds she laid her palms, her fingers, on my back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The thread led to a piece of cloth wrapped around one of the arms of the root—the remaining part of the boy's unraveled shirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We are seated at a corner table, and Esme immediately takes her silverware out of the fancy cloth napkin and spreads the napkin on her lap. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Have you not poured it through a cloth?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some of the shops in the square are still open, so I go in one and purchase white cloth for bandages. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For he saw that instead of a spear he bore a tall staff, as it were a standard, but it was close-furled in a black cloth bound about with many thongs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The cloths are brightly printed and worn together in jangling mixtures that ring in my ears: pink gingham with orange plaid, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lungs filled in great gulps, he shot down again, pulling on the formers until he was almost there, then wheeling down head first he grabbed at the cloth. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any silver that English or French pirates could steal from the Spanish was also ideal for buying Asian cloth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A sharp-eyed woman holding a cloth over her face crossed the street. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Led by his male relatives, Raman arrived on a horse covered with a cloth embroidered with small, round mirrors. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sparks gushed into the air, and flames billowed out with a sound like tearing cloth; but cutting through this came another sound, dreadfully close and violent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When he was finally overcome, a long glass shard with cloth wrapped around it for a handle was found in his waistband. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo tore a square of the red cloth she was to use for the wedding ceremony and tied the gold pieces inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s empty now, a drop cloth on the floor, a tangle of wires poking out of the center of the ceiling. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever was inside flipped over once and snagged on the cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Such things did not help him bring in a crop or keep a scrap of cloth on his children’s backs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And, finally, she gave her a tiny cloth purse with five silver dollars in it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat, and I always tell her she’d look good in anything. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The combination of faded blue overall cloth and gray-and-white-striped ticking looked odd. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women were especially elegant in their beautiful patterned cotton skirts, dresses, shirts, and lappei—a big cotton cloth that women wrap around their waist—and extravagant head wraps. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The cheapest cloth we could find cost seventy-nine cents a yard, and you needed more than two yards for a dress. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he wore a fine shirt of lovely cloth and a long coat of the lightest of wool. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Fine cloth like this was rare in Connecticut. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She dried her hands on the cloth and followed Dvorah to the table. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They gave us a sack with provisions: a dozen hard-boiled eggs, a hunk of goat cheese still in its thin cloth casing, a stack of flour tortillas, and water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After the initial bout of bargaining, a dozen men began unloading bolts of cloth, barrels of molasses, and burlap sacks of coffee. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dimple rinsed her hair out and got out of the shower, making her way back to the room in her gray terry cloth robe. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I tear strips of cloth off my shirt and wrap my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m standing beside a table laid out with a cloth and cut glass and matching china. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Trepid returned to the Boxton Creek Home, he found his wife lying on their bed with a wet cloth draped over her forehead. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the crest of a hill beyond the trees and roofs and spires of town sunlight lay like a pale scrap of cloth, was blotted away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She named them to herself, those she remembered, and picked what she could, filling the cloth she had brought. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked in, straightened the drop cloth in the front hall, and made his way to the back of the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The ground was dark, and finding the insects was like trying to pick pepper off a black cloth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he leaped to his feet, holding the blue cloth and its crumbling contents high over his head. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket was covered with a clean ragged cloth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It made me think of what happens sometimes with my cloth. This small one.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did her own shopping, always carrying the same blue cloth shopping bag, and always walking on the sunny side of the street “to keep the bones warm.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew it was not—as the bloody cloth on which the smiling Capricorn had laid his ringed hand showed all too clearly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A girl, with a baby strapped to her back with an embroidered orange cloth, stands up and puts her hand in front of me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In addition to the spoken word, their communication methods include petroglyphs, wampum belts, and books with symbols painted on bark cloth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pa kept pouring in more water and washing the gun barrel with the cloth on the ramrod until the water ran out clear. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I am funny,” I muttered through the cloth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A loose, raggedy shirt hung from his slender shoulders, and white cloth wrapped around his chest beneath it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She laid her own apron on the floor, set the bundle of bones on top of it, and tied the apron the other way, so there was cloth all around. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They wore the black cloth coats that they wore all week and they had old felt hats on their heads. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Also sometimes we’ll see a witch doctor with aspirins, pink pills, yellow pills, and animal pieces all laid out in neat rows on a black velvet cloth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, a circular bump was pressed against the cloth. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His face hovered over mine as he dabbed my cheeks and forehead with a cloth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I pull the cloth tight and tie it off. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then Kira replaced the cloth in her pocket and rose from her chair. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unhooked the chain and let him show himself in as she shucked off the red kefta, revealing a slip of satin so thin it barely counted as cloth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He wiped his forehead with a cloth, leaving a gray paint smear across his skin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Will this be worse, to have him denuded, of all his cloth power? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kneels beside me and silently mops up the spilled tea with a cloth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers over the real tablecloth and noticed the napkins were cloth too. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I pick it up and throw it back at them, watch the unidentifiable mush splash against the bars, messing the clean pressed uniform cloth and white ruddy cheeks. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth smelled sweaty, but I didn’t care. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I curdled the milk and tied the cheese cloths for the rasmalai. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He rekindled the fire and he got a cloth and wet it and put it over the boy’s forehead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mom made dolls instead, gave me brown cloth dolls with big brown eyes. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

A cloth sack was wrestled over her head. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Fred’s casket remained at the end of the long aisle in front of us, under a large, white cloth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She bent down, tore a length of cloth from the bottom of her dress. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We were in the cabin by then and Papa dipped a cloth in the bucket. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1800s the English figured out how to build machines to weave cloth, and how to organize workers so that they could run the machines. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He gave each of us a bolt of cloth and a bottle of vodka, goods he knew we could barter for food, shelter, and clothes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She retied the cord that held it bunched at her neck, then wiped her sweaty hands carefully on the woven cloth of her garment. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then she tied the gourd back in place and took the padded cloth doughnut from her pocket. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good feeling doesn’t last long, though: when I step off the field, there’s no sign of the powder-blue Cadillac convertible Daddy removes the cloth cover from and pulls out of the garage every spring. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She pushed aside the cloth sitting on top of a basket of roasted ears of corn and passed him some. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But I had stored a few things in the clearing so they missed the burning. My basket of threads, and some scraps of cloth. And look at this, Matt.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fintan removes the cloth covering his sandwich and glass of milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Madrina sings as she sits on her leather armchair and wipes down her unlit seven-day candles with a Florida-water-dampened white cloth. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I sat up and found, in the bottom of the box, a scrap of rough cloth tied into a bundle with some twine. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It is a good chance to take Hannah the piece of cloth, anyway, Kit reasoned. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The beggar was wiping his face with a delicate white cloth and Minli saw again that he was not an old man at all. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mom wiped her mouth with the cloth napkin and set it on the table. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now Jiichan untied the string and the cloth fell open, revealing half of the geode, all sparkling inside. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Quickly Portia laid a cloth on the table and set down one plate and a fork. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another little girl, much younger than the first, sat in front of a deck of cards at a picnic table covered with a polka-dot cloth, a friendly looking couple beside her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

By using his knife to notch the cross-pieces to take the material, he made sure the cloth tie-downs didn’t slip off. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Very, very carefully, without looking down, she knelt and draped the monster’s head in black cloth, then picked it up. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lev crushes a glass wrapped in cloth under his foot; in this one moment, we live years of destruction and joy, past and future. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wiped the nib on a cloth and tried again, but it was no better. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Basta's lips quivered with annoyance, but he bit back his reply and, without a word, put his hand under the black cloth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The blind man was rubbing the polished wooden side of his instrument with a soft cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There is no way of knowing how much time passes, but when Charlie opens his eyes, the cloth is out of his mouth, and the straps have been removed. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The gentle warmth of a damp cloth wakes me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then I slowly repin the cloth, measuring an inch apart with a metal sewing gauge. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Had she allowed reason to rule, she would have realized that Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But she dropped the bloody cloth to the ground, took Sean’s big hand in her small one and laid it on that terrible wound. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They keep themselves wrapped in gray cloth armor and selfless acts, convinced that to share is to be self-indulgent. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The icy water moved up the cloth, soaking it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It dances slowly across the floor, chug-lug, chug-lug, the clothes and the soapy water moving as if boiling sluggishly, like cloth porridge. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took the sack from me, placed it in the middle of the cloth square and knotted the corners up in a bundle. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At night, before she slept, Kira held the scrap of cloth that had so often assuaged her fears and even answered her questions. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Makes me nervous,” he said, finding the cloth on his desk and giving his glasses a brisk rub. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would also be useful; a pagne could be worn as clothing, tied to bundle a baby — or a bonobo — onto your back, or serve as a ground cloth for sleeping. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A globe-shaped lantern hung from a hook on the central pole, and the floor of the tent was covered with a simple canvas cloth on which a red-and-brown rug had been laid. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With another clean, greased cloth he rubbed it all over, outside, until every bit of it was oiled and sleek. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to mop the cloth, while the waiter, seeing the disturbance, came swiftly to the rescue. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I picked my way through the dwindling crowd, the lame beggars dressed in layers of tattered rags, the vendors with rugs on their shoulders, the cloth merchants and butchers closing shop for the day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cover Finway’s bowl with his night cloth to protect him from my playing, and set up my trombone. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly aware of his touch, I wrenched my hand away from his and took the cold wet cloth from his hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He stopped short at the sight of Roza, the bloody cloth she held to her cheek. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Max and I take apart the sofa, stripping off its upholstery, washing the dark green cloth in three soapings of hot water. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Spanish invaders were stunned to find warehouses overflowing with untouched cloth and supplies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The community cloth was drab, all no-color; the formless shifts and trousers worn by the people were woven and stitched for protection against the sudden occasional rain, thorn scratch, or poison berry. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one snake twitched, the others twitched too, as though they were all part of a piece of cloth, ripples in the same stretch of sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She handed him a strip of cloth and a loofah pod to scrape off the dirt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jesper picked up his rifle, running a soft cloth over it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Colonel Regan was sitting in a chair, a white cloth around his neck, his face covered with foamy soap and his eyes closed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya hunched over her dress that Zvezda had torn the day before, drawing a needle and thread through the cloth to repair the tear. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

On a string slung over his shoulder he had a brown cloth sack, which he handed to me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get me a new plate. One you haven’t soiled with your dirty cloth.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer and Dr. Gazzaley hit it off, even though they seem cut from entirely different cloth, both figuratively, with respect to personality, and literally, in terms of their sartorial choices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he places the knife flat between my skin and the bandages and rips the cloth. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They wrapped the body in a canvas cloth that had been discarded in the corner, and Kaede tucked the bloodied rag inside. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

What could the Europeans use to buy Indian cloth? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He went to one of the abandoned Nazi warehouses and brought back hundreds of bolts of navy-blue cloth and hundreds of bottles of vodka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She used a cloth to wipe away our fingerprints. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I know why you’re here,” he said, taking out a cloth to wipe an already clean countertop. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Why you think she give you that piece of kente cloth you wear round your neck?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vial of physician’s cure was still wrapped in its chamois cloth, tucked in her belt pouch. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“These are house shoes,” Mama said, handing Ophie a pair made of soft cloth that she took from off a small shelf. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She saw that his hand had moved and was stroking the wide unadorned section of fabric, the section of the cloth that fell across the Singer’s shoulders. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put her feet into her cloth shoes and drew them on by the straps hanging at the back. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Squeeze the milk into the cloth,” she said. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

An attendant stood behind each chair, and at the center, raised slightly above the others, was a throne covered in crimson cloth. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

We clutched our only possessions—the bolts of cloth and bottles of vodka that Schindler had secured for us—and walked tentatively through the city toward our old neighborhood. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Old Nan undressed her and helped her into a scalding hot bath and washed the blood off her with a soft cloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He felt cloth, struck at it with his knife and missed, and struck again and felt his knife go through cloth, and then his head crashed with lightning and exploded with pain. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are they?” asked Bronwyn, undoing the cloth to reveal a hunk of brownish meat with little tubes shunting out of it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I remembered watching my mother pushing a silver needle in and out, gently nudging flowers and leaves and vines to bloom on the cloth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth was torn and his uniform was streaked with blood, but he was breathing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She propped up the broken bits of mirror against a bowl, dampened a cloth in some water, and dabbed it against the cut. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers wore armor made from sculpted, quilted cloth that was almost as effective at shielding the body as European armor and much fighter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Harry picked the shining, silvery cloth off the floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Noah packed up the rest of the supplies— farm tools, several bags of seed, and some rolls of cloth—and tied them down carefully. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Get knocked into it with a fist of fatigue to avoid a night of noisy silence, empty birdcages that don’t need wrapping in cloth, of bold unsmiling girls staring from the mantelpiece. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alys squeezed cloths that she lifted from the pail of water, handed one to Claire, and together they began to wash the thin body. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I replaced the receiver just as Lily was coming into the bedroom in her white fluffy terry cloth robe. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

On her lap is a cloth napkin, and in her hands Ma holds a knife and a large fruit that looks like the sun that’s missing from the sky. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

With her thumb she felt a small square of decorated woven cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ear picked up a scrap of black cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So the trainer has me work with flint, steel, and some charred cloth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its coolness soothed the throb, and its wetness loosened the cloth’s grip on the wound. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the ground with her cloth spread out, she was a shopkeeper a mother a lover a wilderness to herself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bright blue cloth is crumpled on the floor, and a length of string bisects the room. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight pouring through the colored glass outlined their sweet young bodies through the thin cloth, and Tyrion felt a stirring in his groin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Together they stretched cloths over the shallow washing trays, poured in water and gold together. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Laying the cloth on the arm of her chair, he said, ‘Well, you’ve been wanting a new dress. Here is enough cloth to make half a dozen dresses.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Defeated, Kira felt again the small cloth square in her pocket. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two for one, us being sold like bolts of faded cloth or chipped porridge bowls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their fingers flew as they chatted together, the pale fibers stretching and uncurling into threads for what would become kente cloth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Sun Maidens would become wives to noblemen, or servants to the sacred mummies, or weavers of the finest cloth worn by the Sapa Inca. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They were obviously cut from the same well-read, well-bred, lunatic cloth. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And the very same day, a man loading finished bolts of cloth onto the railroad cars in the Lawrence mill yard had been run over and crushed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the cloth diaper and drape it over the shoebox to hide it from my eyes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s gone for him,” she said and dipped the cloth she held in the basin of water. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Instead I took my trumpet out of its case, wiping it slowly and carefully with a little gray cloth. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually we pulled ashore and spent a quiet night; Otto and I offered our rations and Wello shared his ground cloth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the cloth sank to the bottom of the tray, the particles of gold clung to it in a glittering residue, allowing the trash to be poured off along with the water. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Removing the dishes and cloth, they sat on the rag—a living room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon my returning, I slapped at his face with the wet cloth as he snorted protests and held up his hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She points to a table in the corner, covered in green cloth. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She had her stained-glass window carefully wrapped in cloth and brown paper inside a box that Father had built for her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed the cloth to me, shaking his head as I pressed it against my bleeding nose. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He thought my Observations on Fashion exceeding Seasonable & we retired some miles down the Road and purchased him a Shirt out of some Negro cloth & some Breeches, which we got at a very fine Price. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All she had on was a cloth, draped around her hips, and I could hardly take my eyes off of her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I gathered up his paintbrushes scattered on the dining table and dropped them back into the brush jar with a clatter then wiped the table clean with a damp cloth. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I will send cloth and food to Goré’s family, and a cow to take the place of this girl. That, surely, will please the Mtokos.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the cloth pressed into place, and frowned so that it would be loosened when I relaxed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began, Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My fury might have been squashed thanks to Dad’s skills of fixing Fig’s DVD with some glass cleaner, cloth, and toothpaste, but the damage was done. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She clutched the cloth, remembering the sense of certainty it had given to her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rests in my hand, valuable as a jewel, looking out through bone and cloth with its impartial gaze. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Customs Inspection line some large cloth banners on which were painted in bold letters, “Welcome Home, Malcolm.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone with Thomas, Kira tried to explain the warning that had come to her from the cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saved my city pants and burned them bit by bit to make charred cloth for the flint and steel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What's he afraid of the bull for? The bull's so dumb he only goes after the cloth." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She held a bouquet of cloth flowers; he made a joke about them and they laughed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As he eased himself into his chair, she took a soft damp cloth from the basin and laid it across his brow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of other senators seemed to be having trouble with their togas, too—hiking up their hems, trying to keep the cloth from slipping off their shoulders. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

All these things need to be produced: crops have to be grown and distributed, soap must get boiled, cloth has to be woven. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Harry doubled back and watched Professor Lupin covering the hinkypunk’s box with a cloth. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s sweltering in the capital, and Lourdes wipes her brow repeatedly with a moist cloth she keeps on the seat beside her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma bought two bolts of cloth each year for winter and summer clothes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It spread through him as blood spreads through cloth, saturating his every fiber. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the left wall, surrounding the windows, hung a huge curtain of African-print cloth. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Frank brought out the piece of firewood and unwrapped it from its cloth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural to add a nice little lace cloth for the table. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep pricking myself and have to be careful not to get blood on the cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His touch was gentle, the water warm and soothing."This is like to sting some," the maester warned as he wet a cloth with wine that smelled of crushed herbs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Looking down he began moving the white cloth along the grain of the bar again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was not like the riot that occurred when big, fat women laughed—her breasts rose and fell against the tight cloth of her dress. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They stopped, and from his trouser pocket Grandpa Nyles pulled out a bundle of gray sage wrapped in red cloth. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I had them. The only other clothes they have I made myself, out of sail cloth. A boy should be well dressed on his naming day.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Last of all she packed the alethiometer in its black velvet cloth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They are lithe and quick, their bodies and faces wrapped in funereal strips of black cloth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dilsey tied a cloth about his neck and wiped his mouth with the end of it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are puffy and her lips are chapped, and her nightgown is so thin I can see the dark circles of her nipples through the cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He felt guilty now, winding the soft cloth around the handgrips, so he told her what he figured she wanted to hear. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

From beneath the cloth Brokk produced a hammer, and placed it in front of Thor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Women my mom used to be friends with held a linen cloth above them and ground sugar over it so my parents would have a sweet life together. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Blood pooled through the cloth, between her fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s why I understand the way the cloth speaks to you. The wood speaks in the same way. I can feel it in my hand. Sometimes it—” “Warns you?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt came out of the room, tying her head with a cloth, and followed my uncle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I stand behind Max, one hand on his tilted neck while the other holds a wet cloth to his nose. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I lift the cloth from the body’s face. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They use words to build something that is as real as cloth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The baby murmured and fussed in the bright cloth tying him to his mother’s chest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He groped behind him and she forced the bundle of slippery cloth into his free hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Shelves of goods—buttons, handsaws, sugar, rifles, bullets, scissors, pencils, bolts of cotton cloth, medicine, toys, in no particular order—lined the walls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She tried to pull his hand away, but he was prepared for this sudden surge of muscle stimulation that always preceded stupor, and with great force clamped the cloth to her face. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The pressure suits, for example, had been covered with nylon, and that was replaced with something called Beta cloth, which did not burn as easily. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fine linen cloth covered the table, which displayed eight porcelain dishes with perfectly placed silverware and folded napkins on either side. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The last sound she heard was Fenoglio's pen scribbling over the paper, writing word after word as fast as a weaver's shuttle turning black threads into colorfully patterned cloth.... Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the house of our hostess, other guests were ready, fingers moving restlessly in filmy cloth or tucking in hair that had never escaped, and every mirror was a place for sidelong glances. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wet a cloth in a basin of warm water to wipe the sweat and oil from his skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Shreve’s letter crackled through the cloth and I took it out and examined the address, and put it in my side pocket. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were made of cloth and rubber, and many of them had a funny strip of plastic bristles to fasten them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I brush, use mouthwash, and wash my face with a cloth that smells just like the Laundromat on Michigan Avenue. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She presses a button on the front to open it and takes out what looks like a white plastic cloth and a little metal scalpel. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Gather up from the mud the pieces of burned, striped cloth, the shreds of his pajamas, then bring him down, the poor pale boy, and make a decent burial. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This helped for a while, but when the cloth began to stick to the raw flesh I knew it was the end. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked, gesturing toward a mass of dark cloth on his private worktable. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wrapped herself, until that part of her, the bleeding part, was covered with a good thick inch of cloth. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She needed a cool cloth for her head. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was another man behind him, much older and dressed just out of this world, with a tall hat and glasses and a cloth drapery dress and swishing an animal’s tail back and forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spread the cloth from my head on a fallen log, and motion for him to sit with me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Crazy Kelvin turned to a lady who wore an African- print dress and a matching cloth wrapped around her head. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as Haas removed the cloth from the ground, he was distracted by the excited shouts of a group of workers a hundred feet away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gerald gives him a bunch of cutlery and cloth napkins and asks him to set the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wrapped their feet in extra cloth, filled the gaps with balled-up pieces of newspaper, and wore the boots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He untied the cloth around his neck and rinsed it in the pump water before adding in a lower voice, “As are we all.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby’s coffin lay on a table draped in white cloth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And they were both gazing at the bright stars when four men wearing cloth bags over their heads jumped from the willows and attacked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain made it seem as if dozens of them had been slammed into his leg, but there were only eight, pinning the cloth against his skin. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old ones she kept all tied up in a cloth pouch and tucked away in her tinker box. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often she tied a bit of red cloth to a clump of grass or around a conspicuous stone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red circles were eating into the white cloth; then a flare of flames shot out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unrolled a little black rectangle of cloth and somehow attached it to the door so that it covered the small window. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

As one researcher would later describe it, Avery had discovered “the material substance of the gene”—the “cloth from which genes were cut.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The septon removed a faceted crystal sphere from the soft cloth bag at his waist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a ragged blue cotton jacket with a red cloth, pincushion-like charm around his neck which was supposed to keep him from getting smallpox. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dress up every different way in the world: some have long shirts made from the same flowery African cloth that is attired by the women. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he unfolded the cloth, Lyra saw something like a large watch or a small clock: a thick disk of gold and crystal. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She did not sneak Jaja’s food to his room, wrapped in cloth so it would appear that she had simply brought his laundry in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie wrung out the cloth over the basin and handed it to Rachel to wash. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment Chronicler complied, wiping the nib of the pen on a clean cloth before setting it down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But behind her, hanging on the wall, like emblems in the Renaissance, or those heads of animals, moose or bear, you used to find in northern bars, is another face, covered with a white cloth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the closet carrying a stack of oversized books with thick leather spines and dark green cloth covers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the tin in a flannel cloth to stifle the incessant buzzing and droning, and stowed it away under his bunk. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I learned stitches sitting in our apartment on Elizabeth Street, helping Mam when she took in extra work darning and mending and the occasional full dress from a bolt of cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Behind him stands Nessie, the colored girl who braided my hair, with a steaming bowl of water and a cloth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Xan fastened her traveling cloak and slid her feet into a pair of sturdy boots and packed her satchel full of bottles of milk and soft, dry cloths, and a bit of food for herself. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He throws a brown cloth bag over my head, tightening it around my neck like a noose. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was on a cloth folded on Mother's head. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a large table set with a white cloth. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a scrap of colorful cloth, a bandanna or a handkerchief, probably left there by one of the gypsies who’d slept in these bunks before us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The key sat in the middle of the paper picnic cloth. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

His hair was a cap of coarse red-black wire cropped about his ears, and in one hand he held a sad cloth sack. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The damp cloth felt blissfully cool against my skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The towel was thin and rough between my hands, a carpet burn of a cloth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He liked to watch her hands as she curled frothy petticoat cloth in the machine that was kept in motion by Remedios the Beauty. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But Eden . . . this time Eden was lying in bed with a cloth on his forehead. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was much smaller, and made of canvas cloth. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

There followed a long moment, the only sound was that of the thread being drawn through cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the hall closet I found an old cloth raincoat of my father’s. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like his fellows, he wore his uniform of black trousers and white shirt of thick cloth, his neck swimming in the collar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The slapping footsteps stopped and more laughter followed the sound of ripping cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ma heaped a plate high with the golden pieces, and covered all the rest neatly with cloths. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let them fall, and pulled up a comer of the cloth the weapons had been wrapped in, rubbing it between his fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Inside the house Blanca wore an apron and cloth sandals, which made her indistinguishable from the few remaining servants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last Sticky nodded, settled his glasses on his nose, tucked away his polishing cloth, and passed through the door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she tied the first piece of cloth to a bent sedge, she looked down on a small pile of droppings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a cloth bag with food purloined from the fridge slung across her chest. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She removed the cover, spread it on the tabletop in front of Babulya, and set the scroll on top of the smoothed cloth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

My mother found a tailor who sewed a pair of pants for me from my bolt of cloth—my first new trousers in nearly six years. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I start slowly wiping down the viola with a soft cloth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My soft cloth dolls back home in Africa had no faces; we used our imagination to dream up their facial features and personalities. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, Alys lowered her to the bed and pulled the length of wool cloth up around her bare shoulders. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They arrange items on beautiful brocade cloths under the careful watch of a trio of well-dressed ladies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Party dresses have come back, bows and flamenco ruffles, straplessness and crinolines, puffed sleeves like cloth marshmallows: everything I thought was left behind forever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing how his mother felt about table manners, Clayton wiped his mouth with his sleeve rather than using the embroidered cloth napkin still folded at the left-hand side of his plate. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She could feel the piece of firewood, wrapped in cloth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There is an ancient-looking air conditioner hanging on to the ledge of the bootlegged window, and the glass above the machine has been covered with a piece of decorative cloth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Is this the object you mean?” he said, and took a velvet cloth from a drawer in the desk. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trina stayed by her side, wearing a cloth over her face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I biked down to the big machine shop, finding the three-footer laid out on a black cloth on a table in the rear of the facility. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was glass and copper, resting on a wadded white cloth spotted with red. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She handed him the cloth she had worn around her face the day before, and he held it against his nose to try to stem the flow of blood. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I unbutton his shirt and realize the ripped cloth is stiff with blood and sticking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The strange object was like a hut, but the sides were like finely woven cloth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the clay balls were drying out too quickly; he dampened the cloths that covered them. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The paper was old and creased, no longer stiff to the touch but pliable as cloth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He gestured toward the piece of cloth he had used to oil the paddle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So I take a cloth and try and wipe him down, but I squawk every time that wiry hair touches my hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When the wagon came to take us to the railroad station, Hari was carried out under a little tent of cloth to protect him from the dust along the road. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sliced two carrots for a snack and wrapped them up in a cloth. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Later in the morning, Doha’s mother packed a small wooden container full of food, including fruit, and tied it with a brightly colored wrapping cloth for easy carrying. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The foreman drags a red cloth across his black forehead, his lips, his neck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then she poured it all into a cloth and let the thin, yellowish whey drain out. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Taliban had banned all toys that depicted human figures, since they were considered sacrilegious, so Gulmina was hidden away in the folds of the bright cloth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She curved my fingers around the handle, pressing the iron against the fabric while with the other hand she pulled the cloth taut. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Spare pieces of metal were propped up as roofs, and pieces of torn cloth were hung as curtains. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He forced his memory to move beyond the hand to the arm: it was clad in olive drab, army cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Starry squeals over a secondhand television, I get a fresh notebook, and Ma looks pleased with a new sewing machine and reams of different kinds of cloth, buttons, zippers, and other supplies. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A book lay open on the table, with a chair in front of it; against the opposite wall stood a small sofa, neatly upholstered in cloth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the cloth and began to dress. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lyra picked up the alethiometer and folded its velvet cloth over it, like a mother protecting her child, before putting it back in her rucksack. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There looked to be nothing but junk up there—old Christmas decorations, a sewing machine, and spools of dated cloth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many woven cloths were hung upon the walls, and over their wide spaces marched figures of ancient legend, some dim with years, some darkling in the shade. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And again, on many places there was black cloth draped with intertwining ribbons of blue and gold. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She came to the dining room with a clean vegetable bowl in one hand and a drying cloth in the other. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Tired, hungry still, and frightened, she stroked the scrap of cloth in her pocket, and waited for the next round of accusations. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding none, he took off his coat and shirt dicky, pulled his undershirt off over his head and dramatically ripped a strip of cloth from it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it, wrapped in a piece of blue silk cloth, are feathers: mostly slenderly, gray or white. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I choose a different cloth, the dark blue velvet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dust cloths, monthly cloths, rags tied around pipe joints to hinder freezing; pot holders and pieces to test hot irons and wrap their handles. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I retrieved it from between some bolts of cloth and moved away from the wagons. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Auntie had a tongue like hungry scissors eating silk cloth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls and mirrors were covered with black cloth and the room was lit by candles. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On one occasion, Borgenicht realized that his only chance to undercut bigger firms was to convince the wholesalers to sell cloth to him directly, eliminating the middleman. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The last of the sons of Ivaldi’s remarkable gifts was small, and folded like cloth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We found her unraveling the splendid shroud, and then she had to finish, willy nilly— finish, and show the big loom woven tight from beam to beam with cloth. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soaking a cloth in the hot liquid as she gives Prim instructions to prepare a second brew. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know what you girls are up to,” she hissed, then looked over her shoulder at Betty Lou, the beautician, who was rinsing out strips of cloth across the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then, without remorse for the passing of his figures, he took up the cloth and began his buffing, which obliterated each face in turn as he whispered, ‘And then he died! The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I heard the scissors close on the woman's skin like cloth and the blood began to run down—a fierce, bright red. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Fundraising envelopes were piled on the table, and next to them was a stack of colored tissue, like fragile cloth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Khouy occasionally works as a laborer, helping people carry and load heavy bags of cloth, fruit, and rice from their wagon to the new market for a small fee. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt gently around the bag and found a Rita-sized lump pressing against the cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One was dressed in a sleeveless army shirt and jeans, his head tied with a red cloth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Another shriek, and Thorn buried her head in the cloth of Seven’s hood. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He hands me a cloth to press to my bloody nose and split lip. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a small cloth square wrapped around a handful of rubles. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The loss of peripheral vision was unnerving, and she did not like the suffocating way the pleated cloth kept pressing against her mouth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

You kept your clothes until they were part of you, you checked the hemlines, the way the buttons were sewed on, you rubbed the cloth between your finger and thumb. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She lays a clean cloth across his angry flesh and nods to Prim. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kira covered the spread-out robe with a plain cloth to protect it. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set up her tent beside the barrel, banked the snow around the bottom to seal out the wind, and spread her ground cloth under it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light-blue cloth a shirt, perhaps jumbled up with something dirty white. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each pass of the cloth collects grime, debris, and even hair. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled Alhaji away and tied his bleeding head with a piece of cloth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The cows wandered all over Heaven and cloth did not get woven. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white cloth has left creases on my good cheek. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His pockets bulged and over his shoulder he carried a cloth sack that swung heavily behind him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used a piece of cloth that I cut from the remnants of a blanket. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was dirty, she smelled, and when she wrung the cloth, dark water spilled out. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Rose Hill mostly grew tobacco, which Momma and a couple of the bigger field hands would ride into town to trade for cloth and other essentials. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She sewed a cloth tightly around it, and rubbed the cloth all over with fresh butter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverently, Nhamo smoothed out the cloth and put the utensils on it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her chair around to face the table and occupied herself with her water glass, twisting the stem around, making damp links on the white cloth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mama was on her bed, curled into a ball on her side, clutching a piece of cloth to her chest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The maid brought her a length of cloth, which Roza pressed against her damp cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The first night I got here, tía Fermina gave me a small cloth bag full of paper worry dolls. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Beto gestured at the last of the carefully pinned pieces of cloth waiting to be stitched together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she slept, without dreams; and in the morning when Kira woke the little cloth was limp, no more than a wrinkled scrap of pretty fabric in her bed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She removed pots, wooden spoons, a drinking gourd, an old cloth Aunt Chipo once used to cover her hair, and a knife Uncle Kufa had hurled into a bush when the tip broke off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she listened to the little sounds of pleasure her brothers made, she wrapped the rest of the candy in the cloth that they had used for their food. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Now the boy stood watching as the flames ate their way up the heavy cloth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for my clothing and jewelry, I was issued a military-style uniform made of cloth that was rough and itchy, and a stiff cap that was shoved down onto my head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark had ripped a wide strip of cloth from the bottom of his shirt to wrap around his nose and mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He laid the cloth on the floor and rolled the old man in it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

They tried rubbing it off by hand, then with a cloth and soap and water, but it remained as clear as ever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And he cried again, “But was it just with a girdle of cloth or was it with bamboo or rope?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then picking up a cloth bag, she throws bags of sugar, salt, dried fish, uncooked rice, and canned foods into it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men carried packs on their backs and the woman carried a small cloth suitcase. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The ground before the mouth of the horn splits in two and a round table with a snowy white cloth rises into the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pushed his hand up under his white cloth cap and scratched his head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness enveloped them like a soft cloth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They kept a cool damp cloth on her forehead and she got weaker and sicker. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just removed her glasses and wiped them with a cloth she took from a case on her desk. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the house was shut up, the furniture draped with heavy white cloths to keep the worst of the dust off, the skittering sound of mice echoing hollowly whenever Ophie opened a door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They would close the windows, draw all the curtains and cover them with black cloth, dim the lights, and silence the radio. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Neel ate the small helping in three gulps, and Rupa handed him a wet cloth to wipe his fingers. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He reeled away, unsteady on his feet, and Grey Wind snapped at his arm, teeth ripping at his sleeve and tearing loose a scrap of cloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Think it’s enough to bind us in the same coarse cloth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay dreaming that he was throwing baseballs at a cloth cat and winning a genuine Navajo blanket. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She said something in reply, but it was muffled by the layers of wet cloth and I couldn’t make it out over the roar of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he began to cut the green cloth on the table with long sweeping strokes of his arm. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She saw cloth bags in knobby mounds; they looked like gnomes but were not gnomes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was issued the standard prison uniform for Africans: a pair of short trousers, a rough khaki shirt, a canvas jacket, socks, sandals, and a cloth cap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the one in Mother’s picture, covered with cloth and dishes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosetta is so quiet, always glancing down shyly, her hand clutching a torn piece of cloth which she occasionally rubs against her cheek. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some of them had staked their rifles bayonet first into the ground and rigged tent cloth across to shade them from the sun. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her rise, he wiped down the knife with a cloth and sheathed it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Francie polished the brass bell plates in the three vestibules and cleaned each banister spoke with an oiled cloth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the front, there are two black cloth hammocks between tree trunks tied low to the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began tearing away frantically at the mattress cloth above my head with my teeth. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

On Zinaida’s first parachute jump, one of those too-big men’s boots slid off in the air, taking with it the cloth she’d wrapped around her foot to fill out the boot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There was a movement in the branches, and then Archer was taking her hands, wiping each of her fingers with a clean wet cloth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a foot or more of the thread, wound it quickly around one of two iron hooks, and rehung the hooks into the last row of woven cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The book was entirely too special-looking: a hardback bound in linen cloth the color of a pomegranate, a gold beetle embossed on the front with flecks that sparkled when you tilted the book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The friends drape the coffin in a white cloth and surround it with masses of flowers, dahlias and sunflowers, “yellow flowers everywhere.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was his hands that drew her attention as he shucked off his leather gloves and dipped a cloth in the washbasin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I walk around the store looking at the pretty rainbow colors of cloth laid out on top of each one of the tables. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After cutting the umbilical cord, the midwife began to use a cloth to take off the blue grease that covered his body as Aureliano held up a lamp. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The blade was hot when she wiped it carefully dry with a clean cloth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When no more whey dripped from the cloth, Ma emptied the curd into a big pan and salted it, turning and mixing it well. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet turned to ride on, and then the voice registered and he looked back: a grinning Fremantle, hat held high like the cloth on the arm of a scarecrow, bony, ridiculous. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coating had to be developed, therefore, which in itself was fireproof, to put over the Beta cloth to prevent it from flaking off. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right? I’m—” She hesitated, the words stuck in her throat, and she looked down at her hands, twisting the cloth into a knot. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Das hunted about until he came upon a scrap of cloth. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pages later, he rammed a warship full of men, passing through its hull, Verne writes, like a sailmaker’s needle through cloth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kira gathered the cloth around the plants she had collected and tied the edges together. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not having a stopper, she used part of a clean cloth to plug the bottle. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But as these flames licked at the shrouded body, it turned her stomach to see it eat away the cloth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Next to it, on a low bookstand, is a book covered by a cloth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Also, I saw only one pair of trousers actually completed during the time that I spent there, although the factory workers were shambling about clutching all sorts of scraps of cloth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do my best to clean it, but since the dishcloth was also purchased before we went into hiding and consists of more holes than cloth, it’s a thankless task. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There was a linen cloth on it and some covered dishes, along with a teapot and a pair of cups. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She did spot someone with a possession, though—a little girl clutching what looked like a piece of flowered cloth, not really big enough to be a blanket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then she got some white cloth to make sheets and underwear. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There in the window was the most wonderful sight I had ever seen; everything under the sun; overalls, jackets, bolts of beautiful cloth, new harnesses, collars, bridles; and then my eyes did pop open. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he sneaked away to the dump and was back in a while with a strip of cotton cloth. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The scraps of cloth, he was beginning to think, may have been a child’s pajamas. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I rest my hands on the altar, feeling the linen cloth only meant for a priest’s fingers. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Resting a knee on the pew, he moved in tight so he was crouching over me and pressed the cloth firmly against the back of my head. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

One was an elegant Pentoshi, grey-haired and clad in silk but for his cloak, a ragged thing sewn from dozens of strips of tom, bloodstained cloth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her mom lets me in, but she says, "Stand right there," and she runs—really runs—and brings me a long white terry cloth robe to wear. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t refuse a hungry widow who’d lost her husband in the war some cloth or molasses on credit, but then how could we pay for new merchandise ourselves? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strip of dark cloth covers my eyes, and a new pair of hands ties it at the back of my head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They wore steel bracelets on their black arms, and loose, flapping cloths tucked half hazardly around their waists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Tree-ear cleaned his wound, Crane-man took the strip of cloth and washed it thoroughly with water from the gourd bowl, scrubbing it against a flat stone at the river’s edge. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As she wiped each piece with a soft cloth, she said, “Next time win more, lose less.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stretched out the piece of white cloth she was carrying, held it by two corners, flipped it front to back a couple of times before I even recognized my shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A waitress wiped a cloth across the table and took their empty plates. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At the foot of a toppled garden gnome, Arm picked up a small cloth bag. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lined with bits of leaves, grass, cloth, cotton fluff, feathers and other soft things Mrs. Frisby and her children had collected, the house stayed dry, warm and comfortable all winter. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He carefully unfolded his large cloth napkin and laid it across his lap, then looked up as though awaiting our judgment. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please,” I begged, “don’t be polite. It’s very kind of you but I shall be quite all right if the waiter just wipes the cloth.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in the yellow head cloth finished filling the second bucket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hid them in a piece of cloth and tied it around my chest, under my dress. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm, ignoring the awful pain in his left arm, rummaged at the bottom of the rucksack for the alethiometer in its black velvet cloth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So Masvita described the tractor and the bolts of cloth again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira sighed, and with a feeble gesture she inserted the needle into the cloth as he held the frame for her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ugwu did not pay close attention to who was there, though, because, as he stared at the shabby white altar cloth, he imagined that he was getting married. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d said it wasn’t anything personal and after I had proved myself for two or three months I could get a proper cloth sheet, but until then she had to protect her mattress. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She helps me clean, and when the floor is tidy, the cloths rinsed out, and I’m dry from the rain, we lie down on the bed and wait for the Gestapo to come. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked around for a clean bit of cloth to serve as a bandage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a deep forest green, rich cloth, fine cut. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The hole was plugged up with an old cloth to keep out the cold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d dabbed the prints with a damp cloth and, while the emulsion was wet, used the tip of a needle to scrape away the image, leaving a pin-thin white line. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I told Dinah about it, after Jay had started snoring, her little red stitched mouth wobbled, but she didn’t do anything except lay her tiny cloth hand on my arm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The eyes had been covered by a torn piece of cloth, like a blindfold, and the mouth was stuffed with a black stone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He cut through the heavy gabardine cloth all the way around the thigh in a straight line. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They approached New Haven and Dicey took out the map, which she carried under her shirt, where the cloth and her arm would protect it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A matching embroidered belt cinched at her waist, and the black head covering was held in place with another matching embroidered cloth. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bowl had been covered with a cloth weighed down by stones. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“For treasure. Like this. Glass or metal scraps are best. The waste mart man will even buy cardboard and cloth if they’re not too tattered.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Folding the cloth multiple times lengthwise, I add more water and tie it around my neck, knotting it at the front. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Tobias emerges from a door hidden behind a length of white cloth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He tugged the folds of cloth of his pants and undershorts free from his crotch and gave Yossarian a limp hand to shake. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Through the cloth film, I saw the shadow approach. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her family slept close together in a bed of down, fluff, and bits of cloth they had gathered, warm as a ball of fur. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I let my head fall to the side, and the cloth falls from it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The quote from that episode floated back to me now—“Hard times make the good times special”—a quote she’d hand-stitched on one cloth. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be a dancer, my feet in the air, my head a faceless oblong of white cloth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth drifts up and down as Sophia takes deep breaths. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The young Mao in the painting wore a long cotton gown and cloth shoes, and he carried an umbrella under his arm. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brushed the cloth down to release the air bubbles, waiting for my goose bumps to recede. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Spectacular white cheeses lay lined like thirty perfect moons on a dark cloth, drying in the sun. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She started by wrapping the cloth around her waist, like a belt. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see Izio, but it was difficult in the crowd of men with their shaved heads and gray cloth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Well, you're no liar," she said, giving him a squeeze through the cloth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I heard people say, people say the tables are round and have white cloths over them and wee baby lampshades. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By sunrise, the girls had built a stretcher by tying old pieces of wood and broken branches with torn strips of cloth from a pair of Juanita’s old shorts. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He gestured toward the wagon bed, which was piled with bolts of cloth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bound the stump of his wrist tightly with a cloth, and he walked beside the gods back to Asgard, and he kept his own counsel. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He apparently had stolen the cloth from the factory floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mary took some flat bread and cheese and some sweet, thirst-quenching red fruits, wrapped them in a cloth, and tied a cord around it for one of them to carry over a shoulder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s white cloth cap bobbed away in the distance as I looked for a path out of the crowd, but bodies pushed in from all sides to watch the two men arguing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knight in the spiked helm reached die ram-part, but Yoren tangled his black banner around his spike, and forced the point of his dirk through his armor while the man was fighting the cloth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The book had a cloth cover with several dark stains, and the paper was thick and creamy, soft at the edges. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had a face of white cloth with black button eyes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light that was shining from my mother’s eyes, as she fingered the cheap cotton cloth, was something I will never forget. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed for the nearest piece of cloth to shoo them away and her heart froze with terror as she connected her daughter's evening baths with the mustard plasters that rolled onto the floor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The baby wore cloth diapers and nothing else. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But on one bag there’s blood, which has seeped through the white cloth, where the mouth must have been. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I patted her brow with a wet cloth and she opened her eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There on the big table, covered with a black cloth with gold fringes, lay Rosa’s white coffin with its silver rivets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had told me that if I ran out of tinder, I should burn cloth, and use the charred ashes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out two long strips of white cloth and a roll of adhesive tape. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I curl up next to her, stroke the thick cloth, and try to fall asleep, while Jay watches over us with his bright eyes. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She kept them wrapped in cloth in the bottom of a trunk and made ready to feed on memories, waiting without despair. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She saw the hard cloth of his uniform and felt the ferocious hands wrap themselves around her neck; then without interrupting the kiss, the fingers began to tighten. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ointment had left an oily residue on the cloth, which was now stained red, but the cut itself had stopped bleeding. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the slave women quickly daubed her leg with mud and wrapped it tightly with strips of cloth ripped from their own dresses. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she might have a potbelly shiny as a mirror, and big sacs of flesh for breasts, and maybe she would only be wearing a loin cloth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the noon break of the next day, a flying shuttle had grazed the girl’s shoulder, and she had let the shuttle run out of weft, ruining several inches of cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw her clothing, all rags now encrusted with drying salt, she clutched the tatters, feeling the ruined cloth with her fingers, and then relinquished it all, turning her face to the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The bandage sticks to my arm as I peel it off, the wound healing into the cloth itself. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But she was kind and patient, and she knew how to soothe a fevered brow with a cool cloth as well as anyone. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her forehead, face, and arms were washed regularly with damp cloths. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was younger than Ba — the gray of his hair was wiped away with the cloth as well — and his beard and head were as glossy black as Minli’s. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“She can close her eyes. I’ll tie a black cloth over them if she wants.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tore off a piece to carry with me, thinking it would make a good swaddling cloth for a baby. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I run a cloth over my desk and chair and I am done. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She took the tunic and dropped the folds of cloth quickly over Ess’s head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He made a little box for it and lined it with black cloth. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama made me a sling out of the same bolt of cloth she brought over to make the bed sheets and baptizing dresses for the African girls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the same for me with the cloth.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaped toward the high chair and whipped a loose cloth diaper off the back of it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were no torn scraps of cloth clinging to branches, no deep bootprints or abandoned campsites. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then the nurse leaned down and dabbed at my left ear with a piece of gauze, and blood came away on the cloth. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Murphy bids me good night, she hands me a gown and undergarments, a towel and hand cloth and a brush for my teeth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After he had served another toddy he brought a damp cloth from behind the bar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had to make myself put the potatoes down calmly and cover them with a cloth Sarah had left on the table. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They brought the soapstones in to hotten by the mill’s coal stove and loaded up the sled with bolts of cloth wrapped in brown paper. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The cool cloth felt good against my face, and even though my nose was thick and painful and my right eye was all swollen, I could tell that up front I’d sustained no serious injuries. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I hung on to my riales in my sweaty fist, my stomach growling as I pictured the little pile of riales growing in a cloth bag at the bottom of my cardboard clothes box. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says nothing as she wrings out the cloth and holds it in the air to cool somewhat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now the last of the mourners had paid their respects and the mosque was empty, save for the mullah unplugging the microphone and wrapping his Koran in green cloth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a long cloth coat and galoshes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then she picked up the material and said more firmly, “It’s the most beautiful cloth in the world.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Several times a day, the guerrillas would stop to rest, and dip into a dirty cloth bag holding cooked rice mixed with some kind of fish or meat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The men of the oasis wanted to know if they had seen any fighting, and the women competed with one another for access to the cloth and precious stones brought by the merchants. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the tattered altar cloth he produced a loaf of barley bread and gave it to me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The room was crowded with furniture draped with cloth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shoves a pile of cloth at me and says, “Pin these.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He holds the cloth high, triumphant, and charges toward me, then stalls. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those that had dried and stuck to the cloth, I left alone. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Woodwell nods as he wraps his chisels up in soft cloth. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There it was, wrapped in its blotched green cloth. said Doon. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He edged himself farther up, feeling the cloth of his shirt tear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stoppered the chloroform, found a fresh cloth, and walked down the hall to Pearl’s room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She took the cloth from him and began to sweep up the broken shards. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It must be that cloth! Give it to me!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She wore moccasins, leggings, a cloth skirt, and a blanket around her shoulders, and she painted the part in the middle of her hair red to symbolize the path of the sun. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He looked for an imprint of her feet or the outline that the cloth of her skirt made in the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a damp cloth and gently wiped the flour from Travis’s face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In the bottom of a big plastic jar of bolts and screws and miscellaneous hardware he found a double handful of gold krugerrands in a cloth sack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She had one of the heads in her lap, wrapping folds of pink velour around it and sticking pins here and there to hold the cloth in place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It is made of thick, finely woven cloth that is softer to the touch than I expect. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Wind swirled through the yard, cutting through the thin cloth of the filthy rags he wore and raising gooseprickles on his skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She began to breathe heavily again into the cloth. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had seen my sisters’ scapulars and knew that the bit of cloth at the end had a picture of the Virgin or St. Joseph on it, but this scapular held a small, flattened pouch. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the entire top of the staff was undecorated; it was smooth, uncarved wood, in the same way that the expanse across the shoulders of the robe was untouched cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled on the twine and found a ring nestled in the fold of cloth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the dim light in the cott — it was night-start by then — the golds and reds pulsated as if the morning sun itself had slid and twisted its rays into the cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She polished her violin, placing it tenderly back in its case with the white cloth over its neck. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

From a pocket of his tool belt, Leo produced a piece of white cloth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Desdemona would have to catch the cloth and roll it back up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It took a while sawing at the cloth with the clumsy shell, and she ended up ripping the cushions quite a lot. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brook is sitting on the chair at the end and tapping another blue cloth shape with the index card she’s holding. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the cement floor were many small pieces of cloth lined up in squares, one next to the other. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I love watching the spread of rice flour on cloth, stretched over a steaming pot. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fenchel sat all day on his table and he didn’t have anything to do, so he basted and ripped and sewed and ripped on the same piece of cloth over and over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Raising the dust jacket with her finger, Meggie saw the dark red cloth, as red as the flames surrounding the ink-black heart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“She know many Igbo people in Africa. She sell cloth.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was the other thing she’d brought along: the white cloth enfolding her silkworm eggs was nothing other than Desdemona’s wedding corset. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Once she had floured the dough, she wrapped it in a moist cloth, put on a hijab, and set out for the communal tandoor. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As I put away my cloth and set up “Pirate Medley” on my music stand, I couldn’t stop grinning. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have red paint on my fingers, and I’m wiping it off with turpentine and a cloth when I hear Dee park. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Finally, I put a cool damp cloth over them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As Mr. and Mrs. Trepid stood there watching Dallas place a cool cloth on the boy’s forehead, the boy opened his eyes and said, “Who am I? Who am I?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I smoothed the cloth of my breeches over my belly, which was still as flat as any boy’s. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby went to where Timothy lay, a small ball of damp fur curled under a bit of cloth blanket. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had a scabrous face, with a dirty cloth wrapped around his neck. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once, she realized that someone was putting a cold cloth on her forehead, and she raised her arm to bring it down over her burning eyelids. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a cloth surgical cap over her head and tucked her hair up into the cap while looking in the mirror. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many and more of the worshipers were wearing some scrap of red cloth pinned to their sleeves or tied around their brows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They murmured more prayers Anya didn’t know while they poured water over one hand, then the other, and then, silent, they dried their hands on the cloth squares. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I knelt beside him and used the wet cloth to wipe the blood off his face and neck. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The woman fills our water keg with fresh water, serves us hard-boiled eggs from her hens, and gives Dayah a loaf of her bread, wrapped in a clean cloth, for the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to sit down. I’ll get a cloth for your head. This has been a right shock to you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s very beautiful cloth. It’s the most beautiful cloth in the world. I saw gold cloth in a museum once, and this is more beautiful.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I carefully unwrapped the cloth from around the notebook, relieved to discover that it was not too wet, and held it out to the director with shaking hands. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his tongue against the roof of his mouth, he made the repetitive muted clacking sound of the shuttle, and then the whisper of the threads turning into cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently she laid Ruth May out on the table, spending a long time arranging her arms and legs within the sheer cloth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked, to them, like something from the Victorian era, balanced on a spindly tripod, with a pleated belly like a bellows and a dark cloth that Mia ducked underneath. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I turned to leave, my eyes again fell on the overalls and the bolts of cloth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the wrapping was cloth, but it was also paper. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His mouth turned down, and he dabbed at his eyes with a large cloth that looked suspiciously like a diaper. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Spread out around her on a bright cloth are hundreds of tiny animals carved from wood: elephants, leopards, giraffes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moistened a cloth with water from her canteen and tossed it to him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I find a patch of shadow, I use it to crawl under the edge of the cloth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He starts to scream, but Guarino quickly pushes a wad of cloth into his mouth. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took the cloth away and handed the jar to the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I chase him with my abaya held up high over my jeaned legs with both my hands, the black cloth bunched around my hips. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The cloth sack still covered her head, but it didn’t seem to be cinched around her neck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This Commander ascends the steps to the podium, which is draped with a red cloth embroidered with a large white-winged eye. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the feel and colors of beautiful cloth and he would sit with his scraps for hours under the kitchen table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

With a pair of thongs, she dips a piece of white cloth into the alcohol bowl, allowing it to soak through. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somkit had one small sun orb tucked in the cloth satchel hanging from his shoulder. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She pulls a small cloth from her pocket and blots my face. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Matt pulled at the man’s shirt and showed Kira the hem, at the back, from which he had torn the piece of cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without bothering to examine the blood-caked cuts that she could see all over his head and shoulders, Mama started unwinding the strips of cloth from around his body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

For tables, he upended cable reels and spread them with cloths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were all looking forward, watching as Annabeth took a long green silk burial cloth, embroidered with a trident, and set it on the flames. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He turned away and barked curses in Siaru at a man loading a wagon with bolts of cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I put Mister Leefolt’s wrinkled shirts in a basket, get a cloth for Baby Girl’s face to wipe off the jelly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I washed the blood off, put some salt on it and tied it with a cloth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They had placed the boots on the table and were examining them with tools and special glasses and powders and cloths and other tools. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She wrapped the bracelet in a silken cloth and crept from the palace. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Raheem handed his spoon to the guy next to him and wiped his hands on a cloth. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A pail, still-damp cloths draped over its edge, sat off to one side of the tractor. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Kira asked, remembering how the cloth had seemed to tense and tremble when she saw Matt holding the spear. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the table cloth and looked. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the corner of his eye he could see his friend Fiona help the old man from the tub and tenderly pat his thin, naked body dry with an absorbant cloth. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In her hand was a small piece of cloth. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tristran looked at the crimson and canary and russet cloth, at clothes which looked more like the costumes of traveling players or the contents of his cousin Joan's charades chest, and said, "My clothes?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stuffed some of the cloth into her mouth and tied it in place with another strip. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches out her right hand, and here, just inside of the doorway, she discovers something big and rectangular and hard, covered with cloth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She came and lifted me down and wiped my face and hands with a warm cloth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the can a cloth had been tied for the syrup to strain through. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had never had so much cloth to manage. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Running home, he asked his grandmother for some corn, and she gave him four ears wrapped in a white cloth. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z