| 单词 | cluster |
| 例句 | Abandoned by the cluster of ministrants who had obscured her as the last rites were being offered, Guenever stood like a beacon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The young women, sitting in their own clusters on the lawn, wore short- heeled pumps and rayon hose, calf-length skirts, and loose-fitting blouses with ruffles and flounces on the sleeves and at the necklines. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Finally Reyna pointed to the cluster of temples on the distant hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A girl with a switch sat guard over a cluster of babies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The pestilence had grown so thick within his throat in colonies and clusters that he could not even sip water without the most excruciating pain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A cluster of grandees in tweeds and armbands identifying them as minders to the secretary and his entourage stood off to the side in the front. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Following the trail I found first the red and then the gray: clusters of long wing feathers still attached to gristle and skin, splayed like fingers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved back to the cluster around the black man. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z However, if there is enough mass—galaxies, galaxy clusters, and unseen dark matter—the initial push given by the big bang wouldn’t be enough to allow the balloon to inflate forever. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Flat water and docks were on one side of their van, and a cluster of skyscrapers on the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They stared at the cluster of buildings in silence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We cluster together to form teams, and then turn against one another. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z All the girls Cholly knew were at the banquet, and he pointed to a cluster of them standing, hanging, draping on the back porch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, a linden tree drops a cluster of seeds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Buildings rose tall above the colorful cluster of heads and bodies. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The dead were mostly covered now with blankets and shelter halves, but some of them were still dying and there were groups of men clustered here and there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The lake was shallow where she had pulled up the boat, and farther out were clusters of rocks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were clustered on the east and west sides of town. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Thousands of screaming fans cluster in the streets below. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Something flickered on her face and she reached out, removed one pale heart from the cluster, and inserted it into her mouth like a chore. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “My dad’s already called some professor he knows at Montana State,” she told a few of us who were clustered around her locker. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z They noticed a few other clusters of lotus blossoms. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His captors were clustered around a stream a short ways down the high road. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Some 4,000 defiant protesters clustered on the lawn and in the parking lot that afternoon in the largest demonstration of the civil rights era in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We clustered near the gate like a small herd of doomed sheep, looking at the galleries above. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My gaze pauses on a cluster of four boys reading on the couches. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z People were leaving, trailing in small clusters toward parked cars and bus stops. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z A cluster of boys charge Long and Tate, taking them to the ground. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z And as the dinghy rocks in the growing current, I see the rope holding it to the pole begin to fray against a cluster of sharp mussel shells. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The roads are packed with Dauntless soldiers, all marching at the same rhythm except the officers, who stand every few hundred yards, watching us walk by, or gathering in clusters to discuss something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A tangle of old homes and shacks clustered around small stores and buildings that had seen better days. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z In the yard he sees a cluster of men. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Cars and buses pass in clouds of exhaust, and clusters of students walk by carrying steaming food bought from ven- dors along the street. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It actually wasn't one big flower, he discovered, but instead each flower was really a cluster of tiny little flowers that formed a round ball. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Outside the Black Swan girls were clustered under umbrellas. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She spied on a cluster of boys who were setting sail to paper ships. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A few hundred meters away at the top of the nearest hill stood a cluster of ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Gum Baby broke off from harassing a cluster of butterflies and ran over as well. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They weren’t more than ten feet away, but the cluster of huisaches sheltered us from their view. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The finish photo captured the scene: a dense cluster of horses stretched out for the wire, ears flat and lips peeled back in extreme effort. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the crowd of local people clustering round the churchyard at the funeral, and myself leaning on Frank’s arm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z By the time Ucho reached the entourage, I had hidden myself within a cluster of people, although I was certain he knew I was there. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He saw all their faces clustered around Emo’s fat, sweaty head; he thought of dogs standing over something dead, crowded close together. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He dragged Mulch across a grassy verge to a cluster of cherry trees. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Alice turned and walked back to the cluster of stalls, her gait dainty and contrived, as though a misguided person had taught her how to walk “like a lady.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Those same eyes that he had thought daunted and defeated, there they were lit with a fell light again, clustering in her out-thrust head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Shoppers rushed by or talked in worried clusters. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The freckles under her eyes are darker and more clustered than usual. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He walked through the unfamiliar halls, passing groups of girls and boys clustered together, joking, laughing—looking like they belonged. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Its long silver barrel was embellished with cottonwood leaves and clusters of seedpods, its ivory handle inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The Amity sit on the floor, most with their legs crossed, in knots and clusters that vaguely resemble the tree roots to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Supernova explosions of massive early stars produced successive overlapping shock waves in the adjacent gas, compressing the intergalactic medium and accelerating the generation of clusters of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadow became aware of eyes on him: a handful of red cardinals stared at him from a skeletal elder bush, then returned to pecking at the clusters of black elderberries. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The bus pulls up at an intersection, beside a cluster of bleary-eyed kids. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Hale’s wife, his eighteen-year-old daughter, and his many boisterous supporters clustered behind the defense table. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A man strode toward the cluster of students, keys jangling in his hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There was cold salad and clear soup, with translucent mushrooms floating within the broth in cloudlike clusters. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The room was washed in unnatural brightness; they sat us in a cluster on the dirty cement floor, and pointed three floodlights toward us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “We’ll look for a cluster of trees or maybe an abandoned cabin. I’m sure we’ll find a safe place to rest for the night.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Kyle noticed that Mr. Peckleman, the motel owner, was in the crowd clustered at the remaining tables on the first floor. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The defenders clustered on the wall above the gates, yelling insults at the tortoise formation as it staggered back and forth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The conversation at the dare was too quiet; the women no longer clustered in groups at the stream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were wide and manic, his shirt was untucked, and a cluster of pimples that reminded me of the constellation Andromeda dotted his forehead, but he still smelled like summer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Service hasn’t started yet, but there are people all around the sanctuary, talking in little clusters. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He passed a cluster of ladies, each of whom curtsied and giggled behind their fans. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She pictures the maids in their quiet, mysterious cluster at the end of the patio, Altagracia with her hands in her lap. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A few more kids clustered around him like chicks to a hen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But after a while something begins to form: a thicket of dark-green leaves with purple blossoms, dark purple, a sad rich color, and clusters of red berries, translucent as water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the fish are clustered around the coral reef. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They approached a small hamlet at dusk, a few small houses clustered around a schoolhouse and a white frame church. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z By contrast with Monte Alban, these were minuscule entities; most were clusters of rustic villages covering ten to twenty square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The three frogs were clustered together under the middle of the bed. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In those paintings, angels cluster around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some clusters have their galaxies arranged in an unambiguously spherical geometry; they are composed chiefly of ellipticals, often dominated by one giant elliptical, the presumptive galactic cannibal. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d managed to connect with a group of professional women and form a kind of chatty, hands-on social cluster. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And then I turned a corner and, right in the middle of that barren land, I saw a cluster of mud houses, beyond them nothing but broad sky and mountains like jagged teeth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Each vast floor of a call center consists of clusters of cubicles. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Though dusk hadn’t yet unfurled into night, clusters of people gathered under eaves and in doorways, their faces lost to the gloom and weak gaslight. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There was a cluster of sloppy salutes, broad wet grins under dripping hats. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were clustered mainly around the park entrance at Columbus Circle and the busier paths, but some had been set up deeper in the undergrowth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Flat water and docks were on one side of their van, and a cluster of skyscrapers on the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He had been on his way home from his first day in the Pipeworks when he’d come across the cluster of people gazing up at the roof of the Gathering Hall and laughing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Missed the rippled velvet curtain going up, with lightbulbs in the clustered yellow tassels. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The nymphs clustered around Narcissus again and began recording new videos and taking more photos. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I try to imagine the flowers’ petals are actually wings, but all I see are clusters of flowers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A small cluster of older ladies clutching pocketbooks, their hair carefully coiffed, probably on a shopping expedition from some province or suburb, smile and coo when he tinkles the opening of “Moonlight Serenade.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Behind them, the goose was beating his wings powerfully, throwing snow over the tracks they’d made; and near him, fire lost daemons were clustering or drifting away, crying little bleak cries of loss and longing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Nathan gazed into the sky and stared at the Milky Way cluster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As soon as the driver pulled up, I hopped out and looked at all the people clustered around the giant bonfire, which was already roaring. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “If he does, it might be for the best,” Marjory told her small cluster of fans. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I knew hunters went after bonobos in the evening or the morning, taking advantage of the moments they clustered together and revealed their position by calling out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They arranged them in clusters of five in a line on the floor, one side matched up against the other, for all to see. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then all the words empty out of my head, and everything is just there: a chaotic jumble of patternless, nameless clusters of atoms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I see it as my responsibility to ignore the emptiness of the streets, the nonfunctional stoplights, and the occasional clusters of walking dead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Jenny came over to where the dogs were clustered. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She chose a cluster of bushes far from any street lamp. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the boys clustered around him, heads bowed, while he prayed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The two of us fell to the ground, fists flailing and legs thrashing, every kid in Euclid Parkway instantly clustered in a tight knot around us, their hollers fueled by excitement and grade school bloodlust. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Flies perched on them in dense clusters, so that for a moment it seemed as if their frayed white caftans had been splashed with dark-colored paint. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In a few seconds, there was a crowd of about twenty people clustering around Charlie, and many more were pushing their way in from the street. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z All the guards had clustered on the right side of the onager, trying to see what was going on down the ranks, which gave Nico and his comrades a clear shot to the left. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Little clusters of debris were slowing down the waterways. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple stretched out her stiff muscles as she made her way to the cluster of stores and restaurants across from the parking garage. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Off the bus at the cluster stop I take a chance. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Dozens of soldiers stand in clusters around us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Across the street a crowd of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen from all over the country watched the tense scene as they stood clustered behind a police barrier. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “My husband ran to make sure, but I think that’s them gathered down the road there,” Mrs. Hawkins replied, pointing to a huddled cluster in the distance. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The second day of the charrette began promptly at 10 A.M., with the large group dividing into several smaller clusters to discuss in detail the issues brought up the previous day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The school itself consisted of a cluster of two dozen or so graceful, colonial- style buildings, which included individual homes as well as dormitories, the library, and various instructional halls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From the night sky came a cluster of black limos. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He smelled something sweet, heady, as they walked into a compound, and was sure it came from the white flowers clustered on the bushes at the entrance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The young ones who clustered on the comers wearing ties the color of handkerchiefs sticking out of their breast pockets. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fitches Brook is it,” I say, pointing to a cluster of brown contour lines drawn close together which indicate a steep hill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He spiraled upward and sped into a cluster gathered on the extended arm of an ancient oak tree, shouting all the while. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I dive backward, thrashing through a cluster of surprised onlookers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Our plates are filled with golden-brown waffles, sunny-side up eggs, and clusters of grapes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A crystal chandelier hung over a gleaming mahogany table, around which were clustered a half-dozen Chippendale chairs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the islands of vegetation fenced in within the clusters of willow trees creating the illusion of a heavily forested swampland. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Looking at the child, I suddenly became hungry for my country, for its fat bees carrying nectar from apple flowers and for the birds singing in clusters of hazel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was a cluster of cottages, and, taller than the rest, a church of stone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z After more than an hour had gone by, he thought he had surely seen the last hole, but then off to the left he saw another cluster of them. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Two Step asked, gazing off toward a spiraling cluster of dactyls in the darkening sky to the east. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Their actions had simply made impressions upon my sensibilities as I lived from day to day, impressions which crystallized and coagulated into clusters and configurations of memory, attitudes, moods, ideas. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In minutes, I emerge from the rocky cluster to find myself already high above the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z But the old man came in a cluster of men, outlined under that dark and ominous sky, the lightning blazing beyond his head. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To grow from a tiny cluster of grains to a baby planet some hundreds of miles across is thought to have taken only a few tens of thousands of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Other dark forms were clustering in the fog, and the jeering screams of a hundred more harpies sounded from farther along the shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Even from way up in the air, Magdalys could tell they were dressed up nice, promenading along the avenues in clusters and pairs, probably heading to social clubs and balls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then I drew my blasters and began to unload them at the cluster of Sixers nearest to me while also doing my best to dodge their incoming fire. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That night I dream that I am in a field, and I encounter a flock of crows clustered on the ground. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Thick clusters of small houses made of brick and concrete dotted side streets and the lower hillsides. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Their course had been chosen to leave Woodhall to their left, and to cut slanting through the woods that clustered along the eastern side of the hills, until they reached the flats beyond. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The villagers followed the stream past clusters of huts and granaries perched on stilts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We staggered together in a cluster and compared injuries. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Kudzu- swamped clusters of old abandoned buildings shadowed under the loom of swamp trees. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We found a cluster of mango trees and hid behind them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The cluster of buildings all had stacked-tile roofs that sloped steeply to the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I could make out through the mist a church steeple, and around about it, clusters of dark-slated roofs; here and there, wisps of white smoke were rising from chimneys. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The perfume was heaviest there, and for a moment Bod wondered if snow might have fallen, for there were white clusters on the greenery. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z As the afternoon shadows lengthened, the dassies muttered among themselves and eventually clustered at the entrance to their den. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The plane climbed over belts of forest and clusters of round huts and villages with tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up and headed out of the cabin and down to a cluster of trees whose thick branches touched and tangled together to make a dense overhang. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Its land slopes upward, along the rise of a hill, covered in dense clusters of evergreen trees. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Perotin strikes us, even today, as an irrepressibly adventurous creative force, a firecracker of a composer who conceived and wrote down the most complex simultaneous note clusters that had ever been heard. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I was sitting on one of the bone-colored benches; the other girls clustered, gossiping excitedly, on either side of me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Some of them were clustered in front of the da-zi-bao, but many more were talking in small groups. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on a cluster of roots is Johanna Reyes, her hair falling over the scarred half of her face. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The guards ignored him, but the other guests clustered by the entry with Inej grumbled their frustration. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Jacobi, Bijan, and Carlos were clustered in a far corner of the dance room, pretending not to stare at me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I walk through a cluster of joggers, then race to a Sweden Tours bus. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z A cluster of Ridgefolk tried to barricade themselves inside a storeroom near the winding ramp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The Special who had captured Tally took her to the end farthest from the gate, where a handful of Smokies with bloody noses and black eyes were clustered. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z People crowded the walkway and clustered around the shops perched above the sludge. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z At the far end of the room, a few patients clustered around a TV and Jeopardy! Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z But then he saw something fly from a cluster of leaves and swoop down low across the ground, making a clear, sweet call as it flew. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She’s holding up the golden pin, with a tiny cluster of filigree hawthorn berries at the top. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They were sailing through a large bay, making their way toward a cluster of downtown buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They arched over the main lobby, the gym, and clusters of science and art classrooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The little cluster of figures around the door moved back a step or two, as if out of respect, and they saw the man’s face: stolid, harmless, and mild. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He discovered that Indians formed “three New World dental clusters” corresponding to Greenberg’s Aleut, Na-Dene, and Amerind. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To the south, beyond the lake, a cluster of temples perched on a hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But the gritty shipyards and boat works clustered around the locks were largely quiet, nearly abandoned in fact. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His friends are now clustering close to the water, and someone’s taking a bottle out of a backpack. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Plates of petit-waffles, boiled eggs, tiny quiches, grape clusters, and sweet luna pastries are placed in front of me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Guards fan out behind her like a cluster of shelled insects. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He held out a little square hand to show Dicey a cluster of pennies and nickels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A hush had fallen on the group, and clusters of them stood together, whispering. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The Paqo selected a cluster of dried grasses hanging upside down from the roof beam. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The central dome three stories high over the main lobby and clusters of classrooms all looking out into the sunlit space. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z There may be those who live on a planet that orbits a central star in one of Shapley’s globular clusters, or one located in the core. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of red sparks hissed through the swinging kitchen door, kissed the ceiling, and rained a shimmering shower down and around the petrified hostess. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z In turn, the Wampanoag were part of a tripartite alliance with two other confederations: the Nauset, which comprised some thirty groups on Cape Cod; and the Massachusett, several dozen villages clustered around Massachusetts Bay. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I open the door to a cluster of people- young, younger than I am, and all sporting factionless armbands—gathered around a young man on the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z So I pointed at a cluster to my left. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z To his right was a small downtown area—an almost cozy-looking cluster of towers between the banks of the river and a line of misty forested hills. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In the summer he usually raced at the cluster of tracks around Vancouver or at another western Canadian track called Glacier Park; in the fall and spring it was California’s Tanforan; in the winter, Tijuana. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We stopped to admire the grapes, dangling in heavy clusters from the vines, fat and purple. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A man strode toward the cluster of students, keys jangling in his hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Children clustered around Jenny while she showed off the shiny fenders, the thick tires, the handlebars with multicolored streamers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z On the walls are clusters of local butterflies, mounted and framed, a map of the region on thin white paper, photographs of the family at the lake over the years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mushrooms appear in clusters along the edges of the trail, with little round caps the same color as eggshells. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They were clustered near the yard door when the Kings attacked, stabbing numerous Bloods and sustaining lesser injuries in the process. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the alley he could see men clustered like grapes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z As with Dutchy and Carmine on the train, this little cluster of women has become a kind of family to me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Her palm was open, and there, resting inches above it, was a small cluster of particles. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was a warm day, Ifemelu had walked past students sprawled on green lawns; cheery balloons were clustered below a welcome freshmen sign. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Christina holds the flag up high, and everyone clusters around her, grabbing her arm to lift the flag even higher. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Some are solitary wanderers; most inhabit communal clusters, huddling together, drifting endlessly in the great cosmic dark. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One day as he walked along the street, he observed a small hut that had not been there two days previous, around which was a cluster of youths, all clamoring for admittance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Men cluster to me like moths around a flame, and if their wings burn, I know I’m not to blame. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Lyra explained fearfully about her encounter with little Tony Makarios, and looked over her shoulder at the poor caged daemons, who were clustering forward pressing their pale faces to the glass. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z People huddle in little clusters, or by themselves, just sitting in the cold. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Moreover, most galaxies are found in clusters, and we can similarly infer the presence of yet more dark matter in between the galaxies in these clusters by its effect on the motion of the galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed Jill and joined a cluster right near the front. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Obiora had borrowed a video game from the flat upstairs, and the boys were clustered in front of the TV in the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It entered a cluster of gray sage that must have seemed like a tall forest to the stumpy little thing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I make out a cluster of long gun barrels and trigger guards. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z After several minutes in the low light I could see a cluster of homes, fairly large in size, all white. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z At the food table, where Finn was going in for another round of honey clusters, Jonas Apple sidled up. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A break in the crowd reveals what they are all clustered around: a series of screens on the wall to my left. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The resulting balancing act involves a ceaseless clustering of bonded atoms into molecules of higher and higher complexity, and the emergence of cycles for the storage and release of energy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The cluster of bells thong-tied to the upper hinges of the entrance door jingled and a short, thin woman with a cigarette hanging straight downward from her mouth walked in. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, though, the steeple of the Methodist Church will leap from the Bay, dragging up a cluster of white board houses. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t miss this for anything,” Mom said, holding out the cluster of flowers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z His lance was striped in the same colors, and his shield bore the grape cluster sigil of his House. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The elevator is crowded, so my father volunteers to give a cluster of Amity our place. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The Gabrielis also experimented with placing clusters of singers and instrumentalists in different pockets of the building, a technique known as antiphony, meaning ‘voices against each other’, or poly choral, ‘many choirs’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I walk to the cluster of chairs closest to the windows in the control room and bring up the footage from different cameras throughout the city, one by one, searching for my parents. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There's a cluster of houses off in the distance, but there's no telling how big they are or if they're even occupied. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z This is a picture of a nineteen-note-per-octave keyboard; notice the double-decker nature of the black notes and the extra little black note between the bigger clusters. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He points to a cluster of ruins on the flank of the hill rising from the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They’d bleat in bliss, and the chickens and rooster would cluster around his feet as if they, too, welcomed him home. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The country of the Zande is savanna mixed with riverine forest, beautiful country, where acacia trees cluster along the banks of seasonal rivers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She has a cluster of pimples across her white forehead that are covered in makeup. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was either clustered around the stereo or the seven-foot-tall piece of plyboard, propped up on the lawn, which had been painted to look like the scoreboard. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z A sofa and a couple of chairs are clustered on one side of the room, opposite a kitchenette with mismatched cups drying on the countertop. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Votive candles burned feebly in blue and red clusters before statues of St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There is some hint that the Virgo cluster contains tens of thousands of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, policemen were clustered around the perimeter, armed with both guns and pencils, the latter to take notes as to who was speaking and what the speaker was saying. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were clusters of freckles on her forearms and wrists, an entire Milky Way spreading across her forehead, even a few sputtering quasars flung into the wormholes of her ears. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A patch of grass caught fire, lit up, and Ugwu saw a ferret by the cluster of trees ahead, hunched like a giant tortoise. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Newborn leaf clusters on the surrounding trees had a look of pale green popcorn. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The sun was setting behind a cluster of small houses. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s some sort of salad, with a cluster of dark leaves like kale mixed in with carrots. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The front-line has been penetrated, and everywhere small groups have established themselves, the fight is carried on from clusters of shell-holes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Calvin and I run into the crumbledown from the cluster stop. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The cars were in a big cluster, parked at odd angles, some with their tires in a rut, some without tires at all. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She led them into the thickest clustering of trees, then they separated to go to the bathroom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Winged archers take aim at the cluster of roots where the Ghost was hiding. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We passed a cluster of lime green houses made out of cement block. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of birds flew up from the nearby trees, hitting the sky at the same moment I began beating out a faster, more insistent rhythm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At the front of the room, a set of golden gazebos cluster to the left and right of the throne platform, each one covered with a canopy of flowers and garlands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She was dressed in a shimmering blue gown, surrounded by a cluster of little girls as attendants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nok spun around to see Somkit standing among a cluster of people holding poles with Gold orbs swinging from the end. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Alvarez saw black clusters of antiaircraft flak bursting all around his plane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His green breastplate was fashioned to resemble a cluster of open hungry mouths. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z These new layered sound effects, built on plainsong tunes, were edging very close to what today we would call ‘harmony’ - that is, the existence and exploitation of simultaneous clusters of notes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They saw specks of huts clustered inside circles of thornbush, with cattle trails radiating from the huts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Brer Fox staggered forward out of the cluster into the middle of the clearing, his ears flat to his skull. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The wind that’s ever present outside our lobby doors due to the way the buildings are clustered feels special when it hits my face and blows back my hijab a bit. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Not far from the falls of Nimrodel they found a cluster of trees, some of which overhung the stream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z For a while everything seemed routine: the crowd of people at the church, the line of cars with their head-lights on, the smaller group clustered around the grave for the final farewell. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The terrible ghosts of impossible-to-forget toys clustered on the blades of the ceiling fan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We clustered behind it as we pushed forward for the Mercedes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z And the towns clustering around Boston interested him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When we pulled up to the church, the steps were covered in brown and gold and red leaves that blew around in clusters. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She stooped to hide under the shade of a cluster of huisache trees, looking almost translucent. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z There was a high hedge of hazel on either side and you could see clusters of ripe brown nuts in their green jackets. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Tight clusters of defiant lights sparkled from every city, as bright as any star. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He followed it out of the sagebrush clusters and onto a long stretch of sunbaked, cracked sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Around them, the sounds of the feast continued, but muted and distant, as if their little cluster of couches had slipped into a quieter dimension. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z From eight billion light-years away we are hard pressed to find even the cluster in which our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded, much less the Sun or the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked down the steps, past men smoking in clusters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There were fifty men, most of them young, clustered in the dingy gray chamber. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They came up over a steep hill and down a zigzag track to Sticklehaven—a mere cluster of cottages with a fishing boat or two drawn up on the beach. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Everyone else is already in the atrium, clustered around Asher as he brings up the morning transmission for us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a cluster of women around a bank of Batman slots having what seemed to be a ridiculously good time. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z All around the smoking room, gentlemen seemed to be standing in clusters laughing and clapping each other on the shoulder. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Something new, Edna?” exclaimed Miss May- blunt, with lorgnette directed toward a magnificent cluster of diamonds that sparkled, that almost sputtered, in Edna’s hair, just over the center of her forehead. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z We were a small tight group, clustered together, our bare upper bodies touching and shining with anticipatory sweat; while up front the big shots were becoming increasingly excited over something we still could not see. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Their heads clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy, mouse-colored; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and speculated. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They formed clusters of color like the glass pieces in a kaleidoscope. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I jab the stick at the cluster a couple of times, and sure enough, part of the glittering rock comes loose. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z When Kendra reached the bottom, Seth was squatting near a cluster of blossoms at the edge of the stream. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Now flying by some magical means, Aech’s avatar swooped down, passed over the bottleneck of gunters clustered at the castle entrance, and disappeared through the open double doors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His best option was to join the dozen or so kids who were already scattered over the bleachers, heads bent together in clusters of two and three, and blend in when they left. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It contained the same cluster of small dwellings along a single rough road with but one or two structures larger than the rest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear moved among the clusters of people, learning bits and pieces as he listened. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The houses were adobe and clustered together and like Jorge said, the village was small. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That was certainly the truth, for all along the bleak shore and clustered on the rocks for as far as anyone could see were enormous crowds of people, all sadly looking out to sea. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She pushed my hand away from a cluster of pox. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Through a clearing in the swirling mass, a cluster of stars could be seen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When they reached the bottom, they found themselves in a low stone room with a loud, stinking crowd of people clustered in the center. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Whether the sperm cell will reach and penetrate the egg depends upon its own supply of ATP, generated in the mitochondria thickly clustered in the neck of the cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She usually avoided the monster, but now she sent a cluster of her moths winging nearer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He could see campfires burning in groups and clusters, like little cities sparkling in the mist, far, far off toward the blue hills to the east. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At recess, kids clustered up to eat their lunches, some of them chattering away in funny words I couldn’t understand. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z A seventeenth- century globe as big around as a small car, with rubies to mark volcanoes, sapphires clustered at the poles, and diamonds for world capitals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A few clusters of kids are shouting and laughing and an older woman at the front keeps talking to the driver. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z On the stairs leading to the gallery nearly twenty small boys were clustered, shoulder to shoulder, and the solid ranks undulated with the constant jerking of restless elbows straining under tight woolen jackets. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He did not see how so many flies, more than a hundred fat greenish flies, could have come in through that crack to buzz together in a dense turbulent cluster. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She smiled at the cluster of teenage boys who were horsing around in the shallow end. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Luke approached the fire, bowed his head, and tossed in a cluster of fat red grapes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Lee could see many wounded, wagons under trees, clusters of men drifting back through a field to the right. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a cluster of lights ahead of us, some just pinpricks, like flashlights, and others round, like headlights. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was a Friday night, and guys clustered on the street corner, talking loudly. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In the near distance, beyond the fields, he could see a cluster of houses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One evening I stopped by and found my father alone, my mother having gone home for the night, the nurses clustered outside at their hallway station. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They clustered around Boots eagerly, waving their antennas in the air and shuddering in delight. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The altar was adorned with thick, fragrant clusters of flowers illuminated by the slender white stemmed candles that burned from six candelabra. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Groups of vets stood in clusters or sat in circles on the grass, talking quietly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Then more boxes next to it—a cluster of buildings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s this cluster of boulders in the middle of the west woods that, if you look at it just the right way, looks like a huge fist sticking out of the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It didn’t take long to find it; the little town was clustered around the harbor, with the oratory and the governor’s house the only buildings of any size. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On her right forearm, she had a cluster of pink and orange flowers that looked like balls of tiny petals. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Ekon didn’t give her another chance to speak before he turned and headed behind a cluster of trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The clusters of kids swarmed Kylie and the others, wishing them good luck and offering up blankets and bags of food. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He turned to look with strangely guilty eyes at Jackson, who came marching toward him through the little clusters of students, all of whom flattened themselves against the walls to let him pass. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z One day it’s a cluster of rare magnesium hydroxy carbonate; the next it’s a star sapphire that will set a man’s hand on fire if he touches it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They're even clustered outside Jack's house in one image, which backs up what he's been saying. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Bears clustered at the battlements, white faces filled every window, and their heavy forms stood like a dense wall of misty white ahead, marked with the black dots of eyes and noses. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I can see Johanna beginning to believe him, thinking of the small cluster of people she has gathered to the Allegiant cause. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Along the winding hallway, near the door we had entered, I passed several clusters of students who stared at me, whispered obscenities, and pointed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to be taking the faster route across a cluster of gargoyles. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We sat in the waiting area, a small room with a cluster of wooden chairs. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The cluster of kids surged forward with a unified wail, hundreds of hands straining forward. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Sharp stars pierced singly through the blackness, not sweeps of them or clusters or Milky Ways as there might have been in the South, but single, chilled points of light, as unromantic as knife blades. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the thud of my heart against the hollow bowl of my stomach that made me eat a cluster of dandelion weeds grown to waist height. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As we approached behind them, we could see only the clusters of white people that stretched for a distance of two blocks along the entire span of the school building. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A short trail led through a cluster of cabbage palms towards the front door, where my father’s wife was waiting. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Our house is the closest one to the cluster stop. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Soldiers rush to them, cuffing their arms behind their backs, forcing them together into clusters. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z As we made our way down the dirt path later that day, he called to us from a cluster of boulders by the side of the road. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z They worked their way through the dining area, lifting tablecloths and peering under chairs, scrutinizing wall hangings and the small clusters of carnations on every table. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z And now, as though at a signal from the leader, all the other sharks came swimming in toward the peach, and they clustered around it and began to attack it furiously. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z They walk under a cluster of trees which, only hours ago, housed the livelihoods of food hawkers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Shoe stores with windows chock-full of the latest fashions, with people clustered on the sidewalks peering in to see what’s new. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that my eyes have adjusted to the light, I can see that the plants in this room were selected for beauty, not practicality—flowers and ivy and clusters of purple or red leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z At the corner, a cluster of little children played catch with a rag ball. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I see a rolled-up newspaper, a collection of picture books I read when I was little, a bin filled with Christmas lights in tangled clusters. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the front window stood something that looked like a machine gun with a cluster of barrels. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z School, a cluster of buildings readily viewed on satellite photographs, was about a seven-minute walk from Shin’s house. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The cluster of men on the steps smiled, grabbed the pastor’s hand, and gave it two-handed shakes, saying, “Hey Reverend, you brought a friend?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Men and women are seated in clusters throughout the space; many of them look tense, worried. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A globular cluster of stars, orbiting the galactic core. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The route out of the city is bumpy and winding, especially as the driver takes sudden turns to avoid broken buildings or unknown groups clustered on the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I reach the security box at the same time as I see Hideo’s bodyguards clustered around the area. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of compass, a thin red circle in the water. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Their heads were clustered with curly globes no larger than pebbles and the color of the sun when it rises. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z We looked all around, at the beach and the cluster of stores down the way and the trees and bushes behind us climbing up the steep cliff. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Quiet nuns clustered quietly around their Reverend Mother, who never read their letters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She passed young saplings clustering around the bases of the tallest trees like children surrounding their mother. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Brown picnic tables ran in neat rows along the asphalt, and people lined up at buffet tables with their paper plates, each collecting a pile of food from the cluster of stalls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A cluster of people crowded next to the boat, staring down at him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Chi-Boy would be waiting for her just past the first cluster of birch. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z At one comer of the pen, just outside the fence, clusters of little shapes lay on the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I could see small clusters of soldiers sitting around. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Six blond boys all speaking Fjerdan, clustered on a cliff above the shore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the evening the murky shape of another coastal city, the cluster of tall buildings vaguely askew. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Glass cabinets contain beauty-scopes—tiny brass kaleidoscopes clustered by season and year—featuring images of the kingdom's best and brightest courtiers, taken by the Orléans press corps. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “It looks like an archipelago: lots of islands clustered together, almost holding hands.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A cluster of stretch limos lowered over a distant building. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Serafina Pekkala looked over Lyra’s head to where the Specters were obviously clustering a little way off, and then looked at Will. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then all three of the Gustano kids clustered around the phone, screaming into it, “Mom! Mom! We got away from the kidnappers!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Richard remembered how dejected it had looked when Kainene bought it—half-finished with layers of green mold on the unpainted walls—how the flies and bees clustered over the fallen cashews had nauseated him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On the south side of the office building, the stairsteps of a tiered grass field led down to an outside amphitheater and the cluster of classroom buildings that made up the campus. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In the middle of the puffy cloud, there is a cluster of black round seeds like pepper. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An elegant dome punctuated the cluster of official-looking buildings in downtown Brooklyn, and there was the wide stretch of Flatbush Avenue that ran from the ferry terminal up to the top of Dactyl Hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The residential campus, which took kids who had no place else to go, had small houses clustered around dismal, sun-parched lawns. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The slaves, when they heard this, clustered close about him and embraced him; and he embraced them, and none could forbear weeping. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Black seeds spill like clusters of eyes, wet and crying. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Finally, almost trotting in anticipation, they walked down the hill, past the first few houses clustered near the road, and directly to the gate of the fort, about a half mile ahead. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There were patterns in the way people moved, the way they clustered around power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Gray Horse, in the western part of the territory, consisted of little more than a cluster of newly built lodges, and it was here where Lizzie and Ne-kah-e-se-y, who married in 1874, settled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They crouched together in a cluster as far away as the enclosure would permit. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She and Nico dropped onto a large birdcage, which promptly broke, dumping them into a cluster of potted ferns along with three very alarmed parrots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He and the two harpy drivers swerved away, weaving around clusters of idle cars that littered the road. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A thrush, too, went about his business, and two stout little wag-tails, following one another, and a little cluster of twittering sparrows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The area had a cluster of snack stands. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Every Saturday during the winter, when the opera was broadcast, they would sit clustered around the radio in the newsstand, straining to hear the music above the din of the subway station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought for sure I was going to have to hold him back as we came closer to the cluster of boys, but his fury seemed to fall away from him with each step. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The group of men clustered on the front steps did not look like angels, but they could have been in disguise. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z At midday we saw a cluster of huts ahead and raced each other toward them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He watched the other men at the party bow, too, clustering around Chief, jostling to outlaugh one another when Chief made a joke. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z People who once held family fortresses against wind and weather, against scourges of frost and drought and insect enemies, now cluster against the busy breast of the big town. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When we came out of the stall, a cluster of girls in the Senior Division were standing by the sinks, watching us, arms folded, a few still in their dripping swimsuits. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I find the Liars clustered in Mirren’s bedroom, all looking at the Bible. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Carefully she maneuvered between the clusters of well-dressed people, trying hard not to catch attention. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z On the backstretch, a slender, jagged avenue through a cluster of horses opened before him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Petra Cotes had seen them die in clusters and she was able to butcher only those stuck in the mud. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For centuries in Europe, they had been forbidden to own land, so they had clustered in cities and towns, taking up urban trades and professions. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She was camouflaged in thick mud and clusters of wildflowers. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The landscape glowed under the moon: wide, bare hills with occasional little gullies, where streams trickled down among the trees that clustered there. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Burned into the wood was a cluster of grapes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As we pull up to the gate, reporters and fans cluster on the sidewalks, flying little drones in the sky to take as much video as they can. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes stars move together in a group or cluster; other times a single star may move very rapidly with respect to its fellows. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tobias lifts a hand and points at a cluster of buildings, so far away they are the size of a fingernail. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I spot a cluster of berry bushes and hurry to strip the fruit, to suck the sweet juices from the skins. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Harry said to the elves, who had all clustered around the door to say good night. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Wearing starched blouses, armpits stained with sweat, they cluster in tight groups of two or three along the length of the pool. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Making words in Arabic is like planting a field with seeds, growing an orchard—words hang on the vines like grape clusters, leaves throw shadows of meanings to the ground. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He was barely aware of Jorge’s departure, but the instant the door closed the boys scrambled off their beds and clustered around Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bundles of orange or red fruit hang like clusters of bocce balls from the base of the fronds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I walked by the side of the Mill Pond, which smelled of rotting weeds and fish, gulls clustering above it, screeching at the sea-winds, their cries punctuated by the detonation of artillery. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Ms. Lanford was standing at the board, chewing the last bit of her lunch, as we all filed in and took our seats in our assigned-group clusters. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The main building, which stood in a cluster of pines on high ground, seemed to lean heavily to one side, like a cripple, the roof sagging toward Canada. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before World War I, Harlow Shapley of Missouri devised a technique for measuring the distances to the globular clusters, those lovely spherical arrays of stars which resemble a swarm of bees. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lily of the valley bore clusters of brightest red; but the false lily of the valley in the woods had berries that were speckled with brown. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He stopped the honey wagon beside a cluster of twenty hives tucked in a thicket of trees, where the bees could have shade in the summer and shelter from the wind through the winter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We've come around the corner again, and the cluster of Stingers is gone. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A cluster of tourists on motorized, standing scooters approached. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We all moved closer together in an almost protective cluster, looking out now as one. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Almost there,” Marco says as they maneuver their way around a cluster of people grouped in a broken circle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then they realized what was going on and came back up to huddle around him in an official-looking cluster. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Other clusters with a far more disordered geometry have, comparatively, many more spirals and irregulars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Satiated, the dark bird rises and joins a rolling cluster of rain clouds in the northern sky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They circled each other playfully before settling to the right among a cluster of smaller stars, forming a new constellation just below Ursa Major—woman and her two children, forever reunited in the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Eventually, sighting on the small cluster of garish mercury vapor lamps in town, Herbie made it to Rael’s store, and from there he knew the way home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually it was not a lodge at all, just eight or nine tiny yellow cabins clustered on a peninsula that jutted northward into the Rainy River. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Of smallfolk and commoners, she saw no sign, but under the gallery a cluster of lords great and small milled restlessly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Shapley discovered that the globular clusters were not centered around the solar neighborhood but rather about a distant region of the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dauntless mill around the glass room, talking in clusters. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Well, it wasn’t a knife, but clustered together like that, the jagged points of the broken pins could do some damage. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I dropped my bag onto the bench by the field and walked over to a cluster of soccer balls. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z El Jefe’s two-story concrete house sat on top of the mountain above a cluster of little palm huts that seemed to be barely holding on to the cliff. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we arrive at the far end of the enormous room, stopping before a cluster of elegant blue velvet chairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody was playing loud music from a gramophone; soon, a cluster of men by the compound gate began to laugh and jostle one another, mimicking the song. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He studied the leaves clustered beneath his feet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Small clusters of men huddled around tables, waiting for someone to speak. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The walls are painted in flam-boyant colors: hibiscus pink, lilac, pistachio, and are crowded with clusters of paintings and drawings and photographs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The creak of their wheels joined the calls of the pushcart vendors clustered along the curb. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Overhead, moths clustered on the ceiling beam like a branch in dark bloom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She turned around and walked back to the group of older people clustered about Consuelo. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It is a huge old farmhouse, that has had so many add-ons it looks like a cluster of second thoughts. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z When a Turk calls out our family name, we cluster around. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I don’t find any more on my legs, but as I gaze at my arms, I see a little cluster of them by my elbow, like white freckles. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Complex clusters of stone buildings, so tall and imposing they looked like gods rising out of the water, reached for the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Half a dozen Thenns in bronze scale armor stood clustered round one cellar stair, watching sullenly and making no attempt to join the others. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pigeons all clustered up on a ledge clucking away like only pigeons can, but the noise continued even after I opened my eyes in the darkness of night. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of figures round something lying on the ground; a few seemed to be darting this way and that, bent like dogs on a trail. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Jacob, look at that!” he cried, pointing to a cluster of airborne specks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I came over to tell you there are a cluster of reporters and radio hosts from various places over there.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Jenny made her way over to where her dogs were clustered. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Madu placed his glass of beer down; water droplets clustered on it like tiny see-through pebbles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Let’s go inside and have some tea and honey clusters,” she said. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Ms. Albright finally shuts it down, and everyone streams out of the auditorium, grabbing backpacks on the way—but Simon, Nick, and Abby wait in a cluster near the orchestra pit. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Was there so much paper in a school that the molecules eventually clustered and fell like precipitation? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z A cluster of the CIA's top officials waited for Yurchenko on the tarmac. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She pointed to another spot, bordered by a large cluster of trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She chose the smallest piece she could find on the edge of the cluster. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I saw that we were joining other clusters of people, as ghostly and stunned as we were. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The eight teams clustered around their carts to size up their thirty-six titles. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Headlines cluster and flash across the parchment, announcing Princess Sophia's upcoming engagement, and the latest imperial beauty laws to be passed by the queen and the Beauty Minister. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z His very name meant “killer grass” because he was able to disguise himself as a cluster of reeds in the fields, allowing him to ambush his prey. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Yishan, however, pretended not to notice, and was just about to suggest changing direction when an outpouring of people began to cluster into view. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Cement houses with wrought iron porch railings and flowery gardens were clustered behind the businesses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z And then, of course, he’d play speed games for an additional five or more hours with the Collins cluster or at one of the clubs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I used to think that boy was nuttier than a honey cluster.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was an overcast autumn afternoon, and there was no one about except for a group of donors clustered under the overhanging roof of the recreation building. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked out a pair of clustered pearl earrings with padded back clasps, clipping first one and then the other to her low-hanging lobes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She saw ruins—a few crumbling walls, a single column, a stone floor covered with moss and dead vines—all clustered on a grassy hillside dotted with pine trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The lawn outside the American embassy in Islamabad was neatly mowed, dotted with circular clusters of flowers, bordered by razor-straight hedges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the girls left the truck to cluster around us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He walked down the broken blocks past clusters of abandoned buildings, the glass from shattered windows on the sidewalk, junkies on the steps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The other children clustered round him, their eyes popping. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When I looked up, the hens were clustered near the door, squawking to get out. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z She bought tiger root from Jamaica to scrape, a cluster of indigo, translucent crimson seeds, and lastly, a tiny burlap pouch of herbs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Not far outside the Galaxy there are almost certainly planets, orbiting stars in the Magellanic Clouds and in the globular clusters that surround the Milky Way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles—2 per cent of the planet’s surface. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Save the peregrine falcons!” a cluster of nearby kids echoed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z From the hounds neck sprouted a cluster of arrows. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Following tradition, most of New Jersey’s fencing programs were clustered in wealthy neighborhoods or private schools. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The petitioners clustered near the tall doors, the knights and high lords and ladies beneath the tapestries, the smallfolk in the gallery, the mailed guards in their cloaks, gold or grey: all stood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The steeple jutted through a cluster of shade trees; below, the red bricks looked shadowy and cool. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z According to August, if you’ve never seen a cluster of beehives first thing in the morning, you’ve missed the eighth wonder of the world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Right where the banks of the Congo turned marshy and indistinct, a cluster of pirogues appeared. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The doctor never came to the cluster of brush houses. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z But there is a continuous gradation from triple systems through loose clusters of a few dozen stars to the great globular clusters, resplendent with a million suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the bees started to move in clusters, walking and flying, something occurred to Finn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Our new girl,” said Captain Fleery to the other messengers, a cluster of nine people who smiled and nodded at Lina. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All the same people clustering together and talking about the same things. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The cluster of low hills appeared to be uninhabited apart from one small cottage, which seemed deserted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Far down at the bottom shone a cluster of lights. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses; tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of fans have figured out where to wait, though, and as several of us step outside, they raise their posters and scream at us, holding out pens and booklets. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside were three packages, wrapped up in white tissue paper, and clustered together in a tender, intimate way like eggs in a nest. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We find a tree and cluster close together. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She skipped past a cluster of football boys without so much as a glance. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He went out the sliding door behind my seat and made a beeline for the small cluster of silver water fountains that stood between him and the restroom entrances. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Second, there is the Hamiltonian confidence that the concentration of political and economic power was a dynamic force; it was not a threatening cluster of invasive corruption, but a synergistic fusion of developmental energies. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She looks over at the cluster of adults in the corner. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My scowling friend was nowhere to be seen, but a cluster of folk were gathered around the bar, excitedly discussing something they saw there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The top is shaved off and a television relay station lunges at the sky and feeds a ner-vous picture to thousands of tiny houses clustered like aphids beside the roads. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time, a dozen or more children were clustered around her table, their daemons as desperate to know as they were, all wide-eyed and tense. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The three remaining Richardson children clustered together in the doorway between the living room and the kitchen, so close their shoulders nearly touched. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now they’re clustered outside in a haphazard line, waiting for the security to let them in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was back in the small cluster of rafts and blankets that Liam and his friend had set up the last time he was here. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes down the glacier from our tents, their camp was clustered atop a hump of glacial debris. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There was a cluster of men, all smoking pipes, gathered around an exhibit in a glass case that gleamed in the dim light and lit their faces ghoulishly from below. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The slender branches went up about twenty feet and were heavy, drooping with clusters of bright red berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed the elves’ nursery, where clusters of small hammocks hung from trees like bunches of grapes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In one of the woodworking classrooms, where a group of older boys were making benches under a teachers supervision, they clustered around us, eyeing me curiously. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He hooked his foot in the loop on his rock and his hands worked quickly, tearing the oysters loose, some singly, others in clusters. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Sticky pointed several yards off the path toward a lush green bed of ivy—or something like ivy—covering the ground near a cluster of boulders. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Bod was aware of the dead clustered around them, watching the scene, but he forced himself to ignore them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Professor Grubbly-Plank’s voice carried over to the boys; the girls were all clustered around the unicorn now, stroking it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It grew from a sliver of her tumor, which was a cluster of cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Thatched roofs clustered along the shore of the lake and the small stream that emptied into it, and a wooden pier jutted out into the water beside a low long building with a slate roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The gravity of relativity theory was brilliant at explaining why planets orbited suns or why galaxies tended to cluster, but turned out to have no influence at all at the particle level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was an elegant, or at least harmonious, cluster of yellow stucco houses with red roofs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then the children clustered around to say goodbye. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Vegetation clustered thickly on both banks, and the light that came from the tree lanterns was fading quickly the further away they got, so that almost everything ahead was dark. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Jule wandered away from the lookout to the Aquinnah shops, a cluster of small ventures selling souvenirs, Wampanoag crafts, and snacks. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Near the window was an array of violently pink products around which a cluster of excited girls was giggling enthusiastically. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The others were clustered together at the rails, pointing into the black emptiness beyond the ship. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The ceiling extends far above my head, the light cast down by a cluster of those same electric lamps, conspicuous in their constant glow. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They clung together, and the ghosts clustered around, whispering comfort, blessing the harpy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There's another cluster of runners, faces flushed in this warmer-than-usual weather, coming up the avenue. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A group of policemen were clustered around a guava tree. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It sounded lovely, the name of that Ghanaian town, and she imagined a sleepy cluster of homes on stretches of sweet-scented grasslands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The glittering robots clustered fifty feet down the main stem. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Like a greedy child gorging on clusters of grapes, the Angel of Death tore all of the beauty and dignity from a person and left behind a terrible, dripping mess. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It is a sparse and obscure and unpretentious cluster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In one, a young boy is cutting down a cluster of palm fruits with a silver cleaver. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If perhaps it was a secret hour in which men rose like giants from dragon’s teeth and, while the women slept, clustered in their kitchens. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, that last paragraph ended with a cluster of punctuation marks I have never seen together—in that order—in my life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the decades and centuries to come, there would often be fierce debate as to what constituted an appropriate combination of notes, or what cluster was beautiful, or ugly, or seductive, or discordant. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The ladies clustered around Mom and she held court. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The rosebush clusters bloomed joyously, their blushing white crowns illuminating the darkness we had endured for so long. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I don’t like walking past them when they cluster around lockers together. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z These people seem to be living together, clustered in small, dense villages, but they are really solitary, unrelated individuals with no evident use for each other. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But this road had a name, Overview Circle, and a bunch of mailboxes clustered at its beginning. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Sefia cursed again and crept forward, through the clusters of barrels and old nets and other miscellaneous cargo waiting to be loaded. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Sleepy, darkened clusters of houses had given way to empty stretches of wilderness that had become winding streets, and then they were trudging up, up, up a long hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z My soul wandered over the dark plain until it came to a cluster of adobe huts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The clusters of New York students and artisans paid them no mind as they made their way through Washington Square Park. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We just took another run in from the cluster stop. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The garment factory is a sprawling cluster of seven large buildings, all of which are visible on satellite photographs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Even earthworms make sounds, faint staccato notes in regular clusters. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Flaming brands appeared over the brink and clustered thickly at the breach. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z An explosion goes off, perilously close to a cluster of dry-looking leaves and branches. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Passing stray dogs as I do clusters of garbage. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Kaz’s mind stuttered and reeled, trying to explain what he was seeing as a cluster of mist became a cloak, boots, the pale flash of a face. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Failing that, if contact was absolutely necessary, a series of thumb jabs to the nerve cluster at the base of the neck would be his chosen modus operandi—quiet as a whisper. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The camp is set low in a valley, a vast spread of tents in endless rows and clusters. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Some were trying to speak, and they clustered around her feet and even tried to pluck at her leggings, though the taboo held them back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to him very likely that the globular clusters used in this investigation, nearly a hundred of them, would be orbiting about, paying homage to, the massive center of the Milky Way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You could see the streets tilting skyward and the houses scattered over them like varicolored beads, and the brightest cluster of beads was the Tang people s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees clustered so close and thick that he could hardly force his way between them, and when he did, the leaves scratched his hands and his head; but this was a relief. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But there was nothing to be seen but clustering bushes and water weeds and low-hanging boughs of yew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The imps had fanned out, several clustering near the door to prevent escape. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A cluster of kids called out to him from where they were setting up lunch near the fire pit and, ever the president’s son, he smiled and waved at them real pretty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She didn’t say anything, but I saw the peak of her tent collapse from the cluster where it had stood like a circus pulling up for the next town. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z There were two unripped dots: one looked like Los Angeles, although there were a bunch of towns clustered so close together in Southern California that the type overlapped. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z For two days the track was underwater, stranding a cluster of grooms and loose horses atop a spit of land. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The pearl buyers’ offices were clustered together in one narrow street, and they were barred at the windows, and wooden slats cut out the light so that only a soft gloom entered the offices. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I wish you were here to take my picture! Aaaaah! I always thought Broadway was just a cluster of the greatest theaters on the planet. It’s an actual streeeeeet!” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z We stood in a cluster, on the steps outside the library. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The new cluster is a memory, nothing less. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We cluster in family groups, but we tend, unpredictably, to turn on each other and fight as if we were different species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to her were a cluster of egg-shaped ovals and smaller water monsters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They were surprised to see a knot of people, many in dark blue police windbreakers, clustered outside their apartment door. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Genie ran his finger over the fabric, hitting a cluster of little bumps, like the shirt had invisible goose pimples. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z If you could magnify this Manhattan and if it were full of viruses, you would see little figures clustered like the lunch crowd on Fifth Avenue. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of children sat on the pavement, playing some sort of game. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a cluster of old women, and they startled and skittered back from the bedside, clinging together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He, too, stared at the prisoner, and observed that a cluster of veins had appeared in his left temple. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z So I sighed, resigned, as Mr. Jordan started sorting us into new clusters. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Clumps and clusters of birds in flight were questing back and forth, black dots against the blue sky, moving in some kind of desperate Brownian motion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The cake is on its own table, the little cousins clustered around it, arguing over who will get what slice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The Virgo cluster is already the richest collection of galaxies known, replete with spirals and ellipticals and irregulars, a jewel box in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Kids would break off and cluster into their cliques and groups. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I press myself down against a thick cluster of roots, camouflaging myself as I’ve been taught. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The other holds pale pink and white blooms in starry clusters—mountain laurel. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The city is lit up with icons, the symbols clustering in the areas where the most people have gathered. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The track snaked uphill and led to a flat field where poplars and cottonwoods soared and wild bushes grew in clusters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And when they weren’t fighting in the schoolyard, they were gathered in clusters, hatching their next attack. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Tourists always clogging up the streets, I think as a detour forces me down a path right into Times Square, where I get stuck behind a cluster of auto-taxis jammed at a pedestrian walkway. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Little clusters had formed around the wounded left by the last Stuka attack. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He would have a cluster of people riveted, often on odd subjects you never would think of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra herself lived in the royal district called the Bruchion, a cluster of palaces overlooking the Mediterranean Sea on the northeast side of the city. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z This decision was not made any easier by the lingering agony buzzing around its shaggy head, or the cluster of bullets lodged in the fatty chest tissue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z At last Nhamo spotted a cluster of huts set back from the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Seen from a distance, clustered densely around the white plastic box containing the long serpentine lines of army ants, turning to each other and murmuring repetitively, they seem an absolute marvel. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A state police car with the red light flashing bounced frenziedly off the highway, swung around the cluster of rattletrap vehicles, and screeched to a stop with its nose practically touching the front door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys let their eyes shift vagrantly over to Bernabe, and they gave him a cluster of cool, sleepy-eyed glances that almost made him shiver. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kids with feathered ’80s hairstyles were clustered around each of the games. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The hardest thing for Rusakov to understand was why the new particle seemed to cluster where human beings were, as if it were attracted to us. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I loved my view, holed up in the woodsy Y of our pecan tree’s branches surrounded by nothing but pointed green leaves and pecan clusters still shelled in green husks. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z More people joined them—people who had been walking alone or in little clusters of two or three. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But what of the other little animals, similarly established in my cells, sorting and balancing me, clustering me together? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dim light from a very low-powered anbaric bulb over the doorway she saw three other girls clustered around her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As they hurried along, other children gathered from all directions and clustered in front of the community house. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Courtiers filled the gallery while supplicants clustered near the towering oak-and-bronze doors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sedulously, he had once avoided the clusters of boys who haunted the locker rooms with their salient, knowledgeable talk in which his finely honed sense of morality denied him participation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Along River Street a harsh silence prevailed as white men clustered in doorways and nodded their heads ruefully, then looked toward the street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was the cluster of covered stalls in the center of the square that drew the crowds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A cold chill went up my spine, so solemnly was the statement made and confirmed by the cluster of huge, muscled boys standing outside my door. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And after Finn had eaten more honey clusters than was lawful in the state of Illinois, Mel packed an extra tin for Sean, along with a large jar of honey, in a brown shopping bag. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But now, plump red tomatoes grew fatter every day, yellow flowers turned into bright green zucchini, and pole beans hung in clusters from vines that snaked up twine to form leafy tepees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When I looked at her again, she was gazing at something on the ground, and I noticed for the first time how tiny lines had clustered around her eyes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Through the windows, I see the dark outline of grape clusters of basketballs, stacks of pointed traffic cones, and a rack of hockey sticks. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And a few minutes later, she marched through a cluster of chickens hunting bugs in the grass. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They joined Mel Willis’s honey clusters and piles of sandwiches and vats of chili and dozens of bean and tuna and macaroni casseroles on the counter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A moment later we all came up in a cluster, panting for air. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z At one of these ends there was an enormous camera on wheels, and a whole army of Oompa-Loompas was clustering around it, oiling its joints and adjusting its knobs and polishing its great glass lens. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z All I could see were pink and red hearts hanging from crepe-paper chains, clusters of girls and boys and a few kids dancing in the center, and Principal Myers manning the record player. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The other new Twelves clustered nearby, placing their folders carefully into the carrying containers on the backs of the bikes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z That’s when I noticed that just beyond the glass panels in the upper part of the door that led to the office clusters of students stood glaring at us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly Barrow appeared below, its houses huddled against the ice-piled shore like a cluster of lonely birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Although they did not grow in clusters, there were many of them and they were easy to pick and Brian smiled and started eating. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of people jams the steps leading up to our apartment complex. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Already it had put forth young leaves long and shapely, dark above and silver beneath, and upon its slender crown it bore one small cluster of flowers whose white petals shone like the sunlit snow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Presently, site came to a cluster of huts in a clearing: fine huts that looked as though they had been built yesterday. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The others were clustered together beneath the shade tree, children and animals together. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He was staring at a shrub of silver-veined leaves clustered near the roots of a nearby tree. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She squinted and just made out clusters of well-dressed people congregating on its beautiful front lawns. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "We didn't see nothing," Tariq repeated, the rest of us clustered behind him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Until recently, Nailer had mostly thought of her just as a rich girl who bought the muscle she needed, but here was something else, this clustered tribe of weaponry and purpose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It separates the protestors from a cluster of officers in riot gear. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z In places the grass was gone altogether and everywhere there were clusters of dry droppings, through which nothing but the ragwort would grow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We clustered around the trunk, speaking in whispers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A whitecap tossed us beyond a cluster of rafts, most of them empty. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He looked out at the burial parties and the lights beginning to come on across die field like clusters of carrion fireflies. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jeremy stops the car at the entrance to our cluster of buildings, and we get out. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z A shrieking chaotic mass of boys and girls ran down the sidewalk, jumped off the stairs, clustered in groups. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Rather than a single tent with rings enclosed within, this circus contains clusters of tents like pyramids, some large and others quite small. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Nali pointed to the stars above and called certain clusters by their Navajo names, while Nathan’s fire consumed the last bits of wood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They lay clustered in the low grass, dead or nearly so. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z One side proposes that Monte Alban formed because maize agriculture allowed the Oaxaca Valley’s population to grow so much that the rural villages naturally clustered into something resembling cities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They clustered around the car as I sagged onto the bench seat. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The participants clustered around it, the simple Hart Street church in the background. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Beside them, a parade ground stretched for two miles until it stopped at a cluster of buildings that Ben could barely identify as the PX and commissary. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It pained my insides to see, once again, the twisted, scowling white faces with open mouths jeering, clustered about my friend’s head like bouquets of grotesque flowers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the township, in every street I went, I saw grown-ups assembled in clusters to read the papers and to whisper about its dark and dastardly contents. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth stepped around random bristles sharp enough to impale her foot, and clusters of...well, not rocks exactly. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was decorated with a Purple Heart and a Silver Star and a Bronze Star with two clusters. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Obiora and Chima squatted to watch the children playing on the floor, clustered around the plastic Ludo board and rolling dice. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Those loyal Dauntless gathered in the lobby and split into four groups that stormed the stairwells simultaneously, surrounding the Dauntless traitors, who had clustered around the elevator banks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z When we get to the cluster stop nothing happens. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z If the Hercules Cluster is not flying apart, there must be five times more mass there, gravitationally gluing the cluster together, than we see in its galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a long wooden piece with a cluster of threads dangling from the end. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The hunting trail began where they’d said, between an abandoned haircutter’s hut and a cluster of charred bed frames marking a looted furniture shop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He rubbed at a cluster of mosquito bites on his arm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I was taking in the sweep of scenery, the narrow, zigzagging paths winding through clusters of trees, connecting one brick mansion to another. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z People are clustering ten deep around it, waiting for a turn to press close to the glass that protects it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Just a few markings clustered together, like the footprints of a sandpiper that has abruptly taken flight. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Ash and birch trees clustered on either side of the road, and birds flitted on the branches and twittered at Anya as she passed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They were usually nothing but a tiny cluster of sad, sunken shacks, a gas station, a dry-goods store, and a bar or two. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I reached across her and turned to a map of Greece, even more clustered with spirals and numbers. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Two Step and Magdalys ran side by side across the rooftop toward the dark cluster of shapes at the other end. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The soldiers clustered in the middle of the floor, backs together, rifles bristling out like porcupine quills. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Tiny clusters of beauty-lanterns drift over the princess like night stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The clusters of girlfriend groups where I would have fallen in with Frieda, Lucy, and whoever they stood with were dotted with the Jameses. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Walter had told me I would know I was close when I passed a cluster of liquor stores on the county line between Conecuh and Monroe counties. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They joined the cluster of lecturers standing by the statue of a lion; Olanna had disappeared. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As we approach the exit gate, a cluster of people rush forward near the ticket booth and flash cameras at us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The children whimper like wounded dogs and cluster Together for comfort. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The dog was mangy; his exhausted eyes ran with a sea-green matter around which gnats and flies clustered. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The cluster of cities and hamlets around the harbor of Hampton Roads—Newport News and Hampton to the north, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach to the south—boiled over with in-migrants. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Such a cluster of notes, known to us as a chord, did not even have a name at this time, so novel was its concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When I came back up the road, Mr. Dubonnet and Tom were inspecting the rocket with the other boys clustered around him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was long and black, and she was dressed in black too, or partially dressed, because she seemed to be wearing clustered ribbons of black silk and very little else. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Three of you stick around,” the woman says to the Dauntless guards clustered by the entrance. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She was wending through a cluster of stiff reeds when she disturbed its rest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Not a blade of grass in the small front yard, but rather barrel and prickly pear cacti and clusters of stones. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z But the sound had come from a cluster of women near the butcher’s. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were hidden behind a heavy cluster of huisache trees. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The stems twist and intertwine, the branches cluster with red berries, purple flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Seven couldn’t help but look over at the House Hyacinth witches standing in a cluster and laughing at her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A group of about a dozen clustered together, all wearing long, dingy gray cloaks with hoods that hid their faces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Fifty press reporters, photographers and television cameramen clustered beneath religious murals to the rear of the altar, and some stood on chairs to see better. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I watch as Mr. Redfern introduces Katherine and the Misses Duncan and Anderson to a group of women clustered together like a group of chattering hens, their broad chests puffed out in self-importance. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Finally, after threading her way through a cluster of rocks surrounded by foam, she came again to an endless stretch of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Three women appeared from around a nearby hedge, clustered in conversation. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A hulking tiger stepped toward a cluster of demons, and its roar sent them scurrying behind Nergal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Its chief village was Bucklebury, clustering in the banks and slopes behind Brandy Hall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was not Tom; it was only a running shape with a face like silver shining in the light of the globes clustered about the plaza. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They crossed the dark fields, startling up an old white horse and some cows, heading for a group of out buildings clustered together some distance from the farmhouse. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad came downstairs, let Lucifer and Daisy Mae out, and found us boys clustered around the set. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Not fifty feet away was a cluster of charred buildings that must have once been the Mauthen farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One by one, two by two, in small clusters, my ghost crew roams. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z On Wednesdays Calvin and I can get off at the cluster stop in peace and quiet. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Above the ceiling of the main waiting area was a cluster of secret apartments that had been built for the people who ran the train station years ago. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes in farmyards when the cows return well fed from pasture to the barn, one sees the pens give way before the calves in tumult, breaking through to cluster about their mothers, bumping together, bawling. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath it is a cluster of craggy rocks that almost feels like a cave. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Until a little after noon, when he hit a cluster of buildings that passed for a town square. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Soon we were crouched in a line behind a cluster of rock, taking stock of the newcomers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When I was little, Mom used to point out patterns in the subway stations, the petal-like clusters of white tiles, six around one black. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z A cluster of tourists on motorized, standing scooters approached. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The grass here was waist high with clusters of sleepy blooms nodding their heavy heads in the blue light. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When we're back on the sidewalk, Max points to a cluster of trees on the other side of the avenue. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I get a good look at some of the protesters as we pass the last monitor, the ones clustered together under the street lights. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z On summer nights, Shin and some of the other small boys in his village would sneak into the orchard just north of the cluster of concrete dwellings where they lived. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Aunty Uju’s condo was in a cluster of stucco buildings, the neighborhood carefully landscaped, boulders placed at corners, and in the evenings, friendly people walked their handsome dogs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Valley threw her hands out, and they shuffled back and behind a cluster of tall oaks. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Instead of dispersing, they coalesced into him, clustering in the folds of his ragged cloak, disappearing into his mouth, and flying around his head like a screaming halo. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There’s a cluster of people there under the lights. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We walked through the party not quite like a couple but still mostly together, drifting between clusters of colleagues, drinking beer and lemonade, eating hamburgers and potato salad from plastic plates. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For a lap and a half, he ran in the cluster of men, unable to get free, restraining his stride to avoid running into the man ahead. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Beyond it, he came to a cluster of offices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re ready,” Jet Stone Girl and Jet Stone Boy said, pointing to a cluster of stars in the northern sky. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The pamphlet-makers were still clustered around the remains of the Decoy Detonator, which continued to hoot feebly as it smoked. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Seen them clustered around the blood buyers when they came to inspect the yards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A little knot of men were clustered by the side of the line looking and pointing at something under the dining car. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He sliced off a long cluster of vines and laced them through one of his belt loops, trying to ignore the burning and itching in his hands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When the buckboard topped the rise Adam could look down on the little cluster of buildings which composed the Hamilton seat—a house with many lean-tos, a cow shed, a shop, and a wagon shed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They were looking down a broken, rugged slope toward a cluster of wooden buildings beside a wide stretch of snow as flat as could be, which Lyra took to be the frozen lake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Today, astronomers suspect that the universe is about 15 billion light-years across and peppered everywhere with clusters of galaxies. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He made his way to the cluster of overstuffed reading chairs. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Trees and houses appear, scattered on the slopes, clustered into villages and towns. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Barely a mile out into the plain it clustered like some huge nest of insects, with straight dreary streets of huts and long low drab buildings. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “When I whistle once,” Papa continued, “then you come quietly and quickly and run right in that one,” he pointed to a house in the middle of the cluster. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the middle, various stone buildings clustered around a central yard with a platform in the middle: the hanging gibbet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A cluster of low buildings straddles the highway. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Groups of unnamed avatars cluster here and there, deep in their own conversations. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They clustered against the walls and made low conversation. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This made him uncomfortable enough that finally, before he came to the many-eyed cluster of shops closest to his house, he stopped by the reservoir to put the top back up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The arriving students were milling about, some roaming at random, some in clusters, but as I approached, there seemed to be a distinct clearing around the palmetto. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z We would cluster in small groups, four or five men in a rough circle, and talk all day long, about every subject under the sun. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the stone galleries the people were gathered in clusters and groups filtering up into shadows among the blue hills. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Each cluster of girls excludes some other girls, but all boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They clustered around a bunk bed under a window, and Chacho put his ear to the wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We went across the street to this cluster of stores, bought more hot dogs and fruits and donuts, and this time Mong had us buy a bundle of wood instead of charcoal. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Then, if I am alone, I sit up and write on the cluster of notes above my bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z At the same time, I aim the Lightning power-up straight at where the Demons are clustered. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Although these settlements were permanent, winter and summer alike, they often were not tightly knit entities, with houses and fields in carefully demarcated clusters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So many of them clustered on the screen that their buzzing made her ears ring. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Considering the size of the crowd, we were a quiet group, gathered in clusters, speaking in hushed tones—almost like this really was a funeral. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Lengths of clouds became stringy clusters of gray. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A cluster of human beings behind us exploded with a bomb. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They worked their way through the dining area, lifting tablecloths and peering under chairs, scrutinizing wall hangings and the small clusters of carnations on every table. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The only signs that anything happened are the clusters of footprints all over the dirt. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z On these pines, the needles hung like pompoms in sparse clusters along lank branches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Globular clusters plunge through the galactic plane and out the other side, where they slow, reverse and hurtle back again. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearby was a cluster of men wearing mismatched uniforms, the greens, grays, and blues almost indistinguishable from my distance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They were clustered at the guardrail, looking down at Manhattan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In this agonizing fashion I climbed toward a cluster of tents reputed to be perched somewhere on the sheer face above, progressing in increments calibrated in inches. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Her other ninety-nine moths had flown off and were spinning through the city in clusters, searching for some hint of activity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Now the purple spread from horizon to horizon, and the stars that had clustered in the east were fading with the early light of the rising moon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A vodyanoi rose up, his green hair matted with algae, tiny black scales clustering here and there on his sickly green skin. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Beneath the water’s surface, a glowing purple cluster emerges from the core of the ferns. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Two dogs were fighting in a dirt driveway beside a cluster of trailers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The children clustering at the inner door scattered. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the front of the rank an authoritative cluster of state troopers and policemen marched ahead, heads bent, talking in low voices as a barking German shepherd dog circled around them at a trot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Grandpa was right—many clustered around the newly refilled birdbaths and fountains, admiring their reflections. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Coughing, I made my way inside, pushing through the throngs of men and boys, all clustered excitedly around the latest in threshers and plows. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Before I could protest, she grabbed my hand with her leather-gloved one and pulled me toward the bonfire, where most of the people were clustered. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Here and there houses were clustered near one another against small forests and wild, disorganized fields, but they were green—nothing was destroyed! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Rather ashamed that on my first appearance I had stayed so late, I joined the last of Gatsby's guests who were clustered around him. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They clustered around me, the air filled with their excited voices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z After dinner we were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks that had just been finished a day or so earlier—although finished was hardly the word for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The three other girls in my cluster were now staring blankly at me, looking possibly more confused by my existence than I’d expected. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The boats got off cleanly at the start and stayed clustered together for the first hundred yards. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Aunt Pearl sailed serenely past the nationalist rally, the three girls clustered around her like starched white tugboats escorting a blue cotton ocean liner. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond them were a cluster of tents and several large vehicles. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Other clusters run to immense hordes of thousands of galaxies in mutual gravitational embrace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I must’ve gotten thrown off by the endless geek rants about globular clusters orbiting galactic cores, rants that I see are being kept under wraps in present company. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The structures were clustered near the top of a small hill—another ancient mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Turned, the babies at once fell silent, then began to crawl towards those clusters of sleek colours, those shapes so gay and brilliant on the white pages. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Scattered on the grounds are clusters of small houses with sloped roofs. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Finally, she succeeded in going over the high fence, and disappeared behind a cluster of shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They reached a Rusty city around daybreak, a cluster of unremarkable buildings stranded on the sea of sand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She recognized the tall spikes of yarrow and its dense clustered blossoms; around them twined the flopping stems of coreopsis, above a carved base of that plant’s mounded dark and feathery leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their gravity drew to them substantial quantities of nearby gas, growing clouds of hydrogen and helium that were destined to become clusters of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The dusty road passed in front of the church, then past Tenorio’s Bar and into the cluster of mud houses with rusted tin roofs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Main Street continued westward between two mountains, leading to clusters of miners’ houses we called Middletown and Frog Level. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Kids in bright orange T-shirts like Grovers were chasing each other around a cluster of cabins nestled in the woods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Red starfish clustered on the rocks and the sea pulsed up and down against the barrier waiting to get in again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mulch felt a vibration cluster to his left. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I gathered my sisters and brothers, who clustered possessively around Jenny. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The car stole off the interstate, and past the cluster of motels to the north of Eagle Point. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z A cloud of officers had clustered by the small lighted door, looking in. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Upper Djerholm had no real center, but the bulk of its taverns, inns, and market stalls were clustered around the base of the hill leading to the Ice Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A shrieking chaotic mass of boys and girls ran down the sidewalk, jumped off the stairs, clustered in groups. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Look,” I say, pointing at a distant cluster of buildings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I walked through the clusters of people, trying to help where I could while also looking for supplies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Trembling, the woman fetched two more pots from the cluster at the cave entrance. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Moody and Izzy and Lexie clustered around her, and she saw how they must look to her mother, flushed and wide-eyed and curious. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Zero kept backing up, out past the cluster of holes the boys had been digging, then farther and farther out onto the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She saw clusters of cells packed with bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It has ancient Chinese sailing ships called junks, hundreds clustered together with thousands of people living in them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It wound into the cluster of houses around the church then kept going, following the river to El Puerto. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Because what greeted him was not a cluster of elfin knights dressed in griffin-riding gear. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I step onto the balcony and look out on the imperial carriages clustered down below. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z As he spoke, a cluster of people staggered out of the building. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In the cotton fields the wind blew idly among the snow clusters. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Without even discussing a direction, they all turned and started following Mrs. Childers and the other clusters of people. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She dropped it to the ground and searched for another cluster of figs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lord have mercy, have mercy, have mercy,” someone began to chant; and the old mourning women clustered of a sudden around Esther’s mother to hold her up. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I know there’s a cluster of trees with leaves that turn brilliant shades of yellow in the fall. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z When he spoke, he waved a paw in front of his mouth to dislodge the fries that clustered there. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was only when she turned to leave that she saw the cluster of black folk at the lip of the cemetery. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was breathtaking, seeing those animals clustered on the trees, their shimmering wings all fluttery. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “But the way they make it through the world is by sticking together. That’s why they stay flocking on the building edges in those big clusters.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Cottages clustered in the valleys below, and clear streams ran golden in the sunlight. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The hillsides were a patchwork of sand, green vegetation, and clusters of boulders stitched together by crisscrossing gravel paths. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The little boys are clustered around the new radio: a half-hour program called Kids’ Club. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z My mother says there used to be sparrows in the tamarind tree, heavy once with fat clusters of pods. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For four years now she had taken her “walks” and come home offering fuki tendrils, watercress, crawfish, mushrooms, huckleberries, salmonberries, blackberries—even clusters of blue elderberries for making jam—anything to conceal her purpose. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He finds a peanut butter cluster ball covered in shiny silver wrapping. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After thirty minutes of intense discussions, he came by our little cluster and asked us to recap what we’d talked about. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z When I got back to the house, I found the whole family clustered around a busted-open crate in the hallway. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the dream he had remembered his last glimpse of his mother, and within a few moments of waking the cluster of small events surrounding it had all come back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z About four-thirty Christmas Eve I hung a small red cluster of teaberries on the deerskin door. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of brawny men stood up near him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The same yellowed awards cluster the walls, the same books spill off the bookshelf, and the same old toys are heaped in the toy basket. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat around the Willises’ kitchen table, dunking the honey clusters into lemony-sweet tea. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She spotted individual marks recurring again and again on a single page, and found entire clusters replicated, sometimes ten or thirty times in perfect patterns. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Behind him, clusters of other players are already making their way down the paths toward their buildings. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Max hunches forward and tiptoes over to the half-circle work station where all the computers and chairs are clustered. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They smelled the food before they spotted a cluster of picnic benches set up around a bird-filled pond. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z In a few moments Kino could see them clustered in the haze, riding over the oyster bed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled over and ran toward the people clustered by the ditch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A cluster of mashis and meshos surround them, telling them continually what to do, when to speak or stand or throw flowers at a small brass urn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sweating in the equatorial sun, some of the researchers admiringly fingered the plump, pendulous green fruit, each the size of a baby’s head, wrapped in clusters around the trees’ sturdy trunks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Go over this room with a microscope,” he ordered the policemen clustered in the doorway. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, that boy’s nuttier than a honey cluster,” they might say. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z His cheek is bruised and a scabbing cut clusters at the corner of his lip. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The boys came out of the shell house shaken, trying to ignore a cluster of seniors and juniors smirking at them from the doorway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The bees were everywhere, hovering over the hydrangea and the myrtle spread across the lawn, the jasmine at the wood’s edge, the lemon balm clustered at the fence. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Daffodils clustered like bugle bands in front yards as the Beans Boys left school behind on a sunny, cloudless day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z A wind had risen, whispering among the black clusters of trees. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Groups of students were clustered in the hall mumbling and laughing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She pointed to a bunch of people who were clustered around a redheaded boy and a girl in braids who sat on the couch across from each other, sketch pads poised on their laps. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Galactic collisions distort the shape of an originally spherical cluster and may also contribute to the genesis of spirals and irregulars from ellipticals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although they tend to cluster in certain places–notably around the rim of the Pacific–they can occur almost anywhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Navy, California, and Penn now formed a cluster, far out in front, exchanging leads, cutting each other up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it? The brain is just one more organ, a cluster of cells and impulses. Why shouldn’t a Grisha under the influence of jurda parem be able to manipulate those impulses?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She leads us up ancient goat trails and sheep paths, through scrubby grass and meadows of mountain flowers, toward the cluster of small ruins Alan spotted earlier. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Flies clustered over the roof—millions of them, covering every remaining panel and plunging us into twilight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The cluster stop means you can get a whole lot of kids on and off the bus at one time. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z For these situations, we were taught how to cause pain through “pressure points”—places where clusters of nerves lie just under the skin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As I say, the craze really took off that summer, and during the lunch breaks you’d see all these clusters of students lying about the grass around the Walkmans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I found bats roosting in the holes among the crystals—insect-eating bats, smaller than the fruit bats that clustered near the cave’s mouth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Long, glittery ribbons hang from a cluster of fake chrysanthemums, and hot glued to that are two miniature stuffed teddy bears. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “That there is Pegasus,” he said, pointing to a cluster of stars hovering way up over the top of the mountains in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z There were a few clusters of people out walking, a couple lone figures with dogs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I learned to keep my gaze fixed firmly ahead anytime I passed a group of men clustered on a street corner, careful not to register their eyes roving over my chest and legs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I see the glow of Amity headquarters ahead, the familiar cluster of wooden buildings with the greenhouse in their center. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Sunday evening everyone, except Pim and me, was clustered around the radio, listening to the “Immortal Music of the German Masters.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z As we left the cluster of houses behind, I looked up at the moon and tried listening to her sighs. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The other Kings cluster behind him in a bunched-up row of red. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It arced high—so high it appeared like a second sun, or the start of a second rip—before dropping down behind a cluster of palaces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A cluster of men and women hovered near the juke box at the rear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They gathered in clusters at the corners, chatting and teasing and cramming for tests, until the green and gold buses chugged into view and the doors snapped open. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Everyone was inside, in class, except for a few students clustered—just off school grounds—at the nearby traffic triangle, smoking. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if there’s a cluster of pill bottles on the bedside table. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Past the fence is a cluster of trees, most of them dead, some green. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Next to him an eating lady in a green and purple Kanjeevaram sari and diamonds clustered like shining bees on each nostril offered him yellow laddoos in a box. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The bicyclist coasts to a stop, and he nods to a cluster of buildings across the street. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He began to pass clusters of men laughing off in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Spread to the horizon was an army of monsters—flocks of winged arai, tribes of lumbering Cyclopes, clusters of floating evil spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There’s a cluster of young guys gathered around the hood of a car, down in front of the barbershop. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Parker House was located right across the street from the old Gold Leaf Bank building and the cluster of office buildings, craft shops, clothing stores, and restaurants called Old Town. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z We just stand against the wall, watching the juniors stream into the cafeteria in clusters. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z A train pulls into the station, and just past the turnstiles, clusters of people are waiting for the subway doors to open. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And sure enough, something was moving through it, a tiny cluster of lighted beings. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk over the little semi- lunar bridge Baba has built near a cluster of fig trees; it becomes a great suspension bridge joining cities, and the little pond below, a foamy sea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sam sprang in, inside the arches of her legs, and with a quick upthrust of his other hand stabbed at the clustered eyes upon her lowered head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The iridescent cluster scatters below in an explosion, like a firework. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Salvador and the young woman clustered together with the rest of Tomás’s party, all save the old man who lay on the hillside a distance away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It's just the six of us and two gravediggers, who stand a few meters away under a cluster of trees, their hands resting on their shovels. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He heard Mike say good night and did not answer, but fixed his eyes upon the two-story building where rambling clusters of crimson Martian flowers lay upon the high crystal roof. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The hamlet consisted of a cluster of little huts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But when I took my normal seat, the kids in my little cluster looked at me like I’d sprouted wings. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z As the transport rolled deeper into the city’s skyscraper core, I saw people clustered on every street corner and in every vacant lot, huddled around burning barrels and portable fuel-cell heaters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The room is a cluster of fidget, every three or four children practically breaking out of his or her own skin, hopping. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They clustered around her in the front lawn, pouring so much sugar on her that she looked downright mystified. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She’d grown accustomed to their presence, always steeling herself when she had to pass through a cluster of them, but they had never interfered with her before. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “No, I know why they took him,” she said, as heads clustered close nearby. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Tariq and his friends would be all clustered around Brick, watching his every move. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z |
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