A formless music for the age to come. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Despite the extraordinary fineness of his features, and his age, and his general stature—clothed, he could easily have passed for a young, underweight danseur—the cigar was not markedly unbecoming to him. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Many girls her age were preparing for marriage. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We age slower when we move quickly versus standing still. So right now time is passing slower for us than for people on the ground.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“No one must know their meaning until he has reached one hundred years of age,” he explained. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She wanted to try to find a girl named Sophia, a girl her own age, a girl who had turned twelve when Claire did. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At age seven I’d taken this statement literally, but the headmistress in the picture was smoking a pipe, and her name was Peregrine, a kind of hawk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her finger, its knuckle bent and thickened by age, ran the length of the wound. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had told Kathy about Mother Fletcher and they had gone over his notes in the evenings trying to figure her age. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Athletes were highly respected in the black community, and boys my age were encouraged to play some sport. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was unusually bright, accomplished, and ambitious, and he had graduated from Franklin High School two years early, at the age of sixteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One day, when the young ladies were of age to be married, a terrible, three-headed dragon laid siege to the kingdom, burning villages with fiery breath. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

By the age of one and a half her speech was perfect and she knew as many words as most grown-ups. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very nice-looking boy, about the same age as Abby, helping a man roll out some green mesh fencing. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Because of the Korean War, Congress had just lowered the minimum age for military service to eighteen and a half, so Lawrence was drafted at sixteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Geez. Look at it this way. If you add our ages together, we're not minors; we're one adult. Freebie isn't a pet. He’s a hotel guest and family member. And I showered after basketball.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

By age fourteen, she would be considered an adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Here, only the first aged has two syllables: My aged grandmother, who aged gracefully, took a liking to aged cheese when she was a child aged ten. ally. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been great, amazing, to have someone her own age around, someone who doesn’t just see the burnt wick of tragedy when he looks at her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On average, according to one study, college-educated women have their first child at age thirty, up from twenty-five in the early 1970s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The problem is, there’s no way to know which kid is going to mellow with age and which one is just getting warmed up. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That’s what you call any woman your mother’s age, as a sign of respect. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy and a girl about my age are leaning on the fence, chatting, and I look down on the prettiest, cleanest pigs I’ve ever seen. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Maysilee Donner bravely disengages herself and heads for the stage, I catch a glimpse of my mother at my age, and no one has exaggerated her beauty. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As though—as though she’d aged fifty years in eight weeks—gaunt, gray, frail. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was hard for her to move at that age. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Three weeks into her sentence, more than forty women, ranging in age from nineteen to seventy-three, protested Paul’s treatment by marching through the streets of Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He is about Pa’s age, but the resemblance ends there. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other white prisoner was a boy not more than fifteen years of age. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And here is a thing that most of us fail to appreciate: we are still in an ice age, only now we experience it for just part of the year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can accept them and their power and their age because I was early exposed to them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teen basketball star killed in fiery crash Nov. 8—Robert Washington, age 17, captain of the Hazelwood High School basketball team, was killed last night in a fiery automobile accident on 1-75. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are under 13 years of age, you are not authorized to use this website. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Some kids were thirteen, a few fifteen, but most of them Francie’s age—fourteen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really thought he was still speaking of the fowl, until he added, “Because I have got an aged parent at my place.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Close behind us were our friends: Tjaden, a skinny locksmith of our own age, the biggest eater of the company. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was your age the only people I knew were black, and all of them were powerfully, adamantly, dangerously afraid. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He flicked swiftly through the dusty pages of the aged volume. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Having waited seven years before I proposed to Janine, I wondered if people my age were being more careful than those who came before us, or simply more selfish? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A player’s trivia- answering ability is presumably the only worthwhile factor to consider; race, gender, and age wouldn’t seem to matter. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When they died of old age, they died rich. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Each day black boys between the ages of eight and twenty-five came to swim, draw, and read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then I had made some friends and when I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys of my own age along the way. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will be four years before Joffrey comes of age. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The frustrating position then was that although they could place the various rocks and fossils in order by age, they had no idea how long any of those ages were. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that this so-called religion was just a hodgepodge of mortal age faiths slapped together into a troubling mosaic. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Pelham had said I looked like Jason had at my age. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“During war, government said must eat insect to survive. Also, it will give you energy because grasshopper have many energy. They have almost as much energy as me when I your age, Aki.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The creatures returned to the attack: botched beasts, belonging to ages before bird or dragon or man, long since forgotten by the daylight but recalled by the ancient, malign, unforgetful power of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Why are African-American children faced with this dilemma at such an early age? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never been this close to a boy her own age before. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Besides the lifeguard watching from his perch, there’s a gaggle of girls my age patrolling the beach with younger siblings in tow. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She reached the kitchen, and it was just as she remembered: the whitewashed cabinetry, chipped at the corners; the tile countertop; the wooden cutting board scored and nicked with age. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Phil starts chatting with a group of guys his age, while my parents introduce themselves to an elderly couple sitting in lawn chairs. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was true; unmarried girls, especially my age, weren’t allowed in the birthing area. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘I used to bunk off at her age,’ Dad said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not necessarily my age—there could be 10 years or more between us—but it’s still a sign we’re the same generation. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rum is made from sugarcane and aged in barrels. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My grandmother became an orphan at the tender age of seven. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was several feet tall, its front worn rough and browned from age and weather. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She tried to get me to drink a glass of milk, couldn’t get over a girl my age loving coffee so much. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers must reckon their ages by ascertaining the age of the ground they are found in, which in turn requires meticulously documenting their provenance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The form is blank except for my name and age. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mouths and eyes and noses of every imaginable shape, all combined insanely on people of every age. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Lupita is too young to go around with us. We take out girls our own age. Lucky wouldn’t want to take Lupita. It is his car.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Whenever I tried to imagine my mother at my age before, she looked exactly like herself, just shorter, more flat-chested, still wearing a suit and pearls, holding a briefcase, hair perfect, shirt starched. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Those were some interesting birds, living to such a great age that they were passed down in the family will. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The professor recited facts in a dull, earthy voice: the average age of onset is twenty-five; there may be no symptoms before then. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were at the age when a rat’s muzzle grows blunt and fierce and his fur brown instead of gray. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Burt was forty years old and married to a girl half his age of whom he was insanely jealous. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I won't lie to you, it's grievous news. I never thought to see another king, not at my age, with Robert half my years and strong as a bull." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Although jewels studded the hilt and pommel, the scabbard was battered, discolored, nearly black with age. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Is this what my dad felt like when he was my age walking through this house? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And he taught that a wife’s ideal age was half the man’s age, plus seven. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Older children, ages 6 and up, have listened to a great deal of musical material in their short lives. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He is about my age, early to midthirties, with dark hair, greying at the temples. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The least thing tires me these days. I don’t seem to have the energy I once had. My age, I guess.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Bobby had always been short for his age, and still only stood five-four, but he was just beginning to stretch out of his clothes and sprout up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many were his age, but he somehow felt as if there existed a vast distance between them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As he said, even by demon reckoning it took two figures to write my age, for I was eleven by our system of counting and ten by theirs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never did we discuss what might happen to me when I came of age. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was standing where the First Beings had once stood all those ages ago. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Thus far, as I hope you agree, I have shown you reasonably firm sources of fact for my deductions as to what Voldemort did until the age of seventeen?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Today three girls around her age, maybe a little bit older, get out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The BBC reported that she hasn’t yet been declared of age, though royal children usually are. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If it were, I wouldn’t mind admitting it, because at my age you can say those things with impunity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes of age and into his inheritance today. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sometimes think that old age has affected my mind and that you can’t just ignore the fact that I buried her twenty years ago. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re good, but X-Men is way better. Though I think I like the New Mutants ones the most, ’cause those characters are our age.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He concluded with an Adams salvo against “the peevish and fretful effusions of politicians,” then signed off as “J.A. In the 89 year of his age still too fat to last much longer.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I ordered a Coke, but the bartender, who wasn’t a bit fooled about my age, told me to leave. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Though I still don’t really understand how you’re in the position to ask to borrow it. I feel like I haven’t seen you in ages.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A whipping that would outdo my last whipping at age nine for letting Vonetta and Fern get into the grape jelly. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mother spoke quietly to the woman with the son my age. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was especially shaken by the sight of a girl who was probably my age. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember what Vern said? Your mom was looking for a range of different ages. A healthy community has young sharks, middle-aged sharks, and old sharks.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

"You have stolen some extra years of life, but you are not invincible! That bite of peach may protect you from sickness and age, but you can still be killed." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Ah, you do have some wit. God’s truth, before I reach my end, there’s work to be done. Big work. The work of ages.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sanitary or unsanitary, plague or no plague, to black boys and girls my age the yard was a paradise playground. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cast a sly look to the girl standing next to me, dressed in a skirt suit, her young face caked with enough makeup to age her well beyond her years. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“All this only applies to my own doings, as I do not feel at all sure enough in any way to interfere with the pleasures of sons of the age of mine.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was taboo for my sisters to eat eggs until they were of a certain age because it would interfere with the development of their childbearing organs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of ten, Butler children were sent to a private training center in Israel, where they were taught the specialized skills necessary to guard the latest in the Fowl line. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Trina showed signs of intellectual disabilities and other troubles at a young age. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A boy his age should certainly be sure of the spelling of his own name—even a name like this with an unusual spelling. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seems to me like that thrust of dynamism which caused and permitted whole peoples to migrate and to conquer in earlier ages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been at least a dozen ice ages in the last two million years, each lasting about 100,000 years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her son, a man my father’s age, had blood running down his forehead. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

If anything happened, only vague whispers followed, and this in itself was unusual at an age when there are many secrets and none of them kept long enough to raise a cream. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And that cut me because, for all our differing worlds, at your age my feeling was exactly the same. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“His name’s Samuel Collier, age eleven, son of dead peasants. Can you take him?” he asked Reverend Hunt when he opened the orphanage door. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘But as soon as the first shot is fired, no man of military age can possibly get out of Boston. They’ll see to it. It’s now or never.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This new family consists of a mother, father, and their three little children who are between ages one and five. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been ages since I’ve heard a good tale, and I long to get lost in one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But advancing age and sheer physical fatigue were only part of the answer. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She wants to give it to us when you’re of age.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At her age, and with the years it would take to restore the home, she would likely never return. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

To Lewis Powell, the former Confederate spy who watched Lincoln’s speech with Booth, will go the task of killing Secretary Seward, who, at age sixty-three, is currently bedridden after a near- fatal carriage accident. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was always difficult to determine the age of a London building. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He's my same age, I know that much, but it doesn't seem like a good thing to mention. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jenkins asked their names and ages, and Dicey told her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Berkner suggests that there may have been cycles of oxygen production and carbon dioxide consumption, depending on relative abundances of plant and animal life, with the ice ages representing periods of apnea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe they’d just sit there for ages and stare at each other and not say anything. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He must have been my age when this photograph was taken. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Margaret had mentioned having a grandson who was my age, but she said very little about him. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Sad, isn't it? When I was your age, I used to dream of having a dragon of my own." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every single person in Lkossa remotely close to my age seems to be obsessed with him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“My Peggy, God rest her soul, left this world one year past. She died of the fever. About the age of you gals, she was.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was preserved against imminent old age by a vitality that had something to do with the coldness of his insides. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At twenty-two, the age of thirty seems to bis the verge of senility. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the room sat an aging couple, there to see ... a son? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The activities are organized by age group and by the dates throughout the summer. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

American children at that age can count only to fifteen, and most don’t reach forty until they’re five. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The grandmother, as it turned out, lived in New York City, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and had been searching for her daughter for three and a half years, exactly Sergio’s age. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Only boys who have been handsome from a young age have that arrogance in their smile. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I can confidently rule out is dying of old age. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t she send enough money, thus forcing him to sell spices from the age of ten? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Florida is one of a few states that allows the prosecutor to decide to charge a child in adult court for certain crimes and has no minimum age for trying a child as an adult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Can you read me something out of a book to do my legs good? Do you know a story with a cure for old age and death in it, little witch that you are?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Inside they could see a young man about their age, leaning against the end of a long table and reading a book. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Such societies might live to a prosperous old age, their lifetimes measured perhaps on geological or stellar evolutionary time scales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his age, Jimmy Zizmo treated his young bride more like a daughter than a wife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five is a middle- aged black couple who complain, with some justice, that the iced tea isn’t fresh and the tabletop is sticky. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aged fascist would conduct witch-hunt after witch-hunt until the formerly intact Ignatius J. Reilly was reduced to a fragmented and mumbling vegetable. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impact craters in the channel floor are evidence of its great age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At age forty, approximately one woman in a thousand develops breast cancer each year, whereas at age sixty the rate has risen to one in five hundred. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Gay drove me home that evening, she prattled on about some girls my age in the neighborhood. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As he aged, Mendeleyev became increasingly eccentric–he refused to acknowledge the existence of radiation or the electron or anything else much that was new–and difficult. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He pointed out two cormorants that dipped and dived into the water, disappearing for ages, then reappearing ten metres or more from where they’d gone down. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

ME: You will literally cause the next ice age. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Bentley was the greatest classical scholar of his age, but he would also become a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Every available male, aged sixteen to sixty, was drafted into this new militia, under the direction of the SS. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t see him clearly. I suppose he was about the same age as my dad. He was kind of thin.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We know for a fact that they conquered old age and death, with a spell called Vampir, which requires consuming the blood of innocents....” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

About a week after telling her cousins she thought something was wrong, at the age of twenty-nine, Henrietta turned up pregnant with Joe, her fifth child. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Get yourself a proper chain, will you? Mrs. Patterson’s broke ages ago, and it was made of a stronger material than dental floss.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a little girl about eight years old sitting at a table with kids her own age. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I sat on the side of my bed and rustled through the drawer of the night table, through the tissues and reading glasses and Christian Science leaflets belonging to one of Francis’s aged female relatives. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Are you joking? I haven’t taken a bath for ages, and neither have you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know the army was so desperate that they’ve lowered their requirements in intelligence as well as age.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

While his father was involved body and soul with his water pipe, the willful first-born, who had always been too big for his age, had become a monumental adolescent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

People said that he had aged terribly after his beloved wife’s death, when Jean was just a small child. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Every time I tried to argue, Buddy would say his mother still got pleasure out of his father and wasn't that wonderful for people their age, it must mean she really knew what was what. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was becoming an activist in his old age. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know. But I remember how huge everything felt when I was your age.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His parents watched an old video of Gus with his sisters—they were probably my age and Gus was about five. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I made some sort of soothing reply, but with the licence of age she did not listen, hobbling away mumbling that it was her fault. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You need about nine and a half hours at your age, son. Pure, wholesome sleep.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you mean to put twelve for your age? Because the numbers are reversed, here—it says ‘twenty-one’—and I think that might not be true.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I come closer and see a Negro man, about my age, standing in the middle of the white men, with Army men behind him. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

While we were taking routine math, whites my age were studying algebra. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A girl Julia's age sat on a pony under a big tree, before color was invented. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I am interested, for the first time in ages, in something other than my own misery. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was such a difference in our ages now that everyone else my age called her “Aunt Sarah.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most kids have had sleepovers by the time they’re my age. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A full 60 percent of Africa’s population at the time was under the age of twenty-five. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mr. Ray and Robbie had it right when they were my age. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For every man of fighting age, Jon saw three women and as many children, gaunt-faced things with hollow cheeks and staring eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, by then he had seen enough Navajo men to know that it is difficult for white men to tell our age by looking at us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, for the first time in ages, Minerva and I are roommates again at Dona Chelito’s where we board. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prison regulations stated that no child between the ages of two and sixteen may visit a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incorrect: At the age often, my father bought me a puppy. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a theory that the process of aging may be due to the cumulative effect of imprecision, a gradual degrading of information. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Things have changed a lot since you were my age, huh?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

My skin and bones will not age—my Bio Gel will simply reach the end of its shelf life and cease to operate. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Craig and I are not quite two years apart in age. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She made me think of my sister, though, because Amanda would have been the same age, only one month younger. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The discovery of the age or something? 11TH JUROR: It would still be an incredible coincidence for another person to have stabbed the father with the same kind of knife. 3RD JUROR: That’s right! Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

To exaggerate a bit, the one-in-eleven figure is a little like saying that nine out of ten people will develop age spots, which doesn’t mean it should be a major preoccupation of thirty-year-olds. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My turn,” Seven said, holding up the mirror and facing the side of the building so the other Witchlings wouldn’t get caught in the spell’s cross fire and age even further. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She started out in Adria’s group, but she was my age and we had a lot in common. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The rhinestones are foggy and the metal tarnished with age, but there’s still something so regal about it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Every time I went with her to Chinatown, she pointed out other Chinese women her age. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why does there have to be a war to take Shad away from me before I’m of an age that Pa thinks is old enough fer marryin7” Jethro was sympathetic and terribly uncomfortable. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d like to show how “intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members” connects with “the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Half the young men of that age group are either unemployed or underemployed. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That you, obviously, can change a person's outward appearances, their manner, and age." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The main character was an aging banker who jumps to his death after being financially ruined. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I would have told you the story myself,” she nodded wisely, “but it is better that you hear the legend from someone your own age...” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pain worsened, we drove him to Coronation Hospital, and that same night, he was dead at the age of thirty-three. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the end of his rowing came a sudden, premature, middle- aged spread. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We know the brain is rewirable, the question is to rewire it properly. “Were in the primitive age of brain training.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So if people ask me what age group I belong to, I say I’m Ilkiroro. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She argued that things can happen after a certain age. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had waited so long that he could wait as long as was necessary until his bride reached the age of conception. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“That’s good. Terrible habit. And it happens so much to people your age.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The envelope, now brittle with age, felt dry and cold to the touch. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even worse was the group of adolescents, boys my own age, who sat gathered around a large table. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was still scrawny for his age, and his cheeks were still round and chubby, just like Pong remembered from Namwon, but there was something unfamiliar in Somkit's eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

How different she was from me at that age! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was pale and his blond hair looked almost gray, as if he’d aged ten years in just a few months. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Architecture, in those dark ages of theirs, was such a light-giving passion of the heart that men gave love-names to their fortresses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, old and black and patient, smelling of sickness and age and death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was a man of middle age, with no stoop to his shoulders and fewer wrinkles, though he had the same cheerful smile. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We lined up in the hall by age, Sam Houston gagging as he inhaled the fumes coming off Harry. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She could even hear, with her new awareness of the house, the dust drifting gently in the attics, the wood aging. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Moon sands? Why, we haven’t had the sun and moon in our world for many ages.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

All of the youngest condemned children—thirteen or fourteen years of age—were black or Latino. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She had been running a dressmaking business since the age of sixteen. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture it: a child half my age, earning his keep, roaming the city, his home wherever he was at the moment, his life entirely in his own hands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She looked about eighty-five in both age and weight, which wasn’t what I expected. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Willard Libby was in the process of inventing radiocarbon dating, allowing scientists to get an accurate reading of the age of bones and other organic remains, something they had never been able to do before. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She added that it was also improper for a lady of Helen’s station to reveal her age, and to wear a dress so high above the ankle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But there was Jordan beside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I thought they were all safe, I thought there was going to be an age limit!’She was in floods after that Daily Prophet article about him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had aged, all skin and bones, and her tapered eyes of a carnivorous animal had become sad and tame from looking at the rain so much. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’m not saying we necessarily went around the whole time at that age worrying about the woods. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was in an age when people had been taught the difference between “Am I looking at my dinner or the dog’s?” and “Am I looking at my dinner or the dogs?” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“When I was your age, I got bullied a lot at school.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Age is no longer a consideration, although most have started the program between 26 and 46 years of age. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It might have belonged to another age, another world. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I almost didn’t make it at all. And when I did, it was ages after my birthday. That’s why they suspected me.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now that the South Pole had been reached, it seemed as though the age of heroic exploration was over. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She was grownup-looking for her age, tall with red-gold hair and her skin like something just this moment coming out of the oven, giving off a warm golden glow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is normal enough for someone your age. If I may inquire?” she began delicately. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sew that well when I was your age.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ernest and John were too far apart in age to have shared their high school or college years, but personally they were close, writing each other at least once every couple of weeks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Between them, the contents of the broken treasure chest lay exposed in the sand: The mallet and brass disc had gone green with age, half-corroded by time and salt water, but the gong was unmistakable. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You see? Imagine a man his age risking what little life he has left for something so absurd as a country.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I include her age, what her parents did for a living. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their children were grown up and gone, they were both entering middle age, and yet their sex wasn’t all that bad either. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The autopsy report she later received showed my father had had ninety-percent blockage of the arteries before he died of a heart attack at the age of seventy-four. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman who looked to be about his mother’s age answered the door. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long before the age of man, insects inhabited the earth — a group of extraordinarily varied and adaptable beings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

At the age of twenty-two, established a close friendship with Alexander Pushkin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked into a face about the age of my own—but a little more puppyish—I thought. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ushered in an age of musical convergence: our age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Without even asking, my mother knew that meant including the Jongs’ children: their son Vincent, who was thirty-eight years old and still living at home, and their daughter, Waverly, who was around my age. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony was an unmarried thirty-one-year-old headmistress and temperance worker; Stanton was now thirty-five and the mother of four boys, ages three months to nine years old. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She made it okay for me when other people called me “big for my age" or said, “She’s very dark skinned compared to her mother." March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The last victim was black and close to Frank’s age. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They differed in age and religion, but they shared a unity of purpose,” reported Gay Talese of the New York Times. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching his father sleep, the face relaxed in slumber, all the harsh lines of age less defined, he remembered hearing that people who had been married a long time began to resemble each other. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked gracefully; her movements were never quick and jerky like those of some girls her age. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s big in the suburbs, once they start getting age spots they figure they’ve got to beat the competition. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ob needed somebody to fill the empty hole she left, and I reckon I thought if I aged about fifty years, I might could fill it for him. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The occasion was an announcement of a program for children who were aging out of foster care. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ariana was barely seven years old when she vanished from sight, and seven is the age by which most experts agree that magic will have revealed itself, if present. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A decade earlier in the underground prison, Shin’s aging cellmate had dared to talk about food outside the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

So the years passed in this quiet way until Singer reached the age of thirty-two and had been in the town with Antonapoulos for ten years. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His father, Arthur, had been a logger at Ishmael’s age. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Certainly no one else my age is willing to admit it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His mother’s brow—already more lined than most women’s her age—furrowed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

All hands remained on or below the desks, etched with initials, new with splinters, brown with age. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Those women were maybe two times his age. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised to see them—I’d never been good at making friends during my three years in college, considering my age and my hefty course load. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Even at a young age, there was something about my grandmother’s silence and passivity in her relationship with Dandy that got under my skin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When we went in, the room was already crowded—babies, children of all ages, and women of all kinds: nuns, spike-heeled flappers, lame grandmothers, fat mothers and thin ones, brave ones and sniffling ones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of twenty-one, he was sent to JBLM, a joint military base south of Tacoma. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He began showing signs of intellectual disability at an early age. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To hell with my vanity, my spirit, my old age. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Like Joyce, Swift had learned the butchering process from start to finish, entering the trade as his brother’s apprentice in 1855 at the age of fourteen in a little town on Cape Cod. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I imagine the woman who wrote them, I think of her as about my age, maybe a little younger. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was not true of the boys Jack’s age. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, imagining age, I would think, Maybe you appreciate things more when you don’t have much time left. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad says, “I want to tell you something my father told me, when I was your age.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They’d never considered that they might have to leave the neighborhood where they knew everyone on the block by name, age, and hairstyle. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At twenty years of age the mold of my life was set, was hardening into a pattern, a pattern that was neither good nor evil, neither right nor wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usher pulled back the curtain of the box to reveal a boy her age already sitting there. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Percy had trouble guessing his age—maybe thirty-something, though the man’s fashion and manner seemed grandfatherish. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Branwell is tall for his age—I am not—and when he sat across the table from me, I had to look up to make eye contact, which was not easy. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out the window were sleepy towns, assortments of dark wooden buildings that seemed untouched by war yet worn and cracked by age. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The mouse was about the same age as her daughter. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was only the pain that made me move slowly, carefully, like a woman three times my age. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Who are you angry at? even like being around kids his good for children to be around Oskar isn’t other children, own age. that’s a wonderful a good thing? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He ought to. Joe looks like a slightly darker version of him at that age. Anyway, he might decide on his own to free the boy.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jim was always big for his age and known for his terrible temper. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But before I could find my way into the fold of girls my age who hung out at the Parkway, I faced a test. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He calculated that the Earth was 89 million years old–an age that fit neatly enough with Kelvin’s assumptions but unfortunately not with reality. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There is a delicacy and gentleness to Chopin’s music, though, that represents the final curtain call of the age of elegance and gracefulness, of sense and sensibility. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As the children of families that valued scholarly pursuits, Ernest and Merle both were inculcated with the virtues of study and knowledge from an early age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Also recruited from Miss Handler’s schoolhouse, Isis and Betty were similar in age and build to Cora. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was the sport of aging cowboys, too slow and heavy to dismount to wrestle down and tie the animal as they did in calf roping and team tying. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, though still rather small and skinny for his age, had grown a few inches over the last year. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The entrance to the Underworld is always in the west. It moves from age to age, just like Olympus. Right now, of course, it’s in America.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The girl who lost her big toe in the mines at the age of eleven, Moon Sung Sim, was assigned to the textile factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we found out who he is ages ago,” said Ron impressively. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He was cleanshaven, sunburned, nervous, gnarled like the roots of the trees; but gnarled and mature with weather and poetry rather than with age, for he was scarcely thirty years old. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That made sense: Chess was taller than practically every other boy his age; Finn was one of the shortest kids in his class. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was best to accept old age, death, injustice, hardship—all of these were part of living. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anya nodded and began reading, tracing along the words with the pointer so her fingers wouldn’t smudge the aging ink. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Wilbur and Charlotte were at the fair, and Charlotte was beginning to show her age. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

On my other side was a woman around my age. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s called the Doorman because from a very early age he had a strong penchant for sitting by the front door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Their average age was twenty-eight, and some of them were in their midthirties, but they looked to be in terrific condition. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The last of these he favored mostly because as it aged its color evolved from that of old ivory to a golden honey hue that harmonized with the burnished red of the cedar hulls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At least there would be three cousins her own age, all boys, but that couldn’t be helped. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more, here was a way for Hoover, a deskbound functionary, to cast himself as a dashing figure—a crusader for the modern scientific age. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In other parts of the hospital chalky people with aged, blue lips were dying on time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were glass display cases containing books with pages stained by age but showing the most wonderful pictures. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Closer, in fact, to him than to his own father, for Macon had no imperfection and age seemed to strengthen him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Macon had taken the Buick—age forced him to walk less—so Milkman went on foot to Guitar’s house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a good girl her age. Never gave a speck of trouble. I did everything anybody told me to. Till I got here. City make you tighten up.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than four weeks later, on April 12, the president was dead of a massive stroke at the age of sixty-three. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was of an age with me, but nearly a head taller, and as thin as Banbury cheese. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was content to stay home and help her sister Elizabeth take care of their aging parents. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You save it and age it good,” she said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t seen him for years. But you do look almost like he did when he was your age.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

So, in the spring of 1679, Halley set out to see if the incredible claims for accuracy that Hevelius, now aged 68, was making could be justified. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Raised as an aristocrat, he was dispatched to the academy in Athens at the age of seventeen to study philosophy under Plato and spent two decades there. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’s Dad’s age—around forty—and even though he’s lazy and can’t mop and hates cardboard paper cuts, he has an air of confidence that Dad doesn’t have. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Even at my age, I usually remember kids I’ve been working with for months. What can I do for you?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, if it was a very important rule—unlike the one governing the age for bicycles—it would have to go, eventually, to The Receiver for a decision. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll forget because you just can’t help it. There never was a human being that remembered after the age of one—at the very latest—except, of course, Her.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She knew her mother had gotten sick at thirty, so she’d long feared her own thirtieth birthday, figuring that whatever happened to her mother at that age would happen to her too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This champion the lord of stormcloud, Zeus, and strong Apollo loved; nor had he ever to cross the doorsill into dim old age. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although aged and weathered, it appeared to be in reasonably good repair. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The third guard, Shae, was Con’s age or perhaps a year or two older, and like the other guards and Con, she wore her black hair cut very short. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When a recruiter asked their age, the boys would say they were “over eighteen.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the Bronx, the idea of life’s impermanence underlined everything for kids my age—it drove some of us to a paralyzing apathy, stopped us from even thinking too far into the future. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Pete and Sucker Wells and Baby and Spareribs—the whole gang that started at below Bubber’s age and went on up to over twelve. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I bet she was a total babe when she was my age. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Hence the age of material from an archaeological site can be calculated from the material’s carbon 14/carbon 12 ratio. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And because the drug war has been raging for decades now, the parents of children coming of age today were targets of the drug war as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I spent ages in a stationery shop in a trance conjured up by all the perfect pads. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They wanted to know if I was acting too adult for my age. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I said it, with the pause between my age and my name too. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She filled in her name and lied about her age. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace didn’t think she could handle seeing them, hearing them shout about the water, without thinking of what Peach might look like at that age. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds he was followed by his younger brother Billy, who at age twelve was noisier and had an annoying habit of skimming rocks across the grass at anything that moved. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gussie was three years old at this time and big for his age. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

DELPHI: You know, I didn’t have a best friend when I was your age. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

But the arrival of Homo sapiens inaugurated a golden age for the species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here we go. These were my Jacob’s when he was your age.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thus, tiny devices that can travel along capillaries to enter and repair living tissue; the ability to heal disease, reverse the ravages of age, or make human bodies speedier and stronger than before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please tell me how they are at this age.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For some reason, there were no kids Maureen’s age on North Third Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look at every boy Alan’s age and think of my brother. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

"And hast been in the battle, clean contrary to your obedience. A boy to break a father's heart! At your age a rod to your breech were fitter than a sword in your fist, ha!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

By the time Little Miss Byrd was Clayton’s age, she hid from his kisses, wiped them away, and told anyone who asked that her father was lost at sea. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age,” Ignatius said solemnly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boys his age played basketball all night or hung out in groups at the edge of the playground. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She was seven years old when she died, which was also the age of my own eldest daughter, Olivia, when she died from measles forty-two years later. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man—he was like Baba Haji’s age—leaned down and said, “Listen. If you ever see those gypsies walking toward the town, you run back and shout, ‘The gypsies are coming! Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In addition to offering literary treasure hunts, Book Scavenger provides a wonderful online community for book lovers of all ages. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Freeware punched holes in that thing ages ago.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Shea was my age but shorter, with reddish hair and light skin, light enough for a spray of freckles to shine through. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Sirius Black showed he was capable of murder at the age of sixteen,” he breathed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Eleven’s a moody age. Was for me, anyways.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was nobody there: he had dreamed him in a catnap of old age. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather and I played horseshoes, and although I never beat him, he said I was every bit as good as my father had been at my age. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once read in The Thriving Executive by R. J. Sherman that the number one way to sustain a job in this day and age is to make yourself indispensable. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was still beautiful, but it was the beauty of age, not of a golden-haired maiden. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Such an age had gone past since Lyra had seen these dear men! The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We learned rather abruptly that these numbers, these ancient ages, are not known.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For a while I had two lessons a week before school and Hollands put me through pretty much all the training they’d do with any kid my age. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Our friends, also around age three and four, lived a block away. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We stayed the ages we’d been when the bad thing happened. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You talk older than your age,” she said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The child that lived past the age of ten was Cora’s mother, Mabel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In 1825, aged just twenty-one, Owen moved to London and soon after was engaged by the Royal College of Surgeons to help organize their extensive, but disordered, collections of medical and anatomical specimens. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So I took one of the new Greens aside who was about my age, and made him and that warden think he was me. Same for anyone who asked. One by one. Cool, huh?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Jewish books. The work of centuries. The wisdom of the ages,” Jacob said. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The increase is by no means confined to the United States; in all countries the recorded deaths from leukemia at all ages are rising at a rate of 4 to 5 per cent a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Two young ladies about my age stopped, stared at me, and then giggled. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All but one of the others are female, with an average age I would guess in the late twenties, though the range seems to go from prom-fresh to well into the Medicare years. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By noting which species appeared in which strata, you could work out the relative ages of rocks wherever they appeared. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two Terminal Island women about Mama’s age were leaving just as we walked in. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this morning, the bus had left for camp, and every kid between the ages of four and fourteen had been on it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is no regular economic specialization, except by age and sex: all able-bodied individuals forage for food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was older, back bent with age, her face partly obscured by the hood of a Emma erupted at him. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was the bleak face of middle age, waiting intent and stoical between the beefy faces of the soldiers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, in middle age, he got a job making false teeth. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nobody ever seemed to get punished, and Tally’s promise to Peris seemed ages ago. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It is quicker and closer with trees and Ents, and they walk down the ages together. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Consider a resident of Berlin, born in 1900 and living to the ripe age of one hundred. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father came to this house when he was about your age. It changed him. He understood his calling.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We’d heard rumors that service in the military was no longer voluntary, that everyone between the ages of twenty-two and forty had to serve—most of them in the army’s new Psi branch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you know, clearing Luce’s stuff out. God, she was a pack rat. You can barely open her drawers. You know, I found your grandmother’s wedding veil. I’ve been looking for that thing for ages.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The age the scythe presented was late thirties, although that meant nothing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons and ages and epochs that the past obviously contained. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Many girls are married off by that age. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“When girls get to be a certain age, Callie, they have to go get checked.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Bailey was sixteen, small for his age, bright for any and hopelessly in love with Mother Dear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You die young, and I get to live to a ripe old age.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Past the pigs, you’d come upon the ghost tree, bleached white with wind and age. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She died on April 8, 1993, at the age of ninety-six, one day short of the 54th anniversary of the Easter concert at the Lincoln Memorial. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In this too he was ahead of the age. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A moment later there was a boy of Shasta's own age sitting astride of the sill with one leg hanging down inside the room. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I get a lot of letters from kids—any age from about five years old and up—telling me they want to work with animals when they grow up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"And sons too, of an age with yours. When she hears, perhaps she . . . she may take pity, and ..." "Send my daughters back unharmed?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Already the logging camp has a feeling of great age about it, although it’s only been empty for two years. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was ti n, the age when things blowing up interested me, but I wondered who’d dare do this to Grandma. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

That stage of Loomis’s life ended with World War I. At the age of twenty-nine, he enlisted in the officer’s corps, where his mathematical skills, honed at Yale, were promptly put to the test. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He might be small for his age, but eventually everyone got too big for light crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Very well. Who will my son marry when he is of age?" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The faded blue eyes, shrewd in spite of their age, sized up Lombard. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She was the rarest of kids my age: comfortable in her own skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aged companion now leaned upon my shoulder as we walked, his breath heavy in his chest. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were separate sacks for boys and girls of different ages. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lawyer looked the same age as Cole’s mom but walked with her head up and shoulders squared. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In 1786, aged just forty-three, he was found dead at his workbench surrounded by an array of toxic chemicals, any one of which could have accounted for the stunned and terminal look on his face. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were boys about their age, and they looked sullen and scared. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

All the children of the Gentry, regardless of age, are taught by lecturers from all over the kingdom on the grounds of the palace. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Most rabbits here die of old age, unless the Owsla kill them off,’ she said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A Chinese proverb. It means I’m going to show you a picture of Emmett Till. I was the same age as you when I saw it.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Her stoop, her stoutness, her shuffling gait all gave an impression of extreme age. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I befriended other teenagers in the camp, including a pretty Hungarian girl my age. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he was remembering how he, too, had left Welch full of vinegar at age seventeen and just as convinced as I was now that he’d never return. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mordred, the cold wisp of a man, did not seem to have any age. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old and scratched, it looked more like something a child would win from a carnival than a piece of jewelry suitable for a woman her age. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leah says in Congo there’s only two ages of people: babies that have to be carried, and people that stand up and fend for themselves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were clear and bright, like Ultima’s, and there were lines of age already showing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we don’t have to worry about Disarming, because he’s been able to do that for ages. I think we ought to start on some of these hexes this evening.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It might have bothered him at twelve years of age to be seen holding his mother’s hand, but he knew what would happen to her if he didn’t. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d quit school he roved about with a group of boys his own age, smoked cigarettes they gave him, and talked of automobiles and motorcycles, though no one owned one. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“That was another age. Come, we’d best hear what that priest is going on about. I swear I heard the name Daenerys.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the shore of the pool our group of aged pioneers gathered. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The twins were exactly the same age, so in Hyacinth’s mind they sort of counted as one. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For sure, the age of penitence, remorse and piety was well and truly over. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was the same age as me, nine and a half, and a nice fellow. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were only a year apart in age but eons apart in everything else. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some older teenagers stand together, and then a few feet away are kids my age. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Rahel was first blacklisted in Nazareth Convent at the age of eleven, when she was caught outside her Housemistress’s garden gate decorating a knob of fresh cow dung with small flowers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would be in the best position to take advantage of it? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Jack called ages ago and asked after you. Have you been visiting out of the family Like That?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If Prescott is right, in an age of nuclear weapons and effective contraceptives, child abuse and severe sexual repression are crimes against humanity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still the age of the horse, at least on the streets, and the old men hated to let it go. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All of those things were volcanic lava, finally erupting after ages of being suppressed. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For all his age and his spectacles, Granddaddy’s eyes were a lot keener than mine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Correct: At the age often, I got a puppy from my father. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A boy your age should be with his mother,” he said, smiling. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the very best for his congregation, to take them out of the dark ages of superstition and witchery. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I caught myself visualizing a woman my age dying, even though I knew that was wrong. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was younger than the others, approximately my own age. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was imagining this, but I thought the teen- aged girl looked happy to see me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After World War II, when the jet age started, I was a student in college, at West Point. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when old Master Nkrumah, age eighty-seven, had begun referring to the Greater Jungle as “her,” that had been the last straw. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s thirteen. Big for his age. Sandy hair. Blue eyes.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sort of thing you do when you’re ten, about the age I took Gran’s gramophone to bits. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

You see, in the troupe age had little to do with anything. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Therefore, having made himself hated, and since to this hatred was added contempt for his old age, Pertinax came to ruin at the very outset of his rule. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors said it was a miracle she survived at all, given her age, but that she was in incredible health for a person in her mid-eighties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And what of the scientific analysis that said that the surface of the Getty kouros could only have aged over many hundreds or thousands of years? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The problems of the past had given her a toughness and strength that most girls her age had yet to find. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m happy to, but you should also take lessons. There’s a Korean-language school that is based in our church. We can sign you up to take Korean class with kids your age.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was people in every race and of every age who had felt this pain. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Children today know a lot more about these sorts of things than most adults did when I was your age. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We have lost the joy of our household,” he wrote, “and the solace of our old age.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And if we are a speck in the immensity of space, we also occupy an instant in the expanse of ages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brewer was about my mother’s age, maybe a bit older, and wore a tailored blouse with pearls. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting it from the detritus, she ripped aside its wrappings, revealing leather covers, edges stained with age, clasps that locked all its secrets inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They dump everything out on the tables and poke gingerly at the parts as if at trinkets imported from some future age. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The last scientist who worked in the Library was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist and the head of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy—an extraordinary range of accomplishments for any individual in any age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the weighty evidence piling up was the fact that Sula did not look her age. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my cousins there were around my age, and I could tell they didn’t know how to wrap their heads around what had happened to us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then he added: 'I can see you're in good shape for your age, sir. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Formal schooling—if you could call what happened in the wooden barn next door to my grandparents’ house “formal schooling”—went only to fourteen years of age. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Too soon doctors would discover and be amazed at the apparent difference in age between his face and his body. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was about Hugo’s age, and he often saw her go into the booth with a book under her arm and disappear behind the counter. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. You guys have been two peas in a pod for so long. Maybe Jack decided he needs to have some friends who are boys. It’s natural for someone Jack’s age.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

From the age of ten, Paul was being dressed in Brooks Brothers suits and tiny, clip-on rep ties. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hixon: She was their age, and there was a mattress in the apartment. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hallways are cramped, though the light coming through the windows creates the illusion of space; they are one of the only places where the factions mix, at our age. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My father has the look of a man who used to be handsome, but as he has aged, his cheeks have become hollow, his features harsh and strict. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure he’s been dead himself for ages.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a few lucky ones came to their life’s term and died of old age. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The chimney hasn’t been swept in ages, so the room is bound to fill with smoke. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The quipu recorders placed intricate knots in the strings to indicate our ages and our purpose for traveling. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This frightened Francie into believing that hair grew on the faces of all nuns who entered the convent at a tender age. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the shift in attitude and in public responsibility at the laboratory were as distinct in character as the golden age of aeronautics of the 1950s would be from the space-age 1960s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He saw the god “like a young man at the age when youth is loveliest,” as Homer says. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t care for disco music, however, and at his age tires easily. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, he seemed to consider helping me pack—after all, he had run away from Dad at my age—but I shook my head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Two guys and a girl around our age, wearing white bandanas on their faces, help us into the back of the truck. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I always thought she and Pa were around the same age but now she looked younger than my father. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The popular age, as it rapidly became known, brought undreamed-of musical benefits and rewards to humankind. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; groaning: My sin, my terrible God; screaming with pain, muttering with fever, bemoaning old age and poverty—how can they tend the wheels? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one else in the family would have gone anywhere near a fig, regardless of its age. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

By 1935, it numbered nearly four million members—nearly 50 percent of all German youth, age ten to eighteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Under-standably the boys of my age and social group were captivated by the yellow- or light-brown-skinned girls, with hairy legs and smooth little lips, and whose hair “hung down like horses’ manes.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dark brown skin and curly hair and looked to be about Mom’s age. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The guy is surrounded by other people his age, all pulsing against each other, and my initial instinct is to yell, “Somebody help!” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Until then, the yard belonged to their squires, who ranged in age from ten to forty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He is a man about my grandfather’s age or maybe older. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was lost to the histories of a prior age of this world. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even at that age, I understood my father's concern. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He’s coming to believe in human goodness in his old age, which is certainly a change; I’ve even found some herbal tea in the cupboard. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed about her age, not long into two syllables, and was a good-looking boy with clear skin and bright eyes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I note what the girls my age are wearing and the style of their hair and the subject of their conversations, and I work hard to banish my foreignness, to make friends, to fit in. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I loved his tough love, humor, and that we were the same age. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At two weeks of age, he was moved outdoors. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We entered into what was a U of Wyoming college party on the local Saturday night, something that people our age do quite frequently, but that we do not. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four years later, at age thirty-six, he died. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a golden age, those few weeks in December and January. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But at night when he was cold, Pear Blossom lay warm and young against him and he was comforted in his age with her warmth in his bed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, you are the same age she was.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They varied in age—several of the women had cottony white hair, while others looked to be no older than her mother—but all of them shared a sameness she couldn’t place. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And all over the country, teens and young adults who had grown up believing they would come of age in wartime rushed to military posts and recruitment offices to volunteer to defend their Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was already considered an adult—that happens at age fourteen in our society. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Derby had pulled political wires to get into the army at his age. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was definitely of middle age, but whoever had done his operation had botched it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Beneath our pictures are our names, ages, favorite foods, and our definitions of Clover City in one word. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But it does seem as though with age came acceptance of his own ignorance. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of the boys look to be about my age, seventeen or so. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then she had her son, a boy about Charlies age, fill a tub of hot water in her own bedroom and ordered Lyddie to bathe. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As he drove he hauled out the now wrinkled notes, found her so-called “age.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I am a minor myself— the legal drinking age is twenty-one—but none of the waiters ever asks for my I.D. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

What if there was an electrical failure on board the spacecraft and the astronauts needed to navigate back home by the stars, like the mariners of a simpler age? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

People who had actually been teenagers in the 1980s, all now approaching old age, had the strange experience of seeing the fads and fashions of their youth embraced and studied by their grandchildren. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some kids around my age stand on top of a car as they shout, “Justice for Khalil!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He has done this right through the age of No Child Left Behind and of unyielding educational metrics, which seems to me an act of utter subversion and unwavering conviction of purpose. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of them were under the age of twenty-one. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Nazis struck the final blow to Jewish emigration in 1941 when they forbade Jews between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to emigrate. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"The lad swears Lord Jon was as strong as a man half his age. Often went riding with Lord Stannis, he says." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Luckily my tastes hadn’t matured much since the age of thirteen, so I tucked right in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bunkhouse is not a word I particularly want to hear at my age, but we had no choice. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of not quite six, he was not allowed to visit the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“And a boy around that age. I’m so sorry.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were fewer than a hundred children under the age of fifteen who had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Which is reason #1 why he left the music business at age twenty-nine, to become, get this, a librarian?! Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, all ages. From babies right up to sixteen, I suppose.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was at the age when she looked as much like an overgrown boy as a girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She has long dark hair like mine and was then the same age I had been when the camp closed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All my children, when they are of age, are sent with medicine bundles to wherever they choose to live.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“How could you ruin her old age?” said Brave Orchid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the age of three, Hugh was already carrying a diplomatic passport. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You do? When I was your age, all I had was a girl problem.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, a woman of the same age as the man, about fifty Dicey guessed, struggled up the steps to the next-door house, carrying two huge bags of groceries. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't care what age you are," she said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Setting aside an ambition to be a Canadian Mountie, Woolf began race riding while in his mid-teens, apparently padding his age by a year. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, he tells me, my mother was an only child whose mother died ages ago. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! My aching back. Old age is a terrible thing, Idunn.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then all the numbers would come out right, and figuring out the child’s age would be a simple matter of subtracting – 4 from 2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some students thought you should be looking for a person twenty to thirty years older than yourself—the sort of age a normal parent would be. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet of the ages returned to the tomb. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll age forward if you don’t reach another loop soon. We can help you—but first we have to catch a pigeon.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The perfect age to be in 1975, in other words, is old enough to be a part of the coming revolution but not so old that you missed it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I stand in the shower for ages, gradually' reducing the water temperature, making it cooler and cooler until it’s properly cold. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with her family, she was first imprisoned in that camp in 1975, at the age of thirteen. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

On the banks of a river, under the violent light of noon, confessed believers and children of Gabriel’s age waited to be led into the water. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Unlike old age or cancer, no one anticipates a suicide. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He prescribed the bark infusions for her aches but said to her, "Such pain comes for us all, in great age." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I never told Shorty—and he never suspected—that he was about ten years older than I. He took us to be about the same age. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe my age, or the presence of the Red Cross, immunized me against the terrors I knew existed in the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They looked well into middle age, but it was hard to be sure. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Rowan would catch her reading in various places around the mansion: mortal age books made of paper that had apparently been collected by the owner before he surrendered it all to Scythe Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s age rendered him extremely averse to delay. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to come here during the daytime hours when the classes were in session, surrounded by boys my age, American boys with their open smiles and boisterous voices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was true that in this place there were often girls given as brides at that age. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The scrap of song came from a woman’s throat, and Joe thrashed and beat his way up the incline and through the hedge, a tangle of muscadine vines, Virginia creeper and hibiscus rusty with age. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fox had the better vantage point, but Lac saw a boy about his age scoop up a slight, black-haired girl and go running past them down the dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had died the year before, of old age. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was there that their teenage sons disappeared when they reached a certain age and couldn’t be controlled any longer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I scanned the crowd until I saw a boy, perhaps my age, standing near the far corner of the pitch. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t attained that level of status in my career and at my age, I was already considered a has-been. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The farmer himself opened his door to us, a stocky soft-spoken man of about Estraven’s age. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Prophet had been an orphan from a young age so he really understood what it means to have no anchor. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Laertes’ housekeeper, who reared the boys and tended Dolios in his bent age, had gone to fetch them in. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have left the country twice, listening to my pleas of an aging mother and fantasies of beefsteak. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under DACA, undocumented children who entered the United States before the age of sixteen would avoid deportation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was very close to moving to the next level of athletic ability, a level at which I would be better than most kids my age and ready to play against older kids. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about the night before, and wrestling old age, of drinking the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her skin becomes yellowish, aged, and hangs loose from her bones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see only taxis, people of all ages, and sunlight glinting off windows. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One cannot interrupt galaxy formation, start and stop hurricanes and ice ages, experimentally exterminate grizzly bears in a few national parks, or rerun the course of dinosaur evolution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A month out of my life, ages and ages ago. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Mama, I love you,” I say as we pull out of the parking lot, “but that peace sign thing you just did makes you look your age.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I could do the multiplication table through ten and read and write simple sentences by the age of four as a result of all those long nights working with her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the recruitment officer was so busy counting out the twenty-five one-dollar bills Ned handed him that he neglected to ask for proof of age. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was so unlikely that we were the same age, fifteen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She is this way because of her age. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, if you are not popular in a popular age, what are you for? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Their five-year age difference made it easier for Ophelia to accept him as her teacher, but Farmer knew so much that age hardly mattered. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

By the age of five, in other words, American children are already a year behind their Asian counterparts in the most fundamental of math skills. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She seemed an aged woman, such as in great houses care for the children or guard the storerooms. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was Connor’s age, Jack had me convinced he was an actual pirate, too. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was fourteen and small for my age. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The kindly centaur’s face seemed to age thirty years during the course of their conversation, but he assured them he would see to the defenses of the camp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So it goes with me, age by age. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now, at the age of sixteen, my name will be in the reaping twenty times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

With him was a woman of the same age. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Two aged crab apple trees, bent with the wind, stripped of leaves but still heavy with berry-sized red fruits and bushy crowns of white-beaded mistletoe, stood sentinel on either side of the front door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Long before the gods appeared, in the dim past, uncounted ages ago, there was only the formless confusion of Chaos brooded over by unbroken darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin ghost boy of his own age nodded, and Will turned to him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As late as 1910, one of the most respected estimates, by the American George Becker, put the Earth’s age at perhaps as little as 55 million years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And you are . . . ?” “Rose Spencer, age eleven,” Rose said, sounding shy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“His head burns, and this heat is no good for a man his age,” she adds. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He went to Texas Tech University in Lubbock at the age of twenty-nine. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olive was not a tall woman and at that age she had begun to put on weight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cardboard cover was falling apart, and the pages were bent and soft from age, especially the ones in the front. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Every ten years the United States government collects data to find out who is living in the US. The census takers ask questions about age, sex, and race, to see how the country is changing.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Others argued back that they’d use for models people at the peak of their health, and that’s why they were likely to be “normal parent” age. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seems young for his age, but in a year or two he'll grow out of his awkwardness and have willing girlfriends lining up around the corner. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Titans, often called the Elder Gods, were for untold ages supreme in the universe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he tended to defer to Adams on the basis of age and political experience, Jefferson dominated his relationship with Madison for the same reasons. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But now they were going to hold Jeremiah for years as a minor just so they could legally execute him when he came of age. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“They must be preparing you for a crippled old age.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it goes with me day by day and age by age, I tell myself. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden walls and roofs are aged and gray from the rain and sun but otherwise sound. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around kids his age he was awkward and quiet, never knowing what to say unless he could bring the conversation around to books. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet she could see her two daughters, two spinsters beyond the marriageable age; they were at least twenty-five. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing he didn’t know; his former life, that dark age, could not recede fast enough. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘By which,’Jason said quickly, ‘he means under the drinking age! Because obviously you’re so young and beautiful.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wonder what life will be like a millennium from now, when the average age will be nearer to one thousand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Girls your age often have little difficulties like this,” he says, writing in his notebook. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That was the scouts letting us know they had an animal in sight, one that was the right age to be taken. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The old fox seemed to age as he took this in. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Defense?” the girl said, now sounding every bit her age. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was not right to watch a woman of her age suffer like this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One could whitewash all he pleased, and put up comic neon signs, but the aged timbers stood strong under their additional burden. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We were both twenty-four years old when you were born, the normal age for most Americans, but among the class we soon found ourselves, we ranked as teenage parents. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We lose the ability to as we get older. Just a natural part of aging I suppose.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By early middle age, Harding’s biographer Francis Russell writes, his “lusty black eyebrows contrasted with his steel-gray hair to give the effect of force, his massive shoulders and bronzed complexion gave the effect of health.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In our day and age, you might give a cop-out excuse like "The heart wants what it wants," but keep in mind this was Iran in the 1940s. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“He does look a bit old for his age, though,” Mom says, cheerfully oblivious. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had two daughters, one my age and the other a couple years younger than my eight-year-old sisters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Graceful and economical in every movement, he held a place of envy with men of all ages for his magnificently foul mouth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the aging prospector understood the futility of trying to contain a torrential boy within the confines of a small town. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotel’s fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an 88 that can fire twenty-one-and-a-half-pound shells nine miles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We asked courts to recognize that such a judgment cannot rationally be passed on children below a certain age because they are unfinished products, human works in progress. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And the crime rate continued to fall as an entire generation came of age minus the children whose mothers had not wanted to bring a child into the world. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"She does look young, but it's so hard to tell ages of people of the Oriental persuasion," Grace said. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are hobs born with lined faces like tiny, hairless cats and smooth-limbed nixies whose true age shows only in their ancient eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Generationally, though, he could seem older than his chronological age—more a child of the 1950s than the 1960s. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Penelope said: “If by the gods’ grace age at least is kind, we have that promise—trials will end in peace.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like Knot had done what seemed like ages ago. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m not really free to be like other girls my age—because of the way the world sees me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My sisters close to my age were not as interesting as the neighborhood boys who ran and climbed and didn’t mind getting dirty. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was my age, with unruly black, punk-style hair, dark eyeliner around her stormy green eyes, and freckles across her nose. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At his feet were a group of twenty children, some few my age, most younger. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lily pulls open yet another large wooden door, and this time we slip into cool blackness and the sweet smell of burning candles, mustiness, and age. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He remembered his father’s stories about his poor childhood and how at Nicolas’s age he was already out working to support his mother and sister. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of twenty-two he returned to Glasgow University to take up a professorship in natural philosophy, a position he would hold for the next fifty-three years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Get in and rescue her. But suppose there’s twenty kids the same age all lying asleep—how could we tell which was her?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It would be easy to think of witchcraft, too, as belonging to a more primitive dispensation, inappropriate in this new sedate, cool, quiet and reasonable age. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Two of the kids appear close to my age. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The subjects represented different ages, ethnic mixes, and body types, from muscular to obese to gaunt. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They looked to be the same age as each other—a little older than Anya herself—clearly twins. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Here are people who have spent their lives promoting youthful beauty, making everyone over the age of thirty feel like an open sore. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"We allocated one hundred grams for luxury items. There are some handwritten letters from Mark's family, a note from the President, and a USB drive filled with music from all ages." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rip the canvases into shreds, breaking them into parts—cotton, linen, glue, and aged hemp. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t like the idea of aging. At least she won’t die now. Or get any older.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She inhaled and all, but she didn't wolf the smoke down, the way most women around her age do. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Without fail, I think of her every time I stumble upon an episode of Wheel of Fortune, and wonder how the hell Pat Sajak and Vanna White haven't aged since the early nineties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Two men Cora’s age joined the lessons in the meeting house, eager runaways more ignorant than she was. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Serving size is based on your age, height, body type, health, and amount of physical labor required by your schedule. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"But I was self-pitying and foolish. And there was a woman, a widow, I was attracted to. You understand about that, don't you? Boys your age would understand." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Come in! Come in! You must be thirsty. Where did you come from again? It must have taken ages. Can she get you anything?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The color of the photo is brown and white, and it’s yellowed with old age. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We came here to enjoy our old age in peace, not to think of Tom. He’s been dead so long now, we should try to forget him and everything on Earth.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surprise was that they did not judge me by my age, but by my work. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi closed her eyes and listened and felt the age of the tree trunk under her hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a longtime Afrikaner nationalist, and an outspoken supporter of the Nazi cause; he once described Hider as the “greatest man of his age.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony curls his age, And he would curl his weight Of 83 pounds, but he Would pull a muscle In his arm. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see them there because I’d read about kids their age being rounded up and fed from troughs like pigs. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the table, she noticed two aging men casting anxious glances at her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At my age, it’s not good to have a reputation for being crazy. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And attached to a pipe with a bit of shoelace tied to a piece of wire tied to a length of string — a grimy, coffee-splashed booklet, its edges soft with age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was good-looking, was my age, and he came from Amalfi. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even when he was forty he had looked his present age, which was fifty-five. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father is a respected climbing Sherpa who taught him the basics of mountaineering at an early age so tThe sirdar is the head Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest Darwin, Horace, was ten, Annie’s age when she died, bringing back bad memories, along with fear and anxiety for Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult, almost impossible, to bridge the age/time gap between us. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ten years old, Chester’s age, but imbued with the melancholy grace of an elderly house slave, the sum of practiced gestures. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Julia Grant died on December 14,1902, at the age of seventy- six, and lies alongside her husband in a tomb in New York City. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The Bureau talks about this golden age of humanity before the genetic manipulations in which everyone was genetically pure and everything was peaceful,” Nita says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If you were interested in finding out the ages of things, the University of Chicago in the 1940s was the place to be. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The soap is insanely expensive, and everybody over the age of forty simply has to have it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The way the government people reckoned a child’s age was to ask him to lift his arm, reach over the top of his head, and touch his opposite ear. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. What it does is give you the chance to say, Oh, when I was your age...Trust me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In truth, Joe was never given a second, much less a third, chance to “upright himself,” but he was nonetheless characterized at age thirteen as a “serial” or “violent recidivist” by prosecutors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’d been asking to go for months, reminding her that Maria had seen a dozen births by the time she was my age. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In other news, my equipment is starting to show signs of age. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bedwyck stood no more than five feet tall, but the grey streaks in his hair showed his age. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I'm a kid. I'm thirteen. You said it's a miserable age, being thirteen, and you're right. If you don't fit in, they make your life a misery. Like Floyd Chaceley or Nicholas Briar.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Kids my age ran away all the time. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My grandmother starts off, a story about when Papi was my age. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

So, at the age of twelve, I had my name entered four times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now it was December, and to a kid Bubber’s age that was a long time from summer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

President Wilson was calling for thirteen million men, ages eighteen to forty-five, to enroll. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not when we moved into number twenty-three, a roomier, lovelier house than I’d imagined I’d live in at the tender age of twenty-six. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl about her age, and a woman in a lavender garment—clearly in the style of a scythe’s robe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Like the Moon, they all bear witness to an age of impact catastrophism in the early history of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orbits of the present planets are the orbits of the survivors of this collisional natural selection, the stable middle age of a solar system dominated by early catastrophic impacts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilhelm Muller, the writer of many of his song lyrics, died aged thirty-three. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. M., as I’ll call him, has five children under the age of thirteen, and another on the way. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba dressed all in black and in a single night passed from his healthy middle years to a shrunken, stuttering old age, which, however, did nothing to curb his anger. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that he might be the same age as his older brother. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I had come out of a dark age, and wished I had not wasted two years in Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not natural. It would do you good to talk things over with girls your own age.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood surrounding the Professor’s store was made up of inexpensive apartment houses, little family-owned shops, and small, aging homes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people came into view, a mother and two children, one boy near to Roza’s age and another some years younger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It is like realizing someone in a photograph is no longer the same age as they were when it was taken, and they seem farther away because of it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A year after I started the column, I was in a small, overstaffed restaurant across the table from an aging, elegant woman in a silk turban who oversaw the International Best Dressed List. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She can fly behind us. She hasn’t had a chance to stretch her wings for ages.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He was also clearly not a sophomore, whoever he was; he was maybe my brother’s age. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And if not all the sudden, they’d age out at seventeen and get shipped somewhere else anyway. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And it was in this place where Mollie’s mother and father had come of age. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Besides, they were one and two years apart in age. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As a teenager Bloom had worked in De Young’s Alcazar Theater and worked his way up to become its treasurer at age nineteen. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Adjusting for age, I realize some of our opponents may be elderly, which is both sad and reassuring. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Old age,” she said, laughing, “the first sign of old age is all this talking when we could be doing something else. ...” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many Dinka families give their children a name from the Bible when they are baptized, and that is how I became John at age four or five. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my eyes, one of the biggest blessings was that the campaign crossed all socioeconomic, religious, political, racial, gender, and age boundaries. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To underscore her authority it is likely that Cleopatra arranged a stop at Memphis—the former capital where the pharaohs of ages past resided. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t recall having liked school much when I was their ages. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neither his physical stature nor his age, however, could compensate for his lengthy absence abroad throughout the great constitutional reforms of the late 1780s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

History’s eyes and coming of age in their young nation and making a million mistakes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But it took all this talk of old age so seriously that by the time you finished and walked down the corridor, you acted old. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He’s dressed in dark jeans and a T-shirt, and his short scruffy beard makes him look older than Zohra, even though they’re the same age. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The others agreed; they sent their report, and two hours later Reynie was drifting away to sleep, having finished an upbeat mental letter to Miss Perumal and feeling hopeful for the first time in ages. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am almost of the age my mother was when she bore me. Do you see me? Do you remember her?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But Noris was like me, she wanted to give herself to things, and at her tender age, she could only imagine giving herself to children. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Because he began to talk about her age all the time, as if he didn’t want her to stay young while he grew old. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you know who the other women are? Do they talk on the phone? Have you met the other Pandavas? Are they all girls our age?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Charles noted that from an early age she was neater than her big brother. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is just as important to write books for the general public, for people of all ages and in all countries. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They make fun of me all the time about my age, my size, my braces, and the way I stick out my tongue when I play. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got excellent exam results and—here’s an amazing coincidence—at the age of fifteen he actually found himself sitting next to a boy who would grow up to become prime minister of Great Britain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My father died at the age of ninety-nine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know I haven’t read a book in ages. No time.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But all of them, whatever their age, watched her retreating view with interest. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma had written the works department about the pipes, but, of course, it would take ages before anybody did anything about them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The name on it was Adelaide Belle Perry, age twenty-one. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Although Frieda Banks lived a few blocks around the way from us, off Atlantic Avenue, we joined hands and swung them like we hadn’t seen each other in ages. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

According to the sign, this boy stopped growing at the age of five, but he went on to live to the age of eighty-nine. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a series of mental breakdowns, she died in a mental institution at the age of sixty-five. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In more primitive ages, when a just and peaceful society was in fact not possible, it had been fairly easy to believe in it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Old age, in short...One day, perhaps, it will happen to you...if you are lucky....” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry, sir," he said, "but do you have some verification of your age? Your driver's license, perhaps?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Trust me, Seth, consorting with satyrs is the last thing a boy your age needs.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His cloud of white hair made him look rather like an aged dandelion clock and was topped by a moth-eaten fez. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“To reduce disease, they tell us. Only in the most advanced cities. We live in a new Rome, my friend. An enlightened age!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But that guy is dead now from old age. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His body followed the movements of his hands, and his gray earlocks moved along the sides of his aged face. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The parlor came next, where the furniture, loose and sloping with age, was set about helter-skelter. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t regard Collins as a father substitute, but as a friend, despite their thirty-year difference in ages. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine him at the age of thirteen, and I realized he had probably looked a lot like I had when he found me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was tall for his age and older than his years. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1687 Boyle’s friend David Abercromby announced his intention of writing a treatise which would be a history of discovery through the ages—the book that Polydore Vergil had failed to write. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A merchant marine officer named Frank Worsley, a part-Maori New Zealander who had been a sailor since the age of sixteen, was to captain the ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Even at that young age, I just couldn’t believe in the Christian concept of Jesus as someone divine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Analyzing her past when she had reached middle age, she decided that the main reason was her fear of her father. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They need to learn empathy at a young age.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the age of thirty-three, Valentin was already an experienced combat pilot and commander. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My formula has variables for age, color, breed, and size. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It slowed finally, after Guitar took him to his first Southside party, and after he found himself effortlessly popular with girls of his own age and in his own neighborhood. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes were torn and his throat was gone and his eyes were wild and he probably would have yelled too if he’d been their age. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Koffi had been born long after that golden age, but she still tried to imagine it as she traversed the city’s ancient streets. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Things had run out of his nose and were making the hair on his lip look gray, but up close he seemed too young to be showing age that way. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In a few weeks four more children joined the fray, for a total of eleven foster children between the ages of two and six. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He had taken his shirt off to bathe, and I could see draped over his left shoulder the sacred thread given to Brahman boys when they come of age. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen is a good age to read this book and sixteen is even better. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mechtild fell to her knees with an agility that belied her age. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I hear your brother faked his age and joined the army. Are you picking off his girl?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in effect it was unanswerable even now, since the few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable of comparing one age with another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At the age of 16, George went off to live with his brother at Mount Vernon, Lawrence’s Potomac River plantation. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occupation authorities decree that every house must have a list of its occupants fixed to its door: M. Etienne LeBlanc, age 62. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood is older than ours, with aging ranch style homes, but a strip mall on the corner looks no different here than in my neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Echevarri didn’t begin formal dance training until the age of twelve, but once she did, there was no looking back. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I have a pretty decent vocabulary for someone my age, but I don’t know the word for the look on her face. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The visitor was about the same age as Hallgrimsson, but he looked older; certainly his face bore the marks of more experience and trial than did the professor’s smooth cheeks and unlined brow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The bartender doesn’t bother to check my age. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom mirror she appraised her looks, wondering if she could attract another husband at her age. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re turning the big one-three! Teen is going to be in your age now. It’s huge. A movie is one giant yawn.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had seventeen male children by seventeen different women and they were exterminated one after the other on a single night before the oldest one had reached the age of thirty-five. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s all in your mind. You have this age psychosis. You’re still a very attractive woman. You must say to yourself, ‘I am still attractive. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t touch it, though I was curious if the aged wood would feel as silky as it looked. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Frederick’s successor, his son Christian, was only 11 when the King died, and the Danish nobles elected four of their number to serve as Protectors until he reached the age of 20. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was no doubt this, Florence’s age and kindness, that led Elizabeth, with no premeditation, to take Florence into her confidence. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He looked to be about my father’s age. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Although exact ages are not known, it is likely that some Waffen-SS recruits were former Hitler Youth, now old enough to join the elite SS formation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By comparing the C’4 level in bones and wooden implements to the normal level in living tissues, Libby reasoned, scientists should be able to determine the age of these objects with unheard-of precision. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She recognized his evening clothes from the stacks in the colored emporium, but he wore them with more confidence than other men his age who hailed from plantations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In 1984, at the age of eighty-seven, Anderson accepted the first Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, given in memory of Mrs. Roosevelt in a ceremony at New York’s City Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She eats ravenously, and sadly I think of Frightful when she was this age. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, feeling deeply that his filth was an unforgivable imposition, he’d chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I understand that you are seeking a governess for three children. Perhaps you might tell me their ages and a bit about them.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Each time the consequences were beyond the imagination of our fortunate age. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She could just go on like this, like a woman from old-fashioned times, a maiden aunt, some aging perennial girl who never leaves home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Traveling close to the speed of light you would hardly age at all, but your friends and your relatives back home would be aging at the usual rate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Has reached that time when a man ages rapidly, older with each passing moment. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I finally walked through those gates to enter a car on the other side, I felt — even at the age of seventy-one — that my life was beginning anew. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its surface, worn with age, glowed a buttery yellow. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tycho was the greatest observational genius of the age, and Kepler the greatest theoretician. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the answer would have to be "high growth," especially with an aging population. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Kleptocrats throughout the ages have resorted to a mixture of four solutions: Disarm the populace, and arm the elite. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a kid Shadow had been small for his age, all elbows and knees. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He served as Baltimore’s state’s attorney for four years and at age thirty-eight was elected the first African-American mayor of Baltimore City, which at the time was over 60 percent black. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Most of these children live near the school and have witnessed a drive-by shooting by the age of ten. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was beyond him in all ways—age, looks, no matter what metric you used. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even at the tender age when I didn’t yet know my real name, I was puzzled by the hypocrisy of celebrating a people everyone looked down on. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, as she rose swiftly, “Just one little minute—these particulars, your maiden name, age and so on, they are correct?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the Normandy campaign, the tenacity and ferocity of the SS-HJ division astounded the Allies, who had once called them the “Baby Milk Division,” due to their young age. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the gods felt age beginning to touch them, to frost their hair or ache their joints, then they would go to Idunn. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Though age had not sounded in his voice, he looked to be an old man. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It could have occurred anywhere we might have been living; I had reached the age. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about the same age that Dad would have been, or I guess still was, if dead people have ages. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looks my age, so I doubt she’s got a job to go to. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Instead it serves only to warehouse poor black and brown people for increasingly lengthy periods of time, often until old age. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about getting hit on by old ladies the same age as Claire,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I grinned, because it had been a long time since I had seen a young man my age. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The asthma was under control, but the doctor alerted me to something else—Malia’s body mass index, a measure of health that factors together height, weight, and age, was beginning to creep up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Carmine, it says in a postscript, died peacefully at the age of seventy-four in Park Rapids. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It seems the crevices run deeper into her body each time I see her, that her wooden skin ages before my eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newspaper was over three years old and stiff with age. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was too much like showing off to accept such a lavish present in front of Ricky, whose car cost less than my monthly allowance at age twelve. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Services, Incorporated, the auto-repair business she owns with her husband, Chris Fish, in the hope of making her first million at an early age. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d prefer you spend more time with people your own age who are a better influence. And with Yusuf and with other boys from the Islamic Center.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her silvery voice, dry with gray age, warbled a bit and missed more high notes than it hit. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ma settled in to get her college degree in social work from Temple University at age sixty-five. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw this group of kids around our age carrying skateboards. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he said he wished that when he was my age he could have driven a car like this one, but instead he drove a bicycle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Look,” said Ron, obviously casting around for a change of subject, “it’s the holidays! It’s nearly Christmas! Let’s — let’s go down and see Hagrid. We haven’t visited him for ages!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let me catch you doing such a cheap thing again! At your age, the idea!” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl smiles, and it's only now that I realize that she's conscious of the age difference. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

They’d been best friends from an early age, spending hours together building forts out of cushions and blankets in their Annandale living room. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I almost remember when I was your age,” she says. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was seventy years old, but had the body and spirit of a man half that age. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three girls about my age approached, arms linked. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The boys and girls were about my age, and were as thick as flies around a sorghum mill. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman of any age past thirty answered my ring and said Bailey Johnson was at the top of the stairs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europeans in those days tended to view children as moving straight from infancy to adulthood around the age of seven, and often thereupon sent them out to work. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But it was rare that there was such an age gap between children in a family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced around the group and realized that most of them were around her age—young and fairly healthy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In layman’s terms: I discovered a cure for aging.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The cage had been occupied until a few months before by a yellow canary named Porgy, who had lived in it for five years and then died of old age. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was talk about changing the rule and giving the bicycles at an earlier age. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

They told him, “Kids this age. You’ll see. She’ll probably walk through your front door before we even get a chance to track her down.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I imagine him my age and think of all the questions I need answers to. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I have more experience than most; I’ve experienced something almost no one my age ever has. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

That sickness is old age; and a horrible disease it is. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the same age as Sweetie Pie. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked my age, maybe a year older. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s working a railroad job back in Iowa. He says it’s not fit living for a girl my age, so I’m here for the summer.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he had brought his son, Eddie, who was my age, with him. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The heart is important at any age, I’m afraid.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife, about the same age as he, was dressed in a simple brown cotton dress and a grey wool sweater worn at the elbows and buttoned in the front. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"What's your name?" says a girl about my age with a white knit cap over her head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He answered the questions openly and honestly, as would any other young person of his age. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man never spoke about his age, but everyone knew it to be over seventy-five. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The air, too, smelled slightly better; musty, as if it had lain unstirred for ages, but without the choking closeness of the tunnels. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I can see the cracks, like the lines of age on a face. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, three children, ages eight to ten, line up in front of their mother, who loads them down with logs of wood to deliver. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They are mostly oblivious of the extended Croteau family, and have barely met the Croteau cousins, who are close to their age and live nearby but lead quite different lives. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were around my age, or maybe just a little older. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"The age of heroes has long passed. This is a time of monsters and monstrous deeds." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nabila came when she was Fatima’s age, and where would she have had the chance to keep up with whatever she might have learned before? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed unnecessarily cruel to make an old man wear a cap sideways like that and arbitrarily re-order the way in which age chose to hang from his chin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember Dad saying that ages ago, but tonight I think I finally got what it meant. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“This lad looks to be the right sort of age. He’s dressed—well, you’ll see how he’s dressed. And he found this. It could be him.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw Lynn playing with some kids closer to her age. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“When my grandfather was my age, he had dropped out of school, crossed the border, and was supporting his family. So, no.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“But, Mom,” I say, “it says no kids are accepted after the age of twelve!” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the golden age of rock and roll, even for us kids in deepest West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a boy sitting there, about my age. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps we had become a little arrogant with our fine new technique of ice-claw and rubber slipper, our age of easy mechanical conquest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two younger girls that seemed closer to Anya’s age followed, one looking just as enthused as the adults, and one looking sour. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A bikini-clad woman/girl who looked about my age stood by a cash register. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He thought of a man whom he had passed in the street a few weeks back: a quite ordinary-looking man, a Party member, aged thirty-five or forty, tallish and thin, carrying a brief case. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Like all colored people, I had learned that from a young age. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory or defeat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But with the weight of age and politics, Tres Marias, like many other things that had once seemed essential, had ceased to interest him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in one vital respect Josquin made a departure, and one that was to become a hallmark of the music of the age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Doha hadn’t seen Gunwoo since the day at the pond, which felt like ages ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

An age when crime was a fact of life, and entire industries were based on apprehending, trying, and punishing criminals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

An older woman with a long gray braid and a flowing gypsy dress is coming their way, and behind her is a guy about Annabelle’s age. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He has got himself his young nurse wife for his old age. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, sallow man of middle age. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I have told him that I had been a drunkard at the age of six? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost hear them doing the mental arithmetic, calculating my age backward. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, they were talking to faces across the ages, faces like yours and mine. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Because he did not get along with other children, he had been unschooled since the age of seven. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Eberhardt, it’s illegal for a boy your age not to be in school. The offense is called truancy.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s traditional to give a wizard a watch when he comes of age,” said Mrs. Weasley, watching him anxiously from beside the cooker. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They had been born in the wartime years; they’d been raised by parents who’d come of age in the Depression, who threw nothing out, not even moldy food. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the back of my mind, I lived in fear that being Middle Eastern was considered a turnoff to boys my age. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Though he seemed like a mild-mannered man, more like a middle- aged storekeeper than a Marine, I also saw what he looked like when he was angry. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal and Aron were assigned to the seventh grade because of their age, and they learned every shadow of its picture—Laocoon completely wrapped in snakes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reginald, the one who had always looked up to me, had gotten big enough to fake his age, and he was planning soon to enter the merchant marine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blanca had already resigned herself to chastity, middle age, and her various aches and pains, but the shock of love had brought her a new youth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he believes Malik is going to be able to identify some factor in tuatara blood that makes them age slowly, and then he’s going to ‘cure death,’” Davis said, using air quotes. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The boys our age were all dressed in oversize suits, dingy shirts, and sneakers. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The only child of immigrant parents, orphaned at the age of twelve, self-educated, hard-working Samuel Westing saved his laborer's wages and bought a small paper mill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Look at her. The hair, the eyes. She is the very image of Cat at the same age." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it still hurts people’s feelings at that age to be thought of as older, but it’s better to err on the side of caution. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Her handmaids were of an age with her—women grown to look at them, with their black hair, copper skin, and almond-shaped eyes, but girls all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think you are more pet than boyfriend,” she cracked, “which is good. At my age a pet is all I need.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were men and women of all ages, some white-haired, and some not even yet adults. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Sorry for all the questions. It’s just...not a lot of kids our age make it to the Thicket.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I went to the living room, said hello to Jean, who was about my age and thoroughly unlikable, and went to my room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The White House meeting that formally inaugurated the thermonuclear age took all of seven minutes, and it only lasted that long because Lilienthal asked for the time to express his dissenting view. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If you wanted a masterpiece, a sword for the ages, was it Arabella that your footsteps led you to? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing he’s nineteen or twenty, but I’m not ruling out he’s our age. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she’d spoken for ages and we both jolted back a bit in surprise. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks to be about his own age, and she wears what can only be called a costume, as they certainly aren’t normal clothes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

LiNK has a strict no-dating rule between North Korean refugees and interns, many of whom are college age and far from their parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“If you should decide during your old age that you would like to live another five hundred years, come here and drink ten pounds of this sap,” they told me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for me, at age seven, the island was a country as foreign as India or Arabia would have been. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don't age the same as the Gris. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"It was strange to see in a kid his age,” says Walt, "but he loved Tony Bennett. He’d sing numbers like ‘Tender Is the Night’ while I accompanied him on piano. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sex differences in the factors which predict musical attainment in school aged students. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But my mother must have been around my age and still working at the apothecary shop with her parents. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a girl about her age, which made sense, since this was the seventh-grade lunch period. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She was my age, I guess, though all the twirling made her seem more like a little kid. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had struggled a long time with that loss, believed he had resigned himself to it, had come to terms with the fact that old age would be not remembering what things felt like. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gabriel came, from all his times and ages, to curse the sister who had held him to scorn and mocked his ministry. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was rare for a person to let themselves reach such an age before resetting back to a more youthful self. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She and her generation were the first in the history of the world to come of age with the possibility of human extinction as a by-product of human ingenuity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m asking you to try working for a change. At your age I was working hard, not floundering around in a fool’s dream world.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was tall, and she also wore glasses at an early age. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big mirrors on the wardrobe doors are spotted black with age, and old leather boots stand beneath a little desk, and a whisk broom hangs from a peg. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe I am lucky—that at the age of nine I was given the ghosts of my parents’ best selves, and at twenty-three the ghost of my true love’s best self. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tymeka is our age, and I recognized her from the eighth grade when we used to compete in the Academic Olympics. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Rowan it looked like a relic from the dark ages. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Though Gogol doesn’t know it, even Nikolai Gogol renamed himself, simplifying his surname at the age of twenty-two from Gogol-Yanovsky to Gogol upon publication in the Literary Gazette. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were warped with age, coated in dust, and filled with thick, yellowed paper. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years of age an’ talking about the pension. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So I think you should know that if you get caught drinking at your age, you won’t be allowed to get a driver’s license.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One summer day when I was about ten, I sat on a stoop, chatting with a group of girls my age. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t had fruit in ages,” she said, her pitch rising with every word. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

DRACO: Astoria always knew that she was not destined for old age. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He looked about my dad’s age, and I knew he’d been in the war too. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was lucky to learn that lesson at such a young age. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I know most people my age are all about the texts, but as someone without a cell phone, I have to take what I can get. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But they’re cute. Are they our age? Let’s go say hi.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At the age of thirteen, Maria had watched, waited, and witnessed with her own eyes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sis Heyster also writes that girls my age feel very insecure about themselves and are just beginning to discover that they’re individuals with their own ideas, thoughts and habits. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And I wondered what my dad looked like when he was my age. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the city we were divided by faction, by age, by history, but here all those divisions fall away. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Me? I am Fiona O’Reilly. My pa brought me to this place from Ireland when I was just a wee snip of a thing—’bout the age of that cub you be holdin’ on to. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at that age, he’d known that if his father had been there, somehow the kite’s failure would have ruined the afternoon. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A girl of perhaps nine or ten years of age was standing behind them on the path. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how it is—not too easy at my age.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over in Britain, the world’s first national broadcaster, the BBC, came into being in 1922, ushering in an age when music would come to belong to everyone, everywhere, often enjoyed completely for free. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys. Perhaps he takes things a little more seriously than he should at his age." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

This doesn’t mean that children can’t learn music after the age of 9, of course, but that the language of musical enculturation is well under way by that age. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The man and woman, who looked to be the age of my grandparents, welcomed me and allowed me to take a bath. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At the age of thirty-six, weighing in at four hundred and ninety-eight pounds, Lucy died. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The old knight had been wounded in the fight, a deep gash in his left arm and a spear thrust that grazed his neck, and he sounded his age. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’s balding and squarely built and looks like an aging football coach. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She attended school for only three years, from ages eight to eleven, but she was said to have a photographic memory and a great deal of innate intelligence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Er, yes. It was all right. A bit awkward, you know, just having to sit there for ages.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For politeness reasons I do not dare ask his age. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

So was the age of characters and plots. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though she called me “boy” so often, and with a carelessness that was far from complimentary, she was of about my own age. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve made a mockery of mortal age faith. Religion is a cherished part of history, and they’ve turned it into a travesty.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Lanning was coming, his gray eyebrows as lavish as ever, his aged figure unbent as yet and full of life. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

By age twelve, I was a devotee of the political columnist Mary McGrory and the muckraker Jack Anderson. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

However, in 1869, at the age of thirty-five, he began to toy with a way to arrange the elements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We split up by age—the adult class, the high school class, the middle school class, and then there’s a class for the younger kids, and a nursery for the babies. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Listen, when I was his age I used to call my father “Sir.” Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus didn’t become a proper Catholic till he took the bread and wine at the Last Supper and He was thirty- three years of age. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He declined the lifetime pension offered him after the war and until old age he made his living from the little gold fishes that he manufactured in his workshop in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure? I could swear that’s Crazy Horse when he was your age. Though his hair was probably a bit longer.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You can tell them Seabiscuit will meet War Admiral anywhere, weight for age, track fast, from a quarter mile to a couple of miles,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her was a boy, about Salim’s age, but not Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the ages up until the Seeing were as long as the ages will be after the Seeing, which befell in the Center of Time. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

On one such night, Ammu, aged nine, hiding with her mother in the hedge, watched Pappachi’s natty silhouette in the lit windows as he flitted from room to room. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And I can’t let this happen. You know as well as I do that the moment the child comes of age, Suyodhana is destined to become...to become...” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The lads he was instructing ranged in age from eight to twenty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Very soon he would not be an Eleven but a Twelve, and age would no longer matter. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know much about autumnlands, just that she was around his age and that she lived near Birmingham, Alabama. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The bad news: apparently every looping trip had aged him a year. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Girls your own age. Nice girls. This is a good opportunity, Malcolm.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Girlfriend? Ha! Son, a man my age don’t keep pictures of his teenage girlfriend up on his walls. What that look like?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At age thirty-nine he’d already invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together, and had used it to perform the first coronary bypass and develop methods for transplanting organs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the kitchen stood a black-haired boy about Salvador’s age, scraping uneaten food off plates into big garbage pails. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His light brown face had grown tough with age, cracked but soft, like a pair of well-worn work boots. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this log will be recovered before the rest of the crew die of old age. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Third Age was my age. I was the Enemy of Sauron; and my work is finished. I shall go soon. The burden must lie now upon you and your kindred.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"It's marvelous to see you! It's been ages." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The inevitable chinks in his cast-iron constitution began to appear with age. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had long suspected Pearl and Moody’s relationship was more than friendly—a boy and a girl didn’t spend so much time together at their age without something happening—and she was appalled. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jones died on March 5,1895, at the age of seventy-four. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his age the man was walking remarkably fast. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mollie also tended to her aging mother, Lizzie, who had moved into the house after Mollie’s father passed away. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Looking back now, it feels like we spent ages in that steamed-up kitchen after breakfast, or huddled around half-dead fires in the small hours, lost in conversation about our plans for the future. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace is my age, she would not be this old. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed around the same age—older than my parents—and I wondered if they knew each other, because they were laughing about something. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Far scarier than any of my ideas is the fact that, at the age of seventeen, I was probably operating at my intellectual peak. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Babez Dolls, the most popular toy for girls ages 4—10. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Plus, he was getting up there in age. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In addition to Tina they had two boys, Ronny and Bobby, who appeared very close in age and had teeth covered in a network of flashing silver wires. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

People of all ages and colors used the streetcars to get where they needed to go, yet another way in which the living and the dead were not as different as they might think. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And though few of them have met before, by the time the plats principaux are cleared, an observer would have thought that they had known each other for ages. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So was it written, and so has it been through all the ages of mousekind since. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When Jon had been Bran's age, he had dreamed of doing great deeds, as boys always did. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was well developed for his age, and neat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Famously he promised Patterson that determining the age of the Earth with his new method would be "duck soup." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that she felt sorry for the people her age who railed against their parents for not giving them this and cheating them out of that. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Being out in the world by himself he had discovered that everyone was talking about his fathers book—even boys his own age. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two black girls about their sister’s age walked past them and up the steps carrying books against their chests. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

El Patron chuckled.“Matt’s no different than I was at that age.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Intricate loops and spirals had been carved on either side, ancient hieroglyphs the meaning of which had been lost to the ages. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was about the right age and physique, and it was probable that people changed somewhat after twenty years in a forced-labor camp. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In exactly two months, Seabiscuit would turn six, relatively old for a racehorse and an age at which most stallions were already at stud. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the only dude my age I know who’s rocking a beard. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t changed much since last winter, maybe because satyrs age half as fast as humans. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

After what seemed an age, she turned and left. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids are from farms themselves and other rural homes and are learning to read and write at all ages. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But now she was a young lady; she was intelligent and mature for her age, very close to her mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was about my age, with short, kinky hair and chocolate-colored skin that appeared iridescent in the soft glow of the dashboard indicators. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And almost every time she did, from age six or so on, she ran to her friend Yuko’s house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Slant’s childhood and youth were spent upon a tobacco plantation presided over by a benevolent widow by the name of Croak and her son, who was of Slant’s age. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The midwife had lost another tooth, and was hobbling about on her broken ankle, throwing copper pots and cooking spoons about the cottage in her anger at age and teeth and life. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motel clerk may have had doubts about my age, but I laid money on the counter right away, and the key was forthcoming. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Indoors he had an old slave woman, a Sikel, keeping house for him in his secluded age. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to realize how exposed he was; for it was a weekday, when a child of his age should have been in school. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the aging grandmother who grows forgetful and fears she is losing her mind comes to her, Miss Sadie, the diviner, comforts her. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tall for his age—he was over four feet tall at six years old—and muscularly defined, he looked amazingly like his father. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The younger child, Monty, age six, noticed blood on the ceiling. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The doctor, nearly half his age, had an affinity for bell-bottom trousers and made humorless jokes about the Congress party. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

While they waited, a short, red-haired girl about their age in a black velvet dress arrived alone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I explained that it was customary to note down the witness’s particulars, such as name, age, address, and place of birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of girls my age sat on straight chairs next to their mothers, waiting their turn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But here again, I can remember very little about the two years I attended Llandaff Cathedral School, between the age of seven and nine. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve, I was considered tall for my age; most folks thought I was fifteen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected his sons to enter the business when they were of age. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

My squeamishness belonged in another age, but I’d brought it along with me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Cicero was the great eminence of the Roman age—a lawyer, a politician, and so not only Rome’s greatest theorist of rhetoric but its greatest practitioner. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

With Adele, who was a little closer in age to me, it was different: If she told me to do something, I would snap back, “You’re not my mother.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was being evasive, and that, on top of being sassed by someone my own age, frustrated me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was as rough as the wood grain of the table in the dining hall, the skin along his thumb as hard and dry as leather cracking with age. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the story of the five ages men are descended from the iron race. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no consensus on his civil status, his age, his family, or the region of France he came from. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had much in common; both of us were tall for our age, and we shared daydreams—our worship of Johnny Mathis and Nat Cole, and our desire to sing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have starved or died of old age. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he was stooped with age, it was easy to see how tall he once had been. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 6.11: These modes are part of the same theoretical system as the church modes, but they were not used in the middle ages. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Ah, little Leo,” said Sammy Valdez, aged well into his seventies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The old man was tall and his chest was wide; at one time he had been heavier, but old age was consuming everything but the bones. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman looked as if he had aged a decade when she returned to his camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I found the rules of the establishment were too strict, its course of study too severe for a child of her age: I took her home with me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t been over there for ages. Can you rearrange your session?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know much about what she was like when she was my age. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“At my age it’s a good idea to keep gaining.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Theo resembled him in many ways: tall, wide shoulders, slim-waisted, the same thick, straight black hair; but age had chiseled the father’s face into sharper planes. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"YOU?! What do you know about women's rights? You just said you were married off at age eighteen!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right, Connor. When I was your age, I had a mad crush on my social studies teacher.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homeschooling also made it easier for me when I returned to the Rock School at the age of seven. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve mentioned that we are practically the same age—he’s three weeks older—and since the day I was born, our paths have crossed. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked him why shouldn’t I take you to school, seeing that you were now of age, he replied that he doesn’t believe in schools. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dr. Du Bois had come to Ghana, she told me, Dr. Nkrumah had set up the aging great militant Afro-American scholar like a king, giving to Dr. Du Bois everything he could wish for. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first recognition of malignancies traceable to the age of industry came during the last quarter of the 19th century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Each Christmas, black families would celebrate by taking children of all ages to the Indian place on First Avenue to be outfitted with cheap garments, and some, the extremely lucky ones, with sneakers or shoes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost,” Dad continued thoughtfully, “like you’re triplets. Think of it: you’ll be in college together, get married at around the same time, and maybe your kids will be close in age.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were at an age to explore dating, or at least parties. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

At Namwon, everyone was respected according to their rank or their age. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Four children of various ages were with them and they looked very happy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so easy to forget that. You don’t act your age.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks my fevers became more pronounced, and my mother realized that because I am large and active for my age she’d been underestimating my dosage of quinine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knows for sure, but local doctors think that as many as 30 percent of all men and women of childbearing age who live in the vicinity of Mount Elgon are infected with hiv. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker snorted and pulled me to a section of the library in the back, where several aging computers sat in a line against the wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And third, because ten seconds later a curly-haired woman walked out of the playground loudly scolding a boy around Hadley’s age. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that age, fairy tales were dark, simple things, their hidden metaphors worn down so that they fit comfortably in a child’s grasping hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They are not yet adults, but in that middle stage, late adolescence, coming of age. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Here in the community, each age had a prescribed hairstyle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She went into all the details—the plants, the gleaming equipment, the chairs with their swivels and castors—and it was so vivid everyone let her talk uninterrupted for ages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you had met them at five or six years of age, you would have been overwhelmed by their curiosity and mental agility and sparkle. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My stepbrother is a different sort of small than I was at his age—the neat and tidy sort, no elbows or ears jutting out, everything in proportion. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A trio of Ridgefolk—I couldn’t tell their ages from here—rode across the chasm at breakneck speed a few levels down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had never been surrounded by friends of his own age, and he thoroughly enjoyed it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He lay there talking to himself for ages about it. Ages and ages . . . nearly all the bubbles had gone. “ Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Most of us would be embarrassed by all this, especially at Morrie’s age. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of weeks later she was much more used to all the different kinds of faces that age created. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Give it here. A boy your age has better things to do than sniff hooch. I’d offer you breakfast, but seeing’s how all that’s left of it is an apple core...” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Alfred's eyes dropped down to the man's shoes, planted solidly on the wooden floor, black shoes curling with age but highly polished. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s always a sentence that says something like this: Airline policy clearly states passengers age twelve and over may travel with no adult supervision as long as they have a valid boarding pass. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about the books I had seen, dusty, bindings crumbled with age. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is possible this was simply the calmness that comes with age, and I did try hard for some time to see it as such. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As an American with limited experience outside the United States, I was dazzled by the age of the buildings and marveled at their ornate architecture. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s another thing I’ve had to wait ages for, and now that it’s replaced, I don’t go anywhere without it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Within the average, older children ages eight to eighteen spent nearly double the time with media than toddlers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought I might implode if I didn’t talk to another human being about the events of my new life, especially the parts someone my age wouldn’t be allowed to see in the movies. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been frozen in another age, a time when Kaiser factory workers could buy new cars, take decent vacations, and enjoy full health care benefits. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it amazing, she asks, how he never seems to age? When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

If she closed her eyes, she could have been speaking with a normal boy her age. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When I was your age: always about how he was doing way more than I am when he was in high school. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Understand now, she was barely rated in the top twenty; her hair was uncombed, unclean; her age was just seventeen, so there was still, in occasional places, the remains of baby fat. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom says I’m mature for my age,” I told them, “and she lets me cook for myself a lot.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next day when my mother and Mrs. Hull came home from shopping, my mother seemed more lighthearted than she’d been for ages. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also unusually tall for his age, already three toadstools long, when Seven had only been two when she was a baby. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

One reason is that music and identity are closely related, and groups or cohorts of people listen to particular songs targeted toward their age group produced by the market-driven music business. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But a strange and catholic selection of citizens tiptoed to the chapel door and peered in and went away—lawyers and laborers and clerks and bank tellers, most of them past middle age. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like ages before I’m changed and in bed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The man tried to help, but Jiichan said, “I am strong for age!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After Venus passed over the face of the sun, a new age began. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only a middle- aged woman, pink-cheeked and bareheaded, coming down the hill toward me, in jeans and a heavy white pullover, with a dog on a green leash, a terrier. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tally didn’t have much experience in judging an ugly’s age, but she turned out to be more or less right. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Dependents have to be under the age of eighteen. You’ll need to bring your birth certificates and proof of residency.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“These haven’t been sharpened in ages, they are rusted, and I doubt they could cut through grass, much less a shamblers neck.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want to take too much credit for what I man­aged to do with Richard Parker. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your age?” he asked, perhaps trying to sound paternal. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure what Reggie is doing now, but I thought of him when, at the age of forty-two, I finally had my IQ tested. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She died in 1882, at the age of sixty-three, and is buried next to her husband. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Karen is an extraordinarily beautiful blond child, the same age as my daughter and much like her. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one truly disappears in this day and age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Baby, trust me when I say that the man market narrows as you age. No matter how well maintained you are.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Are we really supposed to know what we want to do for the rest of our lives at the ripe old age of seventeen?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Our cows do not die of old age. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of men—in their thirties, I presumed—some women, and a few families with children five years of age and older. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She has continued to exist, survived her childhood illnesses, the near-drowning in a rip current on Rockaway Beach at the age of twelve, other dramas. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ranyinudo brought her cousins to meet him, girls who were close to his age, skinny jeans clinging to their slender hips, their budding breasts outlined in tight T-shirts. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

O Lord of heaven — place Your hand upon him now, Your palm incised with age and suffering. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But not only was he black and from a poor family, he also came of age during the Great Depression. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There are many cases in which one twin is killed in childhood, in a riding accident, say, or is struck by lightning, while the other lives to a prosperous old age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this particular day, I found my dad in the break room with bunch of guys his age who were wearing the same overalls and helmets. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There in a dark room sat an aged woman, her profile etched against the sun shadow in the one window of the room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was about his age, but there was, in the photos she sent, an air of hard desperation, hair dyed a brassy blond, eyes burdened by too much blue makeup, top too low-cut. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Which was the same age he dropped out of high school. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My father never went along, having become an apostate at the age of eight over the exorbitant price of votive candles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Men in this age have turned the Other Woman into a psychiatrist’s couch, and at far less expense, too.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-five years old, and we supposed his symptoms were those of approaching old age. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age, nearly every black family in the American South, which meant nearly every black family in America, had a decision to make. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When she could see again, Tally found an aging ugly crouching next to her, against the wall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Polly Pritchard, my indentured girl, meet my new little savage. From my inspection of her, I figure the two of you are about the same age.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes into the trip: “When I was your age, I had a full-time job and I’d already fought in two title fights.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She suggested he apply to Job Corps, a U.S. government program that provides vocational training to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four and that offers the chance to earn a high school degree. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As he and Collins strolled down Flatbush Avenue, they were playing what is called “blindfold chess,” a form of the game practiced throughout the ages. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Huxleys had just lost their oldest child, a little boy, Noel, at age four. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is only seven, and that is no age, no age at all.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Her face is smooth for her age, but the wrinkles on her neck are like ripples in the ocean; the tiny brown spots above the neckline of her white dress are like small, muted suns. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Children of all ages, sizes, and colors zoomed by on bikes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Watching us, our father seemed to age another ten years. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Dedicate myself to bringing the drinking age down to twelve.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

For a year now they had been denying how I was changing, putting it down to the awkward age. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out that we were exactly the same age. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The king was overjoyed. ‘They have been sent to crown my old age,’ he cried, and called the queen, his ministers, the palace staff, and, indeed, the entire population to see them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

But language changes, and upright citizens have been using hopefully in that looser way for ages. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several aged women stood somberly outside, murmuring to one another. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wes had a brother my age named Bobby, who was standing behind me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

From a very early age, I understood enough, just enough about my classroom experiences to keep what I knew repressed, hidden beneath layers of embarrassment. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely she would have chosen something dignified at the age of ninety or so—maybe a quick cerebral hemorrhage after a full day of work. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She died last month at the age of eighty-two. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Thad Stevens, the aging floor leader in the House of Representatives, pushed his program of “no mercy to the South” and let his contempt for the President spill out in every speech he made. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you yelled, ‘This age thinks better of a gilded fool, than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school!’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I raced against children my age, but mostly I watched my brothers play. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

At sixteen he was too young to get in, so he lied about his age and got himself a voter’s registration card saying he was eighteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

No. LeAlan: Do you hear kids talk about some of the things they see that you didn’t see at a young age? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that age on the Randall plantation all the joy was ground out. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

During the summer of 1848, at the age of sixteen, James went to work on his older cousin's boat on the canal that connected Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

R.C’s little sister Naomi, was my age but I never saw her in town except during the school year and even then she only came once in a while. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I told them that drinking at an early age had stunted my growth, so I had given it up in favor of other vices. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty-six percent of the users were men, and the median age range for all users was twenty-one to thirty-five. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The president’s daughter looks about thirty years old, around Susana’s age, and is an expert on mingling and posing graciously for pictures. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fierce winters helped drive the Vikings from Greenland and led to bad harvests that exacerbated social tensions in continental Europe, but few would claim that the little ice age caused the Reformation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not unusually severe for an ice age, it had twin peaks, the first about 70,000 years ago and the second at about 20,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who’s so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When they have aged, you know better what you get. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As my daughters approached this age, the age of nine, I watched them anxiously. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But how dare you hint or lisp a word about ‘sixty years of age.’ Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even my grandmother, who must have been nearly the old woman’s age, called her “Auntie.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is about 16 years of age, and is a bright mulatto, about the ordinary height, with straight hair and tolerable good features—she has a ragged scar on her neck occasioned by a burn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This is the age she is when I’m in the bath. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eventually married the pastry chef and they both ate a lot until old age claimed them. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I probably whined a little at your age.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

His hair, a brown-and-gray mash-up, was shortish and scruffy in a way that might seem hip on someone half his age but gave him the look of an affable academic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were scheduled to go at different times, not as a family unit, because the UN handles people who are over the age of eighteen as individual cases. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Benjamin Ross was described as “twenty-eight years of age, chestnut color, medium size and shrewd.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at that moment my dad appears, and he looks like he’s aged twenty years overnight. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A girl my age had sacrificed herself to save her friends. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"This is Gendry. Strong for his age, and he works hard. Show the Hand that helmet you made, lad." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her daughter was my age, and going to Queen’s. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A smiling boy about Nico’s age came bounding up the steps, carrying a wooden box. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Or her age or location in the real world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He called us naive firebrands, adding that we would mellow with age. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hovered over her head, like the golden mottoes over the saints, of the darker ages. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For three poems about me that will echo down through the ages.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I made my voice quite deep so that she wouldn't suspect my age or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Slopper was allowed to hear Story a couple years ago, when he was your age. He didn’t even hear it all, and it didn’t turn out so well.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I do belong there, but only according to my age and the law.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of 16, Tycho’s mission in life was already clear to him. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Children are able to discern the timbre of a sound from a very young age, including the vocal timbres of peers, relatives, and teachers, as well as the timbres of different instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He could not be older than one-and-twenty, Catelyn thought, of an age with his king . . . but her king, her Robb, had more wisdom at fifteen than this youth had ever learned. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Eleven years of age, yet Missandei is as clever as half the men at this table and wiser than all of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone, white and black, lived in it and breathed it—all ages, all trades, all classes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it’s been ages since I’ve written to you about the squabbles, there’s still no change. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

About 18,000 years ago, the last ice age gave way to a period of global warming. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time, I was five inches taller than she was, and my recently defined shoulders, biceps, and triceps made me look older than my age. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t that small! Plenty boys my age are smaller’n me. Besides, a thing don’t have to be difficult if you give it some thought and apply a little elementary physics.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My friend’s name is Trina. Blond hair, my age. There was another woman and a girl. Do you know anything about them?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A Polish count, aged eighteen, devoted himself to the ladies, who pronounced him, ‘a fascinating dear’, and a German Serene Something, having come to supper alone, roamed vaguely about, seeking what he might devour. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you returned from your relativistic journey, what a difference there would be between your friends and you, they having aged decades, say, and you having aged hardly at all! Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that moment forward, she had been able to fight better than anyone else her age. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After a quick warm-up, another girl who appeared to be my age and height trotted over. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From an early age Carmen had felt that she had been born into the wrong body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She lived to a ripe old age and even at the end she would frequently speak of him in conversation or tell stories about his headstrong ways to my children. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin was skinny for his age, but tall, with tight brown curls that erupted from his head with an Einsteinian unpredictability. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

But everyone who stayed behind would have aged 46 years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“A woman my age in her own home following orders.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Glimpse how ages ago and even now, water brushes, curving and carving the land. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

For rabbits, winter remains what it was for men in the middle ages—hard, but bearable by the resourceful and not altogether without compensations. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was your age,” Bull declared, “they couldn’t keep me away from the girls with a stick.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From John, age thirty-seven: What this really means to all my fellow young geeks out there? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chose orange as my bag’s color because it stood for change, and it would be a big change for me to have friends my own age. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the age of ten Amy was caught taking a fistful of twenties from an unguarded till at the grocery store. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had aged considerably since the last time I had seen her. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of her tender age, her captors did not immediately force their urges upon her, but eventually some of the more seasoned mates dragged her from the hold six weeks into the passage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Having come to Berkeley at the age of twenty-five, he was the other researchers’ contemporary, yet he struck them as older, more restless. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

While working at the law firm brought me into regular contact with whites for the first time, the university introduced me to a group of whites my own age. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the only thing separating us was an age difference and not a decision she made. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I added five to eighteen, the typical age for coming out, and came up with the usual result. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting at her desk, laptop open, in one of those thin-strapped tank tops—nothing underneath, mind you, and she’s got a good bit more going on up there than most girls our age. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Charles described her as very tall for her age, sturdy and strong. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tested a piece of pitchblende, the principal ore of uranium, and found it to be 700 million years old–very much older than the age most people were prepared to grant the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He first voted in a presidential election in 1936, at the age of thirty-two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In just a few minutes, I’m surrounded by other kids who look about my age. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was lucky that he was her age and she would be the first wife, an advantage secure now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the entrance examination for the university in 1588, then had to complete a final year at Maulbronn before he could take up his place at the university, at the age of 17. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Kit had never known many girls her own age. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And then she starts asking questions: Would this be for girls my age, or high school and beyond? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What you should know is that I’m concerned. Knowing what I was like at your age, I’m real curious about the whys of the trouble you been in.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Mamou was my age, with long straight hair that fell all the way down to her chest. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Thoroughbreds are placed in age classes according to the year in which they are born, rather than their birth month. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trout in both eastern and western parts of the United States were affected; in some areas practically 100 per cent of the trout over three years of age developed cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Of the fifty or so children, most were under the age of five. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were the same age as we are now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As an incentive for enlistment, the Pennsylvania assembly authorized a bounty on Seneca scalps without regard to sex or age. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was twelve and going into the ninth grade of what would today be called a “gifted” program, while many of the other kids my age were just going into the seventh. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And even if were true, it was ages ago, not today, in New York City. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I wondered why human children weren’t given that option in their grub stage, say up through age five. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Shin entered his first coal mine at the age of ten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

About twenty kids of different sizes and ages, girls and boys, were standing with their backs to me, facing a young woman with very short, reddish-purplish hair. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Nana is forcing me to be part of this germ-infested community where the people are called my peers only because we are the same age. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a certain age, maybe nine or so, Bengali girls are never seen naked by others, not even by friends. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had attended military school in Japan until the age of seventeen, and part of him never got over that. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were maybe 200 in my group, from my village and several surrounding villages, ages 12 to 22. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” I say to a girl about my age carrying a tin bucket. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Within the nucleus, the chromosomes mysteriously move and divide, ranging themselves in age- old patterns that will serve to distribute the determiners of heredity, the genes, to the daughter cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For some reason, this causes me to realize our age difference again. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even at this age, Eden is the most intelligent of us, and instead of joining in, he chooses to sit there tinkering with parts of an old turbine engine. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Next to him stood a younger girl, about my age, with a sharp jaw and straight brown hair. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was about the same age and height as the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as about fifty Cuban girls, of all ages, sat around eating their cereal, laughing and talking about the upcoming day. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

According to the goddess, in older times darajas had begun their formal training with the splendor around age ten, and spent an additional decade learning its nuances under the tutelage of several masters. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Trunkie. But you know, you were only about three years old. So you were advanced for your age.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

So you might think that determining the age of the Earth would be relatively straightforward. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“How old is old enough? Why do I need to be a certain age?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beside it was a photo of the same spot, though the paper had turned ocher with age, with a boy hanging upside down from those same branches while Ishtar laughed at his antics. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then as the ages passed and people no longer believed that the earth needed blood to be fruitful, all that was cruel in the story would be dropped and in the end forgotten. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was tall enough—age seven-ish?—he reached up and touched the lacquered side just because...well, because he wasn’t supposed to touch it. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

And being alone made me want to talk to someone my own age. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Coho salmon has a three-year life cycle and the runs are composed almost entirely of fish of a single age group. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For her age, she was an unusually determined and purposeful girl, quite full of the maternal genes in that respect. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the Sue Monk, Kidd color of age. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In keeping with the therapeutic mores of the age, he decided to do his convalescing in Europe, where the scenery also would provide an opportunity for him to enrich his visual vocabulary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But there came a time when the male children grew to a certain age, before they were old and when they ceased to be children, and then they were filled with discontent. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Hair color doesn’t measure age, Mother. White is just another pigment, like black and brown.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was your age, besides basketball, I played a lot of video games. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“And they are aging, albeit extremely slowly. How are you moving the circus?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Von Linden is about the same age as the intelligence officer who recruited me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You said he was my age? So, why isn’t he in school?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The 1920s and 1930s are often called “the golden age of flight.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When, at the age of seven, the fourth cat was diagnosed with feline leukemia, my mother was devastated. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Girls my age, like me and Kalinda, hold hands all the time to show that they care for one another. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The woman had four children all under the age of twelve, and a jealous, controlling husband. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Baxters would introduce us to their friends, who were all very pleasant, but none of them had kids our age. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was Pathil Ammai, who at the age of sixty-five began to take her clothes off and run naked along the river, singing to the fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe had joined Truman’s faculty at age twenty-one, and the night Cameron Mackintosh was to arrive was three decades into his career. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As he worked alongside the men, nobody questioned his age. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was so poor, I didn’t have two pesos to rub together.You’re just like I was at that age. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only in the second half of the seventeenth century that he was rescued from relative obscurity and hailed as the prophet of a new age. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Territorial Kantorek, we have the good fortune to live in a great age, we must brace ourselves and triumph over hardship.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was awarded a handsome trophy for achieving the best score of a player under the age of thirteen. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But he seemed too conservative, and he was thirty-four to her twenty-one—well beyond the age she had imagined for a husband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her mastery of camera angles and lighting, too, is rare in an individual of her age. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had to guess your correct age within one year or else you won a teddy bear.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Every time I step out in the morning and see them, they seem to have aged overnight, like sleep is actually draining life from them instead of recharging their batteries. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Battered relics of past ages,” Herschel wrote, “contain...indelible records capable of intelligible interpretation.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The lives we had lived already, at such a young and tender age, gave way to many discussions about the future and what it held for us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how they are at this age.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had to always check because when I was her age, I remember trying to look up skirts and cop feels. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Long ago, at the age of ten, she decided that lipstick made her seem clownish. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Also not the right age: everyone in here is twelve. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was dark with age and wear, like she was standing in the shadows even then. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I locked eyes with this one Mexican kid, about me and Rondell’s age, and I felt like I was lifting off my feet, floating into the air. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His wife was behind him, and they had a guest in the house, another woman of similar age. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They were well toward middle age when Caesar destroyed the Roman republic in the process of saving it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some lay in pieces: broken gears aller than a man, leather straps gone brittle with age, great vooden beams that were now explosions of white fungus, tuge as hedgerows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I felt as though I hadn’t been there in ages, although of course it’s only been a few days. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most compelling buildings, given the nature of the age, was the Electricity Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were all about my age, maybe a year or so older. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-five then, the same age at which Zannikos married. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a place where I could meet a lot of other kids my age, play games, and listen to the stories that Mrs. Dworkin would read to us. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We still do not know what causes the difference of outcomes between these three women—but it is some combination of age, exposures, other genes, and bad luck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

By age three, I realized the culture of this small town in the Deep South was such that the color of my skin framed the entire scope of my life. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She is fourteen years old, so she is of marriageable age, and I suspect we will have a wedding before too long. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Keav, who is fourteen—the same age as Davi—sat holding her knees to her chest, her eyes misted over, her shoulders heaving visibly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archie is large with power, with age, with this conviction that I have wronged him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and if I had been puttin’ in work like you are when I was your age, I’d be grown up and a millionaire right now!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Admission to either branch of the Party is by examination, taken at the age of sixteen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Dies of his wounds, June 1914, at the age of eighty-three. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the doctors said it would be impossible, by the time I was three, Mom had me potty trained like any other kid my age. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He died of pneumonia on June 28, 1890, at the age of sixty. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were over thirty boys between the ages of seven and sixteen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Excuse my rudeness, but at my age there’s no point in beating around the bush. Your appearance is quite stylized. Are you one of those—what are they called, gothics?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He now found himself trapped in a demanding relationship at an age when he no longer saw himself capable of tumultuous love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are rings of calcium in each vertebra. You can count the rings like a tree to find the age of the shark,” she said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The assertion was remarkable partly for being so arrestingly specific but even more for flying in the face of accepted wisdom about the age of the Earth.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

These slaves were listed by their first names with their approximate ages and their skills given. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were serious-looking men, ranging in age from mature to ancient. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Miss Janna, every age has had that. It appears to be a by-product of civilization.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Surely it would be pride to claim a calling at my young age! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shriveled with age, she clutched the rope in bony hands with knobby knuckles. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I know that most girls my age have had it with their mothers. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We would’ve been killed ages ago if you were in charge.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

If so, she could well have a son his age. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He lowered his bony head and buried it in the palms of his gnarled hands; and at that moment he seemed to age a thousand years, a pitiful sight. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. McNally testified that Mrs. Colbey’s pregnancy was at high risk for "unexplained fetal death" because of her age and lack of prenatal care. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Not much. I think she knows that I’m trying to figure out her age and she’s playing with me.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really think he might have been the last. I haven’t seen any other screechers in ages.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his eyes had more life in them than they’d had in ages. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Joyce was quite advanced physically for her age. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I man- age to duck beneath his arms and run outside, into the shadows behind the truck in the driveway. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or rather my mother thought she was around that age, as there is no formal record of her birth. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Looks like it was abandoned ages ago,” I said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At Dad’s side was a stack of old photo albums, their black covers stained and faded with age. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Joe can help. He’s twelve, isn’t he? That’s just the age Grandma used to say kids stopped being a nuisance and started being useful.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he wondered, quietly aloud, how they had built this city to last the ages through, and had they ever come to Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I step out in the morning and see them, they seem to have aged overnight, like sleep is actually draining life from them instead of recharging their batteries. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

If your aged parents have grown tiresome or incontinent, you put them away where others will deal with their dirty diapers and dementia. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her mother died, Ferula found herself alone and with no useful purpose to her life, at an age when she could no longer hope to marry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The generals of Europe are still ordering massed assaults against fortified positions long years after his death, in 1904, at the age of eighty-three. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure my last two visits here have aged me quite a bit, no matter what my calendar at home says.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I took that down ages ago,” I answered. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"They will have steel when they are ready. When they are of an age." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You look just like Aureliano when he was your age,” she said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Idunn! So good to see you! I feel age upon me,” he told her. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

For centuries, they supported research and maintained in the library a working environment for the best minds of the age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the way she was now, but the way she had been when she was Marly’s age. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“All the girls her age wear pajamas like that,” my mom answers for me. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, the light the sword reflected was dull, burnished, and ages old. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In 1920, Riddle retired the colt at only three years of age. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at her age she still feels the urge to wreathe herself in flowers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled stale food, old age, dried herbs, and dust. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the time he turned eleven, he towered over the other kids his age. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Let me close by saying that I have the personal faith that mankind will somehow rise up to the occasion and give new directions to an age drifting rapidly to its doom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would take more than the age of the universe for light to circumnavigate it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man of his age might seem too old to be playing Zorro, but then consider the source. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he would savor this in his old age. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The truth. These ladies just died of old-lady age. Nothing more than that.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Though I wasn’t quite sixteen then, I was tall and rawboned and looked like twenty-one; I was also pretty strong for my age. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An aged witch stood in front of him, holding a tray of what looked horribly like whole human fingernails. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

For years the word floated in the air around their heads, yellow pollen, wispy secret dust of the ages passed on and on. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had never told me her age, but I guessed she was only a couple of years older than me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The boys who were about Tyan-yu’s age made us sit on the bed side by side and everybody made us kiss so our faces would turn red with passion. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In middle age he was the wealthy, respected man he had wanted to be when he was a struggling adolescent without godfathers and with no greater capital than his pride and ambition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would be ten years by my Chinese age, so it was an important birthday for me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of girls your age would love to have a doll like this.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, at age twenty-nine, I sit down to write, to reconstruct the incident from the echoes and shouts of a tired memory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most kids my age would call Darlene a diary, but she’s much more than a place to write stupid lists of the cutest guys in eighth grade. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Farm life had made Gene different from other young men: he was serious for his age, more physically impressive and independent-minded. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We start to cut across the parking lot toward our ragwort stalks when a guy about our age touches my arm, warm fingers closing just above my wrist. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were about thirty boys of my own age on the expedition as well as four experienced adult leaders. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

To many traditionalists, Plato included, the age of the written word necessarily meant the end of a craft of oral transmission that had long nourished the Greek mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

With three men twice my age and stature, I went up to receive my punishment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But now that I remember her, she must not have been too old, maybe Wu Tsing’s age, so she was perhaps fifty. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marina reached the age of fifteen, the wind changed again for her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I decide that after about the age of three, life is not simple. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of his parents is old, but they seem frailer than they should be at their age. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a hitherto unprecedented golden age of successive human population explosions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wilfred, who was a pretty stable fellow, began to act older than his age. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been here for ages and the train still isn’t moving. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry picked up the crumbling piece of paper and stared at the moving photograph, yellowed with age; Ron leaned over for a look too. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I knew he would have liked to. He thought reading was so important. But back then, there were more people his age that never learned to read than there is today.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I know at this age that I wouldn’t have the advantage of living life to the best of my ability? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He never accepted the revised figures and to his dying day believed his work on the age of the Earth his most astute and important contribution to science–far greater than his work on thermodynamics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

How could you when you’d both played sheep in the same nativity play, aged five? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But it can’t possibly be clean after all that wearing. And at your age, honey, you need to pay attention to hygiene. It’s important.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was showing a few signs of age, a white hair here and there in his coat, a certain stiffness in his gait. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

To someone Kelvin’s age, she was just that. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Home, home—a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of’em he had to look into their mouths to get the age, and some of’em he could tell just by holding up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“A long time ago, when we were maybe a little older than you or around your age,” he continued, “something came through a painting.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He was clearly a junior scythe, just a few years out of apprenticeship, in his early twenties perhaps—still an age where numbering one’s years felt important. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The bright sun cast them in shadow, but he could see the shapes of a girl, an aged man, and an old woman. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looked me over, obviously wondering at my age. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mother’s face has not aged as quickly as the rest of her body; it remains smooth and glowing—a cool tan— which her gray hair cleanly accentuates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened, Zooey had made a formal and serious début as a public performer at the age of seven. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Ally, how many kids your age use phrases like ‘unfortunate stroke of luck’?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It had about two hundred and fifty pupils aged from five to just under twelve years old. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But graduation meant that, at age sixteen, he had become an adult worker. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And someone says that my Catholicism is a mere affectation, an attempt to play the Evelyn Waugh eccentric to a bland and vulgar secular age. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you ever act your age, or are you always this immature?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But all it really took was seeing Vera all grown up—nearly the same age as her mother when we sat in the very same spot, doing the very same thing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The streets of Russian cities were filled with homeless children Marina’s age who hadn’t been as lucky as her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Twelve through eighteen-year-olds are herded into roped areas marked off by ages, the oldest in the front, the young ones, like Prim, toward the back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There will be no "policing" of students our age. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the age of six, Clara had foreseen that the horse was going to throw Luis, but he refused to listen and had had a dislocated hip ever since. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The age differences in the family always seemed to add unnecessarily and perversely to our problems. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

At an early age my mother sat me down and explained that everyone has bowel movements. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Go on. You deserve it for being so terribly clever. Despite the fact that no one uses gut strings in this day and age.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then, at age twenty-four, he was gone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboard on the football field that day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that I had been hiding for ages, and when the stomping and the screaming died down I felt lonely, cast forever out of life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all Dinka children, I had to do chores from a very early age. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winslow didn’t know that fish fertilizer may not have been an age- old Indian custom, but a recent invention—if it was an Indian practice at all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That’s who she reminds me of: a photo of a little girl, probably her age, staring through a chain-link fence into a photographer’s lens. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was a good age to live in, everyone agreed. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And they’re fifteen and seventeen?” she said, deliberately getting their ages wrong. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a day that both of them would remember well into old age. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If she did have an elilith, she wouldn’t want a serpent swallowing its tail like Tzara and many of the younger women had who’d come of age after the liberation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It is worth reminding the reader once again of my age. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had reached old age with all of her nostalgias intact. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was thirteen today, and tall for his age, with the green eyes and golden hair of the Lannisters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t have anything in common with the girls my age. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Catherine was closest to me in age, so we played—and fought—together the most. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class, where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Motherhood was old age, and other remote possibilities. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that he should treat any girl at any age like that, like a dishrag. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He had distilled it at the age of sixteen, enabling him to work miracles, among them the highest aspiration of the ancient art: the transmutation of lead into gold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At the age of eighteen, propelled by his admiration for the Beat Generation of writers, he moved out of his parents’ house and into the city itself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I discovered this at the age of sixteen and I’ve never forgotten it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl her age might let her hair grow long, add inches to her height, see her chest fill out, but she could not change the color of her eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I adjust the settings on my profile so I’ll only be visible to anyone between the ages of sixteen and eighteen; older men and women can no longer hit on me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“A distinct advantage at my age,” he said. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But to be true, I do not know exact” I was amazed that any man shouldn’t know his own age. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wizened black face like a small, aged monkey. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of 24, Gene Nora hadn't been out of college long, and she was a little intimidated by her 40-year-old partner. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Kevin knew from a very young age that he wasn't going to have a very long life," she says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

In their lust, which age had turned to kindness, they moved their lips as though to stir up the taste of young sweat on tight skin. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s Chapter Eleven, always so pasty, and bald by the age of twenty-three, so that he makes a perfect homunculus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighboring house—rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor graduated early from high school, in 2013, at the age of sixteen, and was the valedictorian at InTech Collegiate High School. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And it meant she would be left at home to take care of their aging father and ill mother. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, I was able to care for him properly until my wife turned out to be a disgraceful drunkard when my children were at school age. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streams were also crisscrossed by rotting trees and logs that had been felled by age or by extensive logging operations. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His family's modest holdings were on the smallest of the Fingers, and Petyr had been slight and short for his age. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From these he produced the first calculations of life expectancy for different age groups, and so the first reliable figures which could provide a basis for pricing life insurance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was often described as the greatest wizard of the age, but that wasn’t why Harry respected him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Will you please stop talking about imprisonment? You seem to be preoccupied with the thought. Actually, you seem to enjoy thinking about it. Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To prove his family was patriotic, and because he thought being in uniform would attract girls, Country Joe had joined the navy in 1959 at the age of seventeen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was 37, still young by our standards, but on the threshold of old age by those of the sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Impressed by the experience of someone so young, Lovelace sent her an invitation, but her mother had to give Wally permission due to her age. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Marsha knew that a pregnancy at her age was very risky, but she couldn't afford to see a doctor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At my age, that is what I knew of revenge. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Together they crept through the great vaults where the College’s Tokay and Canary, its Burgundy, its brantwijn were lying under the cobwebs of ages. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In that gray place the three women lived, all gray themselves and withered as in extreme old age. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what there was in it.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Real people died in those school shootings—kids our age. We have a right to be safe.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Ladies of Mrs. Corcoran’s age usually went in pretty heavily for the Valium and so forth but she had enough speed to send a gang of Hell’s Angels on a cross-country rampage. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Stanton was ready to return to reform work when, to her surprise and dismay, she learned that at age forty-three she was pregnant with her seventh child. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was this kid, Shemar Carson...black dude, my age, shot and killed in Nevada by this white cop back in June. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His father, Anthony, had been living on his own since age fourteen, first as a coal miner and boxer, then as a construction worker. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“How exactly would he have mentioned your age?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

By the time the other girls reached school age, Mary had learned about free education. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither will take care of you in your old age, isn’t that true?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at the conference in Princeton, which was a highly homogenous group of people of similar age, education, and income — who were all, with a few exceptions, in the same profession — the range was enormous. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the driver wasn’t that old, but I figured he might have been around my father’s age. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But children of their age do not search deeply for reasons. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She is the same age as Theresa, but that is the one and only similarity they have. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was nine and a half, and at that age one is ill equipped to tackle a grown-up man with flaming orange hair and a violent temper. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna’s father told him, “Don’t be so modest,” although he didn’t laugh this time, and he told me, “Simon is one of the great minds of our age.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the soldiers that were riding in the trucks looked like they were in their twenties, but a few seemed to be my age. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Dispatch, this is car seven-two-four. We have a ten-forty-three-A. Shots fired. We need a medical team. I repeat. Shots fired. Victim is a child—a girl aged ten or eleven.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I was dying for somebody my age to play with. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

When she woke up on her wedding day, Caroline looked drowsy and frazzled, as if she had aged several years since the last time we saw her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She’d secretly had extra keys made for our parents’ cars ages ago. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He could not begin to guess her age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them was Gertrude, attended by an aged gentleman and a young lady I did not know. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“He was little for his age, always. But he looked out for me. It was hard for him not to do what was expected of him. Have I said this correctly?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Olivia was probably about my age, but she looked so much older. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Almost literally ripped from his mother’s arms and dumped in more austere surroundings at such a tender age, this scarred him mentally for life, although no unkindness was intended. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But now I’d reached an age where certain childhood mysteries begin to make sense. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked up the stairs to look around, and saw a boy about his age standing in the parking lot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was away at boarding schools from the age of six, and when I wasn’t at school I was usually at cattle camp with my brothers and the other men. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because somehow, someway, they had the same face, changed by time and age, but the same still. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The vicarage took ages to swallow up the chime. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She said to me and him both, “But, Elijah, you’s a whole lot more growned than some other folks your age.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A large, middle- aged Negro woman sat in front of us to the left, a young Negro man occupied the seat in front of us to the right. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Todd Lincoln died at his home in Vermont at the age of eighty-two, though not before attending the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1922. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A woman about the same age trailed him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He can have another name given to him when he comes of age, a nickname from his friends, and if he is a poet, he can have a pen name. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My godmother Lili who killed herself in old age because her husband had jumped out of a flying balloon and her grown son left her to go to Miami. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"What will Bran do when he's of age?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Your school had only white kids when you were my age?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Born in Mississippi, Minnie Williams and her younger sister, Anna, were orphaned at an early age and sent to live with different uncles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Kids were dying left and right, all about my age. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

None could equate this engaging young man with the stereotypical aged, graybearded laboratory scientist of their fancies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

So sir we see the last of this dog Dunmore, blacker than hell, whose crimes shall be recalled in all ages and he be called cursed by all men. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We paraded around the room a couple of times in lockstep, like a chain gang, with Frank first, Ernestine next, and the children following by ages. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walk into the library, I’m expecting an old lady behind the counter, but it’s a young guy, about my age, with long, curly hair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She looked like a bottled fetus that had escaped from its jar of formaldehyde in a Biology lab and unshriveled and thickened with age. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You always say it straight out, don’t you? Much like your father. Did you know he worked for me when he was your age and a bit older?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken the job as an interpreter after his first son, at the age of seven, contracted typhoid — that was how he had first made the acquaintance of the doctor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But Newton didn’t mellow with age and fame. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But enough about me. Something tells me you aren’t here to enjoy yourself. Unless, in your old age, this look of constipation has become your natural expression. Honestly, I can’t tell.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At three years of age, he prattles like my father did, but I attend to every lisping word he speaks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“So you and Denna ...” “Stanchion still gives me a hard time about chasing after a girl half my age.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t given the Weed a thought for ages and ages. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“This was taken the year I was born. And I found another picture. When she was my age. She looked just like me. She’s my mother, isn’t she?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I have no doubt of his being a very respectable young man. I know, indeed, that he is so, and, as such, wish him well. What do you imagine his age to be?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They passed the stone ruins of goblin outposts from an age before the founding of Tenebrion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Not only ancient history—the mythical age of the brothers’ feud—but my own history one second ago, has vanished utterly, dropped out of existence. in Time. is an allusion of language. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the students were around the age of eight, real differences started to emerge. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

King, Jr., had preached his very first sermon at the age of eighteen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A kind-faced, square-built woman of middle age was waiting to greet the new arrival. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In some senses Ashoke and Ashima live the lives of the extremely aged, those for whom everyone they once knew and loved is lost, those who survive and are consoled by memory alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of twenty-five, you have an assistant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen a boy my own age up close in years. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At the age of forty-one, I am returning to school and have to think of myself as what my French textbook calls "a true debutant." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For even at the age of ten, Inigo’s genius was there. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Convicted at the age of fifteen, he had served ten years in a combination of juvenile and adult penitentiaries on charges of arson and second-degree murder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That was longer than me and Jay had been alive—but she looked the same age as we did. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had also become a fanatical bird-watcher by the age of seven. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see right away that she was a strong and fiery young woman like her own mother had been when she was Zindzi’s age. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was two when we moved to the United States, and at the age of twenty-six, I was finally an American citizen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were all three of an age with Lord Hoster, men who had spent their lives in her father's service. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This year I couldn’t afford to buy Ma anything for Mother’s Day, so I wrote her into the story as a sorceress who doesn’t age and casts peace spells. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I hadn’t realized what play it was, and it really isn’t something that would be interesting to kids your age.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I think when he gets to be my age, he’s goin’ to have a lot of problems. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re getting so much like Buddy used to be when he was your age. Even your father’s noticed it. If you don’t like somebody in two minutes, you’re done with them forever.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He commented on the fact that we were surrounded by people of all classes, of all ages, of all nationalities. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The lady at the store told me these dresses are called 'muumuus,' and that American ladies my age wear them all the time. Do you like this one?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked older than in the picture Richard had seen, closer to seventy than sixty, but his was an elegant aging; his strides were long and his chin firm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Phoebe told her about Mrs. Partridge guessing her age. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

That means they can fight lions, go to war, and have all of the privileges of adulthood except marriage, which Dinka men traditionally put off until they are about age thirty. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shhh!” the voice said, and Minli looked into the eyes of a small boy, who seemed to be the same age as the girl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Temporary telegram boys are not allowed to stay in the job beyond the age of sixteen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I believe it is because of my age that no one ever pays any attention to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids are our age, ranging from five to ten years old. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The undoubted littluns, those aged about six, led a quite distinct, and at the same time intense, life of their own. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Across the stalk land, into the pine woods, into the climbing, brightening glow of the dawn, the boy followed the dog, whose anxious pace slowed from age as they went. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that, while we were advanced for our age in some subjects, we were only average or below in some intangibles such as leadership and sociability. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have my Happy Best Friend Face on, even when some hopeful novelist-looking type our age takes the last available table, opening his laptop to write the Next Harry Potter before I can. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She chuckled as she watched Tirza, a young woman about her own age, chasing one of her family’s goats once again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Polly saw him: a boy about their age, sitting on a rock overlooking the river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who can measure the loss to the world of a person as complex and energetic as Zhenya Rudneva at the age of twenty-two? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Dingiswayo developed a superior centralized military organization by drafting young men from all villages and grouping them into regiments by age rather than by their village. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It is only natural for goslings your age to be a little...moody.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But here, with a Violet orb hanging directly overhead, he saw the dark circles and age lines framing her eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you need to stop going to the library and find some boys your age you can play with. You shouldn’t be sitting up in a library every day.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well. I guess I should be grateful you even asked. When I was your age, I don’t think I waited for permission to do anything. Especially when it came to fireworks.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I told the realtor I have a girl just that age living next door and maybe they can be friends.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The test broadcast went unreported for some time, but it was nonetheless the first tentative step towards a new age for music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members, that’s what Milton felt, seeing his father sunk in desk light, jutting out a moist underlip, scanning a dead language. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

The paintings showed a girl of different ages, from newborn to teenager, sometimes alone on the canvas and other times with a woman that looked their mom’s age. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were kids her age and older that she hadn’t invited either because they had done something mean to her or she had done something mean to them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was there—on the very rim of our age— when my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance, as you well know, catapulted me into the fever of contemporary existence. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No chance. It’s too dangerous for someone our age to go behind the fence.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In another month the grasshoppers would be dead; autumn wind and old age would chill them bone white, leaving their hollow shells to swirl with the dry leaves in the ditch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ones that were born a bit yellower to begin with lived to an old age in the drought; the birds couldn’t see them in the parched grass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Together the couple could start a new golden age. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then she says, “You girls are almost the same age.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Loyal," the dwarf mused, "and far from any Lannis- ters. I can scarce blame you for that. When I was your age, I wanted the same thing." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He taught himself to read at three years of age. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you like them? Took me ages to collect. They’re really quite comfy to walk on, but mind the teeth. Some of those are incisors.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But then Tom Yew said he thought it'd gone on a bit long and everyone agreed that though the film was classic it'd dragged on for ages. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is important to keep in mind that a rich musical environment at home and at school will greatly benefit a child’s musical and cognitive abilities at any age. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed her role as the confidante of young wives and the envy of the wives her own age. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They want to know how I got such a good job at eleven years of age and what I’m paid and if I’ll have that job forever. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All he’d have to say was that she deceived him as to her true age. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She wanted me to age her. Reverse the arcana. She said she read somewhere that we could do that. Make her so old she'd die quickly." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Many are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner-city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I am at the great age of ninety-three.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Nope. He was our age. He got beat up and robbed so I gave him my sneakers.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At five years of age, I knew just enough English for my mother to trust me on errands to stores one block away. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did seem surprisingly at ease with me—much calmer than I would have been at his age about the sudden appearance of a stranger in my bedroom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Boys his age didn’t play with girls—or not until they began the housekeeping games that led up to marriage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes’s contribution was to measure the decay rate of uranium into lead to calculate the age of rocks, and thus–he hoped–of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

By that age, surely any rational person knows not to go around setting people’s clothing on fire. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z