We collected half a jug before the rain stopped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Darwin, he collected beetles, but he lacked his cousin’s plodding, taxonomic mind and soon gave up his collection for more ambitious pursuits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even known that you could make collect calls until Jesse explained it to me one morning after the sluggers had dropped me off near his house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Kochu Maria collected saris, though she hadn’t ever worn one, and probably never would. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Spinks called time out to let tempers cool and let Ben collect himself. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s not like I’m going to go to another animal shelter to collect more data. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The group collected petitions, recruited additional supporters and volunteers, raised funds, and started a weekly newspaper, the Suffragist, which kept readers up to date on the status of the federal suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I turn off the TV and collect up the beer cans real quiet. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The word from New York is to expect big wind and surf late tonight,” Mr. Johnson said when we stopped in at the post office so Miss Maggie could collect her mail. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You ought to collect your sack as soon as you get here, otherwise there is this long wait and then you have to come back and wait again.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The potatoes proved that all too well, as did the wood shavings, which Father collected in a bucket and brought downstairs to burn. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper is collecting empty cups and swabbing the tables. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The customers were received by Nana, who ushered them into the waiting room and collected their fees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Honestly, I’m amazed that in the end, despite everything, we were able to collect such a large population of kids that just never gave up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Then use the pay phone by the laundry room. Call her collect. She’ll love that.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There was a life-or-death attempt being made near my table by a couple of Neanderthals looking to collect money for a beer blast in the sculpture studio. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A warrior’s mother collects this material, makes the rope, and ties the arrows in a bundle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all valuable parts, but he would collect them later. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could make something to collect the condensation, I'm sure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recently I had tried calling her collect every day, but was unsuccessful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I glide my finger along the top of the dresser next to me and collect a thick layer of dust. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perspiration collected in the small of his back and ran out of his armpit down his side. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had assumed she was going to be praised for her work in Maine the previous winter, when she had collected more than one hundred thousand women’s signatures in support of a prohibition law. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Fine, fine, okay, sorry,” grumbled Jinny as she stomped off to collect Ess, who was digging happily in the sand with a stick. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The ghoul wiped himself off, giving Jason a chance to collect his thoughts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I can get maybe one- tenth of a cubic meter in through the airlock at a time, and it'll be backbreaking work to collect it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps is staring into the dregs of his Styrofoam cup, peeling away the top of it so that little white balls collect in his lap. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer, after moving to collect Spassky’s gift, sat back in his chair, grimly, staring at the Russian—studying him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, she heard the muted chatter of the night-soil men as they collected the sewage; she fell asleep listening to the scraping sounds of their shovels as they worked, shielded by the dark. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then came a roar of flowing air, and her suit bloated up, fat and hard, and a whiff of dry air cleared away some tiny beads of sweat that had collected inside her faceplate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don't need to pack up the bigger furniture. Mayor said just their personal items need to be collected. Now, what are we going to do with the rest of this stuff? Sell it?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I collect the links, but when I get to Jordie, his are still blank. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Greek works considered the masterpieces of the day were collected into a set of textbooks for her. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Little flecks of gray fluttered down all around us, collecting on puddles of water in the yard. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those who have done the collecting are standing at intervals in the aisles of the plane, six of them, three with small machine guns, three with visible grenades. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first time I've seen Max look anything but cool and collected. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The next day Lorraine chickened out and said she wouldn’t go with me to collect the money. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before we tried to sleep, I took off my T-shirt and tented it on four sticks in the hopes that I’d be able to collect dew come morning. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sent the squirrels and chipmunks running boldly through the forest, collecting and hiding nuts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They collected some old boxes and built a fire in the floor and he found some tools and emptied out the cart and sat working on the wheel. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the door he stops, collects himself, and quietly unbolts the door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When she came in with the beer, I asked her why she was collecting them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I wanted to help the Baxters, and I’d become quite good at collecting the eggs without getting the chickens all riled up. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Weight limits restricted how much she could actually bring back to Earth, so she was going to collect first, then sort out the most interesting 50 kilograms to take home. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

To help fund the war effort, the Hitler Youth went door-to-door, collecting brass, copper, scrap metal, razor blades, paper, and bottles to be recycled. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve collected beauty for years, so of course I’m beautiful,” she said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

These inspectors also collected one-third of the crops, to be dried and placed in the storehouses for difficult times. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Since kindergarten, we have collected rocks and shells each summer and glued and painted them to make sculptures. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When Stephen’s mom says I’m lying again, I hand Principal Jenkins my spiral with the tabs of all my businesses and the dates I collected money plus the person I collected money from. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The twins regarded him with admiration, and Cal collected spit on the back of his tongue to practice. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed as Indians, they harassed the Van Rensselaer agents and the state militia when they came into the mountains to collect the rent. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the record played, Albert picked up chairs, collected oyster shells, relit candles, and straightened the plates and silverware. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dad had stopped by a couple of times in the last week to collect dirty clothes, but I didn’t want to deal with it, so I sent him away. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He mumbled something about the laundry arid hurried off to collect it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was collecting grass for the camels of the Three Magi, who were coming that night with presents for all the children. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Families collect rations here and cook in the kitchens.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Gaea opened the earth, and I was consumed, exiled here in the belly of my father Tartarus, where all the useless flotsam collects—all the bits of creation he does not care for.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gray ash collects on the grate; black burns scar logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

What if I had never had the chance to collect and build new memories? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The eastern Canadian situation is not unique, except perhaps in the extent of forest spraying and the wealth of facts that have been collected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel like helping us collect firewood?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then they were filed, collected and placed in envelopes and mailed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the Soviet leadership, put on the defensive by Reagan's belligerent rhetoric and by the suspicious information collected by Operation RYaN, the maneuvers seemed terrifyingly real. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or they are busy collecting rocks to throw when we need them. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearing her throat, she replied in tones worthy of a monk collecting alms. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

By doing what Maria herself did almost every day—collecting, watching, and documenting—he had added to the world’s knowledge of these little-known creatures. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Finally the decon team, still wearing space suits, went back inside the building and collected the spore samples. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can collect a caterpillar and keep it in a jar until it turns into a chrysalis. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think, if you asked her, your grandmother would tell me some? I collect old folktales and stuff like that.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” I started, “maybe he likes to collect toys.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I go in to collect they plates and I hear Miss Hilly say, “I’m up to Chapter Seven,” and I freeze, the plates in my hand clattering. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They began secretly collecting them, and Mac had the idea of constructing a false bottom to the box and placing in it a tiny written message. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can only blow the whistle once the trophies are all collected. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"It is six o'clock and we have come to collect the bottles that you promised us, O Your Grandness." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They'd come in last night with Conwy, one of the wandering crows who roamed the Seven Kingdoms collecting men for the Wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All of it collected into one perfect moment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday morning the minivan is gone from the driveway next door, so I busy myself collecting words and phrases for Jason in the blank spaces of my sketchbook. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The armory sergeant looked down at me sternly as he collected what was left of my Springfield. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In return, we employ our staff from their villages, buy fruit and vegetables, and pay for wild fruits to be collected from the trees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Weren’t you delivering books from your abbey to Saint-Denis? Where all the Talmuds were collected?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Drops of moisture had collected on the inside of my faceplate and pooled in the mask under my chin. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke collected under the bed lamp, then floated out to be free in the room. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grins and tugs my hair, and then he collects Garrett for pictures. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Popper picked up her mending, while Mr. Popper collected his pipe, his book, and his globe. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

When introduced, he grasped the sides of the pulpit and took a moment to collect himself. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In about a dozen sleeps, they’d come back and collect them again. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

An official collection song had this line: “We collect bones, scrap metal, rags, false teeth, and paper bags.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped she would not ask me to clean herel To make things worse, as Sister Claire explained to me, Father Aristide collected boys who lived on the street—those who beg, wash windows, steal. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The altar boys collected them in the offering baskets and funneled them through the church office. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The next few hours are spent doing tasks no one else wants to do—snipping stitches, basting, sweeping up, collecting pins and putting them in pincushions. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She and her brother, Neeley, like other Brooklyn kids, collected rags, paper, metal, rubber, and other junk and hoarded it in locked cellar bins or in boxes hidden under the bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from movies, weekends were constructed around some new Net or Web project—trying out a just-purchased game, downloading new software, collecting and listening to music, installing a new operating system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And again and again, every night, collecting XPs and increasing in levels until I finally figured out where the Copper Key was hidden. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He arranged recitals at his home and office and joined the best clubs and collected the best wines and was now leading the greatest nonmilitary campaign in the nation’s history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She was so upset that she left Base Camp and walked down to Tengboche for five days to collect herself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I collect my bow and at the last minute remember the rose, glistening in its glass of water. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The girls went about the business of survival, collecting rainwater, identifying and gathering edible plant life, catching small fish with their straightening irons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“He stopped by to collect the newspaper money and found her.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I walk head down, scanning the sidewalk, the gutters, for silver cigarette papers, although I no longer collect them as I did long ago. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pirates stood dumbfounded as Petra collected herself and smoothed her skirt back into place. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Dear Lord,” she begged, “make us poor again the way we were when we founded this town so that you will not collect for this squandering in the other life.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I got back home, I collected my supplies for the rally. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The cart man rolls by with his busted wagon collecting trash and tossed-out furniture. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She collected her luggage from the bus station and stashed her extra IDs deep under the felt that lined the hatchback. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve already pulled out our collecting pails,” she says, and that feeling in my stomach melts away. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“You can speak their tongue well enough to collect bills, but not well enough to live among them.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lowest step, where the stream collected before it tumbled down a hundred feet and disappeared into the rubbly desert, was a little platform of stone and sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby scraped the edge of his fork along the plate, collecting some stray frosting. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Aru’s mother had collected some art depicting Rama’s adventures, and now Aru recalled an image of a sage sitting on an anthill. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tally realized he hadn’t said a word since collecting her at the hospital. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But the boy before me says playing stick-ball, and the girl before him says stamp collecting, so when the question comes to me, I say sewing. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bonus, for the one who killed Titid, no one collected. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day long we have been collecting stories from strangers telling us how much they appreciate Mrs. Peck, Mrs. Malloy, and the work of all the women in the Housewives’ League. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then we have to collect gum from another tree, called a silalei. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It means “baffled” or “confused,” not calm and collected. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swaddled me in wind-softened sailcloth, washed me in a smooth sink in the rocks where rainwater collected. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jenkins also reminds me that I have to stop collecting money for my various business ventures. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Anthony turned the fund-raising task over to a group of local women who raised $42,000, but then they stopped collecting money, as if they had reached their goal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget we need to continue collecting even more signatures,” Isa reminded them. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My father was collecting money for me at this very moment, and soon enough, I’d be gone. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A few months into his trip, when he collected his mail at a port of call in Rio de Janeiro, he read a letter from his sister Catherine. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lorena has just come out from the kitchen with a tray to collect the empty coffee cups. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Connor looks absolutely fascinated as he collects and filters water from a ravine. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The snow has stopped falling now, but enough has collected on the ground that it squeaks under my shoes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"You will bleed her every day, collect every drop of her blood, and we will create an elixir from it. I will test it myself." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Richard said little else, and instead looked at the hawkers on the road, shouting, gesturing, running after cars to collect their money. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Luther accordingly had collected numerous popular contemporary folk tunes, given them holy words, and encouraged these hymns, or chorales, to be sung in Lutheran churches. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wiping the nose of some wailing newborn or collecting newspapers or listening to presentations from army nurses or darning another sock? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ivy nodded and got up, drifting through the room to collect her secondhand clothes and her toothbrush. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After the meeting, a network of two thousand women set off on a nationwide mission to collect signatures on a petition urging Congress to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She cut slashes in mutowa trees and collected a ball of sticky sap. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the last three digits of the total value of stock sales match your numbers, you get to collect winnings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione was overcome with such a strong fit of the giggles at this point that she had to duck out of the queue and only returned when Archie had collected his water and moved away. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We had collected him off the ground and made him sit on a bench. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His apartment was filled with the stuff he’d collected during the wars of his life, and I took pictures of them with Grandpa’s camera. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The group collected four hundred thousand signatures from women who supported the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

By the time I turned my attention back to him, Chubs had collected himself enough to start poking and prodding me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He plowed across the tissue paper battlefield, his shoes collecting colorful scraps. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the end, those kids collected five times as many paper clips as they needed, and founded a world-renowned Holocaust museum. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Gran had already said it was okay if I borrowed some of his CDs collecting dust in the garage. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His lower intestine was ruptured and hemorrhaged, the blood collected in his abdominal cavity. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Internal Revenue Service is able to collect Bobby’s back taxes and fines, the multimillion-dollar “purse” the competitors are vying for will have been seriously reduced. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The remainder sat outside on palm leaves the boys had collected. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day we didn’t talk much, just went over the mountain collecting foods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wretched uncle had a whole crew of muscled bullies he hired to collect money from people who owed him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She collected valuables and packed up artifacts from the region to send back to Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford suggested that the accident be reported to the police immediately in order to collect on the insurance. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

His family had collected enough ancient armaments to supply an army. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Steam hissed up from the surface and collected into clouds a few feet above my head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I hurried along, again collecting wood and edibles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to collect them, despite the delay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about all the routine things I should be doing—milking the cow, feeding the chickens, collecting the eggs, and weeding the garden. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He went completely savage and the Gamemakers had to have him stunned with electric guns to collect the bodies of the players he'd killed before he ate them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Someone else collect feathers and twigs. We’ll get rocks!” said Oz excitedly, already running in the direction of the tide pools. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, we collected our bathing things and the whole party, all ten of us, would pile into our boat. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old black-and-white pictures hung on the walls, and a weathered wooden shoeshine stand sat in a corner, collecting dust. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I know times are tough. I’ve got the bank pushing on me to collect on accounts.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But she collected copies of those favorite books to give away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I am going to collect specimens at the river. Order Odonata today, I think. Dragonflies and damselflies. Would you like to accompany me?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Others he collected for museums hut slipped into his own pocket or knapsack instead. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Uhmma loves her pennies, collects them like flowers in an old glass vase she found at a garage sale. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Wet shells meant the end of hunting anything except blackberries and dry wood, which we hadn’t thought to collect any real supply of. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Jacob has leaves in his shirt—that’s what he was collecting. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I told them we would give them access to the information we had collected. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Negro had come back and was starting to collect the empty plates of people who hadn't dished out any beans yet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

So when UN food bags would break open, leaving food behind, the Anyuak would collect it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke collected the dirty plates, his face still blank. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The pipe was at the bottom of a hill, and I would walk down there and huddle with other poor people from the neighborhood, collecting drips of water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I am here to collect my belongings,” I said. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The whole class had watched me the entire time, trying to pretend they weren’t watching, as I had collected my supplies and arranged them at my workspace. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It had to be collected absolutely fresh before it hit the ground. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, they would be able to collect flour, sugar, and other provisions, as well as explosives and fuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Geneticists were able to collect enough intact Neanderthal DNA from fossils to make a broad comparison between it and the DNA of contemporary humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange, Nelson would chop our firewood, boil up steaming pots of lumpy manioc, and bring us fruit, greens, and bark potions collected from the forest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the hearth stood the jar of flower seeds that Momma had collected, seeds she never had a chance to put into the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over five weeks, Darwin collected carcasses of finches, mockingbirds, blackbirds, grosbeaks, wrens, albatrosses, iguanas, and an array of sea and land plants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gradually, he collected his thoughts and mentally went through the whole of his life, from the earliest days which he could remember. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jews were helping the nobility, but in doing so, in collecting taxes from the serfs and peasants, for example, they were building up against themselves the hatred of these oppressed classes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Snake took us to Miss Mary's house to collect our blankets and too-small shoes but nothing else. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For such readers a few notes on the more important points are here collected from Hobbit-lore, and the first adventure is briefly recalled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each then looked around for more debris to throw into the hole: paper, bits of glass, butts of cigarettes, until all of the small defiling things they could find were collected there. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She reached her hands backward trying to collect it all. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I quickly mixed the powder Teashop Aunty had given us with the rainwater I’d collected. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Equable emirs collected taxes for the British, and the British, in return, kept the Christian missionaries away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Among the three of us, we manage to collect everything before it’s carried off, except for our chemical-riddled jumpsuits, which are so eaten away no one cares if we lose them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She collected frogs from the streams in the forest and put their blood in jars, to give to people when they were sick. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, deep holes were dug at various street corners to collect runoff water and anything else that might be washed along. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Washington freshmen paddled over to the California boat and collected the traditional trophy of victorious crews everywhere—the shirts off the backs of their vanquished rivals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In social studies, James made a big show of looking for another missing item when Mr. Quisling collected the cipher challenge submissions. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Secretly she collected them, whispering to Grand-grand Auntie that she did so on her behalf. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody stood around in place and gave orders or collected fees; they all simply ran around, picking up pellets at random and dropping them again. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not see that angel because I was outside collecting figs, but I heard the flooshing and saw the golden light. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The nuts twirled out on his command, collecting in a neat pile on the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It looks a little like you’re collecting recipes the old-fashioned way.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Hitler Youth sprang into action, collecting money, winter coats, wool sweaters, gloves, hats, socks, and blankets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Woodhull had studied the Vanderbilt family, and she collected additional information about them from a friend, Josie Mansfield, who was the girlfriend of one of Vanderbilt’s competitors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When she's satisfied that there's no other litter to collect, she walks over to the garbage can just a few feet away from me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If it were, the museum would have sent men already to collect it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I feel as if she is collecting pieces to make a mountain. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hatsue grew up digging clams at South Beach, picking blackberries, collecting mushrooms, and weeding strawberry plants. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He and his father share the job of collecting palm sap and fruit for the village’s chief. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lined with bits of leaves, grass, cloth, cotton fluff, feathers and other soft things Mrs. Frisby and her children had collected, the house stayed dry, warm and comfortable all winter. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote Curtis MacDougall, a college professor she knew, and asked him to persuade his students to collect money for the appeal and write Claudette messages of support. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“OK. So . . . you’re not registered to collect unemployment benefits, nothing like that?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mama walks toward us he says, “I don’t like doing this, y’know. But this is a business, and we have to collect payment....” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Dari raced downstairs to inspect our fallen egg—Dari, our calm, collected, studious Dari, running over to our egg like a doctor to his patient. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Already the rainwater had collected and we sped like a *■ ski boat down the swale. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“They don't have to die to collect. They get a thousand dollars each when they're eighteen. It's insurance to get them through college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I think,” I answered, swishing suds in and out of the umpteenth mason jar that would probably collect another year’s worth of dust before there’d be any fruit fit for canning. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The speaker was kneeling on the floor beside Diana, offering her the dainty white handkerchiefs she had collected from the operatives. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tommy read a lot, and when he was in fourth grade he had started collecting slang expressions that he thought were funny. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The dizziness begins to fade as she collects herself, still amazed at the accomplishment. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Either people were healthier midtown or the body collecting was more efficient. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Harison had been collecting baby birds. aI couldn’t just leave ’em, sir.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spin to win!” she shouts over the thumpety-thump of the spinning plastic men as I collect the ball from her goal. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her own mother had had no interest in collecting anything of any sort—not shells or buttons or shiny stones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The clash culminates several weeks after Enrique arrives, when Maria Isabel telephones collect and her call is rejected because some of the immigrants in the trailer do not know who she is. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We cleaned the empty ones out and used them to collect water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several men collected at Tea Cake’s house and sat around stuffing courage into each other’s ears. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Of course: looking for his grandfather’s remains—to collect them and take them for a proper burial. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The families will have collected the bodies by now. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You said you were a stamp collector. But why would they deport you for collecting stamps?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Almost all his summer had been spent collecting pedantic data for his thesis, and now he was in a mood to think about important facts. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Windmills were a great power Painted around 1490 by the French artist RobinetTestard, this picture shows people collecting aloe wood as it floats down a river from the Garden of Eden. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He sends me his phone number and I’m tempted to call it to make sure he’s the one who picks up, and not some creep who’s paying him to collect addresses of young vulnerable guys. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The water from the holes in the lakebed could be collected only in tiny amounts. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked her if she was out collecting money for charity and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Frank recently had started collecting them, and Charles’s old interest was renewed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year it’s our turn to host, so she and Grandpa drive in from Denver in one of the classic cars they collect. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Operator, I want to make a collect call to Louis Gaither.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had come barefoot, collecting dew on the soles of my feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could track down whatever shards he’s collected from all the times he’s destroyed her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She then collected her tennis things—racket, hand towel, and sun hat—and followed Selena. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

After checking on the chickens and collecting eggs each morning, it was to be my job to milk the cows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Older boys with colorful stacks of T-shirts collect and follow in a swarm like bottleflies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat tried to sound as cool and collected as Mr. Derby. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why I started collecting them. I suppose those people reminded me of Nikkei I knew. Picking produce for a living. But today those people remind me of us. They had no home.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But efforts were made to have carcasses collected for examination, and of the birds analyzed, all but one contained pesticide residues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I kept trying to picture my mother or somebody, or my aunt, or Sally Hayes's crazy mother, standing outside some department store and collecting dough for poor people in a beat-up old straw basket. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the past half hour, I've collected a mental list of approximately 412 ways I might kill Tiny Cooper, and I'm not going to leave until I've settled on just the right one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Inside were stored various bits of food he had collected—a piece of fruit, samples of candy, or the butt-end of a liverwurst. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“My dad collects stuff like that too. Lots of people do.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Trapis wasn’t there, probably off collecting charity to help him care for his children. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My brother is collecting again; he’s collecting stars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I cleared the Scoreboard off my display and opened up my grail diary, which had now grown into a vast mountain of data containing every scrap of information I’d collected since the contest began. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, when we finally collected our luggage and passed through Customs, we found Baba waiting outside the international arrivals gate at Chicago O’Hare Airport. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Trailing a few steps behind Gale, I try to collect myself before I’m thrown into what’s sure to be another relentless Mockingjay session. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But with each defeated kite, hope grew in my heart, like snow collecting on a wall, one flake at a time. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, Lockhart collected the papers and rifled through them in front of the class. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In regular games, unused power-ups that you collect can be stored in your player inventory. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brandy and Tressa are collecting rocks and shells in our old pails. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Mama still collected the news pieces, though there were now too many to have on display. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had, those many months, been collecting offers for children sold cheap, requests for aid in running down families who had fled their masters. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the time and distraction that worried him; although he was frugal, he doubted he would ever make enough money by collecting beetles and writing about coral. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see you collect dung and take it with you. Is it not for the land?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the French doctor was made to collect the parts. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet move, and the two women look up from the pile of refuse they’ve been collecting. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Watching his boys paddle over to the Cal boat to collect their jerseys, he had much to take stock of. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every year at around this time the monks came down from their mountainside temple to collect their tithe of rice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In my visits to the homes of policyholders to collect premiums, I was accompanied by the superintendent who claimed to the policyholder that he was making a routine inspection. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime they’d strike out and seize the military supplies they knew the provincials were collecting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran out of oranges on the first day, but I collected more at every village that I slept in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed that he was roaming the streets of Brooklyn as a one-man band and living on the pennies he collected. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had been in the demons’ country for over two years, Uncle sent me to make the rounds among some of our regular customers in the Tang people’s town to collect overdue bills. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he explained to her that his job was building runways in the fields of northern France, his eyes kept returning to the steel forceps she had collected from the autoclave. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still another factor tipping the balance away from hunting-gathering was the cumulative development of technologies on which food production would eventually depend—technologies for collecting, processing, and storing wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Class is almost over. Are you going to collect ciphers for the week?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The night got chilly fast, so Grover and I collected old boards from the ruined house, and Thalia zapped them with an electric shock to start a campfire. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Kira gathered the cloth around the plants she had collected and tied the edges together. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luna left a note for her grandmother saying that she wanted to go out and collect berries and sketch the sunrise. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Each day Ivy and her grandmother walked in the great forest, where Gran collected herbs and leaves that she made into remedies to heal the villagers of their aches and pains. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

My old street clothes were buried somewhere in the closet, collecting dust. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They collected visual memories that would serve them for the rest of their lives. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

An exploratory “survey” of South America had been commissioned, and the expedition required the service of a “gentleman scientist” who could assist in collecting specimens. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then he bends down and rubs Gwenforte's head, before collecting his and the king's horses and hurrying after the royal family. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

After tramping the streets and pounding on doors to collect premiums, I was dry, strained, too tired to read or write. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his father started to read from Proverbs, Turner was surprised at how many verses about rebellious children he had been able to collect on such short notice. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had stored them in the box as if they were seashells collected from a beach. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He reached into the bones with the mechanical arm he used to tip shrimp tanks into his collecting bin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each new auction seemed to surpass the previous one for the record of the highest single bid and the total of millions collected. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To improve the scenery, not only the Gypsies but more than fourteen hundred homeless people had been collected and removed from the streets. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was probably at Great Smials that The Tale of Years was put together, with the assistance of material collected by Meriadoc. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And Tucker had a big day planned for tomorrow, collecting things for his home and snapping up bits of food that fell from the lunch counters all over the station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them are already collecting china and housewares, and have Hope Chests. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Sheriff Freas was informed about Anna’s murder, he was already preoccupied with Whitehorn’s slaying, and he initially sent one of his deputies to collect evidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One Saturday, not even having collected the price of the doors, he fell into a desperate confusion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Women washed clothes in the ponds; children collected the water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Say, Wright,” he asked, “did you collect from Ewing at Champlain Avenue yet?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

People carved spoons from wood, or we collected empty snail shells, which make really good spoons. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I burned up most of the wood I had collected, unable to sleep for facing my death—if not death here, then death someday. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gul Khan came by to collect their orders, and within minutes their table was overflowing with hot fragrant food. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As Quines collects our dirty dishes, I whisper, “Delicious salad.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two straw targets fifty yards apart, and when they had shot their arrows at one, they had only to go to it, collect them, and shoot back at the other, after facing about. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because your father thinks you’ll be safer on a gelding, and so do I. Now remount and let me see a collected canter.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the conductor came around to collect the fares, Stuart fished in his purse and pulled out a coin no bigger than the eye of a grasshopper. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They probably had a stack of flat pennies somewhere in the company-store offices, collected over the decades. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can see orchards in the distance, and I wonder if that’s where Rue would have worked, collecting the fruit from the slimmest branches at the tops of the trees. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the peasants whom he had not despoiled because he was not interested in their lands, he levied a contribution which he collected every Saturday with his hunting dogs and his double-barreled shotgun. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“To collect snails. I must be getting along, monsieur. May I please retrieve my cane?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tommy didn’t know exactly when this would happen, but he said that the Dewey Avenue Rescue Fund, the money Calder and Petra had collected by selling brownies, was a definite help. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Together, the three of us collected the shirts and breeches from such as were afflicted with sickness, all lying together in the stern. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Clearwater, Florida, had been her favorite—she’d swum every day and walked on the beach and collected seashells and pretty stones almost as clear as glass. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The plot was conceived by Middleton: after Lewis was killed, the plan was to use a female associate to impersonate her so that the friends could collect the headright payments. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the second week of December Professor McGonagall came around as usual, collecting names of those who would be staying at school for Christmas. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When I get home, I collect all my six-word memoirs and write one whole poem. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

There was usually some mention of him and his cousin in the folds of the daily paper, some new clipping to collect. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

An excited Cristiana collected feathers of every color and stitched them to a mask, for she had found this note in her pocket: Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Minya collected her captured piece with a look of smug satisfaction. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Each man had collected an armload of heavy rocks, any one of which, hitting a child or even Linda in the head, could have been fatal. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swallowed hard and waited a minute to collect his voice. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My first real collecting as a student of natural history was done in Egypt on this journey,” Roosevelt recalled. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I thought of what I could do to contribute, besides collecting bottles and scrap metal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how they collected the names of all the teachers to deport.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Either way he’d collect the one hundred and forty-five dollars for the bout. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At graduation you got to collect your teacher’s pens and your parents’ pens and you got your own pen. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When Rita returned, the Mellower’s mother sent her out to collect fruit. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He worked all night in the hut on his knees, collecting blood samples and taking care of the patients as best he could. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collected the first-aid kit, cleaned her wound as best I could, and secured a large patch of gauze over it with surgical tape. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My hand is gripping the bag that’s stuffed with the money I collected from generous relatives excited to see me for the first time in eight years, and I try not to bump into people. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Perspiration collected along Fadi’s forehead as he yanked on the switch. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He slept while the boy kept watch and in the evening they got out their shoes and put them on and went down to the farmhouse and collected the rest of the apples. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

For the next hour, we rummaged through Grandma’s trunks filled with fabrics she had collected over the years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evidence already collected by April 15 confirmed that it was Booth who had shot Lincoln, and that he seemed to have several accomplices. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had he gone to collect caterpillars and gotten lost? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

So they built Story Boxes in the image of the original one to protect the power of the stories they had collected. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As if the past was recyclable and all he had to do was collect enough cans to make a fortune and make another start. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A few days after my uncle was buried, I was finally able to make a collect call to Laura. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As he stepped back with the line, the teen trying to collect money walked, or rolled, to the center of the car. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I finished collecting grass for the camels, while Papi told me more about the commandments. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I take a long pause before I answer, trying to collect my thoughts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Tom Geisbert went off to collect some pickled monkey liver that he could photo graph for viruses, hoping to prove that the Mar- burg-like agent lived in the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that he had been so devastated that he went to the McMillian residence to collect money on a different day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then she gave me a toss of her head and marched off to the SIM to collect what-ever her charge was for desecrating. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another employee collected Freebie for a day at the doggy spa. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Celia glares at him, but at the same time she begins turning over his words in her mind, collecting the obscure non-answers about the rules he has given her over the years. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I click answers while everyone else collects their phones. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They'd been collecting booze and stashing it in the woods around the bluff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like when you can’t find your homework and the teacher’s walking around to collect it, and the closer she gets, the more you panic. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I told Robin about going to visit Vern, how he thought I was my mom and told me to keep collecting data. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The town’s teachers served as agents of the bank and every week collected money from the children for deposit in each child’s passbook account. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It spilled into the dirt floor, and the dirt collected around his leg, almost like a cast. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But at the same time that he devoured Paley and theology, Charles was devouring natural history and collecting specimens, especially beetles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s illegal to sell human organs and tissues for transplants or medical treatments, but it’s perfectly legal to give them away while charging fees for collecting and processing them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If you fall bravely in war the Valkyries, beautiful battle-maidens who collect the souls of the noble dead, will take you and bring you to the hall known as Valhalla. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Shep’s brothers showed up with a cart to collect the body. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leaning back, tilting his important-style chair, he rummaged among the contents of the envelope until he came across what he wanted: the collected, extant data on the Nexus-6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I found a large plastic bottle and stuck it in the ground, to collect rainwater for us to drink. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The board seemed untouched by the flame, protected by good luck and the layer of dew it collected every nightfall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We dug a path out the door to collect our rations. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I said “Good-bye, Miss Pocket;” but she merely stared, and did not seem collected enough to know that I had spoken. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

"It's my job to collect evidence from the scene of the crime, and I store that evidence in the safety of my trunk." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A steady flow of people begins to fill the room, claiming spaces, collecting supplies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

On warmer, happier days, after school ended in the afternoon, Shin’s class would sometimes march into the hills and mountains behind the school to collect food and herbs for their guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Gran hand- collects cowshit, “cow patties,” she calls them, and mixes them in with mulch to make her own fertilizer. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Not yet. Big Ma hasn’t gotten over the collect call from yesterday. We gotta get up enough dimes to make a real call across the country.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that rainwater collected behind the slack dumps up the hollows. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I release my muscles and sink down into the collected rainwater. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Comic books are what my brother is collecting now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Like this one does. The sorcerer collects magic. Alfhercht has one the sorcerer doesn’t: sound magic. Your friend does as well.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Did that mean they’d have to cut it off to collect? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom stood at the front door as the tourists filed out, and frequently collected tips. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miig and I were out collecting water from our tarp traps when we found the first sign that we were getting close. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They were laughing, Lena and she; collecting the roses, looking up at the man, and laughing from fear, embarrassment, and giddiness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands balled into fists as he collected the rest of the chess pieces. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in, Mr. Fleming. The captain is out collecting his specimens at the river,” Mother said, “but I have no idea how to find him.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I went to Captain Root’s office, collected papers and information and the like.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I collect the frozen garments and carry the bulky pile to the bakery, where the warmth of the ovens will thaw and dry them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind threatened to scatter the pile of trash she had collected, and she scurried to cover it with her broom to keep it from being blown away. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the importance of collecting data and finding new markets; he was always on the lookout for better management strategies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve been trading, collecting things to sell in the secondhand shops and sometimes in the rubbish bins outside the nicer houses, washing and sewing and repairing what I find. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Many of those who weren’t natural writers gave interviews instead, and allowed their memories to be collected and published. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That is why chiefdoms devote so much collected tribute to constructing temples and other public works, which serve as centers of the official religion and visible signs of the chief’s power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was fascinated by Fourier’s collection of Egyptian artifacts, collected during the Napoleonic expedition where he had been responsible for cataloging the astronomical monuments of that ancient civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we collected Katz, who announced regretfully to his adoring audience that he had to go—there were mountains still to climb—and stepped valiantly back into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Brian and I decided we needed to make the fire even bigger and went out to collect more wood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lately I’ve started collecting old books that are famous for their misprints. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got out of the car to collect our trophies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Thought you were going to collect cans,” Joe said, wiping off a chocolate milk mustache when I walked up. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On Monday, yesterday, last night I mean, we got collected by the rose lady’s chauffeur and taken to collect the Rosalie for our trip to the pickup airfield. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The writers collected them, leaving the spaces for Horse of the Year blank. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head ached wildly from the blow; reaching, he found fresh blood collecting, spilling in huge bright drops down the side of his face. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Zeitoun siblings were all close-knit, but no one worried more, and spent more time collecting and updating addresses and phone numbers and photos, than Ahmad. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The first thing I did was find a pay phone and call the Lighthouse collect. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At seven p.m., the captain, his first officer, and the flight engineer met and collected the trip’s paperwork. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So before shoving off, cursing softly under his breath, he canvassed the area, collecting the garbage, which he crushed and buried in his pack. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, after seventeen years, he was finally coming to collect. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Later that day, when the sun was at its highest and the inside of the plastic house was hot enough to bake us like cassava, he returned to collect us. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up at once, collecting her hair. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The ship wandered from island to island—there were about eighteen in all—and Darwin ventured ashore, scrambling through the pumice, collecting birds, plants, and lizards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I do. But I have a mortgage to pay and it depends on collecting the rent.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

With the Aeron, the effort to collect consumers’ first impressions failed for a slightly different reason: the people reporting their first impressions misinterpreted their own feelings. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She sees problems and forms solutions based on the data she collects. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I called the elf to the staffroom to collect some robes for cleaning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal herbs and sell them to her shop to be brewed into remedies. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie asks as my mom collects his things at his classroom. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I had kids collect shells, and we glued them on wooden cigar boxes that I got Johnny Cakes to donate. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop, close my eyes, and collect myself. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Soon a light rain begins to fall, and Mrs. Fiester yells, “Oh no! Girls! Please run down to the beach and collect my towels.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Before long, the two of them had collected three more barrel staves and the back of the chair. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could smell but not see the shimmering green sludge that collected in the open sewer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

These Italians were also very mannered and matched manners with the two we had collected before. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Harker, having collected a million dollars to solve the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease, was in search of talent, and the offer of six thousand for one year seemed to Odile wonderfully generous. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As a child, Oppenheimer was passionate about rock collecting. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A great crowd collected to hear the case, for this was the first test of the new law in Boston. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed them to Mother and she dialed some second cousins who promised to come collect us almost immediately, even though Mother had not spoken with them in nearly a decade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I then returned to Copenhagen to collect my few clothes and to tell Herman about my good luck in being able to become a crystallographer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Hard facts would come only when further data had been collected which could allow the crystallographic analyses to be carried to a more refined stage. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“None of them. I just collect information, watch the networks to see what everyone is buzzing about. And that just happens to be you, Miss Daly.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten any idea of collecting other rabbits, but there were three who joined me all the same—Bluebell here and Pimpernel and young Toadflax. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the barrels collecting the excrement from our toilets had to be removed and hauled away. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue carried the wood they had collected in case the flames did not find enough to feed on among the stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His wife had asked him to be sure and collect the family cat, Courthouse Pete. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At four a.m., just before the DNA samples were collected, a large white tent was erected around the gravesite to ensure even further privacy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since the sun rose high that Saturday, I figured it was a good day to go to the beach and collect seashells for souvenirs. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma’s smart and widely read brother attended seances, communed with spirit guides, and collected photographs that seemed to show ghosts and spirits. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt so much frightened that he could no longer collect his wits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took my samples from the riverside willows, the new blue willow grove, and the leaves I’d collected from random trees. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s just real set in his ways. He collects those stupid lunch boxes.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But he soon noticed that practically everyone on board was “souvenir collecting,” pocketing towels, ashtrays, and anything else they could easily lift. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tía Mari came back from the beach with some seashells Oscar and the little girl collected. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He climbed out of the car, collecting his coat and his map. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Neither he nor any part of the arresting party secured the house or collected any evidence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Beth, who was collecting the scattered Author cards, looked up and said, in her shy yet friendly way, “I’m afraid you are tired. Can I do anything for you?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the runners own their territory, you have to pay them most of the bets you collect, but you get to keep a cut. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To collect information for a future attack. We don’t know. It doesn’t matter. He’s dangerous.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Doña Charito's collected works hung on the walls: mostly pitchers and bowls of fruit, and violins or guitars, I couldn't tell the difference, for we hadn't had music lessons yet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A few dozen people had collected in the living room, sitting on couches and folding chairs that had been brought in for the occasion, while others sat cross-legged on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"And tomorrow?" the innkeeper asks the children, as the troubadours collect their instruments. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Back in his room aboard the Beagle, he began to systematically analyze the corpses of the birds that he had collected. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We are in the aisle of feminine products, and she's standing there with an empty basket, unlike mine, which overflows with items I've collected but cannot buy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to find a rag and wipe that stuff off her face, the way she wiped off the dirt and grime that collected on mine. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The museum, in London’s Leicester Square, had been founded by Sir Ashton Lever, who had driven himself bankrupt with his unrestrained collecting of natural wonders. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He worried suddenly that she could smell his perspiration, which he knew had collected beneath the synthetic material of his shirt. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I go back to my room to collect a few things and find there's nothing to take but the mockingjay pin Madge gave me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Who was going to help you to collect the ransom money?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At all the great mansions he commonly went to the back door, either to leave newspapers or to ‘collect bills.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After swimming, we sat on boulders and collected smooth pebbles to juggle in the air. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I think we need something closer to home. My grandmother probably won’t let me leave the country. Maybe we could collect aluminum cans and recycle them.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boys shook one another’s hands, paddled over to the Syracuse boat, collected trophy shirts off the backs of the defeated Orangemen and shook their hands, and then rowed leisurely back to their shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Lord Bowen, you shall collect the tolls. The gold and silver, the amber, the torques and armbands and necklaces. Sort it all, count it, see that it reaches Eastwatch safely.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mist collected around the Labrador until she was completely hidden in a cocoon of white. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Relieved, he collected all the columns and posted them on Slashdot’s archives, where they remain at slashdot.org. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hand each of my group members a copy of my cleanly typed research paper and collect theirs in return. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

However, Octavian soon arrived in Rome to collect his inheritance, which he felt included taking over his uncle’s role as leader of the Republic. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m a prototype sent to your planet to collect data on what you Earthlings call emotions. I’m not human, as you can clearly see when I play basketball to the best of my ability.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We left our dæmons outside,” he said, “where it’s safe for them. We’ll collect them later. Did you have a dæmon?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I rigged up my special effects, checked out the terrain, measured distances, collected the ordnance and equipment we’d need. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mustached man was collecting cash and writing down names. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Chaol gave them a moment to collect their breath before he said, “Yes?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You’d better collect a few more like that: then you can make a notice board and frighten Fiver. You might have poked the lendri’s eye out for us, if you’d only known.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planned to collect new species of birds and other animals for the American Museum of Natural History. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They caught it in the bottles as Professor Sprout had indicated, and by the end of the lesson had collected several pints. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t collect garbage tax or cell phone storage fees from Stephen. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As they did, the cold mist collected on Nathan’s hair and exposed skin. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He dug a deep hole in the sand and collected seashells with us. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mold and mildew stains rim the edges where water must collect. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Calder followed him onto the front walk, noticing with interest all the papers that had collected under the dead plants in their yard. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Farid was sitting on the paving stones counting the money he had collected. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He said, “You can collect your fifty dollars up at the big house. If you want to stay, you got a job breaking horses.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided it was far too cold to collect life vests and floats. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Everything started became nothing finished, and all her projects and my homework and hobbies just ended up in piles collecting dust. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even have a second to collect myself before the next three words passed his lips. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My father was shuffling around the carpeted living room in his socks, collecting his keys, his wallet, and his glasses like he did every time he left the house. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Men from the camp collect at the fringes of the trees to watch our group. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Psi Special Forces—that’s what the driver of the bus had called himself and the others when they collected us from the warehouse. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He says I’ve been taking money from little kids and hiding their phones from them and collecting money for storage. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They collected firewood from the north side of the slope where it was not so wet, pushing over whole trees and dragging them into camp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We put them into the collecting bottles filled with pale alcohol. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This prediction proved correct, for not long afterward Wells collected both the reward and a parole. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m collecting them for the Human Rights Club.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I read in a book that they cut off the workers’ hands if they hadn’t collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after I brush my teeth and collect my things, I don’t put up much of a fuss about using the wheelchair. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Two dozen of the chief rangers had preceded him, and were standing around the firepit in the center of the dirt floor while puddles collected about their boots. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the beaker and collected about three hundred millilitres, a pop can’s worth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I collected the food and “borrowed” one of Nigel’s old hats, to pull down over my hair—which wasn’t very long, luckily. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte Lee could collect all the rubber ones she wanted. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She moaned a little, but the excitement collecting inside him made him close his eyes and regard her moans as no more than pine sighs over his head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second Platoon would come in simultaneously on Pratt’s right and advance over the seawall behind its light machine guns, then collect on higher ground and move inland. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, after we’d collected about ten huge garbage bags full of coats, my mom and dad and I drove all the way downtown to the Bowery Mission to donate the coats. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Harry dashed around his room, collecting his things and passing them out of the window to Ron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She collected her mug from the end table. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The worry dolls were scattered everywhere, so I collected them and lined them up again neatly under my pillow. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Without realizing the danger of contact with radium, Kelly brought some back to the United States in his pockets and regularly traveled the world collecting more. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In September he and a Mexican man collected many bricks from up the street and built a big barbecue. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He collects some and sends them to Theo, along with pieces he’s done at the asylum. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He collected exotic lifeforms, including an elephant for Aristotle, his teacher. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d spent my young life seeking approval, dutifully collecting gold stars and avoiding messy social situations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Still it was no great feat to make it to the roof of the inn where I collected my boots. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Waiting for me to collect her as I’d promised I would if the sirens ever sounded. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had two mismatched turntables plus a rickety old reel-to-reel tape player and shelves packed with records he’d collected over many years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They collected themselves sufficiently to pull up short of the wood and make a more dignified approach to the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder’s job was to organize the data the class collected into a giant chart. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I nudge Kat, it is better to crawl out and lie on top than to stay where the gas collects most. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was usually our manager that collected ticket money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day he returned to the fields again, collecting rice even after darkness had rendered his eyes useless. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And we sat in the sorrow for a while, until the mosquitoes collected around us and chased us indoors. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powdered Graphorn horn is used in many potions, though it is immensely expensive owing to the difficulty in collecting it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who knew how many beach rats she’d drugged and collected into the mysteries of her church? Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah hears what they say ’cause they just will collect round mah porch ’cause it’s on de big road. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“She went to the library early,” said Andrew Peckleman, who was rolling a rubber barrel between tables to collect people’s breakfast trash. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Watson, Nel, and Hewitt have collected large numbers of termites in the field and placed them together for observation, in groups and pairs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read every issue of every comic book title Halliday had ever collected. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On his tour of the dining hall he collected a good quantity of cutlery and some fine antique cruets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The hunter who had come by our tent collecting the jackpot money came up to me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Shortly after I collected the last of the game’s nineteen treasures, a tiny brass bauble, a notice flashed in my display informing me that the Vonnegut had arrived outside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe tearful families had come with open arms to collect their children. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That History used the back verandah to negotiate its terms and collect its dues. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it,” said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hummels. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the afternoon, I had collected from West Indian Archie for a fifty-cent combination bet; he had paid me three hundred dollars right out of his pocket. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then: “Very well. For now, Roskva, you will stay here and tend Snarler and Grinder while Grinder’s leg heals. When I return, I will collect all three of you.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And when we found out that we both collected coins, we became the best of friends. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a bright voice, Mrs. Brown asks Carla to please collect her things. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“We will collect them later. Now come with us.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I literally thought somebody had collected rainwater in a boot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The data collected on the colored pilgrims and their descendants over years and decades, the doctor said, will prove one of the boldest scientific enterprises in history. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was not at the river collecting without me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Whose dumb idea was it to collect a mountain of rocks?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And some even admitted that they were only going in to collect the free gifts, but they did not really support Pipo Place. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He just kept on collecting paychecks, spending the money on cigars that made me nauseous, and on beer, of course. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Send them that ship, guaranteed, and U. S. Robots can collect their two hundred thou plus construction costs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

For weeks we bought and collected wooden pencils, until we had enough to fill the coffin. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He beat up my son for the money he had collected,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stones only produced the smallest of sparks and the scraps of newspaper and leaves that he had collected were already far too wet. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Knot and vine were fast and efficient, moving from bar to nailshed to bar, seeking silently and collecting their fellows. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even with Noor’s help, there was no way they could collect that much. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

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

I’ve collected a few, and I found some more in one of Great-Uncle Jim’s blue jars in the back of the cupboard under the sink. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I have two more memories to show you this evening, both obtained with enormous difficulty, and the second of them is, I think, the most important I have collected.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One day, while collecting wood, Ku-Ang saw something red glittering on the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He orders the cadets in Werners class to collect hinged metal boxes from a locked cabinet at the back of the laboratory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And the thing about Omi was that she collected things from nature—seashells, bird feathers, stones in weird shapes and colors. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That won’t put the crystal back together, will it?” he snapped, then collected himself. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had be come frustrated watching his boyhood chum collect accolades and public acclaim for his marvelous engineering while complacently performing atrocious physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It takes me 2 more visits to the Pet Hut to finish entering all the data into the computer and collecting it for my own purposes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. I don’t need you to collect canned goods for me or give me a coat for winter. I have a family. Don’t turn me into a Cougars Care Project.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I collect our offerings—the stubs of her SAT number 2 pencils and four broken guitar strings. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then he was gone, the car speeding down the street and disappearing around the corner before I could even collect my thoughts. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their escorts would collect them shortly, the gate guards said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her father reports that no letters have been delivered or collected in three days. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, you stuck it under a train to collect insurance.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dizzying array of people to pay and collect from, houses to improve and maintain, bills to deal with, invoices to issue, supplies to buy and store. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She was still standing in line at the deli counter and didn’t seem to have any plans to collect me soon. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Besides that, I finished the first volume of a biography of Emperor Charles V yesterday, and I still have to work out the many genealogical charts I’ve collected and the notes I’ve taken. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The guardians were straightening their papers and collecting their books and belongings. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only in this book of his collected work,” the clerk said, lifting down a handsome glossy volume. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The squirrels would be collecting them all very soon, Miss Honey said, and storing them away carefully for the bleak months ahead. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

August used a pound of wax per candle and pressed tiny violets into them, which I collected in the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a paper due in English and Mr. Parrish collected them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They collected so many caterpillars that it was difficult to keep track of all their food sources. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So my job was to collect his pay before he had a chance to celebrate. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Blanca wondered what sort of people collected the dead and where they put them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the last bell rang and Ryan went to the back of the room to collect his parka, Ralph poked his nose out of the shirt pocket. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Believe me, ladies, when I collect enough do-re-mi to buy me a car, I'm clearing out." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Rising, I collected Sumac and headed quietly out of the wasi to go and see my teacher. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"No, Mother. Do not collect me. I can make my—" Belet scowled. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I told them they’d better figure out where they needed to go or I was going to collect a tax from them for getting in the way. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When I finish with it, I stand up to find Joon picking up the bubbles that have floated down the driveway and collected in the gutter. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The old man’s clothes were dirty and old, probably collected like his calendars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were instructed to pick up the large pieces that had washed up on the beach, and wade out to collect seaweed attached to rocks or coral. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran to the cupboard that held everything Mosca had collected for the break-in: a rope, the floor plans, the sausages for the dogs, shoe polish to blacken their faces—all had vanished. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was that village where the emperor collected his latest workers.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He warned Jule and promised to collect the suitcase and give her a ride. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, nearly a week since we got to Summerland, we collect our meager pay. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Others collected stones to provide ammunition for slings, while some coiled ropes about their bodies. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

By the time I collect my senses to wave back, the bus driver has shut the door behind me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Reaching down inside the sticky mess, he pulled out the body of Maria DiStasio, the young girl who had been collecting firewood in the freight yard. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t he still homeless? And he told me he was tortured by an east side gang,” Pri says as she collects my small pile of cards into her growing pile. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, a recording came on the line, saying, “This is a collect call from an inmate at the Massachusetts State Penitentiary...,” before another person chimed in. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Sell this land, sell that house, collect the money, and run away like a mouse. Go back to America, spend the money on a family vacation to Mex­ico.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was primarily a storage center for crops collected throughout the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Like waking from a summer nap, feeling lazy and sluggish, the world collecting itself around me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His job is mostly collecting school fees from parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Looking at the specimens he had collected, Charles realized that species were forming and changing all the time, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These things were collected from all the people of the Kingdom of Dor, and they were piled in the dungeon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“We ate the specimens he had collected, before they were treated with arsenic and stuffed, of course.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even had time to collect a few more treats before it was time to go home. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no plumbing and no electricity, but the fireplace still works and there’s a woodpile in the corner that my father and I collected years ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, a young naturalist who was currently traveling around the world collecting specimens just as Charles had done. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger was collecting his props: the two bottles he had used in Elinor's garden, the burnt-out torches, the bowl into which he spat and whose contents he now tipped carelessly out on the pavement. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now on the afternoon when Hazel was out collecting with Doc in the Great Tide Pool, the boys were sitting around in the Palace sipping the result of Eddie’s latest contribution. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Misha asked Anya if she was okay, and she yelled that she was, and he didn’t say anything else as she collected a coat from her room. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She turned the two front rooms of the house into a studio and gallery, and she used two bedrooms in the back to warehouse her collected works. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to collect more firewood if I’m going to be staying outside much longer.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Felicia used to collect seashells, then rearrange them on the beach before going home because her mother wouldn’t allow them in their house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked more than one hundred miles collecting two thousand signatures in an effort to help end slavery and give meaning to her family’s sacrifice. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, I went outside with Gramps to help him collect firewood. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He collected the money that had been taken in over the preceding months, heard reports from all the church groups and shook hands with the adults and kissed all small children. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another was collecting what was left of the tattered books from the ground, with the friars’ help, to bring them back to the pyre. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then she swings it around, throwing the collected dirt across her back and over the people around her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Minions collected and stored every object he touched, food waste included, to ensure that no lesser persons could profane these objects with their touch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Colin's collected list of things that weren't interesting, he could hold a halfway normal conversation. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Here was a book that contained the collected knowledge of the past while giving evidence of present social conditions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then he collected her bow and helped her to her feet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A big yellow funnel collecting for some children’s charity that’s really unpleasant to think about. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I tried frantically to collect my senses, but I could remember nothing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gaggle of smiths, armorers, and ironmongers that Bronn had collected fell to their knees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Aron was not able to collect his winnings for nearly a month, but he won six days later. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a littlun he was self-confident, holding out his hands, cradling the conch as Ralph did, looking round at them to collect their attention before he spoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I nodded and swallowed the saliva collecting in my hungry mouth, cradling the warm bowl in my hands, and snuck a large pinch of rice. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He found a flashlight in working condition and collected batteries from every electrical thing he could find. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A new game had come to mind, and I collected more and more rocks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks I refused even to venture into the driveway to collect the morning paper. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They often collected in prodigious, not to say rapacious, quantities. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I try to work and rework the problem in my brain—never write anything down—until Mr. Stoker collects the papers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She collected marbles when she was young, and she has willed her entire collection to me.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a tropical climate, so we get some rain every day. We can make a tarp out of Miss Massachusetts’s ugly evening gown to collect that rainwater to drink.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After a breath, the principal seems to collect herself. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Flossie collected them for display the way an athlete collects cups. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing was to project from its face, no gargoyles, no pedimenta, for projections collected dirt. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Having got there, he collected two successive loads of stone and dragged them down to the windmill before retiring for the night. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But her face was suddenly as usual and she was collecting the chopsticks as though she had not spoken. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The deer quietly slumped over onto his side, with his glossy brown eye wide open to the sun and pink foam collecting around his sad, quivering mouth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In a matter of days, though, they’d shed that pale yellow fuzz for tough new white feathers, and in just a few weeks, the chicken people, Perdue or whoever, would be back to collect them. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They’d collect empties from the men who were passed out and take the bottles to where you could turn them in for a deposit. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I was very lucky to collect this,” he said, as he poured the gleaming mass into the Pensieve. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I am making a collect call,” I told her, and gave her the number. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winner would collect a prize of five hundred dollars and the quilt would hang for a year in city hall. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She organized a group of sixty women who canvassed the state of New York, collecting ten thousand signatures on petitions. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The pile of earth was too low to hide all the flames, so until dark I collected rocks, about brick-sized, for my wall. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her Operations officer rang and asked her to make a flight to another airfield that night, collect someone and deliver that someone elsewhere, all to be done ASAP. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Instead of collecting any keepsakes, Viesturs sat down next to Fischer during the descent and spent a few minutes alone with him. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

One person in the club collects the orders and takes delivery of the food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Though the lecture had already started and there were only a few empty seats, he ostentatiously collected his things and moved to a seat distant from me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin knew the layout of the camp from countless days of gathering wood and collecting acorns, but he knew nothing about how to get over or through the high-voltage fence surrounding the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was nice on a hot summer day because the catfish liked to collect in the cooler waters that was under t lie shade of the big willows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had left home early that morning to collect the twelve dollars owed her by the white family for whom she had worked the week before. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Rondon reported that, based on the new information he had collected, the River of Doubt wasn’t as long as they originally guessed. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He said that on December 3 he was in the Rising Sun Tavern, not far from the flour mill, collecting intelligence from Philadelphia agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They collected around the Sphinx’s paws, grew roots and branches, and began wrapping around the monster’s legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I kept rainwater and the water I collected from the solar stills in the locker, out of Richard Parker’s sight, in the three 50-litre plastic bags. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took a Q-Tip and rubbed it in the dead monkey’s throat, collecting a little bit of mucus, a throat wash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had collected them one by one until I had complete sets. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his collecting mania grew, he neglected his medical practice. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I find myself pawing at my left ear periodically, trying to clean away whatever deadens its ability to collect sounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my husband,” Lady Constance said obediently, rising and gathering the children to her, while her ladies hastily collected embroidery frames, cloaks, and fripperies. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The rabbit collected his scribbled notes and began sorting them without another word. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He collected every book on Peruvian demography he could find. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Busying herself until the heat in her cheeks subsided, she collected the lantern and rummaged around until she found oil to light it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For the plant the change is highly disadvantageous, but it facilitates harvest by humans—the grain waits on the stem to be collected. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a few months, he went back to Monroe County and started collecting car parts for resale. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell her that after you left, I stopped eating, I got so skinny that the bathwater would collect between my bones, why didn’t anyone ask me why I was so skinny? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The professor remained in front of the room, collecting his papers and books. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saint Sarah sits, barking questions that she’s collected from previous Quiz Bowls, her silk flower turning with her head to gaze at the person she’s asked or aimed her quizzing at. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He appeared calm, cool and collected, even though he was surrounded by a sea of white faces. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had brought her in was collecting a tray from a serving hatch. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy II established the Library and vowed to collect one copy of every manuscript in existence. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mia, terrified, collected a stack of her photographs and brought them to the Wilkinsons’ the next morning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By then Cora only needed the candlelight for company, having collected the particulars of her prison. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This bunch were whispering excitedly, too, and he couldn’t see a single collecting tin. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Pieces of coal were always falling off the trucks when they made their deliveries, and Brian suggested that he and I get a bucket and collect some. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard they passed the hat and collected a hundred and forty dollars to encourage those policemen to abandon their duties,” Grandma added. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He collected and listened to music with it, used search engines to do everything from ordering an evening meal to resolving a technical dispute. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke had collected the fuel in five-gallon buckets, which he began to haul across the yard to Dad’s flatbed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Servants mill around, collecting the pieces in velveteen boxes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In her younger years, with prescience and good management, Mammachi had collected all her falling hair in a small, embroidered purse that she kept on her dressing table. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and I collected clear plastic water pitchers and moved from table to table to pour. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The new policies, which were collected into a thick manual, the bible of Hoover’s bureau, went beyond codes of conduct. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She collected them now—dozens of them—black, white, Latino, and Asian, boys and girls, babies dressed like farmhands and budding businessmen. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But at the wonder in the boy’s eyes she collected herself and asked him who he was, so young and yet seemingly so dedicated to this high service in Greece’s holy of holies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would not go about cap in hand to collect apologies from the friends who had shunned him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

So, for the years between 1820 and 1945, he collected data on the hundreds of wars that had been fought on our poor planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had helped me collect scrap iron to make steel, and even let me donate our cast-iron kettle to the cause. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The edge on her voice made Mrs. Fanning, who had been absently collecting her things, look up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The very next day, Mrs. Soren collected all the buttons, gathered up all the membership cards, and even replaced Jessie's Writers' Workshop folder. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Stegosaurs would haul massive carts full of collected dinopoop up there at the end of each day: you could catch whiffs of it all the way downtown. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On the beach Gogol collects rocks, digs tunnels in the sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the Hitler Youth collected, most people gave because to refuse could mean a black mark against them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t wear it, if she’d bothered to collect it at all. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Acquiring a tankard of cider from the landlord, I seated myself at a table a little way away, intending to relax a little and collect my thoughts concerning the day. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t know how long I stood in that hallway before Pa came to collect me. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al collects himself with obvious effort, although he cannot keep his lower lip from quivering. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

While the detectives were trying to establish a connection between the slayings of Charles Whitehorn and Anna Brown, Comstock passed on tidbits that he collected from his network of informants. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore took from an inside pocket another crystal phial and Harry fell silent at once, remembering that Dumbledore had said it was the most important one he had collected. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

These and hundreds more were collected in the American woods, shipped across the ocean to England and France and Russia, and received with greedy keenness and trembling fingers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One day he collects a row of old tea bags, soggy ones, and tosses them into a mug filled with orange juice. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When, on a day after a trip to collect coal, I cough once, loudly, through bronchial tubes already packed tight with phlegm, my mother frowns. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their spread was accomplished by collecting beetles from the original colonies and redistributing them at the rate of millions a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His long, bushy beard collected more stems as it brushed the countertop, and his shirt and pants were spattered with whatever Babulya was furiously stirring in the pot. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We file past the cafeteria workers to collect our plates of rice and some unrecognizable vegetable stew. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Scott got on his knees and sprayed cleaning fluid in the area underneath the dishwasher, where dirt collected. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So hurry, hurry, hurry, step right up and collect your prize. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Senator’s grin deflates and he looks back at the maid to collect these mundane drinks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As the flight attendants wandered the aisles collecting all the tiny plastic bottles of alcohol, the women on the flight started pulling headscarves out of their carry-ons and covering their hair. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At each stop they collected a generous tip. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ethan was fidgeting with his shield straps, but Prometheus looked as calm and collected as ever in his tuxedo. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, honey,” she said to Lindsey, “I hope you have just a super school year. You call Cammie collect if you need to.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He motioned to Mrs. Hiles, and she came over to collect for their meals. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rani plucks the bird and orders me to collect branches for her fire. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Leech the doctor comes from the Indo-European leg, which meant to collect, with numerous derivatives meaning to speak. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He announced, “We need to start collecting money for Zlata,” and then he dropped in a few coins. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So my formula starts with that, and I add or subtract based on the data I’ve collected. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the plane landed, I hurried to collect my bags and walk out front. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The platform has a railing and I lean against it for a moment, collecting myself. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Myths collect around her, and, oddly enough, not voluptuous myths. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Y’all do me a favor,” he said when he had collected himself. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At six forty she collects her white cane from the corner, loops a finger through the back of her father’s belt, and follows him down four flights and up six blocks to the museum. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Customs House collected tens of millions of dollars in duties on these products, and this money made up a large part of the U.S. government's income. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then it struck Mr. Dursley that this was probably some silly stunt — these people were obviously collecting for something ... yes, that would be it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He would ride up some other time to collect the money. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The playground was almost empty, with rust collecting on the swing chains and monkey bars. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Madam Rosmerta, the pretty landlady, didn’t seem to think much of this; she was looking askance at Moody as she collected glasses from tables around them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The only solution was to lance it and let the blood it had collected run down into your stomach. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, he’d collected flat stones from the creek and piled them carefully near a birch grove. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I kneel at the edge of the lake to collect the underwater plant samples the drones couldn’t reach. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The collected knowledge, art, and amusements of all human civilization were there, waiting for me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As the visitors tapered off, she became very concerned about collecting the two insurance policies that my father had always been proud he carried. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king’s men were sent out to deliver the grim news and to collect from the people of the Kingdom of Dor their kettles, their spoons, and their bowls. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Donkey collected great piles of thistles and threw them in, but Uncle Andrew didn’t seem to care about them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Taro looks around my room, taking in the abundance of art prints I’ve collected over the years and the shelves of “creepy clay things” against the wall. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Kat and I kept Salim company in the queue until we got to the man who collected the tickets, who was shouting, ‘Eleven-thirty boarders step this way!’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

After waiting for several hours, we were finally called in by the nurse, who collected the forms. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Sapa Inca’s men collected food from the villages every season and placed it in the many storehouses for travelers and for the people to eat in the years when the crops didn’t grow. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Conger ordered the Garrett sons to collect a few armfuls of straw and pile them against the side of the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe had decided he would wait till next Saturday because not collecting the dollar and thirty-five cents wasn’t going to strap him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time she collected my books and shoved them into my arms. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before he left, he held out to me the six or seven dollars he had collected that day in nickel and dime tips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it turns out Axelroot could collect medals galore in the department of avoiding holy matrimony. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trust that everything has been satisfactory, and hope you understand why we had to come and collect it. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

To feed migrants, often more than a hundred each night, he collects food three days a week from stores in Nuevo Laredo. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I could collect a monthly check for the rest of my life or take a one-time cash payment. I took the cash payment. You never know about tomorrow.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of creating art or collecting it, Hitler stole it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But as I collected Prim and started for home that afternoon, I found him staring at me from across the school yard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When they were out and collected on the clipper ship, the men and women gathered around. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It galloped with jaws wide open, as if to collect us between its teeth the way a whale feeds on plankton. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We sat, and I could tell from the silence collecting between us that this was going to be a hard conversation—one neither of us wanted to start. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They made it by scraping the seeds which others had collected, chewing up the scrapings till they made a kind of paste or soup, and then swallowing it into their own crops. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roz had spent the day collecting logs and branches and stacking them in a perfect, massive tower. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I got to Mrs. Caperdeen’s class, and by the time she taught the lesson about Aaron Douglas, I had collected like a thousand Family Circus clips. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It seeped in so slowly that it took a long time to collect even a few gourdsful. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My minions will collect you shortly and bring you to the ancient place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I collected a number of empty Red Cross bandage boxes and used them for drops. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king owed Pompey plenty of favors, and Pompey intended to collect. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

A ragpicker, who was collecting scrap paper to recycle, pulled some old da-zi-bao off the wall and happened to tear the newspaper that was posted underneath. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a hippie who’d been kicked to the side of the road maybe forty years ago, where she’d been collecting trash and rags ever since. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The nurse crouches down, collecting the spilled food. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He also started collecting armloads of firewood, cutting and splitting the wood with a small handsaw and hatchet, and stacking it in a straight pile against the cabin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered I had not yet collected the adult Sunday school reports. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been collecting leaves from the cobblestones: red, orange, yellow, green. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You know how I am. I like to collect useless information and parrot it back at people. Besides, I don’t have $150 to throw away. Luckily for us, we’re guests tonight.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The next features 4 boys who collect old sports equipment to send to Kenya. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jack collected stamps and begged ship captains for ones from faraway places. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He collected an army, captured the King’s city and put him to death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo had watched the doctor try to collect the exact substance that attracted the tsetses. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Missus Nedraw said, “No. More like a prison warden. Now please go collect that mirror before it gets away.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He collected a few of her things, put them in a suitcase. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

To understand and protect the white shark population, first, biologists must collect age data. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a growing excitement among the host The young geese flirted outrageously, or collected in parties to discuss their pilots. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was completely focused and alert, firing a stream of laser bursts, anticipating enemies, collecting armor and medicine. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where there are fewer, the deficiency may be remedied by collecting and distributing the baglike cocoons containing the eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sammy, who was from Kentucky, was a cool, collected expert in his business, and his business was women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With our discovery order from the court, we were able to collect records from Taylor Hardin, the mental health facility where Myers was sent after he first refused to testify. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mami opened the window wide, stuck out her hand, and let the snow collect on her palm. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I focus on the path of the broom, keeping my eyes on the dust that collects between glass fragments. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They all collected smooth pebbles from the stream and took turns slinging them at targets. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

No information had been collected, not a single idea about the whereabouts of Wes and Tony had been divulged. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, he was rich; unlike most boys his age, he had never even begun collecting baseball cards. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he hadn’t eaten dinner the night before, or slept, but he was so far from hungry or tired, and he had some time to collect himself before his shift began, so he did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had gone up there once with her real mother, when her mother was collecting for charity. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Next I collected dry wood from the hollows of trees and under canopies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few scenes appear to be combinations of her own observations and faulty information collected from others. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to leave you here for a bit, so you can collect your thoughts. Meet me in two minutes in the third-floor stairwell so you can give the photographers some room.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” Ma said, “I just collect the dispensers.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Various missing-persons agencies were collecting information and trying to connect those separated from their families. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He collected scrap metal, made clay pots, and worked in a convenience store. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I saw the orderly coming back up the aisle to collect the food trays. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My brothers and my mother were able to make some of the other preparations for me—collecting sticks and gum for the arrows, collecting the rope to bind them with. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the people approached the guardian, each placed a small stone collected from the fields onto a pile at its foot. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I suppose they had collected the garbage and the stones before they tried to get me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collected my bags and stood on the platform of the Greenwood station. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Chapter Eleven flew to San Francisco to collect me from jail. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The wind chilled her naked body and she stopped to collect her wits. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the case with most of my friends, and we didn’t mind collecting cans of food to send to the starving kids of Wherever Starving Kids Were Hanging Out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You know, someone from the KKK who wants to collect that reward money could pretend to be a graduate.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even worse, Werfel had collected some of the airy art of elfinkind, captured generations ago in some raid—paintings of heroes riding griffins and kings playing chess. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Since it was against the law for private cars to charge fares like licensed taxis, the network would be paid for by donations collected at the mass meetings. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Baking scones and cupcakes for the school janitors, watching Guiding Light with our mothers, collecting rose petals for use in a fragrant potpourri: anything worth doing turned out to be a girl thing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

All of the Rommelys were insured by the same company and the same agent collected the nickels and dimes from each of the sisters weekly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the youngest bonobos began to help collect food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Winston took up his mug of gin, paused for an instant to collect his nerve, and gulped the oily-tasting stuff down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He told the owner he was quitting, collected his pay, and boarded a bus bound for Shanghai, about ninety miles to the south. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But I really didn’t think of much besides keeping track of the new jobs in my notebook and recutting the lawns that came due and collecting the money and handing it over to Arnold. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman came to collect them shortly after breakfast. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

How Grandma collected ideas from everywhere, everyone, even left the bible open on the counter next to the cash register in her dress shop so all her customers could write in their batshit hogwash too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"We were hiding," I piped up in his defense, having had moments to collect my thoughts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They never collect the bloodbath bodies until the killers have dispersed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

All of the bruises they had collected from moving about the earth—harvesting, cleaning, hoisting, pitching, stooping, kneeling, picking—always with young ones underfoot. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his favorite spot to collect specimens for the creepy aquarium that he kept in the garage. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

During the lectures and labs, the men were allowed to take notes, but at the end of the course, the notes were going to be collected and destroyed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She rolled her eyes at her new friends, and they collected their trays of cornflakes and toast and sat together, an instant gang, excluding everyone else in order to gossip about them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

To conquer Spassky and become World Champion, he’d always needed to collect 12½ points, and a win would get him to that magic number. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Scamander’s work with the Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau led to many research trips abroad, during which he collected information for his worldwide bestseller Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Saturday night they collected in a bar and marched in a column of fours out Central Avenue, saying, “Hup! Hup!” in unison. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He will teach and preach some, but much of his time will be spent running errands, collecting money from the students’ parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, we need not have worried about the moon, because the Eagle landed beautifully in the Sea of Tranquility, and Neil and Buzz were able to walk around and collect some rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collect my schoolbooks and say good-bye to the other kids. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. So long as we are collecting rents, we will not have to pay any.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

In my room I collect markers, pencils, my ruler, paints, and brushes, until Kristi arrives. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hardest work, though, was the collecting of water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I waited until I saw a Negro use the phone, and then I hurried to it, closed the door and asked the long-distance operator to call my home collect. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friends his parents have collected for almost thirty years are in attendance, to pay their respects, cars from six different states lining the whole of Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their clothing was collected every morning, laundered meticulously, and delivered each evening.“Would you go aboard, if they invited you?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He seemed totally unable to collect his wits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She collected Jungle Red and Youth Blend safely, but Sunny Glow, which had tipped completely over and lost its protective disk, exploded in light peach puffs under the weight of the raindrops. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the dress, they placed anything.that could collect whatever rainwater fell through the fabric’s pores: empty coconut shells, high heels, and a jewelry cleaning unit they’d rinsed four times with seawater. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Being a country parson was an honorable profession for a British gentleman, and one that left a good amount of time for pursuing other activities, such as collecting. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently, Archer wiped her hands, her cheek, collecting her tears. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I also kept a close eye on the Scoreboard, waiting to see evidence that the Sixers had begun to collect copies of the Jade Key while their forces held the opposition at bay. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A truck had been sent to collect them from a field about two miles away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When that happened, we would collect the blood, the dam nefesh, on cloth swabs that would be buried with the body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Chou and I are to help look after the children, the garden, and various other chores while Kim fishes and collects wood with the father. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And lots of things I’ve collected: shells, rocks, a tiny glass elephant, a blackened old skeleton key my grandmother found in a chest but which unlocks nothing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the “trophies” were now “collected” in the case, so I took out the Cap’n Crunch whistle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The sap oozes out and hardens overnight. In the morning the workers scrape it off.They can collect from the same plant four or five times.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer Cotton collected an escort of some two dozen sturdy hobbits. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Still working on his man, right in the old jungle locale, in dives that you wouldn’t believe existed, the Muslim often collects audiences of a dozen junkies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In angry weariness he opened the wall cabinet and collected scalpels and clamps, sponges and tubes of sutures, to put in his bag. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If I was too ill to collect anything tomorrow, what would you do?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After about an hour, he’d collected a bunch of dollar bills. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All these years she’d been collecting them, and where could she keep them but within herself? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Suit #1’s voice blasts at us as we begin to walk upstairs to collect our things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Because Omi collects pebbles, and other stuff. Max’s mom got them at a fancy candy store. Never mind.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about that beatup old straw basket they went around collecting money with when they weren't teaching school. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We’ve collected about all we can carry, but we manage it in one trip. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every scrap of paper we wrote on was collected at the end of each day. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the week, and no one would have any money for food for a couple more days, when their meager wages were collected. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had been collecting X-ray diffraction data from hemoglobin crystals for over ten years and was just beginning to get somewhere. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Behind her, my mother knelt and swept the carpeted steps with a whisk broom, collecting the dirt in a dustpan and watching me anxiously. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

A few seconds collect and fall, and when I look up, the old fibro house is lit up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A few drops collect, and then disappear down a narrow channel in the stone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The one right next to me had one of those straw baskets that you see nuns and Salvation Army babes collecting dough with around Christmas time. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He collected dozens of folk songs from his native Hungary and used them in his method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

If Milkman got up early enough on Saturday morning, he could catch his friend before Guitar went roaming the streets and before he himself had to help Macon collect rents. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andy and Rob breezed through life, collecting friends—and never making judgments about them—with seemingly no problems at all. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little money would be collected by this tax. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks past our desks to collect the cards. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ms. D. tell us she take us to our houses to collect our things. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She’d already started collecting the shoes in pairs, and then lining them up so that the pairs of shoes made a sort of parade in the sand, along the waterline. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I fumbled my meal chit into one of the dull tin trays and collected a portion of steamed pudding, a sausage, and some of the ever-present beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I see them marched slowly in a long line of twenty people collected from other pillages in the province. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently Kendra had not actually worked magic on the island; she had merely collected an ingredient. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as enough unconscious men had been collected in the ambulances, the medical officer signaled the bandmaster to strike up the band and end the parade. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Now that he is here,” he said, "we shall have to leave. I shall tell your brother to collect his sleeping mat and get ready for us to go to some other place.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The two of you started collecting what remained of your beads, while I searched for the hollow in which I’d hidden our money. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her mother follows her when she goes to collect firewood and guards her when she needs to relieve herself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he would be able to see the world—collecting specimens along the way. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Class is almost over. Are you going to collect ciphers for the week?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my eyes, trying to collect my thoughts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you’d better rouse yourself, my little lily. There are tablets to be collected, notes to be gathered. You might look under the bed.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt stared at the towel as he collected his thoughts.The old man’s death wasn’t a surprise—he hadn’t emerged from his room in months, and he’d clearly been very sick. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another hovercar roared over them, and he pulled her around the comer of the building and down behind a drum that collected rainwater from the gutters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Down to the river, ma’am, to collect specimens,” I said, edging crabwise out the door. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He picks a region and roams the countryside for a week or perhaps two, visiting vineyards and collecting bottles of pleasing vintage to be shipped back to Munich. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Matthias lined up with the other woodland creatures to collect his food: a bowl of fresh milk, a hunk of wheaten loaf and some goatsmilk cheese. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t leave it out long enough. Some days the insects consume all the milk before I collect the pans. Thirsty critters.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He came to their houses twice a month to collect one dollar and sixty-eight cents and write down on a little yellow card both the date and their eighty-four cents a week payment. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the dozens of stories I’d heard my father collect over the last year, trying to pick out the common threads. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We collected most of the eggs while they were still warm. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, she wrote articles and letters to the editor of various newspapers, collected signatures on women’s rights petitions, and began her career as a public speaker at events closer to home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For Geisbert, identifying hot strains and classifying the tribes of viruses was like sorting butterflies or collecting flowers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier Stone Age people, it seems, were content to collect pebbles in whose natural shape they saw something that rendered them “magic.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose I get an order for abalones and maybe the game warden thinks I’m using my collecting permit too often. Suppose he thinks I’m eating them.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each breath he took was a gasp, sucking up life, collecting it, to keep. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“If you will collect tail hair, I might be able to make a hair rope for you sometime. You could use it for a hackamore.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was roomy and a little chaotic, home to the family’s five children and stuffed with heavy Victorian furniture and antique glassware that Santita’s mom, Jacqueline, liked to collect. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No sign of the shuttle leaving the ship to collect us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Air samples were collected and sent to labs for study. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d collected hundreds of chess magazines in five or six languages, and all genres of chess books, the majority of which were sent to him by his mother. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

None of us had really unpacked our things, on Liam’s insistence, but I had to collect my toothbrush and toothpaste from where I had left them next to Chubs’s in the bathroom. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Luke closed his eyes as if collecting his thoughts. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I'm energized by a new project: I am collecting songs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The group collected signatures of five thousand women who did not want the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother collected her wits and glared at me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was while she was at the college of architecture that she met Larry McCaslin, who was in Delhi collecting material for his doctoral thesis on “Energy Efficiency in Vernacular Architecture.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave the Vanderbeeker kids the perfect opportunity to collect signatures for their petition while their parents were gone. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Several members from Gran’s church were so impressed that she collected around a hundred dollars. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She tries to grade a third exam but cannot concentrate; the numbers drift across the pages and collect at the bottom in unintelligible piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rain slows, and beads of water collect in the palms of green leaves in the trees, trailing to the edge of each leaf and plopping onto the roof. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Seven thousand Jews had been collected and taken away to die, but we were not among them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He collected two of the books but left the others. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When Bobby returned from Europe and collected his months of accumulated mail from Claudia Mokarow, there was an unusual letter waiting for him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Although he still collects butterfly sightings, he’s moving farther and farther away from biology. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Step one of that is to collect C02 and store it in a high-pressure vessel. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa didn’t mind me calling collect when we reached Atlanta. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Executives started making their way down the lines, collecting the paper figures. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He belonged to a big club composed of people who collected things like that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him collect his guns from beneath his bed and put them in the new truck he had brought home, saying it was his new “toy.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So far their collecting had been a success. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It surprised her that he should come back so soon, but then she remembered that he had left a calabash in the cave and might be returning to collect it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In the process of collecting, painting, and frantically making notes, Maria began to feel dizzy and exhausted. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Here, she thought it was a neighbor collecting signatures for some cause, but it’s Will. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t collected them, would our house have burned less brightly? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had been collecting these plants her entire life, and some of them were deliciously exotic: saffron from the high plateaus of Persia, rhubarb-currant from the Caucasus Mountains, and ginger from the Far East. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I got fifty-three cents for the cans I collected so far that Dad turned in for me, and I show Mr. Wallace how much I got. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, Miss McKeene. I think it might be easier to explain if I could show you the data I’ve collected.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even if she didn’t have to limit herself to one suitcase full, it would take her decades to collect this many books, let alone read them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So he collected what she said he should collect, packed it all and set but. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he collected himself enough to say, “Anyone else want something from me?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Also being the sort of person who collected them. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As he made his way toward us, collecting fares and punching tickets, we would plot our escape. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They collected an additional four thousand crates of pond lily roots, which Olmsted’s men quickly planted, only to watch most of the roots succumb to the ever-changing levels of the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The widow of a big Boston lawyer, she collected funds for various ventures, the publication and dissemination of colored literature a particular concern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The glaze would collect in the crevices of the design, making it slightly darker than the rest of the surface. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

While I was out, I collected the twenty-six solar cells that aren't under the rover and set them up to recharge my batteries. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Eliot found Mrs. Sen’s anxiety incomprehensible; his mother had a p.o. box in town, and she collected mail so infrequently that once their electricity was cut off for three days. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were filled with research that over decades the family had obsessively collected about W. W. Vaughan’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I was only collecting my thoughts, Reynard. Tell me, what do you think of my map? I saw you looking at it as we entered.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only one of us who was collected enough to speak. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Although it was a particularly hot and humid summer, the women of the Loyal League continued their campaign and collected three hundred thousand more names. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was no place to be alone now, no place to collect my thoughts or immerse myself in words. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After the evening meal, men would be wandering about some and usually collect by a fire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe collect hair and fiber samples like they do on TV.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The most devoted fans even collected trading cards of their favorite crews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then I collect a few more handfuls and put them in my pockets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger woman kissed and laughed and rushed about collecting our coats and getting our luggage carted off. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

More students arrived to school on foot, and Moss noticed a group of them collecting across the street, their voices loud and exuberant, but not more so than the pulsing, formless entity outside the school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It's what collects the data he found about the two dates. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No—no—” called Wang Lung hastily, “I came to pay out, not to collect debt.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In the silence, with the air still scented with exploded powder, collectors accompanied by armed guards went to each ticket booth and collected the accumulated silver, three tons of it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To complete the game, every treasure you collected had to be returned to the living room and placed inside the trophy case. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I took the gaff and went about collecting the rest of Richard Parker’s feces. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He collected change for the bus, put on his cowboy hat, and started toward the front door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Someone from our house had to go to the river a few times a day to collect water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Darwin, Wallace had also embarked on a seafaring journey—to Brazil—to collect specimens and fossils and had emerged transformed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There are firms, for example, that post new songs on the Web and then collect and analyze the ratings of anyone who visits the Website and listens to the music. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I collected all nineteen of the game’s treasures as I went, returning repeatedly to the living room in the white house to place them in the trophy case, a few at a time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It smells of concentrated sweat and body odor, and the stuff that collects beneath your toenails. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I would collect our spoils of war, which we would sell to some kid and split the money. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

While the rest of us approach the board to collect our weapons, he hunts the floor for his. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang and everyone collected their things, James shuffled down the aisle and out the classroom without a glance her way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I collected my books and stumped off muttering, “There’s an awful lot of this going around.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A sense of clarity washes over me, and all the images I’ve collected of my mother over the years start to morph into something different. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Akira had his own shelf too, filled with “Japanese” rocks and “special” dirt and “nice” grass that he collected during the day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lucky Strike had been collecting real power ever since his first bit of luck freed him from heavy crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

With a very calm and collected look, she explains that we are making a simple chicken curry that could be eaten with rice or naan, or even by itself. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Many a day the Apothecary went walking to collect the herbs and leaves of the surrounding green. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

"So, you leave me your money, and on the other end, you collect it back. So we'll be square, and you don't have to make two trips." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tucker Mouse had volunteered to let them use the drain pipe, but Chester didn’t want to eat amid all the waste paper and rubbish his friend had collected. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had six arrows each and would be able to fire and mark them all before they needed to frighten the rabbits back by walking about to collect. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He limped through the gravesite and began collecting every single robot part. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I walked in the direction from which we had come, and when I reached the timberline, I collected wood broken from the cherry tree, the peony, and the walnut, which is the tree of life. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

More wealth than most of the crews collected in years off the ships, and yet it decorated this girl’s fingers as casually as Moon Girl pierced her lip with steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But why do you collect them all?” he asked as she closed the drawer. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, making sure they had collected everything. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning I pull out the numbers I’ve collected for the Pet Hut. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their first week at Denison, he had fallen for the ardent young woman collecting signatures around campus to end the draft. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m collecting bottle caps for an art project.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I went outside to collect Charley and to verify my impression that the sign said “Open” and “Vacancy.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria continued to collect and sketch caterpillars, making notes as she went along. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Each day Bobby collected his mail at the store, kept for him behind the counter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Have to go out every day for a whole summer collecting cans and bottles to have much of anything at all. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deep-pile carpets, the expensive genuine wood desks, reminded him that garbage collecting and trash disposal had, since the war, become one of Earth’s important industries. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She collected the stems of wild ginger for seasoning rice and yarrow leaves for tea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And now he’d gone off collecting somewhere other than our regular haunts, somewhere I didn’t know about and where I couldn’t find him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

None of them was written by Peregrin, but he and his successors collected many manuscripts written by scribes of Gondor: mainly copies or summaries of histories or legends relating to Elendil and his heirs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They collected up all the arrows, spears and stones hurled by the horde, issuing them to the defenders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Although his daughter-in-law was always nagging him to collect bills, finish work when promised, and discipline his apprentices, nothing she said seemed to touch him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a tiny girl, he would send me out to the bushes on the edge of our property with a small tin pail to collect them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I walked into the kitchen late one afternoon and came upon my twelve-year-old sister propositioning our father with lines she'd collected from Guiding Light. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Watching the collecting rivulets of rain on my window has become a close second. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Most likely Jackson is here to collect his piece of the action. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed that he drove twice a week to all the local beauty parlors and barbershops, collecting their sweepings and arranging them, strand by strand, as carefully as a wren. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“How am I supposed to collect eggs with a hole in the basket?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to be there; he wanted to be in the armory gathering weapons, in the kitchen grabbing food, and in the library collecting information. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Soon, Hsu wrote a letter to Lawrence asking if she could send a nurse out to Hagerstown to collect samples from Zakariyya in prison. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t collect many marbles because I’m not a very good shot. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

McCormick nevertheless volunteered to go there to try to collect some human blood and bring the strain back alive to Atlanta. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wonder to watch Miss Whitlaw sail up the block and gather people behind her like a hen collecting her chicks. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, from 1993 through ’95 he volunteered to put in the route and collect the toll himself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A detailed dossier appeared, containing all of the information the Sixers had collected on me over the past few years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then he collected the rifle and the agent’s hat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She collects cups, and I arrange all of Penny’s shoes at the door. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Thus, ’twas with general acclamation that we greeted the arrival of two women to collect our laundry this day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It burns through my black hair as little beads of water collect around my hairline and on the curve of my upper lip. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I collect stories. And when I get the chance I investigate odd rumors and see if there’s any truth behind them.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So, I filled out my application, collected my letters of recommendation, and sent in a recording of my playing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knelt down and began collecting them, filling my pockets with what remained of the town of Henrietta’s youth. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So now, I think, they need me to run out and collect some garbage. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I picked up the phone and there was the recorded voice again, saying it was a collect call from Marcus Johnson. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His intention was to collect an army to march against the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She exhaled sharply, then paused for a moment to collect herself. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang, I sprang to collect my bag and join the others moving into the hallway. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Each pass of the cloth collects grime, debris, and even hair. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One is proud, one collects one’s receipts, and even if one is a bit melancholy, one moves on. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I do mind your asking,” Mr. Curtain said coldly, but then he collected himself and said in a friendlier tone, “We both know you’ve had similar experiences, do we not, Reynard? For being different?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t press that button, the sluggers will simply collect a couple of breeding pairs and restart the human experiment on another planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A good part of the enthusiasm with which he collected his father’s rents was because of the time it gave him to visit the wine house and, hopefully, find Hagar there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting a small lever between the faucets allowed water to collect in the basin, if desired. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the service, I do my regular job collecting the hymnals from the choir rows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then Rufino, who collected them, knowing how much Mate loved them, offered a new one to her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to collect dry sticks for a fire and I helped him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was rapidly thinking that he was setting me up and inside the stall was a gang of guys waiting to collect their "tax." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And when he talked, little bits of saliva collected at the corners of his mouth. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He collected some blood from his patient and drew off the serum, which is a clear, golden-colored liquid that remains when the red cells are removed from the blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d collected more than enough gold and treasure to pay for the teleportation fare to get there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He collected a small following of happy boys, one small ragged girl with a beautiful, delicate face. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang and everyone collected their things, James shuffled down the aisle and out the classroom without a glance her way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She went to rallies, wrote letters to him in prison, and collected money for his legal defense. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

How we used to sing as we collected mushrooms in the forest when they visited me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t think so. I am just here to collect what is mine, and I’ll be on my way. I—” She paused. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Half the time you don’t even bother locking it. You’re probably hoping someone’ll flog it so you can collect the insurance.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wore it as I collected my schoolbooks and packed my bag. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once he tries to call her collect from a public telephone in his neighborhood. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, he wasn’t even going to mention that during his time in South America, 2,500 species of birds and nearly five hundred mammals were collected for the American Museum of Natural History. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Now, children,” she continued cheerfully, “let’s begin our writing projects. I will collect them at the end of the day.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once, after I’d rolled Dad and collected a handful of change, I pried his fingers loose from the bottle in his hand. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at my pile of piano books that have been collecting dust since we got here, and I wish I had a lesson today. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Just before throwing myself upon the hyena, to collect myself before the final struggle, I looked down. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other ingredients weren’t so easy to come by: George visited local slaughterhouses at least once a week to collect cow fetuses and chicken blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Alex waited as Nunu pulled an empty garbage bag from under the sink and headed back to the bedrooms to collect the trash. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The last of the sun shone into it, through the gap between the Library and Palmer’s Tower, and lit up the heavy pictures and the glum silver the Master collected. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They will have to send a Hudson to collect us all, as there just isn’t the room in a Lysander. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“We’ve collected thousands of Jewish books from all over the kingdom. The abbots collected them for us, actually. They asked to ‘borrow’ them, for ‘copying’ purposes, from their local Jews. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

More likely he had collected last night’s dregs at the saloon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As we walk, I collect business cards for escort services from sleazy guys handing them out to anyone who will take them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Some have collected so many that they will stoop under the weight of them when we go back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The drones were unable to collect the underwater plants. So, the Collective will need to forage samples in person. Risk is high, so the Zeta unit will collect these among other specimens we need.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m all right now. Let’s sit in the dark for a while,” I said, turning off the lights and waiting to collect myself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of my Notebook, collecting jars, a cheese sandwich, a corked bottle of lemonade, and a waxed paper twist of pecans. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We delivered our prisoner and the stores we had collected to our Lieutenant and boarded our transport. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She returned to the “prison”—her term for Riverbank—only to collect her belongings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I collect a folder of sketches and a stack of five paintings and box them up. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She came to the slough not to harvest the useful herbs and berries the way we did, but to collect armfuls of cattails and tall grasses and tuber flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hand Andrecito back his dump truck, whisper thanks, then collect our dishes, letting their clatter fill the silence, and head toward the kitchen without a word. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We begin collecting our things to go home. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Roger gaped, horrified, but then collected his wits and ran to the nearest group of hesitating children. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As he left the Great Hall with Ron and Hermione to go and collect his Quidditch things, another very serious worry was added to Harry’s growing list. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Now free to do as he pleased, the murderer killed them one by one, each time carefully collecting the discharged shell. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tight knot collected in his chest and rose, rose, rose until it pushed its way to his eyes, which pooled with tears. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the stiffness that had collected in me departing, felt a new upsurge of hope. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the animal then emerges and stands there plainly in view, there is no longer any question of collecting evidence; its coming into view doesn’t provide me with more evidence that it’s a pig. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The next day, I'll go back to collect the cells and get the data. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

To understand the global weather you must first collect a great body of meteorological data; you must discover how the weather actually behaves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling, I settled back on our bench and tried to collect myself. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We had just stopped at a traffic sign, and the usual crowd was beginning to collect. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

One tiny sliver of the leaves I collected could kill all four of us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To the boy’s surprise, the Englishman took a chrome- plated revolver out of his bag and gave it to the men who were collecting the arms. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped the loose string that had collected at my feet around the spool, shook a few more hands, and trotted home. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Misha’s little cousins tackled Misha’s legs, and he waded to the door with them after their parents, who collected them and waved goodbye. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Under the light of the stars, he collected slivers of wood that would be perfect to start the fire. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But Skipper tended to appear only before a match or a tournament to collect the small fee that was his due. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom collected the Ranger’s body and transported it to the home of his parents, who couldn’t fathom why their boy was in a box succoring maggots. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was collecting those bugs that roll themselves up into little gray balls. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

And she doesn’t just collect angels; she believes in them. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed a few days to collect myself, but I also needed some time to gather information. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The live birds he had collected as specimens were cooked and eaten, eliminating the need to go to the market. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Such taxes as we collect are paid in kind. Your Grace. The Watch is rich in turnips but poor in coin.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The marked papers were collected and brought to the printer who had a hand press containing an adjustable date apparatus, and racks of slugs before her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday a man comes and collects three barrels of scraps of fat and brings back one barrel of soft soap on Wednesday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beavers were busily collecting a trove of fallen branches. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I stand up a little too fast and stumble as I try to collect my tray. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have me tell my story in an evening? With no time to collect myself? No time to prepare?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The decisions were made by the army captain, who each morning collected an extraordinary levy for the defense of public order. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the lifetime of the universe there has apparently not been enough time for an initial gravitational nonuniformity to collect the amount of mass that seems to reside in the Virgo supercluster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mood changed then; students scrambled to collect their gear and bolt out of the classroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So by measuring the money collected against the bagels taken, he found it possible to tell, down to the penny, just how honest his customers were. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“You have to collect your ration coupon at the kolkhoz office.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then I wipe the crumbs to the floor, and collect the mayo and ham to put them back in the fridge. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As Chester chirped his way through the program, a crowd collected around the newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been collecting money for a month when I saw Black Dog lounging in a doorway, staring at the May rain. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His yellow eyes stared lifelessly at the clouds, and flies collected on his open mouth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a month, the black landlord rode around Hayti in his new car with the windows rolled up against the dust it kicked up, collecting rents and leaving behind waves of impotent rage. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again he would stop, hunch over his ski poles to collect himself for several minutes, then summon the energy to struggle onward. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When we heard Dumbledore was collecting you in person, we thought he might be telling you something or showing you something to do with the prophecy,” said Ron eagerly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His cheeks and nose are red from the cold, and a thin layer of snow has collected on his wavy brown hair and the hood of his burgundy sweatshirt. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He loves the docks and wharves, which remind him of popular Japanese art prints that he’s begun collecting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Our minds and our work may also collect dust and need washing,” the Keeper went on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sivaji came to collect his master’s dues and his face fell when he saw how much was lost, for he was a good man and he felt for us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up again and went out of the park toward the liquor store where I bought the watch and Tic Tacs and hit the pay phone to call Jaden collect. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She shows me around her house as if it’s a museum, as if she personally has collected everything in it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob, meanwhile, was collecting as many books as he could hold. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The other friend fell into a large hole on his way home from collecting the money. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I help Rue collect and place the wood for the first two campfires, the third she'll have time for on her own. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she was one of those people who collected typewriters and longed for a landline like they used thirty years ago. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But aside from one or two unsuccessful efforts to collect the dust from her footsteps, they did nothing to harm her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Wallet-size photos of my grandparents’ nieces and nephews line the shelf in the hallway, along with the little baby Jesus and praying-hands statues that Grandma collects. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sitti collected the almond shells in her skirt and went outside. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

While serving at a base in the Southwest, he began collecting arrowheads, a hobby that ultimately led to his abandoning geology and coming to the University of Arizona as a graduate student in archaeology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom is pointing in my direction and I feel the sweat collecting at the small of my back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is probably expensive; he knows that collect calls to the United States from back home in Honduras cost several dollars a minute. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Workers enriched the soil with one thousand carloads of manure shipped from the Union Stock Yards and another two thousand collected from the horses working in Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Just as he had decided to wait no longer, but to collect everyone and go immediately, Kehaar came flying from the direction of the cutting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You told me that my only duty would be to collect seeds!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Go straight to your grandfather’s house—take a rest. We will be in as soon as this field is done and the tools collected!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinwiddie was 60 years old and had spent most of his career collecting taxes, not shouldering a musket. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait, some of it is food!” said Jonas, frantically collecting things off the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a hush of wonder over the room as Somkit explained how he had used the faded orbs to collect light from the sun. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu imagined them when they traveled: they would collect unusual things and fill their homes with them, unpolished evidence of their polish. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During the State of Emergency, she collected goods which she brought to the accused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, human population densities were gradually rising throughout the late Pleistocene anyway, thanks to improvements in human technology for collecting and processing wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Dad’s clearly chill demeanor in this moment, Scoob’s seen the switch flip before: cool, calm, and collected to furious in a matter of moments. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

While the other monks tore ivy from stone, one busied himself collecting the fallen vines and heaping them in a pile. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had collected the founding material for his experiment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Wind Being collected these shimmering grains into its human form. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As the bus proceeded, the apprentice came around to collect the fare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long to collect my belongings. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew his father came up to the third floor a few times a week to collect the Beiderman’s garbage and bring it down to the building trash bins. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The instructor collected the papers, brought out a clay-colored eraser, and began to wipe out some of the answers and to shade in others. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the bottom were Gray’s Anatomy and a collected Shakespeare, and above them, on slenderer spines, names in faded silver and gold—she saw Housman and Crabbe. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We shaded our faces green with a broken eye shadow that belonged to Dora’s mother, and my mother gave us two burlap sacks that had once contained basmati rice, for collecting candy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the right time of the year, when the tree produces its gum, the young men go there to spend the night and collect it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time the green tubes rose to the surface she felt elated and collected whole handfuls at a time to drop in twos and threes back into the water. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, it took the patronage of the “decadent” Ptolemies to put ancient Greek science—and book collecting—on a firm institutional footing. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

At least Mrs. Hawkins, who taught general sciences, was there, collecting papers, gathering things up at the end of the day. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They are to collect us again in the morning before dawn. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not simply collect die gold and lock it in a treasure vault, no. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Alexandrian Library is where we humans first collected, seriously and systematically, the knowledge of the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy and I sat motionless for a good five minutes and then quietly collected our things and moved on. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The snowflakes were melting on her cheeks, but her hair was wrapped in a swirl of lace that Satin had found somewhere, and the snow had begun to collect there, giving her a frosty crown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No, Mr. McGarrity. If they earn the money, they’ll have the privilege of collecting it and bringing it home themselves at the end of the week.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joan had been collecting Regina’s checks and then banking them for her so that she’d have a small nest egg when she returned to the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

With the start of the Cultural Revolution all the stamp shops were closed down, because stamp collecting was considered bourgeois. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can collect money for a plane ticket to Peshawar.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Did she step over one and collect the other? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sapiens even collected animal faeces to nourish the ground in which wheat grew. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc ran out and got in his car and went collecting in the caves below Pt. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’m at the beach, I’d rather collect stuff or run or be in the water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

By midnight she had collected a small group of slaves, all of whom wanted to be free, and started North with them, heading for Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler said they contained his pencil shavings from the past five years, which he had collected to make fire starters for our “head for the hills” bags. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The children gathered up empty lard pails to collect the greens in and headed off to the coulee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The scientists and librarians still collect their keys in the mornings, still study their ancient elephants’ teeth, their exotic jellyfish, their herbarium sheets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nancy collected some pieces of sterilized liver and spleen that were embedded in wax blocks, and she put the blocks in a Styrofoam cup to take back to Fort Detrick for analysis. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collected almost a peck of mussels in very little time at all, and began tying them in my sweater to carry them back to camp. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my father had not gone to France in 1918 and collected a hip full of German shrapnel, Caroline and I would never have been born. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school, Mr. Barber collected his Geography: The Story of the Worlds. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In some yards people were already trying to collect things and clean up the debris lodged against their fences. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he merely indicated to the boy the whereabouts of his finds; he thought it too undignified to scurry about collecting them himself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Forrest sulkily drove her to the hotel to collect her things. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ash flew around us like snow, collecting on our hair and sticking to our wet clothes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Above me on the wall hangs the glass case with the coloured butterflies that once I collected. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He collected his change, grabbed the bag of cookie ingredients, and turned back toward me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Garbage had not been collected all that week, and stray dogs were scavenging among mountains of waste. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

During our afternoon walk, as soon as Amin and Alan run ahead to collect stones and twigs to build their own refugee camp, I burst out with the news: “We are leaving here for Europe.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Bethune collected the group at the entrance and handed them their tickets and name tags. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He called himself a survivalist and liked to wear camouflage and collect skulls of animals he found in the woods behind our house or on the side of the road. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She’d collected the dreams like bright beads on a string of nights that wound around her each day, every day until this one. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then she patiently collected the same kind of caterpillar again and again until it produced the “summer bird” she expected. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He went to work on the highway and on Saturdays after they collected their pay he drank with his crew at the Longhorn, but he was never close to the men of the town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seized a quill pen and printed two lines on a scrap of the curly birch bark which the children collected to use in place of costly paper. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Stephanie and I had been in touch all weekend, collecting information to back up my hunch that Noah was the cyberbigot. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Where he used to be able to collect paxsfoil and bella rosa before morning tea, it began to take him the entire day. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for the honor of your presence,” Father said, giving Char time to collect himself. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

To help them make sense of a number like six million, they set out to collect six million paper clips. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The air in the evening lamplight is coagulated, like a custard thickening; heavier sediments of light collect in the corners of the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The withered gardens were a blight, and beggars lay as though dead, collecting coins on the hollows of their closed eyes, and there were altogether too many ruins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"I've got to eat, don't I? If I can collect enough driftwood, I can sell it as firewood." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I did not want to see the trays of snails which Leper had passed the summer collecting replaced by Brinker’s files. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith turned back to his horse and collected himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d already called her several times that day saying he was coming to get the materials she’d collected related to her mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

What we got was nineteen, collecting sometimes two or three a night. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If you can collect enough messages sent on the exact same settings, you can line them up. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I stared at his smudges of whiskers, the bags under his eyes, and the fat that had collected at his armpits. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I remember one particular time when Keffers had collected up six or seven of “Steve’s mags” and stormed out with them to his van. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He collected himself and said, “Miss Trotter threw a pot at the TV just after the governor stood where Jefferson Davis had once stood, and shouted, ‘Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.’” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When Werfel arrived, the Foreign Secretary was just giving the order for the three-headed wyvern to collect the capsule out of the sky and bring it gently, softly, safely down to the ground. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods raised above the spike leaves. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned to coax Brother Cyrus into that place of reverie, and he collected the stories like treasure. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was given a wheelbarrow and told to collect human waste from the privies. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Taran collected as many bows and quivers of arrows as he could carry. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed like Lucky Strike had collected the best of the worst for his protection. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The way he explained it was it wouldn’t look right for him to collect money on saving his own wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank a little rain that had collected on a broad leaf, figuring it was more sanitary than the pond water, and enjoyed the cool sensation on my lips. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He collected art and he told everyone that he collected art. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She put that nugget of knowledge away with all the others that she was continually collecting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I had only a few minutes left to collect the rest of the reports and write the Sunday school summary. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I see. You’re of that breed. I’m glad you stopped by. I used to know St. Louis, even collected epitaphs.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she knew he was telling her to go back to Pennsylvania and collect what was left of the man she and Macon had murdered. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was she merely an “enthusiast”—one who captured, pinned, and collected insects as trophies. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before he let himself rest, he set about collecting wood, and soon came across a circle of charred stones in the grass, where someone else had made a fire long before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Brown picnic tables ran in neat rows along the asphalt, and people lined up at buffet tables with their paper plates, each collecting a pile of food from the cluster of stalls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He turned the same charm he had used to gather pupils for his Spanish dance class to collecting a growing number of disciples. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, three thousand devices were collecting dust in army warehouses. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And apparently the boy had come to collect. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In fact, Simitian pointed out that the California Highway Patrol had been collecting data since 2001 and found that cell phone use was the number one cause each year in distractions leading to car accidents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Zu was darting around the cabin, collecting her things, as Hina’s mouth ran a mile a minute. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Black collects the papers and starts to lecture, I pick up the rock and flip it over. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

First we walked out the prison’s front gate and collected the pistols from the Arsenal’s outside window. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was away a long time collecting the money.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly he collected his map case and his three flak suits and crawled back to the main compartment. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Skinny Delivery Boy, do you have any idea how hard it is to collect a first edition like that?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He called his parents collect—she still couldn't believe they were okay with this. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Luce published it in his collected works, omitting my name. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Laney put on her panda jacket, collected Paganini, and grabbed the small Christmas tree before heading to the second floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough. Please wipe your nose and try to collect yourself.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The most striking examples of variation involved flies collected from the same region that possessed two radically different configurations of the same genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had jumped up as if he were a lit firecracker, running into the other room, collecting food and clothes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to come collect you,” he said gravely. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel tried to collect her thoughts, stall for time, but it was difficult while staring down the smoking barrels of those flintlocks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And why did they stay for only a few minutes at each apartment, were they selling something, collecting information? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She collected all the dry scraps and puzzled over them for a long time, trying to figure out where they fit into the larger piece. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the store we collect ladies’ lightly used stockings for use in parachutes and ropes, and tin and steel for scrap and metal drives. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Silently, she began to collect paper and other trash from the floor while Prosper swept up the mouse droppings. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not people, not even really girls, just lovely objects to be collected. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A button of grayish ooze collected at the bottom of the test tube—a tiny pill of dead and dying cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sherlock’s head pops up between us, and after Rosa’s had a chance to nuzzle with him, I collect my things and say, “All right, boy, let’s get going.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. We just didn’t have permits to trap leopards. We did collect genet cats, and it wasn’t there.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had collected a total of thirty-five hundred clinical samples. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adults were supposed to be calm and collected. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In very short time we have collected a dozen eggs and two pounds of fairly fresh butter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jenny, on the other hand, wasn’t so happy when she and Abby arrived to collect the dogs. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, everywhere, are beautiful objects collected by Tipper and Granddad. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The garbage boats collected the previous day’s trash. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cards and letters are collected, placed in bags, and brought by messenger to the Bowens’ private residence, a town house that is already overflowing with appropriately somber floral arrangements. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Not a single fairy flitting over my head or a gnome out collecting acorns. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

By studying the strengths and weaknesses of commanders he had served under, he had collected shards and fragments of the speech he would one day deliver to men who looked upon him as their commander. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember all those marbles Stephen used to collect?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Worse part about having Shiloh here in the house where I can play with him anytime I like is that it’s hard to leave him when I go out collecting cans. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was silent another moment, collecting himself, before he picked up the dropped knife and meat hook from the floor of the silk sleigh and hurled them away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her parents had been collecting DVDs for decades. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The lawyer collected the papers and put them in a folder. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The seawater collects in a pool on the dipped floor. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll radio for a Patrol to collect the nag. It was in a bad way from the dead air, sir. It might not survive.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They draped these over the balky apparatus and localized the radiation source to Kamen’s fly, which evidently had collected a heavy burden of waste radio-phosphorus from Kamen’s work for John Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t have collected her hair into a ball at her nape now for anything in the world. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brush past her and collect my coat from the closet. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He climbed out of the wagon, collecting a backpack on the way, then shook the driver’s hand. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then he collected Scott’s camera, ice ax, and favorite pocketknife—which Beidleman would later give to Scott’s nine-year-old son in Seattle—and descended into the tempest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing in it but information the SIM had already collected after months of tortures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to testimony, after the bond issue for the civic center failed, Hammond was in on a scheme to torch the building in order to collect insurance money. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They collected their wraps and made their abrupt good nights while Mr. Goodacre and Harry prepared the buggy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It entered his heart and throbbed there, moving with purpose through the labyrinth of muscle, collecting energy that came faintly to it from his collapsing lungs. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He set Ma’s rocker back up then collected all her knitting tools and put ’em back in the basket. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Further, they stated that the money their society had collected for making coffins and burying the dead “has not defrayed the expense of wages which we had to pay to those whom we employed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In particular, a tribal big-man’s role in dividing the meat of pigs slaughtered for feasts points to the role of chiefs in collecting and redistributing food and goods—now reconstrued as tribute—in chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The duct creaked dangerously as he squirmed past, protesting the collected weight of himself and the wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the first year, it took in an average of $18,500 each month; by the final year, it was collecting $68,400 a month. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A line of cars had already collected up and down the ditch line in front of John Eye Blevins’s moonshine palace. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A hen hopped off its roost, and Mandy collected three eggs. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old acquaintance of the innkeeper, come to collect a debt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he moved about collecting all the glasses that weren’t broken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dish, one of the most distinctive landmarks on the Fairbanks skyline, had been erected to collect data from satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar of Walt McCandless’s design. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never fried chicken and cooked greens like my mother did; instead, she collected and made recipes from France. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His son belonged to him now and not to Ruth, and he was relieved at not having to walk all over town like a peddler collecting rents. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stones were indeed scattered, and mixed inextricably with those of other workers: but when we had collected what we reckoned to be our pile no one raised any objections. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kind of watery mucus had begun to collect in the boy’s lungs, which caused him difficulty in breathing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t we be collecting things? Writing stuff down? Shooting video? How do we organize this?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

J. J. Ford presided at the bench, and Sandy McSouthers presided at the front door, whistling, chatting, collecting tidbits of gossip, and adding some of his own. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I’m able to do is sit there and collect the shredded pieces of everything I just saw. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have Vincent's passion for collecting, nor did the other children. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting," he once said, in a line that has been used many times since. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The disintegration was awful to see, but worse was the feel of the powder—its starchy slipperiness as she tried to collect it by handfuls. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Doc was at his worktable, surrounded by the bags of graveyard dirt we collected for him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We already knew where we were going, so I didn’t need to say a word as we collected the shovel and sacks and began, single file, across the island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The navy had not taken time to collect these parts; there were living men to attend to. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once we collect the dragon from Kavita, everyone will know that I’m serious about being Ma’s apprentice. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The next was about the latest mission to Mars and showed a robotic probe collecting specimens from the planet crust. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I first went to the hill near the cave when the pack was away and collected armloads of brush which I placed near the mouth of their lair. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you accidentally stepped in a pile of chicken droppings while collecting eggs one morning, what would you do? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, Betty Jean and Pastor George stopped by to drop off all the signatures they had collected. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she collected the twins and they went back to the house, Henry was there. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, right when I begin to consider a career in busking or garbage collecting, two thick envelopes arrive in the mail: one from NYU and the other from DePaul University. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

About all I could think of were those two nuns that went around collecting dough in those beatup old straw baskets. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He especially enjoyed catching beetles and water bugs from the streams, but above all else, he was passionate about collecting itself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I collected it myself, getting quite confident about cycling into town, as Mitraillette always uses the same checkpoint—they know me now, and wave me through without bothering to check my papers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Frank and Jud, taking as always the view that Life Must Go On, went around with their paint can collecting money for a Beer Blast to be held in Bunny’s memory. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They collected somewhere between thirty thousand and seventy thousand biting insects inside the cave—the cave is full of bugs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I collected ribbons of bark from local palm trees, then got a couple of sticks and rubbed them together to create enough friction to . The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered long ago in collecting and classifying marine animals that what I found was closely intermeshed with how I felt at the moment. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandra Kilers, a cute girl who loved math a little too much, and who Alaska believed was the Colonel’s future girlfriend, collected Cabbage Patch Kids. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I resolved to dive into a frenzy of specimen collecting, science, schoolwork—work of any kind—to make the time go faster. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We had not just his book in our house, but a monster collected by Mr. Darwin himself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

After a few tense moments, she dropped to all fours and, with a final defiant snort, lumbered off to collect her cubs. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I steer them out and shut the door to the bedroom, and in a few minutes, the plates and bottles and purses are collected and the group files one by one out the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As we collected ourselves and walked toward the caravan, many of the adults were crying openly. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there for a second to collect my thoughts. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Like the Year of Stickers, when we’d collected and traded stickers in third grade. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Papa looked at my cotton, grinned slightly, and asked Roberto to help him collect it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What about those three women collecting water at the creek? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Albert starts collecting acorns from the ground and filling his pockets. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He had discarded many more pages than he had laid aside, collecting those few pages very carefully, as if the words themselves might slip off the paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tally remembered growing up surrounded by Sol’s woodwork, abstract shapes fashioned from fallen branches she would collect from parks as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Silently, I collect my things and follow Ms. Rochambeau through the halls and out to the parking lot. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Except for the guns, they could be foremen coming to collect on a bill or to supervise a job that other men will sweat over. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They seemed to say that once you found the neglected dwelling, you would have to collect a bunch of “trophies” and then blow some kind of whistle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That meant we could be waiting a long time to collect what we came for. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, she is alive; and more sensible and collected than she was. The doctor says she may linger a week or two yet; but he hardly thinks she will finally recover.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She hears Madame Manec stand and collect the bowls and her father exhale cigarette smoke as though it is very heavy in his lungs and he is glad to be rid of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Brian and I also collected scrap metal that we sold to the junk dealer for a penny a pound—three cents a pound for copper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he had expected, Gebu had not believed the simple truth, that he had forgotten to collect his wages. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was barely time between the end of a shift and the beginning of a class to get back to the dormitory to collect papers and textbooks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like those confessions people write on postcards and mail to that guy who collects them. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Just like kids all over the country, we ran around collecting as much candy as we could, but we had to do so in this phony situation. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Without a moment to think, Thomas collected himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And TeLinde began collecting samples from any woman who happened to walk into Hopkins with cervical cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’m standing at my locker, collecting my things for social studies after second period. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I went from house to house collecting money, I saw black men mounted upon soapboxes at street corners, bellowing about bread, rights, and revolution. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pima and Nailer went scavenging for food, collecting green coconuts that had fallen, before turning to the pools and tides. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She would have collected data four feet away from a live shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The strap of her messenger bag slides off her shoulder and collects where her hands are pooled. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Chinwe had never spoken to me, not even when we were placed in the same agricultural science group to collect weeds for an album. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other kids are back in school, so Mohammad collects Safaa from class. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Next to me, Liam’s foot slipped against the sallow dust collected on the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He reached the door in two long steps, then stood a moment trying to collect himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Here’s our collector of information! And he collected a lot, I can tell you, before he was finally caught. After which, I may say, he seemed to regard himself as on parole, and dried up.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There’s a group of guys from basketball and girls from floor hockey collected around the table. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Need to collect a little more from the understone funds,” she said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A third collected their valuables for the toll and wrote that down as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Big Ma wouldn’t be happy about the cost of the collect call, but I doubted Papa minded. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the cowboy collect tobacco juice in his mouth and the squirting liquid sound when he spat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He collects cigarette cards with pictures of airplanes on them, and knows the names of all the planes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘I will understand! Go on! Tell me how you collect dreams! Tell me everything!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will collect any plant specimens that might be resistant. For the Collective,” I add. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kmoch, the arbiter, sensing that Bobby was a champion in the making, had already begun collecting the prodigy’s original score sheets as if they were early Rembrandt sketches. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As I collect fist-sized, dry tree branches, Chou bends and shaves the leaves with her ax. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Portuguese marveled at how efficiently the Kingdom of Kongo collected taxes and assembled its court and ministries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in Koffi’s body screamed in protest as she pulled herself to her feet, collecting what dwindling resolve she had left. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy grew excited about the ’phone and had an extra spring in his step when we went out collecting specimens. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, for it was the first time that Arthur had made a speech, and he wanted to collect his wits for it “Well,” said the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned hired an express company to collect her trunk and saw her to the station. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You have to give me a third of whatever you collect here,” he said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For all I know, he’s off somewhere saving some other damsel in distress with the promise of marriage someday after he’s collected his reward money! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife collects pigs. I got her started on it when I gave her one to remind her of me—before we got married.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chas collected twenty dollars from everyone and put the money in the chip box. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rocks between the rows collected heat, he said, and kept his plants warmer at night than they would otherwise have been—but to this sort of thing she made no answer. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I know I done wrong to go off when you wasn’t here. I’ll just collect my things and be gone, ey?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Food had become so scarce that I was no longer stopping to collect it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Saunders is collecting papers before I even got three sentences down on my paper. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The senior officer explained to us that we had been brought to the shore to collect seaweed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day in art, Mrs. Newman collects our flyer sketches. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She says it sounds like we’re the kind of people who collect canned food and wait for the end of the world any minute. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If they wanted to collect enough data for their study, they would need several more. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Everything is collected and reused: old clothes become scarves, old food is dried and saved, and human waste is remixed as topsoil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man squatted down with difficulty and began to collect ants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a collecting place for the filthy, smelly, sticky, and often sharp and jagged castoffs of a society run wild. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

After collecting his papers and pistol, Guiteau made his way to the Baltimore and Potomac train station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, of course, you wouldn’t know — Chocolate Frogs have cards inside them, you know, to collect — famous witches and wizards. I’ve got about five hundred, but I haven’t got Agrippa or Ptolemy.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She barely had time for caterpillar collecting, and it did not contribute to the family business. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I collected my things and started for the front office. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had escaped through the kitchen and had to get Danny Hardman to go round the front of the house to collect his shoes and socks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The water feels cool and soft on my skin, slowly peeling away the layers of grime that has collected. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For what purpose do you collect these?” he demanded. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Zeta-1, was it really useful to collect so much of this one plant?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve collected phones one hundred and twenty-seven times since school started. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It had taken nearly three decades for Morgan and his students to collect about fifty fly mutants in New York. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I used to help feed the hens and collect the eggs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before they returned to the village, the old man went to a number of secret places which he knew and collected roots and other substances that he would need for his work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Alice Paul immediately began collecting notarized depositions from the marchers to document the failures of the police department. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

People were unfastening my bindings and collecting my ski poles from where they poked skyward, askew, in their separate snowbanks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ninety-nine days later, the magistrate came to collect his dragon and, instead, found a stone fish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

All along the way, Mark Antony took the opportunity to collect gifts, tributes, and revenues and happily mixed business with pleasure. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Sweat collects in my palms and behind my knees. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be collecting supplies from the northbound lanes pretty soon. While Max here is fixing your car issues, perhaps a few of you could join us.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I could see people starting off to work, a few guys who had been out all night collecting cans were coming back, and some people had already found them a spot on the stoop. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The campers cheered and rushed to collect their equipment from the stacks along the walls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I mean, a joke is a joke—” “I can ride that horse,” Herbie insisted matter-of-factly, and suddenly he had never felt so cool and collected in his life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath it all, he was worried that perhaps the elfin knights had come to collect his friend—and that Spurge hadn’t even bothered to say good-bye. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

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

She pledged to collect palm nuts also, even though these taste to us exactly like candle wax, however much the Congolese children seem to prize them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rafik and Nadine were collecting the popped bodies of balloons from the ground and handing them to Sitti, who stretched out the elastic skins and let them spring back to flatness. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mom collects her bag and takes my hand. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Carl to collect two hundred and fifty dollars every six months, June 30 and December 31, with six and a half percent interest figured annually. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had looked at the thermometer before she came to collect it, the way I always did. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

‘I collect them,’ the BFG said, waving an arm towards all the rows and rows of bottles on the shelves. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It collected on her thighs, fusing them above the knees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first indignity was having to call collect. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

On weekends she takes me to market stalls, dropping off the clothes and trying to collect on last week’s goods. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There were no more recommendations to collect, essays to write, or people to meet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down to think, and to collect my wits. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then a slight and distinctly delicious sensation collected in her crotch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Verity is successful they’re sending a Lysander for me, at the field I found, on Sunday or Monday—all of it weather permitting and, of course, assuming we can collect the Rosalie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

During the winter, we had collected a bowl of snow and poured Pet milk over it, and sprinkled it with sugar and called it ice cream. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blanche’s face had the plumpness of adolescence, but in the flickering firelight of the great hall, wrinkles collected at her eyes and lips. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You can stay here where it’s safe, and we’ll come collect you later, when the trouble’s through. There’s no shame in it.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“This year it was close, but Abby Standridge, come on up and collect this trophy and maybe the biggest prize of the tournament—bragging rights!” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Even if she didn’t have to limit herself to one suitcase full, it would take her decades to collect this many books, let alone read them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school before Christmas break, Captain Tracy from the Salvation Army came to collect the food. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He moon-lighted as a dry cleaner: He collected dirty uniforms in the parking lot at the end of the day and brought them back pressed, for which he charged $3.50 apiece. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For it would be on this visit, his grandfather had said, that the books in his glass-fronted case, collected over a lifetime and preserved under lock and key, would be given to Ashoke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Safe as a bank. I tell him not to bother about mine until we get done collecting every month. That’s why it’s late sometimes.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God’s not buying a horse today, I am. The thin Cealdish man paused to collect his thoughts. “ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every day the number of food bags increased, and by the end of the second week in December we had collected forty-one bags. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I felt tears collecting behind my own eyes like sand in a windstorm. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She collected prayer cards and missals engraved with gold initials and filled glass jars with holy water, which she later used to baptize Ilda Limon’s chickens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, this tremendous amount of knowledge, collected and preserved by successive generations of wise Brahmins could not be easily overlooked. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to collect the things that I needed. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. Now, before you go, collect all weapons and helmets and make a little pile right there.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The driver collects our papers and hands them over. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent as much time on land as possible and threw himself into the collecting, making every moment and every step into new territory count. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she is sharing a place with unrelated immigrants, and they have blocked the telephone to collect calls. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If you touch the sides with the tweezers his nose buzzer buzzes and you don't collect your surgeon's fee. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Soojin describes the heaps of red, white, and blue decorations her mother has been collecting since Independence Day. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Gradually the dirt that had collected on the insect fell away. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checked the address against a piece of paper, collected his things — umbrella and suitcase—and paid the driver. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed with suspicion, the judge watched Sandy collect the clues. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up his discarded nine—the second one he fed to her, as if he didn’t know she was collecting them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All those children sent on trains to the Midwest—collected off the streets of New York like refuse, garbage on a barge, to be sent as far away as possible, out of sight. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

De Vries also pored through Darwin's books, and he latched onto the theory of pangenesis—the idea that “particles of information” from the body were somehow collected and collated in sperm and eggs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He collected everything and stacked it against the table. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My sister collected the scraps of bark and got some Elmer’s glue and pasted them back onto the tree trunk like a jigsaw puzzle. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In the hall, I stopped to collect myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After each session, Santicl6 is supposed to collect them, but he’s pretty lenient with us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or it may be more important to start or improve a recycling program, or collect trash. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s okay that we didn’t collect souvenirs or that we never had time to pull it all together in a way that made sense to anyone else but us. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Subjects had to collect flags while avoiding and destroying enemy tanks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise, what’s the point? And who will we tell our information to once we collect it?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Why would someone be interested in collecting this data and messing with the games?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see Bodega like I wanted to see a leper, so I avoided the places I knew Sapo might be driving around collecting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Poor folks might take a notion to collect. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you think about it, the universe is nothing but this vast knackery of churning black holes and exploding stars, constantly freeing atoms that collect together and become something else, and something else again. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much larger quantities of stone. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Have you gone with Henry on any of his collecting expeditions?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The morning after Oliver’s burial Dad went to the Labour Exchange to sign and collect the week’s dole, nineteen shillings and sixpence. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The world’s most amazing and thoughtfully collected collection of bottle caps in the South!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The group wound its way past ancient trees, and over rolling meadows, and through babbling streams, collecting more and more curious animals as they went. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were a few empty glasses in other places around the pub, and Malcolm took his time collecting them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When lice were collected and tested, it was found that 5 per cent DDT powder caused no increase in their natural mortality rate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mixed with sweat, the dust formed a paste that collected inside the boys’ cleats, gnawing blisters into their ankles. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Whoever lives there now appears to be away; the snow hasn’t been cleared from the porch steps, and a number of rolled-up newspapers have collected on the doormat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Resourceful as always, the young women collected the remaining fuel from each of their twenty aircraft and distributed it between eight lucky planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“You know I used to collect stuff up the Valley for Doc, turtles and crayfish and frogs. Got a nickel apiece for frogs.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collected myself and walked down the gallery as I normally would have. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a safe time for collecting data. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I find her on her floor, cutting words out of books she’s collected from around the house, including some of Mom’s romance novels. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father always says she only works to feed our family’s book addiction and that we’d be further ahead financially if she collected aluminum cans from the side of the freeway to recycle. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my hands, trying to collect my thoughts, but they wouldn’t fall into any sort of orderly pattern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only then, after we had collected our weapons from the wall tower, were we, our guns, and our inmate all finally united inside the van. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, unlike uglies, who had only their dorm uniforms and other disposable possessions, the two had actually spent half a lifetime collecting things before escaping the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She collected scabs as other girls collect dolls, and would say anything that came into her head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the first year, the women collected more than one hundred thousand signatures. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the bodies were finally collected, they were burned in tall pyres like Hindus on the Ganges. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I blew on the paper, folded it carefully into a pocket, and collected my two silver talents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I begin collecting my dishes to follow them. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My legs ache, and sweat collects beneath my mask. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Hale frequently came by Mollie’s house to collect Ernest, and not long after Anna’s burial Hale showed up to pay his respects to Mollie and her mother. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The pond was too shallow for swimming, so mainly it was a place for little kids to run around and collect rocks during the day. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three or four empty bullock carts passed us on the way to collect the broken stones, the bullocks drawing them struggling to get through the morass, their hides slippery with rain. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe collecting thirty million paper clips was the only way for those guys to get their teachers to stop tolerance education.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The experiment with Pumpkin worked so well that Smith began collecting other stable companions for Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it decides there's too much oxygen, it starts collecting air in a tank and cooling it to 90 kelvin. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat drooping for a moment, collecting the powers of duty and dignity, then spoke from the shade of his hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For some reason the helpers in the front office didn’t know who to give ‘Jessica’ mail to, so they collected it in a box.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

After dinner one evening, as I’m collecting the dirty plates, the Doctorita rubs her giant belly. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eva instructed the shoe poet to collect any wood or paper he could find for the fireplace. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As in, I collect the dishes from the table and take them to the kitchen to load the dishwasher, and when I return, Jupe and Rae are nowhere to be found. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I eat half the wrap and feel full, so I roll it in its wrapper and stuff it back in the bag, and I collect the napkins from my lap and stuff them in, too. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They collected everything of value, mostly books and photos, loaded them into the dinghy, which was named the Mini Ginny, and navigated to the nearest marina. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I'm just here collecting something,” Claire explained, holding up the cylinder of posters. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jeanne quietly rose to her feet, collected the greyhound from where she lay, and led the dog gingerly along the shaded edge of the wood, keeping the knights in view. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Go collect the dues, Sonny. Turn Alfred upside down and make the dues fall out his pockets." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Yoyo was on her knees, weeping wildly, collecting all the little pieces of her speech, hoping that she could put it back together before the assembly tomorrow morning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There were things of his grandfathers, too, lights and jars and nets, all to do with the moth collecting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She whipped it back and forth past the dark columns of tree trunks, shooting through them at top speed, so fast that her hands and face collected dozens of scratches from the branches blurring by. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

By the end of the twentieth century many nations had collected nuclear weapons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I’d collected the maximum of five Cue Card Power-Ups I began to relax, and the game actually started to be fun. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I only collected about a quarter of what you two did.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He drops the coin in just as the baskets are collected, then he disappears into the crowd. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I try to keep my thoughts on Eden, on the money I need to collect before it's too late, but I start thinking up new ways to mess with the Republic's war campaign instead. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Someone said they’d seen Dylan by the harbor, and a posse was dispatched to collect him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“October 10 “Bando had a Columbus Day vacation and helped collect the last of Dad’s house lumber. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should have Mr. Greene print up a request to start a Protect Norvelt fund and collect money to buy what empty houses there are and keep this town from being sold or burned down.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He simply collected five times the normal rent for his three rooms. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The money is not mine. It has been given to me—I have collected it while I have been away.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two or three widgeon hung in one of them, and, far away to the eastward, a fly-like man was plodding over the slob in tiny persistence, to collect his bag. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By reading and typing text, you made your way through the virtual world, collecting treasure, fighting monsters, avoiding traps, and solving puzzles until you finally reached the end of the game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Someone was poaching, and he might be along in a minute to collect his prize. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We collect Cinna and Portia, and she escorts us around to say good-bye to important people, then herds us to the door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had encountered him in the fields or on the mountain where the daughters-in-law collected fuel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before Kubat was to leave for Belgrade to try to collect the down payment, Bobby amazed everyone: He signed the contract without complaint. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m collecting the story of his life. The real story.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"You don't need to hear the story I'm collecting now," I say. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His mother collects coconuts from strangers, promising haircuts and manicures in exchange. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was just letting time pass as she collected her thoughts. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We were only able to piece the whole story together alter the fact, as we collected all the different accounts from everyone who was there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Since its installation two years before, however, the parking meter had rarely collected dimes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They like to collect these sheets every time you come in, to see how you’re doing,” Dr. Barney continued, “but on yours right now there’s one item of concern that we should discuss.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He stood next to me, a hand on my shoulder, graciously collecting compliments. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Someone was going to try to collect some food, and I put in a little change that was in my pockets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tufts of goat hair floated through the air and collected under the furniture in clumps. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When we got there, two football players—never to be seen at a party without their jerseys—stood on opposite sides of the gate collecting beer money. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In nineteenth-century England, everyone from country parsons to teenage girls collected butterflies, flowers, even stuffed birds and fossil bones. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Soon our classes would all file into the auditorium while we waited for our teachers to come and collect us. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In addition, Anthony had an extensive collection of articles and memorabilia that she had collected over the years and stored in scrapbooks, trunks, and boxes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She watched her mother walk around their flat, collecting all the Catholic objects, the crucifixes hung on walls, the rosaries nested in drawers, the missals propped on shelves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Were those naive villagers collecting every type of seed plant that they found, bringing it home, poisoning themselves on most of the species, and nourishing themselves from only a few species? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Eventually,” he said, “one of the people back there is going to start thinking about collecting the twenty-thousand piaster reward and the gold medal the VC gives out for a dead American.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He still looked— as Felicia put it—like something the Grim Reaper forgot to collect, but he was getting better all the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he continued to behave this way, he could easily spend the next five years in the lab without collecting sufficient data to warrant an honest Ph.D. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

We hopped the fence that surrounded the barracks, skipped over a little creek, and broke into the open dirt field where old, abandoned tanks collected dust. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My children and I will take care of the animals. Tzipporah is wonderful about collecting eggs. A real specialist. And Reuven knows just when to shoo them off the nest.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had felt, then, like being hunted by all the terrors she had collected over the years—her entire arsenal, turned against her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Once their small suitcases were collected from the luggage carousel, they proceeded through customs, had their luggage inspected, and then finally exited the wide double doors. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

By the age of four, I collected the eggs and knew how to look for signs of raccoons and coyotes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They collected rocks and built walls four feet high, and then turned the Docker and the Wills over to form a roof. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In early stages of food production, people simultaneously collected wild foods and raised cultivated ones, and diverse types of collecting activities diminished in importance at different times as reliance on crops increased. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We collected our things and went to the back of the line of people waiting at the counter to pay. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A crew in special suits collects them and carts them away. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Quite often he went collecting with Doc and he was very good at it once he knew what was wanted. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the negatives, she talks a lot about allergies and weird hobbies, like the kid who collects movie ticket stubs. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean that she collected Cabbage Patch Kids when she was, like, five. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The race caller, collecting himself and trying to salvage something out of the ruined afternoon, cheerily announced that the winning jockey, Nick Wall of Stagehand fame, was “an East Boston boy!” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally turned away, unlacing her grippy shoes as she collected herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I collected the ball from the yard and tossed it to Dwyer, then went inside. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I climbed out of the rig, collected my things, and returned the rented gear at the front desk. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, in her own room, she stood leaning against the door, trying to collect her wits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Call me collect if you want to and we can talk over this problem of sexual orientation that you are having. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phoebe marked the spots with pieces of adhesive tape and collected the hairs in an envelope. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It is a Sepia officinalis he collected near the Cape of Good Hope.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

About the pressings he'd made since he was little, and the cuttings he collected. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“The size of their database on Halliday is unreal. His whole life is in there. They’ve collected interviews with everyone Halliday ever knew. It could take months to read through them all.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wish I’d seen her alive, if only to have a memory to share with her mom, now that the memories of her daughter were suddenly finite, things to be collected and hung on to. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When I pass through Indianapolis, I think of trying to find the nursery where he collected flowers in winter, but instead I keep driving east. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lidia gives Penny the plastic butterfly and collects clothes from the floor. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She almost apologized to the tenants the first time she collected the rents. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

When I open my door, the redheaded girl is collecting my unitard and boots from where I left them on the floor before my shower. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Annabeth gazed around the hut, trying to imagine how many eons Damasen had been exiled here—slaying the drakon, collecting its bones and hide and meat, knowing it would attack again the next day. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

How did a worker bee, returning to her hive after collecting honey, tell the other worker bees where to go? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mig spent them scrubbing the kettle and tending the sheep and cleaning the hut and collecting innumerable, uncountable, extremely painful clouts to the ear. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

June popped up to her knees and started grabbing at all the papers, collecting them in her arms in a haphazard bundle. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She began collecting her bookmarks from the floor: the green feather, the pressed leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The smelly jars and collecting bottles that once were everywhere have diminished in number. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I learned my father used it to get the money for the photographer when the man he borrowed it from came to collect his debt the day before Christmas. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I look over and see that her wire ponytail collects in a small backpack at her side. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mother had asked me to collect some plants for dyeing, and I wanted to ask her a question before leaving. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When USC’s spring semester ended, he collected his class ring and left campus. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Two periods later is social studies, and Ms. Rochambeau is coming around to collect an essay that’s due—that I’ve yet again done a wonderful job of not doing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Turner’s mother wiped off the snow collecting on Turner’s hair. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We’re collecting pop bottles for school. Do you have any empty ones?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

In late December, Vincent goes back to The Hague to collect his things. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Squad 451 and the television crew collect dinner from the canteen and gather in a tense circle to eat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ryan lingers for a minute, waiting to see what I do, but when I just sit there, he collects his phone and goes on. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was to travel on the Beagle—not as a “finished Naturalist,” but as a scientist-in-training “amply qualified for collecting, observing and noting any thing worthy to be noted in Natural History.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My parents don’t smoke cigarettes, so I have to collect this paper where I can find it, on the edges of gas stations, in the weedy grass near motels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later, Rosita collects our empty glasses, slipping her arms between our piles of books and papers, unnoticed, well practiced at being invisible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eager to investigate, they collected their equipment and drove out to the site. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But she collected copies of those favorite books to give away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But I quickly tamped down the screaming voice inside my head and collected my wits, along with the few available facts. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

After I'm done with that lovely routine, I go outside and collect the solar cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk out to the crowded foyer to collect Tats. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He had stood for the fraction of a second collecting his wits, which had been far away considering the Orkneys or some other matter of state. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The records show that you went up in Me Watt’s plane to collect some flight time. You didn’t come down in a parachute, so you must have been killed in the crash.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We spend the morning hanging out on the jetties, collecting things, and having a couple of splash fights with our feet. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The hot February sun beats down on them, causing beads of sweat to collect on their upper lips. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collected my wits and was helping as best I could when the final wagon in the troupe passed us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As quietly as I could, I got up and fetched an old coffee tin where Osh sometimes kept seeds he collected once the garden was spent. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I said, “I got to be checking at the mill and collecting for my cotton. Been nice seeing you. Welcome back.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least two dimes in coins, which was enough to call home to Brooklyn collect. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garbage had been piling up ever since the town ran out of money to pay for collecting it. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when he heard her car start and saw the glaring headlights near the bush with the white flowers, he thought she was going to collect a few things from her flat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon Beetle left the village for the woods, where she gathered honey, trapped birds, and collected herbs, leeches, and spiders’ webs. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers were still hurting badly, but he smiled as the customers straggled by and he collected the money. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A glassed case in the corner held the curios he had collected—specimens of butterflies, a rare arrowhead, a curious rock shaped like a human profile. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She knew what was out there because it was all a part of her now—the endless churning darkness, the shadowy snowdrifts that collected in the wind and blew apart again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There are men collecting garbage, a female traffic officer motioning for a taxi to make a turn, students on the way to school. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he had just enough time to rest, which he badly needed to do, collect food for the return journey, and persuade Kira to come with him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It collects and gets hard in their little throats so you have to ease it with any class of an oil. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My father would come each week, collect my disk, and exchange it for cash. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His absence was everywhere, stinging everything, giving the furnishings primary colors, sharp outlines to the corners of rooms and gold light to the dust collecting on table tops. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I already knew this. Send this collect,” I says, taking a blank. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you collecting milk cans again?” my mother asked me one evening when I came home stinking like a dead animal. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we heard the last thunk of rocket remnants hitting slack, we went out and began collecting the pieces. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I roll out the cartons of cigarettes and get ready to collect. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bob started cleaning up, collecting their trash in a little pile, using his squirt bottle to wipe off the altar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

While other children of their age learned other things, Estha and Rahel learned how history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winning ticket in these two states would collect a large number of votes in the Electoral College. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We collect stuff but don’t talk to each other. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“He called me Helen and told me it’s my job to collect data on sharks.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The mist swirled more thickly, collecting right in front of me and around the table with the pickled monster-part jars. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But once the detectives came and carted away all the silver files—the ones with the debts he and his family collected from everyone in our villages—she stopped hoping. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The guy collected rocks and piled them, one on top of another, to build a delicate sculpture in the sand. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The judge fell upon his knees to collect it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A woman takes bets at the table and collects spintria and leas coins in her pouch. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For two years, data were collected, and in the end, the result wasn’t even close. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"Where are those chocolate bars you promised me? I'm here to collect! Dish them out!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I stare at my drawing, trying to collect my thoughts. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She seems like the type who would actually wear her retainer at night instead of letting it collect dust on some bathroom shelf. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I had collected their catalogs and completely bought into the dream they were selling. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Have you named her yet?” he asked—casual, calm, collected. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When everyone was done eating, me and the rest of the volunteers grabbed trash bags and walked around to collect all the empty plates and cups. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I want to keep cool and collected, but the blood is rising to my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set the dining-room table with the good linen and silverware, collected fruit from the tamarind tree, and squeezed and strained a pitcherful of juice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Betty took a firm grip of her hand and was leading her in as her mother and brother went forward to collect the twins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sit around collecting dust while the rest of the world earned their living. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z