| 单词 | column |
| 例句 | Light was growing, and the tall columns and carven figures beside the way went slowly by like grey ghosts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I pictured him and Baba drinking tea in Baba’s study, then smoking near the window, a sweetbrier-scented breeze blowing from the garden and bending the twin columns of smoke. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t stop to rest until we came to a room the size of a gymnasium with old marble columns holding up the roof. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A huge banner hung between the centre columns of the theatre: The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Deep greenery had grown over the entrance and ant columns crisscrossed the walk. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But the next morning, Brougham pointed out again in his column that “those walloping sophomores of mine” had looked mighty fresh to him at the end of three miles, the varsity not so much. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It had no columns, no porch to speak of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Now they displayed the greatest interest and directed their attention obsessively to the primitive column, adding new pellets and fragments of earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she looked at the ceiling and projected columns of figures and added them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Babylonians had no way to denote which column a written symbol was in; T could represent 1, 60, or 3,600. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So I started a column called “Birthday Corner,” listing the names of the eighty or so people who had their birthday in the coming month. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After conferring with General Read, Washburn orders his tiny cavalry to assemble just out of rifle range, in columns of four, then addresses the ranks. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The right column shows how often the 7—7 wrestler actually did win. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I found a column of ants running up a tree trunk and picked a couple out of the lineup. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The soft footing slowed the column even more. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each morning hundreds of men climbed to its roof; each evening they picked their way gingerly back down in a long dense line that from a distance resembled a column of ants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Finally, he crashed against the largest column of the gate just as it collapsed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In 1939 she was just beginning to use her “My Day” newspaper column as her own political forum, where she could express her personal ideas and convictions. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I e-mailed Rob at Slashdot and told him I wanted to write a final column. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How about five columns that are each two inches wide? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z He said the columns and the potted palm proved that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A column made up of Lakota, a few Dakota and Nakota, Cheyenne, and a few Arapaho. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We passed farms and villages, lone dogs crying out at our vast column. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We are marching in column; the French certainly will not fire on a town in which there are still inhabitants. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them upwards. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Athena Parthenos lay sideways along the tops of the columns like a nightclub singer sprawled across a piano. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Demeter waved her hand and an entire column of giants turned into a wheat field. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I rush into the relaxing room and tell her everything about how I’ve gotten a job writing Miss Myrna, the weekly cleaning advice column. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Now, advised by some magazine column, he was paying attention to my earlobe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I don’t see her; it’s hard to see anyone who isn’t in the column closest to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Every time I added up a row, column or diagonal, I thought of her. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he added, by way of amendment, “Buford’s column, I think it was. To be exact.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t really that many names on it: two sheets, single spaced, three columns across, alphabetical order. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z There was an officer, a captain, at the head of the column. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard the train pull out behind him, leaving a column of white smoke. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved to the bead of the column. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I spot a broadside affixed to a column. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 There are tall white columns at the front entrance, and the windows are so wide that they might as well be walls. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The column looked like a giant liquid spider. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He asked Cara if he could have a column about slang, and the editor in chief said okay, as long as everything in the column had a G rating. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Piper could see the edges of walls and the tops of columns, but no monsters . . . yet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As the ship approached the columns, she saw a dark-haired man in purple robes, his arms crossed, staring intently at their ship as if he were expecting them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The countryside is scattered with Roman remains from centuries past—blocks of carved stone and broken columns and foundations—overgrown with vines and brambles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Four graceful columns supported the portico, and the huge double door featured a heavy, brass knocker. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We both turned to see a column of floating fire curving through the water toward us, and with every second it picked up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The half-open door, the column of light across the corridor carpet, confirmed that Emily Tallis had risen from her day bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Everyone wore colorful robes and drove around in chariots and lived in massive stone buildings with tall columns and statues of famous leaders and generals and thinkers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Shrubs that had been tidy topiaries had grown into great shaggy trees, and bowers of blooming vines had overspilled their neat beds to riot up the walls and columns and drape over the railing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My eyes were glued to the marina, where a tsunami carrying columns of fire was sweeping toward us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Compared with the soaring office towers surrounding it, it’s squatty but not without grandeur, featuring tall Corinthian columns out front and giant, echoing lobbies made primarily of marble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She’ll be there in firelight before a column, with her maids in shadow, spinning a wool dyed richly as the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The mercury has no natural tendency to stand up in a column, so there is no final cause at work here. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A man came out from between the columns and gestured to them to go away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Favonius set them down in the middle of the ruins, next to a broken column the size of a redwood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Four columns were devoted to the history and achievement of the gold medal winner who had set a new record for the 1500-meter run. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Christmas and Hanukkah were not that far off, there was a “Holiday Countdown”—a column listing the top ten presents that kids on the red and blue teams were hoping for. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Soon after opening the store O’Connor found himself fielding so many questions from curious customers that he tried his hand at writing a column. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The hall's grand staircase and white marble columns vanish. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They moved in a column of twos, eighty in all. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “Gee,” I say, “you should write an advice column for The Easel.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z About twenty of us formed a straggling column. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing’s changed,” she breathed as we sat in front of the old synagogue, still white, aged, but slightly noble with its four tall columns. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Book recommendations are listed in columns down the sides of each page. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There are no columns of smoke, no dark clouds staining the blue, but already we see blackened, broken buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Two young men held umbrellas over the Marshalls’ heads as they descended the steps by the columns. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The smoke would rise from the cay in a fat black column to lead the planes up the Devil’s Mouth. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And there below these giant white letters are column after column, line after line, that say Before I die I want to . All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Not wanting to replicate Xaviera Hollander’s “Call Me Madam” column in Penthouse, Hefner saw Luce’s contribution as being devoted to the scientific and historical side of sex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We stare at the towering column of black smoke twisting upward from the city’s newest bomb site. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Behind him a column of smoke rose thickly, so that Ralph's nostrils flared and his mouth dribbled. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He sat down suddenly and leaned against one of the columns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The six familiar, friendly faces of the flight instrument panel smiled at her behind the control column. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z From the direction of the cave I saw it: a thick column, rising fast, as if it came from a bonfire. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They reached the large concrete bridge support column that rose out of the ground before the river. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He seemed actually to see the Eurasian army swarming across the never-broken frontier and pouring down into the tip of Africa like a column of ants. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The left column reported on the war in the Orient. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She went back to those search results and looked under the User column. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There was Chester, sitting on top of the column of change, chirping merrily. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z With a great cloppitty-clop the column began to move, and Shasta breathed again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It’s too much to take in all at once—statuary and columns, balconies and staircases, oversized wooden benches. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z All around were red columns, decorated ceilings, court attendants, and guards, but Pinmei noticed none of those. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A giant column of smoke and ash rose to a height of sixty thousand feet in less than ten minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Chrissy wanted to start a gossip column called “Hot Stuff” about school romances—crushes, rumors, and who was going to be dumped. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Also, there was a huge column right in the middle of the dining room. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He ran his hand down the back of a Roman column, all the way to the base. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Every inch of visible surface of the board had been decorated, with four somewhat gorgeous-looking columns of quotations from a variety of the world’s literatures. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He told her to write her name in the first row, first column, then pass the sheet to the person behind her. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I studied the big cement columns in the building. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Teamsters with their teams and dangling traces, retreating infantry without guns, many without hats, a harmless mob, with massive columns of the enemy moving orderly on.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, the embers of the fires flared to life in the breeze, the last standing columns of wood collapsing one by one, crumbling into ash. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Something droned in the distance, and our shambling column—so much smaller now than when we had begun our journey—slowed to look up. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The next day, Mrs. Roosevelt announced her resignation in her nationally syndicated newspaper column, focusing worldwide attention on the controversy. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But Lina spread out the big lacy piece and saw that on one edge of it, which was still intact, was a column of numbers. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the first column, I write down every name I can think of. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In the first column of the grid below, the word “staff” is written. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He puts the obituaries under a column he calls “Death Notices,” so of course they are written in a deadly dull and unexciting way, although I would never tell him that. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The liquid there heated and changed state, rising as vapor through the fractionating column to catch in the condenser and trickle in droplets into the collection flask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Syme had produced a strip of paper on which there was a long column of words, and was studying it with an ink pencil between his fingers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There were no lumpy columns of rock here; nothing interrupted the wide flat surface of the water, which stretched out before them in the flickering light from their candles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As we saw when we first encountered the octave, if your column of air is exactly half the length of where you started, you will get a note that is the same pitch, only higher. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Out back there was a little courtyard with stone columns and an ancient-looking coral stage that was part of the building structure. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It’s a small, old, white building with four tall columns and a row of stairs leading to a tall doorway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z By vibrating the lips at different speeds, the player can cause a harmonic of the air column to sound instead of the fundamental. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Dividing that column of air by the mathematically perfect ratio of 3:2 will produce F#. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And personal astrology is with us still: consider two different newspaper astrology columns published in the same city on the same day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The column on the left lists top, bottom, hijab, shoes, purse, and accessories, and the next three columns are filled in with her outfit details. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I don’t suppose there is an American who doesn’t carry Remington’s painting of the last defense of the center column of the 7th Cavalry in his head. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In front of one column was a potted palm. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Look at the first column, which measures what happens over the summer after first grade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Then the column climbed over his instep and continued on its way, and Kino left his foot there and watched them move over it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It got brighter and brighter, until I could see a column of fire moving across the surface of the water, coming toward us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He takes advantage of the moment to kiss the column of Henry’s throat, the hollow at his collarbone, the knot of his Adam’s apple. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He could not even see which two were gripping him under the arms as they marched him rapidly between the two tight singlefile columns they had formed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The disrepair of the house did not bother her at all, the crumbling plaster, the peeling wallpaper, the faded paints or the columns; none of it made any difference. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down at a typewriter in his coach and pounded out the concluding lines for his morning column. 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 like a gigantic menu, with columns and columns of choices. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The columns were entered into the Congressional Record, linked to and reprinted on websites and mailing lists all over the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoke upon the islet parted, and for a moment, from that vantage, we could see our column begin its progress across the causeway. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column underneath us. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he erupted into a column of flame, and the fire moved over the water, heading back to the world outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The thunderclouds which usually go with hot weather were there, high columns of cumulus with glaring edges, but there was not going to be any thunder. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Without ceasing to speak, Transito opened her legs, casually separating the soft columns of her thighs as if she were simply adjusting her posture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the long march, gray overcast skies protected the boys from aerial assault, but by afternoon, the skies cleared, exposing the columns to danger from Allied planes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She pulled a clean piece of paper towards herself and drew lines downwards to divide it into three columns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When they reached the lichyard, the column had already formed up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soon, each week’s Amsterdam News carried a little column that I wrote. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There's another sign, a long vertical one that hangs like a drape between two columns. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Some had narrow, pointed snouts, like columns of new lipstick. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Someone was moving there, behind the columns, but the light was too gloomy to see anything more than the movement. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He’s a human hex, a tall blond column of darkness. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Maddie was battling the control column as though it were alive. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Still another Bracelet lifted a water bottle to her lips, exposing the long column of her neck. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I see her furiously looking at the neat columns and rows that I made into a pretty sick cartoon, imitating a level of Donkey Kong, while Mom and Dr. Hamid chatted. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z They found their way to the ruined temple and slipped between the columns, hiding. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The entry doors are made of wrought iron and glass, and just past them, marble columns and impressive oil paintings of bearded white men line the hallways. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The tallest, blackest, shiniest boots I had ever seen, endless columns. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Below it was the main entry, deep-framed with columns and more statues. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The walls and marble columns were hung with electric lamps that bathed the rooms in plentiful golden light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When the woman returned half an hour later with a stack of books piled in her arms, Celaena laughed as she swiped the note that crowned the column of leather. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He might just shrug and say, Carry on, then they would saddle up and form into a column and move out toward the villages west of Than Khe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She led me to a column of white boxes stacked one on top of the other. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt around the back of the column some more and discovered a square hole about the size of an electrical socket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The column announcing her resignation from the DAR triggered a worldwide reaction and demonstrated the powerful impact Mrs. Roosevelt could have when she spoke out on a political or social issue. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Now we can draw some boxes where the columns will go,” Joey explained. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z I take one last look back at my old home, the flat tin roof flashing in the afternoon sunlight, the column of smoke fading and drifting away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They crept through a vast cellar with thick support columns holding up a vaulted ceiling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The Guardian’s introduction of a “Corrections and Clarifications” column seems to me not only an admirable move, but a shrewd one. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Chiron pointed to an outdoor pavilion framed in white Grecian columns on a hill overlooking the sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Six cement columns stick up from the ground like they are waiting for something to land on them. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z A great column of gas reaching high above the adjacent clouds, so large that it could hold half a dozen Earths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The volcano sent forth a column of fire and smoke, swallowed power un-swallowed at last. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Unaccustomed to such strenuous labor, they would stop digging as they pleased, basking in the sun until they were trodden on by columns of marching rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The pages were blank, excepting for a single column of words down the middle. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaz watched the tide of people flowing past the portico’s black columns, beneath the watchful eye of the oxidized silver crow that spread its wings above the entrance. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She saw ruins—a few crumbling walls, a single column, a stone floor covered with moss and dead vines—all clustered on a grassy hillside dotted with pine trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The bloodstained bandage Mortimer had tied around his head looked almost like the turban he had been wearing when he first appeared among the columns of Capricorn's church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And so, in a shocked silence, the column of the dead began their journey along the edge of the abyss. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Even while he was still thinking of Sammy, his glance flicked down a column of figures and his fingers jotted the answer. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined a magic square to calm down, all the rows and columns and diagonals adding up to fifteen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To this day, when he needs to multiply, he adds a column of numbers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I leaned to the side, trying to see past the column of people in front of me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I saw the carabiniere start for me, come through the edge of the column toward me, then felt him take me by the collar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The white column of her part, the sight of her bare wrists, pains Gogol when he first catches sight of her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One picture shows a column running from Frida’s chin down to her waist. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z For half an hour the column did not move. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Okay, guys, we’ll meet in half an hour, at that column over there,” said Ms. Bethune, pointing to the right corner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z His voice was silenced by the bullet that had quickly passed through his neck and spinal column. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was merely a symbol for a blank place in the abacus, a column where all the stones were at the bottom. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We pulled up in front of Jase’s house, an architectural monstrosity that looked generally like an oversize Spanish hacienda except for three thick Doric columns going up to the roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I sighed, and I was drumming my fingers on the steering column and all. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was sorting them into columns: Jack’s side; Julian’s side; neutrals. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I tell her about the column then, grateful when she nods that she knows who Miss Myrna is. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z At the far end stood thirteen tall white columns, the Peristyle, with slashes of the blue lake visible between them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Finally a column of mounted men rode out of the drifting smoke. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain per-versely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Massive columns rose to a domed ceiling, which was gilded with moving constellations. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Royal Brougham’s interest in what Al Ulbrickson was thinking was far from casual—much more than just a desire to fill out his daily column with yet another terse Ulbrickson quote. 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 printed in small type, two columns to the page on thin paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow I turn in my Miss Myrna column that I wrote six weeks ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reilly took the sheet of paper and read the typed column of itemized figures beneath the contractor’s letterhead. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The columns were okay, but I still thought we could’a made a simpler foundation. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z For a long time, we went through columns of smoke. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Marco carves a series of symbols into the frost on the window of his flat that faces out to the street, using the columns of the museum beyond as a guide. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Our column had lost all appearance of discipline. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved towards a stone path lined with crumbling columns. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When all this was done in their section, there was still no movement up at the front of the column. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “So I built that column downstairs! Do you know about the library at Indiana University!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Shields stacked ten deep formed columns jutting off the floor. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Finally the column turned into the office park, which by that time was filling up with workers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They marched toward the entrance of a huge superstore, where two columns of stacked dog food sacks rose like lumpy towers. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z After Uncle Henry talked it over with his people at the paper, he decided to give me a column anyway. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Jason pulled Nico to one side as another gust of wind toppled a column that would have crushed him flat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The Lord Steward was trotting down the column, pointing and fussing, his cheeks red from the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Off to the side, I see teetering columns of red disposable cups. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z No trumpets blew to rouse the men to mount up, form column, prepare to march. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I paused for a moment and leaned against a wooden column, but I knew very well that I couldn't go inside that door. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Argo II was only a few hundred yards from the columns now. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Woe unto thee if they shall make thee a computer,” joked a column in Air Scoop. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I found her column in both and gave each a quick look-see. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A few churches or public buildings still stood above the rest, though their roofs were holed or their walls cracked, and in one case a whole portico had crumpled onto its columns. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The outer ring of candles was complete, twelve white columns burning exactly as they had when Will was last in the hall. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you been writing that column all this time?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Marble columns and arches supported a great copper dome. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Hey, Mary Anne,” Ben said from his perch on the green railing where he leaned against the white doric column. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As we moved out through the town it was empty in the rain and the dark except for columns of troops and guns that were going through the main street. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I decided, last night, what I need is a professional to help me with the column. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He showed her one of the marble columns that ringed the circular chamber. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Four columns jutted from the floor, going only halfway to the ceiling. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I wrote columns of I hate this typewriter and posted them on my walls. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The man's house is a bloated hodgepodge of arches and columns and courtyards. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In a magic square, a grid was filled with a consecutive set of numbers so every row, column, and diagonal added up to the same number. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Swans moved gracefully through the reeds, past rosy stone columns. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The lawyers walked past the crowd, up the steps, between the majestic white columns—and into the sudden silence of the courthouse. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Is Michelle Obama Responsible for the Jeremiah Wright Fiasco?” was the subtitle of an online column written by the author Christopher Hitchens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A massive procession of people and carts created a long column, as far as the eye could see. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The roar in the street died; the siren stopped; but the circling columns of yellow continued to whirl. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There are at least four columns filled with bank managers, accountants, loan officers, cotton collate operators. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For months, Brougham had been using his daily sports column, “The Morning After,” to sing the praises of the sophomores, sometimes at the expense of the older boys who now constituted the varsity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They voted instead to clad their buildings in “staff,” a resilient mixture of plaster and jute that could be molded into columns and statuary and spread over wood frames to provide the illusion of stone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The 1932 Detroit Times classifieds, advertised to a population of four million, ran to just over one column. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He makes adjustments to the flood of Prussian blue paper himself, responding to her arrangements, surrounding replicas of ancient Egyptian temples with columns of curving bookshelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The restored treasure rested on the ivory column, the rose-gold symbols nearly faded away. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Bright advertisement posters for Beach Blanket Babylon, Teatro ZinZanni, and other San Francisco businesses were framed and hanging along the walls and on columns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Cabin two was more graceful somehow, with slimmer columns garlanded with pomegranates and flowers. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He was looking past the major's shoulder toward the head of the column. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then, Mr. Muhammad agreed to write a column for that valuable Amsterdam News space, and my column was transferred to another black newspaper, the Los Angeles Herald Dispatch. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Toregg put his heels into his horse and galloped back down the column. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Instead I moved away from them, near one of the stone columns set throughout the room. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z There are already cryptic advertisements in the Personal columns of literary magazines, urging the purchase of electronic headsets for the training and regulation of one’s own brain waves, according to one’s taste. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A messenger came in from Law: he had joined Hood’s column back at Willoughby Run. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mist curled into a hundred smoky serpents, slithering up the porch columns, curling around the house. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Before I could swing my sword, it opened its mouth, emitting a stench like the world’s largest barbecue pit, and shot a column of flame straight at me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The column was well under way, so he swung wide around the village to avoid the worst of the congestion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Just before the building curves, they disappear behind one of the columns. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The column of earth thickened into the twenty-foot-tall figure of a woman - her dress woven from blades of grass, her skin as white as quartz, her hair brown and tangled like tree roots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On his way back, Jon swung wide of the column's line of march and took a shorter path through the thick of the wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Stay tuned to this column for a complete write-up as events develop. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As you went up, carved into the column itself, would be shelves, where books were stacked by the dynasty in which they were made. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z My favorite article was always a column of two or three facts called This Day In History, which was written by Miss Volker. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was a delicate procedure, requiring the welders to balance on opposite ends of a beam while it was lowered onto columns, then welded in place. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By the time the last withered apple had been handed out, the wagons were crowded with wildlings, and they were sixty-three stronger than when the column had set out firom Castle Black that morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The smoke stung Meggie’s eyes, and the flickering firelight danced on the red walls and columns as if the whole church were ablaze. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The following is an abridged version of the first column to run after the Columbine massacre. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Within an hour we had filled the street and formed columns. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized Mr. Greene had repeated a column from the previous month. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The negative column filled up fastest with words like stupid, disgraceful, foolish, laughable, wasteful, outraged, idiotic, scandalous, uninformed, half-baked, shamefully. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z At one end of the mesa was a row of ten thick metal columns, wedged tightly together. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z These are the ones that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns, irate letters to the editor, and inventories of common errors in student papers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Behind them the column was beginning to move. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even today the vast majority of human communication—whether in the form of emails, phone calls or newspaper columns—is gossip. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Each column of hab-units was numbered, and the door of each capsule was lettered, A through J, with unit A at the bottom. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The morning light made its way in only through a few windows, painting pale patches high up on the walls and columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Almost as quickly as Joey said it, the columns appeared on the screen. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z When tallying numbers, the Babylonians arranged them into columns, as children learn to do today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On each side of the columns, a pair of shackles hung from heavy iron chains at varying heights. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We walked up the steps of the palace, between black columns, through a black marble portico, and into the house of Hades. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “No,” I said, but I was still thinking about the column. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The story took up six of the seven columns of the front page. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Same way you can pick locks on marble columns, I guess. I’m glad you’re not into robbing banks.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The facades had soaring white columns like Roman temples. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In a magic square, a grid was filled with a consecutive set of numbers so every row, column, and diagonal added up to the same number. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A column of riders came wheeling up behind them, led by a lordling with a horsehead on his shield. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They stand in broken columns and flurry with both arms and both legs and they are not afraid to make a mess of themselves. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then the lad here was right. Came to me just now and said he’d seen the fire-eater up there behind a column.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He remembers the astonishment of seeing pages full of Gangulis, three columns to a page, in the Calcutta telephone directory. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One of Capricorn’s men kicked out as the marten shot past his legs, but Gwin got away and disappeared behind one of the red columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z An indefatigable seeker of public attention, Sandy made her name and picture regular fare in New York society columns. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They fingered their weapons and gave lingering looks at the wagons as they rolled by, yet in the end they let the column pass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z By the time the little column had dwindled in the distance, the eastern sky had gone from black to grey and the snow was falling heavily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But maybe in the darkness the guards heard them as terrifying weapons; maybe the thin columns of smoke seemed to be the first sizzlings of a larger explosion. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In a column he wrote for our neighborhood’s weekly newspaper, Barack calmly defended his choice to stay with me and Malia in Hawaii. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He would take her there, of course, for he wasn’t such a coward that he would mind a little exploring now and then farther in amongst the ever-darkening columns of the tall pines. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z There will be no outsourcing for me—even if some of my readers wish my column could be shipped off to North Korea. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Evidently, these columns were rarely to Lord Darlington's liking, for I can recall numerous instances of his looking up from a journal and saying something like: 'Young Reggie writing such nonsense again. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He did well to send me, Reek told himself as he climbed back onto his stot to lead his ragged column back across the boggy ground to where the northmen were encamped. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He could see an open plaza with freestanding columns, fountains, and statues. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Away from the coral, the sun’s rays form rectangular columns of light in the water. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the mornings the milk is frozen, the cream risen in icy, granular columns out of the bottle necks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Strong wing beats carried her into a thermal, a column of warm air that rises from the sun- heated ground in a spiraling bubble. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Virtually every newspaper in America has a daily column on astrology; there are hardly any that have even a weekly column on astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no nurses, so the few teachers who patrolled the columns attempting to maintain order, along with several older schoolgirls, attended to the fainted victims. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the column of soldiers and horses poured down the slippery slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He didn’t move like he was pulling threads—the most he had done was whip his tail around a bit—and she wondered how he was creating the column. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It overlooks the garden, but Hannah’s table is hidden by a brick column choked with ivy. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The squid descended on the palace and swatted its tentacles, smashing a whole column of warriors. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Uncle Shepsel went backward into the lady behind him, who in turn fell back into the man behind her and so forth as the whole column of people toppled over. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z On the left side of the courtyard stood a line of columns holding up weathered gray arches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And a sheet of paper with two columns: “Likes” and “Doesn’t Like.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z It was the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on the mercury exposed in the pan that makes the fluid shoot up the column. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He pauses, swipes a matchstick on a column. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was an odd manuscript; in the midst of the profoundest personal tragedy, sinking into economic ruin, he wrote brilliantly funny columns. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The king’s host became a column of snowmen, staggering through knee-high drifts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The next four columns are topped like this: Joined a gang. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She and Mr. Pittman were habitues of all the correct soirees and benefits and staples of all the right gossip columns. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The Greeks had also plundered interior sites, such as Heliopolis, for sphinxes, obelisks, columns, and so on, with which to decorate their public spaces. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “Blackjack,” I said, “set me down over there, will you? Behind that column.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Experiments have shown that statements like the ones in the left column, which deny a plausible belief, are easier to understand than statements in the right column, which deny an implausible belief. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He pulled out his wand and moved forward between the serpentine columns. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Inside would be a spiral staircase around a stone column. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They stepped out into the immense courtyard with red walls and columns, carved green and gold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She examined their bottles and resituated the flasks tucked under cushions and behind books whose words were printed in two columns. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked towards the knoll: there he lay, still as a prostrate column; his face turned to me: his eye beaming watchful and keen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Wedged between a column by the Home Extension Service and a chopped-off ad for garden hoes, there was a small but conspicuous headline. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “And so Shawn would list my studio, the Robert Poppins School of Performing Arts, under that column on the application. Shawn, tell this boy how many pirouette turns you can do.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When we were out past the tanneries onto the main road the troops, the motor trucks, the horse-drawn carts and the guns were in one wide slow-moving column. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A few columns of smoke mounted perpendicularly into the windless air and were lost. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Ferrets had cornered a band of shrews and were threatening to massacre them when a column of otters sprang to the rescue. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He painted the names of all his students on one wall of the classroom, then made a column for each week left of school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Stupid columns. Some people claim I created the whole Strait of Gibraltar by shoving mountains apart. Some people say the mountains are the pillars. What a bunch of Augean manure. The pillars are pillars.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Remember the ads in the Personal columns, Bright attractive woman, thirty-five . The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran an unsteady finger down the column of figures. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As though he has climbed into a dark box hung inside a column of pure light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The official joined another column of courtiers dancing in the opposite direction and soon disappeared from sight. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z That was his mother’s fault, just like in that “Dear Alice” column. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They swarmed around a column, then hovered over the opening of the pit. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The door to Marco’s office, tucked discreetly between a pair of Persian columns. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We made it to the corridor and turned just in time to see the other columns toppling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Each of the towers rested on a single column no wider than an elevator. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The “Total” column represents their cumulative classroom learning from all five years of elementary school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As we came close to them I saw one of the officers point to a man in the column. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Even from here, I can see an open space in the column next to my name. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I eventually reached my unit, near the top of column number forty-two. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He had to read every column of it including the society section in which he couldn’t possibly be interested. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew with horrible certainty that my friend had just been turned into a column of ashes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The kind for making a column of concrete. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I shoved my way along the column of marching men, chose a moment when the guard wasn’t looking, and stepped into the moving line beside Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He reached the base of the columns and squinted up at Coach Hedge, who was precariously perched at the feet of the Athena Parthenos, unravelling ropes and knotting a ladder. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Here is the entire column: Not too many people know this. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, what do you do with your time? “I write a... domestic maintenance column for the Jackson Journal He wrinkles his brow, then laughs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The outer ring of candles was complete, twelve white columns burning exacdy as they had when Will was last in the hall. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The names scrolled in tidy columns through her mind, each group belonging to a different chapter in her life. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “Here, note the date and time, your observations in this column, and then place your signature below.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He added and re-added columns of figures, always eighty cents too little or eighty cents too much. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At the far end was the entrance to another cave, flanked by gigantic columns of crystal that looked like diamonds. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Just to prove her point, she erupted in a column of flame, charring the front of my shirt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A column of storm was approaching the Hudson River, moving rapidly over the Jersey shore. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The vaulted roof seems to stretch up forever into the inky London sky, and beneath it the room is arranged like a city square somewhere in Florence, climbing columns and towering altars and archways. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Two columns of about a hundred rosewood pews stretched beneath a vaulted glass ceiling that let in so much light that no candles were needed during the day. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Somewhere between the second column of smoke I spied before I blew up the supplies and this point, she ran into trouble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The answer is that negation is easy to understand when the proposition being negated is plausible or tempting.23 Compare the negations in these two columns: A whale is not a fish. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I cross my arms and in my head I tally up all the many points that belong in the octopus column. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He swims away from the others and toward a series of collapsed columns that form a cave. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He shot white-hot columns of flame at the giant, but Clytius’s smoky aura absorbed them on impact. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A column of red-cloaked swordsmen ran past as she slipped out into the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Beyond the cat, quite far beyond, between the barn and the house, she saw what looked like a troop of dark gray figures marching in columns. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She came down the steps and disappeared into the dark beyond the columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Off to one side rose a feeble column of smoke—a thin, wavering distortion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was a large square chamber with a high ceiling, filled with dozens of massive stone columns. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Instead King wheeled around, and to almost everyone’s surprise, each rank in the column wheeled in turn as he began to lead the marchers back to Selma. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He ran his finger down the column of figures—$25,000 for the new cyclotron, $40,000 in combined annual operational expenses— and remarked, “It’s a pretty large undertaking.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Newspaper columns on usage are filled with apologies for “errors” like these, spotted by ombudsmen or managing editors who have trained themselves to flag them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s not long before I am ahead of copy and Mister Golden seems pleased with the column, the first two of which only took me about twenty minutes to write. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In just a few minutes, there was a long list of differences—things like advertisements, a purchase price, color pictures, comics, gossip columns, advice columns, world news. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Although the heights of the Common were filled with men marching, forming columns, and what-not, Johnny believed he could sneak in by the hurdles and let Sandy and Nan graze along the Charles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the pavilion, torches blazed around the marble columns. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Doric columns are the strongest and simplest, Corinthian ones are the lightest and most ornate, adorned with rows of acanthus leaves giving rise to graceful volutes and helices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There were houses very grand and old, with white columns and intricate fences of wrought iron. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I scanned the column of familiar photos of Rockport, Motif #1 and Twin Lights, winding my red ponytail into a spiral with my finger. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z We’d taken over half a table at the library, my nine-page paper laid out in a square of columns and rows and all my note cards fanned out in a messy pile beside it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t think of anything worse than reading a column on how to clean house,” he says, and I notice that his front tooth is the slightest bit crooked. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z As the column splashed across the shallow waters, the sun was setting behind a pair of grassy hills. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I love the way those columns lead into that courtyard. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Since the ugliness on the Trident, the Starks and their household had ridden well ahead of the main column, the better to separate themselves from the Lannisters and the growing tension. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Brother Luke placed Robin on the stone seat bordering the wall, propping him against the column which rose high to the vaulted roof. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Then she turned to the pages where the family names were written in a long column with places to the right for dates of birth, marriage, and death. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at a table of measurements of white shark teeth with its tall columns of numbers for height, width, and angle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She flexed her wrists and wrestled the control column forward again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The column of demonstrators stretched all the way back to the church doors. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Go on adding columns and columns of figures? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There are many slides of columns as well, various kinds of columns from various periods: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The consistent string of sentence topics, all related to the column topic, forms a satisfying arc of coherence over the passage. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They place pellets atop pellets, then throw up columns and beautiful, curving, symmetrical arches, and the crystalline architecture of vaulted chambers is created. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone complains, because they block the sun, which was supposed to fall on the glass columns of the Vuvv First Landing Monument. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Most woodwinds can get two different octaves with essentially the same fingering; the lower octave is the fundamental of the column of air inside the instrument at that fingering. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The steel points of their pikes winked in the pale sunlight as the column approached. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By late afternoon the fire dies down and the column of smoke is white, no longer greasy. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The column of vehicles did not move but the troops kept passing alongside. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Then she saw the three near the end of the column. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The DeSoto, strictly an island car for more than a decade, had been purchased by Ishmael’s father fifteen years before, a four-speed with a semiautomatic transmission, hypoid rear axle, and column shift. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In the column next to the photo there was a notice, bordered in black, that caught my eye. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed the tube poking through bandages on my chest to a container halffilled with columns of water. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What did he expect to find, an advice column on practical miscegenation? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Had he ever been shackled to these columns? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He was pulling men out of the column, or trying to. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It must be ascertained that they had been given orders not to fire until our column was within fair range of their weapons. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “If Lady Melisandre were with us—” Finally, after a nightmarish day when the column advanced a bare mile and lost a dozen horses and four men, Lord Pease- bury turned against the nOrthmen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z By around 300 BC the Babylonians had started using two slanted wedges to represent an empty space, an empty column on the abacus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Names scattered in a gossip column, authors, artists, actors and their kind, even the mediocre ones, as long as she had learnt of them in print. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, moonlight glimmers off the columns and arches of a dizzyingly high amphitheater. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Moving against the flow, and now trying to edge round this same corner, was a column of armored cars, the paintwork untouched by battle, heading south into the German advance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps you should keep a few addresses for help with future columns. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Granddaddy opened his log book and riffled through it in the gloom, his thick yellow fingernail running down the columns. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It is old, so old that it's possible that the gray stone columns grew from the mountain it stands on. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Weaving her way through the stacks and columns, Haley finally found her Super-Dooper Bonus. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z White and red marble columns lined the throne room. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At midmorning, he discovers the heart of the column, perhaps six miles from High Bridge. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They had started off up Orchard Avenue in a sprawly column when Marshall suddenly stopped and tugged at Melanie’s arm. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Finding a shady place on the veranda, he leaned up against a column and began to shine his father’s shoes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A thin column of smoke rose in the air from one of the chimneys. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Before she could make up her mind which way to go, she heard voices and withdrew behind a column. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He found the Chinese Palm Court, complete with not only live palm trees but high white-plastered rococo ceilings, marble columns, delicate hand-painted Asian wall murals, and Chippendale furniture. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She went back to those search results and looked under the User column. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The column had begun to move more rapidly and they quickened their steeds’ gaits. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z To the next and the next and the next, there were hundreds of pillars and column and we went to them all with fast-dying hope. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A column of shining black ants walked across a windowsill, their bottoms tilted upwards, like a line of mincing chorus girls in a Busby Berkeley musical. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A column of fire bursts from its open jaws. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The hair at her temples blew about in the breeze, the column of vermilion fresh in her part. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Because right next to my name, but in the other column, was hers. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Ducking aerodynamically over my handlebars, I pedaled furiously into the thick, oily exhaust of the moving column . . . . . . while, back on Pingree Street, Milton is crouching behind the crenellated olive oil tins. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At first they were just dark brown columns of silt, denser than the water around them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z But this time it is a thin column, like a pole, not very high. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The whole ceiling was a maze of rafters crisscrossing and flying up from wooden columns on the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Moushumi is horrified, in the banquet room, to see the tables wreathed with tulle, the ivy and baby’s breath twisted around the columns. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom became even more concerned about my values when my editor offered me a job writing a weekly column about what he called the behind-the-scenes doings of the movers and shakers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Noah asked her as I stopped behind a column to listen. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z She later wrote a column for the paper. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Another time he saw a white-robed woman—maybe a nymph or a goddess—holding a wicked-looking knife, slipping between ruined columns in a public park. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The great door was open behind the columns, and lingering beside it was the man: a sour-faced individual in rough clothes, whose mastiff dæmon stood close by, watching without moving. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They passed on, Gollum in front and the hobbits now side by side, up the long ravine between the piers and columns of torn and weathered rock, standing like huge unshapen statues on either hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z What held the column of water together was a natural force, the resistance to the creation of a vacuum, and this force was a major factor in understanding the strength of materials. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As soon as they carried off Mauricio Babilonia with his shattered spinal column, Fernanda had worked out the most minute details of a plan destined to wipe out all traces of the burden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They climbed into the crater and entered the circle of columns. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The columns and everything are nice, but it’s all chained up, so we climb up the side of the hill and get on top by these two glass domes that let you peek down inside. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z When it took off, it jumped from the pad on a silvery column of smoke, stuttered strangely in little puffs, and then seemed to find its way, another spout of fire sending it hurtling skyward. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When the column crumbled, Percy used the unleashed water to guide the collapse—bringing down several tons of bricks on the giant’s head. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z When the column came trotting from the fields, the sentries stared at them with more curiosity than fear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The godswife would be walking among the other Lamb Men, in the long column of slaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Through sweet and smoky air, great columns rose to dizzying heights, while enough multicolored light poured down through stained glass so as to turn the hard stone floor into pools of liquid hues. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z There were dogs now in the column, keeping under the wagons as they moved along. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I took my teeth around them as I sat behind a column at the theater, waiting to step out and play. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The six demigods gathered on the quarterdeck and gazed at the distant column of dust still rising from the site of the implosion. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On this one, I thought that Adam, Kim, and I were in the same column, because even though Adam was cool, he didn’t try. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z CPAs, those folks who can add columns of 9s in their heads, have been advising MDs since the 1980s to dot their i’s, cross their t’s, and never accept IOUs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone column with a big sphinx on the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The moon shone brilliantly on the sodden grass, the mossy gravestones, the crumbling mausoleum, the figures in their hideous embrace between the columns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When she looked again, Viserys was gone, great columns of flame rose all around, and in the midst of them was the dragon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Incredibly, an armored column was forcing its way against the forward press of traffic, soldiers and refugees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Down the road in the distance, a long column of dust was rising. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Clouds swirled over the largest temple, a round pavilion with a ring of white columns supporting a domed roof. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I could see the column rush into the Object’s mouth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Stones in different columns have different values, and by manipulating them a skilled user can add large numbers with great speed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Word of what had happened moved slowly down the column, but it was a long while before word came down to Chamberlain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The column did not move, although, on the other side beyond the stalled vehicles I could see the troops moving. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A column of riders emerged from beneath the portcullis with a clink of steel and a clatter of hooves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The camp had started to look the way it should look: the meadows were green and lush; the white columns gleamed on the Greek buildings; dryads played happily in the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” Nora says, “Nate Silver won’t stop blowing up my phone for another column. Bought some new curtains. Narrowed down the list of grad school concentrations to statistics or data science.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A jolt of excitement runs through me at the sight, and I scan the columns, analyzing and absorbing as much as I can. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A double column of guardsmen brought up the rear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Oxygen-rich air was sucked into the column at the base, where it mixed with the burning fuels and also rose, twisting and whirling around as it did. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z At night, she did the books, filling in columns with how much money they had made that day. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And she continued to use her newspaper column, along with her lectures, radio talks, and press conferences, to publicize her views on social justice. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z However, in view of the fact that you have your column to complete, I wonder if it is entirely wise to partake further.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z My first column is due tomorrow, on Mister Golden’s desk by two o’clock. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He had been in a column like this before, on the first day, and he knew what he was looking for. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Specifically, the vertical columns put together chemicals that have similar properties. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In fact, Rob was deliberately running other stories and links ahead of my columns, in order to get some information out before the site went down as readers rushed to respond. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I am pleased as punch to be commencing this groundbreaking column in the Manifest Herald. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There was a balcony along the second floor held up by columns. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z With deep concern, PYB Alan Rogers had started a column where he interviewed kids about their favorite foods and how they got their parents to buy them. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z They pass through forest and valley in columns a hundred meters across and many miles long, eating their way across Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Billed as “the finest building of its kind in Oklahoma,” the theater had Greek columns and murals and a necklace of lights around the stage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There isn’t a ceiling, just four columns surrounding the wooden square where several strange plants and vegetables are growing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z When a column of riders appeared from the west, the guardsmen sprang into action, shouting commands and moving the carts and foot traffic aside to let the knight enter with his escort. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hope Springs’s City Hall was a two-story brick building with tall white columns and pairs of paint-peeled shutters on every window. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Arranged around the columns on other wooden chairs, and sitting here and there on the stairs, are seventeen women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On either side, crystalline rock had been carved into glittering Grecian columns. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I skim the columns for words I recognize, for any clue about where my mother might be. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He was just standing there, he said, watching the moon, and then off to the west a column of silhouettes appeared as if by magic at the margin of the jungle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His eye moved to the middle column, where the mother’s name was listed. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I am thinking of that, but it doesn't go in the plus column for America. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dany sent outriders ranging ahead of the column, but they found neither wells nor springs, only bitter pools, shallow and stagnant, shrinking in die hot sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At the base of a column was a large box, apparently the home of an out-of-work squatter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I tried to concentrate on the bald newspaper columns, and later to lose myself in the racy plot of the novel in my hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He considered shooting a column of fire at the nearest tour bus and blowing up the gas tank, but he decided that might be a tad dramatic. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Each row, column and diagonal added up to 34. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Health note: My valve did close quite violently this afternoon when Mr. Gonzalez asked me to add a column of figures for him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll regret that later,” Tucker said, “when my steering column is gone.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z On the walls and columns of Karnak, at Dendera, everywhere in Egypt, Champollion delighted to find that he could read the inscriptions almost effortlessly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In April, Melissa called me one day at home to let me know about a snarky column written by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Over the tops of the roofs a column of smoke still rises, higher now than before. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z A column of camelry emerged from the city as her honor guards. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She ducked, and it shattered on the column beside her, showering her with broken pieces. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In his column next day, the sports editor of the Mica Times referred to her as “the best athlete on the field.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z ‘You speak nonsense. A column of fire is about to destroy you and your precious Greek statue. No ally can help you. Your mother has abandoned you as you abandoned your legion.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In this uncomfortable position, he imagined returning to the house and finding it consumed by a violent column of orange flames, reaching skywards like a snapping, hissing monster. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A moment later the head of the column came into sight. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The crowd backed away and ahhed as the rocket disappeared at the top of a tremendous column of white, boiling smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Percy swung behind a column, grabbed a garbage bag full of Wonder bread, and threw it at the monster. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Yet eagles cannot control the location of the columns, and their maximum carrying capacity is strictly proportional to their wingspan. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he closed the accounts book in Sonny’s Shop and gave up on the column of numbers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z White columns surrounded the edges of the pool under an opaque glass ceiling. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A year after I started the column, I was in a small, overstaffed restaurant across the table from an aging, elegant woman in a silk turban who oversaw the International Best Dressed List. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And in the column she answered maths questions sent in by readers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Back of the main column the baggage train followed: mules, j horses, oxen, a mile of wayns and carts laden with food, fodder, tents, and other provisions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She knew where the answer was—the second paragraph in the right hand column of page 157. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In The Magnolia Jungle the juxtaposition of the best of these columns against a background of stark horror gives a striking effect. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The sidewalks were lined with white columns covered in graffiti. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He pointed again, that time to another support column across the room. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The walls, the columns, even the ceiling, were vermilion, the color of raw meat or dried blood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He tried the Arabic right to left and the Chinese columns. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I almost didn’t read it, thinking he had written the column before all of this Antoine Thomas stuff had happened. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We stood as still as the columns that had not hidden us. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z My gaze drops down, down, past her full, parted lips to the column of throat to the barest hint of cleavage. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Sigurd swung his axe at the water column, cleaving a piece off, and he grabbed at Anya as she scrambled by. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The winged man from the ice cream stand was leaning against a nearby column, casually tossing a small bronze hoop in the air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Our column had only some fifteen steps to go. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I was already struggling to keep ahead of the prisoners at the back of the column. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The Union column raced up the road and surrounded the farmhouse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When we had to impress other armies—marauders, columns of refugees filing past one another, boy gangs following their martial arts teachers—I mounted and rode in front. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z North of the compound, the brook was in full spate, choked with leaves and bits of wood, but the scouts had found where the ford lay and the column was able to splash across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The odd behavior of defending a frozen fishing hole connects all the way back to the reader’s question at the beginning of the column. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I hand her an envelope with forty dollars from what I’ve saved from the Miss Myrna column, my allowance, money Mother has forced into my hands for beauty parlor appointments I never went to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Scores of sports columns in publications of every stripe focused on the merits of the two horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Written in grease pencil on the acetate surface of the chart were columns and rows of numbers—the numbers of American and enemy troops killed or wounded in battle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But I soon find myself staring at the blank columns, my fingertips tapping away at the edge of my laptop instead, my mind a million miles away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z A few yards away, a column of thick black smoke roiled into the sky from a much larger crater. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Halls and galleries drifted past: graceful buttresses, delicate arches, fluted columns, terraces and bowers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The left side had a column written by Mr. Donnelly, with the strange tide “Thoughts on an Imaginary Porcelain Plate.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Humason would lead the column of mules on horseback, his white terrier standing just behind the saddle, its front paws on Humason’s shoulders. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel squatted on his haunches and stared at the orderly forest of small, glaucous trees with their columns of black-and-white bloom. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The demigods ran, tripping over stones, leaping over crumbled walls, dodging around columns and informational placards. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I saw the little Spanish columns and gated entrance of Books and More Books. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z To read one, the reader would unroll the next column of text on the right side while rerolling the last on the left. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She pushed the control column forward to lower the nose of her aircraft, and applied power to gain speed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I noticed the others falling into columns of four, and I was alone in the rear, like the pivot of a drill team. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can read the Miss Myrna column. I did a great piece on mildew last week.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The set consists of the future, which will be sparsely furnished, but will contain a good many cylindrical black columns and several austere flights of stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They were not very bellicose-looking; their columns were straggling, their suntan uniforms had gotten rumpled in the train, and they were singing Roll Out the Barrel. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Bright advertisement posters for Beach Blanket Babylon, Teatro ZinZanni, and other San Francisco businesses were framed and hanging along the walls and on columns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The central plaza was paved in white and gray stone, decorated with statues, fountains, and gilded columns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Ahead of them a sloping lawn rose directly out of the floodwater and led smoothly up to the white facade of the house, the columns and the pediment. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I heard her say, "I can add up a column of figures with the best of them." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The column’s really written over at the National Palace and it’s meant to “serve notice” to anyone who has been treading on the tail of the rabid dog, as we say back home. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You make me feel like a column of figures on a blackboard.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling was held up with a combination of steel scaffolding and old granite Roman columns. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z An eastward bend led them hard by the sward of Mirrormere, and there not far from the roadside stood a single column broken at the top. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But they are no longer priestesses; they are now ornamental devices doubling as supporting columns. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Against this column she could just make out Briony beyond the island temple, standing right by the water’s edge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As they got closer, he could see a thin column of smoke rising from one of the many chimneys, before being blown away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It had tidy columns with block letter headings and drawings on nearly every page. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The Kingdom’s forces on the ground—columns of riflemen, troops equipped with flamethrowers, with poison-spraying cannons, with weapons such as none of the watchers had ever seen—began to disengage and pull back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Nico pointed east to a hexagonal building ringed with freestanding columns. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then she slipped behind benches and columns and disappeared down the hallway. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z As the bullets whizzed past, the boys sprang from their columns and vehicles and dove for cover. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I saw a figure—a boy hunkered down behind a Greek column, like he was hiding from someone. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Dill gripped the ladder, raised a foot, and scraped his boot on the column before stepping on the bottom rung. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Gradually, the last column of monsters passed over the hills and disappeared into the night. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They followed the sounds around a lazy bend of the road and saw them; a column of armed men noisily fording a swollen stream. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I looked at the column it was in and it was listed “Confirmed Kills.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dark column of ashes, I thought I could almost see a face—a she-demon with red eyes, laughing at me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Zooey, standing in just close enough, read the top entry in the left-hand column, then went on reading downward. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The point of the column is to explain why a heron might stand over a frozen bog. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At Abagana, they drove past the destroyed Nigerian fleet, a long, long column of burned and blackened vehicles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z High above, the men on the Wall saw the column approaching. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z From time to time, SS officers on motorcycles drove the length of the column to shake off the growing apathy: “Hold on! We’re almost there!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “The whole thing exploded into a column of flame many feet high,” said Bert. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But Mr Cardinal's columns did not prevent him being a frequent visitor at the house; indeed, his lordship never forgot that the young man was his godson and always treated him as kin. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The house was tall and stately with white doric columns across the front. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The column of her throat was smooth cerulean, her eyes glassy and staring. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Roughly halfway along the front there was a wide row of steps, surmounted by a portico where classical columns supported a pediment….Was that a figure among the columns? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z These go round and round a central column, and this column is pierced with holes for shooting arrows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The text was written in columns perpendicular to the long axis of the scroll. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They would flank the column to give warning of any approach. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Plunging “eighteen feet,” he had raced away, pursued by “two columns” of armed guards, who had tackled and beat him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The feeling rose up in me like a column of wind, but when it got to my mouth, it had no voice, no words. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It had many red columns and a peaked tile roof, and behind that what looked like a garden house with round windows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Acting quickly, Otto tied the rope low around the nearest support column with his best knot. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Vincent came up and stopped the column, and the men moved gratefully out into a field, carrying the rails of the fences with them for evening fires. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She leans back against a column as she speaks, smiling at him easily, drinking a glass of champagne. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A column of dust rose from a mound of rubble, which I realized was a collapsed skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A long column of armored lancers was crossing the moat between the walls when Bran emerged from the tower,- Karstark men, following their lords into the castle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was changing its shape in a complicated way, thinning at the base as a vertical column rose five or six feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They chose a uniform style, neoclassical, meaning the buildings would have columns and pediments and evoke the glories of ancient Rome. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then an officer blew his whistle and, one by one, the columns were marched off to work. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z As they flew over the Crematorium, the plane shot upwards on the column of hot air rising from the chimneys, only to fell as suddenly when it passed into the descending chill beyond. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When Cara asked if the information in her column would always be true, Chrissy had to agree that private notes passed among friends was the best place for this kind of news. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The pair of cabins at the head of the field, numbers one and two, looked like his-and-hers mausoleums, big white marble boxes with heavy columns in front. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The jubilatory sounds died away to an eerie silence as the rats toiled raggedly off down the road, raising a column of dust in the early dawn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Another head breathed a column of fire, and the third head dripped what looked like greenish poison from between its fangs. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There was a book review every week, a video-game tips column, a “Best of the Web” listing, and a “Best TV Movies of the Weekend” column. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z At the north end of the pavilion was a sunken rectangular courtyard fenced on three sides by a row of seven-foot basalt columns atop a low red and yellow adobe wall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His body ignited in a column of light and heat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She said, “Well, why couldn’t The Landry News have more of those other things in it, too, like columns and comics and stuff?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z I was in a king’s courtroom—a big white chamber with marble columns and a wooden throne. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They were thunderclouds of deep gray-blue, rising columns of layered darkness. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Hades traced his fingers along the nearest column, leaving bleached white marks on the old bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z By early January they had won the tenth, and people began to notice that there was still a zero in the loss column. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In the last column, I have a section for New Nameless Web Magazine. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I follow him into the building, through what seems to be a food court, and into a beautiful room with a high ceiling and great columns. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “He had no choice. Warriors came from behind him, and then on both sides of his column. North was the only way he could go. So let’s go again and trace their path.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Two small columns of flame shot out of its ears. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She stared obsessively at the frail column of white smoke that was issuing from the volcano, and peered at the changes in the color of the sky. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Congress Avenue was called that because at its north end stood the majestic state capitol building, with its dome and white columns. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z When the columns passed in front of her house, Alba ran out and joined them, singing at the top of her voice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa Blakeslee was supposed to be next, leading the column of younger, gun-toting veterans who were to charge up North Main Street, playing like this was the Battle of Gettysburg. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The figures at the base of columns are the first year of the decade, so 1470 refers to the decade 1470-1479. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And the column has come three times, each time in the late afternoon. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The peeling paint hanging in long dry sleavings down the columns and from the buckled soffits. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Up she went, expertly negotiating rocky columns and ledges, until she hoisted herself onto the clifftop, where two young bears were waiting. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Meggie turned at the sound of the heavy wooden door creaking and saw Capricorn appear between the red columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z All of this appeared in Centurion bold type—already antiquated in 1917—with delicate hairlines separating seven columns and subheads in bold serif relief. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z One big stallion looked at me and whinnied, columns of red flame billowing out his nostrils. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I visited the temples: the Govindji, with its great hall and its row of columns like tree trunks and its high ceilings where neat rows of bats hung like small furry pennants. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z His situation was a little different: he was studying pressure in fluids in order to understand how the weight of air supports a column of mercury in a barometer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Now I was outside the pavilion, hiding in the shadows of a Greek column. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z One twilight, just as my mother stepped on the bridge, two smoky columns spiraled up taller than she. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The columns on the tablet are made up of cuneiform script detailing various instruments, including the kinnor, the hand-held harp-like instrument that is alternatively known as a lyre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Smoke rose into the frigid air from eighteen conical lodges, thin undulating columns rising upward. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He stopped in front of the fallen column of the Black Tortoise Gate and, as if he were brushing away a dead leaf, pushed it aside. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The simplest was a three-by-three square, with the numbers 1 to 9 arranged so that every row, column and diagonal added up to 15. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Magpie had appeared between the columns again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His legs were massive columns, his face a crag, with a granite-hard jaw and eyes black as chunks of obsidian beneath their painted lids. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “All the big mansions and the gardens. The columns and arches.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now and then the boat bumped into one of these columns, and they found that they could use a paddle to knock themselves free again. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The corridor opened into a vast room with twenty-foot ceilings and rows of support columns. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The huge stone columns lining the road that lead up to the hotel look like they belong in a fairy-tale palace. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Wielaf said, “He made the debris to the upper level by blasting out some columns and stuff. He climbed it. Then left the way you all came in.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Behind them came the endless column of ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One man was stabbed when he tried to slip in ahead of others who had been hours in the column. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I write the Miss Myrna column in the Jackson Journal. It comes out every Monday.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Before long the ground ahead of the column was blanketed in white, concealing stones and twisted roots and deadfalls, turning every step into an adventure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sarai had to lurch back from the blast of heat as Ruby was engulfed in a crackling, deep-orange column of fire. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Iron Emmett rode at the head of the column, mounted on the ugliest horse Jon had ever seen, a shaggy beast that looked to be all hair and hooves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She put hardly any effort into it, just a twist of the hips and a flick of the shoulders, but the steel screamed against stone as it cut halfway through the solid marble column. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z At night I lay shivering on the floor, watching the illuminated snowflakes sift in a column through the hole in the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Reyna sheathed it and began to climb, scaling the column despite her armour and her supplies. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When I was upset, calculating the area of a triangle, or adding up columns of numbers, or reciting pi always helped me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To vitalize a fifth column, they would create a large network of Nazi sympathizers working against the United States from within the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A report done in elementary school on Greek and Roman architecture, Corinthian and Ionic and Doric columns copied from an encyclopedia onto tracing paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Henry Reid advised employees to stay on the lookout for spies disguised as Langley Field soldiers and warned of fifth column plants who might coax valuable research from unwitting laboratory employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Liam moved to lift his head, straining the muscles that lined the strong column of his spine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She waited, breathlessly, and after a moment she realized that she was alone in the column. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah! Yes. Prepare to receive the wisdom of page eleven, column two—Senior Quotes!” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She seemed to walk in a column of moonlight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes giant bubbles of unburned gases rose within the column and then exploded high in the sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A column of demigods emerged from the gates, their armor and spears glinting as they hurried toward the city. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Below them, in a sheltered depression like a moon crater, stood a ring of broken black marble columns surrounding a dark stone altar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The pressure elevators were powered by gaseous columns vented from the earth’s core. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “No,” said Wednesday, without looking up from a “Humor in Uniform” column. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The balcony of the second floor merged into the barn and there was hay coming out between the columns. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The cameras zoomed in on a column of storm bearing down on some Midwest city. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He squinted past the bare trees in the cloister garden, trying to penetrate the shadows of the columns where we stood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z One tunnel was walled with human bones, its roof supported by columns of skulls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At that moment there was a loud explosion that made us all duck, and we saw a huge column of fire and smoke rise over the buildings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z To get to us, they’d have to follow the trails, which meant they'd be marching in narrow columns on either side of the water. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I wondered how my media columns could possibly have found their way onto the website of the two kids who had just slaughtered so many of their classmates and themselves. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like everyone else - monster and demigod alike - they froze in horror and watched as the whirling column of earth erupted from the top of the next hill, and Gaia appeared in all her glory. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His only reservation related to length: “All the columns of a large Gazette would scarcely, I conceive, contain the present draft,” Washington noted, adding at the end, “I may be mistaken.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z On the left, large white houses with long columns and graceful verandas ruled the approach to the river with mute elegance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were pictures of temples and statues and different kinds of columns, like those in an architecture book. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He was the fat gray-haired little lieutenant-colonel they had taken out of the column. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Some time later, I was sensible that we marched in columns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We stood in the shadow of a marble column and watched them file in. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The sentences in the left-hand column all deny a proposition that it would be reasonable for readers to entertain. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z "The work I do does not permit me to travel the streets amid a column of knights. So when I leave the castle, I adopt more suitable guises, and thus live to serve you longer." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He became one of my most faithful readers, and would go to the library to research the people in the column, then call me with tips. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We were almost to the far tunnel when a column next to us groaned and buckled. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The main pavilion was open to the night, ringed with black Greek columns and statues of the Titans. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I stumbled away from the dais, forgetting that I was invisible, and hid behind a column as they approached. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s a column of tiny black circles and lines that mean nothing to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Charley’s combed columns of legs were noble things, his cap of silver blue fur was rakish, and he carried the pompon of his tail like the baton of a bandmaster. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The column is broken and sits in a river of blood. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The column and the responses to it ricocheted all over the world, via e-mail, mailing lists, links, even faxes. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had taken a ruler to make three columns and wrote our names at the top of each. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She waited, breathlessly, and after a moment she real-ized that she was alone in the column. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The landscape was dotted with buildings that looked like ancient Greek architecture—an open-air pavilion, an amphitheater, a circular arena—except that they all looked brand new, their white marble columns sparkling in the sun. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Dad thought it was great that I was writing a weekly column about, as he put it, the skinny dames and the fat cats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A fighter was strafing the length of the column. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Our entire public performance will be staged outside on what Effie refers to as the verandah, the tiled expanse between the front doors and the stairs that’s shaded by a roof supported by columns. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Buford saw with a slight shock the first column of infantry, the lovely flags. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s gotten so that I just close my eyes while she reads me the column, dreading the mention of our name. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The knight raised a mailed hand, and his men formed a double column flanking Catelyn and her guard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Its main building was red brick with white columns, its porch decorated with wide chairs and chandeliers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Shadows danced off the columns rising around us like trees. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Kaylee smirks and I can see her moving the points from the giraffe column to the owl column in her head. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z As they clambered down from the train and formed columns with their teammates, another brass band struck up another Sousa march. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Metal screeches as the bridges pop free from their columns. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I jumped from where I was and rushed over everyone, knocking down desks and chairs and columns. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Along the opposite wall were curtained French doors bounded by two large Ionic columns. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The column of smoke was thick as mud. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I used to write gossip columns for a living, and apologies always struck me as enormously useful. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Switch out the ancient columns and ruined temples for cows and barbed wire, and Leo would’ve felt right at home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Between the columns it was as dark as if night had fled there to escape the floodlights. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Look at that one, Mama,” Karen said, pointing to a large two story mansion with ten columns on each level. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the train back to Maxwell Street, I wrote down what we had learned, compiling the facts into even columns. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Columns of rock hung down from it, and columns of rock rose from the water, too, making long shadows that turned and mingled as the boat floated among them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I freeze as my pencil hovers over number 15, looking from the blank columns and rows on my spreadsheet back down to “Complete dosage table for diabetes.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Thought to have been written in 159 a.d., the twenty-one columns of glyphs were the first Olmec text long enough to permit linguists to decipher the language. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He studied the column for a few minutes before handing it back. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The officers were scrutinizing every one in the column, sometimes speaking to each other, going forward to flash a light in some one’s face. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z At dawn, the sunlight went straight up in a hazy column. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z And this column was written by Marilyn vos Savant and in the magazine it said that she had the highest IQ in the world in the Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The column stalled again in the night and did not start. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z From here she had a view of the driveway and the lake across which lay a column of shimmering phosphorescence, white hot from the fierce late afternoon heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In contrast to the figure of Hades on the column drum, the bronze youth in figure 19 is free to move about, lending him a lifelike presence that is further enhanced by his dancing pose. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The blocks build into a column and then we shift over one space to repeat the same sequence.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He had thrown a piece of scrap metal at the toes and hit one, making a deep echo, as if the column were hollow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Gnomes in serrated outfits that blew in the morning wind came out of the earth, came up in rows and columns. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy stared at the diorama, imagining a long column of people and horses. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The British column was disappearing around the bend, but a couple of dozen troops had stayed behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were always more mosquitoes rising up from the road like great columns of smoke, always moving ahead of us, and we dreaded them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The giants disintegrated in twin columns of flame—a sure sign they were monsters, all right. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Jack took a step back as the spinning column got bigger, and part of him wanted to run, but it was only a small part. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I stare at a table of numbers whose columns are labeled DA DN SA SN, and have to flip back and scan for the explanation: Dissimilar Affirmative, Dissimilar Negative, Similar Affirmative, Similar Negative. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There was a column of ants marching across one of the flagstones and Bruno Jenkins was focusing the sun through his magnifying-glass and roasting the ants one by one. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I don’t particularly hold no truck with the notion, since being a Negro pretty much puts me in the inferior column. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Always scouts ranged far ahead of the main column, alert for any sign of game or prey or enemies, while outriders guarded their flanks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She stood by a vined column, gazing at him; she smiled. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope he dies, Arya thought as she watched him ride out the gate, his men streaming after him in a double column. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The whole ravine was full of monsters—column after column marching south, so many and so close, Hazel was amazed they hadn’t heard her shouting. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Later, the pace of the column slowed as the pleasant meadows wrinkled into hills. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z An opinion column in the Boston Daily Globe said that the Welles broadcast revealed a fact many Americans didn’t understand: Radio has the potential “for spreading alarm to the unthinking or ill-informed.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It is in times like these that this news column cannot provide the needed comfort and solace. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I could see the stalled column between the trees in the rain as I went forward across from it in the field. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z From behind the line of waiting, oncoming traffic, a column of men appeared, with red flags and banners and a hum that grew and grew. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Apollo and Artemis stood together in the shadow of a column, as if trying to hide. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A violet column of tourmaline from Madagascar that looks so rich he cannot resist the urge to stroke it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In front there were still the same heroic columns and the Versaillesesque garden, but in the back the style gradually disappeared. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he said that, the columns of schoolchildren standing under the blazing sun erupted in excitement. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaned against a column and let the stone chill my burning cheek. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Light sparked from the end of it, slicing the column of the chandelier. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Another column of soldiers had ridden in to join those already on the hill. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z By performing many transpositions on the same plaintext, and shuffling the columns, you can create a baffling message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The left column tallies the probability, based on all past meetings between the two wrestlers fighting that day, that the 7—7 wrestler will win. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She would not abandon a daughter to this life, but train her to read the columns of blood and numbers in men’s eyes, to understand the morphology of survival. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Two opposing rows of columns ran in straight lines from the gates of the Sun to the gates of the Moon. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Gossip columns had not found their way to the Internet, so we relied solely on monthly magazines for the latest on whom our favorite celebrities were dating. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Then the cannon fire swept on, hurtling down the column, chased by the fighter’s roar and the flicker of its shadow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She picked up ten pebbles and arranged them vertically, in three columns. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Not very impressive compared to Gibraltar, but in front of the island, jutting from waves about a hundred yards offshore, were two white Grecian columns as tall as the Argo's masts. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z From behind a column I watched him write more, and ask for the time, and rub his rough hands against his knees. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Daily newspapers reprinted parts of them as op-ed columns or quoted from them in editorials. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A column of black rises into the sky, and though I can't see the guardhouse from this spot on the trail, I know with sinking certainty that the Farrars got there before me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Meggie had thought the prisoners were still in the nets, but she could see no trace of them when she and Basta entered the church, and Basta had impatiently pushed her past the columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A tile in the floor popped open and an empty goldfish bowl atop an ornate column rose up about three feet. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z As the carriage trundled toward a pair of magnificent wrought iron gates, flanked with stone columns topped with winged boars, Harry saw two more towering, hooded dementors, standing guard on either side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It always seemed full of magic with its white columns on the front porch and tall flagpole. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, as the hours crept toward midday, the shadows of temple columns grew shorter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I almost ran to the column of marching Jews to call my parents’ names, to find out if that was really them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Using a broadly similar concept, he arranged the elements in horizontal rows called periods and vertical columns called groups. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Holiday lights twinkle from eaves and railings and porch columns. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He holds up what looks like a placemat, with columns of food: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The colorful columns and food and memories were my second home. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Someone at the head of the column winded the horn every now and then, and each time the sound came from a little further off. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z A frail column of smoke was rising from the roof of one of the sheds, and I saw a horse tied to the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To buy some time, Percy ducked behind one of the aqueduct’s columns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The son of Poseidon flew into a column with a sickening crunch. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They galloped around the marble columns, spitting flames, neighing with a sound like sandblasters. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In search of compatriots, they used to trail their fingers, at the start of each new semester, through the columns of the university directory, circling surnames familiar to their part of the world. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Unlike the austere walls of the corridor, this room mimicked the architecture of Weep, with columns supporting an ornamental entablature and soaring, fan-vaulted ceiling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In spite of all the flying fragments the drivers of the munition columns pour in like a swarm of bees and pounce on the bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But he had already told them the day before what he had seen in that first column—twenty men in the back of a three-ton lorry killed with a single bomb. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She led Victor past the columns and into the courtyard from where a steep and impressive staircase led up to the first floor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Between the glowing columns of the cloister is the cool darkness that only churches have, and I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There used to be a column called Ask Marilyn in a magazine called Parade in America. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was still raining hard and 1 thought some of the stops in the movement of the column might be from cars with wet wiring. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the style of column, or the pediment, or the proportions of the windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Another glimpse: the enemy crouched along their walls, all guns trained upon the head of the column. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He was so done with white marble columns. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Ghost did not like to travel with the column, but he would not be far. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then he saw the girl standing at the base of the monument, reading or pretending to read a poster which ran spirally up the column. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I flipped the switch on the wall and track lighting illuminated three columns of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The bottom part of the trickle, as though conscious of their gaze, thickened to a creamy blur which crept up the feeble column. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A thin column of smoke curled from the library chimney. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As a test, she tied one end around a support column and leaned on the rope with all her weight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like the columns, they were stained with dark splotches. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z After a flurry of last-minute preparations and speeches, marshals quickly arranged the marchers in a column, six abreast, and the march finally got under way at 12:47 p.m. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Fetching my camera, I snapped a picture of what I took to be the last columns to stand on the old Canopic Way. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They had secured grappling lines to the Athena Parthenos just as the floor gave way, and the final columns of webbing snapped. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Every few seconds, seemingly at random, one of the three pits shot a column of fire into the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was a great column, all down the front page, and an awful blurred photograph of Maxim that must have been taken at least fifteen years ago. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There were three tall columns of black smoke rising from the south. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z About a third of the line was still empty, so I made another column and jotted down a few details: skateboard, van, 7-Eleven. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Robin thought of his father and how he had looked on that last day when he rode off to the Scottish wars at the head of the column. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The broad bottom of each pyramid spread the load and reduced settlement; the narrow top supported load-bearing columns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The crowd pointed up at the swaying column of fifty-pound food bags. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Together the three of us sneaked through the side streets of downtown while a huge column of smoke billowed up behind us from my school gymnasium. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They were braced in place by a horizontal girder, to which iron columns and webs were riveted. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Looking down each column, you will see letters that come from the same cipher alphabet. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This building has four soaring columns at the entrance and a statue of a man on a horse in front of it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z At the head of the winding columns rode the Horned King. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z With its rising towers, limestone columns, and jutting gables, it resembled a small fortress, as inaccessible as it was foreboding. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Custer leads the Union cavalry on their search-and-destroy mission against the Confederate column. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Rows and rows of numbers, over and over again, in neat columns, in her small, tight script. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z His final sentences were still ringing between the columns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “When Miss Anderson sang the simple spiritual ‘Hear de Lambs a-Cryin’ in her deep, hollow, subterranean register . . . you felt it up and down the spinal column,” wrote New York Herald-Tribune critic Alan Rich. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z He shrugged it off and passed one end to Otto, pointing at a support column near their hiding place. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In the east, where Pong had thought the sun was rising, a black column of smoke rose above the rooftops. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Paul Marshall banged his hands together and the sound ricocheted between the columns and the back wall of the pavilion. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The column has grown bigger and louder; it drowns out Tao’s reply. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Through fence slats, he watches a column of uniformed schoolgirls walk double-file in the winter sunshine. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Before, I’d only seen magic squares with three or four rows and columns, but this book had squares with five, six, and even seven. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Under that was the straight, slightly tapering column with its red to purple to blue. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He waited until he could see most of the column. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The commotion of the passing French column had covered the sound, but they were easy enough to see. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 The gatehouse square was littered with the wounded, but he saw lines of horses as well, not all of them hurt, and sellswords and gold cloaks enough to form a strong column. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After that were the translucent columns, so lustrous Pinmei could see their gleam from the distance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In my mind I would shinny up one of those columns and then work my way from rafter to rafter, figuring out how to make my next move, seeing how far I could get. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For each athlete I watched, I made two columns, one for strengths and one for weaknesses. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was amazing that he had any motor functions at all, considering the trauma his spinal column had suffered. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Wide steps led up to the Gathering Hall, and fat columns framed its big door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There were columns of numbers, lists headed “Salmon” and “Trout.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z A driller grabbed Phillips and pulled him off the platform just as the earth burst open and a black column of oil spewed into the air. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The rain fell in sheets and in columns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In a few years, I was not only penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With just three messages, the columns are shallow, and you can’t learn much. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was a French column, hardly more than a detachment—three armored cars, two half-tracks and two troop carriers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z What the Atashkadeh lacked in height, it more than made up for in majesty: Five arches, held up by smooth white columns, fronted it, and a Faravahar was carved into the top. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The prince arrived to join them four days later, riding at the head of a column of a hundred horse, with three elephants lumbering in his rear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Its square base stretched maybe fifty feet wide and ten feet tall, with an intact facade of Corinthian columns rising another twenty-five feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She clipped the receipt for the box of chalk to her ledger book so that she could list it in the column of itemized deductions that always accompanied her income tax returns. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A small copper statue of a girl stood on a tiny ivory column, both hands frozen on her hips. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And the architecture...gods, the architecture—gilded marble columns, dazzling mosaics, monumental arches, and terraced villas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z From the pyres of the dead rose black columns of smoke and white-hot ashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The girls and their mother made regular appearances in the social column of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, the model of an upwardly mobile and professional black family. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The topic of the column is obviously “herons in winter”; that’s what the reader asked about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z By the third hearing, the reporters had figured this out and they all squished into the same column of seats, leaning into one another to get a glimpse of Richard’s face. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A bullet lodged in his spinal column reduced him to his bed for the rest of his life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Now take a look at the last column, which totals up all the summer gains from first grade to fifth grade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Off in the distance there was another rise; he could see the Reb column withdrawing into a blue west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Back where the press was thickest at the center of the column rode a man armored in dark grey plate over a quilted tunic of blood-red leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The second page was different advice and information columns that kids kept coming up with, like this ques- tion-and-answer column about pets. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z There were three columns of eyes for the hooks spaced evenly from top to bottom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z His foot hooked on something in the air and he hopped again, bounding up an invisible set of steps as Ivan’s water column thundered through where he had just stood. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The train slammed past under a column of dense black smoke. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The columns that held the second floor of our house split in half, and the roof surrendered. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The verdict of the census lay in glum columns and rows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A column of riders moved between the burning buildings toward the holdfast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As a little girl I had sat on Dr. Philobosian’s knee while his fingers climbed my spinal column, counting off the vertebrae. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A cathedral stood next to a line of Roman columns, which stood next to a modern soccer stadium. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was behind a column, peeking around the corner, all his attention focused on the dining area. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Behind the lamassu, more columns sprouted from the ground like ancient trees in a petrified forest, forty feet tall, spindly but still miraculously upright. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He gazed at her from behind a column of smoke. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She was the first one mounted, and she set the pace for the column. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The metal wreath shot past him and embedded in a marble column. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Roy’s mother kept track of the actress’s soaring career in the show business columns, where it was reported that she’d signed a deal to appear in the next Adam Sandler movie. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Tears streamed down my face, tears I didn’t know I had left, and I slid down the column to the ground, burying my head in my hands. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z It looks like some kind of royal palace with its arched entryways and tall columns, and I half expect a robed king and queen to step out along with armored knights. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Most important, a deadly convection column never established itself in the immediate area so a blanket of killing heat and fire did not cover her. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He slammed a stone column out of his way like a stack of building blocks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z By the time darkness halted the column, she was stumbling and yearning for the comforts of her rolling prison. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Marching in orderly columns, their clenched fists raised, workers began to arrive from the industrial belt on the outskirts of the city, singing campaign songs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Certainly one was to send up a beckoning column of smoke; but the other was to be a hearth now and a comfort until they slept. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She was overheard by writer Teresa Dean, who wrote a daily column from the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The wind generated from such a column could reach out hundreds of feet and might attain hurricanelike speeds. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It would be another thing if the column had been about sparrows. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Opening the door as quietly as possible he saw a light was burning between the columns as usual. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I was staring at the steering column, wondering what the hell she was talking about. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Much later, Pascal drew upon Galileo’s work when studying pressures in liquids in order to understand how the air supports a column of mercury in a barometer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was causing the terrain to shift around them - opening new trenches, changing the slope of the land, throwing up new walls and columns. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A giant column of muscle and flesh suddenly leaped upward— ton after ton of flesh suddenly pouring itself skyward in defiance of gravity. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I was stunned by the flood of e-mail and media attention this column and those that followed soon generated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The column crept slowly down the long brick street. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He leaned over, covering the paper so only the first column of words was visible. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The last scroll has columns of Chinese words. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The splendor before us has taken clearer shape now, forming a towering column of white-gold light that seems to stretch into a realm beyond the sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Some shots fell short and landed in the sea, raising great columns of water. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A sports column caught his eye, and squinting, he could read the neatly printed description of a noon- recess touch football game. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z But then I remembered something else: his son had seen him losing ground, sliding back to the rear of the column. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as The Spread Eagle paid her a dollar a column for her ‘rubbish’, as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It comes to a stop and then moves to the far right column. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Six steps—again—and columns on each side of the door and then marble floors once you got inside, which made everything cold and echoey. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z As Malcolm looked, they stepped idly out of the line of columns and talked together. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z If Miss Volker was writing about it for her This Day In History column it might read: On the morning of August 17, Jack Gantos was released from being grounded by his parents. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z By the time I passed the old courthouse, with its large front steps rising to meet the columns near the front doors, I realized I’d been walking down Central Avenue. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The other would take down his words in a column lor that purpose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z South of the Blackwater, Davos saw men dragging crude rafts toward the water while ranks and columns formed up beneath a thousand streaming banners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There was a column of wood-smoke feathering up from the kitchen chimney, a sign that Jenny was already making preparations for a hearty noon meal. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The gathering darkness, the rise and fall of the ground, the giant, silent trees around her like columns supporting the vanishing sky — all of it was familiar. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus in the Torricellian experiment you cannot see the pressure of the air, but the height of the column of mercury is an indicator of that invisible pressure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Finally we got to the bottom of a slope and found ourselves in a large cave with huge stalagmite columns. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z When Elizebeth and her team stacked up the twenty-eight Enigma messages they had in December 1942, they discovered that the first column had far more O’s in it than anything else. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “But—” “Next year,” Diana repeated, “you can put your name in the very first column, if you like.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Each grouping of symbols represented a certain number of stones that had been moved on the abacus, and like each column of the abacus, each grouping had a different value, depending on its position. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A green column of smoke, like a huge python, uncoiled from the mummy’s mouth and slithered down the stairs, curling affectionately around Rachel’s feet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A column of water shot out of the stream, and Ivan yanked his magic threads with the magic metal on the ends of his staff. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I could already see the rows and columns of faces in my class, like a screen of space invaders. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z So I wrote the first in a series of Slash- dot columns we called the “Hellmouth” series. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus copper sits on top of silver and silver sits on top of gold because of their chemical affinities as metals, while helium, neon, and argon are in a column made up of gases. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The columns themselves were the same stone as the walls and mottled with dark splotches. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z |
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