The party was slipping away in sweet sadness, Eddie went out in the office and did a little tap dance and came back and sat down again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why don't you run upstairs, get rid of that jacket, and come back with some of Gramps's whiskey." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Second World War did something to Maycomb: its boys who came back returned with bizarre ideas about making money and an urgency to make up for lost time. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Father Amadi would come back; it had to be what would happen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it is real. The Brotherhood, we call it. You will never learn much more about the Brotherhood than that it exists and that you belong to it. I will come back to that presently.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She came back into the room and sat on the armrest of the couch. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come back, come back, wherever you are,” she whispered. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There would have been nothing to come back to. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd known about it for centuries; part of the initiation of a medicine man involved going through and bringing back a trophy of some kind—though some never came back. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson locks it carefully, even though we all know the Spencers ain't never coming back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And then Billy’s mother came back from the ladies’ room, sat down on a chair between Billy’s and Rosewater’s bed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Edmond would come back to us if he could. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamber- lain came back for one last look around. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have some clean clothes in the hospital, but there’s nothing else I need so much as to be off this island before he comes back.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Only not long after he arrived, Frankie told her he was going to the bathroom, and he never came back. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“And Dumbledore thought he only wanted to come back to try and find something, probably another founder’s object, to make into another Horcrux?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They could hear him moving lumber and boxes about and he came back upstairs with a five-gallon oak keg in his arms. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll be here, and will come back as soon as it’s safe. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the burial is over, Mr. Kreuk pulls away in the hearse after telling me to take a few days off, to come back to work when I feel better. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I guess I felt good about that, but that restless feeling that I had along the river came back strong in a week or two. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But surely your sons will come back to see you.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I said, come back with a search warrant, you want to see what I keep under my bed, but I let 'em have a good look from the door, satisfy 'em you weren't there." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down against the tree and let my breath come back. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But when Baby asked, “Is Ugwu coming back today, Mummy Ola?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she comes back out with my water, I stop thinking about how to say it and just start talking. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“When the new Receiver failed, the memories that she had received were released. They didn’t come back to me. They went...” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Mr. Savo get to his feet and come back up the aisle. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We went along shouting her name, but no sound came back. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her pile of books, was halfway up the aisle when she turned and came back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

That way I can be there for the vigil and come back tomorrow night. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Heroes get hurt. They . . . they die, and the monsters just keep coming back.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I came back as soon as I could,” he said when I let him go. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I leaned the shotgun back in its usual place against the wall and came back to the window. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is the handoff zone," she said, coming back from the second cone. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then the life came back to his eyes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You are very good to say so. I am very tired of this war. If I was away I do not believe I would come back.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then he added, “But I don’t care. You know where the eyas is. You’ll come back and feed her.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The debate over the commercialization of human biological materials always comes back to one fundamental point: like it or not, we live in a market-driven society, and science is part of that market. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Percy tapped his forehead like he wanted the memories to come back faster. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When she takes him to the hospital, she comes back alone. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen and came back after a moment with a small package which she held out to Kit shamefacedly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw Julie sleeping in the easy chair in the living room and it came back to him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Go. It’s only for a little while and then you’ll come back.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The burn was mostly healed, but echoes of the pain came back if she got too close to heat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the first to come back,” he said as he walked up to them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“But to come back to the matter in hand, gentlemen,” he said. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he came back, he looked tired. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, some people believe in the ghosts of people who have come back from the dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bidzikian seemed to nod, but her head didn’t come back up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Well, he wasn’t some kind of a jerk, he said when he came back upstairs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The fact that no searcher had ever come back in two thousand years . . . well, I decided not to think about that. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You dig one plant, leave two plant; dig one, leave two. So plant come back next season. And ask plant permission.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ames often drank alcohol at lunch, came back to the office in a fog, and would sleep at his desk. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At school, they brought in special visitors to talk to the kids that came back. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I said Scout and Jem should be nicer to their mom because she is probably dying of cancer and one day will not be able to come back and fix them breakfast. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, every document he signed came back with a fresh page added for a new signature by him after intervals of from two to ten days. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She comes back to sit on the floor in front of me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was that which she had taken for a clammy hand, a drowned hand come back from the dead to squeeze the life out of her! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He was coming back in three weeks and we would leave for Spain to get in some fishing and go to the fiesta at Pamplona. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We all felt that if anyone could do anything that could help our mother, that might help her get well and come back, it would be Ella. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, ‘We shouldn’t have come back’?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But something keeps Dedd coming back to the night of that fight. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back from delivering them, I asked him, “What’s going on out there, Nelson?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have truly been shocked, because he didn’t even come back with a smart-mouthed comment. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She delivered the message and, as she was coming back out onto the street, caught sight of Lizzie coming out the door of the Supply Depot—her orange hair was unmistakable. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rumor is that Miss Preston's people had gone west to the Minnesota Territory before the war but came back when the undead got the better of them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m not staying here that long. We can tell someone in town and they can take care of it. It could come back any minute.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While I was dressing she’d come back from the bathroom to accuse me from the doorway, “What did you do with the shampoo?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After a visit to Italy in the spring of 1598, when he had an audience with the Pope and visited holy shrines, Ferdinand came back determined to wipe out the Protestant influence in Styria. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

We watched and watched and no one came back, not even that messed-up seagull. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, chile. Far as I knows. They mighta got killed on their journey, but they never came back here, so in my mind, they got to the North safely.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Father came back into the room again and said, “How are you feeling? Can I get you anything?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the same poem, she told him that she was “wishing and waiting and counting the months till you come back to me.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was standing up, but Fang was still on his knees, gasping, when Faith came back, armed with a bottle of water and a paper bag. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Thoughts like having to come back to take care of a sick parent and getting stuck here all over again. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He left the flarepistol and took the revolver with him and he scoured the countryside for anything to eat but he came back emptyhanded. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stay here until Jorge came back to check up on things. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loaf around until the company comes back in the early morning, grey, dirty, soured, and gloomy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried the glasses with me for weeks, until one evening I crushed them underfoot in rage and despair, shattering the glass into splinters, because he wasn’t coming back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“What if Ammu finds us and begs us to come back?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His older brother had gone to Iraq with the air force and had come back in a body bag. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Heard somebody say it curves about, comes back on itself,, but if it didn’t and I got home after dark, I’d get a good whopping. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Shad ever comes back, I’d like for this room to be clean and nice for him.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You come back here. Don’t you walk off when I’m talking to you!” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why did we come back to Afghanistan, then?” asked Mariam, her sticky fingers drumming against the table, the honey tin forgotten. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Washington comes back with a ledger and asks us to make our mark. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Masjid comes back chewing betel leaves, and we start driving again. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the eye, went to the cabinet, came back, and looked at the eye again through an instrument with a light attached to it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then Amara comes back the next time and says, “Give me that crutch. You need to start walking on your own.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Because if you have those thoughts again you know you have to come back here.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The soldiers said Pa would come back in the morning. I guess he’s late. He’s late, that’s all. I know he will return to us.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last postcard arrived two days after we found out she wasn’t coming back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Your parents never came back, did they?” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Fowler came back as I was gathering the cut stalks. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to have good memories, so that maybe he would come back again one day. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s asleep when I come back, and the street below us is brooding. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then the memory of her face came back, and with it a raging, intolerable desire to be alone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But once again, the image of that first swastika comes back to me, and I feel a chill down my spine. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“When you come back, Jack, may I have two words with you all to ourselves?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When they did reappear, they came back as big red disks glowing a few feet in front of us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Commissioner García finally came back to the restaurant and was especially pleased when he heard he could eat his favorite Cuban sandwich for dinner also. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. Falcons and most other birds come back to their old territories year after year,” he said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When the men came back, we would build two more to enclose our courtyard and a third one to begin a second courtyard. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I went even faster then and I got clear of the trees and came back to you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now get out of here, and don’t come back until you’re full to the tips of your ears with magic!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"Can you come back and let me know Kareena's news before your lesson?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I suppose...we should pull her out and lay her down. Sort of treat her with respect. I dunno. But if the shopkeeper came back and found a dead woman in his shop...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If only the war would soon be over and you and Shad could come back here it would be a wonderful happy thing for all of us. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she hears Mami calling, she turns off the hose and comes back in. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Now it would probably be several more weeks before he came back with more supplies. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He stayed in an hour, breaking off every few minutes to come back to me and talk. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear lots of people saying all sorts of things. If he comes back, shall I tell him I’ve seen you and you don’t know him?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“If I come back, it will be a place, but it won’t be home any longer.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Yes, I would run away and never come back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men went after fish, and whenever the boats came back—day or night—the women would be called to process the catch while it was fresh. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nov 18—Mr Donner was very nice when I came back and askd him for my old job at the bakery. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I expected Mom to come back with one of her choice remarks, but she listened to my tirade in silence. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plane crash became a touchstone in Elizebeth’s life, a marker she came back to again and again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was stuck in Alaska, the giant’s home territory, out of contact with his old friends just as his memories were coming back. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I thought she was crazy at first! And then she explained, but you never came back, so we thought you were dead.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At the Mass people go up to the altar and the priest puts something into their mouths.They come back to their seats with their heads down, their mouths moving. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She came back to Down House many times afterward for long visits. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered where Gideon was and when he would come back. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I got home a couple hours ago and my phone was dead and I set it to charge but fell asleep before it came back on.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I remember her coming back to one of our many apartments, with a group of other women, part of her ever-changing circle of friends. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never did anything else in connection with Lloyd’s that I could find out, except come back again. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then he turned and rowed the skiff back home, tucking it up above the wrack line, and coming back inside. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it need another painting if it went there and wanted to come back? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My owl came back with a letter containing one simple sentence: “Tell your husband to refute these allegations about my son once and for all.” Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He’ll come back in a few years with a new suit and fat on his bones like any Yank and a lovely girl with white teeth hangin’ from his arm. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stay for a few minutes, watching and waiting for him to come back, but he doesn’t. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was fading as they came back to the glade where Boromir had fallen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Remember you can come back whenever you want.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because it dawned on me that I had told Joey about the Gatorade bottle when we were on the bus coming back to Pine Mountain from Salem. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He takes the tunnel, and when we come back out and pass the toll plaza he takes the first exit. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, of course, that if she could walk to the moon, she wouldn’t come back. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His senses were coming back and he moaned. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waited until the others gave up on the chase and came back, and then they rode with us to the New York line. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day after they took the test, the results came back: Levy needed to go through the full monthlong pre-GED training. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We all nearly jumped through the roof when the snake-woman voice came back into the room and said, “Joetta, move away from him.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves and comes back with the shiny new bedpan and a roll of toilet paper. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the convent school, I helped the nuns with one last polishing before all the students came back. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the English guy comes back in, his head’s down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He went out to a lawyer one day and came back with some papers and laid them on the table and told me, “Tell your mother to sign these. ” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And,” said Marjory, “from what I’ve heard, he never once came back here until he cooked up his crazy scheme to build a new library in the old bank building as a big publicity stunt.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I hope he’s okay. I hope he comes back.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He slid the card into it and came back to the lab table, where he continued to be completely oblivious to the staring and happily helped me start the lab. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take her out right before I leave at eight thirty. And I’ll come back at lunch to let her out again.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I said a prayer for each of them by name, asking that if any of them got drafted, they would all come back to their homes and families. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the others come back, I tell them how strange he seemed but that he spoke English. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Not at all—but I think we should wait for your mother to come home and talk to her and your father. We’ll come back later.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t come back until you can behave properly. You should be ashamed of yourself, Rhonda, a champion twirler like you.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“We can do this another time, sweetie. We can come back to Puerto Rico.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The collector relayed the message of forgiveness and Sissy came back into the Nolan family again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fish come back, the noise’ll wake me up better than an alarm clock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And even if they did find refuge on Big Thumb, he thought, they'd still have to come back here, eventually. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Why did none of them ever come back? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hovis went into a corner and came back with a needle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They soon grew as fierce as the wild ones and only came back to the village to steal food. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Hold on,” and ran inside the apartment and came back with a bottle of lotion. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Menzer had kept Mom’s office the way it was—waiting, waiting for Mom to come back, just like we were. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Don had been three when his parents had split up, and his coming back into Charlie’s life on a permanent basis wasn’t the simplest of moves. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam wasn’t the only one who escaped, but he was the only one who came back. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At midday, as she had said, she came back. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could think of a lot of horrible reasons to explain why no one had come back. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But since coming back here I don’t feel weightier. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess we need to be going,” Phil said, “but we can come back on Monday, if that’s okay with you?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to have to climb all the way down and come back up. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We returned to the classroom, came back to the same paragraph in a still-opened book. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went into the bar to find some matches, and when he came back she was dipping her dirty finger in the bowl of beaten eggs and licking it greedily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why hasn’t she come back home to see me? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Keep an eye out in case Will comes back here.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My cousins, the neighborhood kids, they’d open the gate and head out and roam free and come back at dusk. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He said she left me and him way before she died. That she’d just come back for her things the day the accident happened.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessica got up and came back with a box of tissues. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The others were a little surprised when Piper came back on a pegasus with two unconscious demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Lancelot will you tell me one other thing? If you should go away, if you should have to leave me—would you be coming back?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was no home, no place to long for or to come back to. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men comes back in from his car with a heavy sack in his arms. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“A girl named Crow. If he comes back.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sookie took off his gloves, went to the wheelhouse, and came back holding an old photograph with faded colors. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I was told to come back in about a week’s time, as my case was not a matter of life and death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bodega looked hard into the old man’s eyes as if he wanted them to look back at him and share his strength, come back to life. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s probably too ashamed to come back,” Hand Clap contributed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it finally sank in that he wasn’t coming back, I lugged my guitar into the music store, where the manager led me to my teacher, a perfectly formed midget named Mister Mancini. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Please ask the house doctor to come back a minute.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But what worried me more was that Blanca might not come back. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She leaves for a second and comes back with two Tylenol and a glass of water. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She came back with more wood just as I was rolling up the last ball. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Piper’s vision cleared, she saw Jason sitting up, still gasping, but the color was coming back to his face. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My old guilt came back to me like a much-missed friend. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It surprised her that he should come back so soon, but then she remembered that he had left a calabash in the cave and might be returning to collect it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Nine times. They brought him back after the first three. Then I stopped reporting it. He’d come back on his own. Heh. Always showing up, like a bad penny.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She left but came back with a glass of water, which she set on the floor next to me because I wouldn’t take it from her. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The radio comes back to life, and the neighbor shrieks with delight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I expected to come back with so much food I’d have to push it one item at a time through the two-brick hole. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He came back up with a jar of peanuts and a double martini in a water glass, which he carried into his room, and shut the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even if the capsule were to shoot off into the air directly overhead and come back down in the same straight line, it would land in a different spot, because Earth had moved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was a funny kind of closeness between her roommates after that night, but even so, Amelia went home the last week of January to visit and didn’t come back. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Max comes back inside and sticks his head in the stove, trying to look up the chimney. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The rest of the throng are those of us hoping and waiting for Kwang to come back. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's waving her arm around, beckoning for me to come back. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering what we’d do if your father didn’t come back.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She popped a lemon chewable in her mouth just as the door flew open and Circe came back in, flanked by two of her business-suited attendants. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, everyone thinks that it’ll go down, now it’s stopped raining, but the rain’s going to come back and the river’s going to flood more than it’s done for years.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I did not see Brett again until she came back from San Sebastian. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She smiled politely through the rest of the service, already knowing she would never come back. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was hardly the same as going off on a business trip and then setting up an automatic text to arrive a week later saying she was never coming back. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After Kalinda, I find it difficult to come back to sitting in complete silence. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And when the waves and the winds smack at them, they spread their wings and skitter around and then they try to come back together again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"So here are your choices. Kill me, or come back with me." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And Dr. Martin too, because of course they need to let Ray know that they’ve come back for him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She grunts and nods, disappears inside for a moment, and comes back with a set of keys and a lit lantern. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She comes back into her room and starts screaming at us that she forgot—forgot about her mom, of course—so she takes the flowers, drives off campus, on her way to—what?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I have to come back to the Renegades because Glenn Burke never got the high five he deserves,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Luke’s mind was still racing with frantic plans when he heard someone coming back to the computer room. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He wants me to come back to the graveyard. To stop school. He thinks it’s too dangerous.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Most of them gone. This dude went a little way after them then stopped,” Peewee said, “He coming back?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you didn’t decide not to come back. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“If I go,” he said, “I will come back.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking that he should probably wait for Filch to come back, Harry sank into a moth-eaten chair next to the desk. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When the gypsies came back, Úrsula had turned the whole population of the village against them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the campfire, everyone kept looking at the stars, as if they expected Leo to come back in some dramatic, last-minute surprise. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

‘Then if he comes back you’ll let him stay here and sponge on you just as long as he pleases—like it was before?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You study it and tell me when I come back.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that they kept coming back.That they are waiting for the missing piece of their family to come back to them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He went to the kitchen, came back with a key. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Charles here and I was waiting for our father to come back from the West, but ...” “Thee’s been alone all winter, just thee two children?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had waited ever since the Queen, Clytemnestra, had come back from Aulis, where she had seen her daughter die. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He came back with a little pile of them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d swing by, place an order, come back, pick it up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“José Arcadio came back a big man, taller than you, and all covered with needlework, but he only brought shame to our house.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He came back after a while full of chilly glow and energy and talk. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line there’d be no coming back from once it was crossed. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came back from home with one on a Sunday night. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, brutally, “And don’t come back till I call you.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Go home,” she says, “and don’t come back to this school. You hear me?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

None of us came back whole, and not all of us came back. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby had come back from her own dressing room clad in a slip so sheer she might as well have stayed naked. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You better get out of here before they come back. Nothing they hate more than trespassers.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Aureliano would escape at dawn and come back early in the morning on the next day, each time more excited by the proof that she had not barred the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then the fat, huge nurse came back in with the gladiolas in this crummy glass vase that looked like they had just dug it up in the backyard. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

While we were waiting for Father to come back from the barbershop Mr. Axelroot put his hands on me hard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I curtsied and hurried out of the room, leaving the door open a crack so I could easily open it when I came back with my hands full. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew, of course, that Deborah had been gunned down, but I still had some vague, inexplicable sense that she would come back one day, as if she had taken a trip somewhere. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You ever think about coming back to Carver?” she asked again. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

While he ate his sandwich and sipped his beer, a bit of conversation came back to him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like all the lights coming back on after an electrical storm. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They could be gone for four or five days, but were hardly mentioned in that time; and when they came back, no one really asked them anything. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dad was coming back because...because...because what? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He escorts me to the door, saying, “Don’t come back.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back he brought the money with him and put it in the box again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I want that one. Get it, or don’t come back.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” he said, “I’ve talked enough now. You can come back here tomorrow morning, but right now you’re coming with me.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t expect he’s stupid enough to come back to the islands, but I’ve seen plenty of stranger and stupider things in my time.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Although perhaps predictable for a little girl who needs her mommy. If you thought coming back here would dissuade me, you were wrong.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Stay here until we come back for you.The men must clean the village of its dead bodies,” he says before he goes off to the village that afternoon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if they lost their mates, they came back to Lorenz. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes that had been on me lifted two by two, and the soldier never came back to finish his personal brand of torment. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I searched many days, going out early in the morning and coming back at night, before I found enough for the house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl ended up staying until my parents came back with the pizza, but then he left. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

After my shower I come back to her bed and lie there, watching TV like a princess. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the night, though, a young medic named Mark Fossie kept coming back to the subject. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only coming back that Frog got a good look at the faces beneath the spiked bronze caps and realized that most were no older than he. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To prove his point he went and shook down the crowd and came back a minute later with a half-dozen inhalers that he dropped on the floor in front of us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“So? Pretties are allowed to come back over here, you know. Or write.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘No!’ answered Frodo, coming back to himself out of darkness, and finding to his surprise that it was not dark, and that out of the window he could see the sunlit garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They could not come back in because they were red. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As I came back around I looked all over for Mitt. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had arrived, and he came back each night wet and freezing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

All the intelligence she had gathered on the Black Tips came back to her in a sickening rush—Oomen, Geels’ shambling enforcer, the one who could crush skulls with his bare hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That afternoon when I came back home, the station wagon was gone, and the Mustang was gone, and the whole house was empty. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But that night he comes back and sends a big rock through the window. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard Robert coming back with the car,” he said to Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her smile came back slowly, but a lot happier. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then one day, he set sail across the Atlantic on some important journey, and he never came back. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Our Christian charity has come back to us sevenfold,” he declared, taking liberty with mathematics, gleefully slapping the thighs of his khaki pants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father’s brother fought in Burma and came back filled with one burning question: How come nobody told him before that the white man was not immortal?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The machine turned abruptly and came back to him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If she had never come back, would anyone here in this house really have cared very much? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When she comes back in she's got two cans of Bud and she pops them both and gives one to Iggy. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the young woman got up, shrieking in terror, Lupita saw Tomás come back up the hill, pumping his arms to run faster. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

No doubt her husband would never come back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said he might”—now I felt guilty for making that promise—“come back to talk about the driveway.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I always knew they would come back and claim me to do some good for somebody. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When I came back, he was taking some old clothes from the buggy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mile or more, and it was some time before they came back, paddling two boats swiftly along the shore. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The British guards know me; they know I will come back. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I have thought of a name,” he said when he came back. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared hard at everything we passed so I could take a picture in my head to remember in case we never came back to Alabama. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“So you got a guilty conscience and came back,” said Teece. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how many you killed, they kept coming back. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Shagrat got away, he would soon get help and come back. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘Well, I wish Frodo would “screw himself up” and come back, and let us get it over,’ said Pippin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But then the image of Grandpop crawling around in the grass and leaves, slapping his hands against the ground, trying to get to Ernie, came back. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Some would go out of fashion, to be forgotten for a year or two, and then come back in vogue. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Joey kept his appointment for our Calculus study group with Megan at the library, and I came back to O-Hall alone and tried to relax in bed. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the morning the hounds came back, disinterested, and the men were too tired to beat the banks properly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We came back again,” they told our mother. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you can sit still for ten minutes and calm down, you can come back here and draw on your pumpkin.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you and Janina go out tonight, I want you to stay on the other side. I want you to run away. Don’t come back. Keep Janina with you. Take her hand.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Then how about coming back tomorrow, pal, and trying it again?” the old man asked hopefully. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had also told her not to come back until she was ready. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our dog, Kingston, raises his ears, but still keeps his distance from the sink, unsure if it might unexpectedly come back to life, but no such luck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He twisted his head towards the door of the living room to observe the women as they came back They had not allowed themselves very much rest and were coming back right away. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

After it was over, no one came back for another hour. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But suddenly, with a flash of joy, he remembered: he didn’t have to wait for the lights to come back on. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know this will someday come back to bite me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Now,” she said, “I am just going to take the shoes down for Robertson Ay to clean. Behave yourselves, please, till I come back.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Go kneel on that ridge there and raise your arms. Stay in that position until I come back from lunch.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I got there early, which I always do when I come back, because I had to load up my pockets with doodads and such for Jason. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Still busy” I came back and told my sisters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going back to town yet. You go on back to the picnic. Tell them I wouldn’t come back because my clothes were spoiled.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came back a moment later and put his head inside the door and said with warning finger held up:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what; you come back next week to get my garbage again, and I’ll buy a poem.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s made him think he’s got to come back!” said Harry, now slamming his fist on the table so that Hedwig landed on the back of Ron’s chair, hooting indignantly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I came back to the apartment after a full day of running back and forth in the markets, and the best I’d been able to get for our money was kasha. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She answered it and talked for a while, and when she came back out, the look on her face told me something good was about to happen. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But instead of coming back with another defense, his face constricts, his eyes take on a shiny squint, and tears begin to seep out, his body giving way to hopelessness. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have slept any more than he had—he’d heard her leave for the barn in the middle of the night, and she hadn’t come back until nearly dawn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But I came back. Because, in the end, I think he would have wanted you to know. I believe that. I’m so sorry. I wish . . .” Laila wasn’t listening anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If he came back and found you were gone, he might have left a trail that we could pick up.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t come back last night. How did you find the flat?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One by one, everyone came back from lunch recess. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hazel wished he’d come back and protect her from her mother, maybe use his powers to get rid of that awful Voice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Something his father had told him onte when he was little came back to him suddenly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of the week they worked at the tannery, going there soon after daybreak and not coming back until it was dark. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they left and Henry came back, and Mami’s smile closed down again. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Always Tom came back to the ranch, puzzled, not critical, but feeling that somewhere he had lost track. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Renzo gave him such an ominous look that it immediately came back to him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sir Aglovale came back to the King, as he was going up to bed after the usual condolences and exclamations had been made. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother said, “You know, I have a few errands in the city myself. Would that make things easier? If I drove you and dropped you off and came back to get you?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as his head cleared and his strength came back, he was the captain again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he did this when the moon was big, and he came back in the morning, but that night there was no moon and he did not return. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Told me to go after her. But I came back at night and got her.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’d left three loaded rockets, Auks VI, VII, and VIII, to cure in the basement while we were on vacation and decided to fire all three the Saturday after we came back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Carmen’s mind was clearing; it was all slowly coming back to her. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Still, I keep my gun up by my face, in case they decide to come back. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the day he left, his last words were, “When my son is of age, he will come back to claim his bride.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He died as an Englishman, and came back to life as a Powhatan man.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“No, I know that, but someone here could teach me English when I come back from the fields.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t come back for a long time. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She needed to stop smoking, take her medications, walk for exercise, come back in a month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She came back with a box of pancake mix, eggs, and a small carton of milk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell you much about where I am—the censors turn most letters into Swiss cheese as it is—but I hope I can come back someday. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Only then did the scythe’s warning come back to him: that he would receive no kindness for what he had done for Kohl. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Pasqual’s relations started a slow applause and soft whistles as Joseph came back to our truck. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He tells me he just got off the phone with my principal, who will let me come back to school tomorrow—as if this is something that should make me grateful. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She never came back, and they got Ethel in her place. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It does begin to come back,” said the Horse thoughtfully. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And instantly there came back the words the harpies had thrown at him—taunts about his mother—and he stopped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I always hoped they’d come back for us someday,” I told him. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

His father and mother had insisted that he go to a counselor when he first came back, and more to humor them than anything else he went, but it didn’t help. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The commercial bull-fighters stayed once, perhaps, and then did not come back. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Grandpa came back and set Little Ann up on the counter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one hand, I missed Gran so much, I wished she would come back and things would return to the way they were before she died. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She stares at him for a few seconds that feel like eternities, then blinks a few times and seems to come back to herself. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I bet you didn’t think I’d come back. But here I am. I come to save you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

About how the town seemed to have come back to life. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She ran around the side of her house and came back rolling a ratty pink bike. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We finished the packing while Uncle supervised us, and by the time we had the last wagonload ready, Hand Clap had come back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point he noticed me, and said sharply, “Waiter, come back here, I didn’t say you could leave.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night that she burned the wreath’s last leaf, she did not come back from that dream world. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about how she and her family sort of fell apart, but came back together again. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Then you can come back to the fire. Hush, now.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to brush her hair away from her face and my hand came back sticky with blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lee came back to the living room and closed the door to the hall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for what seemed like a long time before I decided it was possible Mom and Dad might not come back for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad must have heard me breathe different ’cause he looked down at me and said, “Well, well, well, look who’s decided to come back to life!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up straight, my brain coming back from its tangent. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I kept coming back to this one to photograph the empty pews. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I was sorry to hear you wouldn’t be coming back to Beecher Prep. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she could live here when she comes back,” I said, and in saying it I realized what a fantastically great idea it was. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘Go away and come back in five minutes!’ she cried, and I shot out of the room like a bullet. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go and play your tennis and don’t come back here.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And she would be right because only a few minutes later Henry comes back in and says he's going to help me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to express his approval, and then came back with another. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Others trying to come back to the city had been beaten, robbed, murdered on the way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Pima went away and came back a little while later with a pot of rice and beans and then surprised Nailer again with a stick of grilled pigeon. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s jaw drops, but before she has a chance to respond, the cops come back. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I swallowed and said, “I wanted to find out more about the nursery. Luis said to come back sometime, so I did.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he came back to his men, panting, his face flushed, still grinning, not in the least ashamed of his boyish behavior. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that now, as I quickly try to sketch my early years, what comes back most clearly is just that: the brown orb of my father’s sleepy, bearish eye. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He would say, Come back to the house, come back, come back: this time I will leave you to yourself. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“They don’t search the inside of the truck until the driver comes back out,” Bushra says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

His breath coming back to him, each new lungful of air a gift of infinite price, Ben rose to one knee and watched the fight with eyes that were clouded with pain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They won’t be long coming back, you know, Hazel,” he said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only he and Leah got on, and didn’t take anything because they are coming back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to get pictures of Limerick stuck in my head in case I never come back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If Sirius came back and got caught, it would be his, Harry’s, fault. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You were right,” she said, “when you guessed I came back from the Underworld. I’m... I’m an escapee. I shouldn’t be alive.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But how will he come back to the world now? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breath went away, like the ball—a terrible stillness pervaded him—and then, at the onset of panic, his breath came back again. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can come back tomorrow after school to visit him.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they are fine. The lines will come back up soon. It’s just for security.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kin disappeared behind his forge for a moment, then came back with a long staff. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I just meant that it’s strange, that’s all,” she continued as Maya came back, holding napkins under her arm and a bunch of tiny paper cups filled with condiments in her hands. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Terror comes back; I smell vomit and bleach. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bors had managed to find him at an abbey, during his two days’ absence, and now he came back in the nick of time to fight Sir Mador for the Queen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I gave him the little spyglass I’d carried with me all the while I’d waited for the Shearwater to come back. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes Frank came back again into the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Over the weeks, my dad’s memory returned, and his personality started to come back too. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It takes me a minute to remember how to open it, but once I find the right corner to start with, the rest comes back easily. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If I don’t escape before they come back, I’ll be trapped in this frigid room all night. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“So you decided to come back after all, did you?” her stepmother said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like I hadn’t existed while the door was closed, and now I’d magically come back to life. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I am but I’m coming back,” his father said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was certain this would finally be the time that Papa and Mother would come back together, and we would be a family all under one roof again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was one of the first people they allowed to come back. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She wouldn't even think it was better before Daddy came back. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She comes back with a Sharpie and a postcard mailer for a Christmas tree lot. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Long as they think they hear everything, they won't come back. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And come back and find the house in ruins?” she snarled. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Let’s wait and see if he comes back.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After his wife came back, that was his excuse: on Sundays he drove into Boston and went running along the Charles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When all was arranged he came back home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He runs to the kitchen and comes back with a broom. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

His routine was to fly out to his mystery destination on Thursdays, come back Mondays, and come to our house on Tuesdays. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It just seems to have turned off and won’t come back on.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Kanei came back and sat with us on the stools that were provided for the funeral service, which only we attended, along with the man on whose verandah Saidu had left us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mom told her just to wait, that it would come back on eventually. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The three of us stood together, not saying a word, and then the guard came back in. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nothing was taken, but if these students are ever found, believe me and God, they will not be coming back to this school. Do you hear me?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most folks took no more notice of me than they would a cartman selling oysters or a vagabond from Canvastown. just as I set my mind to leave, Captain Farrar came back out. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back that evening, I pretended I was taking a siesta. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that his father would never come back now that he had found that he liked the other place to which he had gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And when they don't come back, the nation owes them something. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I appreciate your coming back for us, okay? That was really brave.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I hear him walk to his bedroom, then come back out. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Kevin, you can’t come back all at once any more than you can leave all at once. It takes time. After a while, though, things will fall into place.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

So I decided I better go get that chicken before Dad comes back and Mom remembers what she agreed to. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Go put on what you’ve got, then come back down to the library.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the kids go blurry when I make the switch from one chair to the other, but once I sit down they start to come back into focus. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

And I’m so frightened that none of them will ever come back out again that it leaves me sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And for a while there, once I realized you weren’t coming back, I hated you even though I thought you were dead. No, because of that. And I hated...” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as Papi is out the door, Mami comes back lugging a bucket of water and a large basin and towels. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I kept wondering where Sergeant Bickle had gone and when he was coming back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I hardly had time to pull my boxers down and sit, and that’s when it all came back to me, and I remembered Mrs. Singer’s cursing me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe Papa Legba will appear at the same corner again, telling me to come back and make another turn, or enter that house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Five hours had passed since they came back from the park. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Good idea,” said Frankie, who ran to her room and came back with paper and pencil. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When my breath comes back, I tell Max about the soldiers and about Januka, who might be dead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I came back to the Hab, had some lunch, and worked on my crops for the rest of the sol. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our cedulas are stamped when we come back through the gates. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant came back and took away Shadow’s beer, half-finished. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When Plum was three years old, BoyBoy came back to town and paid her a visit. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He came back out, his face a cloud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When she came back, my father’s wife handed me a tall glass of something that smelled as though it had rum in it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Hurriedly unloading their passengers on the decks of the gunboats, they came back and got more. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would come back to the bank he had just left, or he would cross over to the other side. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come back and set it on the tile and back away. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys used the squad car to go to Jimmy Brucia’s for more wine and Jimmy came back with them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you promised her you wouldn’t come back here. I thought you had more sense than that.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a different route, too, maybe to avoid running into James as much as to avoid those men if they were to come back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then he saw Peggy coming back down the stairs, much slower than she had gone up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben of the Builders, you’ve been sentenced to Banishment for the attempted murder of Thomas the Newbie. The Keepers have spoken, and their word ain’t changing. And you ain’t coming back. Ever.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He came back and carefully made us each a flute with the tip of his penknife. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Sunday school verse came back to me: They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The visit to Dessie might carry its charge into two days more before it petered out and the little headaches came back and business was not so good as last year. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sierra, come back,” María called, but her voice sounded empty. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When he saw the dead land outside, he would turn and come back; he could not go farther without his plastic suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’d crawl out, renew his LED paint, and then come back when he could see what was what. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

—CO, can you call to see why my laundry bag didn’t come back? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you call her? She would have come back.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went inside the kitchen for the water bucket, and then came back outside to the pump. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when I was eight, I left to live with my dad in America; ever since then, coming back to spend summers with my mom meant descending into the muggy and dangerous back of nowhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Garret Charles comes back, and when I turn to see him enter, I catch sight of the clock. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rufus came back, came to the house carrying the dark little girl and leading the boy who seemed to look even more like him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ina sour, foggy flash the whole nightmare came back to me: being followed, the fear, the anger, the rat-faced kid, the beating. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He came back with a small wicker basket. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Since coming back from Duke, I’d been treated like an afterthought; now all of the coaches saw real potential in me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I say, “And who knows when they’re coming back? There’s been nothing said about that. I don’t want him to be lonely.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

No, what I should do is get these three dogs back to the building, and then come back out to find Ziggy by myself. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And thus it wasn't coming back in as a liquid in need of heating. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you coming back without an adult, you hear me?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Pairs was my favorite because it meant getting to bowl your first two bowls, swap with the skip while they bowled two of theirs, and then come back and bowl another two of yours. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I think Mom is crazy—until forty minutes later when the lady comes back. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My papers always came back looking as though she had poured red ink on them. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

If only he doesn’t come back demanding to see the Annex. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But when we came back to school after winter break, it was all forgotten. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s your father, sir. Artemis Senior. Madam Fowl says he’s come back!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He just left home and never came back. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will be more than three weeks before everyone comes back and the pool is reopened and I feel that plunge, that rush. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But I knew she wasn’t even thinking about not coming back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I went to get you a drink, but when I came back over, you were being entertained," I said. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Ah!” said Mr. Corcoran, who had come back with the beers; he had them all clasped together in his hands, very clumsily, without a tray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mr. Van Texel said people were going to think it had stopped raining, but the rain was going to come back and there was going to be a big flood.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He came back with a liqueur glass on a silver salver. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All his childish games came back to him, with himself and his father rescuing each other from avalanches or fighting pirates. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You—you came back,” Ophie said, unable to keep the excitement from her voice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone in town had visited at one point and didn’t feel the need to come back. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For she always comes back the next day, and so does he. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back from Lone Pine he was drunk, on the first real whiskey he had tasted in years. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash had been sent up to bed, but she had come back downstairs to ask her mother a question, and when she heard her father’s voice, she hesitated in the hall outside the parlor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened again, and the doctor came back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Zero’s words come back to me, suspended in the air between us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she says, “We just don’t want anything coming back to us or to you, Uncle Q.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he came back he had a strip of blue-and-white cardboard in his teeth. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Is she all right?” she asked, turning as the doctor came back into the room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve had rumors of Voldemort coming back from the Daily Prophet once a year every year— HARRY: None of those rumors came from me! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“I switched electives when I came back from winter break. I’m in band now.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But then Mama's mind came back to the fact she had dinner guests. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It’s so easy to believe the nurses might come back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Often on those walks home from school, I daydreamed that we were a family again—that Daddy finished school to make Mother happy and she canceled the divorce to let him come back home. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed money if I wanted to come back in the spring, and I couldn’t very well work if I was gallivanting around with Francis. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Frank’s voice came back to him: I freaked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I jogged to my backpack by the door and came back with a pen and a notebook and wrote down the names of all the advertised subdivisions. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a while, Dad opened the storm door to come back inside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama said the baby looks like her mother. It is her mother come back.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Trotter is not going to press charges. She wants you to come back.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The scene came back to me today on the way home. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That information, coming back to Spain from Columbus’s voyages and from Cortes’s conquest of Mexico, sent Spaniards pouring into the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sends Grace upstairs to search for another hat, and Grace comes back down with an old one of dark-blue velvet with an elastic under the chin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He came back to New York reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and saying, "I am given up, Mami! It is no hope for the Island. I will become un dominican-york." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The next morning Mario came back to the newsstand with his father. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came back, though, and marched with the strikers for a couple of hours. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“A woman who came back from São Tomé had some good children’s clothes for sale.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then they realized what was going on and came back up to huddle around him in an official-looking cluster. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She kept saying no, but she always let me come back the next day. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even come back for lunch at noon. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I was waiting for Mom to come back with my stuff all morning!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“If I have to warn you again, you’re out of here and you’re not going to be allowed to come back.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Late that evening I saw him coming back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Rabscuttle came back, he helped El-ahrairah to disguise his horrible, maimed head with two dock leaves in place of ears, and after a while they slept. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t tell me she wants to come back to this farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was near midnight when the buck-toothed boy came back from Reynolds, panting down from a lathered horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When we all come back from our school trip, this will be your home. It’s big enough for you to get some exercise and catch your own food.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And then she closed up and her control came back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But as I got closer, I saw that Raymond’s man had come back. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

When she ran her hand along the wall it came back coated in cool white dust. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He comes back a few minutes later with his sweater on but nothing but bare skin underneath. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What good kids they are,” she complimented Mami when we came back. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The way you miss things you don’t know how to be without, but you know they’re never coming back. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When it had gone, the fear Malcolm had been holding down since he stabbed Bonneville came back, and he had to lean forward and be sick. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We can come back later if—” Malcolm began, but she shook her head firmly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed there while we were out on patrol, and he was always waiting for us when we came back, a big smile on his face. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea how long she’d stay out there, but when she came back, it wouldn’t be to a cold, dark cabin. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Questions about Grandpa Sweetwine—he left when Grandma was pregnant with Dad and never came back—go unanswered like they did when she was alive. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I have never thought that plan was a good idea, but I knew that we could come back from it, because the Erudite still know the relevant information, even if they don’t have their data. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then after about two months they all came back again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she came back to the little house to lie down before she went over to the café to eat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

If I am lucky, when the war is over and I come back here for good. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt good to connect with someone, even though Uncle Moshe’s words came back to me again: You have no name, no personality, no family, no friends. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But she came back for him, and she held him very close. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how often Mother tried to reassure him, he came back to the same lament. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, what little we say to one another often comes back in another guise. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I said, that scene came back to me today. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’d keep the ranch in case we want to come back.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I do not. I’ve hoped and prayed and dreamed about it for years. But I don’t think she’ll ever come back.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once he began walking, his strength came back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Judith, venturing outside as far as the well, came back, her cheeks glowing, with bits of feathery white clinging to her cloak and to her dark curls. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

While I waited for Mrs. Lynch to come back, I spun the postcard rack. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When he came back out, Radar had made himself right at home and was stretched out across the big lounge chair in the living room. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He said it was a hymn, then ran from the living room and came back carrying a soft blue Bible with large gold lettering across its front. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Even if you kill her,” Hazel said, “she’ll just come back. As long as Thanatos is chained, she won’t stay dead.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A few moments later Tia came back out with two boxes. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

‘Yes, it all comes back to me now,’ said Frodo: ‘the tremendous roaring. I thought I was drowning, with my friends and enemies and all. But now we are safe!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the car until the air was still again, and the pheasants came back. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We passed carts and wagons of every size and description—full ones on their way into the city, empty ones coming back. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Baby had walked to the front door to look out, asking Ugwu when Mummy Ola would come back, and then cried out at the crumpled form on the steps. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Will came back downstairs, she was standing with his breakfast wrapped in foil. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Snowstorms on January the twelfth: there was no need to come back to report that! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My family never came back, and neither did Mr. and Mrs. Klein. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger was gone for an excruciatingly long time, and when he came back he was closing a switchblade. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I waited, and when he came back, he was wearing—I’m not lying—a flight jacket! Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I can look after myself; but first the bloom must come back.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left her, saying that his master the mage expected him at home, and he did not come back to the meadow the next day. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It seems Principal Wertz called my mother when I failed to come back for the rest of third period, or show up for my fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-period classes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was copying it again, trying at different writing styles, when he came back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we came back with the stones and pots of water, she unloaded garlic and carrots and potatoes and turnips and chuck beef and tomatoes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When her mother came back inside, Ifemelu backed away, but her mother hugged her close. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Around ten or eleven, the drivers would start coming back from their morning routes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Boomer is on Gram’s bed, and I think he has finally given up on her coming back again, because he doesn’t cry when he sees that it’s me and not her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If he doesn’t come back soon, I’m going to start tossing eggs,” said Enoch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’d want to come back as a cow,” said Mini loftily. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I said to her, “Mama, I’m going back after Old Yeller. I promised him I’d come back, and that’s what I aim to do.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dont remember how the party was over but they asked me to go around the corner to see if it was raining and when I came back there was no one their. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the undertaker came back with the deed, Katie, remembering something her mother had said fourteen years ago read it slowly and carefully. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came back out a few seconds later with a silver pistol in his hand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish she’d just told her I was out and to come back later, but Emilika might have tried to come in anyway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The others were peppering her with questions—questions she couldn’t answer because her moths hadn’t yet come back to her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He think if he down to the gate, Miss Caddy come back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had one of her own to tell, of a woman who pad- died away with her lover one night in a pirogue and never came back. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wait here. I’ll follow him. Keep low and stay quiet—someone will come back for you.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“We have to protect ourselves. Extra security measures take time. You can come back tomorrow night, and we can exchange half of your notes.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every two minutes, the screen turns itself off and I push the button to make the picture come back. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He told me he would come back when things cooled down a little. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And no one was surprised when he came back smiling—which you can understand. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You come back quick as you can, you hear me?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back up the bank, he pushed the barrier aside, got in the car, and started it up. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, turn now and come back, look back and see the smoke and turn for me But it kept moving away until he could not hear it even in his imagination, in his soul. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the cold came back, I would steal another pair. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

For the second time she sounded like she’d been underwater and had come back up just afore her lungs were ’bout to bust. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

On Midsummer’s Eve, which was a Saturday, Mr. Jones went into Wil- lingdon and got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

When she had come back home, social conversation was impossible for her because she could not lie. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mom came back wearing sweatpants and started washing the dishes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A few days later he came back all by himself and told my nurse he had to see me right away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

This time they come back red with blood. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Noodle comes back early, an hour before the end of my shift. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

People who work in these areas do not come back to the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if Stick came back while I was gone? The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Mama comes back to the car, she slams her door, starts the engine, and speeds toward the exit, right in front of the cop. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“That kind of poison would probably keep even me from coming back to life... for a long time, at least. My essence would be scattered and degraded. So I’m risking quite a lot.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

So, to humor him, I said, ‘Well, then. You must hide your eyes and count to ten and she’ll come back.’ The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Stepping onto the stage of the empty auditorium, it was hard to tell if they’d come back to the right day, year, or century. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Porter walked out of class and didn’t come back for a week. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

‘Dearest, I told you I would come back. Those were my last words to you. Don’t you remember?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Now he felt himself coming back to life—but all he could feel was seething anger. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"You can leave now and never come back. Maybe someday you will find some courage." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Stanley comes back in and motions for me to leave the office with her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, God, must we talk about it when we were feeling happy because you had come back? I suppose we must.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches. He says will it come back tonight?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me she had come back to school in the fall looking pale and thin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and went to the kitchen, came back with a glass of water. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“She will come back,” he thought, “as she has done before, and she had better bring something I like if she wants me to eat it.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She never did realize that whenever she sent me anywhere with Leah, such as to the creek that day to carry water, it would mean coming back alone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert was convinced that she was just confused and would eventually come back to him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I give the special knock when I come back from the market, and when the chair scrapes away and Helena opens the door, she’s bouncing on her toes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Those who were not chased away came back blowing their breath in front of themselves like proud smokers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You may look and then you must go and not come back. I cannot have you in my shop every day mooning over what you have lost.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I think about how Arthur and I talked about the universe, and he comes back into focus. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When your eye is better, you will come back. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Begging for her son to come back to her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t I stay with Andrius or insist he come back with us? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Because if my da comes back, he probably won’t let us.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I pushed him away—every time he came back to me, I pushed again—until finally he left. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“If they come back again to find us,” said Spurge, “we will be gone. Flying through the air.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“You never came back online over the weekend,” he said. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was sneaky and bad enough to buy the candy and come back pretending it was a free gift. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when I came back from spring break two weeks late, with a Yazdi tan, the rumors were already swirling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My feet were numb from being tied, and were just coming back to painful life. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So, um. What was the real reason you guys came back to the States? Your mom was acting sort of weird about it.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“But why didn’t he want to come see me? Even when he came back this time, he didn’t come to see me.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Shortly after I came back, we stood up, and Elijah entered. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Then, whining, he turned and crawled back to solid ground, tail between his legs, and commenced begging me to come back, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I knew Yakov was never coming back to life, but a part of me felt so happy just seeing him here, as he had been. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Time to go. Hope I can come back another day.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The pain came back to me in pieces. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If that happened, he was expected to leave his two buddies in lunar orbit, and come back to earth by himself. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I turned to come back she was out of sight behind the desk. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice didn’t come back in that house till supper time. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone away ordinary and come back miraculous, like the ancient magicians who came down from the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilson came back with a duffel bag and stuffed in the scrapbook, the kimono, the sheet music, and finally the bamboo flute. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They also began teaching “space” courses, and they invited me to come back to the school to take some of them. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a Buddhist and believed in the laws of karma, so it made sense to him that he might pay for his war murders: everything comes back to you, nothing is accidental. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Baba came back to the house; Ali followed Hassan to their hut. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I came back to look. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Allie came back and asked Uncle if it was okay for me to go with him to a local soccer match. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My taste buds might be coming back, but my colors aren’t. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You better be saving me, Beyonce, or I swear I will come back like one of those too-much-eyeliner ghosts in a Japanese movie and haunt you forever!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dad came back inside, fussing about pranks, but he never once said he heard anyone calling. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Corn was sprouting up in some places, and grass was coming back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Then leave the dog and come back tonight.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was why he kept coming back to the lobby with the gurgling fountain. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And on the next day, when he came back, we smelled opium’s strange, sweet smell—like roasted peanuts—clinging to Black Dog’s clothes, and we knew where he had been. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run away, to hide, to run and never come back, never see anyone again. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother wasn’t keen on fishing, but she was always happy when we’d come back with a cooler full of snappers. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The police waited, knocked, waited again, talked into their walkie-talkies, knocked again, disappeared, came back, knocked again, and then started calling out things like: “He better be in there when this door opens, doc.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I put one foot on the seat of the chair, and my second foot leaves the floor just as Ma comes back into the kitchen. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t reckon on coming back,” she said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He nodded happily and said, “Thank you father,” then came back to sit down. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he’d just come back from France, or Japan, sleepless with ideas, only to find that he’d been engaged to some sweet country miss? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if he doesn’t come back, he said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No, son, Gramma’s not coming back, not till the good Lord brings her home to us.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Two bodies fell to the bottom, and they did not come back up.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They put on their green rings and came back to the pool. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Until the day the Terrible Things came back. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I go up, will I ever come back down! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They kicked snow over the fire and went on through the trees and circled and came back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And when we turn the corner into the elevator bank, there’s Jordan Rylance, coming back to the studio with his mom in her awful faux-leopard coat. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When he came back, I started to count, with Sherman on the phone to Quentin keeping up with me, “Ten—nine—eight—seven...” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they came back, they told us that they had learned, in exchange for a gold watch, that this was the final destination. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But could you stay here, in case he comes back?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The angel never forgets the babies and comes back to make sure the baby is happy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It remained unchanged, waiting for him to come back. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“When you come back you can name your salary,” he said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I bit my lip, determined not to speak until Gaskill came back into the room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t want to come back in our next lives as dogs because we felt no shame.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then they take us away one by one and that’s all we know. No one comes back,” said the redhead. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the dream he had remembered his last glimpse of his mother, and within a few moments of waking the cluster of small events surrounding it had all come back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“If you are lying to me,” said Gwydion, “I shall soon find out. Then I will surely come back with wrath.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We told him we would come back again to visit him, but I knew we could never return to that house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Where were the men who’d come back, who’d laughed and eaten and fought alongside their buddies in Vietnam, mourned them in death? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Come with me, Gabe. You can come back to my house and get cleaned up there. Kira will give us some supper and we can talk. There’s something important I need to tell you.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Olanna felt less of a visitor in the house when Odenigbo came back; he pulled her forcefully, kissed her, pressed her to him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Noted. Planning for a future. Admittedly inconsistent with suicide. So then she comes back into her room screaming about forgetting something. And then her headlong race comes to its end. So no answers, really.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe just a few of you could come back,” I suggested. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Minho spotted a Griever disappearing around a corner ahead of them; and it didn’t come back. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Chilled and tired, she came back down to the spruce tree near the lodge to wait for the ice storm to pass. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Levi comes back with a roll of paper towels to mop up the mess. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He left it running for a few minutes, went into the house, then came back out and went into the garage again. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Unless our murderer figured to himself that he had not accomplished his job properly and came back to make quite sure; but that is manifestly absurd! Anything else?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘At the very latest I shall come back for the farewell party. I think after all you may need my company on the Road.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was what Venus found when she came back, and very angry she was to see it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I just thought perhaps you were...well, reluctant to come back and face her." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our friend and his family did not come back. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He’d seen that before, too, on the steps of Dawit’s store, when she had to explain to him that his father wasn’t coming back. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If I really hated it, I could always come back to The Children’s Home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When I came back Mr. Swales went on:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And finally I can remember coming back to the rig and pouring rolled barley into the leather feedbag and bucking it over the horse’s head behind the ears. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I staggered to the kitchen and put it down, then came back into the room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing was that once you went in, you couldn’t leave and come back. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“His uniform hasn’t come back from the laundry yet.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then the light came back and someone was saying “Look at his face,” and his father was smiling and looking down, and his hands were opening like a flower. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

Aravis went a few steps away into the wood and came back looking odd in her new, ragged clothes and carrying her real ones in a bundle. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

After a time, in the dreadful silence and loneliness of the tiny cell, he began suddenly to wish Eilonwy would come back. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, but you have to come back next time. Sit down. Wait for Aisha. She will finish soon.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And if you don’t want Mary to come back in here and turn you inside out, I suggest you make dust.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have a fine home for you when you come back.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He risked the whipping post to come back and help me. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“George wouldn’t do nothing like that. I been with George a long a time. He’ll come back tonight—” But the doubt was too much for him. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny came back and delicately set the bottle on the bar between us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accompanied by a plague of robins, Sula came back to Medallion. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew it was six-thirty, and the crew was coming back in. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the Easter Term began and every weekday I went to school and everything seemed to have come back to normal again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

This is him as a boy, waiting every day for his brother to come back, falling asleep every night to the same nightmare, trapped forever wondering if he had only done one thing, anything, differently. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, and, coming back, sat down in her place. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And when none of them came back with improvements, I was grounded. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She came back to her duties just as I finally spotted a purple glitter pen and was retrieving it from the mound of treasures. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

"No, but she looked upset. I figured she'd had bad news about one of her sons. Do you want to wait in my house until she comes back?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You came back to the team, you’re playing well—and we all support you. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the spasm of sickness was over, he came back to lean against a pillar. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he’s polishing the car when I set out for the shopping, or when I come back, and if his hat is on askew or not on at all, then I go. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You would know if you had come back to check on me,” I said spitefully, “like you said you would.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His problem sets started to come back red. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would wait for her, and she would come back to him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And please don’t make such a racket. I told you I was coming back. Oh, there’s my bauble...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t lying about blocking my Hebrew education from memory, but it’s amazing how fast it comes back. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Between the second and third bedrooms, I go downstairs to Miss Celia’s room before she comes back. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“But where will you go if you don’t come back to school?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I wipe away the blood with toilet paper and pray it won’t come back, but it keeps coming, and for days I’m running to the bathroom to wipe more away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We see them all gathered together when we come back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then she took me over to the security desk, where I waited until she went back up the elevator and, after about five minutes, came back down again. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“No. Them’s the folks that waited. They waited until General George came back. Knew it would be safe then, the fever gone.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge thought Emily would come back with something snotty, but she just nodded, dragged a third little chair from next to Evan’s bookshelf, and sat down, her knees bumping the table. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Part of me was angry at Liz for lying, part of me wanted her to come back, and the other part just wanted the magic square book. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. I didn’t know you had company. I can come back another time.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"You will come back, though. When your warring's done, you'll pass this way again." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it’s also really awesome seeing our dads hug and Pa telling Mr. Seuss that they have to come back over soon since they never got around to drinking the wine they brought over. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

At least I could come back to the one thing in my life that had always been a constant: fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Once Darryl was out of earshot, Jimmy said, “Go wait in the car. Once they’re gone, come back in. We need to talk.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When Captain Smith comes back to us, he is crazed with pain, moaning in a delirium. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was too, but mostly because Mr. Gregory had promised that if I stayed on as understudy, he would find another actor—actress—to play Helen Burns until Lil came back. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“So you are coming back, then? You’re not going to decide to stay on that island out in the ocean with your what’s-it bird?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She let go of my ear and called out: “Paine! You come back here right this second!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Did Pilate tell you why she came back here?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oksi chased a group, missed them all, looped, and came back to the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. The people who did this are shameless cowards. They won’t dare to come back. And even if they try, we are working with the police to set up additional security.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But as I walked away from the district headquarters parking lot, I decided I would come back and see him again. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And there he remained so long saying, “Astonishing” at intervals, so often, that I began to think his senses were never coming back. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't know if he could make it until the trashman came back. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The boy had felt so uneasy on his way home that he had come back to the cave. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Whenever he felt the sharp pangs of homesickness he had come back here to his old enemies, where he didn’t feel quite so out of place. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Doctor Baker came back into the room with a large book and a file-case in his hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A squirrel ran past the door, which stood half open, then came back and glanced in, and ran off again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Chris comes back down, and we laugh and hug and kiss. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A passing waiter noticed that his glass was empty and came back with the gin bottle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I was kind of bummed the feeling in them was now coming back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I do but you can come back at the end of the war and we can all go to America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We were in bed the night Mom and Dad came back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His legs trembled as it continued, then he came back to me and lifted his arms to be picked up, murping. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Trace came back in then, and said he was going to sit outside awhile. She said, ‘No, Joe. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let go of the words and wonder what words will come back. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Look...I don’t know. But you shouldn’t go. People who go looking for her don’t come back.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Was it going to be a house or a garden or an orchard; were they driven away forever or are they coming back? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know he has his orders, but I’m sad he hasn’t come back. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think they’ll come back here. But in case they do, we’d better put some rocks and things in the doors. Are you too tired?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t written down anywhere how to respond to a thing like that. I tole Dee, I said, ‘You needed to get away for a while, and then you come back.’ Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to need you to come back for fine-tuning like you did before,” Hank tells me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

After Kayode came back from a trip to Switzerland with his parents, Emenike had bent down to caress Kayode s shoes, saying “I want to touch them because they have touched snow.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And in those seven years, how many times have we had a conversation about girls that didn’t come back around to Jupiter?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

SNAPE: But we came back to the wrong place—we are outside. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

But a person can only keep reality—and anger—at bay for so long before the truth comes back again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, and don’t you come back!” the bald man hollered, shaking a fist. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fear came back to her then, with her brother's words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"I'll never forget how you came up those dark steps. Alone. At night. Scared. You conquered your fear. You worked hard. You almost quit once, and then you came back and worked harder." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He never did come back in, did he?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once, Minerva came back from one of the interrogation sessions laughing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say that. I am glad to see you. I’ve been expecting you. I didn’t know when, but I knew someday you’d come back. Ever since I read that you had run away in Chicago.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She went into the bedroom and came back with a small Bible, worn and scuffed, its cover held on by brown paper and glue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan looked at the man’s outstretched hand, but even now Goddard’s words came back to him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Still, it’s amazing how easily it comes back to mind, this corny and falsely gay sexual banter. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to go patch the hole in her barn and do some chores quickly so that by the time Ivan’s papa came back, she’d be free for the day. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Lost the opener but came back to win the nightcap.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Muhammad disappears into Mom’s room and comes back out holding car keys. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But the next night, the girl came back to life with more screams, more beating, her life once more in peril. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy ground peeled away underneath my feet, and air came back into my lungs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Every day we told each other that the dragon queen was coming back.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

The cop and my parents talked in the driveway for a while, and then the cop drove off only to come back an hour later with a man who introduced himself as a sketch artist. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Annabeth herself had just come back from the eternal abyss of Tartarus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Valentine started the Dodge and turned it around in the parking lot, then drove over the bridge and kept going without any apparent intention of coming back, even though it was Buck’s car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Juanita came back into the room, looking more like herself again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Grandpop tugged the tip of his nose as Genie came back into the kitchen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I want him to come back with me now.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When she came back with a plastic tray—her turkey sandwich and his veggie wrap lying beside two bags of baked unsalted chips—his head was bent to his phone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After Grace was done throwing up in the downstairs guest bathroom, she got herself a glass of water and came back to the table. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was full dark by the time Salvador came back to the park. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Look, until Sticky comes back, I think we need to keep to our plan. Let’s go check out the loading area.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Terrance wanted the girl alive but didn’t care how the other one came back. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Drumming his fingers on the wheel, he said, “You know when the manager’s coming back?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had occurred to Malcolm already, and it came back to him now, that what he was doing in talking to Dr. Relf was very like what St. Alexander was celebrated for. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“After your studies, will you be coming back?” he said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were talking about the other wand, the wand that changes hands by murder. When You-Know-Who realized my wand had done something strange, he came back and asked about that other wand, didn’t he?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He won’t come back again, will he, officer? I’m really afraid of him; he’s so strange.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Naomi never came, and before I left, I looked down into the Yazoo one last time and whispered, “Gramma, Grampa, Naomi, I’ll come back. I promise.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’s left some things behind, but I don’t know if this means he’s coming back or if these are just things he doesn’t want anymore. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You are going to go away, and I don’t expect you to come back.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry your papa isn’t coming back soon.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now his friends are all coming back to eat us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah kinda thought—” The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In his old age this same total warfare had come back to roost as total hatred, as the most modem of hostilities. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father came back late that evening, and I told him what had happened. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Christina comes back, a muffin in each hand, I’m sitting on the edge of my bed, staring at my untied shoes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The huge blazes were meant to light the way during this longest night of the year, so Inti would see the path to come back to us. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Yes, they could use someone; things get pretty hectic around the first of the month, right after the welfare checks go out; I can come back next week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time his veterinarian friend came back and said he needed just a little more money before these Frankensteins dominated the cattle world, Giebel dutifully anted up. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was only the one grocer here as far as she knew, and the man had told her plain enough to come back during colored hours. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Becker came back from lunch, he studied the diamond- ring display like he always did, but he didn’t even glance at the watches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you kept the bike from prom so I can give you rides when you come back to town.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Well, I couldn’t leave it there to wait for Ms. Griegson to come back. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They had all come back with Purple Hearts, but it didn’t seem as if the war had changed Harley; he was still a little fat, and he still made them laugh, joking and clowning. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I went out, then I remembered and came back and sent the wire. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember one time the evening ended with Loomis saying, “You know, white folks, when a man cast his bread pon de waters, it gwine come back buttered toast, praise Jesus.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“When planning misfortune for your friends,” he said, “be careful because it will come back to haunt you. You must always wish others well.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing to be upset about. Lie down. We will come back.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and James broke apart for three women with yoga mats slung on their shoulders and then came back together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Two of my classmates said the stork did not deliver me and would not come back to pick me up. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Please come back again. I can do another style for you next time.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That night Nasser came back with Zeitoun to the house on Dart. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He announced, “Our daddy and Tio Carlos are going to keep trying. Luis says that the rest of us have to go inside. Right now. He’ll call me when we can come back out.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunrise was four hours away, so Cullen suggested that they come back to the Coast Guard station with him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She decided to stay in hiding there until Mo came back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Soon, I could walk and talk and read, and my memory was coming back. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m trudging up the hill from school in torrential rain with one thing on my mind: What am I going to do when Brian comes back for Christmas break and he’s with Jude? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fermin comes back from the kitchen and hands me a can of Budweiser and sits in a dining chair with a can for herself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I make sure I come back to him first thing in the mornings. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Edondurath built a house of the frozen bodies of his brothers, and waited there inside that house for that last one to come back. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what he was talking about, but whatever had hit him must have passed, because the color came back into his face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And then one morning, all alone, Mary Anne walked off into the mountains and did not come back. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you are not coming back here,” she insisted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And the smell went out and out into the surrounding forest, and drawn by the smell, the eagles came back, started trying to steal it from the sled dogs. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But she told me to go away and not come back. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the grace of a god I never really liked, much less believed in, my mother is actually coming back. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“We can come back by there and see them.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I relaxed and ate jícama dusted with chili powder from a tall fruit cup and told myself we could move here if Papá never came back and we lost the house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When she came back, she had one of those black plastic bags you get from the bodega. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"But something come back to you a minute ago," Alys said, "when you breathed the tea." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Train doesn’t leave for three hours. You can come back or wait here.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya’s mother came back through the kitchen this time, and Maya immediately put on her most innocent face. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Koffi stared at him a moment, then seemed to come back to herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Old Rit said drearily, “They keep asking him questions about it. Every time he goes up to the Big House I’m scared he won’t come back.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When can we come back?” my mother asked despairingly, as she took the papers from the outstretched hand of the policeman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Khalid is gone, and Sandy hasn’t come back to our free period ever again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I will come back,” she called softly through the door. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We held still, none of us daring to breathe, waiting for someone to try to come through again, but an hour passed, and then another, and another, and no one came back. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our conversation comes back to me in a flash. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Please call her. Call Karen Whitney. She told me to come back.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not a word was said about it when we came back to our hogan that evening. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m ready. Teresa and Martin, take care of Timothy until I come back, and be sure you don’t tell him where I’ve gone.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Take a bath, dry yourself, and come back to bed,” she said. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And when he forgave her and came back—the hours they’d spend just talking, just telling each other everything... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said, “I told you not to come back!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Once some old chief went with him; they came back with arrowheads and sat on the porch smoking pipes until two o’clock in the morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One day Uri went off by himself and came back with a sack of coal. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” I say to Connor when he comes back over. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In a minute here Mr. French came back, his ruddy face beaming, and took my mother’s arm. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In all, half of the responses that came back to the stockbroker were delivered to him by these same three people. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we decided,” Ba finally said, “to come back and wait. After she finds Never-Ending Mountain, Minli will come home.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at the sight of the farmer with his dog still waiting patiently under the tree, it came back to him, he remembered everything and he turned to look back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I knew I could never come back after this. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jay comes back in the den, holding the phone with her cheek and shoulder. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I think we froze to death and came back to life and then froze all over again before I finally got us inside. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She did not sing on the days she came back with nothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And what is more, the words of the song also came back—words, I am certain, which were sung by the animals of long ago and have been lost to memory for generations. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until I couldn’t see the cars that I came back and things started feeling bad again. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline went to our room and came back wearing her wedding dress and a prosthetic arm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then she came back, dressed for the street and, without a word, passed him, walking down the short steps into the yard. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Or you could ride on the back of one of ours, and we could come back later for your bicycle,” Willem offers. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She lost her dreary air, her face became animated, the bloom of youth came back to her. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did my mother come back? Come home? When I was little?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Clarisse came back over and wiped the soot off her forehead. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She often went out alone like that. She would come back any time of night, and sleep at the cottage on the beach.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Emma came back into the room, the jelly beans were gone. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She and that boy came back and soon said they were "in love"—whatever that means before you get married. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t come back,” she says, her voice breaking. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In fact I had him the longest of all my animals, for he came back to England with me and lived in Bournemouth for many years, with the run of house and garden. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Twice since I came to Greenwood, he’d left at night for Council meetings and came back late, long after I was asleep. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

We walked one way down Wakeling looking for Rookery until it dead-ended at a large open sewer which Enoch said was the River Fleet, then turned and came back the other way. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Harry Potter came back to school,” he whispered miserably. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Then Charlie snuck out of the tree house and didn’t come back until dawn. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I lied, “I forgot my geometry schoolbook and had to come back.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They would just have thought, well, he’s come back to be a herder. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she comes back, I’m asleep.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I come back to my room, breathless from running down the hallway, I notice Nutmeg and Cinnamon are in their cage again. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlour and came back. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It goes and then it comes back because its wings aren’t any count; it got too tamed and forgot how to fly away and eat by itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry about the note. But you didn’t look like you’d be coming back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her husband had never come back from a past war, and her children were all grown and gone. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They might come back to the locker room after a big game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could always come back next year and try again. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

People didn’t come back from the camp clinic. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You have some news to hear, now you are come back, that will rather surprize you.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Francie, will you marry me when the war’s over—if I come back?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see Leonce isn’t coming back,” she said, with a glance in the direction whence her husband had disappeared. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pilot had jerked he had moved the plane, but Brian could not remember how much or if it had come back to its original course. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming back for you, Calypso,” he said to the night wind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“That painter guy came back to the Palace,” he offered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked off to urinate and when he came back said, “My daddy passed through here, I think. He said it was forest then. When he came back, it had all been cleared by settlers.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If, at the end of this hour, you have convinced me that everything is really fine, you don’t have to come back, bet? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blink as the Tokyo Dome itself comes back into view, as well as fifty thousand spectators screaming wildly at the top of their lungs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He is coming. He is not far away. I wish to find him. If he passes will you tell me? I will come back with gold.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We shall miss you, Kehaar. But when you come back we’ll have a fine warren here, with lots of mothers. You’ll be able to feel proud of all you did to help us.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can’t we just talk about this in the car and then come back in again? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he came back through and gave me the dog. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He came back with a puzzled look on his face. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The memory of that day would come back to me at odd moments. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That cold wind stayed with us as we waited for Joseph to come back inside. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The fiddlers begin a different tune, the dance picks up around me, and like a fool, I stare into the crush, knowing he won’t come back but hoping anyway. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Except we have no injured soldiers coming back to Los Angeles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Left one day and did not come back. Didn’t even leave a note. You would think someone who was constantly writing notes would leave one.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Listen. I want you to take something in your rucksack for me, in case we can’t come back here. It’s only letters. You can read them if you want.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned in a circle to the left, came back over the grass track and flew straight down it, skimming just over the rabbits’ heads. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not come back, and finally the ship had to sail without him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house has been silent for a long time and I understand that my mother is not coming back, but I don’t want to think about what happened, so I do as my father instructed. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. O’Neill comes back to the room and his eyes are watery again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So he said, “OK. Look. I’m going to go and put your clothes and the bedsheets into the washing machine and then I’ll come back, OK?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Take it easy on him, Candy Man, I don’t want you to beat him so bad he too scared to come back down here.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe he wants to tell me I can’t come back to finish my painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m going. But I hope you do come back.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The tiercel, he knew, wouldn’t come back until the workers went home. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Get your ugly snout outta my house! And don’t come back!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When an Atuot person died, he came back to Earth as a lion, with a great hunger for the human flesh he once had. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good omen that Eddie came back with the dry cells without trouble. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t think she is coming back to Merrimack. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I never remembered any of this before today, but it came back to me after I thought about the dream. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t arrest him, when he only came back to help me.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The company comes back in two days’ time. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately after their cold and comfortless breakfast Strider went off alone, telling the others to remain under the shelter of the cliff, until he came back. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He’s not coming back, Lolly” Mr. Ali said before I could leave. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“You go away like this,” he pointed to the thumb, “and come back like this,” he touched the little finger. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The captain of the plane came back to meet me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still sitting there on the wall, legs drawn up, when the other two came back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I got my window open, I came back for my groceries, but before I could say thanks and good-bye, she started out onto the fire escape after me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She came back moments later holding a bunch of slender green leaves. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He comes back not five minutes later, his face white as linen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In a little while Mr. Henry came back down the stairs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner heard the first group coming back from the game. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

So they set about their work early, for it was canning time, and who knew but what the wind would come back this time with a cooling rain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember him. He stayed for a few months, then changed his mind and came back. By now, he’s a pretty.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Another day, she told them, another day I’ll come back and break your spell. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And even if they did not say anything about it, Peggy herself would soon come back and ask about the fire. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most likely neither of us will come back.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Caddy told him that if he wouldn’t tell, they’d let him come back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he went away and in a little while he came back, bringing tied in a cotton kerchief a double handful of small red beans, mouldy with the soil. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In the daytime I go to work, come back, talk, and eat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s hell to have seen half the world then come back to this,” León nodded across the river to the small town of Guadalupe. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walks over to the corner of the room and comes back with a bowl. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I thought I didn’t have to come back. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before I came back to North Carolina, I’d never seen a mob rip a man limb from limb,” Martin said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Hope for Daddy to come back to me too. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The porpoise kept sinking and then flicking her tail to come back flank to flank with the boat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Won’t the girl get mad if she comes back in here and I’m sleeping in her bed?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

That evening, when I finally came back down to dinner, I retaliated in the only way I could. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant bowed, came back with three pieces of chicken, hot and greasy, wrapped in a dirty white cloth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves would come back to the trees soon, and he’d feel even safer on his trips to her house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Paul says my dad split 2 seconds after the pregnancy test came back positive, and that it was a good decision for all of us—especially me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They know we have to come back sometime. The people in Mohegan heard that a drover from Norfield had been shot on the Ridgebury Road two days ago and his cattle driven off.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could go anywhere we pleased, to the edge of the world if we liked, and come back when we wanted to. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I know I’m not coming back either. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Calista left me under the covers, I kept waiting and waiting for her to come back and tell me it was time for me to get ready already. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

As has been discussed in this chapter and Chapter 7, “empty” space is filled with pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles that appear together, move apart, and then come back together and annihilate each other. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was afraid that Old Rit would exclaim, loudly, laugh and cry, and everyone in the quarter would know that she had come back. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped her condition might have improved since she’d come back from the dead. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Every book Park lent her came back smelling like perfume. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He came back to walk alongside me, where he took purposeful strides forward in his sky blue suit and polka-dot red tie. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was this all she had to come back to after a day's work? Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Greg’s eyes came back into full focus and continued up my legs, past where his hand had been allowed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I hear the bell clink when Deacon Boyd leaves, so I know it’s safe for me to come back out. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I knew they would come back for me; I knew they would try again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He always wanders into Dad’s room, and the minute he climbs into the king-sized bed, Dad gets up and comes back with a glass of water. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I am Gitano, and I have come back.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I wonder if she comes back here to Manderley and watches you and Mr. de Winter together.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Winchell, coming back to the sideline, almost, but not quite, looked pleased with himself, a tiny look of relief, perhaps even the glimmer of a smile. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She hasn’t come back. Good riddance to bad luck, I say.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lit the stub of candle in the saucer where he’d put it when he came back into the cabin. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, Grand, grand, and goes to the shed to wash himself though when he comes back you’d never know he touched himself with water at all he’s that black. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

People who had journeyed to see Wilbur when he was “some pig” came back again to see him now that he was “terrific.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sweet’s silvery voice came back to him: “Who’d he leave behind?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be bothering me about this, Hiram. It’s gone, and it’s not coming back.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

After he ate, he slept under the tables and waited for her to come back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d spent the last four years looking out at New Pretty Town, wanting nothing more than to cross the river and not come back. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Just when Sapo was about to crack another snap—“If they watch Sesame Street they can” —Bodega came back to life. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a slightly different feeling than before but it fades before I can read it and Francia comes back. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to march up there and tell Ruth to come back and finish the butter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the thought of what she had to do came back to her like the clanging of an alarm bell. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I ran, got a toffee apple, came back, and put it on the counter at the checkout. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He came back by six for supper, which Ma Charles was only too glad to have Big Ma heap on his plate. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The diner comes back into focus: tables, chairs, lights, kitchen. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“No, Crystal’s here. Mr. Monroe will take care of her until Alice comes back.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Sixers found out I was still alive, they would come back here looking for me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

So had half of my class, the half that never came back after Christmas. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Thinking of the birds, and how they would come back into the berries when he left, he made a carrying pouch of his tom windbreaker and kept picking. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw him disappear down that well, I wept, thinking he would never come back. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, coming back from the moon, I could look out my spacecraft window and see a crescent earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinath then left prison for the night and did not come back again until the morning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days before he died, Scott was cleaning the pool when Jule came back from her morning run. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sarah came back with her; they both went to bed; they were whispering together for half-an-hour before they fell asleep. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If I come back here to stay, and he finds out the whole story, I’m sure he’ll understand. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day, after many weeks of loud talking, Helen packed a bag and slammed the front door and never came back. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“You just wait on us. You come back when we send for you.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I immersed myself in those worlds and I came back looking at the world a different way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Now we know where the room is. We can come back and read it later.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Things have been pretty bad since Mom came back from England. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted my strong, invincible dad to come back, the man who dodged gunfire in the massacre and escaped with bullet holes in his shirt collar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Jack,” he said, “you come back over here and spread some more shavings for Rosie, would you?” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

"He is proud. He may be too shamed to come back." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The report came back that due to an unspecified family crisis, the banker’s son would be unable to marry for some years. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day after school we came back to the laboratory with a box of Dad’s matches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the weekend, when we come back to school, both of us will be in our new class with the smart kids. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now here I was, by myself, coming back from being a pallbearer at a funeral of a girl around my age who had no idea she was going to go. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was very late in the evening when Uncle came back across the grass, looking very tired but smiling grimly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. D. come back in without Biddy and sit down. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If I died and never came back to school, she’d probably be happy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Which is why our miners have to dig so deep Somehow it all comes back to coal at school. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, I’m scared about my dad coming back and finding out that I’m gone! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the leg is coming back to life. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Which meant he was right and she’d come back after she cooled off. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“So I went looking for you on top of things. But the moon’s coming out, so I came back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He came back shaking his head, looking uneasy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Pearl heard the door close, but it was a few minutes before Mia came back upstairs, her feet slow and heavy on the steps. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But he would wait one moment more, Dove might have something more to say when he came back after he had seen the Colonel. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Lydia, maybe after you move away, when you come back to visit, we can all come here and add stuff to the Column,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She just noticed that I looked very sad today, and she didn’t think it was my friends leaving because I looked okay yesterday when I came back from sledding. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had work to do over the weekend, and the kids had plans, and she always came back from those trips more exhausted than when she’d left. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Didn’t leave her side even after Dad came back and the doctors told them how sick I was. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he finally came back out, he seemed to be very tired, and he started writing the check. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he came back, long after midnight, with his shoes covered in mud, she knew he would not be the same again. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She came back to her house in a fog so thick she could almost hold it in her hands. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie went to work in darkness and came back to supper in darkness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know people will say that it’s because of the accident that I came back to church— well, they’re right. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iorek Byrnison said, “He asks if we have come to take the child away. They are afraid of it. They have tried to drive it away, but it keeps coming back.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It tacked well off from them, and then, at the end of a long angle, it tacked again and came back in with the sea breeze;Turner began to row to cut across it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The hurricane is gone, but what if it comes back? Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They had carved their names and address on me, and I would come back. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we began to walk, Gideon’s stories came back to me in flashes, like views between the trees from a train window. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was coming back from the control room. I heard a scream.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She barely says hello before asking, “When are you coming back home, Betty?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But he’s coming back for me the end of the summer.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ralph lifted the conch again and his good humor came back as he thought of what he had to say next. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She knew that with Peris gone, the doubts would come back again and haunt her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I wondered what happened to Silly. I sent him on my bike an hour ago. He ain’t come back from Mrs. Bordman’s yet. You think that black fool just pedaled off to Mars?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later, he came back and dumped an armload of books on the bed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll be all right even if I don’t come back for days. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! my dear father,” she cried, “come back and write immediately. Consider how important every moment is in such a case.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Like I said, when I refreshed the page, my real score came back.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This became a sixty-minute ordeal coming back from San Francisco, when my mother was with us in the car. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scan back and forth, pressing buttons to get closer and farther away, but I keep coming back to those rustling trees. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You e-mailed her that you were in trouble. That’s why she came back here, right?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“If Cletus and Will were still with us, we could come back with the big man and kill the lot of them,” said Gerris. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s my dog,” Hal replied, wiping the blood from his mouth as he came back. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to come back later for the photograph. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to choose a figure that would not sound too drastic yet would necessitate my coming back to fill in the gaps. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rondell shouted as he came back to the ground wagging his finger. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sula had cried and cried when she came back from Shadrack’s house. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“El Patron wants me by his side. I’ll come back once a month,” the man said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cancer had come back, but the doctors were optimistic she could beat it again. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Lewis, listen—” “Nah, you listen here, boy. I fought a war, came back, and fought one here. See this?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tobin tells Mama we’ll have a follow-up meeting when I come back. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Portia wet her lips nervously and said: ‘He coming back whenever he get good and ready. Buddy will be glad to ride him to town in the car. Buddy just love to drive.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ball was coming back to me, and I caught it neatly and flipped it back. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And Hestia’s words about Luke's mom kept coming back to me: May Castellan went too far. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say, “but I think you can come back now. I really do.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I heard about your trip, but I didn’t know you were coming back so soon,” Paul tried. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She would have to come back soon for him and Old Rit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would chuckle or grin sometimes, as though war stories were coming back, but neither one of us could remember anything good. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late in the golden afternoon when the first little boys ran hysterically in the town and spread the word that Kino and Juana were coming back. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the following day, however, he came back to the house shaved and clean, with his mustache perfumed with lavender water and without the bloody sling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Suppose we organize some kind of a cooperative. For Japanese people coming back from the camps. We will design a housing project, and all the men looking for work will build houses.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Winters come back downstairs, and we all go into the dining room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Go off and explore a little. Stick together though. When you’re rested, come back and help. Remember our name?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama sighs when I tell her that we have to come back tomorrow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Walter Griff, come back here!” she wailed, flinging up her arms. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes to his office for a second, then comes back to me and holds my chin. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But one year it didn’t come back from the pawnshop. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She comes back with a Tom’s candy wall calendar. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“So we can catch them and deport them,” Percy summed up, “but they’ll just keep coming back across.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

None of them came back to tell what it was like. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though I beat them with my fists, I knew why my dad was sticking close—they were coming back with fire. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

What if she had somehow figured out that he had come back to Chattana? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And if they hadn’t come back, there might be food going to waste. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Wishing for my mother to come back and complete my family never worked. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They came back staggering under the load of meat. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘This is Leo we’re talking about. He might come back any minute. Then we can take turns strangling him.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And they very much wanted her to come back. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had to come back for the funeral, because I could not go alone, and going with anyone other than the Colonel would amount to alone. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But if we wait too long, the hurricane winds will come back, and the skinny tree trunks and boulders won’t be enough shelter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And hoping that when I come back, she'll be all dressed, with her head wrapped and beads and makeup and deep, joyous laughter. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And then he heard the plane coming back. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The older girls left early and came back late, their clothes and hair full of dust. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They will have told you how I came back home. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman comes back with a seriously foul-smelling rag in her hands. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Since she was coming back for a few days toward the end of the summer, it was more of a “see ya” than a good-bye. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know my mother resented listening to Auntie Lin talk about W'averly when she had nothing to come back with. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buck’s senses came back to him, but not his strength. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “Mr. Hamilton, you’re going away and you’re not coming back. You do not intend to live very much longer.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson said, “We wanted to be in the play and then Briony walked off and still hasn’t come back.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And if they hadn’t started dinner by the time I came back, well, that was only fair, wasn’t it? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"No, no, no. They don't want it all coming back up on the stage," says Octavia, but she secretly slips me an extra roll under the table to let me know she's on my side. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“One spring, she just stopped coming to school as much, and in the fall, she didn’t come back. We were told she was too sick to do much besides stay in Morning Glory Cottage.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“That bracelet—when it came back engraved,” she accused. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

His wits came back to him slowly and he looked up to see what was wanted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Several minutes later he comes back with a big bowl of popcorn. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Priest comes back to the table right after I stuffed my face with a huge bite of cake. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

A sense of the white blur hovering near, of Mary burning, of Britten, of the law tracking him down, came back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you don’t know anything about any of this, maybe we should wait for your mother to come home. We can come back.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He shifted, and his body seemed to come back alive. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Uncle’s words came back to him: “The village of Loun- Ariik was attacked ... burned. Few people survived ... no one knows where they are now.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the broadcaster came back on, it was with a grim forecast of whatever was left of Wall Street. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I told them you would come back. I knew it!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he wasn’t sure what kind of small talk to make with a guy who’d recently come back from Tartarus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll find them. Stay here until I come back for you.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not come back, and now he is riding freight trains up through Mexico to find her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The girl Aegisthus disdained to kill; he only made her utterly wretched in every way possible until her whole life was concentrated in one hope, that Orestes would come back and avenge their father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came back into the pantry with us breathing hard and pulled us in the corner with her. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The footsteps came close, slowed, moved on a little, came back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another officer must have remarked on it to him, she wrote, because when she came back on duty, the next day he was “irate” that she had written it down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I’m not going anywhere till Pan comes back, she said to herself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Gwen,” Hazel said gently, “there’s no easy way to say this. You were dead. Somehow you came back.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was determined to come back as often as he could. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A second later he came back with a brown paper bag and a big bottle of red pop. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Kept thinking about it after I sent you that email this morning. Would they come back?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When he opened them again it was evening and some of the sharp pain had abated—there were many dull aches—and the crash came back to him folly. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two more springs had gone, on a morning of white clouds and calm seas, the ship came back. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Love, will you shut up? I’ve come back for just one reason. I love you.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He would come back with a signed document that would declare the war over, that would proclaim a free Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Last night, however, it came back to me in my dream. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

More commonly, the dryness comes back and the fuzz of grass withers or a little frost curls it and there’s that amount of seed wasted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel got the feeling her brother was nervous that more of Percy’s memory might come back. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Uri said, “Stay here,” and went outside, and when he came back he said, “Let’s go.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As she waited, the conversations with Shay in her head came back again, but they weren’t so troubling here. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock, Father had not come back. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said Moore must have accidentally circled the wrong option on the consent form, and asked him to come back and fix it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He left Adam standing on the porch and in a moment came back and led him to the dining room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel might have been the one who came back from the dead, but Nico was way more ghostlike. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she came back with the small pile of earlier editions, her mother was standing at the table, reading the editorial about Mr. Larson. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

And that was when the lights came back on. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She came back with a package and got in and we drove on. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’d have to come back next year, even if it was only for a few weeks. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had come back to the team in 1975 and returned a kickoff fifty yards in the Bluebonnet Bowl against Colorado. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went down to the water’s edge and came back with a heavy rock, which she dried on her shirt and then placed on top of the map. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We decided that if she didn’t come back the next day with her little cows, she was the one who had told on me. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whenever he comes back from a voyage, he brings me a present.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If they had to come back in a hurry for any reason, I wanted to know where they were. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could come back and retrieve it later. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to come back so we can deal with this.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

By the time I spotted her coming back, I’d stopped writing and was doodling in the margins. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When will you come back home?” she asked. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You have not had a morning bath?” her mother asked him one afternoon, when she came back from work looking drained, clutching files to her chest, wet patches under her armpits. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a quick glance Adam came back to the eyes, light blue and filled with a young delight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rab went into the tavern, and when he came back he had permission to take out the landlady’s genteel nag. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited for several minutes, thinking that if the band finished practice and came back in—if someone said hello—she’d change her mind. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain said, “Take that animal back and tie it some place, Sergeant, then come back.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, the natives come back and forth to our ships in their canoes, bringing sweet-smelling fruits and other food from their island, which sits, green and lush, nearby. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You mean only a half of Mike is coming back to us?” she cried. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

After about five minutes they came back out and did “Just Hold On a Little Longer.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Then stay in the streets; don’t come back here!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Shoot, Kenny, you think I don’t know? Why you think I came back? But remember, you said it’s my turn to be the Americans.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to come back one more time. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be here till dark, maybe a little after. You come back if n you want a ride.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think back to how relieved he looked when he came back to his seat. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I came back into myself, found my hand bleeding and my body covered in sweat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would be easier for her if he never came back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t have to drive all the way down to get me and then come back up here. I could’ve asked my dad to give me a ride.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If I go up into the building, I probably won’t come back down. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“All I knew was that he didn’t come back. But I never knew what happened. I didn’t even know he knew you. Why didn’t he ever tell me?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

One day she came back grinning her horsey grin, her hair all tangled and her clothes covered in mud, clutching a raggedy bunch of purple and green flowers for Father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Phoebe’s tales were like my fishing in the air: for a while I needed to believe that my mother was not dead and that she would come back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He came back and sent me next door to fetch Mrs. Munyama, our neighbour’s wife. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like Demeter had set the timer on all the plants to grow several decades ago, then forgotten to come back and check on them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Can I come back and see it tomorrow?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I want to run out of our apartment screaming and never come back. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He comes back moments later and reports that a family, a doctor from Phnom Penh with his wife and their three children, have committed suicide by swallowing poison. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not long after, she came back to our table and announced, “It’s time to go,” in a tone and manner that said she really was ready to leave. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can come back to camp with us. You can help us prepare. You know more about fighting Titans than anybody.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was no way of telling when the ship would come back for us. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I already ran the numbers. At best I could get twenty-five meters per second. Even if I could get to forty-two, I'd need another forty-two to match Hermes when I came back." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to yell at him again, but then I realized he thought me going swimming meant I wasn’t coming back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After a long while, Mrs. Menzer came back to the car. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After a long talk in which I tried my best to be as smart as she wanted me to be, she told me to come back the following week at the same time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She arrived at the office early, went home in the late afternoon to check on her daughters, and then came back in the evening, maintaining a schedule of fourteen- or sixteen-hour days. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Old Dan, giving up his search, came back to the tree and bawled a couple of times. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back kitchen door opened and I thought Herman E. Calloway was coming back in to ruin everybody’s fun, but it was the rest of the band. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When they came back down they would tell the people it was time to dance for rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had had virtually no contact during this summer or last, as Harry had come back to Privet Drive so briefly and kept to his room so much. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When Catherine came back it was all right again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

These strangers had to make her come back to them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where is Mama, and when is she coming back? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Anyone can cover up the swastika with paint; but then again another idiot would probably come back and spray it again. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Adam came back from town with a bottle of Pain Killer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker’s face was pinched when we came back into the class—the disappointment of a failed assassination plot. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When Dad comes back to the living room and turns off the TV I ask him, What is closure? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came back over and put her hand on my cheek and said, “You’re not going to die.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She kneels in front of me and looks me over, almost like she did when she came back from rehab. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Only the truth came back to her, for what she knew, she knew. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Margot came back, saw “her” book in my hands, knitted her brow and angrily demanded the book back. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Once he got hung up in some briars and yelled till I came back to get him out. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came back a minute later with a pile of books in his arms and slammed them down on the table. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Uncle Lorne came back from the bedroom where he, with Rabbit’s help, had been picking off feathers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I told her I was trying to learn enough rootwork so that when Deputy Collins came back, I could help Doc protect our family. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That landlady used to think her husband was going to come back one day too, but she died less than two months after him. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He came back to practice the following week to the shame of a white practice jersey, and he had no role in Permian’s 42-0 trouncing of Midland High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have asked her more about it, but my mom and Mr. Stokely came back in the gym to watch me shoot my last set of one hundred. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he says he’s coming back to be happy. Doesn’t that sound like he wasn’t happy in New York?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I move my hands by day, and by night, when my fever dreams come back and the river is miles below me, I stretch out over the water, making that endless crossing, reaching for balance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can ask Finn when he comes back. You guys should talk anyway.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he came back, he handed me the sketchbook. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

After he shuts it, he comes back to the table. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was why they came back to help, even when Byrd and Frank couldn’t pay them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My breathing came back to me and I said, “I’m terrible sorry, sir. I waren’t expecting no one to be out here.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

‘Nice hobbit, come back to poor Sméagol. Good Sméagol comes. Now let’s go, go quickly, yes. Through the trees, while the Faces are dark. Yes, come, let’s go!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I no can come back. I work every day.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She’s not coming back until Monday, and Dad’s not back until Monday either, so I’ll be spending my seventeenth birthday alone in Uncle Milton’s apartment. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Is he coming back or what?” asks Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

If she realized we’d been swimming so close to the deep end of the river all summer, she’d never let us come back here. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the mindless tenderness that he had felt under the hazel tree, while the thrush was singing, had not quite come back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When he comes back to London, he goes to work in a new gallery that Goupil’s has bought. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He came back all week at breaks, at lunch. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He wants to fly out of town and never come back,” I replied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After that I would leave the baby with her for a while and come back to Montgomery and finish high school. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

When I came back, she had the pillow off her head all right--I knew she would-- but she still wouldn't look at me, even though she was laying on her back and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the story of a generation of young people who learned to work with the wind—those who soared and those who came back to earth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When Alice came back, she said, “Have you seen any rubbish bins here?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She came back and sat down opposite him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Aching in every muscle, and aching in his mind when images of the night came back to him, he struggled to sit up and assemble his senses. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The kid came back, along with two of his friends. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She disappears and comes back carrying the rifle awkwardly and a pair of boots. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We all know they feed us lies about the fathers coming back the next morning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been yelling and laughter and horns blowing, but none of it comes back to me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Kenny was in another room, sitting by the window like a lonely house pet, waiting for Savannah to come back to the office from an appointment. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the girls and boys come back inside, the big sea monster has eaten all the Go-do-feesh. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then the story came back to me as my mother had often told it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Not the substance. Just the fact. Pilate came back here just after her baby was bom. One winter. She told me they split up when they left here and she hadn’t seen him since.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would someone be sent to see why he hadn’t come back? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I crossed the room quickly, and picked them up, and as I did so, Frith came back into the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then it came back to its feet, snuffed the log again, and ate it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I found him at four thirty in the morning when I came back to the lab after wandering around down at the waterfront—on his side, stretched out in the corner of his cage. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She is watching for him to come back from his day at the diner. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I’d spend the rest of my days living in fear, looking over my shoulder, tormented by nightmares, waiting for them to finally come back and punch my ticket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After several minutes of snuffing and rolling, the draccus came back to the flat bed of coals that was all that remained of our fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then from very far away the sound came back, thin and clear and small, like a little bugle answering the big one. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in Korea 15 months, was rotated and sent back to the states—and was given special recognition as being the first Korean Vet to come back to the territory of Alaska. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balloons are coming back, now that the war is over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need you to take care of me,” Mack came back. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he will send it back thinking Maybe if it comes back nothing will stop me then and so maybe at last I will know what I am going to do. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was next to Liz, and Betty Jean was just a few rows back, I kept worrying Mrs. Johnson was going to come back and hit me with her hat. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nic, we love you. We want to be here for you. When are you coming back?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His favorite saying came back to him: “Chance favors the prepared mind.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re Chief Rabbit until I come back. Keep them at it.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back out, the twins clapped. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kasim quickly comes back in and waves for us to come out. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“When my brother comes back home, you will come with him, for a while at least, won’t you?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The next day was the same, and the day after that he did not come back. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Going to the plague-infected areas of Lake makes her nervous, and she always comes back scratching at her arms—as if she can feel an infection spreading on her skin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Even before the British got into their transports, word had come back to Boston that the King’s fort at Portsmouth had been seized and His Majesty’s military stores stolen by the rebellious Americans. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he looked at the sky instead; the sun had set and it was getting dark, so he came back to his wagon and opened its plastic cover. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately he moved again, down the room to the bedroom door where he turned to come back, changed his mind and stood there, hands in pockets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had been praying that a miracle would happen and my mother would come back and we would return to Bybanks and everything would be exactly as it used to be. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they go for a short while, and sometimes they never come back. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She was all over him—he was all over her, too—and for some reason, every crazy story of their sex life came back to me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I never stopped asking questions about when he would be coming back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I need you to come back in and make a bomb." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or until Izio came back and reminded me that he wanted me to live. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dad went after the call and then came back out on the porch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tiago came back wearing glasses, thin wire frames that he took off to show us how they caught the light and bounced rainbows around the room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

So he came back and made a Confucius joke, that if the words were wrong, then his intentions must also be wrong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the twins came back, it was a certain bet that Lola would still have to be found. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My mother comes back from the hospital and is weaker. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had come back from their work expecting to find the Savage waiting for them at one or other of the usual meeting-places, and there was no sign of the fellow. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that only worked for a while, and then our hunger pains would come back. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that you would not be coming back. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The return air comes back through another tube just like it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I know you’ll do just fine for yourself, but you can always come back if you need to.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘And of course I’ll come back soon: it won’t be dangerous any more. There is a real king now, and he will soon put the roads in order.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mami never stayed long, but she always came back from his house happy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This is your library card. Take good care of it, because it allows you to come back and check out books. This is due back in two weeks.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I hoped he’d remember to come back and pick me up after school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand vaguely in the air before him; but he was in fact now facing southwards, as he came back to Shelob’s tunnel, not west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I really am. I hope he comes back.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And I still couldn’t shake that inexplicable feeling that Deborah would come back one day. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then I went and got my things, and came back down. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited a week exactly to come back for Janie’s snub. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You think you’re free, don’t you? A few drinks and you think you’re a man! I could crook my little finger and and you’d come back slobbering, crawling on your knees.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear both Quinton’s and Mama’s voices in my head telling me to come back to where it’s safer. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

After we’d finished all our food we put our bowls up and I thanked my pretend family again, I asked them, “Are you going to be coming back for supper?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She did weep when the next memory came back: of how he had grinned and wiggled his chubby fingers at her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was queer how quick the words came back to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Was he different? When he came back from the war?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mom walked off to think, made up her mind, and came back to me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always weak and thirsty when he came back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Why would I do that? You’re my big bear. You’re my puppy. You did what you did for me. I waited three years for you to come back to me. I love you.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s like, it’s been so long, I don’t know what she would look like if she came back, how long her hair would be. ” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been good to have you here, Ash. I hope you’ll come back with Ana again.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the ba come back again tonight, then? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“When I come back I will know how to make you happy again! ” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Stan came back downstairs, followed by a faintly green witch wrapped in a traveling cloak. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"But, surely, the tide will come back and carry the seaweed—and the turtles along with it—back out." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He told her to come again to the meadow tomorrow, if she liked, and so took leave of her, and came back to the house while his master was still out. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I held my breath because of the last special treat at the Daughertys’, but it didn’t help, because when Mrs. Russell came back, she came back with a loaf of banana bread. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I'll set it aside for the day in case they come back, sure—beyond that, it's not my problem. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After that, she tried to work in earnest, and, therefore, she didn’t hear James come back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And when the plowing was done and the worms had all disappeared, either eaten or safely underground, Mr. Fitzgibbon came back with the harrow, breaking down the furrows, and turned them all up again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at Kino when he came back; she saw him examine her ankles, cut and scratched from the stones and brush, and she covered them quickly with her skirt. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, Yanek. The Nazis grabbed them as they were coming back from buying bread. I saw them taken, right there in the street in front of the building.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I will, my love, but we have to do one thing first, and then I promise we'll leave—and never come back." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You leave now and promise you won’t come back here again,” he tells me, “and I won’t have you arrested and sent to juvenile court for aiding a runaway minor.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Why they let her come back is beyond her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then the guy would come back and give us 120 rand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“No. He came back about a week later. He must have gotten what he wanted because this time he wasn’t looking for books about viruses. He was interested in local affairs.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was like, “Okay, huh?” but the guy came back and he had another searchlight. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came back before they dumped the Negro they found in the cave. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Sam that he had only dozed for a few minutes when he awoke to find that it was late afternoon and Faramir had come back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

June throws her head back and laughs, loud and unguarded, and Nora rolls her eyes, and Alex is glad, at least, that he’ll have this to come back to when the nightmare is over. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He began to explain, and then his mother came back, and it would have looked awkward to stop talking, so he finished his account of the alethiometer and what it did. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Meggie and her mother stayed in the village while Mo and Elinor went in the taxi to the nearest town, and came back a few hours later driving the two small buses they had rented. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He came back to the show last night, after it had closed. He tried to find me. What he didn’t expect was that there would be two of us.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wheeler went inside, and came back with a picture of two white cats. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the passage ffom the history book that he had copied into his diary came back into Winston’s mind, and a lunatic impulse took hold of him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I came back to the park and approached a man who was observing the game. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam comes back up to Italy and sits by the fire wondering where in God’s name she’ll get the money for a week’s rent never mind the arrears. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The cop nodded and walked back toward his cruiser, where he met his partner coming back from the bus. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then the Company gathered around us when Father came back down. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were on good terms with Mr. Richards, the landlord, so even if we had to have him come back the next week for the rent, he didn’t mind. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she came back to her regiment she was limping, loaded with gifts, and extremely pleased with herself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“If they stop for us, let’s leave the burro and the mule here. There’s a windmill over there. We can come back and get them later on.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she whisper, I brought her something with yams so well hid she won’t never suspect She run out to the car and come back with a tuna casserole. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We can deliver most of the provisions tomorrow morning, and the rest of it will come back with Mister Monday, early next week." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But that day, I didn’t even blink an eye; the other instruments dropped out and the next thing I knew, they came back in. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Flora came back upstairs after dinner, she found Ulysses curled up in a tight little ball, sleeping on her pillow. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He seems to have taken an interest in me and comes back to visit, to spoon soup into my mouth and wipe it from my chin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He ran to the ponies and before long came back with two tinder-boxes and a hatchet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The US Department of Veterans Affairs was slow to aid the veterans who had come back with emotional problems. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Siobhan and her family moved to Maryland. She came back a handful of times to visit, but never stayed too long. Think it brought up too many bad memories.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I went down into the basement and got a shovel and came back to the porch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I could have anything, I’d have Papá come back into our lives and take care of us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I am too old to work. I come back where I was born.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I change the station when she come back from her lunch meeting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And now coming back home isn't really coming back home at all. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Still, Chess crouched down behind Mom’s chair, so that even if the lights came back on, no one would be able to see him from the crowd. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He would imagine that she was coming back any minute, and would be surprised or maybe even annoyed to find him sitting in her old flowered chair by the window. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was heavy yet he was still a dancer and the easy moves of the old predator came back to him effortlessly as he went from spot to spot testing his eye. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the ambulance come back, no siren this time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day we’d spend it on food and maybe some beers, and then we’d go home and come back and it was: How do we turn ten into twenty? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But if Liam knew that, he’d come back to find a way to get him out, and the deal would be for nothing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

No one else visits the room until Ms. Tannenbaum comes back, balancing a huge stack of books and an apple on top. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Tests were designed to let a moron pull at least a B. You’ll kill them. If you don’t come back to the Hollows. Are you? Coming back, I mean?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Liyana’s mother believed a whole lot in karma, the Hindu belief that what someone does in this world will come back to him or her—maybe not the day after tomorrow, but eventually. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Robb wrote to the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, the bird that came back brought word that Uncle Benjen was still missing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the team came back on the floor after halftime, Jordan and Monique had gone. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is this her way of trying to get me to come back home? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hassan still had not come back when night fell and moonlight bathed the clouds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She met my eyes, and a flood of memories came back to me—all the weird, scary things that had ever happened to me, some of which I’d tried to forget. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The boy came back and took his book up the stairs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At breakfast that morning, she asked him, “When will you come back?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was too young for school, his mother often left him alone in the house in the morning, and came back from the fields at midday for lunch. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now he had come back and this box had arrived with him: he held, in the box, everything that had happened to him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Why did he come back? Did you ever find out?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He went outside to listen, and came back and asked, “Have you heard any shots yet, Marly?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

One day he is taken away and does not come back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have come back,” the old man said. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it got rid of him, didn’t it? And I don’t expect he’ll be coming back round to check again.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So, cross-legged close by the fire, Ged drank, and ate a little, and as some strength and sense began to come back into him, he wondered where he was. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And as she watched, the memory of another duel in another time came back to Catelyn Stark, as vivid as if it had been yesterday. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I happen to notice one day what a friend has posted on his Facebook wall: “If I could die and come back to life,” it says, “I would come back as Zach Philippi.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every day after work he came back to the apartment building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Remember that Amanda is going to drop me off at home so you do not have to come back and get me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A lady in a robe comes back into this room, dresses behind a curtain, and greets us as she goes back out into the darkness. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It took three years and a rehab stint for her to come back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“So, will you come back to debate club?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Never, ever come back here again, you hear?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She had come back for the day to be supportive. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I chased him some distance and got him going fast, away from the bee tree, and then I came back for the wagon.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Let's take the bottle and come back later," Bill said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

What if she doesn’t come back for me? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun filled out the form, and when she came back on her way out, he handed it to her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She leaps into the waves and comes back up again, her locks flying with salt water everywhere. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Try it and you can thank me later. Where I’m from, they say a man will come back from the dead to get a drink of it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Momma comes back to the kitchen, pulling her robe together. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

At the end of it all, maybe he’d come back to me and tell me everything he’d seen, along with a few more secrets about the universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When his parents come back to the waiting room to do some paperwork, Samantha and I get up to see him at the same time. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When I come back in the living room the news lady is talking about the Virginia Dare shooter. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what I’ve said so far, no matter who I’ve spoken of, it all comes back to—it all ends with—me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I promise I will come back,” he had said, and now he was keeping his promise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are certain things that you cannot come back from. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Old Dan, seeing the fate of his little friend, had quit the chase and come back to help her. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother's staring straight ahead, probably looking to see if the police officer is coming back for her. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Many days passed before the hare came back again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I can come back. It’s not a big deal. I was just coming back from swimming—” “It’s just Daniel,” he said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

No one came to check on us, but Hafa didn’t come back today. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he went outside, to pens where the animals were kept, and he came back into the wedding feast leading a large, extremely irritated billy goat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He knew that without Ito’s help, we could not have come back legally as quickly as we did. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When she came back at midday and found nothing to eat, she would become furious and beat her son with a hoe, a shovel, anything close at hand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Does he ever come back to this neighbourhood?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I came back into the living room, Grampa was asleep in his chair, The Greenwood Commonwealth folded in his lap. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

His bottom was lifted in the air, a habit he’d had as a baby and that still came back sometimes when he was very tired. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We refined the trigger chemical, created a once-a-day pill. Over a few months, our old faces came back.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dad came back and opened a bottle of wine. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the blue water stretching away and all the fear I had felt during the time of the voyage came back to me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the King of the Mark came back victorious out of the West to Dunharrow beneath the feet of the White Mountains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When Eumaeus came back he found the old beggar he had left. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamá’s rain song came back into my head, and, without knowing why, I started to hum it as I pulled the map Teresita’s husband had given us from inside my pocket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, books about money or about cooking and diet are often out of the library. You have to put a hold on some of them for when they come back.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he came back and sat down as though this was as normal as talking on the telephone. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She was still sitting there when Tristran came back through the gap in the wall, several hours later. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We doing a different story today,” I say, but first I go still and listen, just to make sure Miss Leefolt ain’t coming back cause she forgot something. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If my mother opens the door, and she can’t tell me why she hasn’t come back for me in all this time, I think I really might as well just let myself die. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We didn’t mix, those of us against the war and the guys who came back from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The night Mama and I came back from the latrine with this newest bit of gossip, he had been drinking all day. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “Nightline” crew came back for its third and final visit. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does he want to help his other baby? Did he come back to see if it was okay?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The four of them didn’t come back up until ten past ten. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I give her the camera and my ball of ones, and she comes back with a little bag holding the jar wrapped in newspaper and the camera. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I have more holes than substance, but I’ve pieced together a girl with the scatter of memories that have come back to me, and a life recorded beyond reason. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I could hear Shreve working the pump, then he came back with the basin and a round blob of twilight wobbling in it, with a yellow edge like a fading balloon, then my reflection. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'd stop the car and he'd jump out and go running into the woods and come back minutes later with a raccoon he done caught. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They’re dead. And Carlos might as well be. I’m not going to stick around here and die waiting for them to come back. Stay here if you want, but I’m going!” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how far the bears had gone, or whether they might come back to stalk him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kumalo came back to the house early the next morning bringing with him the cattle that he had bought. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The same telegram boy comes back just before the Angelus at six and tells us he asked Mrs. O’Connell at the post office if they had anything for McCourt all day and they didn’t. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know....My throat was dry and I just couldn’t talk, and then it all came back to me and the image of Dante holding a wounded bird flashed in my head. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She wished to know if I lived there in the cave so she could come back with the men and take me to their camp. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that night “Now I lay me” came back unbidden in the darkness. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come back inside and sit on the couch while Dad goes into the kitchen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Philip started to answer but the door came back open. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Mami comes in and takes away the bedpan and then she comes back with clean water and soap and a basin. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. Well, Voldemort’s going to try other ways of coming back, isn’t he? I mean, he hasn’t gone, has he?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When he came back at times like this he would be petulant and penitent. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We were coming back slowly but time was running out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes for seeing the blooming purple flowers coming back to say hello after being gone all winter long. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The waitress comes back with chocolate mints and the receipt. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Now it will be with hope. My father went away one day, but he returned to my mother, and he has always come back since then.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come back with the requested items, and she’s already at work on the box, slicing through it with an X-ACTO knife. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Peeta nods his good-bye and comes back to his seat without any more conversation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kenny made frequent trips away from the town from which he came back tired and often dispirited; but always work was resumed on his return. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then we come back and shoot the grandpa scenes with Buster.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then he came back and got me and Peewee. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He really does want me to come back. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The fist-sized rice ball rests weightily in my pocket as the face of the old woman comes back to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came back every day, staying longer and longer, bringing me hot chestnuts. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Junior, seven, asks when she is coming back. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Frightful fluffed on the coldest days, but a good flight into the air around the mountain would warm her, and she would come back to my fist with a thump and a flip. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been closed since the storm, but it can come back. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He stopped, but he did not come back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were coming back to her, the days of the endless hours. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Those guys had been told, “Take care of him. You’re responsible if he doesn’t come back!” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there on the Maple River, not far from Alice, the gift of it was coming back. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ramo was not on the trail I was traveling and, thinking that he might be coming back out of sight along the other one, I called to him as I ran. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what if Mom comes back while I'm at Sals? Will you call me? Will you let me know?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The preacher pushed it into Mr. Leroy’s chest and said, “I trust you too. I trust you to hold on to this until I come back with the good word that everything’s set to go.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know if I wanted more for her to come back or for her to find whatever it was that she was trying to find. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“And you lied about coming back to see us battle the Laughing Locusts.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I began yelling for Timothy to come back, but I guess he couldn’t hear because of water noise on the reef. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butler’s voice came back tinny through the speaker. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I stumbled into one of the chrome chairs and bent forward gasping for breath, waiting for the blood to come back to my head. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Go away, and don’t come back,” she told him. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sent an orderly to see and she came back with him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The white world tore us limb from limb and came back to feast on the chitterlings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rush out past her, and the minute the lights hit my skin, my memory comes back to me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The news anchors came back on, showing off their best surprised faces—mouths open and eyes wide, like the emoji. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if you came back for a while. You know, so they could see that you are all right. So you could talk to them, and then they could see what a liar Emo is.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I am only on duty until seven tonight. So come back before then, all right?” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk now. Try to sleep. That way the time will go faster for you. Your memory will gradually come back. Don’t worry. It’s because of the electricity.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top, he turned and came back down, a little faster. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she came back and got her purse and car keys and went out again. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

What kind of useless boy was he, coming back so late the day before and leaving the cart without a word? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas was probably saying that as a excuse so she could blow her nose and cry, but she came back in a flash. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The campus she came back to was alive, breathless even, with the possibility of significant and permanent social change. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Footsteps came again; Peggy had gone to the front of the house for something and had come back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Downes across the way comes back from England for his mother’s funeral. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I walk toward her as she comes back in the room. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They’d show him about coming back there posing like he was good looking and putting himself where men’s wives could look at him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Well, the boots are all gone.Ye’ll have to come back next month. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he came back, he honked the horn on the Dodge sedan to let us know it was time to go. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They were trained and went overseas and knew they might not come back. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At first I thought my parents would put up a fight when one Sunday morning I just didn’t come back from the crab house in time for church. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron’s hands came back up to cover his face. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew from Hector that Ratchett would be coming back from the East sooner or later by the Orient Express. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, we left school for lunch but came back for last-period baseball practice. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Your MRI came back clean. It means you don’t have a brain tumor, or anything like that.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“We were coming back from the inlet,” I echoed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Behind them Jam could hear Hibiscus’s voice, ragged and pleading, saying how he would tell them everything, everything, if they could just please make sure it didn’t come back for him. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The British were coming back, but once again Ran Laurie, with his narrow-bladed oar, was having a difficult time getting enough of a catch to help power his shell through the wind and waves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His childhood was coming back to him, with a vengeance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think you would come back, but he said he found you and you talked to him.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cry of indignation, and everyone began thinking out ways of catching Snowball it he should ever come back. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We came back to town quietly, taking a ’bus to Hyde Park Corner. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The animals who preyed on the lemmings were also coming back. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quirrell came back out from behind the mirror and stared hungrily into it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Fiver! Come on, get them into the water. It’s all right below the bridge. Get the does in first, if you can. There’s no time to lose. The men may come back.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he comes back I can hear him talking to somebody. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My mother came back later, and I tearfully explained to her what had happened. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earl came back with a couple of packages. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were not coming back to this town, any of us, once we left. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You did a great job, G-man. We will come back from this. We’ll plant new trees. We'll clean up the parks. Your friends will be reincarnated into a better world.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Of course, Mama. I will come back to you.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She didn’t come back to school, not at first, and not for classes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

At six on the dot, she came back and announced, “Buñuelo time!” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When he came back he knelt beside his father and held his cold hand and said his name over and over again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If I could, if I had money, I would probably run away and never come back. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I will send word when he can come back.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

An echo came back from the cliffs and stirred more shrieking from far above. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I stand there, looking at the house, and the fears come back again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’d go out any late afternoon and come back loaded down with game. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He pivots and comes back to sit on the side of my bed. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

"These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross that line, there's no coming back. Mark my words." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The memory of sirens, of me walking into the principal’s office where the cops were gathered, of Annie’s cuffed wrists, her tear-streaked face looking up at me in shock, comes back to me now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad looks around in the darkness and comes back shaking his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You can always come back and study your butt off after dinner, after we talk to Newt and Alby. Come on.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The teenager came back with two men who helped the old man to his feet and carried him out of the alley. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There would be an accident of course and later on in the afternoon, when I came back from my walk, I should find Frith white and frightened waiting for me with a message. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They talked a minute, Timmy pointed toward Grandpa’s house, and the stranger, shifting the saddle to his other arm, came back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I came back I was on the fire escape with a saltshaker in my hand. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He picked her up and whispered, “Have they come back, Moxie? Have you seen them?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colour had come back to his face, and his eyes were clear, and fully awake and aware. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

“Dr. Cable was already working on ways to change memories, a way of erasing the Smoke forever from people’s minds. When they took my father for the operation, he never came back.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Waiting for some long- dead, long-forgotten scene to come back to life. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee came back and took his seat at the end of the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the consequences of Bantu Education came back to haunt the government in unforeseen ways. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There one thing I haven’t told you yet. A surprise. Buddy going to be here as well as Hamilton. Buddy just come back from Mobile. He helping out on the farm now.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Those days were over and they weren’t coming back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back, he said we were moving to Euclid. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The mother and daughters move like oil through the clear dark fluid of this crowd, mingling and then coming back to itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When are you going to come back?” she asks, even though she’d heard the same conversation that I had. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was silent for a moment, then, “You think he’ll come back for you, Dana, your...husband?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, we could come back in an hour if you need more time,” Jennifer said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Until they make amends, bad people will come back in the next life as snakes, slugs, or worms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a year. One year. Stake me for a year and let me go. When I come back, I’ll work a year for nothing and pay you back.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came back to that again and again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He said, “Hat! You come back for us, didn’t you?” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Karl came back with a small, sound coffin he had built himself. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hidalgo went to the kitchen and came back a minute later with a glass of water that I instantly gulped down. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“She said we have to come back for an answer in an hour.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Once draggers take you to the Field, you don’t never come back. Beasts take you.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might even have thought that someone who had been murdered had come back and was murdering the murderer, who was shrieking. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The brothers will come back to it again and again. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Others have tried. Somehow I keep coming back from the dead.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If there were time — if the medic had finished with the ones he was fairly sure he could save — he would come back to the kid to see what he could do. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, when Henry looks at him again, watches him take the first blessed sip of coffee, the smile comes back in earnest. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The old man had been chased away because of his spells and now they were going to have to beg him to come back again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

‘But I will endure Fangorn, if I have your promise to come back to the caves and share their wonder with me.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They swarm around my framed art, hovering at the wall like bees, making bids for the silent auction and walking away, then coming back again to see if anyone else has made a bid. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then the wave came back, the gully boiled before them and spray dashed up to the very creeper so that the boys were wet and shrieking. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He attended a special conference and when he came back he looked tired and thin, and wasn’t allowed to tell her where he had been. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Bring your hair things when you come back and you can have a cup of hot tea while I redo your pigtails.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She stood over her mother and thought, How will I tell this news to Father when he comes back? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The young men stopped visiting; not one came back. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I got home the pain started to come back and I had to lie on the sofa for two days and take lots of painkillers... The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Smith’s high jinks with the press and Seabiscuit’s recent history of scratches had come back to haunt him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama sighs, but playfulness has come back into her voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came back to sit at the table, searching my face with an eight-year-old’s earnestness. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She came back with you for Christmas a few years ago. Dark and plump?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That oversized bright blue chair has come back into view. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That night the fair came back to him with extra clarity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I started to wind the stem when the operator came back. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And neither of them are places you come back from. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“When I came back, I thought I was going to be able to sell my dad’s house and leave immediately,” she said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember later? You came back with a hatchet to kill me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, with the memories coming back... he’d never been this far away from home before. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, they’ll come back in, all right,” he assured the recruit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mid-afternoon he came back to the Near Hind relaxed and confident, and slept until one of the sentries woke him for silflay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dri gagged and hurried away to the bathroom and never came back. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee stopped to let me go throw up, and when I came back from the ditch, the other boys had climbed up on a stone wall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” she said, “it can come back to life.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Aibileen comes back with a tray holding a teapot and two cups that don’t match, paper napkins folded into triangles. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rat had never come back, but the bugs had multiplied hideously in the heat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On entering the store, Grandpa walked to the post office department, and came back with a newspaper in his hand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came back for you, you were bending over a skinny puppy with huge dark eyes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She b-b-born right here on this beach and like it so well she come back and have her kids.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam sends Michael with a milk bottle of warm tea, a few cuts of bread smeared with dripping, a note to say Laman Griffin isn’t angry anymore and I can come back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Good or bad, you’re bound to relive it in your head now and then—and sometimes after you’ve gone there, it’s a shock to come back. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The woman’s words came back to her like shards of glass, cutting into her: We’ll never stop. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But I clung grimly, thinking my mast and keel would come back to the surface when she spouted. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z