Pausing briefly to take up a candle from one of the wall sconces, the steward proceeded to go down the steps I had noticed in the corner of the great room. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

So in 1942, Ohio native and father of one Wilson Coolidge, who'd bought the house from Ruth Weiss four years earlier, was struck by a car on the corner of American and Joy. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He walked to a coat rack in the corner, took a black robe from it, and put it on. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He went around the corner, and when I got back to the car, Chas was gone. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My face feels hot, and my eye is tugging hard into a corner. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I heard laughter as he reinforced the corners with glee. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In some corner of our hearts we all drew back, knowing he was right. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucky is one of those incredibly slobbery dogs, with slime leaking over black lips at the corners of her mouth. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I limped wildly from corner to corner of the square, searching madly for the old farmer who had given me a ride. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Moody, however, paused, his magical eye on the corner where Harry was standing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She sees me out of the corner of her eye. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear saw Kang in a corner of the wine shop, sitting with his legs outstretched and his hands behind his head. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I’d worn Granddad’s old trunks, and Dad had worked my corner. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I scooted as far to the inside of the sidewalk as I could to give them room, walking swiftly, looking past them to the corner. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were blind corners everywhere, perfect for ambushes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One ear was folded back and plastered to a sticky corner of the bandage on his head. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

As it was Halloween, a cloud of live bats was fluttering around the enchanted ceiling, while hundreds of carved pumpkins leered from every corner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Somkit still hadn’t come back, he leaned around the corner of the storage shed to look for him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was always a surprise to turn a corner and see him standing there, totally immersed in whatever he was curious about that day. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the corner behind Dyedka’s goat cart, a large hole had been made in the side of the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mom was also in the food court, alone, sitting in a corner where she thought I couldn’t see her, eating a cheesesteak sandwich and reading through some papers. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Alby pointed to the southwest corner, the forest area fronted with several sickly trees and benches. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you have that book, the one with the turned-down corners?” he asked. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a cruel maze, with every corner taunting them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a converted shipping container around the corner where we’d hang out when we got tired of the wall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I ended up tossing the book on the heap of gifts in the corner of my room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Around the corner the elevators were waiting, and I dashed forward, throwing my hand between the closing doors of a full elevator headed down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A matching echo came from the kitchen, and then, from the other corner of the living room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just a few more seconds so the others could get around the corner, where they’d have some protection from a blast. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Reaching the corner of the anchor, he peered around it and saw a narrow alley that dissolved into rubble. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of her eye, Aru saw a giant wave of rising poison liquid. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The one and only bathroom was by the front door, set into a corner. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she took another few steps she saw them, dark shapes in the furthest corner. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We turned the corner at Kew Gardens Drive just as the sun was setting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pile of wooden cigar boxes was stacked in one corner. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was in the forest. A Russian cornered her. She followed me here. She has a couple potatoes. Now, leave me alone,” I said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The two teams are in different corners of the field, and a crowd of a few hundred is slowly growing bigger. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They show the corners of the war we aren't supposed to talk about. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rupa bent to sweep the floor in tidy arcs, lifting the longer sari draped across the room and ducking under it to reach the far corners of the one-room hut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

First I go down the street to the corner store and ask Mr. Wallace does he have any sort of old cheese or lunch meat he can sell me cheap. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we were in that house that we used to live in and it came around the corner but nobody had wound it up and it was really scary. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“The front door goes here, the ladder to the sleeping loft there, and this corner’s the special reading nook. I bet you didn’t know you could fit so much into the smallest space, huh?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He glanced at Jack and saw that Jack was watching him out of the corners of his eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The two girls climbed in and sat in the corner. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I find a ceiling corner and look there. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She stuck close to the building, and when she turned the corner, she walked under the row of windows. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

During the preparations for the final firing of the kiln, he had secreted the little monkey in a corner and managed to retrieve it afterward without Min’s notice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Harry saw Luna, all eyes in her white face, and the motionless figure of Ollivander the wandmaker, curled up on the floor in the corner. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The room was dark except for the flickering light of a candle on the corner table. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

My limbs grew heavy, and after a time I found myself sitting on the porch, the corners of the boards digging into the backs of my thighs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have some pennies in my pocket so I stop at the corner store for some candy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Black Tips’ lieutenant might have wrinkles creasing the corners of his eyes and burgeoning jowls beneath his sideburns, but he looked confident, experienced. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Moss’s mother told him to avoid that corner at all costs, but no one was hanging around that afternoon. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She turned to her own doorway, but not before seeing the corner of the boy’s mouth curl up in a smile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He walks with me back down the sidewalk until I am safely at the next corner, then he shoves me again, just a little, moving me the other way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I keep walking and turn at the corner. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His hair finger-combed over his left eye, and the edge of the oily stain on the sweatshirt barely visible in the bottom right corner. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stood in a corner and watched my siblings trickle in. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Bad Leg at the corner, he’s not just a crazy man. He is Papa Legba and he is opening doors and big, big gates. I will show you. I promise.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A trace of a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore brand-new hornrimmed glasses and he adjusted them at the corners after each swallow. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high dead eyelids wrinkled more, the corners of his mouth snaked up as he chuckled, sly, hardly hiding his malice. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner there was another clipping, this one from the New York Times. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We walk over to a corner of the studio where there’s a platform with one chair pulled up to it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In high school physical education classes, I withdrew, in the regular company of five or six classmates, to a distant corner of a football field where we smoked and talked. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he was asleep, but he mumbled from the corner, “I was pretty amazing, wasn’t I?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled the corner of the label off my beer bottle with my thumb, reminding myself that I was doing this for Elle. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Bennie’s corner of Brooklyn looked different every time Sierra passed through it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Round the corner a long arm was groping, walking on its fingers towards Sam, who was lying nearest, and towards the hilt of the sword that lay upon him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I grinned at myself, the lower lip turned up at the corners, just like Grandpa’s. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Santos is snared in an INS raid of day laborers waiting for work on a street corner and deported. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a drunken voice rises from the far corner of the inn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Delicately pinching the stem of the bud through the fabric of my sleeve, I move slowly around the corner and find him sitting on a stool against the wall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After the class, Aimee cornered her mom to ask her who I was. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As he rounded the corner, the sound of muffled laughter filtered out from near the Dumpsters. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They ducked around the corner of the building to drink it, careful not to spill any as they poured it into their mouths. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corners of his lips turn down as though he disapproves of my being up at this hour. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the southeastern corner of Kentucky, in the stretch of the Appalachian Mountains known as the Cumberland Plateau, lies a small town called Harlan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Amy flicks the corner of the tarp back to see outside. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By the wrinkles on his face she could tell that he was long overdue to turn a corner. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I was on the corner at 125th and Lexington in Harlem. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I have three minutes to get to Modern Social Thought and I am being pressed into the back corner of the library wing bathroom by a thousand Charlies. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This won’t work,” the boy says, hiding in a dark corner. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ll inch along this wall, head to the parking lot, round the corner, and burst through the front door.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I squeezed myself into a corner on the other side of a short set of stairs to an apartment building and tried to disappear into the shadows. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first blow broke the beak sideways and black blood spurted from the twisted, leathery mouth corners. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he see me out of the corner of his eye? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He’d been cornered by her earlier that day, and in order to escape her chattering on and on about not leaving her treasure behind, he’d agreed to help. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Huge wooden-wheeled carts streamed into the market square from the orchards, and long caravans bound for the four corners of the kingdom made ready to leave. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one corner of the tank, snuggled in a forest of fake kelp, was a life-sized plastic gingerbread cottage with bubbles coming out of the chimney. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As I was thinking this I saw an old servant woman stooping over the same low table gutting a fish, looking at me from the corner of her eye. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was in the farthest corner of the room. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, I knew how a visit to the dance hall would end—standing alone in the corner, wishing I had stayed home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All tied up and watching the engine come around the corner. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, she lives around the corner from me. On Marigold?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I bought my ticket, then went hurriedly to the corner of the block in which the movie house stood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got around the corner I noticed that I was alone. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time he turned a corner and found the three apprentice boys crowded around the poor creature’s udders and snickering as they sprayed each other with milk, he was in a foul mood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tears hung in the corners of her eyes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Joseph Stalin himself could’ve been standing in the corner and I wouldn’t have cared. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the quiet corner of the ICU I start to really think about the bitter things I’ve managed to ignore so far today. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a corner she saw a stuffed llama; on the tables were bottles filled with amber-colored liquids, and on the floor the skins of exotic animals. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we face Hernando's bodega instead, where we can see some of the guys on the corner doing what they usually do. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The car with the glove is moving away, it’s turned the corner, it’s gone, and I haven’t moved. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only minutes into the game, Jeremiah took a throw-in on the far side, near the corner. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt turned a corner and saw a female police officer helping an injured man in a suit limp down the street. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my vision, they seem to stir. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She paused at the corner and came back to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was the one who would turn the corner and see what tomorrow held in store. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I said good evening to Mr. Szymczak, our new neighbor downstairs, buying a German newspaper on the corner, and he just shook his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Madame DuPont walks to the door and asks who it is, carefully lifting a free corner of the paper taped over the slim window. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Taisin could feel the forced cheer coming from Kaede, who regarded her with serious brown eyes, her mouth slowly turning down at the corners as the grin faded. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, a half smile curling the corner of her mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pull my sweatshirt closer to my body, looking away at the pile of yoga mats in the corner, trying to ignore the fact that that open space? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room there’s a bloodstained sheet, bundled and tossed there, from when the waters broke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of her eye she saw him looking at her back, most of which was exposed by her damp, white undershirt. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can also find a quiet corner to write in peace. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He watched his father from the corners of his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A smile tugged at the corners of Koffi’s lips, wry but not unkind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the corner of his eye, Jason caught a glimpse of movement—a blur of red and gold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was then that a flash of lightning illuminated the byre, and in the light, Dunstan saw something small and hairy in the corner, wearing a large floppy hat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As we turn the corner to Block 2, I stumble. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Right before homeroom I corner Roger by his locker and ask him if we can get earlier appointments, like for this afternoon. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I explained that “going out” means that my mother stands on the corner with a “Homeless! Will Work for Food” sign. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Over here,” Sohrab said, which was unnecessary, since the spray of the showers echoed from around the corner. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sheed plucked at the fabric of his new shirt, forced himself not to look at his jersey in the corner. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The flowers’ petals curved coyly around the corners of rocks as if they were trying to peek at who might be passing by. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“You need me I’m right around the corner, man. Second door on the left.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dworkin made me stand in a corner for almost an hour. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A woman sitting hunched over in a back corner caught my eye. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in the corner of the library splitting their take of the year sevens’ pocket money. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Neel had climbed all the tall palm trees, waded in the creeks, and foraged for wild guavas in every corner of the mangrove forest. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has fought his way out of a number of tight corners by a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I nodded, seeing him take two of the other men by the arm and retreat to a corner. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Jeanne chewed, tears formed at the corners of her eyes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A splash of turquoise in the corner of the balcony catches my eye. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I walk to Claire’s bed, throw back the bottom corner of the spread, and slide my hand beneath the mattress. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I dashed down the path and around the corner of the shed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs and saw a big, lathered-up mongrel cornering a little black kid of about five or six against the monument. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I head to my favorite spot—the two-seater in the corner next to the conductor’s box. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

From the corners of his eyes he caught a blue flicker. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hoping to get sent to a corner, where I could fantasize about a grand Cinderella wedding with Jonathan Rodriquez as my groom. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Pet stepped out from a corner, still massive, still gold and streaked fur and hardblood curled horns. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I misjudged the distance and as we fell, his head hit the corner of the coffee table. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The mangle turned of its own accord in a corner, wringing out what looked like one of Mr. Weasley’s vests. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

With her eyes half-open, Tessie gazed out across the dark bedroom glinting and sparking in the corners, and saw before her all the items I had ever worn or possessed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

‘But you won’t send him off alone surely, Master?’ cried Sam, unable to contain himself any longer, and jumping up from the corner where he had been quietly sitting on the floor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The living room has a square dining table in one corner, and a desk and file cabinets set up in another. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though he did see old, wise Father Time in a corner booth next to a less-than-energetic Game Time. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the steps came around the corner and into the narrow hall, and then Oscar stepped inside the closet and ran his hand over the hanging suits and dresses, then stopped cold. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I pull the left-hand curtain so that it falls between us, across my face, and after a moment he walks on, into the invisibility around the corner. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clears her throat and lifts the napkin to the corner of her eye. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to get stuck like so many of the women she saw on porch steps and street corners looking like they’d been through a war of their own making. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Jumping out of bed, Joe grabbed a rifle from the corner and charged through the front door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood on the corner for a long time watching the kids lug their junk up Manhattan Avenue to Carney’s junk shop. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down in a corner by myself. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I saw the muzzle of his rifle around a corner, but before I could move, he shot me between the legs. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Told you I wouldn’t like to get on the wrong side of Frank, didn’t I, Dot?” said an excited woman in the corner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If there’s a thunderstorm or fireworks or a lot of sirens Devon lets me sit in the hidey-hole in the corner between the foot of his bed and his dresser. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another corner were some wooden crates that looked more intact, and some wicker boxes bound with leather straps. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I board the elevator and press 16, crushed into the corner by a group of kids and their moms getting on behind me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, so the cart drivers suspended woolen blankets between four stakes that stuck up from the corners of the carts. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The remnants of the baleen clustered in sticky gobs at the corners of her mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At the corners of the lips, and on each side of the chin, a few long bristles gleamed almost white against the dark skin. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, madam,” she said to a woman sitting in the corner of the car. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Great fat tears oozed out of the corners of Hagrid’s crinkled eyes again; he grasped Harry’s arm and shook it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He steps across the bare floor to the corner. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

When it turned the corner, he waved them down. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could see them turning the corner close on her heels, moving fast toward us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fair’s engineers conducted the first test twelve feet from the lagoon on ground intended to support the northeast corner of the Electricity Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take forever for me to get to the corner. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have landed in the corner of a field at dusk; Hermione was already running in a circle around them, waving her wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A reporter cornered some grocer in an apron, or a woman in the door of her shop, both of them looking drawn and weary. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a corner glowed two of the boxlike furnaces. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He moved to a back corner, beneath what looked like a kind of rubber plant, and pointed out a birdcage, which I hadn’t seen before. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The rhythm tingled as I pulled small toddler-like shadows from the corners of the mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They started to leak from the corner of my eyes and I prayed silently that my brothers would not notice. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps she is,” said Mr. Banks, putting his nose round the corner of the newspaper for a moment and then withdrawing it very quickly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He crouched in the corner, nestled in the ivy, and threw his blanket over himself, head and all. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Both gave instructions on proper behavior: Don’t hang out on street corners. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He grabbed it by the corner and blew on the writing to preserve its perfection. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emily guessed there were more houses in this one corner of California than in the entire state of New Mexico, where they had most recently moved from. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s time for you to go,” Amy says, dropping the corner of the tarp. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In one corner are bags of clay stacked on shelves. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Empty turtle shells stood drying in the corner, and the cook’s assistant stirred the thick soup bubbling over the fire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needles swore and cursed, saliva building in the corners of his mouth, tears raining down his face, but his eyes were fixed on his brother. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"Found this in my mother's bathroom," Candace explained as they walked up to the corner, where Ms. Post, the crossing guard, stood. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’d just rounded the corner when Gaily came screaming out of the Homestead, looking like a ferocious beast on the loose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“She dumped him. And anyway, he’s weird, but he’s pretty, I wish he would just stand in the corner of my room so I could look at him.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tears streamed down her face, and even though I couldn’t see anybody else’s face, really, I could tell a lot of people were crying by the way folks were thumbing the corners of their eyes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He fiddled with his gloves, tightening them on his fingers as he rounded the corner. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the corner behind me the breeze also rustled the papers hanging from the Students’ Garden, a beautifully decorated piece of cardboard that displayed exemplary work. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked unnatural on someone who seemed to always have a grin tucked in the corner of his mouth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I loaded his plate down with the last slices of tongue and set it in front of him before retreating to my corner. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blobby gesture at a sofa near the door, and his trademark fake orchids in the corners. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chairs lined the walls, divided evenly by magazine tables, and there was the usual rubber tree expiring in the corner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hatsue’s father took his shotgun from the closet and set it in the corner of the living room, unloaded. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn't far, and just as I reached the corner of Lenox a car pulled up and I saw several men inside, Jack among them, smiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I tried to follow. Of course, it vanished almost at once; but I went round the corner and on as far as the last house on the Road.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She twirls her pasta, dabs the corners of her wrinkly mouth with a red napkin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She nodded yes, and Carney flipped the junk off and made her wait while he piled the paper in one corner, threw the rags in another and sorted out the metals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the grandfather clock in the corner and was shocked to discover it was only four-thirty. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoes in the corner were all old-fashioned black or brown leather, except for one pair made from canvas and covered in dried mud. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He reached a corner and went into a drug store. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A strange, dark whirlwind swept through the dusty street and cried mournfully around the corner of the saloon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the corner of his eye, Jason saw Piper flash him an approving smile. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her eyes look off into the corner as she thinks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he got up, drew the grey elven-cloak about him, and to keep his mind occupied, began to walk to and fro, prying and peering into every corner of his prison. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I made my way over to the corner, through the rows of wounded soldiers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before we rounded a corner I looked back over my shoulder and saw the night-watch guy bumbling into the road in front of the house. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A drop of gravy clung to the corner of his mouth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits were taken to a corner and given a low bed to lie on, if they wished. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was pulling Horace up by his arms when the door slammed in my face and a burned dresser lifted out of the corner and flew across the room. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I move through the kitchen, around the corner to the head chef’s office. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the twins’ help, Harry’s trunk was at last tucked away in a corner of the compartment. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His polo shirt with the Gunners logo in the top right corner had sweat stains under the armpits. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of one battered eye, Shirley spotted the enemy stalking them. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sat back in a corner of the basket while his dæmon perched on the suspension ring, her claws dug deep in the leather binding. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they enter the apartment, he pulls away and runs to the corner of the kitchen, behind the door and stands with his forehead pressed against the tile wall, trembling and moaning. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She gave the perambulator a little twist with her hand and it turned a corner and drew up suddenly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

From the way the corners of her eyes crinkled, I knew that she was smiling. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The corners are tucked in tight like a paper football we might have flicked through straw goalposts last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Lourdes sits in the darkest corner of the bar and begins to cry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Will it be the tug on their heartstrings that makes it all too much, that makes them turn to a convenient comedy to take their minds off the harsh corners of the world? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The corner of his mouth pulled up in a rueful smile. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When we got there, the barn was dark except for a double stall in the corner. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

To Stuart they seemed enormous, and he hoped he would be able to get aboard one of them and sail away to the far corners of the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

But by the time she got into formation, she’d replaced her annoyed look with a big smile, her eyes crinkling at the corners. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He moved away, about to turn the corner. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Now we shall try a new way. You and I will read these pleasant little marchen together, and dig no more in that dry book, that goes in the corner for making us trouble.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not there, but in a corner sat Russell, the young man who had been campaigning around the village, begging the Eskimos to vote “No” on requests for liquor licenses by the local restaurants. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grindylow bared its green teeth and then buried itself in a tangle of weeds in a corner. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

After a moment I stole a glance at the white man out of the corners of my eyes; he was still staring out the window, his mind fastened upon some inward thought. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone tripped over Ralph and Piggy's corner became a complication of snarls and crashes and flying limbs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When they rounded a corner, they flattened themselves fast against the building to catch what followed unawares moving steadily forward. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on chewing the corner of his lower lip and staring at the pitcher. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She hissed and spat like a cornered animal. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But are we truly young when we turn the corner? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She’s quiet as we round a corner, and I can see her house in the distance. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He found the jersey in the corner of his room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When he got to the Port Authority, he saw a vendor on the street corner, selling bags of nuts. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He mentioned this to the goose, who was sitting quietly in a corner of the sheepfold. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was a longer walk than she remembered, and they saw the train steaming up just as they turned the corner. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to her own doorway, but not before seeing the corner of the boy’s mouth curl up in a smile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The entire community would fit in one tiny corner of Mr. Derby’s plantation, Amari observed, as she walked past the small gardens of the people who lived there. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost to the top when Annie rounded the corner in front of me on her way down. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Reed stumbled past him and halted at the corner of the main hatchway. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

More of those blurry, shriveled white flowers recoiled out of the thin light, rolling to the far corner, where something moved. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A desperate smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I squeezed my eyes shut, sending the tangled nightmares back to the corners of my mind, then opened them to continue to examine my surroundings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In beret and glasses Marius stood on the corner waking people up to things. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I slam into the stone again and again, remembering how Noah’s grief filled the whole house, every corner, every crevice. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was behind a column, peeking around the corner, all his attention focused on the dining area. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Quickly Kira turned a corner to escape a confrontation, but the memory of the sarcastic question and the woman’s smirk accompanied her home. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks to a dark corner and turns on a light. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Joan was leaning on one corner of the piano and leafing through a new issue of some fashion magazine, and DeeDee smiled up at her as if the two of them shared a secret. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I say and I sit down in the yellow armchair in the corner. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The cars shift and jerk as we round a corner, and I stop, clinging to the top rail until we’re once again on a straightaway. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

This time, Leah’s paper wad grazes the corner of his mouth. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

One corner was piled with strange treasures—jade idols, spiked scepters, and jeweled masks. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

‘Then you two shall go into a corner and finish your task, and we will hear it and judge it before we end our merrymaking.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In his dressing room, Hector Bowen chuckles to himself while his daughter stands quietly in a corner, looking at the scar on her hand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, he headed straight for the Deadheads, went deep into the forest until he reached the spot where the trees crowded against the southwest corner. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the corner nearest the door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In a corner of the room stand two galvanized buckets filled to the rim with water. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I can't risk someone coming around the corner and finding me here in tears. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She recognized the boy who had rounded the corner. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some fellow thinks he’s going to be the master of Africa and winds up with his nice European-tailored suit rumpled in a corner and his wits half cracked from the filaires itching under his skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led Harry and Luna to a corner, where a small cupboard opened onto a steep staircase. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said, rifling through the basket to find my favorite board, the one with La Luna, the moon, in the right corner block. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A time stamp is burned into the lower left corner of the image, just like on the shaky home videos Dad used to take. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Find the page with the corner turned down.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Luke sat in the corner, sipping water and trying to will his body up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Several cardboard boxes of busted laptops and computer parts sat in the corner, next to a rack of old car batteries and a modified exercise bike I’d rigged up as a recharger. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He turned the corner and walked, his head down, his hands dug into his pockets, going to Dalton’s. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up in my parents’ bedroom, he in an easy chair and me sitting on the corner of their bed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’ll soon find out,” said Oscar and turned the corner. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And it gives me time to scan the cafeteria for a friendly face or an inconspicuous corner. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They lay unused in the corner of a table drawer in the house at Barrow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put down the binoculars and felt my stomach flip, as though I’d been cornered. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

What could those red and green lights mean at the corner of the road? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She takes care of herself, mainly. But she couldn't take care of us, y'know," Patty explained, now fingering the corners of her eyes. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The building’s first floor had space for five retail stores, the best of which was a large and inviting corner shop on the intersection of Sixty-third and Wallace. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At Lupita’s nod, he let go and both of them walked hurriedly down the street and around the corner into a littered alley. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Soon as Grandma saw Shayleen she pulled Uncle Drum around the corner of the kitchen. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In Lockhart, after conducting our business, Harry loitered on the corner so he could admire the figures of the ladies strolling by, exhibiting the latest finery from the local milliner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When I busted ’round the corner I saw Mr. Alston squatting ’gainst a wagon wheel watching the other men tossing the white spotty boxes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Grill Woman’s hair was wrapped tight on top of her head, pulling her eyes up at the corners. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In her lighted corner, pillows propped behind her, Laura sat up inventing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In one corner of the room was a haphazard dress Dad was working on, pinned to a bust in a dozen places. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A yellow cab came around the corner and parked in front. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The bedroll is also empty, as is the horse blanket in the corner. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The boy moved quickly around the corner and out of sight of the iron door and the gray cement walls of the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if a policeman walked by, people melted into the corners like shadows in the sun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Milo walked sadly to the window and squeezed himself into one corner of the large armchair. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The warning was fleeting, banished to the back corners of my mind, where it wouldn’t interrupt how good it felt to touch him—how right. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As they turned the corner, they distinctly heard Professor McGonagall blow her nose. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His dad sat in a corner booth, watching every move Toby made. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One night he burglarizes a corner store and steals food, toothpaste, Pepsi, and diapers for his baby boy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we were all nervous this afternoon, anyway. It is a rude shock to turn that corner and get a clear look at Hill House.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We turned a corner and the houses became downright scary. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He sat in the corner, spooning it in as if he hadn’t eaten in a week. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She gestures toward a puffy chair in the nearby corner for me to sit on, before retreating back to her place near the window. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Because, even as a young child, I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house, the ones that chased my mother until she hid in a secret dark corner of her mind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a box fan tucked into the corner, so I dragged it away from the wall and turned it on. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We were standing at the corner of Jellicoe Avenue and Oxford Road, right in the heart of Johannesburg’s wealthy, white suburbia, and there were no minibuses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tears pop into the corners of my eyes instantly. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stalas was cramped in the corner, his broken leg splinted with a board. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then you tell yourself to click a little x in the top corner of the thought to make it go away. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She spotted a woman in a corner who was rocking a child who was not there. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Morris and Uncle Charlie stood in the corner shouting information about what to do next, even though they didn't have televisions themselves. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Fear seeped in at the corners of the room. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When the cocoa's drained down to the sweet dark stuff at the bottom of the cup, we get up and walk back outside, then to the corner. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My family lives on this side so you three sleep in that corner over there.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the truck turned the corner and they were gone. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new man went to stand on the corner. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Whether or not atoms make life in other corners of the universe, they make plenty else; indeed, they make everything else. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a neon sign on the wall shaped like an ice-cream cone, black-and-white tiled floors, and a jukebox in the corner. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were so high up, so dangerously high...Chaol stopped before rounding a corner. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t hear me call, nor see me flap my parasol in front, and there we were, quite helpless, rattling away, and whirling around corners at a breakneck pace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told Manny to have Billy leave from the corner without stairs and he had to jump from the ring. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day, while at some task, he would pause and giggle, then smother it with his hand, looking at me out of the corner of his eyes, shaking his head. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagines her in a bed in the corner, sullen, emaciated, a cloud of smoke over her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed an amateur jazz trio laboring through standards on a park corner. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the corner cage two tom cats started an argument and the whole cageful commented with growls and arched backs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex had bruised his knee in the last fall and he knew that it was only a matter of time before they cornered him and finished him off. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She laughs, and out of the corner of her mouth says, “That boy’s jawline could cut glass.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Jordan, who was working days now, had gone to work, and Gerald had found a part-time job at the fried-chicken store around the corner. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed for the first time tiny, delicate wrinkles at the corners of her lips and on her forehead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were slightly larger crinkly paper cups for water, which I poured from the drinking fountain in the corner of Mrs. Killinger’s office. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At that same moment, a man comes out of the driver’s side and takes long, deliberate steps toward the corner. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But then he turned the corner, reaching the quay, and the emergency came back to him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were deep lines at the corners of her eyes and around her mouth, but I couldn’t tell if they were from laughing or from crying. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and concentrated, willing the children back to their homes in dark corners and under the moonless sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I went back to my street corner and proceeded to waste three hours begging, not gaining so much as a thin shim for my ef- forts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He went back into the kitchen and got the broom and came out and swept the cover clean and set the broom in the corner and lifted the cover from the tank. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s as much a rehearsal space as a tree house, with another guitar in the corner, as well as notebooks full of lyrics and music. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I often found a lonely corner in my house, sat down, and wrapped my arms tightly around my body. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of her eye, Hazel saw Nina flinch. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A lanky monk whirled around the corner and stumbled toward them, panting. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The red light on Burton’s phone blinked in the corner of her vision. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I took the appropriate amount from my purse and set the coins on a relatively clutter-free corner of the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She grabs Chad and Justin from the corner by the small coatroom and pulls them with her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The white boy leaned over the pail in the corner or simply let the water run from his nose onto the front of his shirt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I detect this out of the corner of my eye, since I try to avoid watching Skeezie relate to food in an ingestive manner. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then, as I turned the corner, I saw her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There’s one at each corner of the park entrance. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. M. de Winter” it said, and in the corner “Manderley.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the very next corner, deep inside the dense, impenetrable shadows of a narrow, winding side street, he heard the mysterious, unmistakable sound of someone shoveling snow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then they were picked up and carried down, down many steps, and round a corner. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On her hands and knees, Sefia peered around the corner, her quick eyes picking out stevedores milling about on the decks and gangways. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mia smiles at me and gives me a quick hug before she runs off to join her teammates, who are standing in a huddle on the corner. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I looked at John crumpled and twisted in the corner, the roller skates pointing every which way. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A squad of mounted policemen lashed themselves around the corner and galloped past, the horseshoes thudding dully through the snow, the men rising high in their saddles, shouting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat for a while scoping out the place, and slowly began dancing by myself in the corner of the dance floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The corner of the hard drive peeks out from under my pillow, where I shoved it right before I fell asleep. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence and emptiness, she rounded the corner and approached the door that had been open the afternoon before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with sweat and the sharp sour smell of beer, and couples dry humped in darkened corners. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He runs around sniffing the corners and crannies of the root cellar. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Its pages are old and worn, some are just about to fall out, some have folded-down corners, but she finds the page she’s looking for and starts reading. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Conor put his hand up to his mouth too late to catch a bit of blood coming out of the corner. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He turned his head and looked at me from the corner of his eye. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie took his hand and with slow dragging steps the children walked around the corner. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After making sure they were securely bound, Leo dragged the Kerkopes into one corner and began rifling through their treasures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It showed just the corner of the Garners’ barn, but when Jen turned it a bit, the entire Garner house came into view. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you think my family is living in this moldy corner of hell for the fifty dollars a month!” she practically shouted at him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door in the corner opened yet again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Detached herself from this city where every street corner was a trap, where every alley hid a ghost that sprang at her like a jack-in-the-box. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I followed the wall straight for a mile until it turned the corner. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I stood on the corner and bit back my tears. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on my horse blanket in the corner, brushing away the flies that have been tormenting me all morning, flitting from scab to scab. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At first, Bobby entered the maze at the top right corner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The focus of the room from this perspective, the TV and VCR, balanced on a too-small wooden stand, were in the southwest corner of the room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I roll to a stop at the light on the corner and scrub my hands up and down my face as I try to process all that happened tonight. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He showed Anna the drugstore, restaurant, and barbershop and took her up to the roof to give her a broader view of Englewood and the pretty, tree-shaded neighborhood that surrounded his corner. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In a far corner behind the weight area, at the bottom of a small flight of stairs, a regular group of inmates practiced some kind of martial art. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A day after the old man spoke in the courtyard, Mr. Milgrom whispered to me in a corner of the room. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Our new baby was beautiful, a little lamb-child with a full head of dark hair and alert brown eyes—the fourth corner to our square. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had gone to dances with other girls and stood in a corner refusing requests, while Ishmael stood among his friends. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she was fourteen she saw a boy on a bike playing chicken with a car at the corner of Eighty-Second Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I glance down at the file sitting in front of her, the name jumping out at me from the upper left-hand corner. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye I see Addie stir. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the far corner of the room, I see Stephanie Bowles looking at the ballot real hard, like she wants to rip it up or something. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was almost empty on the patio outside, just a few older people sipping teas in the far corner, and their voices sounded loud. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I picked one in the back corner, away from the others. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cop car comes rolling around the corner, real slow. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie banged her broom and pail in the corner with that final bang that meant she was through. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a hundred feet or so, they turned a corner and found Hazel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sefia grasped for answers, her vision flooding into the darkest corners of his past, invading his history. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their size and ferocity might make the difference against a cornered direwolf. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Xerox machine hummed quietly in the corner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He rounds the corner and immediately lowers to the ground, his back sliding down the building, not noticing me standing just yards away. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I walked carefully to the nearest street corner, brushing the wall of the buildings on my left with the tip of one finger to steady myself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She fastened her leather sandals over the warm socks and watched as the old woman gathered things from the shelves in the corner. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mother thrust us near the corner, almost on top of the woman. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I look through the glass door, and I can see my file folder there on the corner of the card table, my time line, and the lists of stuff in my room. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

About her grandmother Ajarry who’d been kidnapped from her family in Africa and tilled a small corner of land, the only thing to call her own. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I saw his red truck out of the corner of my eye, the one you always used to make fun of. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The corner of his mouth dimples when he smirks. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But then I notice the faint sound of two voices at a table in a far corner, tucked behind a pair of bookshelves that make them almost impossible to see from the stairs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The principal walks us around the corner to where Amelia is crying. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Shinae was sitting in the corner peeling onions very slowly and yawning. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We ourselves inhabit some lost corner of one. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah could play both offense and defense equally well, just as he could kick the ball equally well with his left and his right foot, making him a threat on corner kicks from either side. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Two rusty fetterlings, screeching and clanking, had cornered a group of older children, like foxes herding chickens. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the morning on my way out the door, I see Silas disappearing around the corner, walking the same death march as yesterday. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Water drips from Len’s chin and he leans into the corner of his chair, trembling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Come on, buddy, let’s get out of here for a little bit and get you some breakfast. There’s a good diner around the corner.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The quiet one pushed the wagon almost to the corner and stopped it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to face him, and he watched her bright smile go tight at the corners. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They stood loafing on the corner, telling jokes and laughing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had two girls on the seat with him and was sitting back in the corner and smoking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Oh, what a thrill there was for Francie when she turned a street corner and saw another store all fixed up for Christmas! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him out of the corner of my eye when he found it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“They’re a nuisance,” Carlyle tells me, as he does his best to poke them out of corners and wash them from the deck. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Mostly, the power was with Leon, whose look was mock-solemn, and consisted of drawing the corners of his mouth downward while rolling his eyes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the distance, across the lake, a truck lumbered around a corner on the hill. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking into a corner of one cell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she spread her arms out, smiled broadly, and began to fly across the beach, bobbing and weaving until she turned the corner of Malaga and was gone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And Margo is sitting in that corner, scrawling in her black notebook. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Laika curled up, dejected, and shivered away from me to a corner of the living room, watching, watching. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I saw that she had marvelous eyes, green and slightly tilted, pointed at the corners,” he later said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She held one corner of the Dresden plate quilt I’d recently finished. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She takes me by surprise because we both hit the corner together, from opposite directions. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He would indeed fight Max Schmeling again, two years later, and Schmeling would last all of two minutes and four seconds before his corner threw in the towel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lina found a cup and filled it from the sink in the corner. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Apá flicks on the light, and the roaches scurry in all directions, looking for dark corners to hide in. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ritchie scores in the corner and then another guy goes in under the posts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then, rounding the corner to the break room, he pointed to the Mars map on the wall. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the granary in a corner of which the small cloth bundle of our savings lay buried. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered around helplessly until finally I noticed the staircase—small and badly lit—in the far corner of the building. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Step quiet,” I whispered as we drew close to the corner again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started walking uptown as Ice headed toward V. J.’s. The two guys I had seen before were on the corner. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When wall-closing time rolled around, he started looking for signs of Grievers, was struck by an icy hesitation at every corner. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad you’re Elizabeth’s friend,” she tells me, the corners of her eyes crinkling in exactly the same way my own nani’s used to. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I can trust you, right?” she asked, still slouched in the corner of the couch. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect octagon, the eight sides joined at the corners by rippling seams of silver. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The party clambered on the truck—Gay drove and Mack sat beside him; they bumped around the corner of Lee Chong’s and down through the lot, threading among the pipes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went and read about chickens in the green chair in the corner of the library. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The corner of her mouth pinches, so much like Henry’s. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Joon nods, his eyes tearing over even though he is holding on to that corner of sky like it is a line to heaven. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ll put on a pot of coffee anyway,” he said, heading around the corner to what I guessed was the kitchen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You might say that this is true for all of the things in that corner of her pack. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Around the corner, in the great room, a videotape of a Florida Gators football game was playing on a big- screen TV. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isobel sits in a rarely occupied armchair in the corner of Marco’s flat, a rainbow of silk ribbon twisted around her fingers as she attempts in vain to form it into a single elaborate braid. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I search the dark corners, but the place is empty. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Turning the corner, he spotted a milk store, its windows brightly lit. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I huddled into a corner of the station, trying to make myself as inconspicuous as possible. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye he saw Luxa raise her hand. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Under a corner of the cabin, on a pile of soft grass, the great yellow cat curled protectively around four tiny balls of fluff. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing more exhilarating than maroon upholstery and oak paneling, and what is that in the corner there? A sedan chair?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Laila sat in a corner and draped her knees with the hem of her dress. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It sneaks out the corner of my mouth before I can stop it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A corner of one of my paintings is visible. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I did actually run, and whisked round the corner where I felt safe.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the week, on street corners, in stores, at shebeens all over the neighbourhood, the talk was about the fight, and black people everywhere were enraptured by Ali’s feats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belts cinch and click from the corner in response. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The southwest corner of the fence abutted the main road but also separated the Lonogan property from the Rude farm. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And I spot Mama in the corner reading the Quran quietly with Salma Auntie and their other friends. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She pauses and the corners of her mouth turn down. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He is standing in a corner of the playground. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They turned the corner and stopped in front of Room 40, their social studies class, to wait with the other students until the teacher arrived. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If she could sound like she grew up right around the corner, she would. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Each time she turned a corner, she expected a posse on horses, with torches and muskets and mean smiles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She slid out from her corner and went after her, watching as the huntress took a seat at the long table with one of her men and a masked reveler dressed as a queen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corner of Dr. Calvin’s lip twitched, “I was afraid you would. It’s difficult to work with you, Herbie. You’re always a step ahead of me.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I waved it by its corner to dry it for a second or two. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wiped the corners of my mouth after lunch, crossed my legs, drank the tea, and listened while Mama talked. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Cliffs rose eighty feet high on either side of the cove, but at the southwest corner they spied a rocky beach where they could haul out. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I turned and lifted a corner of my pillow, and underneath it, on the snow-white sheet, there lay a beautiful golden sovereign with the head of King George V on its uppermost side. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even has a computer on a desk in the corner. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Just before turning left at the corner house where Miss Alice Ann Boozer and Mr. Homer lived, I stopped to let her out—then had an idea. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Every corner has a story; every block asks a question. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Tobias searches every corner of the room, and then shoots at the camera attached to the ceiling on our right. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One, with a toilet and a sink, served as kitchen and bathroom; the other, with a woodstove in a corner, served as living room and bedroom for all six of them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I retreated to a corner of the coach and gazed out the window. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I open the door and walk down the front steps and to the corner. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

You go to the gym, stand in a corner as far away from the action as possible, and try not to be seen. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Yishan still looked like the same boy, tilted dangerously over the bridge’s railing, now with the tip of his tongue sticking out from the corner of his mouth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

With a different kind of man, or in a different kind of house, or with a corner office instead of kids? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I can see the corner of Tobias’s mouth from where I stand, and he is smiling. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each corner of the triangle is rounded like a half-moon, with a platform inside. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I ran across the asphalt, which sloped toward the corner of one of the buildings. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We started off down the drive, swerving at the corner, going rather too fast. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the rear corner at the south end of the church. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like forever, but was really only fifteen minutes, the bright train lights finally came flooding around the corner. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just as she was rounding the corner of the hostel she heard the swift passage of an arrow followed by a thud as it struck its target. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We squared off the first sheet, holding its corners the way we did to make the big bed in Mama’s room, and then pulled it across the hood of the car. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So one corner might be the Dell group, another might be flying the flag of Microsoft. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

A soft breeze drifted through the room, cross-ventilation being one of the benefits of a corner office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had turned the corner, resetting back to her late twenties. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mother chaperoned the dance and was looking on from a place in the corner. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Mark my words,” he said, ushering them around a corner. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just go out to your neighborhood and find a corner to stand on? That’s what you want from life, isn’t it?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The world will give you that once in a while, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jane takes me off into a corner backstage, secluded behind the set, and says, "You really did all that? You looked after him in Little League?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

All that time, I was listening for Nathan's car or my daddy's or my mother’s—someone's!—to turn the corner and pull up in the driveway or in front of the house. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Audrey took a step back just as Lumpy rounded the corner and she stumbled against him. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

As she lay there staring up at the stained canvas, she could have sworn she saw movement out of the corner of her eye: Nin stirring beneath the mound of clothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the top right corner I draw his mouth with his lips curled up to show he’s happy. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rat captains gathered in the corner of the sickroom. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I told him to meet me on the corner of Jefferson and Broadway, and he immediately knew that I was trying to keep this little hookup a secret from my sisters—and my parents. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In a few moments, I’m close enough for her to see me out of the corner of her eye. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my eye, I see him shaking. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju’s condo was in a cluster of stucco buildings, the neighborhood carefully landscaped, boulders placed at corners, and in the evenings, friendly people walked their handsome dogs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He looked around to see a gaggle of first years running back around the corner, apparently under the impression that they had just encountered a particularly foulmouthed ghost. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Out to the four corners of the world, answering the sea’s call. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I noticed out of the corner of my eye that Jake was poking Tyler behind my back. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Through it Mariam could see that it, like the rest of the house, was sparsely furnished: bed in the corner, with a brown blanket and a pillow, a closet, a dresser. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“No,” I admitted, grimacing as the coach careened around a corner so sharply, I expected us to crash. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The girl’s eyes widened in fear, reminding Lyddie, oh cuss it, of Rachel’s silent face as the child sat crouched within herself in the corner of Mrs. Bedlow’s kitchen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she had everything stored at the back of the cave, she built a fire, boiled pumpkin, and toasted a few soldier termites she cornered in the baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella felt like her feet had gone frozen—she couldn’t get herself to move away, but from the corner of her eye, she saw Tony running across the square. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Japanese lanterns with candles in them hung on bamboo sticks at the corners, and red crepe paper twisted in scallops from the center to the corners to give the effect of a tent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At such moments my flesh is thin and tight, and the unbearable hunger to be part of it drives me out to search in the dark corners and blind alleys of the night. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t forget I grew up right around the corner from you.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The duct tape was sitting right there on the corner of my father’s tidy workbench. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I walk over to a dying potted plant, in this city full of potted plants, wedged in a corner of Heidi’s first floor lobby. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Tucked away in the electronics corner, Zane did his best to tread lightly, quietly. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was a second picture tucked into the corner of the frame. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

No one could persuasively explain how it had managed to cross two thousand miles of hostile ocean but then failed to find its way around the corner of a 200-mile-wide island. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if it’s my imagination, but a fresh crease of the green tonic seems to line the corners of his lips. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was at the end of the aisle, pretending to look at bunion pads to hide myself behind the corner shelf unit, but I saw that the bandage on her cheek was not small. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Mother slid into the seat and wiggled into a corner, where she tried to hide behind a magazine. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl ran into a corner, half-stooped and gathered the hem of her slip into both of her hands and held it tightly over her knees. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost like a starburst flashed from the corner of his teeth, like the cartoon dad on the candy cigarette box. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As though their tree would be anything other than it had always been: the huge shadowy thing in a corner burdened with decorations she had had since she was a girl. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man pushed the pile of middle school debris into the corner, then pulled out a million keys, flipping through them like pages of a book. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He stood facing the corner with his hands by his sides. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A smile creeps into the corner of my mouth as I see myself. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As we get closer to town we pass multifamily dwellings and some outlying businesses—a gas station, a corner shop, a nursery stocked with flowers the colors of autumn leaves: rust and gold and crimson. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a policeman standing on the street corner. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The corner of Mr. Griswold’s mouth twitched as an unreadable emotion briefly waved across his face. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My hair was receding and streaked with gray, and lately I’d traced little crow's-feet etched around the corners of my eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A tear formed in the corner of Dozer’s eye. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the corner of my eye, I watched him draw a match from his brass vesta case and light it with an unassuming flick of his fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Countess was curled up in the opposite corner near the window. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flipped through the cash, folding the corners like Grandpop taught him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes to see that he had shifted slightly, so his face pointed toward the corner off to my right. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was an upright piano in the far corner of the room beyond the wooden tables and Bill went over and started to play. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the corner of the next block he ran into Simms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Stand over there,” he said, pointing to the corner where the two bookshelves met each other. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two walls of the hotel stand, joined at the corner, bits of plaster attached to the inner wall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the eye corners a crust of hard mucus stuck. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother handed me the candle and headed toward the table in the corner. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I see Nathan sit down at his own table, eating alone. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Resurrection Stone slipped from between his numb fingers, and out of the corner of his eyes he saw his parents, Sirius, and Lupin vanish as he stepped forward into the firelight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hugo swept his arm toward the corner where, sure enough, the tower of coffee cups was teetering like it was about to topple. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know the deli on the corner where Mom gets our bagels, and the waitresses at the coffee shop who all call me “honey” and give me lollipops whenever they see me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A black fuzziness was growing in the corners of her eyes, making it harder and harder to see anything. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When my hands straddle the corner, I swing my right boot up over the side. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When I staggered to my feet, I caught a glimpse of Hassan disappearing around another street corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I passed the patty to Needles, who cracked off a corner and then passed the rest to his brother. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Mama lifted the corner of one muslin cloth and stuck a spoon into the jam. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It had been with me for a while now, hushed, motionless, as if asleep, in some remote corner of memory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of my tiny room slanted downward in two corners, making it seem even smaller than it really was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We looked all around the house—under the table, in the dark corners of the closets, in the toolbox, even outside in the trash cans. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I spy my parents steal another one of those silent, meaningful looks at each other. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid glanced across the street at the redbrick bank standing on the corner. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the block he passed Blum’s store; he looked out of the corners of his eyes through the plate glass window and saw that Blum was alone and the store was empty of customers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two plush sofas occupied the middle of the room, with a canopied bed in one corner and a mahogany dining table in the other. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A car has crashed into a corner of the gatehouse and torn the gate off its hinges. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mom tells me how she used to stand on this corner and tell tourists that her mother was dead. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, she pushed through the crowds of partiers to a corner and found herself in luck. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Charley, wet and shivering, curled up in his corner of the seat and offered no companionship. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently, the men began to wander aimlessly about the basement, looking into corners, examining the shovel, the garbage pail, and the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Momma’s making me go to Sam’s store around the corner, even though he ain’t never got half the stuff Momma needs or wants. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can see it in the turned-down corners of his mouth, in the purple skin under his eyes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Billy Clayton came around the corner of the house, his face drawn with worry and fear. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ve been sent to stand in the corner,” the Afrikaner murmured at last. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew wiped sweat from his forehead with a corner of his T-shirt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And in the missing corner of the room, there were licks of red amid the swirling puffs of gray and black. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I touched the corner of Gloria Dump’s house right before he did. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since he was often in need of a privy, he put one in the corner of the room, screened off for privacy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people could sense the dead in the corner of their eyes, a shadow that startled and alarmed, but Ophie was not like that. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But there, in the highest mound in the far corner, lay the figure of what used to be a man. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Gregory squirmed, but Candace wouldn't let up, pressing at his face like she was trying to rub smudges off of fresh sneakers, getting the creases of his nose and the corners of his mouth. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bus stop was about five minutes away—we had to walk up a small hill to the top of our street, around the corner, and then up another small hill. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I say, and a moment later I wish I hadn’t asked, because the corners of Nita’s mouth turn down, like the memory hangs heavy from each side. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maxine shares her newest smoothie recipes, and Bailey mentions how hard it’s going to be to avoid chocolate with Valentine’s Day right around the corner. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A boy my age sat in a dark corner, his head pressed against the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They shuffled along until they reached the far corner of the back side of the house. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Japanese were in every corner of China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Blackjack speeding along next to us, darting back and forth to avoid the pig’s wings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"This goes no further, all right?" she asked, as Gregor turned himself around again, and she placed the chair calmly back in the corner. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to look past a wide beam of bright white light shining down from the ceiling, but I can see into that corner. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She rode past the library and up the hill to the corner store where Mom sometimes sent her to pick up milk or a loaf of bread. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some three bumpy hours later, we got off at a dusty corner. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And Billy let himself down oh so gradually now, hanging onto the diagonal cross-brace in the corner in order to make himself seem nearly weightless to those he was joining on the floor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora remembered seeing a broom in a corner of the platform. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They stood on the corner waiting for the trolley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you can’t see around corners, so you just have to deal with it and try to stay afloat. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was a very thick fence post at the corner of the garden nearest the farmhouse and the tractor shed. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the Dauntless down the street and around the corner and hear a familiar sound: the train horn. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the corners, Jean had placed Oriental incense burners in which he burnt special perfumed herbs and sticks of incense that at first turned Blanca’s stomach but to which she quickly became accustomed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once you corner him, he’s the most dangerous animal that ever lived in Texas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our second lap he pointed to a house, a white Stuart on a corner lot. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are a deep blue, the corners crinkling as he talks. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We forget that we aren't supposed to be seen together until we get to the corner of our block. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Once she had him cornered in the tiny scullery off the kitchen, she started. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He could see the phone out of the corner of his eye but forced himself not to look. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Johnny thought that was like Rab—slipping off by himself, getting ahead of you and then grinning at you out of the corner of his mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the corner on which they stood seemed suddenly to rock with the weight of mortal danger. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t seen me coming down the hallway, so I pressed my back to the wall and crept closer, positioning myself around the corner. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Archer blinked at her, and the corners of his mouth turned upward, dimpling the skin of his cheek. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the corner two bootblacks caught me, one on either side, shrill and raucous, like blackbirds. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind had paused in puzzled frustration at the golden corner of an eye when Zahotep’s touch on his shoulder brought him with a start out of his daydreaming. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As she was sweeping the paintbrush across a corner of canvas to dry out the brush, she heard Jeff and Rick chatting. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Red staircase with red spit stains in the red corner. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a corner of woodland, five mounted warriors cantered into the field. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A telegraph pole at the corner held Fire Alarm Box No. 2475. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The woman standing on the other side of the counter smiles at Mom, who’s wiping down the area around the pitchers of ice water at the table in the corner. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A little later Frodo came out of the study to see how things were going on and found her still about the place, investigating nooks and corners and tapping the floors. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sohrab’s bed is the last one around the corner, the one nearest the nurses’ station where two nurses in green surgical scrubs are jotting notes on clipboards, chatting in low voices. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The gleam led me around a corner and into a small room with part of the ceiling caved in. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The boy, regaining his balance, dragged Sounder off the porch and to the corner of the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view of the Pirate’s Den minimizes to a smaller screen in the corner of my vision, one that will appear over the center of my view whenever I glance down at it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did not notice Dusty and Dove snickering in a corner. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It missed her but took out the corner flower shop. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

That’s right, I thought, glancing at Zu out of the corner of my eye. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I nearly tripped over that kid again as I rounded the corner. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Petra grabbed a jacket from the Lost and Found box in the lobby and covered the package with it just as the secretary came around the corner carrying her lunch. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That jeweled necklace in the corner will go nicely with your eyes.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Because if he’s stationed on the corner every day now, I'll have to either consider being friendly to him or change my route. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A grin tugs at the corner of Dakari’s mouth, and his lips brush mine. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A massive desk—covered with documents, an inkpot and pen neatly placed in one corner—takes up most of the room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She points to the far corner of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly one of the boys leaped up, darted past Mrs. Ames, and ran around the corner of the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was something about the way Ulbrickson delivered the response, a note in his voice or a glint in his eye or a twitch at the corner of his mouth, that arrested Brougham’s attention. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Neither did the rustle of mice in the corners. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She walks around the corner toward the backyard, and I follow her. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Given wrong directions at the Academy, I parked at one end of the top wall, as far as I could possibly be from the corner of the prison where I was due to report. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drugstore was on the northwest corner of Wallace and Sixty-third. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She’d only gone to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or not,” the woman in the corner interjected wryly, and the man laughed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She turned corner after corner until she was in front of her locker. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At the corner, he risked a glance over his shoulder. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Frankie rounded the corner right behind Tad, and another shot made him jump. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There, in the upper corner, scratched into the wooden boards, were words. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He held his chin up Mussolini-style, and the corners of his mouth turned up in a smothered smile, as if he knew something no one else did. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were supposed to put them on your forehead or at the corners of your eyes, but Adria and I always stuck them on our belly buttons. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And in the far corner, a tiny ball of fur was shaking with fear. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her life was joined to his now, and it seemed to her that every corner of his soul should be opened to hers because of this. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But my cousins don’t move until they’re sure that Q’s car has turned the corner and driven several blocks out of the neighborhood. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After his bad dreams, he stands on the street corner. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He took the envelope by a tiny corner and put it on the anvil, and then he scrubbed his hands in the half-barrel of black water into which he plunged hot iron. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember his eyes shifting to the ceiling, to the corner. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her hands chase each other in circles on her lap as she takes a wooden rocking chair in the darkest corner of the study. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A car pulled around the corner, slowing as it approached. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe Ms. Fleming cornered him in the teachers’ lounge and told him about Windy and Levi’s stance after I refused to read aloud. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled briefly as her father greeted him, and only then did faint age lines appear at the corners of his eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They found the sheets in one of the front bedrooms and made up the beds together, folding hospital corners, plumping up the pillows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were little crinkles at her eyes, her lips open and gently curving at the corners. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use Scotch tape to seal the four corners and place my invention on the lining of a clean pair of underwear. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nate loved the sidewalk puppet shows and jugglers who spun torches on the street corners. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, our methods of managing disease are constantly changing—partly under the influence of new bits of information brought in from all corners of biologic science. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No taste for sports, you know. Moping in corners. Crybabies. Knock that out of them fast enough.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our living room was even smaller, with the kitchen set in the corner. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As he rounded the corner, he noticed a familiar-looking gray Oldsmobile, a jagged crack in the rear window, parked in front of the house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'll admit it: The rush of blood did make me wobble and take hold of the corner of the metal table I’d been lying on, to keep myself from falling down. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The box is still pushed into the corner under Daddy’s bed. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my eye, I see Eden stand up on the steps. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He glanced around the yard, spied a large rock at the corner of the house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This is where Eaton’s used to be, here on this corner, yellow and foursquare. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turn himself into a penny swept into one of the corners by Mr. Munch's big broom. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

A blue orb of condensed light crackled and spread, filling every corner of the manor with its deadly rays. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the far corner the television was on, and Mrs. Salinger was staring at it, with her back to the classroom. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As we rounded the corner to our home, we prepared ourselves for the worst. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

An old color TV is set high in a corner opposite the register. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let the front door slam, round the corner in the courtyard, and Mr. Krajewska is at the well. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Serena winds, the cigarette held in the corner of her mouth smoldering, sending out tempting smoke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find her scream-crying in the corner of her room, huddled in a ball, with an activities staffer sitting on the end of the bed watching her. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Antony, in other words, puts the interests of the conspirators in one corner—and those of every living and dead Roman, himself included, in the other. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Street corners near bakeries—these were the best. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I took a screenshot of this illustration and placed it in the corner of my display. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

So they had crossed the street and set up on the corner opposite where they once were. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a faint, thin smile, little more than a lift at the corners of his mouth, while his eyes scanned the church as if he had entirely forgotten Fenoglio. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A five-year-old—Rolf Hupfauer—-sits in the corner of the sofa, eyelids slipping heavily over his eyes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hugo stood up and tried to back himself farther into the corner of the tiny cage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Time and again he turns into a corner too quickly and crashes into a barrier. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You move in with Michael if you want,” Fuchsia looks up at her mom from where she has tucked herself farther into the corner of the kitchen. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone retreated to their separate corners, to their separate worlds. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Two lines led downward from the corners of her mouth; between them was her chin, clenched like a fist. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she turned the corner I ran up to her and tugged on her arm. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ran several blocks, ducking around corners until the sounds of the crowd faded behind us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever we rounded a corner, she would try to make a shield out of her body to protect the babies from what she felt sure would be mutilation or death. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see it in the far corner of the tank, its dreadful tentacles with their hundreds of stinging cells, twisting and spiraling in the water. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were at the highest point of Manhattan, not far from the river, in a little corner tucked away behind the West Side Highway. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Neither of them was aware of the inquisitive, beaked face of a sparrow who watched them from the corner of a stained-glass window. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The two boys grabbed an arm each and toted me around the corner to 124th Street. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs to the roof, and across the rooftops to a building on the corner. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Alex’s mouth drops open, while the corner of Henry’s turns smug and almost a little mean. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She unfolded it, then pointed in triumph to the bottommost corner of the state. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Ford’s Hardware Store on the corner of River and Granville streets ran out of ammunition and shotguns an hour after the store was opened. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting someone I knew to come around the corner: Mama Mwanza, Nelson, Tata Boanda in his red trousers, or most eerily, my father. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari huddled in a corner, trying to make herself look like one of the children, trying to look lame or stupid or unappealing. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see Jack out of the corner of her eye. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to go,” I said, and I didn’t let myself glance back until I got to the corner. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I held Julia's face in my hands and wiped the wet at the corners of her eyes with my thumbs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He transfers the money in his bank account over to hers, and they have pale green checks with both their names printed in the corner. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You can have a corner by the fire in here if you want it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they reached the corner, Bigger stopped and made her stop by gripping her arm again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The palm divides the kitchen from the living room, which has a sleek black couch and a small Japanese maple in the corner. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A man appeared on the corner the cat had been watching, appeared so suddenly and silently you’d have thought he’d just popped out of the ground. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She drifted off to sleep, but when Tiller’s snoring woke her, she got up and went into the living room and opened the trunk in the corner. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mark noticed something tucked away in the corner of the farthest shelf. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I followed the boys through the twisting streets until I saw them turn a corner and scurry down a flight of stairs into the basement of a burned-out building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Around the corner I find Frank in his recliner. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A little shrine was built into the corner; Taisin saw the scroll listing ancestors’ names, a spray of dried flowers, a small pot of incense. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Michael tries to play it cool, whipping off his name fast, but Aimee’s tongue curls around the corner of her mouth as she writes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“On the corner, please,” he instructed them, and they put it down with a bang. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one corner of the room there was a pile of green unhusked coconuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over her shoulder just before she turned the corner and disappeared into the bathroom. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The black ball missed the corner pocket by a fraction of an inch, spinning back into the center. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He searched for Height, and in a corner of HIS, he found it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A braying donkey rounded the corner, its owner in tow, causing the family to shrink against the building, trying to disappear into the shadows. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

So I said, “I, too, am going to take a gap year. I am going to take a year and go to the township and hang out on the corner.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I sensed that Rose, who had been sitting in the corner quiedy, was staring at us. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rubbing my chin against my shoulder, I see Tony out of the corner of my eye, still sitting in his booth. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t miss toting water from the well in a bucket for Mama to cook or clean with, or washing up from a basin in the corner of the room. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Just as the street corners of the Bronx had changed, so had the public schools. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look back, though Lexie thought she saw his eyes flick to the rearview mirror, just once, before he turned the corner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ernest Lawrence spotted the startling headlines from his car when he pulled up at a corner newsstand in Merced, on his way to a business meeting at Yosemite National Park. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

However, when they turned the corner no one was there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stopped at the corner, looking for the pursuing man, the detective, and for a bus. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in a corner, he found the little packet of matches. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A Jules Verne hi-fi, all silvery knobs and dials, occupied one corner of the solarium. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

With all the Maidens watching and my sister holding my hand protectively, Ocllo reached a tentative finger to my face and rested it on the corner of my eyebrow. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"Thanks," said Jelly, "but I got a girl friend lives around the corner and I promised to do her a favor tonight. She goes to cook and baker's school and I'm gonna check her homework." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred waited until they finished the exercise before he lowered himself to a corner of a mat. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway and Boseman were drinking in a tavern around the corner from the jail while little Homer waited with Cora and the wagon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I got them at the corner market. Haven’t you been there?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I pass the pair of knights and turn a corner, out of their sight line. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She noticed me, as usual, out of the corner of her existence. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the top right corners, Section 8 was scribbled, followed by the name Hank, then the word Day, followed by a number. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure sits in her customary spot in the corner of the kitchen, closest to the fireplace, and listens to the friends of Madame Manec complain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When we turn the corner, she fires at the two guards standing by the door at the end. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

More than Mr. Kahn drunkenly lambasting Mrs. Kahn for missing a spiderweb in a dark corner or not beating the rugs properly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not a mic in a corner, but a real recording booth with a real microphone. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Three boys who lived around the corner on Orinda were at the carom table, which is like pool but with small wooden disks instead of balls. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It is a bit bloody at one corner, but that can be cut off. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

TeeTee pinched the corner of a picture of Frida, the one where her neck is too long and a small monkey's looking over her shoulder, and turned the picture around. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Each dive brought every man, cornered and cowering, to face his execution. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She points to the very top corner, where golden embroidery outlines our island and its old name—Hana. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I sat there on the wet ground watching Harp and Gully turn the corner. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

As he climbed out of the pit, I stepped to the corner of the room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She walks to the far corner of the cafeteria, where a few tables of Erudite refugees sit. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Gandalf had spoken soft words to him, and he had slept in a corner, tired but uneasy, dimly aware of comings and goings and of men talking and Gandalf giving orders. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There aren’t soldiers on the street corners, standing around with nothing to do. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She imagined Poppy watched her from the corner of his eye. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I check out Lena from the corner of my eye as she starts working. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The corners of his lips turned up, yet despite his smile, the pain on his face made my eyes well with tears. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I turned the knob and went into this large square room with bookshelves and easy chairs and the gigantic desk topped in red leather straddling the far corner. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made him think, for an instant, of shadows in a dark room, of a shut door and shadows reaching out to him from the corner by the door. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was in the far corner of the kitchen preparing breakfast. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now it was here, literally around the corner. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Thinking about it made the corners of my mouth turn up and twitch, even though I knew I shouldn’t smile at such things. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I try to calm down by reminding myself that she was the one that cornered me into doing this painting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse ran to a corner, whinnied and reared, then galloped past Joe, who furiously threw the can, hitting her in the butt. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I think I see Emmett. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t look at it straight on, only out of the corner of my eye. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was small; once she had come onto the main street she could see the corner at the end with the gas station and the church. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Your brother is a traitor,” says Marcus as we turn a corner. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise got up from the yard chair she was sitting in, walked to the corner of the lot, and vomited up her Sunday dinner. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A small dining area is carved out of one corner of the market. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

From all corners of the neighborhood he heard them howling. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I pulled out from a dusty corner my personal jar of peaches in syrup. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“You shall know a lot when I’m through with you,” Nusan replied and pointed to a large box in the corner. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the bowls, filled to the top with golden dal and rice, the toasted chapati sitting in the corner. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A wind was coming down the gorge and they pulled the corners of the tarp about them and pushed the cart out onto the bridge. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A Salvation Army girl in her red-and-blue bonnet tinkled a bell on the corner, and when she looked at Singer he felt obliged to drop a coin into the pot beside her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He pulled me aside, away from my brothers and sisters, away from Mom, to the corner by the window. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly turn away, but I can still see them out of the corner of my eye. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We turn the corner, and I recognize the doors the Farrars used when I saw them enter here the first time, nearly a week ago. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It came again a few seconds later, from the rear corner of the tomb. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Walking around to the far back corner of the garage, I noticed a narrow passageway between the bushes and the building. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some, like Christina, look at me in a pitying way, their eyebrows drawn in, their mouths turned down at the corners. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Graduation is just around the corner and I feel like this fake smile has molded into my skin. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Someone held a lighter to his face and they saw his bared teeth and flecks of white in the corners of his mouth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the lights were turned off, and the blues dancing started, she wanted to be in his arms in a dark corner, but he said, “Let’s go outside and talk.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The singing got louder still, and then to his horror a line of nuns, hands pressed together and eyes lowered, came around a corner and straight towards him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The homeboys hanging on the corners keep trying to step to Beatriz. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Abby rounded the corner, nearly running smack into a nurse as she sprinted back over to us, a very small, very thin, brown-haired boy wearing an oversize Colombian national team jersey trailing behind her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For a minute I thought the walls had begun to discharge the moisture that must saturate them, but then I saw the noise came from a small fountain in one corner of the room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wish my life would turn a corner. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deirdre looks down, ready to fly, when two boys on a bike turn the corner—they resemble the boys from earlier. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were various unidentifiable sounds coming from all corners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Alfhercht fell to his knees next to the man huddled in the corner. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When Sticky finally returned, he dumped his wet clothes in the corner, put on his muddy glasses without cleaning them, and then, without once looking at Reynie, he pulled his suitcase from beneath the bed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t had a perfect day since I turned sixteen,” Trina said as she thumbed down the corner of her page and placed the book by her side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A slip of paper was wedged into the corner of the box. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from his house he noticed something he had never seen before: a kid, maybe a couple years older than Wes, standing on a street corner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As I turned the corner, I was surprised to see other kids standing next to the guardhouse. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew myself further into my corner, trying to escape the man. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jennifer drains her coffee mug and wipes the crumbs from the corners of her mouth. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My breath was fogging up the glass, so I had to wipe a spot clean to see the La-Z-Boy in the corner. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Johnny was waiting on the corner with his friends. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running out of light bulbs, running out of power, running out of time—disaster was right around the corner. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lay there for a few minutes, staring at the time readout on my entertainment console out of the corner of my eye. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I face a corner and pretend to study algebra. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room, I see a framed drawing I never noticed before. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I expected to see Her around every corner I turned. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t say anything either until we turn the corner onto my street. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t have done that,” Colin said, his lips turning downward at the corners. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When they made it to the corner, where Ms. Post was working, Canton wrapped his arms around his mother and squeezed. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nox put a hand on her shoulder, and out of the corner of her eye, she spied Chaol and Dorian watching them closely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Without talking we cleared snow from a corner of the platform and got our gear settled. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Its corners are worn and weak, bending easily beneath my grip. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There is wood in the wood box and the fireplace, and in the darkest corner of the room a can of kerosene which he sprinkles on the wood. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The princes cornered him in fury, leaping on him to drag him out and crop his ears and nose. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s in the corner, like she thinks no one will see her there. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ms. D. tap me on the shoulder and kind of nudge me into a little corner. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then she turned the corner of the corridor and disappeared. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what went down I knew she was in my corner, which hurt. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a time no sound at all came from the corner of the brush house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nest of dry straw bedding filled one corner of the room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She took a corner of his lapel and gave it a little shake and this was when she said, “I’ll wait for you. Come back.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He nodded—"I'm straight, man"—and made his way to a corner on the other side of the room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I spotted a familiar silver owl banner in the southeast corner of the fight, 33rd at the Park Avenue tunnel. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I make a bunch of noise, stamping on the floor, clearing my throat several times, a few more stomps, then step around the corner. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mark turned a corner and lurched down the alley that led back to the Shack, sticking close to the building on his right for a partial shield. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Max carried the bellows back to the corner then and got out a pen and paper. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The pipe came down the corner post and into a concrete tank. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Werner notices a girl in the corner, radiant, dancing by herself, throwing her face to the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From some dark corner of my brain I realize I can’t see the colored shapes that would normally accompany the sound. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

From the far corner of the car, one of them shouted that they were tired and dirty and ready to catch the next plane home. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I leaned farther around the corner to listen. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Uhmma watches the sedan until it turns a corner and then disappears. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The liquor on his breath was always there, just like the tears caked and crusty in the corners of his eyes. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was also active, flipping and darting from one corner to the next. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus attendant ties our luggage on the roof rack and we cram inside, finding corners and seat edges to perch on. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, every so often, out of the corner of her eye, Reyna would spot glowing white spirits in Roman clothes flitting among the ruins, frowning at the statue in consternation. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. It’s right around the corner on the left.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The post office being in one corner of the drug store, Dr. Clark is required to fly a U.S. flag. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I rise and wheel the desk chair to the corner, take my glass, let him pour. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time we were treating her the way people used to treat those with no legs who sold pencils on street corners. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the winner’s circle, the police cordon gave way and the reporters and fans pressed in again, wedging Seabiscuit and his handlers into the corner. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice a freckle, perfect and round, at the corner of his mouth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was standing at counsel's table when out of the corner of my eye I saw that Mrs. Williams had made it to the courtroom door. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At the corner of Forty-Third Street a newsboy holds out the paper, shouting the headline: “Louis KOs Mauriello in record time!” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I call, reaching the corner of the fence. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark let go of the device just before he hit the sharp corner of the slowly rising hatch door, leaping to catch Alec’s hand and grab at the metal with his other. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He looked toward the corner where it was propped against the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was a dead silence while the electric clock chimed eleven times, and then the robopsychologist said, “Very peculiar,” and the corners of her lips moved downward. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Every night, I lie on my smelly horse blanket in the corner and replay our last conversation, word for precious word. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I even corner myself in the widening light of the lounge room. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I rushed to the next room and crouched in a corner. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She shoved thoughts of the murders aside as they strode past a fountain and she caught Dorian giving her an admiring glance from the corner of his eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The father took a golf-club that was standing in the corner. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I see Helena sitting in the corner, shrinking her body down to fit the space. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I scanned the people waiting on the corner for the light to change when I saw an older woman who had that knitter look to her. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Ekon’s eyes shot across the worship hall and focused on two people huddled in one of its corners. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When I looked around, he was back on his corner, directing traffic. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was through the door, Finn poked his head around the corner and looked around. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So I nodded sadly, hugged her one more time, and retreated to a corner to sleep, because I was very, very tired. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until he came to a group of men on a corner that he sensed this fire might be different from the previous night’s. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every day he reads the papers that come, to see whether it is raining in his little corner of Oldenburg. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the first sentence had been A tank came roaring around the corner, which refers to an atypical example of a vehicle, a reader would have had a harder time making the connection. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As I stroll far out onto the pier, I savor the sweetness of having a corner of New York all to myself. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In November, after saying Mass in the middle of the cemetery for the Day of the Dead, he leads a crowd over to a common grave in the corner of the cemetery. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Who keeps slowly getting crazier Out of the corner of his eye, he watched Lydia drive. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The walk-in freezer is full of boxes, and I sit on the one in the back corner and relax. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

At the corner of the building, four Twister mats have been pegged into the grass, and about a dozen kids are wrapped around each other, pretzel-style. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“And he sends them to all the four corners of the earth! Isn’t that so, Grandpa Joe?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

In one corner is a screen and a desk. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know about his melancholy, his ambition, his desperation, the corners of emptiness in him that needed to be filled. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Connecting the corners of that pentagon with lines generates a small, upside-down, five-pointed star, which is exactly the same as the original star in its proportions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was almost home when I heard the bark of German officers around the corner and the shuffling of shoes on pavement. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye he could see the other three men, Nasser, Todd, and Ronnie, all on the ground, face down, with knees on their backs, hands on their necks. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Here, near a corner, waits the tall narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He sat for some time on the stool in the corner. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A deep, red light welled up from the front corners of his wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fires hiss in corners, seeking something to devour. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to rush through without being overtly rude, but now the man from Bat Lady’s house was almost to the street corner, moving unhurriedly but somehow fast. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“That was the most excellent ‘Les Furies’ I have ever heard,” Mr. Van Hooten said, wiping tears from the corners of his eyes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

On it went, down the street, around the corner, in line at the tandoor. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Everything in the airport appeared the same, every corner, every window, every set of plastic seats, every gate. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

So she curled up in a quiet corner of the combat ground with Pantalaimon as a wolverine to keep her warm, and piled snow over herself as a bear would do, and went to sleep. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gus pulled down the corners of his lips, stepped out from the wall, squared his shoulders, doffed his cap, bowed low and spoke with mock deference: “Yessuh.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Where virtually all horses decelerate and often drift out as they try to negotiate corners, Seabiscuit was capable of holding a tight line while accelerating dramatically. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull back the curtains to greet my little corner of Bushwick and Jefferson Avenues, my very own way of stretching out my arms and yawning at the morning sun. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As I approached the Behavioral Center, I saw a figure leaning against the corner of the building near the entrance. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah," I said, turning the corner so she could see me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Schachter remained huddled in her corner, mute, untouched by the optimism around her. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the corner where she and Thomas had hidden the day before, the same corner they had peered around to see where the crying was coming from. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy looked at one out of the corner of his eye, and he saw this question on its cover. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, all right,” I said, and lugged my load outside and around the corner of the barracks, out of his sight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled, as if pleased that he had finally understood something important, and gestured to two small clay pots at the corner. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A vendor on the corner is selling water bottles, candy, and newspapers, and I stop real fast to get Skittles since they double as an appetizer and breath mint. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Ema sat in a corner booth nursing a chocolate milk shake. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice my cassette player sitting in the corner. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran round the bed and followed her as she backed into a corner. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers through my hair a couple of times and took some deep breaths before I continued around the corner. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Here, just below one of the guard towers in the yard’s corner, the prison designers had installed a basketball court. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But some days, when it's raining and Mama won’t let me go outside, I see them on the block, their fingers laced together, heading around the corner to the bodega for candy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The dinner bell rang and I did not go to the table, but hid in a corner of the hallway. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the screen door and I saw Cooter standing in a corner with his nose mashed up ’gainst the walls. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

On one corner of the desk sat an artificial violet in a pot. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the corner of his eye, he saw a group of SS officers and guards walking to the front. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once she caught sight of Sidhean out of the corner of her eye; he was standing perhaps twenty feet to her left, but when she turned to look, he was gone. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At each corner of the pool lolled a pink plaster-of- paris gnome with rosy cheeks and a peaked red cap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to the south it also includes a corner of the soccer field and all of the baseball diamond. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swung the flashlight and could make out the shining lenses of the binoculars in the far corner of the chest. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I moved faster, practically jogging as I came around the corner. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Godzilla had cornered us against the fence, and we didn’t dare make a move. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I can see the hovercraft appearing over us, the claw starting to descend to take her away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I do not take any short cuts, I do not forget to turn at the deli on the corner, I do not get lost, not even on purpose. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mama was strong enough to hold me by the corner of my shirt at the shoulder and lift me so that I could not get a firm footing on the ground. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” he said, “stand over there,” motioning us to a semidark corner, where a group of older boys was already assembled. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner next the window facing him was a small, dark man looking out at the snow. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gentle tug on the corners of her lips is all the answer she will give me for now. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

As they passed another quad, Rishi saw it looming on the corner. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A drummer settled himself in the corner and got to work. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looks over to where the sunlight is shining around the corner of Lenny’s nice curtains. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A bright mural is painted along one corner, a colorful swirl of stylized game levels. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the safe rollers pitched forward, and farther away, past the corner, a bullet struck an auto tire, the released air shrieking like a huge animal in agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Professor Lupin forcing the boggart back into the packing case with his wand; it had turned into a silvery orb again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She looked to the cop texting in the corner of her office. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I find a spot in the corner to listen to the musicians build up the tempo so the spirits can get called down. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Together we watched them roll down the cobblestone street and turn the corner. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he was round the corner at the Barracks and nearly finished for the day. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corner of his mouth tipped up a little. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So black that it almost blended into the shadows pooling in the corners. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No, no. There by the corner of the table. You can just...” says Wiress. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hear any scurrying off into the dark corners. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For now, Xan had pushed all of Luna’s projects into a corner and divided the whole workshop into sections, each with its own sets of bookshelves and tool shelves and materials shelves. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Clustered in the left corner of the room stood twenty or so black men, all wearing work coats and dungarees, a few sharpening their outfits with newsboy caps or brimmed hats. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I scan the room, trying to find a place to sit, and notice the tall file cabinets in the corner, the phone on the desk. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Carmen coming up to me, and I panicked. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The squareness of the rock allowed a sort of plinth round it, so mat to the right, over the lagoon, one could inch along a ledge and turn the corner out of sight. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“And this morning, just a few minutes ago, you were over there, with the children—” Gabe nodded toward the corner of the room where the two little ones were industriously piling blocks into towers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He lives across the street and around the corner and he’d been at camp for the past month and a half. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall we watch the recap of the reapings?” says Effie, dabbing at the corners of her mouth with a white linen napkin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had just tilted the water bottle to her mouth when she saw a truck, a new-looking black pickup, come around the corner. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s a safe corner. There’s a mosque across the street.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just as he had on the corners of Baltimore, Wes became a leader. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She saw her walking stick leaning in the corner, its shadow outlined on the wall. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the corner of Elm Street we turn left onto Center and cross Maple, Birch, and Spruce before turning right onto Main. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

He looked at me out of the corner of his eye, as if he didn’t quite believe me but didn’t want to admit it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes of walking, we turn a corner and I smell fresh wind, cold enough to make me shudder. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Shifting the weight of the bag to my left hand, I tear a four-inch hole in the corner with my right. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Tears gathered at the corners of my eyes. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, in a corner of my mind, I felt bad about that. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Cho following him.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was a photograph of a woman tucked in the corner of the mirror above the sink. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to see his face from the corner of my eye. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Certainly. Just around the corner to your left.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, in the corner, the barrels stacked up to the deck. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Javier disappeared around a corner for a few seconds before returning with a hand towel. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alec took a peek; then they stepped around the corner and started for the other side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my eye, I catch her cheeks turning redder than her Reeboks. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sophia smiles at me with soft lips, the corner of her mouth lifting. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I slip off my well-worn boots, tuck them carefully in one corner, and then try on the new shoes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She capped her marker and shoved the blank easel back to the corner of the room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We all had mud up to our knees, and most of us had draped our sleeping bags on pine branches above us; water dripped from their corners. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Farther away, in all four corners of the compass, flights of spy-angels cruised tirelessly, keeping watch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Someone else carries a lamp from one corner to the other so we have light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I wondered if they just sat in the corner of my room gathering dust. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A tic goes down one cheek; jerks the corner of his mouth. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Curries from our Pakistani brothers and sisters, Sudanese dura, and that whole corner is Malaysian. Baba says his jihad is against bland food." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

What faint light they shed fell gloomily upon some roof corner or a waving strand of vine, transforming familiar daytime shapes to eerily unfamiliar phantoms. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I look out of the corner of my eye when I hear a car whizzing past me, checking to make sure it's not the officers, the guys who took my mother away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Books over here, office supplies over there, and junk in that corner.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I stand and push my chair back to the corner where I found it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Dad slid over to the corner of his bed, close to Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He passed the bottle to the patriarch in his corner, and the old man smiled so sweetly that for the first time I could see he lacked front teeth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each tape has a dark blue number painted in the upper right-hand corner, possibly with nail polish. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Her gaze bounced around the room before finally landing in the corner behind me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Helpfully, the middle C key had a full corner missing, a wedge about the size of my fingernail, which got me centered every time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He always started at the northwest corner of the field, crouched over like the runners he had seen on Wide World of Sports. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We see a zombie in the corner eating a guard’s decapitated head like it’s roasted chicken. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They turned a corner in the tunnel, and in front of him, as the man raised the lantern, Julius saw the brother of Boots. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In a large empty room we were ordered to undress and pile our striped uniforms in a corner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The back has Clyde Alexander—1952 written in the top right corner, and what looks like an image of Texas cut from a map. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He and Tony were asleep on a mattress tucked into the corner. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

We turned the corner, ran another half block, and I turned again without thinking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My feet carried me down familiar roads and around corners I’d turned a thousand times before. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My uncle pointed to a corner in the living room where I could sleep, and then gave me detailed instructions on how to get to the bank, to meet Alois, my cousin’s husband. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The first movement was Faro, coming hesitantly around the corner of the house, sniffing as he came. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were approaching the corner where she must leave him, turning westward to take her subway home. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then he gave the kid fifty cents to go down to the corner store for Coca-Colas to be drunk after supper. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Over the next few years, Huang Taitai instructed the other servants to teach me how to sew sharp corners on pillowcases and to embroider my future family’s name. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back corner of the house had been reduced to a slumped and smoking ruin. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A grand piano is pushed to the corner, and I can’t believe how much I couldn’t tell from the outside how enormous this house is. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He’s popular in his own department, constantly cornered at the Keurig for second opinions on people’s drafts and invited to after-work drinks he never has time for. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were a few more scattered couples, a full family of six eating dinner in a far corner, and a pretty waitress in her thirties walking from table to table, putting down silverware. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She won’t take naps in the afternoon, insists on walking to the corner store. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the corner and walk to the school’s entrance. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Making the precise corners and folds required for bed display took a long time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

THE evening was almost of a winter coldness, the corner well lighted and the all-Negro crowd large and tightly packed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Buschke’s, Bobby would sprint around the corner to the University Place Book Shop, just a pawn’s throw away. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Burnsides’ house is just around the corner. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tilt my head forward, straining to see them before they turn the corner. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Incidents of my past, both recognized and ignored, sprang together in my mind in an ironic leap of consciousness that was like looking around a corner. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much better than seeing it covered by a gray sheet in the corner. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flicker crossed the corner of his vision, and his right hand darted up at once, and he found he was clutching a robin, a dæmon, red-breasted, panicking. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like his target, Andrew Johnson, Atzerodt is staying at Kirkwood House, on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Twelfth Street, four blocks from the White House and just one block from Ford’s Theatre. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Our house was on a corner where the state highway turned east toward the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In one corner stood a potbellied stove, hissing softly, surrounded by a semicircle of limp boots and draped with wet woollen socks, which steamed foully. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I ran over to the corner and shouted in Joey’s ear over the roar of the crowd, “What’s Zed doing here?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, decency is cool, too,” she says, and the corners of her mouth tug up. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I would roar into the far corners of the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Thomas’s eyes widened and she pushed a box of tissues from the corner of her desk closer to me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was about to turn away from the window when out of the corner of her eye she saw something appearing above the sill outside—a small furry face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then, like that, the world stopped moving, at least for me, because the whole world glittered in the corner of her eyes as she looked down at me and smiled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She peeked around the corner, ready to pretend to look surprised. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I run back to the end of the hallway and around the corner and crouch, my back to the doors, as I press the detonation button and shield my ears with my palms. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the corner he paused, checked again, and then slipped under a flap. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We turn the corner and I go into the office. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I see another baggage claim sign around the corner and point. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He picked at the bedspread before looking over at Cabot, who sat at the desk in the corner, and began to speak. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She screams at me like a banshee and jumps around the kitchen and threatens to drag me to the priest, the bishop, the Pope himself if he lived around the corner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the time nobody knew what a cat she could be when cornered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Eddie’s journal sat on my tiny desk in the opposite corner. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

So the rest of us wouldn’t be plagued by insects, Hugh, the boy who had bees living in his stomach, ate under a large mosquito net at a table for one in the corner. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I rounded the corner, was halfway up the block when I saw Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A broom was propped in one corner, near the candy dispenser and the rusty hair dryer that had not been used in a hundred years. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His pace slowed as he turned the corner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mom hangs up on him and flings the phone into a corner. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then she had sat down in a corner, legs outstretched, and begun staring gloomily at her knees, then at the grubby wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But when I get to the corner, I notice new words written underneath mine. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The fine lines around the outer corners of her eyes deepened as her smile grew. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Charles and Andrew crossed to the far side of the room to join Haley, who was sitting in a corner. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Gold light from the hologram of Earth’s solar system glows eerily in the frozen fog from the corner of the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I started toward the tree, but I stopped short as soon as I came around the corner of the barn, and flattened myself to the wall. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Post’s son, Canton, sits at the stop sign on the corner holding a broom. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Broken shingles from the roof covered the floor, there was an empty sack in a corner, some broken earthenware shards, perhaps from a dish or a plate, and a few bones gnawed clean. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We sat side by side in the cramped compartment, close enough that her shoulder brushed mine each time the carriage turned a corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tell my face not to react, but I can feel my mouth pulling down at the corners anyway and my face getting hot. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Flinging our cotton barrier aside, Big Harm corners us. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hidden among her guests, the judge studied the two people standing off in the corner, the only pair in Sunset Towers who were not Westing heirs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t you get pert with me, Calpurnia. Go to the corner. One hour. Any more comments and it’ll be the switch for you.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Walter turned down Main Street, the car lights still on, honking the horn a double toot, six times at one corner, six times at another. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the corner of his sandwich and examined the bologna and mustard inside. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He rubs the corners of his dark eyes and pushes back his thick black hair that stands on end. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

After a considered time he walked around the corner on Central Avenue and rang the bell of Adam Trask’s house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when they took out the trunk bound in velvet and with silver corners, it was as if they had taken a coffin out of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A stunted, smoke-blackened tree at the corner had put out new leaves of a bilious green. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The station is near the southwestern corner of Camp 14, and to get there from school students had to pass below the Bowiwon compound, which sits on a bluff above the Taedong River. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He walked to the back corner of my room. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My eye dropped to the name on the lower right-hand corner of the page. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In one corner an imposing grandfather clock ticks loudly, and when it chimes the hour, I nearly slide off in surprise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He needed the extra work—it’s not like they handed out jobs on street corners—and his bookie scared him more than Clyde did. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He whipped around the corner of the building. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I sat in a corner and listened while they discussed their magazine, Left Front. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white blur of fur darts from the corner of my vision. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I walked around the corner I saw the train waiting. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But the corners of her lips turn upward. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Two wooden posts had been set into the ground at the corners of the buildings, barbed wire strung thick between them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Rainbow flags waved on street corners around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was a tear in the corner of his eye. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no place like home, Wilbur thought, as he placed Charlotte’s five hundred and fourteen unborn children carefully in a safe corner. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her brown eyes crinkle at the corners and her smile reaches the edge of her face. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Huddled into the corner those two walls made was a man. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The street sign at the corner of my block. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Henry takes his hand, one corner of his mouth tugging gently upward. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of rats scurrying away into the corners. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I look at the present and the bathing suit on the chair in the corner. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had sat in the corner of my side of the room to keep watch over me and Amil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the far corner, he saw Bull and Colonel Hedgepath watching him, enjoying his uncertainty, his callowness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other kids came home and threw their schoolbags in the corner. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In one far corner an upright piano loomed; in another sat a rolltop desk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Harry became aware that this was the first time that he had been alone with her since those stolen hours in secluded corners of the Hogwarts grounds. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then a hummingbird careened around the corner of the house and plunged into the trumpet of the nearest lily drooping in the heat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my eye, I can see her watching me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He clearly had no idea that there was a woman who sold them right around the corner. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But sirens in the distance and sirens right on the corner have two different sounds. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old gentleman scratched about with his great daws until he had turned up a dirty bundle of papers, one corner of which had been used for lighting something. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed over a stack of boxes in the corner that used to be her sleeping area. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And I never go into the park on my own because it is dangerous and people inject drugs behind the public toilets in the corner. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jan’s lips hung open, but no words came from them; his eyes searched the corners of the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ray handed me the headphones and moved toward the prow of the boat, steadying himself against the corner of the wheelhouse. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The corner of his black notebook peeked out beneath his chemistry book. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I find a free sink in the corner and stick my head under the faucet, letting cold water spill over my ears. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was at the cafe early and took a corner seat with a view of the door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He clutched the last piece of bread in his hand and crouched in the corner; he closed his eyes when they reached for him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Colin Vole huddled piteously on some dirty sacking in a corner, while Mr. Abram Vole and his wife battered away at the door with their paws tied together. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The boys, their mouths gaping, watched her turn the corner faster than any Fry Flamingos basketball player. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s hard for most of us to imagine a world so unsafe, with dangers lurking in every unseen, unplanned corner. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I pick Natalie up, screaming and fighting, her skull bashing against my chin, and set her as gently as I can on her back on one corner of the rug. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poles were all even—unlike Anya’s crooked and twisting poles at home—and lashed at the corners with more colorful ribbon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She wanted to curl up in the corner of her room and press her hands over her ears to stop the whispering. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He took the edge of his sleeve and wiped the corner of each eye carefully. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I peer in as he disappears around the corner where the Hideout entrance is. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Next, Lily lifted a corner of the mattress and raked her arm along the box springs, reaching in between all the way up to her armpit. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Her forehead bunches up like crinkled paper and her eyes squeeze shut in the corners. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were standing at one corner of the Times building, which is at the south end of Times Square. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian pulled himself up until he was sitting upright back in the corner of the cave. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped to show her the board with La Rosa on the corner block. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The electric clocks on street corners are dismantled, public phones are stripped down to the last wire. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Soft crinkles form at the corners of his eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to tell herself that she had forced Miss Harris into a corner from which the woman could give her nothing but As. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They would walk to the falafel place on Howe Street for hummus, and sit in a dark corner talking for hours, and finally emerge, tongues smarting with garlic. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The four Panthers watched as they walked down the street and disappeared around the corner. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She swipes the corners of her eyes with her fingers. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, his face was in Laila’s window, nails tucked in the corner of his mouth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pointed with his chin at the lower left-hand corner of the mirror—at the same image I had seen in Bat Lady’s house, by my father’s grave, and on Ema. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He lies back down, blinking, staring into the darkest corner of the room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Other than her bed and rug, there was a table for incense, an enormous, complicated poster of constellations tacked to one of the walls, and books shoved in corners. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

At the corner of the map, a building name caught my eye. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Flickering candle in hand, I crawled under the bed to the far corner where my father had been hiding but I found no key on the earthen floor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ali Rodriguez lifted three boxes of flyers at a time and placed them in neat piles in a corner. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Dread began to gather in the corners of Kate’s mind, and out of dread came panic. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one saw Bod as he waited in the corner. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Royal vendors push pastry carts that leave buttery and sugary scents in every corner. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When she heard me say I didn’t like people much, Yolanda looked at me from the corner of her eye, waiting to become the exception. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One corner of his mouth had curled up just so. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They went into the dining room, which had a heavy round table and cane-bottomed chairs and a cupboard across one corner. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I round the corner back to the main camp road, I pass a group walking by in street clothes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Something shiny caught the corner of my eye. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She gets real quiet for a second and then starts scratching the corner of her left eye. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We were working at the laundry when a delivery boy came from the Rexall drugstore around the corner. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 34th segment is a wee bit too short; the half-inch ruler juts out a little beyond the corner of the square. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He saw a pile of old newspapers stacked carefully in a corner. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A fine brown stream ran from the corner of his mouth, down his delicate chin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cattle backed into the far left corner of the barrier; their eyes were wide and frightened, and some were pawing the mud. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of my eye, I could only see a hint of him—eyes as incandescently blue as the heart of fire, a briar of dark hair dewed with lagoon water. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I rotate my bat, tap the plate on the corners, take three half swings, bounce the bat off my shoulder, and bring it about my head. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As she passed it she thought she heard a faint shout, and thought she saw from the corner of her eye a point of light flash on and off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Most huts, Ellsberg saw, did have some kind of shelter—holes in the ground, or sandbags in the corner. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We caught up to Styx at the corner of Lincoln and Starwood. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I cross the room to see if she’s around the corner in the entryway. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Malcolm saw something out of the corner of his eye—or was it in his eye? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This corner of the Musengezi, however, flowed over a wide, flat expanse of stone with the remains of trees jutting out here and there. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slung another chocolate pecan into my mouth and watched Big Rose sit by herself in the opposite corner of our study room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I reach the corner of American and Joy. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

No. There in the corner, I spotted a familiar head of tousled brown curls and released my held breath. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I watched her out of the corner of my eye and realized that, despite the deadly driving conditions, I hadn’t been stressed at all. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see them all just fine, but if I focused on any one of them in particular, they started looking . . . transparent. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like they were standing by the stove, but she didn’t dare peek around the corner to find out. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Silence filtered over the spot just as Ike and Felix rounded the corner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Mapper yelled from a table in the corner. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Axel takes his iPad to the corner of the couch, lets Ray curl up next to him in the now-quiet house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It stayed that way till we turned one corner. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stiff-leggedly I made my way around the corner and over to my building. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A TV flickering blue and white high in a corner of the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It's a good thing I have Starry in my corner. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At that corner, there was a sidewalk of cement. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know because I’m peeking at him from the corner of my eye. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The hostess led them to their table, a large one in the corner that had its own carved wood chandelier hanging above. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She peered at the judge from the corner of her eye. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita, who sagged with fatigue in her chair, watched her aunt lumber over to the bed in the corner and grab the two small children in it. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He carried all three portraits to the front counter and was about to stamp his embossed gold Hofacket’s Fine Portraiture seal on the lower left corner of each one when Granddaddy stopped him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Franek, the foreman, assigned me to a corner: “Don’t kill yourself. There’s no hurry. But watch out. Don’t let an SS catch you.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church was not very far away, four blocks up Lenox Avenue, on a corner not far from the hospital. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Yet there he was, sitting in the Trail Room’s circular corner booth, his lively brown eyes, his square-jawed, genial good looks unchanged by death. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lines crisscross at the corners of her eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mental movie of a mouse cowering in the corner of a cage that has another mouse in it gets chunked into “social avoidance.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She almost stumbles as she rises, steadying herself on the corner of the coffee table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was common to hear girls say when they saw Googie preaching with his brothers on a street corner, “Thass a waste of a church boy.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He took Quentin up and we ran down to the corner of the fence and watched them pass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we turned the corner into a short hallway, he spun around to face me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And there was a burglar alarm prominently fixed to the front of the house, and a large spotlight at each corner; they’d never be able to get near it, let alone break in. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the corner he ran through the snow, out of sight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With each of them in my corner, I actually felt like anything was possible, even bringing home a medal from the Olympic Games. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I walked to the corner, waving after him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All face, no body, just twiggy limbs waving at its corners. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Once, walking along a row of houses, he turned a corner and made a quick dash up a set of stairs to shake off anyone who might be following him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Piper finally opened her eyes and crouched up on her knees and she looked at me panicky and wild like a cornered animal and said We have to help them! How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For right there, sitting in the corner of the room—is my grandfather! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It moved at a slant, one side swinging out wide while the other tilted toward the corner of the room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Something had appeared in the top right-hand corner of the frame. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw Ellie and Savanna watching her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Howard led me by my hand to the tall metal chair in the corner of the room. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuff the pamphlet under a stone in the corner of the mill, thinking as I do so that it is good Alice has gone off on her own. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw his crooked nose in the bottom left corner. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuffed into a corner is a copy of a book I know but didn’t expect to see here in this place—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, bound together in one volume. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She made the kid who was hiding in the back corner leave, like Annabelle had an explosive device strapped to her chest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There were no dark corners—no possible sliding panels—it was flooded with electric light—everything was new and bright and shining. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Darkness seeps into every crack and corner of this Detroit. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They scurried down two blocks without seeing a soul, turned the corner, and a moment later ducked into the alley that led to Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In bars, they stared silently at the TV in the corner. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d taken a seat on the corner of his unmade bed. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The old man held the cigarette in the corner of his mouth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Against the same wall as the office, but in the opposite corner of the barn, Margo has set up a kind of bed—four forklift pallets beneath an orange air mattress. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I run as fast as I can in this state, the game forgotten, and from the corner of my eye, I see a girl with yellow hair coming toward me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the four corners of the music room, there’s only me and Mrs. Walton and gospel music rattling through my bones. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Dave: “I told you, it happened out of my line of sight, just past the corner where the hallway splits.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As he said that, one of them came apart; the door sagged and hung crazily by one corner. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was the little person people would push in corners and say, “As long as he doesn’t cause a problem we can pass him along.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were green couches, definitely antiques, and in one corner there was even a piano, a baby grand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He simply pulled away and sat in the corner. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was the snail-like slither of water oozing down the walls and from around a darkened corner there came the low moan of someone in pain. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

There are three guitars in the corner, one electric, the amp still plugged in from the night before. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And saw Big Rose stomp around the corner. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The story filled the bottom right-hand corner of the front page. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny smile twitches at the corners of my mouth as I remember that seven-year-old girl with her ribbons flying about. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gogol G,” he signs his work in the lower right-hand corner, as if there were a need to distinguish him from any other Gogol in the school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The walk to the corner is getting harder; with each snowfall I have to forge a new path. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Coming round the corner of the table I saw her face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lead her around the corner, then return to my room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Tucker Mouse rummaged through the crowded corner of his home which was the pantry and found a tiny package bound with Scotch Tape. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it was an animal, and when he peered around the corner of a mausoleum, he saw an arm rising and falling with the steady, vicious thwop. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I spot our reflection on a fitting-room mirror. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I really have hustler friends and jazz musician friends—I’m becoming part of the two corners of Harlem that fascinate me most. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who made their sandwiches at the deli on the corner. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, Nokomis took her aside and brought her to the corner of the house near the window of oiled paper. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I quietly sat in the corner of the room clenching my teeth, as I didn’t want to show my friends the pain I felt from my headache. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We sat at a table in the corner, our reflections mirrored in the black of the plate-glass windows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Diana asked from her perch near the window in the far corner of the room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Last night in the bathroom, while seated on the can, Bernabe had noticed a spider spinning its web in a corner several feet away. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eye, blue as the bay outside, blinked open, and the corner of his mouth crinkled into a smile. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He could see it out of the corner of his eye. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ladybird Hope’s smile twitched at the corners as the video came over the feed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“To be hung by the neck until dead, then have your body chopped into four pieces, which are sent to the four corners of the kingdom,” the mayor continued. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led Officer Delinko to the southwest corner of the site, where a flatbed truck was parked. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only place there weren’t books was in one corner, where there were some large, comfortable-looking chairs and a wooden table with lamps hanging over them, perfect for reading. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“My maps work in the Bronx. But I can’t make them work here. No streets, corners. I can’t plot my escape.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mouse chose a long silver chain as big around as my finger to drag into a corner and wrestle into submission. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I look around the corner again, and this time, David’s eyes shift to mine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Rafe couldn’t hide the smile that played at the corner of his mouth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tears sting at the corners of my eyes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He grinned when he saw me, his warm dark eyes crinkling at the corners. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But if you looked out of die corner of your eye, you could make out his shape. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even though I had been at Hampden only a few days, I was already accustomed to the official accounts of financial hardship, of limited endowment, of corners cut. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“So,” said Kojo after Grace glided around a corner, “when are you two getting married?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The trees grew thicker and denser the farther back in the corner they went, more alive and full of leaves. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t remember what he’d said, and out of the corner of her eye, she could see Tialys quickly preparing the lodestone resonator, busy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But just to see Bear’s sack and hat in one corner moved me greatly. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pride oozes out of every corner of her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Francis was around the corner, buying her a book to read on the train. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could hear a muttered argument taking place in a corner. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every corner, every alley, every building was familiar to her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson crimped the corner of her notepad in annoyance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their backup meeting was scheduled for a couple weeks later on the corner of Ninety-Sixth Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minho had just turned a corner up ahead and was coming straight for them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“First off, you need a cardboard sign. Then you need a busy intersection. The best corners have long stoplights.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When she put her hand in through the top trap door, he cringed and forced himself back into the corner. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out and knocked on the corner of the screen door. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

I spotted Manet off in the corner, loading tile into a kiln. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pick up the pace to cross the town square, staring straight ahead, wiping the fear off my face, fighting the tears that edge into the corners of my eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room was a large fish tank that was only a quarter full, but the bottom was covered with rocks and dark mud that clouded the water. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Near where he stood an old man squatted on his haunches beside a great slab of alabaster, examining and blowing at a small hollow in one corner of it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They trotted down the road and around a corner. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of my eye, the walls rippled, first becoming awash with cracking flames, then receding into the churning black waters of the Atlantic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were in the beer place at the corner table. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’ll stop in at some corner store on the way back, some place where they sell milk till midnight and slightly stale sliced white bread. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A single standing lamp attempted to light the room, but the corners of the apartment were encased in shadows. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Leaving the bike at the corner, they moved stealthily down to 2814 Thompson and crept to a side door. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When Ruth turned the corner, Milkman waited a minute and started up the car. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stands in the far corner, arms clamped across her chest. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I sat in a corner and stuffed straw into my coat for warmth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Or was it, perhaps, only the echo of a thousand headlines that had already screamed their violence into the deepest corners of her soul? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moth lands in the corner then flutters away, leaving a brown smudge of wing chalk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

From her parlor window, Susan Kidwell saw the white cortege glide past, and watched until it had rounded the corner and the unpaved street’s easily airborne dust had landed again. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sleep in a narrow bed in the corner of the room that we share with his brothers and sisters. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Polly that the slave girl curled in a corner of the wagon would never stop crying. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was drawing with felt pens at her own little table in the corner, where her paintings were taped up next to the refrigerator. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toxic and hazardous wastes were stored in another: corner of the dump, where you could find old batteries, oil drums, paint cans, and bottles with skulls and crossbones. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A physicist named Sam Allison sat in the corner of the bunker, a telephone in his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back home, she would wash her underwear every night and hang it in a discreet corner of the bathroom. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tisquantum would have been tied or chained, to prevent rebellion, and jammed into whatever dark corner of the hull was available. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I tip-toed to the end of the passage and turned the corner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze back behind the silage rolls and find Manchee still in his corner, licking his tail. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m headed to trip-hop when I notice a couple making out in the pop diva section in the far back corner. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a minivan in front of us, with a little stick figure family in the corner of the rear windshield. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Jay tiptoed away from his corner, and I met him behind the big kitchen table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

‘But you shall be merry tonight, and listen to your heart’s content. Come on, guide me round the corners!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I cornered him on the porch and said, “Harry.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The shadows had retreated some; they stood swaying in the dark corners of the room as the song spun to life. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the corner by the bar, Johnny yawns. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As he neared the corner drug store, which stayed open all night, he wondered if any of the gang was around. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew his bunker assignment: Bunker Six, a pile of sandbags at the southwest corner of the perimeter. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it had to do with debate stuff since the state tournament is around the corner, so I decided to hit her back. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Not even me as a police cruiser rolled up around the corner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Well, I can stand a lot; if I couldn’t dam if I wouldn’t be in a hell of a fix, so when they turned the corner I jumped down and followed. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty looked around for Frolic and saw that he was curled in the corner, asleep. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes going around a sharp corner, your chair would swing right over the edge of the mountain. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leale examined the small room with a bed, its headboard wedged into the corner. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she would sit in the corner of their tiny kitchen and yell at him in Korean. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was a faint light in the cabin that she took for moonlight, and it showed her new cold-weather furs that lay stiffly in the corner of the cabin. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I stand on the corner of the road. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I stored the fact that they were real glasses in the corner of my mind the way a squirrel stores a nut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His father sold the house and they moved to a garden apartment where no memories lurked around corners. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A tiny gleam catches the corner of my eyes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, I feel like I’ve waited long enough—if I leave my thoughts in a corner any longer, I might start to forget them. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I twist my mouth into one corner, like I’m trying to decide whether I want to smile or scowl. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You will become blind and live in a corner forever if you keep on crying,” she warned as she slammed her eyes shut for a moment to show me blindness. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He is sorting through a chest that contains— believe it or not—more toys, when I see them: two old-fashioned wooden stick horses, one black, one gray, that sit forgotten in a corner. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As I slogged along I kept turning around and looking down the road behind me, trying to see around corners and through clumps of trees. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears burned the corners of her eyes, and Anya hurried out of the kitchen before she lost her composure altogether. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The screen turns solid blue, while the word “PLAY” flashes in the top left corner, in pixelated white letters. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they had it cornered in a shop doorway, she ran at him and he leaped aside with a scream that was not all self-mockery. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, out of the corner of your eye, you see someone running toward you. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She shrugged and glanced at Lexie out of the corner of her eye, wondering if she sounded convincing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Darker moods lurked around the corner, prowlers in shadow, but fierce Grover forced them to think twice. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I awoke the next morning in a dry and fairly sheltered corner of the ramp underneath the stadium. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he talked, the crumbs came dribbling out of the corner of his loose mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it gave him a shivering to see her face change, the steel leave her eyes, the lips thicken from line to bow, and the corners turn up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This thought put him in mind of childhood fevers, their wild and frightening logic, the search for the cool corner of the pillow, and his mother’s hand upon his brow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a duplex, yellow with green trim, that stood squarely on the corner, a rusted chain-link fence surrounding it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I waited for my parents to leave for work, then got ready to head to the blue mailbox at the corner of our street. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The three of us squished into a tiny wooden booth in the corner of the restaurant. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The fruit stand on the corner is overflowing with avocados and papayas, most of them sliced straight through the middle to show their freshness. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

He was facing the yellow brick wall across the street, but then he looked at me out of the corner of his eye. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry detected the weariness in those purple eyes, the pallor beneath that glaze of lupus, the sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson mouth. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to the corner and Jimmy was there barking at Ducky. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d started to receive fan letters and requests for photos, autographs, even some selected game scores to autograph and inscribe—not just from the United States but from different corners of the globe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Elisha had knocked over a pile of camp chairs, folded in the corner, and stood over them angrily, holding the mop in his hand. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At least, mercifully, Oscar’s eyes are fixed to the opposite corner of the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The match must have finished hours ago...as had any hope of cornering Malfoy. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Edward nod once. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the top right corners, Section 8 was scribbled, fol-lowed by the name Hank, then the word Day, followed by a number. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

I imagine Violet at home right now, on the other side of the computer, her perfect mouth with its perfect corners turned up, smiling at the screen, in spite of everything, no matter what. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The corner post leaned toward the road, and large black ants covered its surface. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The hat rolled into one corner of the room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“You think you’ll ever speak to me again?” he says sadly, his mouth turning down at the corners. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a supermarket bag in the corner, opened it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then from the corner of my eye, far in the distance, I think I see him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had I unlocked one of the cells and turned the corner than a gym porter who shouldn’t have been there tried to beat me to it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strange sense of helplessness fell upon the girls as the gray bonnet vanished round the corner, and despair seized them when a few minutes later Miss Crocker appeared, and said she’d come to dinner. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked in every corner, under the bed, and even inside the cardboard box. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, during which Harry waited with his hand upon the doorknob, there came a loud bang and a great deal of acrid black smoke billowed from a corner. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It took a moment for it to register, though, and when it did, he tipped the pieces all over the floor of the cell—an instant before Sergeant Holmes rounded the corner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wedged in a corner, beginning to doze, and Mary Alice was sound asleep on a throw rug. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Light poles are like palm trees, bus stop benches like hammocks, and corner stores like island bungalows. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

That night the strange animal again nosed about the dark corners of the hut and drank all the sour milk, turning the calabashes upside down to empty out the last drop. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He glanced at her out of the corner of his eyes, but he didn’t reply. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins put her hat straight at the Tobacconist’s Shop at the corner. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Huddled in a corner, shivering in her thin nightgown, clinging to an old doll’s blanket, Angel was crying silently. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad used to drive me here pretty much every weekend to stay with Gram, so I’ve always had my own bedroom, and I’ve explored every corner of the village. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Two tables stacked with printed material stretched across the middle of the room, and in the far corner an oversized printer was spitting out page after page. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was no hotel suite reserved for the wait; there were no trays of canapés laid out, no television blaring from any corner. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, Mark noticed Darnell taking in a breath, his mouth opening, probably to say something smart and funny back at the Toad. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“And don’t order the Philly cheese steak sandwich unless you want to puke all night,” said a wan but heartfelt voice from a shadowy bunk in the corner. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The solid wooden box had a thick metal plate on each corner. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a group of four or five teenage boys, shirtless and laughing and play punching each other, turned the corner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The puppy wandered to a corner of the room, sniffed, made a circle of himself, collapsed, and fell asleep. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When I am on the street corner I plan to go for “look awake.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the far corner is the all-night Korean deli; two workers, a Korean and a Hispanic, are sitting on crates and smoking cigarettes outside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt something hard at the corners of his lips and touched it with his fingers; it was frozen saliva. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All morning long, automobiles and special trains disgorged thousands and thousands of passengers from every corner of the nation and the world; the assembly of foreign dignitaries alone equaled a normal day’s attendance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could think too much about the woman in the elevator, a ding came from around the corner. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I drop my chin because I can feel prickles in the corners of my eyes. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Curious faces peek from rooms, and whispered conversations follow us around corners. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dad came around the corner of the house. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked a lot like my neighborhood, only it had a huge tower at the corner of what was Main Street. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Manchee barks from a corner, not getting up from the mutton bone Tam gave him earlier. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A closet door cut off one corner, and Emily was surprised to see the inside was a triangle instead of the expected square. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

From the corners of my eyes I saw Mpandhlani give the piece of fiver to a five-year-old boy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one time the benches had been covered with cushions and he could see the ties at the corner where they’d ripped away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tears spilled out of the corners of Peach’s eyes and slid into his ears. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

None of them fitted closely together and the sharp corners were all worn off. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes looked longingly into a corner of the church. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo did not prove very communicative, and he soon found himself sitting alone in a corner, listening and looking around. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We ducked behind the first buildings, staying out of the light, pausing to listen and look around each corner. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They’d survived the worst natural disaster in known human history—maybe the corner had been turned. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They approached a corner park that was raised and built over a parking garage. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But my mind was on a small corner deli downtown. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The photo had started to change colors, especially at the corners, which were hiding into a weird brown, probably because of all the steam coming from the sink over the years. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the corner was our place, a narrow single-story building with a wooden zebra’s head projecting over the sidewalk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Soon after three, Neeley rushed in out of breath, flung his books in a corner and asked whether it was time to run for anybody yet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To work the colonists’ farms, slaves were soon imported from different corners of the Dutch empire, from West Africa, Madagascar, and the East Indies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Night winds, moaning around corners and whistling through cracks, dashed snow against the windows of the Mountain View Inn. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to have found a microscopic problem at the corner of her eye and dabbed at her mascara. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The bus turned the corner and heaved to a stop. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She made Nokomis lie down as well in the corner, with her grandchild. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A smile curled the corners of Riddle’s mouth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He puffs on a cigar and blows smoke from the corner of his mouth. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Sadly Antonapoulos would shuffle the morsel from one corner of the case to the other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It had fallen open at this glossy double page advert, and though the paper had gone soggy and there was mud at one corner, you could see it well enough. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits in the corner of the room, arranging and rearranging our black clothes and our food bowls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Mr. Huffer pull the sheet back up over her, so I stuck my head around the corner. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mom watches from the other side of the living room, standing in the corner, staring at me, Ford, and Abuela. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For a moment she hesitated, then she struck at me with the switch and I dodged and stumbled into a corner. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described Haupt as a "drugstore cowboy," which was slang for a young man who hangs out on street corners or drugstores. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He had struggled for Brotherhood on a hundred street corners and he thought it would make him more human, but he died like any dog in a road. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed my hand as I rounded the corner, heading toward her car. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Max looks up from his book and says, “Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We’re driving through a stretch of trees so thick that where the road curves up ahead, there’s no way to tell what’s around the corner. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We enter an Illustrian market, scattering slaves in our wake before turning a corner. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Chuck had ended up in another room, and for some reason Thomas pictured him huddled in a dark corner, crying, squeezing his blankets to his chest like a teddy bear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But as the waves come around the corner, you get this swirlin’ effect. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I tried to think like her for a moment, imagine that there was danger lurking around every corner. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In response to this compliment, he sank considerably lower in his chair and again masked his face up to the eyes with a corner of the tablecloth. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

You and Arul were already exploring the far corner of the graveyard, where the grass looked as unkempt as the boys’ hair. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A peculiar slumped in a corner beneath a slash of bullet holes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I kneel in the corner and pull back the carpet, tuck the key there, and carefully push the carpet back down on the tack strip. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And then I saw my friends: Tyson, Grover, Annabeth, and Nico all tossed in a corner, tied up like rodeo animals, with their ankles and wrists roped together and their mouths gagged. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In one corner was a turret with a big bay window looking out on a small garden surrounded by the fence. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, he had climbed the station's staircase to the second floor, where Garfield lay on a mattress in the corner of the room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ron was right behind her, looking unnerved as he pointed his wand into the corners of the chilly bathroom. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Kit jumped as the square clock in the corner twanged eight o’clock. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They were finishing up the rosary before bed, so I ducked back around the corner, but it was too late. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

He suddenly realized he was on the familiar block of low apartment buildings, a store-front church, a delicatessen, a pawn shop, and on the corner, a bar. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nora is tucked into her corner of the couch reading Macbeth. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Folks come and go like this is a bus stop on the corner. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

This is a different voice, coming from the far corner of the tavern, where the two men have been sitting. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Dad would give me a corner of the farm, and my husband would put a house on it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At that moment Bull glanced over at Lillian, irritation spliced on the corners of his mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash watched them laughing and dancing from her corner in the front hall, and no one noticed her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll never come back, Lyddie thought sadly as she watched the buggy disappear around the corner, headed for the depot and the train north. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

An ancient television set stands in the corner of the room. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She rapped again, louder, mindless of who might see her under the gray beech tree just around the corner from home. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We huddle in the darkest corner, where we can barely even see each other. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the way I look at things, there’s accidentally getting painted in a corner and there’s not minding getting painted in a corner. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We saw more servants too, but as before, they lay asleep, this time in a corner. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They start in hay carts and trash bins; they follow kerosene trails down the center of streets; they turn corners; they enter bashed-in doorways. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From around a corner appeared a young black man in slacks and glasses, a civilian. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even a minute passed before I saw the pageantry’s torchlight come around the corner toward me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly coming out of a belt of fir-trees it ran steeply down a slope, and turned sharply to the left round the corner of a rocky shoulder of the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She carefully walks down the stairs, which wind around a corner. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It had tables and chairs and a couple of vending machines in the corner. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And in the corner, on a neatly organized desk, sat a large, fancy computer. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the corner of the room he felt isolated and angry and alone. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was little Clarice in a corner with some boy off the estate, she was smiling happily, squealing with delight as a squib spluttered at her feet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The old house on the corner of Pine and Hobart Gap?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I go over to the window and carefully lift one corner of the drawn blind. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Of the three grimy windows, one has a jagged hole in the upper- right corner and one is seamed with spidery cracks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the ubiquitous nature of music and arts as an expressive form found in all cultures, allows for extensive exchanges of ideas from all corners of the globe. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Barely peek at him out of the corners of my eyes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She still found time to search out caterpillars, moths, and butterflies, tucking them away in the corner of her kitchen where she could observe and sketch each stage of their lives. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’d make that harp start from a deep place, then turn around the corner until that bent note came up crying. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I hurried away from the Barracks, dashed down Water Street, and hid behind a rain barrel at the corner of the joiner’s workshop. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air in the room was full of the sweet, cloying smell of whiskey, and every corner was heaped with mementos of trips to England and South Africa. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still absorbed in the speech when out of the corner of my eyes I saw two tall white men coming out of the tent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crouching in her corner, her blank gaze fixed on some faraway place, she no longer saw us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, Natalie stepped past the corner of the nearest fence. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I turned into the street and went on, but I went to the next corner before I stopped. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned the corner and soon were driving along a high, grassy bluff that sloped down to a glistening river that flowed through the main part of town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall arched windows were wide open, but it was still uncomfortably hot and stuffy in the Convention Hall’s auditorium, located on the corner of L and 5th Streets in Washington, D.C. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They rush to the bench in the corner, halting when they see a paper-wrapped object sitting there. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

He nods to a closed door in the corner of the room, one I’d assumed led to a torture chamber. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The door in the corner leads to the toilet and another one to Margot’s and my room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He idly spun the propeller as he glanced up at the street corner. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling I had had when I saw her around the corner had been something like panic. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“He hit a cow coming around the corner,” a man said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Where did he live when he wasn’t on the corner of Main Street and Moore Avenue? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She tilted her head slightly and he took his cue, leaning in to kiss the corner of her mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They walked to the corner and waited for a car. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A speaker tucked into a corner of the ceiling started to cackle and hum. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter yawned in the corner but we both ignored him and stayed and talked some more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Stick was huddled up in the corner, his head resting on his knees. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She is strolling with a happy gait, her body thrust toward the don’t walk sign and the yellow taxicabs that make forty-five-degree turns on the corner of Madison and Fifty-seventh Street. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Clara let them into the big house on the corner without asking any questions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pointing to the corner of the kitchen. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Now she remembered it, so instead of continuing to her house she turned toward the far corner of the garden and the stump at the edge of the woods beyond. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nina was drowsing on a stool tucked into the corner by the table, Inej’s hand grasped loosely in her own. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bass coughed, and wiped the corner of his mouth. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Where we had a table with a cloth and a vase for flowers and some chairs, they only kept a empty blue baby crib with a tired old white sheet over one corner. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She lured me away from the street corner—lunch at Horn & Hardart, walks in Rittenhouse Square, card games in her ground-floor apartment. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy trapped Harry and Miss Goodacre in a corner and gave them a detailed explanation of the difference between the male and female Deinacrida, or giant locust. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ram is set up in his favorite seat in the corner of the living room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Gradually each of the four corners filled with a different family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The house smelled strongly of gas from a small stove that stood in one corner of the main room. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It’s a hive of constant human activity, all day long, people coming and going, gangsters hustling, guys on the corner doing nothing, kids running around. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes he would leave his place by the radio to pull back a corner of one of these sheets and peer out into the strawberry fields. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Spittle dripped from the corner of his mouth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with trembling hands, she brought the frame down against the corner of the table. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I shine my flashlight around, I’m more than half expecting to see a ghost standing in the corner of the room. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The message gnawed away at the corners of our hearts: “You can kill black people. It’s okay, because even if someone is arrested, no one goes to jail for it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He ate slowly, listlessly, stealing occasional glances at the old man sitting in the corner. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I say, as we come round yet another dusty corner of the road with nothing beyond it but more dusty corners. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sherlock, however, is enjoying the Frisbee game immensely, and so we turn the corner and press on. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A strange little smile was tugging at the corner of his mouth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Das bent over the quilt, taking a corner up in his hand and holding it close to his eyes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, I’ve managed to get them out the door and to the corner of our road in the trailer park where the Head Start bus picks them up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

One corner of Lockton’s mouth turned up in a sly smile as a blushing soldier removed the shifts and underskirts. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we could yell at them, they both ran off in the other direction, and disappeared around a corner. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The only hints of modernization were a few simple computer interfaces in unobtrusive corners. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Each night, in my dark corner of the hut, filled with shame and with quiet tears, I suck and chew the chicken bones until there is nothing left. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every table, including Hannah’s in the far back corner, is occupied. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I slide to the right edge of the picture to see a corner of the milk-shake machine in the cafeteria. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Tuti licked her thumb and wiped the corner of my eye. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At each corner I made ten knots and still I worried that the oars would come apart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of lighting the whole room, as was typical, my lamp revealed a narrow slice of the room: the corner of the worktable and half of the large black slate that stood against the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Occasionally some ragamuffin troupe would mum a play on a street corner or I’d hear a fiddler in a pub. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The man looked at me out of the corner of one eye. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“What goes around the world but stays in a corner?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The corners where tears come out feel like someone stuck a pin in them, they’re so dry. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I jogged around the corner for the upscale strip mall just down the boulevard. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The space is wide, warm, and well lit, with a giant hearth and stove squatting in one corner and a wooden worktable sprawled in the center. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Like every year, the Christmas tree stands in a corner of the living room. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She followed it with renewed determination, but she only ever saw the shadow out of the corner of her eye. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I want nothing more than to curl into a ball in the corner of my cell and sleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Now they all stood on the corner, where his Aunt Florence had stopped to say goodbye. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“If we go out the kitchen door, there’s a small courtyard, then the back side of another corner apartment unit. Were looking at an overview of the four streets that meet at the intersection.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The Nazi rubbed his hands together, stomped his feet to clear the snow and cold from them, and walked around the corner, out of sight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden trickle of blood at one corner of his mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I see Thomas’s hands. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

At the next corner a man was beating a small boy brutally in the midst of an immobile crowd of adult spectators who made no effort to intervene. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ivy crushed her pillow against her chest, tracing her finger over one corner of her notebook. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Zing got up, walked over to Amaroq, and stuck his nose in the corner of his mouth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed a telling tear off the corner of my left eye with the heel of my hand and looked away. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Dari’s standing over there,” she whispered, peeking her head around the corner. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She likes looking at the walls, at how neatly their corners meet, the linoleum roses on the floor, the ceiling smooth as wedding cake. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mascara’s run, smudged at the corners of my eyes, and my lips are dark. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the next corner he saw a “For Rent” sign in a building which he knew was cut up into small kitchenette flats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s the back room with his bed, a rug, a chair in the corner, and a small chest of drawers. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Still I didn’t move, and his finger finished its journey to the corner of my lip and rested there for a moment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Daddy pulls me and Seven through the alley, around the corner, and across the street to Reuben’s. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Coach tells Pop about the hit-and-run—how Erin was walking home from practice and a car came around the corner just as Erin was crossing the street, hit her, and then sped away. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leans back into a corner and looks up at me, all woozy. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s been too cold to go outside, so we sit in the far corner of the overheated cafeteria until it’s time to go back to class. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The next morning, on his way to school, Jake noticed a long line snaking out of the corner bodega, a small grocery and convenience store where people bought their coffee, bagels, and egg sandwiches. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They will simply come down on us in force, corner us, and then drive us out, or burn us in. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I pulled away and crouched farther into the corner. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My lute case leaned comfortably in the corner. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I nibbled at the corner of a hangnail while Gay dialed and asked Lorraine if this was a good time. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If I had known two cars were going to crash on that corner, I would’ve run back to the party and called the cops immediately. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He stalked off to a dark corner of the room, put the notebook down on a shelf, and buried his head in his hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Even with the corners of his mouth pulled down in distaste he’s eye-catching. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But then they both turn the corner of one of the portables and join me under the magnolia tree like regular. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Sure you are,” said Ryan out of the corner of his mouth, so no one would notice he was talking to Ralph. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table’s legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark brown surface. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And there, parked on the corner maybe two hundred yards away from the house, was a black car with tinted windows. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The healer’s tongue caught a drop of alcohol at the corner of her mouth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Lita grips her pendant smiling, and tiny wrinkles form around the corners of her eyes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“A cab came speeding around the corner,” said Helene Castleman, a local baker, who witnessed the accident in front of her business. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mama Tataba hangs the whole big family of bananas up in the corner all together, so the tarantula spiders that use it for their house can just move on out when they take a notion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather kept his money in a strongbox under the boards in the corner of his bedroom. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of her, the corner of a warped floorboard is poking up. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

As your speed increases, you begin to see around the corners of passing objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Lelia cornered the woman in the laundry room and tried to communicate with her while helping her fold a pile of clothes fresh out of the dryer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, Hagrid, the last tree — put it in the far corner, would you?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I watched a gray rooster walk into the shrine at the corner of the yard, where Papa-Nnukwu’s god was, where Papa said Jaja and I were never to go near. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally cornered her one rainy afternoon, and we set out the board in the billiards room, she proceeded to show me a game that was a vague variant on draughts. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ophiotaurus swam in his water sphere in the far corner of the room, wisely not making a sound, but it wouldn’t be long before Kronos noticed him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

From the tiny corner where it began, where the first ruin came, it enlarged upon itself. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house itself sat on a corner lot on Lincoln Avenue in the Southside. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that same little corner of my mind remembers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“In that museum of a house? There’re rooms upstairs that...oh! Jamie, the statue is only two feet tall. She could have tucked it into any corner.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the farthest corner there was a heap of rags she took for bedding, and that was all she could see. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It has fancy paper that is thick and yellow, with golden flowers designed in the corners. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, minks stole into the henhouse and slaughtered dozens of chickens, leaving their bloody corpses piled up in the corners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were sitting with Ron in a sunny corner of the courtyard after lunch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As soon we pulled out of the parking lot and turned the corner down Main Street, I could feel Dante’s shoulder bump against mine. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Today, at three in the afternoon, Jule perched on the corner stool, still wearing her swimsuit. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the runners are washing cars, some are working the bake sale tables, and some are holding poster-board signs and shouting at cars from the corner. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

His glasses leaped from his face and skittered into a corner. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He shut the trunk and pushed it into a corner. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost nine by the time I get hack to Blenheim Road, and as I turn the corner I see her, coming towards me, pushing the buggy in front of her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam must have felt my gaze burning through the back of his jacket, because he stopped and turned to wave before disappearing around the corner. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Jacqueline said nothing as she carefully walked around the women who sat like statues in different corners of the cell. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it--indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And then he was staring at me again, one corner of his lips turning up, then the other. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Book in hand I rounded the corner to the bathroom off the kitchen. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He sat in a corner of the kitchen as we made a late meal. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive, but there wasn’t a map in sight. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A Russian prince condescended to sit in a corner for an hour and talk with a massive lady, dressed like Hamlet’s mother in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made of a dark wood, and the corners were covered with inlaid silver vines. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be a tosser,” she says, and quickly kisses them both on the cheek before vanishing around the corner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I lugged the jumbo plastic carrier meant for a twenty-pound dog to an empty corner and set it on the tiled floor. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We hunker down in a shady corner to wait it out, sitting quietly within the solid walls. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He indicated a grave-rubbing on the little table, held flat by a jam jar in each corner. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Right between the end of the couch and the corner of the desk. Couple of feet on either side, OK?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The hyena thanked him and settled down in a corner of the hut and began to cover himself with the skin. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Henry peered around the corner at Atticus in the living- room. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She cooked meals where she made three separate eternally boiled vegetable portions for everybody and would giggle in the corner at Christmas with a small glass of sherry and a paper crown on her head. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

The bus stopped at the corner, and before the astonished driver could protest, they had all climbed on and the bus was on its way. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the corner and walk past Mrs. Parker’s office. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His father is in a bed in the corner, groaning and spitting into a bucket. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was sitting leaning against the stop sign on the corner waiting for her, like he did every day. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The father and I progress to the corner. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I catch Darius shaking his head, as if this whole scene is nonsense. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At a street corner I joined a line at a faucet for a little water to wash in and to drink. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I dived behind some throw pillows just as three men and one woman—the matronly one I’d heard on the phone—turned the corner and entered the room, pushing Ema aside. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“And hit the corners. Watch what I do.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

McDermott Elementary School, printed in the upper left corner in fat red letters. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“No one knew him. He was one of those leeches, hanging around the school, cornering the teachers to do something about the integration laws. Well, she did something alright.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the corner was a cursive capital W. She had studied the twins’ penmanship notebooks to make sure she got it right. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a computer screen on a desk in the corner. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

More and more shadow children danced out of the corners of Isihlangu. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

All evening at school, my mind was filled with words bouncing around in my head like the popcorn machine someone had set up in the corner of the cafeteria. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She turned a corner, letting her free hand trace along the walls to gain a sense of place. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

You were steadily cornering the market in self-pride. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were mildewed boxes of old parish records in one corner, and an open door that revealed a Victorian flush toilet and a basin, with only a cold tap, in the other. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Then he leaned in and pressed his lips to the corner of her forehead, just above her temple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The tennis court must be round the corner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said that if you went to the moon you would have to figure out things using math and if you went to the corner store you would have to do math, too. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Emma shouted, and we all took off running after it, slipping and sliding on the ice, rounding the corner into the snow-choked alley that ran between the glaciated building and the one next to it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Last-minute flight-deck drills in the dark, the preparations of sea bags, every corner filled and every piece in place, from rations to ammunition. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cotton was strewn across the floor, piled up in the corners, and bursting out of several stained, split-open bundles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Behind me I heard someone say, "Hey, what was that?" followed by the sound of running feet as I shot off and around the corner away from her screams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were at the far left end of the cabin, our bunk wedged in the corner. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She has a mustache too, though not very much of one, just a sprinkling of hairs around the corners of the mouth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He jerks his head to a table in the corner of the cavern and walks off without waiting for me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A small potbellied stove took up one corner, and next to it was a dry sink under a window that looked out to the sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The corners of the photo were worn soft and colorless. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He’d stare at one corner, then another, like he was setting up his whirligigs there, in his head, getting the feel of it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z