| 单词 | corridor |
| 例句 | The moment he turns to put out the fire, I flee down the winding corridor. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z After the girls and Doña Laura left with the American zombie whites, I heard a door click in the master bedroom, and I went out to the corridor to check for intruders. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She gestured down the side corridor, her hands shaking. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z On his next swing, the darkness prevented Thomas from seeing a new wall looming in front of him until it was too late; the corridor ended and turned to the right. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “No. I tried to peep along the corridor, but Sister Benedicta had the door firmly closed.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He told her to go across the corridor—to see the wide selection of frames there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z People walk through the corridor, and all of them are coming to see me. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor was a guardroom. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cannon’s class was only halfway down this same corridor. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The corridors out there looked much the same as the ones he’d seen from the window by the East Door early that morning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z By lunchtime, there are over sixty No-Name signs running along the corridors of Paintbrush Falls Middle School. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z So I went down the corridor to Rosy’s lab, hoping she would be about. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Feeling sick, Alex backed away to the door and staggered out into the corridor. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We walked through a maze of corridors filled with guards. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The third floor corridor seemed to be deserted. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Nhamo went to the long mirror at the end of the hospital corridor to admire herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, after lights out, a brave boy called Wragg tiptoed out of our dormitory and sprinkled castor sugar all over the linoleum floor of the corridor. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He went up on to the second landing, and along the corridor, into the room with the dolls. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Nurse Duckett plucked Yossarian’s arm and whispered to him furtively to meet her in the broom closet outside in the corridor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He almost sprints down the next corridor, and stops abruptly. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Without leaving her bed, she wandered the dark corridors of pregnancy, stumbling over the bones of women who had passed this way before her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By the time Ekon reached the corridor, he was drenched in sweat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The superintendent took us down a corridor as narrow as the wooden run that bulls were sent through to their slaughter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Students rush through the corridors, but they're mostly Yearlings, and none of them look twice at us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He opened a door into a corridor that led to a single row of four jail cells, each of them holding a black boy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Once when they passed in the corridor she had given him a quick sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him and for a moment had filled him with black terror. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The corridors stank of oiled floors and cafeteria soup. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z A great flood of water stretched over half the corridor, and it looked as though it was still seeping from under the door of Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Four Brown Bears, each wearing a peaked cap, were trundling trolleys of food along the little corridor that separated the animals from the cages. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z I recall, for instance, the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Precisely at 4:30, there would be a loud knock on the wooden door at the end of our corridor, which meant that supper had been delivered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They cursed their way through the featureless corridors and finally hit-and-missed their way into the short passage to the air lock. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Dr. Spires strode down the corridor, my best furry friend howling the entire way, until they disappeared past swinging doors. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Instead of approaching them from a wide staircase or through an arched gate, you pass from an enclosed corridor through a pair of solid-metal doors, neither one much bigger than your front door at home. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Scipio was already running down the dark corridor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Within a few minutes, I uncovered the mouth of a tunnel that led into a dark underground corridor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The sight of him cross-legged on newspapers spread on the floor, intently whisking a brush over the leather, always reminds her of her indiscretion in her parents’ corridor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One of them was a girl whom he often passed in the corridors. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One Saturday, after returning from exercise in the courtyard, I noticed that a warder had left a newspaper on the bench at the end of the corridor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These are the days when going into any building you cross a mat of dirt and cinders led in by others before you, thinning and finally trailing off in the corridors. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking out from some high windows, you could see a dozen red-brick walls facing different directions and the roofs of the many connecting corridors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She returned to her room at the other end of the corridor and folded the robe that still lay on her table. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor he pulled open a door, and she saw a push broom, and a scrub bucket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z With a roar he charged across the corridor and when he was close he left the castle floor with both feet and the door splintered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Imagine, Martin said, that an original group of a hundred hunters crossed over Beringia and down the ice-free corridor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Narrow corridors open into immense libraries; glass doors give way to hothouses overflowing with the smells of humus, wet newspaper, and lobelia. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z None of this would have truly mattered if she had had someone to walk down the long corridors at P.S. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The second floor had six corridors, thirty-five rooms, and fifty-one doors, the third another three dozen rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The corridor stretched in both directions to infinity, strewn with cardboard boxes and trash and monkey biscuits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he waved the others into another corridor that was a bit wider than the one on the ground floor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She practically ran down the corridor to the air lock, her right arm hanging rigidly at her side. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Down that corridor. It’s a bit cold in there, so I said they might like to come in here by the fire, but they didn’t want to.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As they looked down towards the Cilician Gates, standing in the corridor side by side, a sigh came suddenly from the girl. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd surged out of the Grand Ballroom into the corridor, as Algernon, scampering along the maroon carpeted hallway, led them a merry chase. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They walked silently down the corridor to the service elevator. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z A red-haired lady at the desk gave her a pass card and pointed to a door that opened onto a corridor of smaller doors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He ran up and up, and along every corridor, and whichever room he chose, he dared not stay there, Hooper would find him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Sailors and authorized personnel darted every which way as we progressed through the corridors. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I wandered down the main corridor, until I found myself in front of the door marked GUIDANCE. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I close my eyes and my nostrils fill with the smells of the corridor, sweat and ammonia, rubbing alcohol and curry. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Still, she shuddered and hurried past it, out through her door-curtain and down the corridor, where she met Less Ellen bringing her afternoon tray. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We were walking along the corridor to the lounge, and looking up I saw his eyes fixed on me in curiosity. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Indeed he was, striding down the dark corridor toward them, followed by his wife and her retinue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His face cut and badly bruised, Bogart approached me in our corridor and asked for help. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Trepid hurried down the corridors, past all the narrow rooms, to the back door. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z With that I hurried on, and it was not until I had all but reached the kitchen doors that the darkness falling again in the corridor told me Miss Kenton had closed her parlour door. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I ran down corridors littered with bones, past rooms foil of sheepskin rugs and life-size cement sheep that I recognized as the work of Medusa. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Others from the National Woman’s Party gave up and went home, and after hours waiting in the corridor, Paul left, too. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I went out into the corridor and listened. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But I remember, while we were waiting in the corridor—I remember being feverish and nervous as hell, but con- fident. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He went out and saw a slender figure further down the corridor. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Father looked tall in the low-ceilinged hospital corridor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z And the corridor outside the room smelled like gravy and the bleach they use to clean the toilets at school. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Ron and Eve got to go to the prefects’ carriage first and then patrol the corridors for a bit.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Reluctantly, she left her room and made her way along the gloomy paneled corridor to the head of the stairs where she paused to listen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He brushed past Michael Donovan on the threshold with a grave nod and passed down the corridor, oblivious to the astounded stare that followed him. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She herself remained in the corridor looking out at the snow and Poirot remained with her, leaving M. Bouc to the task of searching the luggage. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the soldiers come to a sudden stop halfway down the corridor, a good distance away from my cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Once off the main corridors, Gale and I race like schoolchildren for the armory, and by the time we arrive, I’m breathless and dizzy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z By now, Taisin recognized parts of the fortress—the long, sloping corridor; the cavernous ceiling hung with icicles sharp as swords; the endless ranks of golden cages. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, Clovisites were thought to have entered the ice- free corridor by pursuing game—“follow the reindeer,” as skeptics refer to this scheme. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He waited in the dark corridor, and when the young man tiptoed out and turned the key, the Gallivespian began to follow him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Harry could hear movement through the corridors all around: running footsteps, shouts; through the windows, he could see more flashes of light in the dark grounds. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She obeyed me, still giggling, and I lifted my skirts off the ground and followed her along the corridor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He heard voices and looked down the corridor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor footsteps were approaching: rapid, firm footsteps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The corridor was split in half with a metal staircase leading down into what must be some sort of basement. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z One morning Mr. Bow took me down to the hole, which was a corridor of isolation cells under the hospital wing, when he was doing basic medical rounds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She dropped the half-eaten banana into the bag, then slung the bag over her arm and marched out of the room and went thumping along the corridor with her walking-stick. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z It was, then, only a few minutes after my short encounter with Miss Kenton that I found myself walking down the corridor again on my return journey, this time bearing a tray. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z To drive her up out of bed in the dark of midnight, to slip barefoot into the corridor between their rooms, and to deliver her, trembling, to Kaede. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The pair of warders watch from the end of the corridor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I jogged down the corridor, but when I got to the other end, no one was there. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They were standing in a windowless, lightless, cinder- block corridor that had doors at either end: this was the makeshift air lock, the gray zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corridor, I knotted my necktie and buttoned my shoes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The other door, the one the Master had entered and left by, opened onto the busy corridor between the library and the Scholars’ common room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The defeated army was running up a corridor that was bound to narrow, and soon must be cut off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I had passed the door where that corridor emptied into the main prison, walked by the large pool of dried blood just inside it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat, unmoving, while she sung, and then, without excusing himself, 13-04 rose and rushed above-stairs, and sought her out along the corridors. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On the fifth floor, I raced along the corridor to the door of my grandmother's room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Harry panted as they reached the corridor beneath the tallest tower. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z All the talk and horseplay ended within a few seconds of the instant when the first person, that is myself, heard the footsteps returning along the marble stairway and corridors toward us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Yanking my portable oxygen farther up on my shoulder, I head down the empty corridor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Carrying me in one hand, she went bustling out of the bedroom and along the corridor, banging her stick on the carpet with each step she took. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The rest of the passengers have already disappeared through one of the mazes of corridors. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It walked the length of the corridor and stopped down at the very end, where a full-length mirror hung. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z We stood in the shadows of a ropewalk and observed the men dragging their cranked engines up and down the long corridor, twisting fibers into cord. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Each man replied the same way: “I have many complaints, but our spokesman is Mr. Nelson Mandela at the end of the corridor.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Queen led them out of the Hall of Images into a long corridor and then through a whole maze of halls and stairs and courtyards. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Others, like herself, lived here, in rooms along the corridor. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I stopped by the Inspection Office on my way down the corridor, and I being the guard none stopped me from entering and looking till I found the wall-panel that contained the alarms and switches. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We climbed the stairs, and I held the candle as we proceeded down the ground-floor corridor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Over the lintel was affixed the ancient dragon’s skull, its browning sockets gazing down the corridor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We reach the Commandant’s house, and Izzi holds open the gate to the servants’ corridor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They did see another Aunt, but she was at the far end of the corridor and not looking their way. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Entering Matrosskaya Tishina, I found a confusing maze of cell blocks, low doorways, endless tunnels, dingy corridors, and ancient metal staircases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We slip through corridors until he can get close enough to the messenger bag to light-finger the papers inside. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t worry if I were you,” Rick said as the two Rosens led him down a highly illuminated wide corridor. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I do not think so. That, I should hear. The light from the corridor—one wakes up automatically thinking it is the Customs examination at some frontier.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She led him back down the corridor and stopped at the door of the room Lyra had been in. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And because these people lived seven thousand miles south of the Bering Strait, a distance that presumably would have taken a long time to traverse, they almost certainly arrived before the ice-free corridor opened up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z However, he’d seen some of the more prominent Vigil members waylaying kids in the corridors, checking on their sales, whispering menacingly to those who had sold only a few boxes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And then all of a sudden the way opened wide, and Taisin now understood that they had been flying down a corridor and had just emerged into a great, echoing space. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I follow the downstairs corridor back, past the door that leads into the kitchen, along to the next door, his. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Close to, he recognized her as a ghost he had passed several times in the corridor, but to whom he had never spoken. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Some connect to the Helpers’ barracks and the cafeteria, which have their own corridors, obviously.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z From far away down the corridor came the beating of drums. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Mattresses were brought up from the cellars and pitched all over the corridors; meals consisted of sandwiches and Victory Coffee wheeled round on trolleys by attendants from the canteen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was on the top corridor, at the east end of the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I stare down the empty corridor as if the decision lies there. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She took her first step down the dark corridor. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z As they came back down the corridor, I leaned out the door. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It lay at the end of the corridor and wasn’t much used either in winter or summer, having small windows and no door out to the terrace, despite its name. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A receptionist directed us down a corridor and into a small meeting room. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He followed his guide down the corridor of his own carriage and along the corridor of the next one. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z George took the steep steps onto her own bus and shuffled along the narrow corridor, her feet sticking to the rubbery floor. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The usual confusion and noise filled the corridors as the students began to disembark. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z On the second floor she found a long corridor, where one door was open to an empty lecture hall and another to a smaller room where two Scholars stood discussing something at a blackboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in front of her, footsteps echoed down a corridor. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She made it across the trench and hobbled slowly into the corridor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Light filled the corridor and spread, growing brighter by the moment. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She braved the climb only after discovering that the other end of the corridor narrowed into a glum dead end. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The front door stood ajar, there was no light in the entrance hall, but Meggie heard loud voices echoing down the corridor that led to the library. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He crept along the corridor below, pushed aside a tapestry about halfway along, and proceeded down a narrower staircase, a shortcut that would take him down two floors. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Then he turned and trudged off down the corridor until he was lost in the shadows. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She turned away from him, and walked down the corridor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, the guard touched Jelly's shoulder. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we do have a set of suspicious circumstances here. Why was he in the upstairs corridor at all? Why wasn’t he at the Halloween feast?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z At the clinic there’s a waiting room and a long corridor of doors to little offices for hearing tests, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I was about to give up and go back for Ricky when I spied a narrow corridor of freshly stomped palmettos not far away. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Ma cried, and she wailed and wailed, the sound of her cries circling the house like a spirit and settling on all the corridors and beds where we lay, weeping in silence. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "It was running down the corridor into the kitchen!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I tried not to break into a sprint again, instead doing a little gallop down the corridor. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Thomas stared in horror at the monstrous thing making its way down the long corridor of the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z People buzzed down the busy corridors of the courthouse while we sat silently. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Nailer couldn’t help inanely calculating scavenge value of the lighting systems as he made his way down the corridor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He actually had to lift the door in order to slide out of the room, and then he slid to the far side of the corridor before getting his footing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The combination of land bridge and ice-free corridor occurred only once in the last twenty thousand years, and lasted for just a few hundred years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I streaked down the corridor, went through the Lounge and the Reading-Room and the Library and the Drawing-Room and came to the stairs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z They were close to the umbrella trees that lined the driveway when Richard saw the bearded man, in a severely smart, belted army uniform, striding across the corridor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t realize where his feet had led him until he’d reached a short corridor, darker than most. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Broad strips of dazzling gold sunlight fell across the corridor from the high windows. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Then they dispersed, flooding back into the burned corridor, almost as if Annabeth was no longer interesting. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Two torches burned on either side of me, barely illuminating a long, damp corridor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I went down a long wide corridor and at the end of it I came to 'The Ballroom'. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “I, Monsieur? I was at my little seat at the end—facing up the corridor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He unlocked it and I stepped into the corridor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He’s cut off mid-sentence because Alex has stopped in the middle of the corridor and yanked him backward into a kiss. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Position uncertain, overhead triangular body of water to east of corridor.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The corridor split, and she twitched her ears at the path on the right. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z This silence, continuing like a corridor, carried Gabriel back to the silence that had preceded his birth in Christ. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The stretcher was wheeled down the corridor and my arm stretched out toward the Object. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Justin led Mrs. Frisby in another direction, down a corridor to their left, and again she had the impression of a faint, cool breeze against her face. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A slot of pale light peeped from under the last door on the corridor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Harry glimpsed Fleur Delacour from time to time in the corridors; she looked exactly as she always did, haughty and unruffled. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The men paid no more mind to me than if I had been a ghost, and when I followed them down the corridor, no one asked me what I was doing in this place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson’s famously elusive mind. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Its no wonder no one can stand her,” he said to Harry as they pushed their way into the crowded corridor, “she’s a nightmare, honestly.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Sophia pointed to a disinfectant dispenser on the wall of the corridor, and Claire followed her example, rubbing her hands carefully with the clear medicinal liquid. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, The Goober’s breath came fast. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Passing them in silence down that silent corridor through the drifting ash where they struggled forever in the road’s cold coagulate. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A door that opened into a candlelit stone corridor, with stairs leading down into the gloom. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Harry waited until he was quite sure she had gone, then hurried off again until he reached the spot in the seventh-floor corridor where a single gargoyle stood against the wall. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Malcolm went out and tiptoed along the corridor to the main hall. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She went to the door, and I followed her down the corridor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She and Trotter walked down the hall together, and he went first into the small locker room that led to AA-5 while she waited in the corridor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other people in the corridor—three children, two adults—were somehow too insubstantial to touch the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Alex remembered the corridor at the foot of the metal staircase. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Jinjoo crawled out into the corridor and quietly made her way down to the living room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Thomas took a rock and carefully threw it to their left, just in front of where the left wall of the corridor leading to the Cliff met the edge. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Along the corridors they raced, and one by one the Patronuses left them; Professor McGonagall’s tartan dressing gown rustled over the floor, and Harry and Luna jogged behind her under the Cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z To get to Dr. Holiday’s office, I had to walk down a long gray corridor that seemed buried deep in the bowels of the hospital. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z As she spoke, they turned a corner and found themselves at the end of the very corridor where the attack had happened. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z As the sobbing continued unabated, I wheeled my bicycle into the third-floor corridor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She made her way down the next corridor, hopping to keep the weight off her bad foot. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The Christopher Columbus was built out of three old houses, strategically connected by a series of back courtyards, corridors, and specially constructed bridges. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A waiter passed in the corridor with our sandwiches and the bottle of Chablis, and we called him in. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She was out in the corridor, standing very still, her head angled to one side to give her a view of what I was doing inside. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They led me down another corridor, into the Indenturement Processing Area. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He walked along a little, dark passage-way, and turned into the corridor. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z In Detroit, eight hundred suspects had been held in an unventilated corridor of a US Post Office building, where they had no beds or blankets and only one toilet for the entire group. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We all hurry to senior hall, rushing by the grim faces of the school staff that line the corridors. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The group was spread out across the full width of the corridor, running at a steady but quick pace—Thomas wondered how long the non-Runners would hold up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I would go to the water fountain in the corridor and let cold water run over my wrists, chilling my blood, hoping in that way to keep awake. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The corridor was steeped in viscous darkness, so Root flicked down his infrared filter. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Nothing moved in the dim red glow of the corridors. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “If Ojukwu wanted to stop the starving, he could simply say yes to a food corridor. Those kids don’t have to be eating rodents,” the redhead said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As I passed by, I glanced down the steamy corridor to see them performing their serious, womanly movements. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I follow the man down an empty, glowing corridor and into an office. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They ran through the echoing hall, along the corridor and into the kitchen, through the scullery, and into a cobbled court beyond it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I can hear her, a faint tapping, a faint shuffling on the muffling rug of the corridor, before her light knock comes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They putter along in the halls and corridors, and leave a sad trail of tear-shaped glitter and the noise of tiny wailing cries. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone, in the middle of the corridor, as silence fell among the mass of students pressing forward to see the grisly sight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I had a flashing glimpse of a door at the other end of the room, opening on the corridor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right — I only came in here because people outside are behaving very childishly, racing up and down the corridors,” said Hermione in a sniffy voice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Harry spent a lot of time over the next few days dodging M 1 out of sight whenever he saw Gilderoy Lockhart coming down a corridor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Bernard dropped down to floor thirty-three, hurried along the corridor, stood hesitating for a moment outside Room 3210, then, having wound himself up, opened the door and walked in. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There were doors fining the walls, but Alec suggested that they explore the length of the corridor before they tried each one. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I get to the tenth ladder, but the corridor just continues ahead of me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It is the longest of the corridors we will travel through, but that distance shrinks when I see him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Harry blundered up the corridor, barely noticing where he was going, he was in such a fury. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A steel hatch sealed the corridor, and Captain Short, or her corpse, lay on the other side of it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “It’s terrible,” growled Hagrid into his beard, as the three of them walked back along the corridor to the marble staircase. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Grin gestured and Alex followed him back down the corridor and out of the house. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They ran along the ceiling of another corridor, the floor running over their heads. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They took a thirty-five-foot section of corridor and created a cell block with a prefabricated wall. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment Corliss had gone, the corridor erupted into a cacophony of excited conversation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The body of an old man covered by a sheet was wheeled by just as Billy entered the corridor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In that cold corridor they had reached the point of no return which was measured from the first solely by the light they carried with them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The corridor was dim and her startled eyes met Ugwu’s more startled eyes and she stopped for a moment before she hurried on to the guest room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She opened the door and found herself in the long corridor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Judging from the empty corridors and rooms, even the crew had run. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Halfway through this corridor three white men stood talking together and blocked the way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Without Haynes’s ice-free corridor, it is hard to imagine how humans could have made it to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They dashed into another corridor, then clambered up a ladder. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She survived the shock of her first elevator ride and stepped into a long corridor lined with chairs, all of which were full of colored men and women awaiting examinations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Somewhat relieved—for the memory of the Ento creature had reared up fresh in her mind—she went back out into the corridor, and the shadow fluttered in the distance again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes his breath came between his chattering teeth in gusts, rising above the rain and the winds that swished down the corridors; at other times I had to bend to listen. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the moonlit corridors were empty and silent, and by checking the map at strategic intervals, Harry was able to ensure that he wouldn’t run into anyone he wanted to avoid. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He looked over at Minho, huddled against the hall of the corridor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Afterwards he chatted it up with the brains in the corridor, a big grin on his face. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We made it to the corridor and turned just in time to see the other columns toppling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The Professor had his ready, and as we met in the corridor he pointed to them significantly as he said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I gaze behind me, looking for her outline in the corridor. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z By the time I’m able to pull the sack from my head, the corridor is silent. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She looked up and down the long empty hotel corridor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z She stamped past me and on down the corridor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Here we are,” said Mrs. Cole, as they turned off the second landing and stopped outside the first door in a long corridor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It rose three storeys with a front entranceway that stretched out the front as a long corridor. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Because we have plenty of room here in Opportunity Hall,” he added, then disappeared down the corridor in the direction of our common room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z California and Washington careened into the last five hundred yards, storming down the corridor of open water between the spectators’ boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But before she had gone very far, a door in the corridor opened. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave him no chance to walk with dignity, but dragged him along the corridors and swiftly up some steps to a barred gate leading directly into the arena. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The three of them pushed through into the empty outer corridor. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Instead, the soldiers simply stood flanking the corridor, all silently staring at them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Bethesda Hospital is made up of several buildings in a large complex all connected by glass corridors. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I used to get in quite a few arguments about it, when I was at Whooton School, with this boy that lived down the corridor, Arthur Childs. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z At that moment the bell in the corridor sounded for the end of class. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She opened the door a crack and he crawled out, dark against the warm pink light in the corridor. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was so dark inside the corridors and classrooms that extra torches and lanterns were lit. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When the halls were empty, Barker’s team would sneak through an underground corridor connecting the hotel with the Watergate office building next door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Immediately, the blade flickered, showing the dark shape of the giant Clytius moving through a corridor, snuffing out torches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The most startling corridor—my favorite, actually—was the long, semi-open one connecting the max facility to the school building and Tappan, across the railroad tracks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We followed a narrow corridor to the service stairwell, just like we’d practiced, but we froze when we heard noises above us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z An odor of loam and dead leaves hung in the corridor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z We exited the corridor amidships and walked across an open deck lined with lifeboats. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She walked along a Biosafety Level 0 corridor, heading for a Level 4 biocontainment area known as AA-5, or the Ebola suite. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Along yet another corridor he dashed, and then there were owls everywhere, and Mrs. Norris was hissing and trying to bat them with her paws, no doubt to return them to their proper place.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z One day, a warder had left his key on the desk in the office at the end of our corridor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Angela, starting up to help her partner, was distracted by shouting in the corridor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Her swords were drawn, shimmering with poison, and with her bat wings extended, she took up the entire corridor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He went over to the door and back into the corridor. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Then I saw, leading off to the left, another corridor. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The cats prowled the moonlit corridors as I explored. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Mr.Wonka rushed on down the corridor, THE NUT ROOM, it said on the next door they came to. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Old Chao had just turned the corner at the far end of the corridor. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped back into the corridor to remain out of sight from the men. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We’re inching along the corridor, rubbernecking, unwilling to miss a single link. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I parked and found my way to the prison entrance and walked inside the main building with its dark corridors and gated hallways, where metal bars barricaded every access point. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He liked the dimly lit corridors of the empty building, the peace, the promise of the day ahead. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z There were hurried footsteps outside in the corridor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The mirror showed the corridor behind her; that was only to be expected. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z All the darkened inlets and corridors that stretched into the carnival’s back alleys seemed to writhe and simmer. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z They glided away down the corridor with him, and the darkness they trailed behind them swallowed him from sight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The maid let out a scream that must have been heard by ships far out in the English Channel, and she dropped the shoes and ran like the wind down the corridor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z And if she hadn’t seen the Master tipping that powder into the wine, she might have risked the Steward’s anger, or hoped to avoid being noticed in the busy corridor. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Harry shouted, and he sprinted along the corridor and down the stairs, three at a time. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Kept going, through corridor after corridor, deep into the heart of the Maze, rules or no rules. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We slogged through mud to a rear entrance, showed our I.D.’s, passed through another metal detector, and then marched down a long gray corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On Halloween morning they woke to the delicious smell of baking pumpkin wafting through the corridors. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Together we kept walking down the brick corridor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Midnight ticked nearer as they heaved Norbert up the marble staircase in the entrance hall and along the dark corridors. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z We walked through a corridor and followed the nurse into an examination room. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The thing bowled him over as it scuttled away, tearing up the corridor and out of sight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z We settled in a corridor made of huge marble blocks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Later I slept on the floor of the corridor; first putting my pocket-book with my money and papers in it inside my shirt and trousers so that it was inside the leg of my breeches. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He was waiting for the moment when Ron’s labeled dot would reappear in the corridors of Hogwarts, proving that he had returned to the comfortable castle, protected by his status of pureblood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z If you can distinguish between trees and a long open corridor through the trees you will have no trouble finding your way along the AT. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z At the far end of the corridor was a closed door. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He had a faint, dry smell of herbs, an echo of the pothead smell that always lingered in the dusty corridors of Durbinstall: patchouli oil, clove cigarettes, incense. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There’s a corridor leading in to the door, and a woman seated at a table beside it, supervising the entrances and exits. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A few feet before the end of the corridor, Minho pulled up, holding his hand out over Thomas’s chest to make sure he stopped, too. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I remember clutching tightly to Pa’s fmger as we walked along wide crumbling corridors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their steps were slow—Brother Ugo wasn’t as fast as he’d once been—but in time, they made their way to a corridor that led to the temple’s library. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Arthur, who had come pattering through the stone corridors of his palace with a mind fixed on the work in front of him, stood waiting in the doorway without surprise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As we left, the heavy metal door clanged shut behind us, an eerie sound that echoed down the corridor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I looked around for the stolid Frith, but he had passed along the hall and into the further corridor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They fell backward — Harry slammed the door shut, and they ran, they almost flew, back down the corridor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing fainter in the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She reached out and put her hand on the cold brass handle, and it opened into a corridor lit with candles placed in pewter sconces molded into the shapes of tree branches. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a stairwell at the end of the corridor, and a sign indicates that it leads to the roof. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t hear anything... But Hermione gave a sudden gasp, pointing down the corridor. “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The corridor’s walls were a deep forest green adorned with maple wainscoting. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It must have been very late, because all the corridors were deserted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They joined Jackson and the boys in the corridor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She pointed ahead, and Thomas saw the narrow aisle forming in the middle of the corridor, Gladers fighting wildly to push the Grievers toward the walls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The therapist pushes Jason’s wheelchair down the corridor, and Mrs. Morehouse picks up her purse. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned away from him and went down the corridor to join Colonel Arbuthnot. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Peeves had vanished, there was silence in the corridors; with only fifteen minutes left until curfew, most people had already returned to their common rooms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Harry glanced out of the corridor windows as they passed; the sun was already sinking over grounds carpeted in deeper snow than had lain over the Burrow garden. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They scurried down the corridor in silence, the sound of their feet hidden by the lamenting wind. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Or she could go to the door, stand in front of her ghost guards, and scream down the corridor until Minya came. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There were guys on both sides of the corridor. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After the meal, a servant was waiting for her in the corridor with a message: Sister Ailan wished to see her in her study. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, Flatnose was just boasting of the way he had poisoned a farmer’s stocks of olive oil. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The interior of the nests are like a three-dimensional maze, intricate arrangements of spiraling galleries, corridors, and arched vaults, ventilated and air-conditioned. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tired of people skirting around him in the corridors, as though he were about to sprout fangs or spit poison; tired of all the muttering, pointing, and hissing as he passed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Mo Quilling passed Bod in the corridor that afternoon, her eyes so wide he could see the whites all around them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “It’s public knowledge. It’s not my problem you just found out,” his mother is saying, pacing double-time down a West Wing corridor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Ekon kept his strides even as they ventured deeper into blackness, turning and twisting through corridors until he was sure they were lost. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But I could see out into the corridor, and there were two men standing there, in uniforms, with machine guns. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Elinor seemed to share Meggie’s fears, for she was to be seen several times talking earnestly to Mo—in the hotel corridor outside her room, at breakfast, at dinner. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I imagined myself in Cambridge, a graduate student wearing a long black robe that swished as I strode through ancient corridors. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They went down the corridor and outside on the platform looking in the windows but there were no places. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Dr. King pacing in the hotel corridor, thinking about a big upcoming speech. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z They came up in a small dining room meant for crew members, and then George led everyone down a long second class corridor, up the grand staircase, and finally out onto the crowded boat deck. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z The floor of the corridor was a mosaic of colorful stones, with a winding path of red tiles set into it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Only the day before Francis, in a swish of black cashmere and cigarette smoke, had brushed past me in a corridor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I climbed the stairs and walked down a corridor to find room 217. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I cannot remember just what purpose had taken me up on to the top floor of the house to where the row of guest bedrooms line the corridor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She leads me deep into the underground hallways of the compound, past the place where the GDs gather, to a corridor where the electricity no longer flows. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Darius made a face, looking disgusted, but he bowed and disappeared into the corridor, but not without casting Meggie a last sympathetic glance. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Later he will listen for footsteps in the corridor, the jangle of keys, and when it's clear, he will stand on the table. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “I do not know, Monsieur. It was far down the corridor, and she had her back to me. She had on a kimono of scarlet with dragons on it.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you see any of the passengers moving up or down the corridor?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprinted down the long corridor after Minho, turned left, then right. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “I need to see Professor Dumbledore!” said Harry, running back up the corridor and skidding to a standstill in front of Snape instead. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Sarai’s were at the extremity of the dexter arm—which was a way of saying right, as sinister was a way of saying left—down the long, curved corridor from the gallery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Clocks run fast, lightbulbs brighten, flare, and pop, and send a soft rain of glass falling into the corridors. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The Box was spooky, but I was scared more by the sight of a sergeant who stopped to chat with us in the corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lost in desperate speculation, Harry turned a corner, but he had taken only a few steps down the new corridor when the window to his left broke open with a deafening, shattering crash. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Sticky took one last glance out the window—“It’s still flashing ‘Hurry!’”—and the children flew from the room, down the darkened corridor, and out into the night. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “See that stripe of yellow tiles? Just keep to the corridors with yellow tiles on the floor and you can’t get lost.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The bedrooms on either side of the corridor had their numbers painted on the doors in gold. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z His spell lit the corridor with a sudden flaming light. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z There was a corridor outside our classrooms where I knew Maylene would be, and I waited for her there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The door led onto a wide corridor with an automatic sliding door at each end and a silver rail running its full length. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Who was it, moving secretly and silently along the corridors? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The bell kept ringing again and again as Prosper ran down the dark corridor toward the exit. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in the day, she had gotten into a screaming argument in the school corridor with her boyfriend of two years, a varsity basketball player. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They divided in the corridor to the right and left. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The doctors and nurses conferred in the corridor for a minute and decided they would put me under general anesthetic and remove the splints that way. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z They went along a short corridor with doors on the right and a canteen on the left, from which came a clatter of knives and forks, and voices, and more cooking smells. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z From somewhere down the corridor there came a loud belly laugh, and a loud voice called out, “Listen to the man talk.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced left and right, contemplating the corridor exits. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A familiar figure was standing outside my door as I entered the third-floor corridor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They picked him up and carried him down the corridor to another cell. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Once I see what’s on it, I have to force myself to keep my feet moving so I don’t collapse in the middle of the hospital corridor. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Next year geologists may decide the ice-free corridor was passable, after all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I kept sitting there on the floor till I heard old Stradlater close the door and go down the corridor to the can. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He supposed Ron and Hermione were cloistered in the prefects’ carriage, but Ginny was a little way along the corridor, chatting to some friends. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And Eril-Fane, it was his fate to see his bride led down the sinister corridor—door after door of little rooms with nothing in them but beds—and finally, Isagol’s calculus failed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Okay,” said Bod, and he walked on down the corridor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I pulled back and saw that there was still another corridor, leading off to the right. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Even on a fine day, the corridor could be so dark that the effect was like walking through a tunnel. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Off with you now and write your letter,” and he returned the kiss, smiling with his eyes at her until the corridor curved her from his sight. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He had met Brother Leon in the corridor late one afternoon after football practice and had seen hate flashing in the teacher’s eyes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the bell finally rang, they hurried out into the corridors toward the Dark Arts classroom and found Professor Moody leaving it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Most people, he noticed, were skirting him in the corridors, avoiding his eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I opened one of the doors in the corridor. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We stood on the flats, ground-floor corridors that encircle the tiers of cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The classroom door opened as she spoke, and Snape stepped into the corridor, his sallow face framed as ever by two curtains of greasy black hair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In the schools, periodic brawls broke out between white and black students, and I spent parts of my high school years with police and police dogs stationed in the corridors to keep the races apart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We walked down the corridor and rang for the lift. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Nathan quietly crawled through the corridor and into what he knew to be the last hall. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Three minutes later she and her dæmon were standing at one end of a long corridor, where a dusty skylight let them see a narrow staircase descending at the other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It had already grown almost quite dark and they now found themselves in a maze of corridors lit only by occasional torches fixed in brackets to the walls. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The statue was wedged tight in the corridor, so Leo had to climb over the top and wriggle under her limbs, searching for levers and buttons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Mother almost laughed out loud at his amazement when he saw the corridor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Those main corridors right outside the Doors don’t ever change. It’s just the ones a little deeper out.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The game’s artwork depicted a first-person view of a long dungeon corridor blocked by a hulking blue giant with a large stone ax. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Yes, there was her mother’s cleaning cart down the corridor to the left. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z We were each given individual cells on either side of a long corridor, with half the cells facing the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She left her room, walking down the short, curved corridor that led to the sitting room, and found Con at a table that had been laid with enough food for twenty. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The custodians were still trying to scrub his blood off the terrazzo in the corridor where the big punch had been thrown. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem like part of school anymore—the corridor was thickly carpeted, and the walls were painted a chipper light blue and tastefully decorated with black-and-white photos of flowers. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The hall, in the morning light, had the feel of a hospital corridor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The back corridor, which serves as a sort of backbone to the staff's quarters of Darlington Hall, was always a rather cheerless affair due to the lack of daylight penetrating its considerable length. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Sparrow wandered up the corridor, past her own room and Ruby’s, all silent behind their curtains. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And the walls of the corridors were similar to those that surrounded the Glade, the ground made of the same massive stone blocks as in the courtyard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He turned and fled up the corridor, Artemis Fowl’s mocking tones carrying down the metal funnel. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He went past the living room and into the corridor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As they stepped into the corridor, Filch’s face loomed suddenly out of the darkness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z This one, a gangly teenager with gigantic feet, had just turned off the corridor light, and in the relative darkness was checking to see if any light escaped from beneath the students’ doors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Even some of President Obama’s most ardent supporters in Hollywood and New York’s creative corridors would not be able to read it without stumbling over language that is couched in politics, if not outright hypocrisy. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I went to the fifth floor and then along the corridor again until I came to the door of my own bedroom. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Termites make percussive sounds to each other by beating their heads against the floor in the dark, resonating corridors of their nests. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After eating they explored the art building, looking at sculptures and silk screens in cool corridors thick with the fragrance of wet paint and clay. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I saw Robert Oppenheimer running excitedly down a corridor holding a small vial in his hand,” Ulam said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked through the entrance, down the corridor, and finally down the flights of stairs that led to the playing field. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Then towards the end of the afternoon as we were leaving the Art Room, he came up to me in the corridor and said: “Kath, can I just have a quick word?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Harry, you’ve got to come — you’ve got to come, the most amazing thing’s happened — please —” She seized Harry’s arm and started to try to drag him back along the corridor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z A siren wailing electronically along the corridors, leaping out from the corners, echoing everywhere. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Five minutes later he was hurtling toward a stone gargoyle standing halfway along an empty corridor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And then, abruptly and shockingly amid the frozen silence, one of the dungeon doors on the left of the corridor was flung open and screams echoed out of it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I hustled out of the media center and put myself out in front of the main entrance doors to sneak a peek down the corridor. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Still looks ill, doesn’t he?” said Ron as they walked down the corridor, heading to dinner. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The dim hospital corridor smelled of urine and penicillin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We listen to their steps in the corridor before they’re drowned by the sound of the rain outside, still coming down hard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For as I was making my way along the darkness of the corridor, the door to her parlour opened and she appeared at the threshold, illuminated by the light from within. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Like a wide lady squeezing down a narrow corridor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed the maid's back down a long, dark corridor. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He waited for a while before he tiptoed across the corridor and pressed his ear against the wood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She climbed down several flights of stairs and through a maze of corridors and shelves to find the only section of stone wall in the entire building that wasn’t lined with books. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I hear a faraway David-shriek, and Mom stops reading to watch the corridor. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few more minutes they had gone through three other doors, across a narrow footbridge, down two more corridors and another stairway, and stood finally in front of a small cell door. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z We climbed up the wide stone staircase and came through the vestibule into the long hallway where it was dark and cool, and narrow like the corridor of a railroad car. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “He must have slipped out through the door into the corridor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I see Him here, in the eyes of the people in this corridor of desperation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The corridor is empty, illuminated by moonlight coming through the windows. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The other two nodded, but were still uneasy as they felt their way down the dark corridor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z We walk down one of the tiled corridors, nearly empty now at the end of a workday, and down a flight of stairs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor here, I fancy I hear her just behind me. That quick, light footstep. I could not mistake it anywhere. And in the minstrels’ gallery above the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The corridor, the door, the rows of beds were just as he remembered them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The two pupils they passed in the corridor backed up against the wall to let him go by. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z She was awake and dressed, pacing the narrow corridor between the beds, before the four-thirty bell. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Men chase women down corridors, and laughter and spirited chaos ensue. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But it was too late—Butler had stepped out of reach, scooting across to the other side of the corridor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He’d catch people whispering as he walked by in the corridor or at lunch. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Here and there a stray person meandered around the library or up a corridor... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Classes already were in session, and you could see the children watching us through the open doors as we walked down the corridor to the principal’s office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He shepherded us into the corridor and away to where we could no longer hear Mr. Kendall screaming. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Charlie Bucket saw that they were now back in one of those long pink corridors with many other pink corridors leading out of it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z At that moment, he heard a stir of talk in the corridor, and the kitchen door opened to let in Sister Benedicta. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Around half past twelve there was a great clattering outside in the corridor and a smiling, dimpled woman slid back their door and said, “Anything off the cart, dears?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Of course not. Don't be ridiculous. That's his dogs. The kennels are at the end of this corridor. You're even stupider than I thought,” she says with a sneer. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The doors slide open, and we step out into the corridor. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z A woman’s voice echoed down the corridor: “Close to me.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Yossarian lunged for his tormentor’s throat with one hand, but the man glided out of reach effortlessly and vanished into the corridor with a malicious laugh. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But the only creature she had seen whole was the winged fairy, who repeatedly flew down that corridor as if she were doomed to traverse the same small space for eternity. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Silence, silence,” whispered a loud speaker as they stepped out at the fourteenth floor, and “Silence, silence,” the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We scrambled down the stairs, through a corridor, and past a guard’s station—out into another block of prison cells. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Lead the way,” he said promptly, and he swept off along the corridor behind Harry, leaving Snape standing next to the gargoyle and looking twice as ugly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I have seen you in my dreams,” the voice said, sickly sweet and evil, like the smell in the corridors. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Helmuth walks without stumbling, down the long corridor, outside into the courtyard. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I ran all the way down the corridor. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He leaves me in a wide, windowless corridor crammed with people sitting on metallic folding chairs set along the walls, others on the thin frayed carpet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They ran down the next staircase and found themselves in a corridor full of duelers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Come on!” said Mr. Wonka, starting off down the corridor again. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I follow her through the narrow, rocking corridor into a dining room with polished paneled walls. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She didn’t want any loose vials of that stuff rolling through the corridors in the middle of the night. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They marched us down the corridor past some of the men’s cells. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z People were camped out on the floor and along the corridors, and the line for any kind of vaccination was out the door and down the steps. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The Hummingbird’s span was barely narrower than the ship’s corridor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe we could build something to block off that corridor.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Harry scrambled around, trying to pick it all up before the dwarf started singing, causing something of a holdup in the corridor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Arrows whined and whistled down the corridor as he sprang back. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She and Leo didn’t seem to move, but suddenly they were three hundred feet down the corridor, at the entrance of the chamber. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He reached the end of the corridor then ducked back as three guards appeared, walking together toward a set of double doors. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “It’s not safe to go wandering around dark corridors these days.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z On this occasion, I can remember lurking in the corridor outside the nursery while the operation was going on. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He shrugged and steered her down a corridor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They tiptoed down a long corridor that curved to the left and then to the right. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The woman in the corridor was young and dressed very smartly, and she tried to smile when Lyra came out but her eyes remained hard and suspicious. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We were barely holding on by the time we hauled Fang into one of the corridors leading off the stadium floor. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Instead I walk through the corridors, brushing the stone walls with my fingers, listening to the echoes of my footsteps. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A few seconds later, they were there, outside the third-floor corridor — and the door was already ajar. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They felt their way down the dark air-lock corridor, opened the far door, and crossed over to the hot side. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An anti-air corporal hurries down the corridor, heading for the stairwell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Down one staircase, then another, along a new corridor — then they heard a cackling ahead. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Every sound that’s ever been made in history is kept here,” said the Soundkeeper, skipping down one of the corridors with Milo in hand. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z They continued along the corridor, which curved always slightly to the right, so Mrs. Frisby could never really tell how long it was, and which soon began to incline more steeply into the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A woman’s voice spoke from the corridor outside: “Dr. Malone? Have you seen the child?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He put on his shoes and walked out of his room, laces trailing, down the corridor, and stood quietly outside Rahel’s door. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She led the way down the steps they had already descended, and along another corridor and so finally out into the open air. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The minister would preach from the head of our corridor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m here to carry out your orders,” and then she turned, through the archway of the gallery, to the corridor beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Louis Napoleon had led them up a flight of stairs, down a corridor past a room alive with the thunk, hum, and tremble of a printing press, then up another flight and then another. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He was quickly admitted into the clan of swaggering, carelessly cool males, the Big Guys; he lounged in the corridors with them, stood with them at the back of the hall during assembly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He said good-bye and left, checking both ways down the corridor before departing. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He shuffled along the corridor, skipping through the first doorway he encountered. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Wednesday spoke to Shadow as they stood in the corridor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He went out into the corridor and handed the card to everyone he met. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Like the bedroom and bathroom, the study was squashed under the apex of the bungalow’s roof, and was little more than a corridor between the two, barely six feet long and five feet wide. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He glanced at the corridor, surprised that Master was up so early. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Through the empty corridors and across the cafeteria, where the Helpers were busy preparing supper, Mr. Curtain never slowed—not even when he approached the door onto the plaza. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A million paleo-Indians, Martin argued, could easily form a wave of hunters that would radiate out from the southern end of the ice-free corridor, turning the continent into an abattoir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They made their way down the corridor, Leo going first with the fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As Harry squelched along the deserted corridor he came across somebody who looked just as preoccupied as he was. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Closing the door behind them, the porter led them down the narrow hallway, and the only sounds were of their own breathing, and their footsteps along the corridor, and the snapping of the fire. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The corridors and stairways are old, often in disrepair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My body loosened up then, and I started to breathe again too, but the easy-living party in the corridor didn’t last. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He took her safe all the way to the corridor outside her bedchamber. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Before long he was walking with Gandalf once more down the cold corridor to the door of the Tower Hall. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z By the time I entered the corridor, he had already reached its end. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Queen Wealhtheow paced the corridors, wringing her white hands until the knucklebones nearly pierced the delicate flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z They hurried after him along the corridor, following the sound of his armor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Mr Hooper carried him back to bed, going up the stairs and along the corridors very slowly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He smiled, and waved his hand, and went off down the corridor alone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he held up his sock and with it gestured along the corridor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Tapestries clung to the walls, which were supposed to keep the corridors warm, but also made everything smell vaguely of damp silk. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I can already hear soldiers’ boots in the corridors adjacent to ours, pounding on the floor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Inside it there’s a concrete-block corridor lit with fluorescent overhead lights; some kind of functional tunnel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurse steered him down a back corridor to the emergency room, where Roy was relieved to find no chaos or carnage. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They led him back to the glass corridor that joined Blocks C and D. Alex was grateful to be back above ground. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I try to keep track of the staircases, lifts, and shop names, but the corridors twist and turn with no orderly pattern. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He pushed Luke and me into the corridor. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Remembering to leap the vanishing step halfway down the concealed staircase, he burst through a tapestry at the bottom and out into a corridor where a number of bewildered and pajama-clad Hufflepuffs stood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Two smaller aircraft line the corridor with smoke, and the lead bomber salvos its payload, and eleven others follow suit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z William Levitt regarded the land he had acquired as frozen in time, belonging to a previous century, and marveled that such a backwater existed in the corridor between New York and Philadelphia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Harry went back into the corridor with Madam Pomfrey, who left for the hospital wing, muttering to herself. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They could follow one another by the hard footsteps resounding, and they met occasionally in the corridor, where they would glare at each other and pass on. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I went scampering down the corridor to the stairs and up one flight. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z We went slowly out of the room and down a long white corridor into an elevator, then swiftly down three floors to a reception room with rows of chairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman took Ash upstairs, leading her down a dim corridor to a dark room. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ana’s eyes narrowed and she stepped out into the corridor, pulling her door shut behind her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the corridor was a tall, brown-haired, brown-eyed Swiss/German expat named Robert. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Avoiding the Sphere of Annihilation located at the end of the corridor, I located a hidden door beside the last pit trap. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Suddenly she had an almost overwhelming desire to look around—to see what was behind the other doors and down the other corridors. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I glide through three different doors, then down one stairwell, along one corridor, through one last door, and then I'm outside. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, he turned right off the main corridor into another slightly narrower passage. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Rashid hurried to the door and stepped out into the corridor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They’d stayed as close to the center of the building as possible, in the structure’s middle corridors, to protect themselves from the sun’s ruthless radiation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When Aimee looked back down the corridor, her mother was gone. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Suddenly she was aware of other people in the corridor with her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He scrambled through corridors made topsy-turvy by the ship’s cant. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Pacing, she felt as though her life had chased her down a dead-end corridor and trapped her there to taunt her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She took the empty corridor behind the kitchens, avoiding the students at their work shifts. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Man, how long did your ancient ancestor work on this project down here?” remarked Kojo, admiring the carefully crafted corridor of stone. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z A little later Meggie heard someone dragging a suitcase to the elevator, but she didn't go out into the corridor to see if it was Elinor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We were walking up the steps of the infirmary, everything was very swift, and next I was in a corridor being nudged by Dr. Stanpole toward a door. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood by the door that led to the corridor and peered into the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z While the Gryffindor common room and the Great Hall had roaring fires, the drafty corridors had become icy and a bitter wind rattled the windows in the classrooms. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She drew a tower with unsettling stonework and intersecting corridors and stairways crowding its insides, looming over a town drenched in fog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She wanted him to hear and she wanted the boy sitting in front, bespectacled and studious, to hear and she wanted the girls gathered in the corridor outside to hear. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She walked briskly to the end of the corridor, and Taisin saw her hand pushing open a door. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Follow me, you two,” said Professor McGonagall, and they marched on up the corridor, Wood looking curiously at Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The boys’ talk quickly wore thin, and Reynie was just about to give up and go study when Jackson’s voice boomed down the corridor: “Corliss Danton! There you are!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Mateo creeps behind me, still suspicious of the empty corridor leading to the turnstiles. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Over a dozen insects were already smeared on the white wall when he let Meggie out into the corridor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Panicking, he heard footsteps coming down the corridor outside — stuffing the shrieking book back on the shelf, he ran for it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It barely even registered that the music, distorted by the narrow corridor into thick, echoing noise, was “Scar Tissue,” one of my favorite tunes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Men were sleeping on the floor all down the corridor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The corridors were, as always, quiet and dim. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next test, for Menards, takes me to the southwestern suburbs, to a regular allopathic hospital, complete with patients being whisked around corridors on gurneys. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor near the elevators, a little storelike affair had been set up; it sold prints and art books, and Luba halted there, tarrying. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They were sitting in a small room, chosen by the doctor, who had led them into it, down a narrow corridor, fumbling a little at first, but then finding his way. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He would wait near the head of the narrow corridor that led to gym class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The doors stand open and I hear voices from the corridor. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice in one day, Briony had caught the disapproval of the ward sister for running in the corridor, and on each occasion the reprimand was delivered tonelessly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z No trace of blood remained, though, just as none remained in the nursery or the corridors. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I catch my reflection in the windows just beyond the main corridor—my hair is stringy and limp, and the bandage dominates my forehead. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Though it was hard to make out from where he sat, there was something odd about the stone edges of the exits to the outside corridors. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But it’s another hour and a half before I’m being rolled down the corridor by a nurse. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z And then they were leaving that hateful room, and Mrs. Coulter was half-carrying, half-supporting her along a corridor, and then there was a door, a bedroom, scent in the air, soft light. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She could move along that corridor like lightning, and when you least expected it, her head and her bosom would come popping through the dormitory doorway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed through the mouth of the wolf and up the stairs, and dragged her down the walkway through the corridor with its giant glass enclosure. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The alcove was empty, and there was no sign of the men in corridors. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Several white men went freely back and forth through the corridor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The corridors were full now: children running this way and that, vivid with excitement, for the word escape had got around. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They had continued to stroll slowly down the corridor, but now O’Brien halted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She had to get away before he came out into the corridor, perhaps to go to one of the locked rest rooms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, whenever Harry saw the two of them together — at mealtimes, or when they passed in the corridors — he had the distinct impression that Snape was avoiding Moody’s eye, whether magical or normal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I walked down a tunneled corridor to the legal visitation area, each step echoing ominously across the spotless tiled floor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Like the floor above, where they lived, this was simply an empty corridor lined with closed wooden doors. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran downhill along the tilting corridor, freezing water up to my knees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the corridor we quickly discussed what classes we had next. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He was hauling up the corridor window as he spoke and began to lift in Poirot’s luggage. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, his feet hardly touching the floor, Matthias traveled a long corridor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Harry ignored him and made his solitary way up the marble staircase, through the deserted corridors, and back to Gryffindor Tower. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Carrying the dog tucked under her free arm, Kira leaned on her stick and followed Thomas; they edged their way around the crowd and back into the quiet of the building’s corridors. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Together, they ran through corridors, taking turn after turn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A small woman walked in from the corridor, and hesitated. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “There’s this perfect moment when the ice-free corridor magically appears just before the land bridge is covered by water,” he said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked over his shoulder at the guard standing by the corridor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There was another door at the end of the corridor. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Rahel Alone watched them walk down the hotel corridor like silent but substantial ghosts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She advanced steadily, waking the angular shadows up and down the corridor. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At first the walls were square with the floor, but as she continued on, they began to curve, too, until the corridor was more like a tunnel carved out of the interior of a mountain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Fortunately, the corridors were wide, and they were spared bumping into things. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Constantine remarked as much when they were out in the corridor again. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I was frightened as I looked down at the bandage on my knee from the last time I had walked those isolated corridors to gym class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When Master paced the corridor talking in a loud voice, he made sure that there was hot water ready for tea. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I grab a white bedsheet from the pile of folded linens and carry it back to the corridor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When I turn, a guard has materialized from one of the rooms at the far end of the corridor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z After a few months, we would sprinkle a handful of sand along the corridor so that we could hear the warder’s footsteps and have time to stop talking or hide any contraband. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay there beneath the Invisibility Cloak feeling the blood from his nose flow, hot and wet, over his face, listening to the voices and footsteps in the corridor beyond. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He found his way through the stale, dark, dank corridors to the flight of stairs. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The moment the Minister had passed out of sight, Harry tugged the Invisibility Cloak out from under his heavy black cloak, threw it over himself, and set off along the corridor in the opposite direction. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He crossed the corridor and disappeared from view. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z As the second floor sank into their view, she thought only of the thirty yards of corridor to the ward, and whether she would make it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Suddenly, from far down the corridor came a resounding crunch! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I can shuffle, inch by inch, down the corridor. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Something stirred inside the Maze, down the long corridor in front of him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Animated by this new certainty—choosing the right dress had surely helped—she crossed the hallway, pushed through the baize door and strode along the checkered tiled corridor to the kitchen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z That spring, Germany annexes Czechoslovakia and then demands Danzig and the Polish corridor—the land separating Germany from East Prussia. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z At seven thirty-five Dad's footsteps came thumping down the corridor outside. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He’d only gone a few feet down the corridor before the dim lights flashed on and illuminated his path, though shadows clung to the walls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Inside the Monk Building, conspicuously posted signs led them down a series of corridors, past a room where a handful of parents waited anxiously, and at last into a room crowded with children in desks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We come to a little room at the end of the corridor, a makeshift kitchen that is warm with cabbage steam. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He put the little carved bird into his pocket, closed the door to his room, and headed down the corridor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Except when she entered the final corridor, she saw it was shorter than the others. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Don’t bother — just take the corridor down at the end of the hall and go downstairs,” he told her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They had reached the end of the corridor with the hospital wing entrance. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It opens on a wide white corridor lined with red doors, which look almost decorative compared to the gray ones on the upper floors. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In the corridor he met Jasper, who, since Ged's accomplishments began to be praised about the School, spoke to him in a way that seemed more friendly, but was more scoffing. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She wrenched open doors and marched along corridors with Harry trotting miserably behind her. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They could not estimate how long they had been following the course of this ancient winding corridor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She looked alarmed as he ran past her, around the corner into Dumbledore’s corridor, where the lone gargoyle stood sentry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The Gladers surged toward Thomas, forming a tight group, forcing him to move out into the open intersection where the Cliff corridor met the long alley. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He watched Leon storming away, pushing his way through the tumultuous corridor, disappearing into the swarming stream of boys. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe wandered quietly on plush carpeting through a maze of corridors, leading to a full cocktail bar, then a cigar shop, then a writing room, and then a library with oak paneling and heavy beams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Out, along the corridor to the stairs, turn, nock, loose, and another man fell; and already a loud jarring bell was filling the ship with its clangor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They marched Lockhart out of his office and down the nearest stairs, along the dark corridor where the messages shone on the wall, to the door of Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A maid showed me to a corridor lined with doors. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He has not been beyond dispensing or at least threatening a little street justice in the school corridors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Mixed with more thuds, the sounds of stomps and running feet echo from the outside corridor. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She did not like the quiet corridors with carpets but no windows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The man disappeared down the corridor at a harried walk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She finally caught up and fastwalked alongside her through the dark corridor. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly an explosion rocks the entire corridor, throwing us against the wall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It was a bare hall with two windows and closed doors all down the corridor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z To his astonishment, the corridors soon broadened into wide avenues. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z People all around them scrambled out of the way, backing down the corridor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z With relieved expressions, Sticky, Kate, and Constance hurried quietly on down the corridor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z More corridors, and Lyra was tired by now, so sleepy she kept yawning and could hardly lift her feet in the woolly slippers they’d given her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On top of that, an overlay of floor wash antiseptic, seeping in from the corridors beyond. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The excellent exterior acoustics recorded his rushing steps and the quick rapping of his cane along the corridor and on the first steps of the marble stairway. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to it, I discerned the air-lock corridor, the gray zone through which the soldiers had passed into the hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, he didn’t care, didn’t even try, he whimpered like a baby as he fought his way through the darkness of the corridor. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z So I sometimes escape to the corridor;—there I can move about more freely. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Bernard Marx was saying to himself, as he walked down the corridor to the lift. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They bagged the dead monkeys, loaded them into hatboxes, and piled the hatboxes along the corridor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dumbledore gripped his arm and helped him out into the dark corridor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Still breathing very fast, Harry heard Snape walking away down the corridor; Filch handed Moody the egg and disappeared from view too, muttering to Mrs. Norris. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The “executive” offices are small, plainly furnished rooms, along a narrow corridor. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From the corridor, a faint sound grew louden Taran hastened to press his ear against the slot in the portal. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The dimly lit corridor smelled of flowers and of furniture polish, with just the slightest tang of formaldehyde and rot beneath the surface. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “There,” she said, waving her hands at the corridor. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Calm yourself, Michel,” said M. Bouc, “and cast your mind back to the moment when you ran to answer Mrs. Hubbard’s bell. Did you meet anyone at all in the corridor?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She went crunching along the corridor flinging open all the dormitory doors and switching on all the lights. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Court had adjourned; the noises of the departing audience clattered in the corridor beyond the lavatory door. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever that corridor was was older by far than the other mother. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He led Lina down the corridor and opened a door marked “Reception Room.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Far ahead through the thick velvety blackness of the corridors that reached past the illuminated circles of their flashlights, robot light twinkled. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z "I don't have friends," he says, and his voice is a firecracker in the underground corridors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “She and her friend Violet drank their way through all the wine in that picture of drunk monks down by the Charms corridor. Anyway...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z An hour after lunch, Minho stopped at the end of a long corridor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I walk down the corridor to the main salon. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Inside the hospital, marching purposefully down a concrete-walled corridor of the TB wing, his stethoscope draped over his neck as he prepared to see patients, Farmer suddenly stopped. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The walls of this corridor were a series of barred arches, through which rain and icy winds blew in bad weather. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corridor they passed several students clinging miserably to paper bags, standing in line for the overcrowded bathroom. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The golden egg fell through the tapestry at the bottom of the staircase, burst open, and began wailing loudly in the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor, long strands of shells hang in an arched doorway, the mollusks separated by odd-shaped bits of polished onyx. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He went hurriedly along the corridor to his own compartment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a face he recognizes from campus, someone he’s crossed paths with in the corridors of buildings as he walks to and from class. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The President was slightly disconcerted: Mrs. Coulter’s eyes were heavy with sleep, and she could hardly see in the glare from the corridor light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The journey through the dark and deserted castle corridors wasn’t enjoyable. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Everything seemed too nice, all silk and carpeted corridors and brass and copper and little glass lanterns. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Brother Leon had promised to put up a special honor roll on the bulletin board in the main first-floor corridor for those who made their quota or exceeded it. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the ceiling, moths fling themselves at the dull gray light tubes running the length of the corridor and I hear the papery flapping of their wings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I went through one of the long corridors to get to it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z There is a corridor that leads right through my one wall and then out the other wall. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But he had recognized the corridor for what it was—and that was why he had come back to the library. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “I’m staying in a room along the corridor.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In my mind, a train of ghostlike figures flitted in the corridors of Elsinore, followed by the figure of Claudius, cruelly bent upon his evil course. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He hurried down through the deserted corridors; the whole school was outside, either already seated in the stadium or heading down toward it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And now, as they approached the end of the corridor, they overheard Jackson and Jillson talking in an empty classroom. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z They went along the corridor to Lombard's room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I took the lift to the second floor, went through a set of glass fire doors, and walked along the corridor whose polished boards creaked in a familiar way. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His confused recollection included a dim corridor with doors on either side. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z How long has she been sitting here in the hospital corridor? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z About ten o’clock there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and a jingling of keys, and the door of the cell was opened. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside the musty hole, Poppy discovered secret shelves and shallow corridors dug into its sides above the water level. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The crowd noises grew louder as they walked down the corridor and into the back of a square, low-ceilinged meeting hall. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Passages and corridors honeycombed the walls and wound their way from floor to ceiling, up and down the sides of the cave. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z People lining up outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Did you ever consider just walking down the corridor?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And she turned abruptly and walked back down the corridor, leaving Harry to stare after her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Hickock's cell had no window; he faced a wide corridor and the facades of other cells. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked like the rough boys in our school who go round in gangs and if you come up against them in the corridor you had better turn and run away. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Donatelli showed tickets to a sleepy old man at the door, and led them through a dark corridor into a large, bare room filled with older men, half-naked boys, and cigar smoke. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z This corridor had once been so familiar to me that I had traveled it without ever really seeing it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Together, they walked down the long corridor, climbing up and over the broken pieces of hallway and ceiling in their path. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then he unrolled his sleeve and dashed off down the main corridor before any hospital guards saw him. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He glanced at the dead face one more time, and then with widowed sedateness he opened the door that led out into the hospital corridor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At last the corridor nar rowed and became a wood-paneled hallway that seemed more like someone’s home than a palace, hung with portraits of huntresses dressed in green and brown. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When she stepped into the corridor and heard distant heavy footsteps in the stairwell, she thought of German jackboots, and her stomach lurched. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Soon they heard Moody’s distinctive clunking footsteps coming down the corridor, and he entered the room, looking as strange and frightening as ever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Sniggering delightedly, the fox trotted along the corridor into the next room. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She hesitated, then plunged down the corridor Kaz had been responsible for searching. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We moved along the corridor, opening doors and poking our heads in. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He aches to call her back, and almost does, almost calls her name into the dark, quiet maze of screens and mats and corridors. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Hornet looked after them anxiously as they crept along the dark corridor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z In the corridor, Ugwu picked up a dust-coated bottle; when he raised it to his nose it still smelled of coconuts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The captain watched amused, then strode down the corridor, untroubled by the surge and roll of the deck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He allowed himself to be swept up the marble staircase with them, but at the top he hurried off along a deserted corridor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They put me down carefully on the stretcher table and wheeled me out of the room and along the corridor. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Then the policeman told us to follow him down the corridor to another room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She hummed, peering down one of the corridors. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t wait to hear if he’s free, just walks backward out of the room and disappears into the corridor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Next he found his way through the corridors to the office where he had been taken the time before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They opened it and found themselves standing at the junction of two corridors, bathed in a cacophony of monkey cries. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yossarian waved goodbye fondly to his new pals and sauntered out onto the balcony corridor, almost bursting into song the instant he was alone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She walked down the hospital corridor briskly, hungry for air. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I remember the old Zoology Building where we used to go on Saturdays, the creaking, overheated corridors, the bottles of eyeballs, the comforting smells of formaldehyde and mice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The corridor we were in ended in a back stair, surrounded by doors that opened on more corridors, all more or less alike. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I feel the eyes of everyone in this corridor on me and still I bow to the west. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What happened was this: Archie had cut a class and glided through the corridor, evading the brothers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not wanting to be discovered hanging around in another corridor, they went straight into the deserted staffroom. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Locally, a good way to tell how the work is going is to listen in the corridors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The corridor seemed to stretch endlessly in both directions. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And the doctor confronted in the emergency room with a patient in agony and another hundred patients in a line down the corridor doesn’t have hours. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Sing Sing’s maze of corridors, gates, and staircases had grown organically over the years according to the demands of the partic-ular era; no master plan had guided the development. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Welcome to this house, lad,” the doorkeeper said, and without saying more led him through halls and corridors to an open court far inside the walls of the building. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z This corridor was also paneled in wood, but after a short stretch it opened into a wider hall, lit with hanging chandeliers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was rolling down a mighty corridor, a kilometer wide, full of glorious, golden light, roaring with laughter and shouting out confessions at the top of his voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I knew then I had made the circuit of the house, and was standing in the corridor of the west wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The flat trolleys with the rubber wheels pass continually along the corridor, and always with someone stretched at full length upon them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When Wragg returned and told us that the corridor had been successfully sugared from one end to the other, I began shivering with excitement. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see the bigger kids chasing me down the corridor and hitting me until I bleed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Before we climbed back up to the main gate, we were given a closer glimpse of the fence that substituted for a wall along the riverfront and on either side of the sunken railway corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t push me —” A sudden noise outside in the corridor put an end to their discussion. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It was a woman’s voice, reedy and low in the darkness of the corridor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Past the school gate, the corridor was fully enclosed and, for reasons I still do not understand, partially unlit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran up the staircase and along the corridor to his room on the first floor. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Footsteps passed up the corridor outside, the shuffling footsteps of someone in bedroom slippers. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He tiptoed along the stone corridor, making, he hoped, for the back staircase. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Through the outer courtyards and along the corridors we went, going with the crowd to whom this was evidently a nightly routine, and into a large vaulted chamber with arched entrances opening on three sides. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Ghosts congregated thickly along Pennsy’s corridors, pulled along by the bright shining lives of the living. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He passed Filch in the doorway; Filch’s pale, wild eyes looked straight through him, and Harry slipped under Filch’s outstretched arm and streaked off up the corridor, the book’s shrieks still ringing in his ears. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They put on white coats and surgical masks, and the two men walked down a long cinder-block corridor lined on both sides with steel doors leading to monkey rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Any luck?” asked Constance, who had finally come down the corridor and was standing there, conspicuously unhelpful, as Kate gathered her things. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We explored a few more corridors until we found an empty suite on the ninth level. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She thought she heard her own heartbeat echoing through the corridors, getting louder and louder the deeper they went. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I think she’ll still be a little young...,” said Sister Fenella, and then she stopped because they heard voices in the corridor. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then, three corridors down, two hands suddenly reached out and yanked him into the adjoining hallway. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z By the fourth floor, things are piled everywhere, in the rooms and corridors and along the staircase: baskets of what must be machine parts, shoe boxes loaded with screws, antique dollhouses built by her great-grandfather. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “We’re up on the fifth floor,” he whispered, watching Filch moving away from them, a corridor ahead. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron, and Hermione joined the Gryffindors streaming up the marble staircase and, very tired now, along more corridors, up more and more stairs, to the hidden entrance to Gryffindor Tower. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z But the real revelation came in one tight corridor when our group passed an inmate group of nearly equivalent size. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It may be. Now, I presume, Monsieur, that while you and Colonel Arbuthnot were sitting talking the door of your compartment into the corridor was open?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The room before her was at least three times as big as the one they had just left, and corridors radiated from it in as many directions as petals from a daisy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z After we investigated six corridors without finding the secret passage, and after all of Char’s buttons were gone, we climbed the back staircase. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They walked together in silence down the corridor, and when it opened into the great hall filled with revelers and laughter and light, the palace doors yawning open at the far end, the huntress stopped. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He led them down long corridors of gray-veined marble, past banks of sunny windows, and through a rotunda in which a statue of a unicorn lifted its head toward the arched ceiling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Filch found them trying to force their way through a door that unluckily turned out to be the entrance to the out-of-bounds corridor on the third floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Oh hang on . . .” said Harry slowly, halfway down the corridor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She came halfway back along the corridor to the entrance to her sitting room, flashed Briony a look of contempt, then disappeared, pulling the door violently behind her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But deep down he knew that if there were any chance that she was there—that Sarai was still here—he would be marching down the corridor to prove it with his own eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They followed her in single file back down the corridor, like children in a school crocodile. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Victor had of course also heard it: steps approaching down the corridor, perfectly according to plan. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Uneasily, she nodded, and continued along the thin corridor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Tobias pays no attention to them; his eyes, as far as I can tell, are fixed on the door at the end of the corridor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The presence of the county jail supplies the first quality, while the so- called Sheriff’s Residence, a pleasant apartment separated from the jail proper by steel doors and a short corridor, accounts for the second. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at the furniture higgledy-piggledy in the corridor.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The stairs leading to Father Olufemi’s office were down a corridor only a few yards away; she just had to find a way to get to them unseen. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They went further in, down a red corridor, past rooms filled with empty chairs upon which rested violins and violas and cellos which played themselves, or seemed to, when fed a coin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Poirot passed along the corridor, a somewhat slow progress, as most of the people travelling were standing outside their carriages. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Robin couldn’t see into the corridor, and at first couldn’t identify all the sounds he heard. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z After stepping out of the elevator, he was led down a corridor and into a large, bare, windowless room where guards removed his blindfold. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Peeta and I walk together down the corridor to our rooms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor, the ladder bolted into the stone led up into a snug passage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I was now standing inside a narrow dungeon corridor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But just as she turned to climb the stairs, a man came out of another corridor, startling her so much she nearly dropped her briefcase. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Some sort of heavy, industrial curtain hangs the length of the building, forming a sizable corridor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She was inside the palace again, but she did not know where; the corridor was empty but for her and the shadows made by the flickering candlelight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Thick plastic sheets hang from rafters, creating transparent, temporary corridors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As the swarm of people moves into the grand corridor with its flittering arrival and departure boards, no one notices that I slowly drift away from Mr. Talk-a-lot and the annoyed laptop lady. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He got out of bed and opened the door just as the Wagon Lit conductor came hurrying along the corridor and knocked on Ratchett’s door. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The room with the winch and the clubs seemed to be just down the corridor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We walked through the office and into the corridor and then I saw him walking towards me, with Riley at his side: Scott Hipwell. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He poked his head into the hallway and saw a group of black high school students standing a little way down the corridor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The acoustics along the corridor were quite good, and we would try to chat a bit to each other before going to sleep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corridor between classes Constance complained under her breath, “Every time you have a real itch, I get the wrong answer.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She loved the high-vaulted stone corridors, the immaculate cleanliness of the marble floors, the naked white walls, and the iron Christ who stood watch in the vestibule. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She levered the drowned girl out of the cabin and down through the canted corridors of the ship until they spilled out the hole in the hull. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘Come along!’ she cried out, marching with crunching steps up and down the corridor. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Greyback crooned as he forced them along the corridor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She spent a restless night in bed, dreaming of walking down the corridor between her room and Taisin’s. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Fortunately for Leo’s face, the blade was too long to wield in the corridor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The sound of chattering teenagers began to echo up and down the corridor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And as Harry’s eyes traveled up and down the familiar corridors, he noticed something else. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Inside the train we were all standing in the corridor when the train started. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But as she worked her way back and forth along the corridors, the tiny hope that the scientist might be there withered away to nothing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The cinder-block corridor was maybe four feet wide and eight feet tall. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But as we headed into the corridor, Trent approached me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z If you watched them walk down the school corridor together, you would figure they were buddies from the football team. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z My grandmother picked up her walking-stick and out she went into the corridor to the lift. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Pulled our coats up over our noses and got to work on the door of Julie’s cell, and we dragged its bewildered inhabitant out with us through that horrible room and into the corridor. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z His eyes look black in the dim corridor, and his mouth is set in a hard line. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I’ve walked that corridor for twenty minutes, yet have gotten nowhere. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “You’ll pick the wrong one, knowing you,” he said out loud, and then he took a corridor and started hurrying along it as fast as he could. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Kyle scooted down a corridor so tight he had to turn sideways to squeeze through. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The apartment consists of three rooms all in a row without a corridor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z You see, the dark corridors I ran through felt like a lumpy mattress, the kind I detest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z No TVs on, no footsteps down the corridor outside, no car doors slamming in the parking lot. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I turned and left the warmth of the circle, jogging down the corridor and retreating into the dark corner of our camp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Instead of the careful, determined movements down the maze corridors, his actions are rushed and out of control. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He went on to the door at the end of the corridor. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z She ducks and turns, seemingly at random, down a series of dark corridors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “It was on the bulletin board in the main corridor. “Do you think many guys saw it?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought provoked a strange feeling to rise within me, causing me to stand there hovering in the corridor for some moments. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The corridor didn’t end in another stone wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And we’re off, not exactly at a run, through the long, rough corridors and up the hill to begin the day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then that she noticed the beams and ceiling of the corridor were painted with hundreds of scenes from different stories. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z After the final amen, in silent, perfect sympathy, they ducked into an empty corridor off the side aisle. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Like a spy, I pretend to read a book while walking in the corridor near the kitchen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Morning-lanterns drift through the halls, catching sunlight from long picture windows to carry through darker corridors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Pippo stuck his lower lip out sulkily and disappeared into the corridor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her body ran the length of the port corridor, her outstretched hand jutting into the engine room, offering the life-sized figure of Nike that stood in her palm, like, Here, have some Victory! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Yet surely there were none here, in the Council Edifice; even Matt had sensed that and consigned his dog’s fleas to the corridor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm had to stand in the corridor outside the Terrace Room for a moment to regain his sense of reality. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The other mother pushed down on the door handle and pulled open the door, revealing a corridor behind it, dark and empty. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, Flatnose was still muttering angrily to himself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z About twenty minutes before curtain, Wayne gathers the cast and crew in a small room across a corridor from backstage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Harry found himself shouting as he wheeled around in the corridor, having had just about enough. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He led them down a second corridor and stopped, right outside the staffroom door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I stepped into a deserted corridor clogged with too many smells. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife’s name was on a sheet of paper beside the door at the far end of the corridor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I went beneath the arch again, and when I came out on to the long corridor I saw that the door to the west wing had blow open and swung back against the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But I am not running through the streets of the city or the corridors of Dauntless headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z From the corridor came the smell of unfamiliar foods cooking. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Hagrid’s face was entirely hidden by a woolly, snow-covered balaclava, but it couldn’t possibly be anyone else, as he filled most of the corridor in his moleskin overcoat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Eric led them through the darkened corridors—where every other torch had been extinguished and the tapestries looked woven from black silk—and back to the courtyard they’d come through. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They crammed their pockets with the last of the sweets and joined the crowd thronging the corridor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They made their way down the corridor and finally through the door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z They were through the entrance and ten yards down the corridor and she knew her left wrist could not hold up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He looked up and down the dark corridor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As she hurried along the ground-floor corridor she met Fiona coming the other way on the front of a stretcher. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I went across the landing towards the sound, along the corridor past the room I’d just been in, and down to Room 22, second from the end. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The corridors outside were deserted and the only sound was the distant phoenix song. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Meggie rushed to the door, unlocked it, sobbing, and ran down the corridor to the library. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He was selling them at the school supplies shop in the main corridor and proclaimed that all proceeds would be going to the “maintenance and general betterment” of Riverview Middle School. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Our footsteps in the long corridors echoed so loudly I wondered if our shoes were amped up. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Can’t wait to rip their-—” But before the Keeper could finish, Thomas was on his feet and across the corridor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z Tap tap tap...tap tap tap...Just so long as nobody came along the corridor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Though each comer in the corridor, each flight of steps, brought with it the possibility of new dangers, the children carried on. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z As she went along the corridor with the boys to their room, first one then the other put his hand in hers and she was surprised to find herself so gratified. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The bare electric bulb in the corridor illuminated the whole dormitory in a pale creamy glow. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of a light-starved corridor I tested my weight on a rickety staircase, my boots leaving fresh tracks in layers of dust. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Her room opened into the end of the corridor nearest the hall, luckily, and most of the guests were in the two big rooms further along. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He drove us slowly down the road, past our house and the Coalwood School and through the corridor of houses that led to the center of town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His arm shoved, Donovan reeled backward, and as he did so, Cutie turned the corner at the far end of the corridor. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He heard Hooper banging in and out along the corridor above. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I saw him stagger to one side, away from the stone corridors. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Half past five finds me running down the main corridor, hastily tying my bonnet. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She was met by a white-aproned technician, who led her down the long corridors of the ancient building to a large, cold room whose walls were painted gray. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at this,” said Chloe, and started to show them around, even though she’d complained about trudging its corridors just a couple of days before. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The three of them were led down a corridor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Kingshaw watched him for a moment, his fury rising, and then began to run, down the corridor and the staircase, across the hall and into the sitting room, clenching and unclenching his hands. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They were in a space about eight feet square, with corridors to the right and left, and in front of her the sort of reception desk you might see in a hospital. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When Mr. Iii went out the door he was busy looking at his fingernails They straggled along the corridor in the dull, silent afternoon light. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Sparrow had, in fact, tried to visit Sarai, but ghosts blocked the corridor and wouldn’t let her through. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The door creaked open and a flag of light fell in from the corridor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Harry glanced quickly up and down the corridor, then tucked the map away again, hoisted himself into the hole headfirst, and pushed himself forward. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Lyra slipped out of the anorak, the leggings, and the boots and bundled them up as small as she could before shoving through the crowded corridors to her dormitory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “This was a deserted corridor till you came butting in!” said Ginny. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z "Wait here! I’ll be back in a minute!" he called, disappearing into the corridor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Across the narrow corridor, six men are watching me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We climb a flight of stairs and travel at the same rhythm down four corridors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A moment later, Cook’s raspy voice echoes down the corridor, asking Izzi if I’m up yet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Tendai tried to help the waiters arrange chairs in the corridor, but they told him to sit down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She pointed toward the two doors and they melted away, revealing twin corridors, open and dark. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The building’s corridors were dark and pocked with too many doors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Whatever was chasing us wailed in frustration as we heaved the rock back into place and sealed the corridor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Filled with fear, with Brand pulling my arm, I rushed out of the room, raced across a rear areawav, into another room, then down a long corridor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron stared as Professor McGonagall ushered Harry and Hermione away from the chattering crowd; they accompanied her across the entrance hall, up the marble staircase, and along a corridor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The sharp line of racial division drawn by the hospital authorities came to me the first morning when I walked along an underground corridor and saw two long lines of women coming toward me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The torches sputtered and spoke in their sconces on the walls of the corridor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Cautiously, she slipped out into the corridor again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Buttercup nodded, and down the corridors they wandered till they reached her suite. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He gestured to one of the brothers emerging from the corridor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z As his therapist pushes his wheelchair toward the corridor, Jason glances back to me. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, what do you want me to do?” his father said, loud enough to attract the attention of people passing in the corridor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Minho’s head popped up; he looked down one of the darkened stone corridors. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Moira took Aunt Elizabeth along the corridor of empty lockers, past the door to the gymnasium, and into the furnace room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z You walk down a long corridor, come through the doorway, and sit down at a table. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She shot off the bed so fast the open book fell to the floor, and she ran barefoot out into the dark corridor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His contributions are incidental, and never fully his own: a stairwell, a skylight, a corridor, an air-conditioning duct. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Deeper and deeper the two friends went until the steps ended at the beginning of a downward-winding corridor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At the very end of the corridor hung a portrait of a very fat woman in a pink silk dress. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Just then a loud bark echoed from the corridor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I did not know that it was your night to patrol the corridors, Minerva.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The weather was just beginning to warm up, although the sea might still send a blast of chill through the corridors of the city. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The corridor tilted, rocked by the storm waves outside. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime Poirot and M. Bouc, closely followed by Dr. Constantine, had hurried out of the restaurant car and along the corridor of the Stamboul coach towards Mrs. Hubbard’s compartment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In the silence that followed, Olanna heard quick footfalls on the corridor outside. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “But-” Helene grabs me by the arm and pulls me down the corridor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Before entering the sitting room, Ashima had paused in the corridor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He peered down the corridor that led deeper into the Maze, as if expecting the creatures to arrive then, summoned by the sound of their name. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They walked quickly through the corridors of books. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Daring, gay, she ran down the corridor again to the hall and peeked out at them from the doorway. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z From behind a door in the corridor leading to the Beta- Minus geography room, a ringing soprano voice called, “One, two, three, four,” and then, with a weary impatience, “As you were.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But I just went on pressing that bell, and oh! the relief when I heard footsteps coming running down the corridor and a knock on the door. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Thurber, by self-appointed virtuous contrast, saw commas as so many upturned office chairs unhelpfully hurled down the wide-open corridor of readability. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z She flew away from the dead-end corridor where her life had trapped and taunted her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Did you see anyone going away from you down the corridor in the other direction?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Along a different corridor I met a young white woman in tennis attire. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm led him out of the Terrace Room and along the corridor and out onto the terrace before his father could see them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Where will she put it?” asked Meggie as she followed Mo down the corridor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In the corridor of Buckingham Palace, as soon as the door has shut behind them, they fall sideways into a tapestry on a wall, breathless and delirious and laughing, cheeks wet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes, shelves. I suppose we could fit more shelves somewhere, perhaps in the corridor. I will speak to somebody at the works department.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They’d been pushed inward with such force that they’d come off the hinges and were simply propped against the walls of the school’s main corridor. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The corridor branched to the left and right, which didn't make a whole lot of sense given how narrow the house was. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z One night a white friend was in the studio when Malcolm X arrived a little earlier than anticipated, and they passed each other in the corridor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A hot wind blew down the corridor, and the doors swung open. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The door closed behind them, and the corridor went dark. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When at last he came to the bottom of the last flight of steps, he found himself all but alone amongst the torchlit corridors inside the pyramid’s massive brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the corridor I passed a gaunt, sixtyish woman—print dress, harlequin glasses, sharp nasty face like a poodle—carrying a stack of folded towels. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The house was indeed Elizabethan, with wooden panels along the corridors, ornate chandeliers, and oil paintings of old bearded men in tunics and ruffs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We walked through a stone passageway and into a covered corridor whose stone was the color of ripe wheat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He and Captain Haines went back out into the corridor and went from room to room through the entire building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Candor in the corridor yelp and dive out of the way as we spill into the hallway like a burst pipe, Dauntless water spreading to fill the empty space. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I am surprised you have nothing better to do than stand in corridors all day.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They shuffled their feet until they stood scrunched up together in front of the drop-off at the very middle of the corridor, facing the Grievers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The walls of the corridor leading into the tomb were covered with dozens of strange paintings depicting enslaved humans, orcs, elves, and other creatures. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The closed corridor would be the air lock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They navigated a maze of corridors, then rounded a corner into a locker room. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Peeves wasn’t helping matters; he kept popping up in the crowded corridors singing “Oh, Potter, you rotter . . .” now with a dance routine to match. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Everybody was asleep or out or home for the week end, and it was very, very quiet and depressing in the corridor. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Brightly lit corridors branched out from the entrance in all directions. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z There were no 101st soldiers at their usual posts along the corridors. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry waited outside in the corridor to see if the other two had found anything, but he wasn’t very hopeful. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I wonder if they’ve repainted the kitchen, or filled in that hole in the plasterwork in the corridor upstairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail Shaffer found was nothing like the groomed and orderly corridor that exists today. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Everyone in the corridor had turned to look. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It was enough to be able to keep walking down the empty corridors behind the other girls. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Her footsteps were loud on the flagstones as she walked down the corridor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Victor followed after her, just fast enough for him not to lose her in the labyrinth of corridors and doors. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim’s notion that they were somehow bound together through me—until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I jumped over several pairs of shoes on the way and in three seconds I was out in the corridor, still clutching the precious bottle to my chest. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I started to walk away again, but then when I had all but reached the doors out to the corridor, I heard Miss Kenton say: 'Mr Stevens,' and thus turned once more. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But then whispers filled the corridor, slithering off the walls. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Unlike the austere walls of the corridor, this room mimicked the architecture of Weep, with columns supporting an ornamental entablature and soaring, fan-vaulted ceiling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Robin, looking over his shoulder, saw Geoffrey Atte-Water, the same lad he had first seen limping through the corridors of St. Mark’s. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z They came to a T in the corridor and went left. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In an emergency, I was supposed to step outside the block into the corridor and lock the door from there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally the corridor ended in a doorway filled waist-high with old lumber. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He trotted off rapidly down the corridor with the tails of his plum-colored velvet coat flapping behind him, and the visitors all hurried after him. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The corridor ended in a circular chamber with two black doors on the far side, and to her right, an archway revealed another corridor that turned a corner to an unseen destination. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood in the open doorway and watched them retreat down the long corridor, the man leading the way, Matt walking jauntily just behind him, and the dog at Matt’s heels. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked in between the same gray corridor of office buildings Emily’s family had driven through the day before. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The Commandant steps into the corridor and surveys me dispassionately, ignoring Veturius. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Charlie Bucket found himself standing in a long corridor that stretched away in front of him as far as he could see. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z They ran down the corridor, and I woke with a start, staring into the dark. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z When he went along the creaky corridor and entered the nursery, he had seen three children. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Veturius crests the cliff and ducks beneath the clothes fluttering on the line, heading down the slaves’ corridor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “You should look around the house and put your bag in the first room on the corridor. I’m going for a walk, to clear my head, i nugo?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They were alone in the corridor, there was no one else around, but he was still almost afraid to speak the words. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Making sure he was distracted, she crept around him and bolted down the corridor and up the stairs as fast as she could. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Harry hurried off up the corridor as the young witch said, “I bet it sneaked up here from Experimental Charms, they’re so careless, remember that poisonous duck?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The little beetlelike men who scuttled so nimbly through the labyrinthine corridors of Ministries—they, too, would never be vaporized. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Richard grabbed at him, but Nailer wriggled free and scrambled down the corridor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Gas lamps had been installed at haphazard intervals along the corridor, leaving pockets of gloom whose borders shivered as Belknap and Holmes moved past. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The warder would then walk up and down the corridor, ordering us to go to sleep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I made a dash toward the open end of the corridor—and then jumped back. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The Magpie impatiently pushed the girl out into the corridor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ash had not moved quickly enough; she stood in the corridor, gaping at the two women. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As we make our way through the maze of kids, corridors, and staircases, we come across another little kid stranded in a sea of gigantic, frantic eighth graders. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Then she went along the corridor and knocked on Thomas’s door. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Palace guards and attendants had showed me to the anteroom, through the long halls and corridors of the King’s House. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron, and Hermione set off down the corridor, looking for an empty compartment, but all were full except for the one at the very end of the train. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They passed over the walkway and down a long rocky corridor, where stalactites hung gleaming with strange colors and where the pounding and grinding and hammering gradually faded. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He turned, halfway along the third-floor corridor, to see Fred and George peering out at him from behind a statue of a humpbacked, one-eyed witch. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He raced past the bedrooms along the upstairs corridor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then from out in the cave came the shuffle of feet down the corridor and voices getting louder into the valley. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The four of us walked to the lower level and into a wider hallway, a brightly lit area of what appeared to be a basement corridor leading to the biggest cafeteria I had ever seen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Quickly she finished dressing, pulled the brush through her hair, and ran to Thomas’s room on the other side of the corridor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The heavy prison door swung back slowly and Milo and Tock followed Officer Shrift down a long dark corridor lit by only an occasional flickering candle. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z To the others it was no more than a corridor to and from home, a bridge between the bridges, an ornament so familiar as to be invisible. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was walking down the corridor, waiting for the bullet. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Minya, you know we can't get in,” Sparrow called after her as she disappeared into the corridor on the other side. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, Frank suddenly became aware that the hand gripping his walking stick was slippery with sweat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “But when will I see them?” sobbed a young girl in the corridor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As they approached the ball they began to hear the music drifting down the corridor, and when they turned the corner they came to a balcony overlooking the ballroom. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They paced the corridor in a menacing group, talking in grunts and comparing the size of their clubs. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Working hurriedly, before the hallways filled with students rushing to and from morning classes, they dropped stacks of leaflets throughout the corridors, outside classroom doors, and on windowsills and shelves. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Another corridor lined with cages, big ones though, and inside, great baying hippos and a twenty-foot alligator thrashing angrily in shallow water. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At 8 P.M., the night warder would lock himself in the corridor with us, passing the key through a small hole in the door to another warder outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After that they took him along a corridor, where the stone floor felt beautifully cool to his hot feet, and up some stairs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Down below, the corridor was filling with water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Sister Fenella should have been cooking by now, and there were sisters he didn’t know very well hurrying along the corridors, looking anxious. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He crept farther down the corridor, his knife held ready beside him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They headed down the crowded corridor, noisy with sneaker squeaks and thick with end-of-day funk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z But it took all this talk of old age so seriously that by the time you finished and walked down the corridor, you acted old. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z During that long summer, from mid-May to late September, I thought about it as I walked the tunnels and corridors from the lineup room to various buildings up the hill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The interior of most corridors was painted brick and cinder block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ducking under Peeves, they ran for their lives, right to the end of the corridor where they slammed into a door — and it was locked. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The corridors were all canted so that the door in the wall was slowly turning into a door in the floor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z His father stood in the soaking corridor with Nita slung over his shoulder, gagged and bound at her wrists and ankles. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They passed down a number of door-lined corridors, which must be the Recruiter quarters and Executive suites. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Four of them were standing in the corridors, looking bored. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Down the corridor—way down. For Pete’s sake, stop pulling before you drag my head out of its socket. I’ll give you your chance to look.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z To get to the visiting room I went down a long corridor, then down some stairs and, finally, another corridor. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z She dressed quickly, laced her sandals, pulled the wooden comb through her long hair, grabbed her stick, and hurried through the empty corridor to leave her new home and go for a morning walk. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they went down the dimly lit corridor to the stairs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She realized that the corridor she had walked in up above was merely a long entranceway, and that the halls around her were the rats’ real living quarters. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She shoved open the door and blitzed down the brightly lit corridor, her footfalls echoing all around her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He thought about Memorial Hall, a quiet corridor in the temple that bore a permanent list of fallen Sons etched directly into the stone walls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He walked softly, casually, down the corridor, heading for the last block. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Every student at the Academy spent several hours each day working in the kitchens or the library, cleaning the practice hall or sweeping the corridors. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I follow her back out into the corridor. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Becky led me down a narrow corridor to the front entry hall, where a grand staircase curled upward. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaz gestured for her to take the corridor on the left while he took the right. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z An hour out of the basement, Fang and I trudged along the dark corridor of road cutting through the wetlands park on the outskirts of town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They had discovered that, at this time of day, there was a considerable amount of activity and conversation in the corridor, which always provided an opportunity to learn something. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He followed her out of the room, along a corridor and down a flight of stairs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z As swiftly as I could, I pressed through the corridor of groping arms to the restaurant door. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I watched as the policeman put on his hat and walked down the corridor and out the door. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And this time he noticed when he went to the door, a guard had been posted in the corridor outside. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I went over and opened it and found in the corridor without, Arthur and Quincey in pajamas and slippers: the former spoke:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He made frequent trips to the lavatory at the end of the corridor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z More monsters kept pouring in from the side corridors, while gryphons wheeled overhead, undeterred by the crumbling floor. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The big red-faced man with the bull neck opened the corridor door and yelled, “Visitin’ over.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Lon crept through the corridors, his bare feet achingly cold against the snowy marble. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Is there anything else besides the nursery on that corridor?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I had my own separate bedroom, but there was a door connecting my room with my grandmother's room so that we could visit each other without going into the corridor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The corridor opened into a vast room with twenty-foot ceilings and rows of support columns. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Urgh!” said Ron as they left the bathroom for the dark, deserted corridor outside. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z On the way through the corridors he stopped to pick up the packages he had left at the door of the ward. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The workers led him down the corridor to the infected room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Specialist Rhonda Williams was standing in the main corridor of the monkey house, afraid she would end up in the Slammer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We reach the servants’ corridor, and Izzi breaks away from us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor, in a cross-shaped room that flickered with torchlight, was a fifteen-foot-high stone figure with a catlike face, taloned fingers, fierce tusks, and Medusa hair. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was easy, once out of the party, to pull his Invisibility Cloak out of his pocket and throw it over himself, for the corridor was quite deserted. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He marched down the corridors, thinking about what he had seen in the dream ... it had been as vivid as the one that had awoken him on Privet Drive. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The corridor of iron cells was even darker after the brightness that had come before, and she stumbled as she raced back the way she’d come. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The tank went through the wall to a Level 0 corridor outside the hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No longer riding a wave of adrenaline, my head once again feels larger than my body, and I stagger through the corridors until I reach the end of the staterooms. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I ran down the corridor looking for my spot in line. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Fischer rushed through the backstage corridor onto the subtly flower-bedecked stage and was greeted by the polite applause of an audience of twenty-three hundred. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like an uneasy ghost, I rise from my pallet and pace up and down the corridor to shake the fearsome visions. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He held something in his two hands that looked like a freshly skinned rabbit and hurried across the corridor with it and in through another door. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The shape of the stone still stood like a doorway against the blue sky, but the entrance itself opened into a very dim corridor where a set of stone steps disappeared into the dark. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z My father replaced the towel under the door, and we made our way down the dark corridor to the ovens. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “He says very funny things sometimes, doesn’t he?” said Luna, as they set off down the corridor together. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She made her way down the corridor one painful step at a time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z First the nightmare: I’m running down a long corridor, half blinded by the swirls of dust. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I jumped out of bed, ran down the corridor, and banged on Mlungisi’s door. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She turned and swept out into the corridor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “By all means, then, take her, maybe find a private corridor on your way there—she looks frigid.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I returned to the corridor to wash up and told Walter and Kathy that I suspected the manuscript had been discovered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The staircase is steep, and just when I wonder if it will ever end we enter a long corridor lit by gas lamps. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When they arrived in the corridor they saw that there were only a dozen people progressing to N.E.W.T. level. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A large, bulbous creature the size of a cow but with no distinct shape twisted and seethed along the ground in the corridor outside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I followed Hamlet through a maze of corridors to a far tower in a wing of the castle where I had never been. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Whenever there was a full moon, they could be seen gliding down the corridors like two ghosts floating through the pale light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked out of the infirmary and slumped against a wall in the corridor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She left the table and almost ran from the room, and Theodora ran after her, laughing, down the corridor and into the little parlor, where Luke and the doctor stood before the fire. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I followed him downstairs, through long corridors where some kind of game of hide-and-seek was going on. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Sweat dripped into his eyes as he pounded down the corridor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Harry, who was nearest the door, got up to look into the corridor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z We go along the corridor and through another flat gray door and along another corridor, softly lit and carpeted this time, in a mushroom color, browny pink. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He went ambling down the corridors of the enchanted sett, rolling from leg to leg with the queer badger paddle, his white mask with its black stripes looking ghostly in the gloom. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Pass him in the corridor and he is fishing potato crisps out of a bag by the fistful. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z While they worked, Inej barred the doors set into the arches on either side of the corridor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Flames leaped to the cobwebs and roared down the corridor in a flash fire, roasting spiders by the thousands. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They crept through a ruined chapel, then into dark corridors. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z This figure was standing exactly where the real Harry was standing, about halfway down the third-floor corridor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He eased through the same front doors he’d entered the night before, but instead of following the corridor that led to the worship hall, he took a narrower side stairway up to the dormitories. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Brother Paul was a large man, and when he walked through the corridor the thudding of his feet seemed to shake the walls, heavy as they were. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Dr. Stanpole had told me in the corridor that he was going to set the bone that afternoon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was always from behind, walking down a corridor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Now, there are an awful lot of corridors in this building—,” said Jillson. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I was assigned a cell at the head of the corridor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had overheard people in the hotel corridor talking about a fire, but paid little attention to it since the subject “did not interest me.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She gestured toward the corridor that led away from where Ash had come from. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But to his right some way down the corridor a woman wrapped in a scarlet kimono was retreating from him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I scramble out of my bed, through the open-air corridor, and into the back courtyard, guzzling the cool night breezes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Personally, I would have been pleased to be walking now through hamlets and past farms rather than through some silent “protected corridor.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Or else he would simply run in the opposite direction, dodging down corridors, go into other rooms and hide, putting Hooper off the scent, waiting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The fog on the inside of the mirror faded, and so did her parents, and now the mirror reflected only the corridor, and Coraline, and the cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z A kitchen full of debris waits down a corridor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He takes me down a dead-end corridor that’s only six feet long. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I practice drawing perspective, angling the lines of the corridor narrower with each door to pass. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Next, Buddy borrowed a car from his own doctor, who'd had TB himself and was very understanding, and we drove off as the buzzer for walk hour rasped along the sunless sanatorium corridors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z On two occasions the corridor outside his office was flooded with water pouring out of a laboratory in which Crick was working. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The troop of Fair Folk led the company down the vaulted corridors. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Here, he seized his schoolbag, ignoring the amazed looks of several people who had already finished their dinner, threw himself back out of the portrait hole, and hurtled off along the seventh-floor corridor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They hadn’t even reached the end of the corridor when Hermione caught up with them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z There are partitions and corridors, nice offices around the perimeter, paintings and posters everywhere, bright and cheery, but it's still like a maze. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled Leo down a side corridor, leaped over a trip wire, then stumbled to a halt in front of a pit twenty feet across. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She listened and then said, “He’s just reminding me. On the first floor there’s a small landing and a door that opens on a corridor where the nursery is.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I entered the palatial building through the front door and walked confidently down the corridor decorated from wall to wall by trophies and plaques honoring winners of Wanderers tournaments since the club was founded. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed Sorrento past another receptionist and down a long, brightly lit corridor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She knew the stairs would return her to the corridor above, where she would find her room and Thomas’s. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Another ranger is waiting for you at the end of the corridor.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z As he walked along the familiar corridor, he thought over what Ms. Steinert had told him. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z It led to a storeroom, and there was a closed corridor that headed deeper into the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Last door,” Lev said, guiding them down the corridor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He recalled past triumphs, the trophies in the display case in the main corridor, the do- or-die determination that made Trinity a place of triumph through the years. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Making use of the new corridor, people moved south en masse, spreading over the entire continent. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me and Branch, we just be waiting here in this corridor then. Me and Branch, we don’t go in the room because of the wee buggies.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The usual corridor pandemonium surrounded him, slammed locker doors, wild yells and whistles, pounding feet as the guys hurried to the afterschool activities, football, boxing, debating. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t wait to rip their—” But before the Keeper could finish, Thomas was on his feet and across the corridor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Girls giggling and whispering in the corridors, girls shrieking with laughter as boys passed them, girls excitedly comparing notes on what they were going to wear on Christmas night. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z When I reach the north corridor, I don’t go straight to the cell, but rather to the woman who stands at the end. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Just as he was opening his mouth to say something, another yell came from the corridor, a single voice now, ordering us into the hallway. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When S.Q. had finally left off slapping the boys on the backs in painful congratulation and lumbered away down the corridor, Reynie and Sticky exchanged relieved glances and closed their bedroom door behind them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Tile corridors with arches that looked onto a large courtyard with beautiful gardens connected the buildings in the oldest part of campus. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Mareth had told him that torches burned all night long in the corridor outside his room and he could rekindle the flame there. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the day, up and down the ward, along the corridors, Briony felt her familiar guilt pursue her with a novel vibrancy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I hold my breath and slip around the doorjamb into the outer corridor. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z On the landing I opened a door and stepped into a dark corridor. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He was always saying, "Try this for size," and then he'd goose the hell out of you while you were going down the corridor. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z After the darkness of the corridors, the room beyond was blindingly bright. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I’d only just escaped the classroom, and I was darting down a deserted corridor when he found me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The bathroom at the end of our corridor had two seawater showers, a saltwater tap, and three large galvanized metal buckets, which were used as bathtubs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They burst into a corridor with fresh air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z About two minutes pass, and a young man wearing chinos and a blue dress shirt with a loud tie comes out of a corridor and walks right over to Alicia. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The firm shunned those who came seeking a defense of indefensible behavior, which was common enough in the unprincipled corridors of the financial district. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Just as the first Grievers arm extended out to nip at them, Minho and Thomas dove in opposite directions, each toward one of the outer walls of the corridor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Together, followed by the dog, the three started down the corridor toward the stairs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the doors off the corridor were closed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The extra cops are now aligning themselves along two yellow tapes they string in the form of a corridor that leads from the street to the house just past where I am. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The corridor, he noticed, was slick with the snow that had melted from the shoes of passersby. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Metias doesn’t say another word as we make our way down the corridors, past the manicured lawns of the central quad and the glorious Elector’s statue, and finally through one of the indoor gyms. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The servants’ corridor swims in a half foot of rain, and Cook and I sweep out the water with rush brooms while Izzi tirelessly stacks sandbags. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We lined up outside in the corridor in alphabetical order and marched in to music played on a record player. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Our group got smaller the farther into the prison we went, with groups breaking off at the hospital building and at every side corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were allowed out of our cells for wash-up, I walked to the front of the corridor and managed to peer out the door and around the comer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Down a dogleg corridor from the SHU was the State Shop, where inmates on their way in or out of the prison were processed and given clothes and bedding. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we played make-believe, I’d put a sheet over my shoulders and pretend I was walking down long corridors, saying my beads, in my starched vestments. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They met him in corridors, and flicked their fingers at him, sending him on messages. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He had a choice of three corridors, but then he heard the rattle of feet and knew that his choice had just become two. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z While Claudia stood crouched down waiting, the emptiness and the hollowness of all the museum corridors filled her stomach. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z This ice-free corridor ran down the Yukon River Valley and along the eastern side of the Canadian Rockies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The others agreed, and so Kate fetched her rope and replaced the ceiling panel, and they set out down the corridor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Littlefinger led him into a tower, down a stair, across a small sunken courtyard, and along a deserted corridor where empty suits of armor stood sentinel along the walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By then Bibi was sleeping downstairs again, though they kept her camp cot in the corridor, and would not let her touch the child directly. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There are lights in sconces lining the corridors, cascades of crystals falling from them and swaying with the motion of the train. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A light bloomed in the corridor at the other end of the Library, and the Second grabbed his hand, pulling him to the glass doors of the greenhouse and into the warm soil-scented air inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I head up the corridor, reading every door number along the way, just to make sure I’m moving in the right direction. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z As I walked down the corridor with Orieus’s javelin poking me in the back, I thought about what Luke had said—that the bear twins together were a match for Tysons strength. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I went along the corridor to my room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We lived in single cells along a corridor and he and I were given cells at opposite ends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So when Edmund found me next, in a corridor of Elsinore, he boldly pushed himself against me and tried to kiss me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had looked through the glass on the corridor and then come in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The front steps were wide but shallow and led up to a set of heavy double doors that slammed shut behind us as we walked down the shiny corridor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Robin followed the verger down the corridor to the parlor, the thud of his crutches alternating with the sound of his soft shoes on the stone floor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Sliding into my white Converse, I push my door open then squeeze out into the whitewashed corridor, deciding to go the long way so I can walk past Poe’s room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z She wondered what the empty flat would be like—if that was where the corridor led. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He was half surprised that the door was open and that the corridors seemed to be unmonitored. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The bell rings, and we leave the pool area and start down a long corridor. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The B corridor at school appeared on the screen. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z This time she was positive she had not dreamt it, but because of the weight of her unborn child it took her almost a minute to reach the corridor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Peeves seemed to be bouncing along the corridor in boisterous good spirits, laughing his head off. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Behind us, the sounds of dragging footsteps and heavy breathing echoed down the corridor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Courtiers point and whisper as we pass through the palace corridors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The other building, just across a narrow open corridor, had a kitchen, plus a separate bedroom for me and my sisters. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Then I take hold of a bottle, aim, and heave it through the door into the corridor. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z After an immeasurable period of time, she went out into the corridor and along to the end where there was an open door to an unused bedroom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He breathed a sigh of relief when they did not stop but faded away toward what he imagined to be the far end of the corridor. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The heavy luggage stood ready strapped and locked in the corridor outside. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Standing in the dark corridor, illuminated by the torchlight dancing in the sconces, was a short woman in a simple white dress, which was fastened around her waist with a simple blue cord. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The guards, a sturdy, solid lot, hustled me through the corridors and left me alone in a small room, very dirty and very brightly lit. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “This can be a long, cold walk for an in-mate who’s assaulted staff,” said the officer who escorted us, noting with a wink that there were no cameras in the corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They could hear Dobby squealing with pain all the way along the corridor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Thank you, sir,” Reynie said, stepping out into the corridor, where Jackson stood waiting for him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z In his mind, Ares and Mars had gone silent, but Frank thought he heard other voices whispering in the side corridors, beckoning him to veer off course, to come closer and listen to them speak. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Miguel’s disappointment and rage at Alba’s being the granddaughter of Senator Trueba vanished the second time he saw her wandering like a lost soul down the corridors near the cafeteria where they had met. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The routines of prison life following Shin’s interrogation and torture—discounting the screaming that periodically echoed down the prison corridor—were oddly sustaining. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The door led into a narrow corridor, just as it was on the floor plan. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They were on their way to lunch, trailing well behind the rest of the students so that they could speak privately in the corridors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z One of the women sitting in the corridor cursed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They strode down corridors, up flights of stairs, and around and around until she hadn’t the slightest chance of finding her way out again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I made my way to the corridor and off the railroad car on legs weakened by more than fatigue and anger. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If she could get Brum into an empty corridor far enough from the entrance that the guards couldn’t hear them...Could she torture a hardened drüskelle? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Meggie tugged him along the corridor so impatiently that he stubbed his toe on a pile of books, which was hardly surprising. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Rather than dismount, they work with other soldiers on the scene to make a corridor from one side of Tenth Street to the other. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Well, he didn’t need that sort of rubbishy help — not from someone who kept walking down corridors hand in hand with Cho, anyway. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Hopefully long enough for you to not mind the drafty corridors, freezing mornings, and days without sunshine.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Not once did he falter on his return, turning left and right and running down long corridors in reverse of the way he had come. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Each was connected within an intricate framework of oddly-angled corridors and intersecting staircases that wound from the belly of the building to its deepest depths to the crown of its sky-viewer and back again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The main corridor was a narrow tunnel that led in a hard, clatter-footed stretch along a line of rooms of no interdistinguishing features. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z However, I am not at all certain now as to the actual circumstances which had led me to be standing thus in the back corridor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside, it has long corridors with mottled floors of something that looks like granite but is not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When the footsteps came along the corridor, Kingshaw had remembered Miss Mellitt, fumbling her way towards his room, and for a moment, he was terrified, uncertain of where he was. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She’d lunged through that doorway, assuming there would be a level corridor or another room. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At last they were taken into the student dormitory, where, since the girls’ room lay at one end of a long stone corridor and the boys’ at the other, they were forced to separate. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I found myself in the corridor where I had stood that first morning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They ran down a long corridor to the right, passing several turns to the left. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Butler sprinted down the corridor into what had until recently been Captain Short’s cell. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The streets hollowed out, corridors; the trees blackened. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Two breaks later, Minho finally slowed to a walk as they headed down a long corridor that ended in a wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Harry did not stay to watch Slughorn splutter: He and Luna ran after Professor McGonagall, who had taken up a position in the middle of the corridor and raised her wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was a commotion in the corridor when the other men learned we were leaving, but we had no time to say a proper goodbye to our comrades of many years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Teachers, prefects, and ghosts were marching the corridors in pairs, staring around for any unusual activity. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Down a flight of stairs, through a concealed side door and a second hidden corridor, there is a small room full of chairs and tablecloths and one old, abandoned tennis racquet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was comparatively quiet while leading the three through a long corridor and down a flight of stairs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z His room was just like hers, though on this, the opposite side of the corridor, his window view was to the wide central square. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She marched back along the corridor, counting the number of doors from The Grand High Witch's room to the staircase. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z They followed Michelangelo di Bologna through the corridors of Saint-Denis, one after another, too quickly to have any idea where they were or where they were going. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her feet go forward and her heart ba-bamps the next day, too, as she walks down a red-carpeted corridor of the US Capitol. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Snape looked up the stairs, straight through Harry, and then down into the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As he was walking me back down the corridor, he wanted to know how it went. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Opening the door into the corridor, he called for the conductor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corridor he squeezed past two Helpers already mopping up Sticky’s muddy footprints in weird silence. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure reads Jules Verne in the key pound, on the toilet, in the corridors; she reads on the benches of the Grand Gallery and out along the hundred gravel paths of the gardens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z First we found a linen closet in the hospital corridor where Buddy took out a white mask for me to wear and some gauze. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z UUhat you need is a nice hot garlic soup,” said Eye as Arm was settled into an easy chair in the corridor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Her other parents stood in the kitchen doorway as she walked down the corridor, smiling identical smiles, and waving slowly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “We might have known it, really. You remember Michel said that the door into the corridor of Mrs. Hubbard’s compartment was locked when he came in answer to her bell.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He lugged the boxes out of the elevator and down the corridor toward his room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She put her knife down and wiped her hands, and led him down the corridor to the room where they’d been before. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z So I trudged the path back to the cave, past the celebrations in the outdoor kitchen, up the corridor and into my father’s room. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The door shuts, and the commotion from the corridor is gone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The half-open door, the column of light across the corridor carpet, confirmed that Emily Tallis had risen from her day bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The gray, predawn light showed her the whole of the corridor, completely deserted. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I open one of the doors off the main corridor, hoping to find a window so I can reorient myself, but I find only a ransacked laboratory, beakers and test tubes scattered across each counter. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She wasn’t sure, but she knew that if they left this corridor behind, it was all over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He opened the door and led Mrs. Frisby down the corridor past several more doors, all closed. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Every time they passed the third-floor corridor, Harry, Ron, and Hermione would press their ears to the door to check that Fluffy was still growling inside. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z In one of the busiest corridors of the Stadhall, in full view of more than a dozen government officials, the Zemeni trade ambassador had stepped into a washroom. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Tom later recalled, “I was raised practically right in the jail. I could look down from my bedroom window and see the jail corridor and the doors to some of the cells.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The hospital corridor stretched, long and white, in front of me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He’d invite the entire corridor of neighbors for dinner, most of them Afghans waiting for visas. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A sound came from the corridor, then another. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She headed into the main block of containment zones, traveling through a maze of corridors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z People seemed very busy, and rarely did anyone stop to chat with someone else in the corridors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now there was only a few yards between the line on the right and the line on the left, and Chamberlain walked the narrow corridor between, Kilrain at his side, always at a crouch. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The corridor is lit by a paint-spattered emergency lamp that hangs over one of the exits. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In die hospital corridor, her husband moved ahead with the unsmiling determination of someone who knew what he was about. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He yanked open a door and was rewarded with a flood of water that sent him sprawling and sliding down the corridor before he came up gasping and managed to get to his feet. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z But the machine in the corridor dispenses only coffee, tepid at best, in paper cups. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Rough hands pulled him from Melyngar’s back and drove him, stumbling, down an arching corridor. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It was class change, so the corridor was crowded. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He ran out into the corridor, which was still empty. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Then he leads them single file down two twisting staircases and along several corridors and stops outside an iron door with a single keyhole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Out in the dark corridor, Harry examined the Marauder’s Map to check that the coast was still clear. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Only trouble is, we never know exactly where we’re going to end up when we go out. Be careful, Harry, they’re always patrolling the corridors at night.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The corridor happened to be empty, and I walked along it in the grip of a kind of fatal exhilaration. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor the electric light went on, blinding after the darkness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Here she comes,” said Ruby, who’d been peering through the opening at the dark corridor beyond. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “How do you think you’re going to keep still for four hours in this poky wardrobe? Let me go and look in the corridor, m tell you when it’s clear.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And he rode out over the drawbridge into the morning light While they had crept through the corridors of Castle Chariot they had made a plan about meeting King Bagdemagus. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The senior staff, conferring in self-important groups at the corridor intersections, were nursing a secret. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The cloisters were once more free of strangers and the corridors cleared of beds and pallets. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Hooper went away, down the next flight of stairs and then along the corridor leading back into the main part of the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Up ahead, the spider was getting farther down the stone corridor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Finally we came to a dark, empty corridor, where the stone is particularly old and shadowed. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “What is all this?” demanded another voice peremptorily; and Mrs. Reed came along the corridor, her cap flying wide, her gown rustling stormily. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We had left them propped against one of the carved stone pillars in the long corridor leading to the assembly hall. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they hurried along the corridor to the lifts. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It choked me up, and I had a great deal of difficulty controlling my emotions until we were out in the corridor again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z A solitary figure was coming toward him from the other end of the long, brightly lit corridor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Lola had said she needed to reconsider her hair, and her brother had wandered off down the corridor, to the lavatory, or beyond. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’m surprised you didn’t hear us in the corridor,” Reynie said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z They were standing in a dark corridor: Harry pulled Luna back into the shadows, fumbled in the pouch around his neck, and took out the Marauder’s Map. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I opened the door of my room and went along the corridor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The past was rushing down that long corridor towards me, a flood of memories, sweeping me back as I struggled to keep up with the little official. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm set off down the corridor, with Asta whispering, “See? Who was right, then? The lord chancellor of England, no less!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “You walk straight down this corridor and through the double doors into the next building. Make a right at the first opening. You’ll see it on your left.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When he first arrived, he was perturbed by having to preach in the corridor, which he found inimical to the contemplation of God. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I think it must be another building like the building, filled with long creaky corridors and shelves of pickled lizards and ox eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Briony imagined that retreating footsteps in the wide polished corridors had a muffled, apologetic sound, where once they had been bright and efficient. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I ignore the few people dawdling in the corridor in front of me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Dr. Stanpole was not patrolling the corridor as he habitually did when he was not busy, so I sat down on a bench amid the medical smells and waited. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As I continued, the trail became less traveled, turning from a corridor of beaten dirt to a line of trampled grass. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We can imagine it was rendered literally accessible from the palaces, as Cosimo Medici made Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio accessible through a special aboveground corridor from his private residence. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They passed through a long corridor of tall trees, and with each mile they felt more sure that Zeitoun was absolutely free. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z To get to Mr. Lewis’s office, you had to walk across the third floor and up the stairs into a corridor Hazel had never been in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I sat nervously in the corridor, waiting to be called in for my interview; I felt stiff in the pantsuit and clung awkwardly to Robin’s handbag. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then she opened the door into the corridor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The Hunters guided her through a maze of corridors. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They went downstairs and along a corridor to the Ebola suite. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then one afternoon, I was coming down her corridor to see her and heard someone in the shower room opposite her door. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Conor couldn’t hear his grandma’s response, but she came storming back down the corridor past Conor, still not looking at him as she went into his mother’s room. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “And you met no one in the corridor?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z With him were the guards, the other questioners, the men in white coats, O’Brien, Julia, Mr. Charrington, all rolling down the corridor together and shouting with laughter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They were cold to the touch, and stank of old metal, but she held on to them, looking up and down the corridor until the owners of the voices emerged from its shadows. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There were many men standing in the corridor and the men in the compartment all looked at us when we came in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I had seen her once, at, the end of the L-shaped corridor, standing in front of an open door with bars on the square, inset windows. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The silence pressed upon him: There was no bustling or talk or swift footsteps here; the purple-carpeted corridors were as hushed as though the Muffliato charm had been cast over the place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She knew that if she fell in that corridor she might never get up again. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z But if you approach the warder in your corridor, and you are on good terms with him, he will simply go to the stockroom and fetch a blanket. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When it cleared, raw winds swept down from the north, whistling through corridors and hall, sending up whirls of dust in the courtyard, billowing the tapestries that hung on the wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Then she would drift along the corridor to a stairwell where a window gave a view of the river. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Fawkes was leading the way, glowing gold along the corridor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Nor did Sticky, who regretted his outburst, not least because it was imprudent to discuss cheating in the corridor, and even worse to mention Morse code. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We were directed down a long corridor that led to a flight of stairs that took us deeper inside the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “No magic in the corridors. I’ll have to report this, you know!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Crash — crash — crash — door after door flew open along the corridor and people flooded out. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Towards me, Monsieur. He apologized and passed on down the corridor towards the dining car. A bell began ringing, but I do not think he answered it.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z By the light of the moon that slanted into the dark corridor, I saw her eyes narrow. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He ate one of his sandwiches in the second-floor corridor, sitting on a bench with his camera beside him and the can of kerosene on the floor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He led them through a labyrinth of icy corridors to the room he had prepared, doing his best to distract Amanda from the ugliness of the place. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked carefully back across the entrance hall and up the marble staircase, holding their breath as they passed corridors where watchful sentries were walking. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He hurried her down the corridor, half expecting his father to call after him again, but no more sounds followed them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s a few hours later and I am sitting now on the floor of a tiny lounge off the corridor that leads to the emergency ward. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The first deck had one central corridor with crew cabins on either side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As he pushed past Harry into the darkening corridor, Zabini shot him a filthy look that Harry returned with interest. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The cats ignored me as I padded barefoot along the marble corridors. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I turned and ran blindly through the archway to the corridors beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Almost every week, we watched films on a sheet in a large room adjacent to our corridor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart began tramping back and forth reflectively in the narrow corridors left between his bushels of plum tomatoes and the desk and wooden chairs in the center of the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They saw him wave, then sprint away up the corridor to find his friends. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her voice, hoarse, was an unmistakable echo down the corridors of memory. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Emergency LED lights lit the corridor, running on current from the ship’s batteries. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The seventh floor looks like what I’d expect a hospital to look like, with wide white corridors and nurses stations. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Within another few paces, the corridor stopped abruptly, sealed by a wall of boulders. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The two took their passes and found their way through the long corridors of a big concrete building. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She led Desdemona down a long, wainscoted corridor, through a telephone operator’s office, and into another darker hallway. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A little while after they were gone a steward went through announcing the first service, and pilgrims, with their priests, commenced filing down the corridor. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She was surprised to see from a corridor window that it was dark outside. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Harry ran down the corridor, the noise of his feet masked by the music and loud talk still issuing from Slughorn’s office behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I had noted toilet facilities in the corridor as the sailor walked me to the chimney. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She is seated in a wheelchair and pushed through the shining, brightly lit corridors, whisked into an elevator more spacious than her kitchen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Standing just outside the door in the corridor smoking a cigarette.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Given the near impossibility of surpassing the glaciers without the corridor, some archaeologists suggested that the first Americans must have arrived twenty thousand years ago, when the ice pack was smaller. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As she crept down the corridor she heard her father taking the chain off the front door, and when she reached the hall she saw him standing in the open doorway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My guides lead me into a narrow corridor with a ceiling that gradually slopes higher and higher. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Enough, thought Nina when she reached the end of the second corridor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Ducking down, they joined the Hufflepuffs going the other way, slipped down a deserted side corridor, and hurried off toward the girls’ bathroom. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Which is to say that several secret meetings were occurring at the same time; and the political corridors were even more labyrinthine than Jefferson’s imperfect memory of events. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Echoing marble corridors and a round vault door of burnished steel. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The corridor was very warm, and they began to sweat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When they left the dungeons at the end of Potions, they found a large fir tree blocking the corridor ahead. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He was led back along a passage, past more works of art, up a staircase, and then along a wide corridor with thick wood-paneled doors and chandeliers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He lifted Robin to his back again and started down the corridor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z No point in worrying about creaking stairs when you’ve just sent the intestinal equivalent of Hurricane Hal scurrying around the corridors. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “We don’t have time for this,” Kate muttered, banging the door open at the end of the corridor and hauling the ladder out into the early morning light. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The corridor, just moments ago all gossip and hubbub, fell silent as a graveyard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Their father, stretched out on a hard bench in the hospital corridor, was drunk. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He therefore set off along the corridor again, passing nobody but a frowning wizard who was murmuring instructions to a quill that floated in front of him, scribbling on a trail of parchment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They couldn’t see him, of course, but it was a narrow corridor and if they came much nearer they’d knock right into him — the Cloak didn’t stop him from being solid. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Mark heard the man feeling his way along the walls of the corridor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Gene Johnson brought a floodlight, and they set it up in the gray corridor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A hidden door slid open to reveal a brightly lit corridor. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Every winding corridor, or hidden staircase, or secret shortcut, explored over and over again. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z A Son of the Six was standing a few feet from the corridor she needed to go down with his hands behind his back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The second time I got through it a little faster, because I remembered—to some extent—which corridors had electric floors and which did not. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Kira and Thomas parted in the upstairs corridor and made their way separately back to their own rooms. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The cat ran toward her, and they both stepped into the dark corridor. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The palace of the King of Elfhame has many secret alcoves and hidden corridors, perfect for trysts or assassins or staying out of the way and being really dull at parties. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He knew he was looking down a corridor painted in his death colors. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They walked in between the same gray corridor of office buildings Emily’s family had driven through the day before. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She pulled on her woolen cloak and tiptoed halfway down the upstairs corridor before her stepsister’s door cracked open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, right outside my door was a corridor light that cast a glow into my room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked down the air-lock corridor and came to the far door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The corridor dumps them out into a cavernous atrium, rooms sprawling out in each direction. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Jamison comes every day to look at my work. And I have you just down the corridor.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We go down a long corridor, and into a courtyard hung with lanterns. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The statue unsettles me the longer I stare at it, and I waste no more time leaving the corridor to head to the sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She led Ash toward the doors to the garden, but instead of going outside they went through a doorway into a servants’ corridor, where waiters were rushing by with flagons of wine. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I had my sight, but we shared a handicap: we both walked into a dark corridor of combat, with no view of what lay ahead. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He puts his hand over the wheelchair joystick and whirrs through the waiting room, down the corridor. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Below, in the cells, corridors, and cages under the innocently raked sand, all was purposeful bustle and organized activity. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He plods down the corridor, outside to the transport van. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z As we arrived at the new school building, a one-story glass-and-concrete structure with large picture windows, I tried to imagine what it would be like walking through these corridors as a patient. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she shook her head until the voice stopped and dragged her bag out into the corridor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In the 1990s geologists laid out data indicating that the ice sheets were bigger and longer lasting than had been thought, and that even when the ice-free corridor existed it was utterly inhospitable. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I want you, if you can, to tell me if anyone passed along that corridor after the train left Vincovci until the time you parted company for the night.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Summoned through the intercom by the receptionist, Sophia entered the front hallway from a corridor on the side. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the corridor outside the room that was now Lyra’s, there was a group of nuns, all of whom Malcolm knew well, and they were crowding nervously around the door, which was closed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In the corridor a few weak-kneed, pasty-faced students were making their way to and from the bathrooms, and a group of silent Helpers worked double-duty to keep the floors mopped. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I headed into the corridor and turned right. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z If a guard entered the corridor behind her, she’d have nowhere to hide. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A corridor stretched out to their left and right. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We walked up the stairs, back into the dim corridor, and up a second narrow stairway to the floor above. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z This is stupid, Sierra thought, making her way as quietly as possible down a corridor between two bookshelves. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Yes, she’s been here for a long time,” he said, starting along another corridor. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z On the second floor there are corridors leading into other corridors, lined with shelves that contain jars full of dead lizards or pickled ox eyeballs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She led me along a dim corridor that opened onto one of the busy casino decks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Guards blindfolded him again, led him out of the interrogation room, and marched him down a corridor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z All at once a nurse popped around the corner of the corridor ahead of us leading a woman in a blue bathrobe with shaggy, waist-length hair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Once through the door of the corridor into which she had disappeared, he saw her at the very end of the passage, still gliding smoothly away from him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I begin to make my way down the long, dimly lit corridor of the crew deck. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Rooms, corridors, doorways...The explanatory words were in French too, and in different writing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When the doors opened, he stepped out into a torch-lit stone passageway quite different from the wood-paneled and carpeted corridors above. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He walks out of the office and down a corridor. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The dark corridor behind it led, as they knew from their careful scouting trips, into an empty theater. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Keeping his hand on my shoulder, he steered me down a long corridor. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z There was a rumbling in the corridor they’d come from, and the head of an enormous snake burst into the cave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I asked a young girl in the corridor to move. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The corridor was still quiet as George crept toward his suite. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z |
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