So I flew to Montana and spent a couple of days with him fishing for brown trout on the Bighorn River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laila had noticed the sly grins, was aware of the whispers in the neighborhood that the two of them were a couple. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

During a couple of the worst seasons, Dad and Mom actually took in what they called West Bank refugees who could not get to their homes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of times she noticed me hanging on the dock, and she waved, and I waved back, and it was this secret between us that thrilled me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The only indulgent thing I did, just once, was a couple of weeks after I heard Tommy had completed, when I drove up to Norfolk, even though I had no real need to. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Conscience been hurting you? Thought you’d better rack up a couple good deeds?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He used to come up and feed my dogs when I be up the river fishin’ f-f-for a couple of days.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Lita’s version, an awful man stole from the old couple’s dreams, but from now on, this story lives on through me and my new version. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, by now the two of them had had so much practice that they didn’t scream and cry like the last couple of times. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once they came across a couple of discarded oxygen bottles, suggesting that the tents were near, but the climbers couldn’t locate them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When you and I began to talk on the boards, I thought I should watch a couple of Bollywood movies on Netflix, figure out how to be sensitive to your culture and all that.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The radio just went off the atomic beam. Every other world station’s gone. They dwindled down to a couple in the last few years. Now the air’s completely silent. It’ll probably remain silent.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas had set Matthew on his shoulders and the couple became silhouettes against the sky as the moon rose and Claire watched. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Silly’s mother or uncle could drive her, she would come over for a couple of hours in the afternoons and help me with my homework. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now that they had a secure hiding place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of British and some aviators. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks later, the family was hit with influenza. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of people laid his dad on a stretcher and whisked him away. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe? I’m not sure. Things have been so confusing and messed up the last couple weeks...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours later Tidbit said, “I don’t feel so good.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother frequently had to resort to a couple of tablespoons of her Lydia Pinkham’s. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. There’s a train that goes from here to Seward. We might be able to catch one tonight. It only takes a couple of hours.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A few of the other couples make a nice impression, but none of them can hold a candle to us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even though he thought she was recoiling from him, he took another couple of steps in her direction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Annie grabs a couple of old wooden milk crates and hands them over. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of months before publication, I called Charles Greiner, who was still the superintendent of Sing Sing, and told him about my project. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard it the last couple of days, but I never got a chance to ask about it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I saw Richard glance over at me a couple of times, but he didn’t ask me any questions either. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He placed it directly opposite me, a couple of feet away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the game was suspended for a couple of afternoons while money was raised to buy the pens. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

This inmate had transferred a couple of weeks before to R-gallery from the Box, but they had not yet returned his personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The piece of moving land had to be a couple of hundred feet across. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Irked at me, he jumped up and down a couple of times, ran a lap around the open space, and finally, spent, plopped down beside me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday Lyddie went to see her, taking her botany text and a couple of novels that cost Lyddie twenty cents at the lending library. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it was merely an office with a desk, a couple of filing cabinets, shelves full of papers and books. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to spend a couple of weeks in New Hampshire.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The car coughed a couple of times before it started. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone in line, myself included, shuffled forward a couple of steps. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He told me he was from a small town in Germany, but had been in South Africa a couple months, working for a German company. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of seconds Cecil slaps the other man’s head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I decide to duck into the empty hallway where no one will see me to cool off for a couple of minutes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I ran into the darkness, stumbling over starded couples, but there was no way to tell where he had gone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the water’s lapping around the high marks on the pilings, I give the winch a couple of cranks until the line goes tight. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Newt stood just a couple of feet in front of the thick curtain of ivy on the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

An accurate diagnosis, a couple of grateful women patients—women with money and position—and word had got about. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

In addition to our jungle trip, we also spent a couple of days living in the desert, but that wasn’t as much fun. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got a couple of fingers on it, but I jerked it out of his grip. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the 586th, every couple of weeks the regiment could get a truck ride to the nearest town so they could bathe in a public bathhouse, common throughout the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I’d eaten dinner with them a couple of times, but the conversations were awkward and unmemorable. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing. Saves me a couple of headaches.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His face was a lumpy mess, and he would be looking out of a couple of black eyes for a while. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Professor cleared his throat a couple of times, as though about to speak, and finally said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Along the Black Front” sometimes found actual interracial couples to feature. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Old Mose Wright, the kid’s uncle, complained that a couple local guys had been pickin’ on the boy, and he remembered that one of ’em’s name was R.C. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I took a couple of belts of the booze I’d brought. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s gonna be dark in a couple of hours. No good tramping around at night. Let’s get us a long dose of shut-eye.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

This, of course, frightened the couple and they immediately seized long knives and stabbed at their stomachs to stop the noise. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

After walking a couple hundred yards, we stop. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then I took a couple of the envelopes of cash from the pile of gifts and my watch, and tiptoed out. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We still had a couple of things to move.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He's got a couple of newspapers in there too. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mama had said a couple of days ago that it was about that time, and I hoped so. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s on her side a couple yards in front of me, not too far from the room’s right wall. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The foreign kids are always there, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they’ll choke to death on too much American. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Already a couple of Scots had turned and were muttering to each other. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A couple days later I woke up early and hungry and staggered out to the front porch to see if the milk had been delivered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had those bays trained like a couple of hunting hounds. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Drawing on all the knowledge I’d gained over the past couple months, I gave it my best shot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Alec had reached out and closed the door after Mark came through, maybe buying them a couple of seconds. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I go up the steps and pass a couple coming down the steps and say hi, and they half-smile. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Story's quite true! I left 'em! Matter of self-preservation. We were lost in the bush. I and a couple of other fellows took what food there was and cleared out." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A couple times I had to open them back up quick, though, ’cause I knew if the world turned even one more rotation I’d be sick. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was Lance Devlin, the mine owner’s son, with a couple of his buddies. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I went a couple of hundred miles on the Kerm Ice one autumn, years ago.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mwila walked between the dancers, tapping couples on the shoulder. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"But you did bounce off that a couple of times on the way down." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His plan was to stay with Kaira’s mother for a couple of years to avoid suspicion, then divorce her and live with Aileen. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Terryl noticed that, while she was testifying and even before it, the committee members had seemed to be only half listening; a couple, she noticed, were even texting, playing with their phones. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A couple of men approached, eating up the walk with long jaunty strides that caused their heavy silk sport shirts to flounce rhythmically upon their bodies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives the couple some pills and instructions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He looked at a couple of pages, closed the book, and tossed it onto the chair. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She leaned in until her nose was touching Hanako’s, and then she rubbed back and forth a couple of times. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“A couple of guys jumped me as I was leaving the school,” he said. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes couple is singular and sometimes it’s plural. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the guys with the megaphones would just be reminding us that we had to come and re-register ourselves with the camp officials, something we had to do every couple of months. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said Janis, “talk girl talk. Be down in a couple minutes.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I’m Managing My Expectations, but I’m sure at least a couple of our six egg drop designs will survive the fall. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Good-bye now,” he said with determination—and in a couple of spins they were both gone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of stops to pick up the rest of the things he needed, and everything would be ready to go. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But the Professor never stopped for a moment; he sawed down a couple of feet along one side of the lead coffin, and then across, and down the other side. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But there was a space of a couple of seconds during which the expression in his eyes might conceivably have betrayed him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At a yellow house on Tipperary I stepped on a couple of those white snap-pops that somebody had scattered all over the sidewalk. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

A sheriff demanded their freedom papers, looked them over, detained the couple still, clearly unsatisfied, searching for a reason to send them back south. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were couples who wanted to turn girls into pretty little birds. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Magdalys took one last look over the tumbling rooftops of Dactyl Hill, Brooklyn—it was the one place she’d truly thought of as home, and she’d only lived there a couple of days. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Your brother and him are just alike. Both a couple of...” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She had to pluck a couple of pieces out of her braces, which had new purple and pink bands on them. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

A couple of times I heard “Ninja Warrior.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We now even had a couple of blankets, a leaky washtub and a baby’s crib. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never knew how long they’d be gone, a couple of days, sometimes a week, sometimes a month, depending on the fish. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s grief is understandable, Hiram, but she’s got no cause to blame all of us for what a couple redneck peckerwoods did in the middle of the night.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Hey, come on, Gloria. I just got into town—be nice to us. How about some rooms for us, a couple of lodgers with good jobs?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard Silverman at Michigan State University obtained the records of 3,000 married couples in Michigan and found no correlation between their signs and astrologers’ predictions about compatible pairs of signs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then a couple of more voices added their good wishes to our dictator, until what had been a scared compliance became, by the exaggeration of repetition, a joke. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched them awhile, then got to watching a couple of squirrels playing in the top of a tree close to the one I sat under. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the second couple would actually occupy the second rung in this after-school hierarchy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He took a couple of steps into the room, ran into a string hanging from the ceiling, and pulled it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The house has been rented to some American students his father has found through the university, an unmarried couple named Barbara and Steve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stood there in silence for a couple of minutes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

With Frank directing the fishing boat, they made their way toward the couple who had been waving the white cloth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

August’s parents even invited Mom and me over for dinner a couple of times. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of birds roasting on a spit as well, and as Will came to sit nearby, Serafina Pekkala flew down. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he proposed marriage a couple of years later, she found it hard to say no but impossible to say yes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So I push a couple of buttons, and the machine speaks the words I’ve never been able to say. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then he took a couple of nips from his silver flask, and we napped awhile as the insects buzzed and ticked and the dappled shade shifted around us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Slopper was allowed to hear Story a couple years ago, when he was your age. He didn’t even hear it all, and it didn’t turn out so well.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Enough writing has survived to give, when coupled with archaeological studies, a vivid picture of Nudzahui life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I went on a couple of yards ahead of the oxen to feel out the road, while Father wrestled with them alone. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a couple of heartbeats to figure out what just happened. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

After a couple of weeks, Painter knew he could trust Kelley to handle the job alone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mother, digging a couple yards away from me, asked what it was I had found. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sometimes think Jonah and Isaac need a dose of reality, that a couple years in public school would have shown them something different,” Croteau said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a couple of miles there going around by the roads, but by cutting across the fields I could make it in fifteen minutes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a couple of bites of the pizza, but the oily cheese makes me want to gag, so I stop. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It had been a tough couple of weeks since the Halloween dance that wasn’t a dance at all. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Fadi smiled in return, but he could see the fear lingering in his father’s eyes, fear coupled with determination. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But lunch is just a couple of hours away. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

My parents invited all the couples from the Joy Luck Club to witness my debut. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of days later I fled to upstate New York, where I own a small cabin that serves as a writing retreat. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cat-hauling a two-year-old ’cause her ma skipped off the plantation for a couple hour? The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I’m going to stay here and torment my sister. I just have a couple of more months to do that.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our fingers touched a couple of times, and when they did, I said, ‘Sorry,’ and she just smiled shyly. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were several other groups in there as well, but the Jenkinses were the only couple sitting alone. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He kept coming back to a couple of things that didn’t seem to belong. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I went a couple of rounds on the floor with girls from the sidelines. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The next couple of days were spent going through Immie’s computer files. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was walking fast, like he had someplace important to be, but he stopped at a couple of stoops to say hi to people. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There were two pairs of decent jeans in her size, as well as a couple of pairs of leggings and a few cute tunics. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Freak's birthday is a couple of days after school gets out, and the Fair Gwen has already made it clear he's not getting a ride on the space shuttle. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t coughing as much as I had been the first couple of days. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted a couple of spiders, but I didn’t say anything. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you take us for, mister? A couple of them schoolboys? You expect us to believe these here cans shoot up in the air and explode in color?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know there were so many couples. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of brown boy missiles fired down the hill away from Fry High. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Anyone watching would have thought we were just a couple of tipsy kids. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The whole complex must have been a couple of miles square. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He drank some water, swallowed a couple of aspirin for no particular reason, and opened one of the cans of red beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The couple's eyes are fixed on each other as they undulate on this sea of strangers, this sea of brethren. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I pulled down the plates from the cabinet and grabbed a couple of forks from the drawer. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The couple clutched it together, pushing each other away to examine it closer. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When Amari returned a couple of hours later, her feet were covered with mud. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve talked on a telephone a couple of times. In town. But we don’t have one.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, Boo Boo let the image go. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It went on that way for a couple of hours, with Robbie getting sloppy drunk, losing to Dad, and groping me when we danced or sat at the bar between games. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me ask you a couple of questions. How many judges were there?” he asked. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A couple of guys made comments about her kissing me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not alone, no. Athena watched over me, guided me toward help. I made a couple of unexpected friends who took care of me, for a short time, anyway.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They had two daughters, one my age and the other a couple years younger than my eight-year-old sisters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I called my editor’s secretary and had her scrounge up a couple copies. Maybe they had them at Harcourt, who knows?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His head was propped by a couple of pillows, like they’d been stuffed under him to make an easier target. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, maybe. Fang usually only smokes pot. He’s done acid a couple times. And Ecstasy. And shrooms. And Special K.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I live a couple streets away from here,” he said. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Two of them. And a couple of security guards as well.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I flicked the television on and off a couple times, then went over and gave it a smack, hoping to jump-start the entire central Michigan cable network with a well-delivered blow, but it wasn’t happening. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ironically, her father helped Reggie land some of those jobs—before he knew they were a couple, of course. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is a standing order, so there must be a reason he has not carried it out during the past couple of days. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe a couple of times after that I was sloppy and he’d land a punch or a kick before I could get away, but I never trusted him again, not for a moment. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s a couple weeks after we get back from winter break, which means we’ve got about three months to prepare. And were going to start now.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I noticed that the inhabitants of this level were mostly couples and I felt something of a voyeur as I passed from table to table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Under the water I kept my eyes shut and touched the sandy bottom with my hands and feet and felt a couple slimy seaweed limbs brush over my back and legs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I can hear the contents splatter against the dummy while a couple more wineglasses break. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of fauns had apparently just been helping it out of its armor. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“And I skipped lunch a couple of times.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The few people I knew who’d tried couples counseling and were open enough to talk about it said that it had done them some good. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Thomas thought he saw a couple of red flashes to his left. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"Just between ourselves, Blore, and taking into account that we'll probably both be a couple of stiffs before another day is out, you did indulge in that spot of perjury, I suppose?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Or Lauren. I wanted to tell you first. But a couple of months ago, I went with Joaquin and Grace to visit our birth mother.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For the next couple of orbits, I tried very hard to spot Eagle through my sextant, but I was unable to find it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the couple leaned in closer, he quickly turned it off again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

So much had happened in the last couple days that my thoughts were scattered. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jesse had made a couple of friends at work, and did go out sporadically; he was adventurous when he could be. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if an interracial couple got caught, God help them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and asked Cramp if he could leave me alone for a couple of minutes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I’m not playing, I never do,” said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down and grabbed a handful of dirt, which he tossed onto the couple. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She and Grandpa Ed are already bickering like an old married couple, but look. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was the Williamses, a couple in their seventies. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After the first couple of hours of nothing, you stop waiting for somebody to yell “Eureka!” and haul a Brachiosaurus femur out of the dirt, holding it over their head like the Stanley Cup. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how many expectant mothers we’ll have. I have a couple of nurses and one medical orderly. I’ll need you to help the wounded soldiers in the other ward as well,” he said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She's seen most of mine, but I add the last couple of crackers and beef strips to the pile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It took her a couple tries to get my bra unclasped with one hand, but when she did, the cold air against my skin was nothing compared to the warmth of her breath. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And so, she stuck a couple of them between the pages of the histories, and would sneak them out when Mrs. Caruthers was dozing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Like Dandy, Aunt Sis had been raised in Georgetown, which I remembered from a couple of summer visits we’d made with my parents when I was a kid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A couple of days after the holidays, Kevin began to lose his reflexes and couldn’t swallow his own saliva. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve taken a couple extras. Only when I really needed to.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Compared to waiting in line at Nuss- baum’s, it was nothing to order up a couple of pizzas. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know that Rosie loved anyone who rubbed her rump, so when she mooed and swayed her behind, Joseph took a couple of quick steps back. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

José Arcadio's companion asked them to leave them alone, and the couple lay down on the ground, close to the bed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I crouched my way through a couple of backyards, getting scratched and scraped by fences and bushes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of my coworkers— team leaders, in fact—delight in putting the pedal to the metal and terrorizing the elegant neighborhoods we serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was done disinfecting his hands, he pulled a bottle out of his backpack and swallowed a couple of vitamins. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

X-Ray sold four more tickets to a couple of high school students from Westlake, and just like that, Armpit had another two hundred and seventy dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They found their way to the depot, which was a couple of concrete warehouses in a scrubby area of waste ground where thin weeds grew between gray rocks and pools of icy mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There I would have celebrated my birthday by having a huge party, where fourteen couples would twirl around the dance floor as I made my grand entrance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She wiped a bunch of tears away with a twisted-up hand and blinked a couple of times before she looked at me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry if I have been antisocial since leaving Nero,” she said after they had walked in silence for a couple of minutes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of men sitting off in a corner of the inn, and one drunk Franciscan friar, asleep on a table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

However, they taste just like potatoes after you’ve been eating them a couple of weeks, and to my way of thinking are extremely good. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw that in one of your mom’s photo albums a couple of weeks ago and slipped it into my bag when Jupiter went to the bathroom,” she says. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There is a sick, reactionary villain in the script, an Irish landlord who refuses to rent to the couple, who by this time have been married in this subdued Ethical Culture ceremony. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are a couple, in a way, though nothing is explicit between us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of ways to go; both involve a lot of stairs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mulefa couples, for example, on entering marriage, would exchange strips of bright copper, which were bent around the base of one of their horns with much the same meaning as a wedding ring. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A couple of soldiers try to help her, but she shoves them away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Tom is now just a couple of feet away from me—he’s just inside the door and I’m just outside it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that anyone here knows that, except Tanisha, and she found out by accident when she came to my house to study once and saw a couple of drawings hanging in my room. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marina Gamba decided to remain in Padua, where she had lived all her life, and the couple split, it seems amicably. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Just what I thought I wanted a couple of days ago, and now it doesn't matter at all. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I threw a couple of rocks back and told him to leave me alone. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a kid smiling on the monkey bars, a man in a suit drinking coffee while deep in thought, and an old couple holding hands on a park bench. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a couple of Allied airmen had to jump out of their burning plane. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mom didn’t say anything, but squeezed me back and swayed with me for a couple seconds. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I grab a couple more trash bags and head into the bedroom after her. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Once, a couple of years earlier at a luncheon for U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I missed more than just a couple of times. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was our usual gang with perhaps a couple of outsiders loitering nearby. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A D. How hard is it to spell a couple words?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And if I’m going up the side of a mountain I want a couple of bottles of Budweiser beer along!” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Another couple minutes went by before I decided I had to use my mind on him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes he settled outside the Waystone, set up his sharpening wheel and began to grind a knife. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In one of the unoccupied bedrooms, she sat for a couple of hours with a plate of cookies. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“With a couple of kits, by the look of it. That’s encouraging. I thought the coyotes had got them all.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sasha would be okay, but they were going to be in the hospital for at least a couple of weeks. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Declining crime rates, coupled with a decline in public concern about crime, have also helped to create a rare opening for a productive public conversation about the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure hair bleach was not something a couple of kids like us should be messing with. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Shay, a couple of her friends. The Boss might have made it out He and I made a break together.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Well, anyway, this era of putting Harry off lasted maybe a couple of weeks, and then came Ruth’s request. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat up, yawned, stretched, shivered, and washed in the chilly spring before eating a couple of dried figs and taking stock of the place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He spoke to them for a few minutes before he realized it was the same couple he’d seen on his bike ride over. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sands didn’t yell or scream or anything, but the way she said those couple of things nude everybody who heard it shut their mouths and listen real hard. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna give you two gals a couple of days to learn your way round here ’fore I put you to work,” Teenie told them as they finished eating. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing happened after a couple of hours, so I decided to take a bath. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Stewart stopped the company and a couple of men approached the hole. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog-whine girl goes off with a stylish couple in hats. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Neither of them had spouses anymore, so they became a couple. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this time her eyes got all glassy and a couple tears came running down her cheeks, which made the pressure on the back of my eyes get way worse. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He noticed that she had a couple of Rice Krispies stuck in her hair but decided not to say anything about that, either. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of days he looks much better. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tiffany and a couple of other girls are still at it, taping more on the far side of the lunchroom. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And I had had nothing to eat yet myself, except some milk and a couple of sprigs of field cress. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As the light faded two youths appeared bearing a palanquin for the newly married couple, lowered it at the entrance to the hut for them to step into. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

An indigenous girl a couple of years younger than me— maybe twelve or thirteen—appears at the door to the patio, her hands red and wet, probably from washing clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tanner, whose house it was that burned, sent a couple of boys skipping right under the Kargs’ noses, taunting and yelling and vanishing again like smoke into smoke. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was at a farm a couple of miles from our development. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no milk and no sugar, but she did find a couple of ginger biscuits in a drawer, and Lyra took one hungrily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stuck his head under the hood, tinkered with the engine, and got it going, but it broke down again a couple of hours later. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t really sure till a couple of days ago. When they announced the winners.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. In fact, only a couple people felt sick in that room. That’s how we got out. Daley was distracted because it didn’t do what it was supposed to.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But with a couple of hundred variables, things get harder. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then she said: “Do you know what Henry made us do, a couple of days after that thing in the woods?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I learned this only after I mentioned that I’d miscarried to a couple of friends, who responded by heaping me with love and support and also their own miscarriage stories. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A couple of times we even went airborne. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ll try to run interference and give you a couple hours before somebody comes in to check vitals and the like.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I know I—I saw a couple articles...” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I felt myself relax inside my feather nest of a coat and, settling in, I accidentally kicked my backpack, forgotten beside my feet, a couple steps down. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on loading the boxes, giving the last one a couple crushing blows before cramming it into the square of floor space on the passenger side and folding myself around it. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She would go in the front room where he worked and stand by him a couple of minutes—but when she listened to him her mind was never on the things he said to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That a girl so brittle and domineering should be brought this low by a couple of nine-year-old boys seemed wondrous to Briony, and it gave her a sense of her own power. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind us married couples were playing paddle tennis. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Minho was holding out a couple of pairs of tightly cut underwear, made from a shiny white material. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A couple of them give me quick nods and mumble “S’up” through mouths full of food. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

To make room, he tugged down a couple of other notices without looking at what they were. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes, she did. For the better part of an hour, I’m afraid. Your daughter’s voice is quite shrill, and coupled with her early-rising habits...” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old couple were on the steps now, the old man holding her arm, the white men leaning forward above, and the crowd pressing me closer to the steps. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which reminds me, by the way, of a dream I had a couple of weeks ago. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Struggle a bit. But only for a couple of seconds, and then I gotta take you out of here.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then I think of a couple winters ago we hardly had any meat on our table, and I guess I can see how a father with three kids could shoot a deer. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young couple who had been living in it had just left, so we knew it was empty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No wallet,” he told her, “but this stuff should be good for a couple of cans of soup.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Darren and I luck out—he eases into a spot across from the Key Bank, just a couple of doors away. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He tried to make us watch a couple times, and me and Erlan didn’t really get it, but we liked the pointy-ear stuff and the Vulcan salute. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I won’t be one-half of the couple who everyone stares at and asks, How did she get him? Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the main room were a couple of round tables with broken chairs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I ain’t partial to swords—the time on the reverse is too long if you miscalculate your swing—but it’s better than a couple of rusty gardening blades. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A couple of tents had been set up by the rocks for guard duty. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rawiya joined them a couple of minutes later, and in that time, they hadn’t budged at all. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Josn took a couple of steps back and gave a very good appearance of being at ease. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Lawson & Carlson says a storm’s coming. Big one. We’re going to be off the wrecks for a couple days. I want enough wire that you can work it on the sand.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I snipped a couple of twigs off their apple tree and stripped off the leaves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Its floor-to-ceiling windows coupled with the bright summer sun were turning the place into a greenhouse. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks ago, he ran out of the room in tears in the middle of a discussion about the suicide of Lady Macbeth. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone claps and whistles, and a couple of people even stand up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the mercenary made no reply, he added, “None of us would blame you if you wanted to catch a bit of sleep first, either. It looks like you’ve had a rough couple days.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, you think about it. Just keep it under your hat. I’ll look you up in a couple of weeks and we’ll talk about it. But keep it under your hat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We find a parking space on the street a couple blocks away from the place, and Jane leads me to a nondescript glass door next to a hot-dog restaurant. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He would lie low for a couple of hours, go to Gringotts the moment it opened, then set off — where, he didn’t know. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Sort of. A couple years ago my mother almost won the lottery. She was off by two numbers.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When the couple goes inside, Angel grins and nudges me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours later, Thomas was lying in a soft sleeping bag next to Chuck on a bed of grass near the gardens. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of other wild cards dressed up in gray-and-white outfits—Demon Brigade fans, probably hoping their clothes will warm them up to the official team. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Crab said to Ernie, who had already thrown an arm around Tess for the kind of hug that says, Your dad is watching, but hey, coupled with, What you think about these muscles? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Look at these landscapes you’ve done in the last couple of years,” he says. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I heard a couple of the house servants talking, just saying vaguely that there was trouble. I thought I should find out for sure.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The horrible sound of the brakes being pulled, coupled with the metallic screech of the wheels against the rails, made it seem like the whole station was about to collapse around him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The jeweler who gave him overflow work to do at half price sent in a couple of clocks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And of course, at the top, the elevator stopped a couple of inches below the floor, and we had to pull Lucas’s chair over the lip. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wreckage spread across the clearing for a couple hundred yards. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A couple mornings later, I get off the bus, walk the block to Miss Leefolt’s house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago, I read about those girls who were killed in a bombing at a church in Alabama in my father's copy of the Los Angeles Sentinel. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m hoping she’ll be good for another couple of months, but I don’t know.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But unlike Claudia, who had taken weeks to carefully plan out every aspect of her escape, Fadi was flying by the seat of his pants, coupled with a whole lot of praying. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the reception committee had left, too, only a couple of them still waiting for us to turn up in case something awful had happened to us. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We stuffed a pile of silver into the cabby's hand and dropped a couple of Kleenexes to cover the mess on the floor, and ran in through the lobby and on to the empty elevator. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s a couple more boys involved,” Mr. Turner said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When we get a couple of drinks, I’ll tell you all about it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So, after a couple of weeks, I felt like I had earned my place and felt right at home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead the only sound I heard was a kind of rattling like a couple of pieces of paper rubbing together or like dry leaves blowing around in the wind. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He knew he had gotten me in trouble with Mom and so he quickly wrangled a construction job in West Virginia for a couple days of paid work. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"If that. Really, is anything less impressive than watching a person pick up a heavy ball and throw it a couple of yards. One almost landed on my foot." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of pieces of candy in tired wrappers. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You’re telling me you guys have been a couple for two months, and what? You didn’t think to mention it?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, I get some of it. But after the first couple of lines, I’m lost.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My intent was to say a couple of words and sit down. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Can Melody stay a little longer to study? I’ll give her dinner and bring her home in a couple of hours. That will give you some one-on-one time with Penny.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My stomach drops and a couple of tears fall from my eyes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Around mouthfuls of rabbit and blackberries she confesses that even the rations for the white folks have become smaller and smaller since so many families have arrived in the past couple of weeks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They swam together and kissed again and the agent made a leisurely pass at his wife, calmly giving a couple of pumps to her nice-sized breasts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of the others laughed with him, marveling that anyone could believe such nonsense. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I could see a couple of grown-ups moving around looking lost, trying to pick things up, then the smoke would cover them, and then the bulb would flicker out and they’d disappear. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not talking a bit of tweaking here and there, a couple heart-to-hearts and I’d be on my way, walking in the light. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They only won a couple more games the rest of the season and didn’t qualify for the playoffs. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What is that?” he said, when I offered him a couple of capsules. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rondell burped so loud a couple people turned around to look at us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had been adopted by a missionary couple on the Ivory Coast. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Only a little encouragement was needed to get the final soldering accomplished in the next couple of hours. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I see a couple of cockroaches scurrying for cover. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Delly’s a bit thinner than I remember, but she was one of the few kids in District 12 with a couple of pounds to spare. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There was a keg and a couple of cases of beer. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need a couple more glasses. And besides, where else you going?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Our own district superintendent confided that the principalship of North High would be opening up in a couple of years, and the job was mine for the asking. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Welch High had about twelve hundred students, but we sold only a couple hundred copies of the paper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The kid we called up from the select team, Cole Lenk, was quite the ballplayer. He had a couple of hits and threw a runner out trying to go first to third from right.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Tom, the stooped and toothless landlord, was polishing glasses behind the bar counter; a couple of warlocks having a muttered conversation in the far corner glanced at Hermione and drew back into the shadows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

No police sirens, no loud music, no couples arguing outside his window on the street. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Byron stood perfectly still while Momma walked around him a couple of times taking a better look at his hair. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few relatives, the Connellys from next door, a couple old guys from the plumbing place where the corpse used to work. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

‘Well, that gives you a couple of hours for study and recreation. Then here from six to ten. Does that leave you enough time for plenty of sleep?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The chorus labors through the first phrase and then rushes forward with hugs, kisses, and—from a couple of the boys—fake karate kicks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I’ll throw in a couple of cans of salmon,” Harvey said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The first couple of days we spent in a classroom, studying an Air Force manual designed to help pilots who made emergency landings in strange places. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natasha and I don’t have much time left before her appointment, and I’m beginning to doubt that I can make her fall in love with me in the next couple of hours. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"There are a couple songs you might like, ballady stuff. But the rest is really fast." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He backed up a couple paces, and we took that opportunity to swerve the barrow past the three men. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But Radar wasn’t Ben; he called back just a couple minutes later. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Afterward, she, along with the other guests, was introduced to the royal couple, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and she had a chance to chat briefly with Mrs. Roosevelt. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He’d passed only a couple of freshman football players who acted like they were too cool to notice him stroll by. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell leaned against a couple posts in the sand, outside of the vans’ line of vision, and rested our hands on our full stomachs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He points to a row of a couple dozen people seated behind him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

So Mom and I wandered around the mall, stopping every couple minutes so she could sit down and take deep breaths and squeeze my wrist so hard it left angry red marks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Dad would be surprised at how strong he’d gotten in the last couple of years. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I popped a couple of M&M’s in my mouth. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone except an elderly couple decided to go. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe a couple hundred bucks. You could try Goodwill, too.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They pouted and gave me a couple of dirty looks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Next couple of weeks I work on finding my lost traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had never expected the Arizona nights to get so cold; the weather even dipped below freezing a couple of times. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure Camel mentioned at least a couple of those, but I don’t remember the specifics. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They took the little stove with them and a couple of pans and he heated water and poured it into the tub and poured in water from the plastic jugs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We had a couple of meetings, the first with the family and then once alone,” he says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’d peered in there as we waited for a gate to open, expecting to spot a couple of wiggling antennae, but couldn’t see anything. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps if you spin a web and catch a couple of flies you’ll feel better.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Our next MC is...,” he says, and a couple of people shout out their own names, as if that’ll make him call them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The campesino goes off with his medicine, a couple of cigars, a few mints for the godchildren. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the coffin and the first couple rows were hit by their yellow glow. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I'll use an 02 tank to spray short bursts of oxygen at the hydrogen, and make a spark with a couple of wires and a battery. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still a couple hours before dawn and the air was cold and calm, filled with the dreams of sleeping men. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of kids standing nearby screamed in terror, and their parents looked alarmed for about one second—all the time it took to assess the situation. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But he was showing a couple this one tooth, telling them the story behind it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had to pack these brand-new ice skates my mother had practically just sent me a couple of days before. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Thus unburdened we made our way, asking directions a couple of times, not into the town but to an outlying farm. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She spent a couple of hours on the phone this morning, holding a yellow legal pad in her lap. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day he got into a conversation with an elderly woman who lived on Eighty-Ninth Avenue, a couple of blocks from his house. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But after a couple of weeks living at Mama’s, I got used to the sorrows heaped upon my heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people were cool about it, but more than a couple were not, and I begged my father to let me home-school for the rest of the year and then the year after. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Dill’s pulse quickened as they walked the couple of blocks to campus. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” I said, “so let’s think. If you were a wight, where would you take a couple of kidnapped ymbrynes?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The Hispanic couple howls that they were here first and someone comes out to talk to them in Spanish. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then another front leg, then hindquarters, and then the box was empty, nothing but a metal shell with a couple of fake human legs attached. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The last one, the girl Elizabeth, died a couple years back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, when he was trying to remember it in detail, it felt like it had happened forever ago, but it had probably been only a couple of hours. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I miss the dummy by a couple of inches and lose what little attention I had been commanding. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She plucked a stray shirt off the floor and, holding it by the shoulders, flipped it front to back a couple times. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I say, “You know, I had a couple of horses once, not as cool as these here, but they were still pretty tough. I named them Midnight and Scout.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I only fall down a couple of times, which isn't bad considering how hard it is to see. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Another couple of feet and it would have been a homer for sure. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The last time Fang brought the box over was a couple years back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Annie made them plates and poured soda—they weren’t normally allowed to have soda—and like a couple of scared but curious kittens, they slowly climbed down and began eating. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re a young man. Forty-eight. And from the looks of you, from what the medical report tells us, we’re likely to have you around a couple of weeks more.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know until a couple of days ago,” I reply. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tyler and a couple of his rich-kid buds from up the cove. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Izzy was a wisp of a girl, both skinny and short, but she sported a meticulously groomed mane of black hair that added a couple of inches in all directions. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I nervously opened a page, toiled through a couple lines, encountering long words I could not pronounce, let alone understand their meaning. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be mad at me,” I said, and I reached over Grandma and opened and closed the door’s lock a couple of times. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of times, I’ve dug it up, not on account of vanity, but to make sure I am still here, I haven’t disappeared. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple was making out in the shadows of the building. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I kept on rubbing, working that soft area at her lower back, where the required team racing suit just allowed for a window of skin, a couple of knobs of vertebrae. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I look and see an older couple walking from the parking lot holding hands. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I’d even started being able to walk on crutches a couple times a week this summer. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There are always a couple of Hanukkah houses, too, all done up with blue and white. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It would have been a perfect roost for secretly filming the casino boat, except for a couple of problems. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I put my eyes on the asphalt under my feet and took a couple deep breaths to pull myself together. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You bring me back some nice flounder I can fix up for this fambly. And a couple pound of shrimps,” she said, then turning to Ben she said, “You ever been fishin’ much, Ben?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then does it go to the copy editor, who starts another couple of rounds of tweaking. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And there’s still the question as to if they all share the same signs, or have a couple each.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had gotten to campus a little after nine, after having dropped off the couple’s two daughters: three-year-old Cassidy at day care, and Stephanie, who had just turned seven, at school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sefia twisted a couple of locks of hair in her fingers and looked to the book, where it lay in the nest of rope like an egg, ready to hatch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“This has some plastic baggies to clean up after him. There’re also some treats, and I threw in a couple of water bottles.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had been hiking the trail, evidently only a couple of miles behind us, for four days, and had been camping alone in the open each night, which struck me now as awfully brave. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, George, and here it is. I was talking with Mr. Little down at the flour mill a couple weeks ago. He's heard that you are strong and can do a man’s work.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he now had a couple of new features: a bridge of pearly-white front teeth, and also a dashing scar on his face, thanks to Idiptu. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We had a couple of low moments in the early phases,” he said, “but we put our faith in the Lord and His will prevailed.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There it is,” he says, noticing a couple emerging from a basement door below the steps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a scribbled note a couple of weeks ago.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Five dollars a week got Dorothy a place to lay her head, two meals a day, and the kind attentions of Frederick and Annie Lucy, a black couple in their sixties. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There the difficulty was getting the couples to talk openly about their class baggage. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She could send him to the refrigerator, which was decorated with the blank couple on the bicycle built for two—or, as now, she could wheedle, “Tell me a story, Billy boy.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The army of Elfland is on the march even now, and shall be at the Bonecruel Mountains within a couple of days. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When they reached the portrait hole, they found Sir Cadogan enjoying a Christmas party with a couple of monks, several previous headmasters of Hogwarts, and his fat pony. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were a younger couple, like in their twenties. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We heard the sound of the siren a couple of blocks away and then it faded. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the right-hand corner of the photograph, a man wheeling his bicycle along the curb had turned to stare at the couple. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple blocks past the boss’s place, the stately houses came to an abrupt halt at McCreary Park. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were only a couple of teachers who looked happy to be introduced. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I first started playing the cello, Dad was still playing drums in his band, though that all started to taper off a couple years later when Teddy arrived. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he turns and bounds up the roof in a couple steps. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They were like a couple of hunters who had just shot an elephant and were not quite sure whether it was dead or alive. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I snapped my eyes shut, trying not to imagine what he’d been thinking, huddled up under his red velvet bedspread while we’d been talking and laughing a couple feet away. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We have met a couple of times at official functions, including, of course, the last few parties. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A good friend of mine knows an American couple there who run a charity home for children.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That depends on your Aunt Edna. Could be next week. Could be a couple months.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And somewhere between here and the Cramps’ front door, I even managed to figure a couple things out. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I got a couple of brothers that are the meat, a few sisters that are cheese and tomatoes, so I guess I’m the lettuce.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Goss and a couple of other young Indwellers, and a physician from the nearest Domain, watched in silence from seats by the hearth while I crossed the hall and entered the circle. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before her lay a pristine pond, a couple of hundred yards across, with a small, verdant island at the center. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A couple of guys were shooting around and I knew they wanted to see what was going to go down between me and Nick. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The gyptians had planned to stop and rest their dogs, repair a couple of sledges, and get all their weapons into shape for the assault on Bolvangar. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The huge plate-glass windows of the Stop & Shop have been broken for a couple of years, since people looted the store during a hunger riot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I told my friends that there was going to be room for a couple of more students in Ms. Gruwell’s class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He walked back behind the counter to tend to a couple of customers. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, as we lie in comparatively good cover, one of the food-carriers reports that a couple of hundred yards distant there lies a wounded messenger-dog. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a couple gulps before handing the bottle back, slick with sweat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A couple of guards, in their red and brown uniforms, ambled across the square, laughing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have the nerve to do it, but I hear a couple of the other fellas wore disguises and went to their own funerals so’s they could see what folk really thought of ’em. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Ms. Jen would check in on her a couple of times. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He saw only a couple of big gray birds hopping among the branches. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I’d burrow under my covers, wondering if a whole army was shooting at us or just a couple of soldiers on the riverbank. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaden pulled me to the side and asked me a couple questions about my “head space” or whatever, but I didn’t have any answers for him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He says, “Mason, think you can scare us up a couple of hammers?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They’re the majority of the world—there’s a couple billion Oriental people. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t get the whole story. He was only in town for a couple hours.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every day for the past couple of weeks, my parents have been dropping hints that I should make friends, find something useful to do, form a book club. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

At first Sammy had searched for another couple parking along the beach, but this failing, he began the long run toward town, hoping to intercept a car on the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

See, a couple of weeks back she got sore at me and said she was going to take off our ring for a while. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His size and strength—and I suppose that temper—meant no one tried actual physical bullying, but from what I remember, for a couple of months at least, these incidents kept coming. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit down on the floor, a couple of feet away from her. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her back has long since given out but she’s leaving now because she’s scheduled for knee surgery in a couple of weeks, the result, she says, of too much floor scrubbing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After just a couple weeks in Rochester, I began another weird new adventure: middle school in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a few minutes? We’d like to ask you a couple questions about some past members of the church.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Max unzips her backpack and pulls out a couple of graham cracker packets and two juice containers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nothing to worry about. The police have better things to do than to launch a big investigation over a couple of phony tickets.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I read the last couple pages on my stomach, facing the water. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I heard a couple of guys coming down the hall. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The couple at least had each other; it was the young woman who seemed the most likely candidate for tragedy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My mother barreled up the stairs a couple minutes later. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There's no Mirjam, but there are girls her age or younger, surrounded by young couples and middle-aged men. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I think you’re a couple of old rogues, but you may well have something,” Wilkins wrote from London on March 18, 1953. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Constitution—with a couple of short sentences, solemnly agreeing to take on the country’s every concern. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a couple of days, we was going through mile after mile of orange groves. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waits for a couple of kids to disappear up the steps before speaking. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I dart over to the loose board, carefully pull it aside a couple of feet, and then squeeze my way out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Our friendship, if you could call it that, had started a couple of months before with his mocking me, but in a way that I deserved. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elderly couple had shared their food and water supplies with the children, and Jinjoo had in turn given them some of their rice balls. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was that same map Joseph was now holding, in the middle of a snowstorm, a couple of days after Christmas, lost in a city he didn’t know. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

God bless you, Mrs. McGrath, and I know it’s asking a lot but could you possibly lend me a couple of cigarettes? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I heard them growl and saw them snap and lunge at fellow marchers—they even tore at the clothes of a couple of people near me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So, we went to the eighth-grade dance as a couple, but my friends and I spent the whole night eating Fritos and spying on people from under the bleachers. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He honked a couple of times and a lot of faces looked out from Louie’s back window and then a lot of people came out—Louie, Marin and all the little sisters. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d worked out with Cornell for a couple of years, but having children had changed my regular routine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In it he puts a bedroll, cup, spoon, some raisins, a collapsible fishing rod and a change of clothes, a raincoat, and a couple of cans of stew. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To test it, he tried raising Alby only a couple of feet, limb by limb. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But in a minute I heard the rifle crack, and a couple of minutes after that he came back carrying a dead chicken. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

What he does is make a couple of cuts to see the quality of the meat, and then he uses a little tool to take a sample of the fat content. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a couple of hours to do this, and I really had a difficult time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue dress flouncing, a couple of hundred strands of pearls draped around her, an ivory cane that she didn’t really need. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple of days, he wanted me to go out with him again to some bar, but I said no. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been calling him for a while, hoping that he would follow through and be our tagger, our captain. But it’s okay. We have a couple of other leads.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to pay me back in a couple of weeks. Before our next rent check is due.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t mind that at the top, the elevator stopped a couple of inches below the floor. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of times a week, he recapped the triumphs and struggles of his life. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple nights after graduation, we all met on Ocean Beach. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about tomorrow, when I turn thirteen, and a couple of weeks after that, when we leave—and how everyone has said that one day I’ll build again. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The lights passed fleetingly across the faces of couples dancing, teenagers chatting in corners, some old guys nursing drinks at the bar, and waitresses working the floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No way, that’s not far from me. I live a couple blocks from Union Square.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Ada, what’s it matter? We’ve just been going out for a couple of weeks. Quit being so serious,” I joked, in an attempt to distract from my own melodramatic ways. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

With a couple of bounds, I leave the stream, run through the woods for a short distance, and climb an embankment to the dirt road that runs along the bottom of my mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got Boots to sing a couple rounds of “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” since she had a special way with bugs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a couple of minutes there, I had forgotten. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

A couple even had floppy blond hair like you see in magazine ads about surf clothes or flip-flops. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Around us, the other showcase couples keep spinning, but I lead Laura off to the side of the dance floor. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d put on a couple of hundred pounds since I’d seen him last, which of course was the whole point of the feedlot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The people-sea surrounding the bar parts and Tiny gets a couple of beers and offers me one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mamá accepted Special Agent Gonzales’s proposal and we were all driven home in a couple of dark sedans. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Love, H As I drove the couple miles to the gas station, I woke up enough to wonder why Gus had left the house in the middle of the night. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The war in Europe had been over for a couple of weeks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said our house because a couple of my uncles had built their houses against his until the original house spread into a long house with many of my cousins living in it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I collected ribbons of bark from local palm trees, then got a couple of sticks and rubbed them together to create enough friction to . The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dashes between a couple of slow walkers and skirts along the outside of sidewalk scaffolding to avoid having to slow down for people. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But when it began to die down a couple of hours later, the bull carcass wasn’t half burnt up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Usually,” she said, “it’s more balanced. It hangs around ten, a couple to one side or the other. Back and forth, back and forth. Like life.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When I first showed up, a couple of people raised an eyebrow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of hours of my arrival I began to see the flaw in my analysis of Karhide—it was already out of date—and also began to feel uncomfortable, perhaps unsafe, in Erhenrang. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a couple of empty gas cans and walk to the gas station and fill them up and walk back home. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down at the feet ahead of her, David’s, and saw that his shoes did look handmade, like a couple of pieces of leather crudely sewn together. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even then, they only got away because a couple of cowboys were on the rail ready to jump in and distract that horse. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of his own home, just five miles away, and the young married couple who waved from time to time as they jogged at sunset along the shore. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I thought of a couple of things to make it really pay.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We watched the news and a couple of game shows, and then I took Sammy back home. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was about this couple and they had this landlord who lived upstairs who was supposed to be Chinese or something. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Proper British airmen flying over the European Continent carry a couple of photographs in their emergency kit, just in case they’re shot down and need fake ID. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Is a word like couple or politics singular or plural—or can it be both? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie said, grabbing a couple of extension cords off the ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My mother made me take Sam a couple of doors down to watch TV at the Muramotos’ apartment. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of minutes later, Scarlett saw the lights of a car and heard the sound of a car horn. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The line started to disperse, except a couple of people who actually wanted the bouillon and bread special. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Let me bring a couple of slices over to the fellas first. Kids don’t need all this sugar.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the last couple of shifts he’s been listless and unshaven, and tonight he looks like the ghost we all know him to be, with dark halfmoons hanging from his eyes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the outdoor work area is one of Guillermo’s massive couples but unfinished, and against the far fence is another mammoth work called Three Brothers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see you in a couple of hours, sir,” said Stone. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Bad photography can ruin a couple of good loons. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We “gossiped” for a couple minutes, trying to hold back any inappropriate laughter—the kind that would’ve given us away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“There were a few ... I just had them out a couple weeks ago . . . Ah! Here we go.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then a couple of years later he ran off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, while I was waiting, I asked if any of the dockworkers had seen a young woman come through here in the last couple days. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Will be in a couple of days,” I say. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers through my hair a couple of times and took some deep breaths before I continued around the corner. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He asked Billy what it had been like, and Billy told him about the horses and the couple picnicking on the moon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, for the first couple of days, nobody was surprised Cap was absent from school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They were nothing like the happy young couple in the frame that sat on Cool Papa’s oak dresser. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The old couple had welcomed Mary into their little vine-sheltered farmhouse, had plied her with wine and cheese and bread and olives, and now didn’t want to let her go. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And the second time was just a span ago. A couple played it during a formal dinner I attended off in Aetnia.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Ten years or a couple days, depending on how you count it.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the magazine rack and picked up a couple different sports ones and read the headlines. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When we left, we threw kerosene on the thatched-roof houses, lit them with matches, and fired a couple of RPGs into the walls. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I followed him to a table with a couple of free seats, and watched him tear into his lunch while I dumped mine out of its paper bag. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was funny how in just a couple of months I had got so used to doing everything on my phone. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A couple of days later, I had another and better reason for wanting to get rid of Old Yeller. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old couple stands at the curb, the woman hunting for something in her purse. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, couples and groups who looked like they were either heading off to conferences or cocktail parties smiled and laughed over candlelit tables. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Upon further analysis, another geologist concluded that it might be possible to “age” the surface of a dolomite marble statue in a couple of months using potato mold. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We know how they are, the first quarter you start hittin ’em a couple of times, get a couple of sticks on ’em, they want to quit.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went on for perhaps another couple of miles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The first couple of times I was like, whoa, I’m never going to get used to this. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Gene Ater had been yelling so hard he had already driven away a couple of fans sitting in front of him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Anchorage couple had been too upset by the implication of the note and the overpowering odor of decay to examine the bus’s interior, so Samel steeled himself to take a look. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think they were trying to see who was going to rush us first, figuring that the first couple might get hurt. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get a couple of pills and some water into him when he's not noticing, but he refuses to eat even the fruit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“There are a couple of minutes before you need go,” said O’Brien. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Nothing to show for them except a couple of pictures and our notebook. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was packing our lunch, with a couple of early tomatoes and some salt for them in a twist of paper. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

So that lady told me again how Jackie was practically a grownup and would be graduating from high school in a couple of months. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any friends in my class—Shiva was a couple years ahead of me—and I wanted to get back home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It felt like a breakup even though we were never a couple. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ivy went back to her family’s little campsite and looked around for her pillow, but there were only a couple of cereal bar wrappers and some bottles of water. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had a couple of shiners and a cut on his nose where Darryl had decked him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Okay, let’s get back to shopping. I still have to buy a couple of tunics for school.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The discussions over the school budget sounded much like a couple talking around their kitchen table with a stack of bills, no hope of paying them and nothing but bad options. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This is the first time it occurs to me that a couple of lifelong churchgoers might feel pretty weird that their grandson is having a bar mitzvah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A pair of brown-and-orange beetles, disturbed by the feeding rabbits, took off from a grass stem and flew away, still coupled together. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He points to a couple items on the menu and Rae tells us she’ll return shortly, then rushes away so quickly she leaves behind her pen and notepad. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I grab a pen from my dresser and jot down a note on my forearm to call Alejandro and tell him I won’t be in for the next couple days. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of hours the vineyards gave way to cotton fields. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe you. 1 think you went in there, hung around a couple of minutes, and came out.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was married now, to a Punjabi girl, and they lived in London still, and every year they exchanged Christmas cards with Raj and Mina, each couple tucking photos of their families into the envelopes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor argued that the probability was so low that such a couple existed that the police investigation must have turned up the actual culprits. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next couple of days, I tried to keep my mind off my problems. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lance and the anchorman got all revved up speculating how the sting must have netted a couple big local players—guys with enough power to keep the names locked down tight. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

All we knew was that every couple of months, this check would show up and we’d have plenty of food for days at a time. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of freshman girls scamper past us, shrieking and chasing each other and body slamming the door. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But those were a couple of divorces and a serious illness ago, and the son looking over his shoulder at the mounted snapshots now had little in common with the boy in the pictures. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and a couple of her friends would head out to Thirty-second Street Plaza, a popular nightclub where Mary knew the owner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, she shared a turkey sandwich in the inn’s office with Robin and Jessa, who was visiting for the next couple of weeks, and told them the whole story. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Mami,” I said a couple of weeks later as she changed out of her work clothes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A couple of hurricane lanterns stood at the end of the dock, and Turner figured Willis had been about to light them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had only had the dog for a couple of weeks, so he couldn’t have been that attached to it, but when it died, Andy almost fell apart. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ming’s is a couple blocks down Magnolia, around the comer.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Visit Room had an outdoor annex for warm days, and the couple had been standing behind some of the playground equipment— not exactly family entertainment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imani tells me that Logan has been suspended from school for a couple of weeks. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A few couples strolled holding hands, talking, and laughing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of splinters whizz through the top of the kitchen window. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you, Mom. It might be nice. I mean, no one ever goes to see her. A couple of people from her church now and then. But they don’t stay long.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We pay a couple of dollars and they give us tickets, and then we're in. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“He said he’d come at four, it’s only a couple of minutes to and he’s never been late yet!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I lost sight of them a couple of times, but then I’d glimpse a black blur leaping between trees and I’d regain my bearings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She ran, and a kindly couple took her in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was very quiet, though she nodded a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And there were more people sitting around than I first thought too, mostly it was men and big boys, but there were a couple of women every now and then and a kid or two. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just then a married couple of Baptists in tortoiseshell sunglasses came out of the crowd and shook our hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d come back a couple of hours later and type up a story, and it would appear in the next day's paper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They glimpsed the centaur and his lady; she held a parasol and he a string market bag, and they were just another couple out for a stroll, buying vegetables for their supper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The sergeant, after a couple of minutes, knew too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odd couple continued to play their invisible game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they stopped for supplies, Boseman was distracted by a funeral procession rounding the corner and she made it a couple of yards before a boy tripped her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I jiggled it up and down in my hand a couple of times and it felt like none of the rocks was missing but I opened it to count them anyway. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He answered his phone, then opened our front door for a couple of CSIs. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s possible that Mr. Lemoncello left a couple different paths to the same solution.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Below me a couple of cowpokes stumble out of the saloon singing some song, the words too slurred to make much sense. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was one of the first really good days of spring that year, and I’d been sitting on the grass talking with a couple of the older girls. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of kids had hit him high and a couple had hit him low. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there for a couple of seconds after I played the last note. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Just a couple of hours a day. If you could help me close out the accounts. Even a dummy can learn how to do that.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes she rolled over to face the other direction. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, chuckling, “the shoes give me a couple of inches. But yes, I’m tall.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Blowed if I can see anything funny about a couple of heroes wanting to be fed so that they can stay alive. Takes all kinds to make a world, young feller, other ranks included.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours ago, at around ten, that wave came out of the second section to the left of where the lightning strikes now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d finished, Bobby put a couple of quite intelligent questions to me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They had brought along a couple of short-handled trench shovels, a duffel bag packed with American clothes, and a suitcase with money sewn in its lining. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Someone yells out, “Speak, Shana!” and a couple of people clap, including Malik. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I turn around, and one of the couples is dancing themselves into the next room, carrying their phonograph with them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t rode but a couple of miles when the cap’n pulls his horse up. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The police don’t usually come running when a kid’s only been missing a couple of hours. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Go on, Gabriel,” I said, rolling my eyes at the happy couple. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we’d miss your birthday? We’re staying the night! We got a couple of rooms at the Sleepy Inn. We thought you’d like a real bed for once. A splurge.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“We were a couple of old cripples together,” Red said, “all washed up. But somehow we both had a pretty good idea that we’d be back.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of campers rushed out of the fortress, carrying a girl on a stretcher. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We’re just chucking around a couple jokes before class,” said Bunny genially, leaning back in his chair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I stood with my heel like that, and swung my arm a couple of times like that. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

While Kunti revealed her secret to Kama on the riverbank, courting couples rubbed suntan oil on each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took another couple of swings; then he straightened his front leg and waited. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Not only didn’t he eat for a couple of days, it was weeks afore he slept through a whole night without terrorfying me and Ma by waking up screaming and begging someone to stop. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The field and surrounding asphalt track were covered with glass from broken bottles, and there were no soccer goals, only a couple of rusting chain-link backstops. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Because Freak and I are still a couple of blocks from the pond, just kind of easing our way along, when these punks start mouthing off. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know exactly when I lost track of Katz, but it was in the first couple of hours. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Yvette and a couple of her clients stand in her doorway, towels around the clients’ shoulders. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know the exact size of the Coral Queen’s holding tank, but I guessed it carried a couple hundred gallons of waste. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The King had only to send far a couple of boars and he would have been to supply them himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were even a couple of “Aw, shucks” and finger snapping as our dinner was placed on the cashier s counter. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two a.m. they crossed paths with three couples walking together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

More snow was expected over the next couple of days. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And we have to be back by four thirty for milking. That gives us a couple of hours.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then it was time to leave Eagle in lunar orbit, light Columbia’s big engine for a couple of minutes, and come on home. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

George was left to deal with the middle-aged witches and Ron took charge of Mr. Weasley’s old Ministry colleague Perkins, while a rather deaf old couple fell to Harry’s lot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s straight couples and queer couples and friends and strangers and families connected by blood or circumstance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They drove new cars, vacationed at summer houses more commodious than C.P.’s tiny frame house, and kept fine stables of horses instead of a chain-link kennel with a couple of dogs inside. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a couple of intersecting paths, but the way was always certain. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But no one has outright banned the word union and right now it’s the most potent couple of syllables at hand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hurt a couple of people real bad. I got angry.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I worked a couple of weeks for other railroads, to get their identification, and then I was set. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a couple friends—guys that have been here a while like me, and aren’t trying to get into trouble. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

About the time I heard the engine building up steam, a couple of more men hopped in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me scoop a couple and show you.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They go off together, leaving us, the two lovebirds sitting on the same side of the table, staring at all the happy couples in the room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Meant to be. I'm going to have a couple rolls and some slices of cheese. You'll have pasta and the rest of the rolls and whatever else you see that pleases you." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I grab a really cool-looking ax—which is surprisingly light—and give it a couple swings. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She whispered the word “fancy” like it was something illicit, as a smartly dressed couple in their fifties walked by. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them weren’t young at all; why, that man had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“What if we ask people to leave a couple of rows empty near the front so that we can gather there later in the afternoon?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks ago, under a pile of old sheet music and practice books, I found a yellowed book of boogie-woogie pieces, and old-time blues and rock. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Sweat poured down his face and the thing almost slipped out of his hands a couple of times, but eventually he broke the first seal and moved on to the next one. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I dangle for a couple of seconds, then get my left hand to hook on as well. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She let me choose a couple of new outfits—with jeans—none of those practical, baggy sweat suits for this trip! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

If only he could wait a couple of days for better weather. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And I guess my feelings had gotten pretty mixed up the last couple of days. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The lights of the hall dimmed, and the dancing couples who now embraced one another could scarcely be seen. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I spy a couple of police officers standing in the street, right by the curb. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She and Uncle Lou came over for dinner a couple of nights ago, and we talked about everything from women's rights in India to the environment to preservation of endangered tigers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was also empty except for a couple of stacks of birdseed sacks. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of littluns were playing at the edge, trying to extract comfort from a wetness warmer than blood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I step back into the box, tap the plate a couple of times, bounce the bat off my shoulder, and bring it about my head. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The smallest size, the ones that are only a couple of inches high, are the best; these are easiest to stack neatly in the back of the freezer. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It seems like I’ve only shut my eyes for a few minutes, but when I open them, I flinch at the sight of Haymitch sitting a couple of feet from my bed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Even Uncle Al is affected—he stops each day to observe our progress and within a couple of days orders up new posters that feature Rosie with Marlena sitting astride her head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“What horror did you visit on this poor couple?” he asked. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the old days, when we were nothing more than a couple of kids hunting outside of 12, Gale said things like this and worse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Louis had not managed to find very much money for our expedition, so our possessions were few and simple—a knife, fork, and spoon each, a couple of tin plates and tin mugs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I munched on a carrot, I heard a couple of girls enter the bathroom. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need your best friend when you’ve got your future wife around, so I’ll just talk to you again in a couple weeks when this is over.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“And I wasn’t the only one. A couple of the others stayed and turned pretty instead. I probably would have too, except I met you.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I got pulled to my feet by a couple of football players who dragged me under the bleachers and into the coach’s office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, who would wanna be seen with two dudes named after a couple of dead presidents anyway?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The couple has now resided there for a dozen years and gradually persuaded the Fayu to renounce violence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d written his remarks over the course of a couple of weeks, working on them in between Illinois senate votes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I break off from them at full speed, weaving around strollers, shoving between couples, clutching the envelopes to my chest. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Luther Rice never allowed it, but in two cases where the couples already had mailed invitations, he did permit weddings in his office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m in trouble,” I said to the couple. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of moments later, she sipped her jug again. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t press that button, the sluggers will simply collect a couple of breeding pairs and restart the human experiment on another planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“These last couple of years must have been exhausting for you. Trying to decide whether to kill me or not. Back and forth. Back and forth.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“OK, then I'll see you in a couple days' time. Give me your word of honor, Mortimer!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A couple of the younger nurses, the ones who probably listen to pop radio or watch MTV and have heard of Bikini, look up, their faces excited question marks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brandon stared at the same page in his book for another couple of minutes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were also not all that attractive, since the four linemen he’d roped into helping with the project had painted about as well as a couple of monkeys. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Keeping Sophia forever doesn’t sound like such a bad deal, but right now I’m just aiming for enough to get another couple of dates. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the second half, Felix scored eight points, all on fast breaks, and had a couple of assists. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Relieved, the elderly couple stood up from the bench. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The exhaust whistle, coupled with the natural engine noises, precluded the necessity of Mister Scales’ giving any further notice about the car’s arrival at its destination. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of times I even spied him wearing earbuds, which was probably illegal. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They were an affectionate couple, and acted as any husband and wife might: They were in love and showed it in many small ways,” said Gardar. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Back in his bedroom, Harry fiddled aimlessly with his rucksack, then poked a couple of owl nuts through the bars of Hedwig’s cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Every kid at the party was a runt beside her, except Harry, who was only a couple of inches shorter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What if we were out and happy and as famously in love as every other obnoxious Creekwood couple? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A couple of avatars have already turned their attention to me after my two purchases, and their interest makes the hairs rise on the back of my neck. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A couple days. It’s worse than the war down there with fellers afraid and gittin’ meaner as they git more afraid. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, maybe we should wait. It’s only a couple of months now.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hollister had said nearly the same thing a couple of weeks ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a couple of blocks down and not too far out of my way. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A couple guys said yes, but the rest of us merely nodded. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mom told us the trip would be about fourteen hours if we took the highway, but we should tack on another couple of hours because we might make some scenic detours. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a couple of books from my nightstand, knocking over a digital frame currently displaying a picture of David and me at homecoming. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The pilot and his seabird have made this trip countless times in these last couple of days. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even the tavern keepers didn’t seem surprised to see a couple of kids at their back doors with a wagon full of liquor. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And it'll be broadcasting. It's not a strong signal; it's only designed to go a couple hundred meters to the rover or Hab. But maybe we can pick it up." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time we found an old couple, sitting on the couch. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It sputtered slowly for a couple of minutes, and then suddenly smoothed out and was running fast. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Together we greeted Neil, and for a couple of minutes the three of us just floated there, admiring two shiny silver boxes filled with moon rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garlands of dried flowers hung on the backs of the chairs, and a couple of them sported squash. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Wylan did the same, and for a moment they hung, pulling on the chain like a couple of crazed squirrels who hadn’t mastered climbing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It looked as though someone had dumped a couple of garbage cans inside the cabin. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand all the way in the back, behind a couple of mummies headed for the Department of the Dead. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When Shady went back to the stove for my breakfast, I leaned across the counter and peered behind it, but there was only a chipped coffee cup holding a couple of nickels and a button. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I made a couple extras just in case.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the back of the door, a shoe rack with a couple dozen pairs of shoes, from Mary Janes to prom heels. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She graduated from culinary school a couple of years ago. She’s our second-best icing froster. The best being me, of course.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So I sulk for a couple of days, and then I buck up and find someone new to date. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Well, needless to say, standing was a bit...uh...problematic for a couple reasons, probably the least of which was the woozy head rush I got when my feet hit the floor. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But there were a couple of old things that belonged to Mr. Donnelly. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple more cars drove up, taking Michael and Alisa away. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

To their left, a long table was set for at least a dozen people, and a couple of smaller children sat on the long bench down one side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He’d lost a couple of pounds too, which Lester theoretically could have spared, but the new shape was wrong on him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In a couple of days, he’d have to walk through metal detectors just to go to school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We would single out someone, or a couple, or sometimes a whole family—although for the purposes of the game, it was always better to single out a person shopping alone. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He swung the flashlight and saw a couple of wooden wagons that must have been used to carry equipment down or tin back up to the surface. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours later he was flying over the Rocky Mountains and eating a caramel sundae. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Back in Vietnam later that year, Ellsberg sat with an elderly couple in the living room of their home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hale told Spencer that he’d pay him and his gang at least $2,000 to bump off a couple—an old man and his blanket, meaning an Indian woman. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Within a couple of weeks I would lose the chance to talk to my children face-to-face, ever again, except through glass,” he worried. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Music, theater, parades, and parties marked the couple’s stay on the island. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The pool was apparently only a couple' of inches deep. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Tariq was talking to Brick, who must've come up right about the same time, a couple other guys along with him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tuma sold this grinning couple two African hats for thirty bucks apiece. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of hostels, giant projects built by the government for housing migrant workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Greyback got up and took a couple of steps to where Harry sat, crouching down again to stare closely at his misshapen features. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Rob’s father called a couple of weeks after the accident. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks later the bus dropped me off and Mommy was not there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought a couple of chunks of the wall home for my daughters. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple of days of Dad’s torture, more than a few of them packed their bags and headed back to Ohio. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent pressed down on a couple of cupcakes with the back of his finger. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Older couples in long coats, billowing scarves, and blazers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When Lynn returned from the hospital a couple of days later, my mother insisted that she was basically fine. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of months ago, I’d succeeded in hacking into the main directory of Warcross players in New York and synced it all up to my phone’s maps. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then the bust set in after a couple of years and Charlie moved back to Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women who know teach the men who don’t, my thirteen are occupied, and Siunek is a surprise prodigy, able to finish a sleeve in just a couple of hours. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Apart from the still lifes, what I’m showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of Muses sat on a bench strumming flaming lyres, but their hearts didn’t seem to be in it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And after only a couple hours we actually had enough money to eat a real dinner at McDonald’s. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t believe it; we’d come a long way, as far back over the hills as I could see, and that was a couple of miles. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cloud Pond was a couple of hundred acres of exquisitely peaceful water surrounded by dark coniferous forest, the treetops pointy black silhouettes against a pale blue evening sky. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes soldiers would just take a couple of cows out of somebody’s fields without paying for them, too. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing a couple of plates and spoons from the drying rack beside the sink, he set the table and dished them both up some food. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Here and there a middle-aged or older woman wore a heavy, colorless kimono, and a couple of somewhat younger women wore colored ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t believe that the pursuit of one person’s dreams should come at the expense of the couple.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Up the creek, a couple private docks extended out into the water, then there was a long strip of riprap near a construction site. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had fallen in the brook a couple of times back in Connecticut. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained a couple of plastic tubes with screw tops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too dizzy to walk, Kaira’s stepfather had to be held up by a couple of police officers as he was led out in handcuffs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The police were trying to clear the highway, but a dog had jumped out of the van and was running up and down the turnpike as a couple of officers chased after him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, I only bled on a couple of the apples. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

While staying in a posh London hotel and attending the theater in the English king’s own box, the royal couple and most of the rest of their party came down with measles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aside from a little food, the couple had taken nothing that belonged to the house, and furthermore, both parties had left letters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The door to my parents’ room opens and closes a couple more times. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Why wasn’t I grabbing the gun and pumping a couple rounds into the victim myself? Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Families huddled together; old couples sat on the ground; people walked around dazed. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

You had to get good at saying no, and learn a couple of rules about it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had tried to bridge the silence of the drive a couple of times. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first time he’d looked for her it was a halfhearted search after a couple of hours’ spectacular fishing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the last brother, the youngest one, heard them saying that, and came into the house of bodies and there coupled with Edondurath. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A couple hours later, I take a long shower. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He then moved to Florida to live with his sister for a couple of months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Every hotel concierge knows who to call if some guest wants tickets. All I’m sayin’ is, it’s not as easy as you think for a couple of independents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He stepped to the granite plate and took a couple of slow swings. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His real name was Charles Walker, but everyone called him Trout because his two feet smelled like a couple of dead fish. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Once, when a couple saw the twins and inquired about them, Mrs. Trepid said, “They’re already taken.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She usually chose to celebrate the birth of our Lord by going on a good long bender, one that started a couple days before Christmas and ended well after New Year’s. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks before the prom, she showed up at the Charcoaler as I was closing up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s not such a bad life,” Mom told us after they’d been homeless for a couple of months. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I blink, and there she is, a couple of yards away from us. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Inside the front room a couple of dudes were watching a talk show on television. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sirens continue to wail outside—they must be less than a couple of blocks away by now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

With the added weight of the bag— which seemed to get heavier by the foot— coupled with the fact that he was getting weaker all the time, the raft seemed barely to move. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of cats leaped out of my way as I stormed across the yard and up the driveway toward the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He’s a cousin from Australia, staying for a couple of weeks; he’s Jason’s oldest friend, best man at their wedding. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both dogs sat up immediately and, to the astonishment of the elderly couple watching, wagged their tails in unison, wearing almost identical expressions of pleased and doting interest. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know a couple songs from 101 Dalmatians,” Arthur says with pride. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He’s carrying a couple of binders and a saggy bag of groceries and looks tired, but he gets all excited when he sees the stove in their kitchen, which is apparently some kind of antique. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or thought I said — without quite realizing what I was doing, all I did was make a couple of head bobs and grunt. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she grabbed a white box from the wagon bed and placed it on the curb, a couple of feet beyond the piñata of bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I stepped on a mess of them a couple of weeks ago. They stunk like a skunk!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A couple times I thought I saw Dylan waltzing in, but it wasn’t him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, mine’s not as bad as yours. I mean, we can’t stay there right now. We’re living with my grandma, but we’ll be back in a couple weeks. Your house, though. Totally gone. Wow.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Where are those people—that old couple? They’re not bringing you back, are they?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a couple of weeks all it does is munch and grow. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His mother returned with a couple of steaming mugs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I guess you realize we wouldn’t have come all the way to Nevada just to chat with a couple of two-bit check chiselers.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a couple of people like Gale and me, who’ve been in charge of our families’ food supply for years, it doesn’t sit well. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Ayyyy, she said yes!” he just has to announce, and a couple of people actually clap. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I carefully scanned the fallen leaves around a couple of oaks, hoping to spot one. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The couples in the Mughal miniatures had modestly covered themselves in shadow. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple times of hanging out like that I ask her would she wanna be my girl and she says she totally would, so then we’re officially together. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Why are you sad today, Melly-Belly?” she asked me one morning a couple of years ago. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It looked like the handyman had been on vacation for the past couple centuries, and the threadbare, watery pink carpet leading to the office was barely hanging on. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The two couples sat at the very edge of the far rocks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Old pencils, a couple of stories I’d written that were too embarrassing for anybody to read, a torn pair of shorts, a comb with most of its teeth missing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a couple of hours, they talked and laughed incessantly about nothing in particular while they dried slowly. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of extra girls, but I couldn’t figure out where they fit in. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d given me a couple of lessons last summer, but he wanted two dollars for the full course. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’d be a good couple, really, The Taker and Josie, with her shy smile and plaid skirt and suspenders, her hair dyed jet-black. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mama filled him in on the last couple of days of our trip while Mustafa dozed, and I stared out the window. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Give them to your son. You’ve got birthdays and Christmases taken care of for a couple of years with all this. It’s good stuff any motorcycle enthusiast would love.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A sofa and a couple of chairs are clustered on one side of the room, opposite a kitchenette with mismatched cups drying on the countertop. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have been the first Black man in the MLB—according to my research, there were even a couple prior to Jackie Robinson. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

We didn’t get a chance to move on to the next suggestion because Selena walked up with Diana and a couple of boys in tow. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It is that, coupled with curiosity, that causes her to nod her consent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Campbell Junior must of thought we were a couple of hyenas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that was true, but I also knew the hollows would tear apart anything in their path, including a couple of normal girls. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’d tell a couple of easy ones and work up to how I had pulled the quiet girl’s hair and how I had enjoyed the year being sick. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of pigeons were pecking at bits of squashed fruit on the ground. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly white couple sat inside, surrounded by shelves of groceries and auto supplies, by soft drink machines and cigarette dispensers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song could have been about him a couple of years ago, before he went to Camp Green Lake. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized how much of an issue this was until I tried thin-slicing couples myself. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You gave me a good excuse to tuck away a couple extra,” Dad said, patting his stomach. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Bet that crippled blacksmith was surprised when he netted a couple of stupid kids. You looked good on TV” I shoved his shield at him. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Anyways, we watched a couple good runs, and then the crowd started to thin out. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The last surgery I had was eight months ago, and I probably won’t have to have any more for another couple of years. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I have to go. I’ll see you in a couple of days.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tristran closed his fingers about the snowdrop, concealing it from view, and he took a couple of steps backwards. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been losing touch for a while, for a couple of reasons. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Easy enough—as long as there are only a couple of variables. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I cracked the plastic container and grabbed a couple fries before returning to my investigation of Pickett. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Must have been a couple of hours toward town when my father nudged me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on!” she whined, banging it a couple times on the ground. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We spend the next couple of hours cleaning the rest of the house and bringing out bags of garbage onto the sidewalk. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A couple years ago she asked me to teach her archery, and you don’t say no to Vasya. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were more vans with OPD emblazoned on the side and a couple of cruisers. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Me? Fine. 1 mean, yes it sucks, but you know. It’s not like I knew her. Collectively I spent maybe a couple of hours with her. Seriously, I’m cool.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Between that and the magic salve Grover used, my shoulder felt better within a couple of minutes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I was even starting to think that you guys were a couple. I didn’t know what to believe.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I went down to the basement and lifted some weights for a couple of hours. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But he also took out a couple of bars of soap—I recognized the blue wrappers. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It took some work to break open the things—but a couple of former soldiers like Alec and Lana were trained to break open things, weren’t they? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The docking itself went well, with just a slight bump as Columbia nudged Eagle, but then Eagle gave a wild lurch and for a couple of seconds I thought we might have real trouble. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head when a couple of the free-lancing girls ran up to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll call her in a couple of minutes," she says determinedly, "when we find your aunt's building. You won't need me after that." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While the cameras were focused on Haley’s smile, Mrs. Daley wrapped up a couple of chicken kebabs in a napkin and slipped them inside her purse. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Two more children picked up rocks and threw them at the couple. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of shops with nice clothing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Preacher waren’t seen for the next couple of days and that did cause some folks to worry, but everybody knowed he disappeared all the time so didn’t no one pay it too much mind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We went a couple slow, dark miles without seeing another vehicle or any welcoming roadside establishment. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We may all be getting a little sick and tired of the apostrophe by now, so I’ll just get a couple more things off my chest. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Mm-hmm. Miss Sadie told me. I take a little milk over to her on my way back from town a couple times a week. Did you two have a nice visit?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Annie came into our room and we jumped from bed to bed like a couple of lunatics. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it’s like to be half of the loved Homecoming couple. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

At Silsbee’s Cove there were no women, children, or farm animals about, except a couple of weaned calves in the calf pasture. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be asked to play Scrabble, instead, as if we were an old married couple, or two children, seemed kinky in the extreme, a violation in its own way. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I slung the keg of rum over my shoulder and followed Mr. Heron up the road to his house, which was only a couple of hundred yards away from the tavern. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A couple of big deals. No contract. And favors. Favors are important or the story’s not right.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for my head, and my leg, and the soreness from the bruises, and the nausea that hit a couple minutes after I ate. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then to Donovan, Powell added, “Stay with him the rest of the shift. Then, come back. I’ve got a couple of ideas.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

You have to see this, Teresa said to him just as Newt dismissed his helpers—they clomped up the wooden stairs, a couple of them grumbling about doing all that work for nothing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

By the end of his junior year, he was already being courted by Division I college teams, a couple of which would probably offer him a free ride. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The proper “this is Robert’s big, exciting life of ugliness” story starts just a couple of pages beyond this. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He yawned a couple of times, big yawns that he didn’t even try to hide. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A couple of grimy dudes with plastic grocery bags for hats checked me out as I came close. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I'll say it works! She did me wrist a couple of years back. Miraculous, it was. But the wife and I were sure she'd made you up.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Capricorn’s men were watching the old woman as she crossed the square, walking so fast the girl stumbled over the hem of her dress a couple of times. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, all right. She said you guys were a couple of overweight wimps who didn’t know the first thing about hiking and that she was tired of carrying you.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But then we started going through a couple of old steamer trunks. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had told my brother Muslim friend that I wanted to be a tourist in Cairo for a couple of days before continuing to Jedda. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took her offer on the deer and she threw in a couple of venison steaks we could pick up after the butchering. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of days later it happened again. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the class, he sat in the back row, staring at the smiling couple. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Who had that man been, at Napoleon and St. Charles, who had said he would send help to the Williams couple? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“And you and me’s going to fry up a couple pecks of potatoes to go with the fish. There won’t be nothing to it. I peeled the potatoes this morning before you two was up.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the stationmaster who checked my ticket and a couple of railroad workers, the station was empty, and I wished I had a book or magazine to read while I waited for my train. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But a couple of them were really close to the ship, busy doing something, though Mark didn’t have a good enough angle to see what. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I will. Believe me. But I’ve got a couple of loose ends to wrap up first.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They had a couple more drinks, just to savor the plan. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I own a couple pairs of jeans and shorts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I managed a drumstick and a couple scoops of mashed potatoes and coleslaw and then excused myself. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day and the next couple of weeks waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting for my mom to get the call. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They made their way onto the front step with immense caution: They could see a couple of puffy-eyed Death Eaters watching the house from across the misty square. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had seen him on the tricycle a couple of weeks ago and mentioned it to Dad. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But now she frowns at a couple of short-sleeved tops I picked. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s only for a couple more weeks,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

All that’s left when we’re done is a black couch, coffee table, two side tables, a folding table and chairs, plus a couple of lamps. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

So I kneed him one and slugged him a couple of times. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was there with them a couple of times, and I felt like an intruder. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, our trusted Prieto has been reporting everything he hears in the Mirabal household down at Security for a bottle of rum and a couple of pesos. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Bunny had a relationship the likes of which I had seldom seen except in couples married for twenty years or more, a relationship which vacillated between the touching and the annoying. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I go outside, pick me a couple wormy peaches, and sit on the stoop, eating at them, spitting out the wormy places. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa managed to find a couple of children’s books, including one of haiku by a famous Japanese poet from a long time ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My dad got cut and a couple patients, too. It’s possibly revenge for the bombing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“A couple of months ago, Mrs. Ruiz’s only son had tried to hijack a plane in Havana to go to Miami. He was shot and killed by the airplane’s pilot.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I’m a couple of days into the plan, making good progress, when something unexpected happens. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After it happened I had to see him home a couple of times because he thought the kids were going to jump on him because of what his brother did. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only child of a couple living next door, so she was always happy to get out of the house and play. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was owned and run by an older couple. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was still cold, however, and I puffed out a couple frosty clouds on the way to the office. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I came poking around on this side of town the night before I took that whipping. I recognized a couple of the families that just arrived. They were at Mayor Carr’s dinner.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But a couple of weeks ago, I saw him sauntering by. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then there was another couple whose visit started icily. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of sofas were designed to look like Scrabble trays, with letter-square pillows. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She and Nin had been overhearing bits of news about them for a couple of years now. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So far there were two short extension cords, a couple of rolls of burlap-looking twine, and some metal rulers. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A few people are out there now, walking their dogs, couples exercising side by side, swinging their arms, thick fleece bands covering their ears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I pity any fool trying to climb the mountain in the next couple of days.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Laura pulled open a couple of cardboard boxes, filled with candy bars. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She practiced a couple of times—pushing it in, pulling it out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A lot of snogging and touching up, maybe; and couples hinting they were having proper sex. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I never thought of it as an option, and, aside from a couple of teachers, no one encouraged me in that direction. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at it and read it a couple more times. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Kind of weird, huh, that out of all three couples that night, Dylan and Samantha are officially the last couple standing.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

There was about a couple thousand bullet holes all over the room. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few cans of Spam in the pantry, along with some mixed vegetables, and a couple of rotting onions in the refrigerator. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now, with a couple of trips to the Hunger Games under my belt, I decide not to judge him without knowing more details. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Fanny wrote to a friend that the couple was settling in to married life well. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that the couple was married in a private ceremony in the prison. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She walked through the halls of the British Museum for a couple of hours, learning the names of paintings and drinking a series of Diet Cokes from small bottles. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I hit the ball a couple of times. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as we could be sure it was a helix, the assignment of the positions for only a couple of nucleotides automatically generated the arrangement of all the other components. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

A few tension-filled seconds of silence were followed by a couple of cautious and polite suggestions that things could be better. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up, she’d worked at a grocery store in West Baltimore owned by an older black couple, Herb and Puddin Johnson. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If I had been bom a couple hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Words fall out of the sky like leaves, girl. Grab a couple and write ’em down.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I then remembered the Christmas when Papá gave Mamá an embroidered handkerchief he had bought from a young couple who needed money to buy food. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a couple of silly tricks,” he said. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up hanging out with Faith a fair bit over the next couple weeks. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mike held his fingers a couple of inches apart. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I think a second and then I say, "Yeah ... I guess I should make a couple of calls, and then call you back, okay?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put four cards on the counter by the register and dug a couple of dollar bills out of my pocket. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Six seconds later Lavadie called, wanting to know could he shoot her or not, because she went through a fence on his property and zigzagged around a field, killed a couple of sheep, then left.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence ensued for a minute, while Joe angrily ripped a few things loose from the tractor’s engine and unloosened a couple of bolts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would hopefully mean we'd get green cards in the next couple of years, my parents would remarry each other, and my dad would become a permanent resident as well. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We try and eat slowly, but we're both so hungry were done in a couple of minutes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We walked a little ways into the woods and sat on a couple of stumps whilst folks cleared out of the carnival. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Dear brother and sister,” he writes a couple of days later. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His magical eye followed a couple of passing first years, who sped up, looking nervous; it rolled into the back of Moody’s head and watched them around the corner before he spoke again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“When you reopen, I’ll put in a couple of hours for free.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Angela looked back at the embracing couple; her father's face was buried in her weeping mother's tousled hair. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stalking died down after a couple of weeks of my not saying anything. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We just started out there on the floor among a lot of other couples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Garfield finished his work on Friday, he decided to stop by Secretary James Blaine's home a couple of blocks away. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve only been to the children’s museum a couple of times, and both times Daddy was there. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

After he does this a couple times, I realize that he must have some sort of wound on his upper arm that stretches painfully whenever he reaches too far up or down. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I hated that in a couple of days she'd be going back to college and I'd be getting ready for school Monday morning without her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Bloom, startled, said, “In a couple of days, I guess.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He stopped drinking for a couple of months, and we celebrated. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got lost a couple of times and had to ask directions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes! We got invited to this fancy dinner party on account of saving so many folks at the lecture a couple of weeks ago.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And things just continued along from day to day in their usual way Wed played poker a couple more times, always on Sunday nights, because that’s when the guys got back from their weekends. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I raise my eyebrows before I remember he doesn't know about the message Haymitch sent us a couple of nights ago. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago a Baltimore shopkeeper named Rusty Barnes was discovered to be a Negro who’d been passing as a white man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He had no children, just a wife, Glass, who ran a small healing spa next to the gym Hibiscus owned, where he trained Redemption and a couple of other kids. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“But that’s all it takes. Got burned pretty badly and lost a couple fingers. Wasn’t much of an artificer afterward.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of boys Jay knew called to him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It slid open with just a couple of squeaks, then I was inside the Amos house crouched down like a cat burglar. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he hangs out with Reid Kingsley a little bit, and the two Maxes got him playing Dungeons & Dragons a couple of times at recess. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“But if we could just get through—it would only take a couple of seconds!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

King Charles I gave the bride away, the Queen assisted the bride in preparing herself for bed, and both King and Queen stayed to see the young couple into bed together. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“There may still be a couple in the fridge.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The bus bobbed to the surface, along with a couple of capsized, half-melted canoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then I heard the bad news: She expected us to crank out a story in a couple of days. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Chicago, a middle-aged couple clutched each other's hands as they watched. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be a couple yet.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He led us to a hatch just a couple of feet off the ground. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then all becomes quiet in the big room—only the candles flickering from the necks of a couple of bottles and the artilleryman spitting every now and then. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe in a couple of months, sure! I need more practice, though." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What was the harm, anyway, in attending a program in San Francisco for a couple of weeks to meet Dimple Shah? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He reached across Ron for a couple of chicken legs and a handful of chips, but before he could take them they vanished, to be replaced with puddings. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She shivered in the cool air as she walked past a couple of old farmhouses—and there, sitting on the steps of a two-story house, were the pink-faced boy and the little one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Paul had a couple of customers when I got to his stand in the courthouse lobby, so I hung back, waiting until they were gone. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I would go outside, but I didn’t have a bike and the closest park to our apartment was past a creek where a couple of kids had died once. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She climbed the ladder only a couple of steps. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Dad seemed pleased that I’d already managed to meet a couple kids my own age; I guess I also forgot to mention the part about them hating me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This meant not only that we were learning, in a real way, how to cohabit as a couple but also that Barack got to know my family in a more intimate way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With nothing better to do, he organized a silent coup and took over the Homeowners Association a couple of years back. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You keep your wad for now. If you get the itch to do a little business, mail me something next couple of days. Okay?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another couple dozen frogs, paid for by me and Stan, exploded under us before we skidded to a slippery stop. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were a kindly couple, and I got the sense that Peggy in particular spends a lot of her time talking people into not quitting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Seabiscuit and Greta Garbo can be coupled in the betting from now on,” he wrote in the Times. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s now been a couple of weeks since the party. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A young, attractive couple leave a house with a baby in a pushchair. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Gus had come outside a couple of times and sat with us, chewing on a toothpick and stroking the scrawny black cat curled up in his lap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They were a frivolous couple, with no other worries except going to bed every night, even on forbidden days, and frolicking there until dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I've ridden the elevator a couple of times in the Justice Building back in District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Not one of his friends brought home more than a couple of centavos a week to his family, but each and every boy came home to eat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

—Well, a couple of days ago some basketball scouts were here from Ohio State and Michigan State—friends of mine from college—and they were looking for you. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing that my father is working on one of the booby traps we planned out a couple of Saturdays back—which I’m sure will turn out awesome. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Six days after the election, I flew to D.C., having set up meetings with administrators at a couple of different schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No one was awake when he brought the milk in to put it away, so he poured a warm glass for himself and got a couple of pieces of light bread. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Janae leaves me behind as Ainsley takes her hand and walks her to a far corner of the room to introduce her to an older, good-looking black couple. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“A couple of miles from here, out near the Cliff.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the room sat an aging couple, there to see ... a son? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stretch for a couple of blocks in either direction, then turn into dirt roads, then into wavy fields that rise into mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dived in and rode a couple of waves, but they had reached that stage of power in which you could feel the whole strength of the ocean in them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A couple of the other parents were saying they saw you going somewhere with that guard, the tall one who never smiles.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A couple of years before, he’d hit the numbers and bought a saxophone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read it in a couple of days and, after a conversation with the school librarian, moved on to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a thousand-page novel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He only touched my back to make sure I didn’t get bumped by a few dancing couples. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Vajra was still in her hand, but although the weapon had been awakened, Aru couldn’t do much with it except hit a couple of things. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She took a couple steps up to a large chair behind a desk built into a tall wooden podium. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just as Phil the host was telling the last couple to arrive at the pit stop that they had been eliminated, my phone buzzed. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Trey’s gotten cornered by a couple of the other deacons not far away. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Only Indian tribes are allowed to run casino operations in Florida, so Dusty somehow persuaded a couple of rich Miccosukees from Miami to buy the marina and make it part of their reservation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

No one thought much about it until a couple of days later, when Tommy took off the dressing to reveal something at just that stage between sealing and still being an open wound. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of people glance over at him without breaking their conversations. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When they got closer, they saw a couple, a husband and wife in their seventies, leaning out of the window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And after that I had to listen to her recount every new injustice this couple inflicted on her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood out there for a couple of minutes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I cut through the lunch line, loop around a couple making out by the door, and start down a hall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this girl really was a sage in training, but even if she was lying, what harm could a couple of girls do? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s only a couple of weeks, then I’m out of here. He can quit his treatment then for all I care.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He did it a couple more times on purpose, which was childish, but he liked seeing them flinch. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He's a couple feet away, but you can smell the beer on his breath. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she clapped her hands gently together as the old couple were doing, and turned firmly away and left. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of a couple of years of this, at twelve dollars a month, the girls were highly desirable wives for American boys. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That old couple who lived up in the holler, what did they need so much money for? Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I went back home, and in a couple of days, my Lost Boy friend gave me two applications to go to America—one for me and one for Tabitha. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had hired the Zeitouns to help with the renovation of a house they’d bought, and immediately the two couples had clicked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He thought that he should have gotten a couple of extra sets of wheels from the other carts in the store but it was too late now. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She learned that there were two sexes, and that they lived monogamously in couples. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I pushed a couple of them to the side of the narrow road as I walked over to Mr. Patterson’s porch to wait for Fred. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

"Just a couple more months. I've got the route mapped out and a guy making up papers for everyone." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then there was the ragged bark of the newspaper editor, a tone that coupled wisdom with an unlimited capacity for cruelty. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course not, but he’s stuck with me. At least for another couple weeks,” she jokes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Meggie counted slowly to three before following her father, but a couple of times Mo stopped so suddenly Meggie almost ran into him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It won’t work. I brought her a secondhand dress a couple span ago. She says wearing someone else’s clothes is filthy.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A net woven from long grass that covers the couple during their vows, the touching of each other’s lips with salt water, and the ancient wedding song, which likens marriage to a sea voyage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of glasses of wine first, to calm me down. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groans from the hapless radiators, coupled with the slamming of the wind against their windows, had kept them awake through the dark hours. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The couple had made few friends during their time in the state, making it easier to abstain from the life of town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I can sprint faster than any of the girls in our school although a couple can beat me in distance races. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have not seen the chateau in the country, but I was in the La Rochelle house a couple of years ago and it really is something. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the Industrial Revolution is not an easy transition, especially, in my experience, when you have to zip through it in just a couple of days. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So powerful was the selection that couples clung to one another during “Goodnight, My Love” as if it were not only the dance that was ending but their lives. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I soaped my entire body, head to toe, and rinsed off by swimming around for a couple laps. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Nah, I got them here,” Nick says, pointing across the aisle, where I can see the backs of their heads a couple of rows up. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It’s possible he doesn’t go very far, maybe only a couple of feet, or maybe he doesn’t move at all, but I trust him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She expertly sliced a couple of legs off the body of a chicken. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“How happy those children seem together!” observed Mr. March, finding it difficult to become absorbed in his Aristotle after the young couple had gone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re in the studio the next couple weekends, but we can go out during the week somewhere. Around here. To the Mexican place?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a picture of a Gay Nineties couple on a bicycle built for two. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of possibilities: one, the helmet was malfunctioning; two, this troll was deaf as the proverbial post. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Once, in reference to winters in central Florida, she solemnly informed me, “We usually get frosts once or twice a winter, but this year we had ’em a couple of times.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just after he found this one, while he was sitting on the floor watching in fascination as the creature crept up his arm, a couple of workers came by and saw him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

An older couple fed each other and smiled as they savored the taste. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“School’s almost over. It’s not as if anything’s keeping him here. I think we ought to pack him off to my mother and Chris in New York for a couple of weeks.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the far end, by the library office, a couple of boys were balling up paper and lobbing it over onto other boys’ heads, then ducking down and laughing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

They had not met up with her, undoubtedly, thought Harry, because she and Dean were cozily closeted in Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, that haunt of happy couples. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would just take a couple of practice swings and knock the ball down the middle and pick up his clubs and walk off into the afternoon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time there was a couple with many cattle, but only one son. Their neighbors became jealous, so they hired a witch to put a curse on them.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Phil starts chatting with a group of guys his age, while my parents introduce themselves to an elderly couple sitting in lawn chairs. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stares at me with that same scared look Papa wore only a couple of hours ago. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if he happened to get stung by a couple of hundred bees, well, I was sorry. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holes are cut out every couple of feet: fat holes for windows, skinny holes for doors. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Sealed and dry inside was a box of matches, some folded-up newspaper, and a couple of cotton balls. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It falls upon us in a single massive deluge that only lasts for a couple of seconds, but it’s enough to drench us, to soak the ground, and to wound the fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Unless the aliens abduct me again, we’re all going to die in a couple of weeks.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Once, for instance, he told me that he had learned that a Harlem couple, not Black Muslims, had named their newborn son “Malcolm” after him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ventured over to listen to a couple of wheezing retirees trying to explain everything to Doc. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The couple sitting beside us on the couch, the girl was drunk and laughing and bumping into me every so often. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It would be a couple of hours before the plane arrived—the reception committee were laying out the flare path—electric torches tied to sticks. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

All they needed, he said, were a couple of matching sweaters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made me promise that when I start learning college subjects in a couple of weeks I won’t read any books on psychology—that is, until he gives me permission. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Samantha and I shared the sofa, and Hugo lay on the carpet with a couple of forty-pound weights in his hands. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ida had found a couple of air mattresses so that they wouldn't be too crowded on the two beds that Riccio had already pushed together. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of years, it was clear that he and Mom really liked each other. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He had gained some weight in the past couple of weeks, but his back was freckled with scars. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe in the next couple of nights, she could wait for Håkon to go to sleep and then she and Ivan could leave him behind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I poked my head through the curtain and there they were, Mom and Mr. Stokely, wrapped around each other like a couple of tangled-up vines. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alex opens his mouth and closes it a couple of times. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

These were the only couples, and the only women; all the rest were men, and slept alone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A couple of times he caught me when I thought I had the step on him but I was going up stronger than he was. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She turned the book to me, it was a big map of Michigan and a couple of the states that were next to it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In reality, I am an ageless geek, with years of personal experience, a fiercely aggressive intelligence coupled with geek wit, and the education of the best online material in the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of my suspicions about Ren after tracking him over the past couple of weeks must have made me jumpy when I’m around him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of rolled pillows with tassels at the head of the bed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He pulled his cell out of his pocket, punched in a couple numbers, held it to his ear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I found a photo of you playing with the train set we bought for you a couple of Christmas’s ago. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Since the 1980s, Gottman has brought more than three thousand married couples—just like Bill and Sue—into that small room in his “love lab” near the University of Washington campus. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But the groundskeeper thought it would be safe for a couple of bicycles to leave by the river path on the opposite bank. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It’s only been a couple of hours since it happened in the city above them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They looked about the kitchen for a couple moments, and then stepped into the bedroom. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t be friends like we were before, Irene,” I told her, keeping my eyes fixed on a couple all twined up in the parking lot. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I worked my way back toward the bus, shaking hands with a couple more Lake Windsor players. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, he gobbled up a couple of pieces of ham and some cornbread crumbs, and Jackie said, “Wishbone! Stop that!” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After the last checkpoint, El Tirindaro returns to Nuevo Laredo, and the couple and others in the network deliver the clients to their destinations. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And finally, what felt like a full couple of minutes later, the pteranodon’s torso and giant wings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The gesture brought her longing coupled with despair. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are people of all ages strolling around this pier: families with children; couples, young and elderly, walking arm in arm. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there will be very tolerable room for ten couple.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

A couple of people who I already can’t remember were discharged a few days ago. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of cafes that I stopped in, not so much ’cause I was hungry but because they would serve me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for the first time, I saw Wab and Chi-Boy for what they were as they stood there, his long arm thrown over her shoulders: a couple. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Mini was a couple feet away from her and standing half in, half out of a cut of light. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He hands my mother a couple of brochures and a small stack of papers, and after some pleasantries to me about keeping up the good work, he’s gone. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A couple tried to climb it and slid back to the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The big steel wheels creaked a couple of times, then started moving. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“After lights-out, a couple of the guys are going to sneak in here for a poker game. That’s why. We always play poker here on Sundays. Twenty-dollar buy-in. Do you know how to play poker?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One day, I realized that a couple weeks had passed without a flashback. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of tall weedy guys leaning against a wall smoking and laughing and radiating cool. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Plays? Sure. I wrote a couple while I was in high school. One-acters. Pretty bad.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches for the cooler and pulls out sandwiches, a bag of potato chips, and a couple of pops. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of the very youngest children dragged the tempo a trifle, but in a way that only the composer’s mother could have found fault with. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She coughed a couple of times, closed her eyes, and fell asleep. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah’s friendships with women were, of course, seldom and short-lived, and the newly married couples whom her mother took in soon learned what a hazard she was. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We leave for a couple of weeks and you turn polite on us?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Gay bars and Pride parades and same-sex couples holding hands. What the hell. I thought New York had it together.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Now and then a couple of children might go there to play, scrambling up the side of the heaps and tumbling down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of them stood open, but most were shut. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Citra rarely minded the rain, but a day of gloom coupled with a day of pure tension did not sit well with her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He tried to talk a couple of times—“What—What—” but he kept cracking up. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quarter mile from Fry, a couple of human-shaped silhouettes were visible at the forest border. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of guys at soccer practice were talking about the accident. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took her a couple tries to get it, but once she did, she yelped in excitement and held the magnet over the washers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It did not help that the couple was also having difficulty communicating with each other, and with my friend. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its eyes were dull and, even as Harry watched, a couple more feathers fell out of its tail. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We had a big Cancer Team Meeting a couple days later. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The car moved past the lights of a highway rest stop, breaking the darkness a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I must sleep nearly the whole way—a couple of days, anyway—for the next thing, the bus chuffs to a stop. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But after just a couple of blocks, I didn’t. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“She was only there for a couple of days,” said Francis. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When things got bad a couple months ago, I drove to French Lick, which sounds a helluva lot sexier than it is. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After a while I sat down in a chair and smoked a couple of cigarettes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But he has asked me to tell you a couple of things, to prepare you.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The story included a couple of quotes from me—one was about Dad needing to work on his self-control, and the other was about how he wouldn’t hurt a flea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was the same as when he socialized with Marcy and other couples. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then there was a couple of farmers from Redding Center I didn’t know, and, of course, Sam. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kennedy is too shocked to react, but there are a couple of other custodians with him, also with scissors. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

After hitting through a couple of buckets of range balls, Dad dropped me at Starbucks. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Santa wears dark shades that hide his eyes, has two gold fangs in his mouth, and rocks a couple of gold chains. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean the receptionist in the office and maybe the one black couple whose kid goes to your kid’s school and you say hi to. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He lowered it into his lap, listened, raised it and said something else, then he just sat there for a couple minutes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was only a couple of kisses, I would tell them. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then we could get out of the box, and scientists and doctors could check us for a couple of weeks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was still in Texas, late in 1960, the incident most reported and pictured in the newspapers was the matriculation of a couple of tiny Negro children in a New Orleans school. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halley seems to have mentioned this event as a curious benefit of the sea voyage or the air in St Helena on the childless couple; Aubrey implies that Halley was the father of the child. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a couple of months after we’d found out that the IVF had failed that he told me about the trip. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’re nice, I might even tell you a couple of different ways to get there. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should be sending an experienced sage, not a couple of students. You heard my daughter—she isn’t even familiar with the Borderlands Treaty.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, she stops me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But something always fell through: the mother changed her mind; a father or a cousin or a grandmother showed up out of the blue; the agency decided another, often younger couple was a better fit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bulletin board was surrounded, and it took Alex a couple of minutes before he could see everything that had been posted. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Emma Jean Landrum, another member of Langleys tiny engineering sisterhood, sat a couple of desks away from Mary in the Four- foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Except for a couple of army jeeps the parking lot was empty. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there were any valuables on the bodies, Momma and a couple of the men would sell them in town, bringing back something fine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

See, the All-City band needed a human service project, and a couple of the students came up with an amazing plan for one. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mertie-Jo lived in that direction, along with a couple other kids I knew from school. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There are a couple people dancing behind him—friends, strangers, who knows, who cares—and this energy elevates me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Servers would sometimes tuck a couple into the loose disposable serving gloves they wore and slide them around the edge of the steam table to friends on the other side. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On these benches you see men sleeping, stretched out, or couples sitting, young couples, who steal glances at each other shyly and whose hands flutter in the air, happening to touch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You shut up,” the man answered, ambling forward another couple of steps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Not an especially hard push, but it caught Travis by surprise and he stumbled backward a couple of steps. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He took a couple of steps toward me and reached out his hand. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Joey did sort of push me. But the last couple days, it was all on my own.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Lorena’s mom are the most mismatched couple in the world, because he’s fifteen years younger than she is, making him only ten years older than Lorena. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

While he was still painting and putting up shelves, the actor Pee-wee Herman walked in and asked for a couple of pairs. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We went to a party a couple of weekends ago.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next day Mami brought me a couple of white cotton bras with tiny blue flowers between the cups. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was getting creative with stretching their food, so maybe she’d get a couple of extra meals out of it for him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of mentions about me and the piano recital, but mostly they show that photo of me and the blood. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Not talking for a couple months doesn’t make that go away. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

What did I think about my first couple of days of school? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Buddy once said something reasonably sensible to me a couple of years ago,” he said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It's a lovely winter day in Amsterdam, and though there are other people on the street, couples like me and Willem, nobody acts like the forced parade of people is out of the ordinary. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He bounced his brows up and down a couple times and flexed his pecs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He stood in the doorway, holding a couple of thick books. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He died on December 8, 1995, just a couple weeks before Christmas. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When a couple of hours had passed I heard something stirring in the Count’s room, something like a sharp wail quickly suppressed; and then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But I’ve seen him around ever since then: a couple of times in the playground, a few times in the park. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She walked in the opposite direction that he had gone and turned off the central aisle as quickly as she could, making her way past seated couples and boxes of rosebushes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of cafes down the way, but any colored man understood that question to be “a restaurant that will serve to colored?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. DiAngelo returned a couple days later, but she came home alone and she didn’t seem happier. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We spend a couple of minutes cheering and then go right back to work making links. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was probably just a couple dead men doing their voodoo death whisper in my ear, but I definitely wasn’t getting a good vibe from the girl on the glass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In a moment a couple of men walked into the living room as the woman and I peeked in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then we opened our bags and hung them to the rack with a couple of pieces of tape. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

That morning was quiet, only a couple of guys surfing in the distance. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I went back to the police station after a couple of hours. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finally noticed the group running away down the street and fired off a couple of shots. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were a few clusters of people out walking, a couple lone figures with dogs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It found me, actually, about eight years ago. Been around the world a couple times before we met, I believe.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Mall at Central Park had filled up early, and Alice and I had to pick our way among the couples stretched out on the grass. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, I hear the car door open. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A young couple sat on the bench where he had talked with the old man, and they kissed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The guy with the beat-up Bruins jacket—he left a couple minutes ago.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

In 1982, a couple of years after Charles Mo net visited the cave, the roof fell in. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newly married couple picked up an inexpensive painting at a yard sale—a blue-eyed, blond princess standing next to a dark, bearded prince—and hung it in their living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A couple of kids tape pieces of loose-leaf paper into cone hats, and one dude manages to wedge a brown paper lunch bag on his head like a chefs hat. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

"There are a couple people in the lobby waiting for you. Mr. and Mrs. Valenzuela." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well then, I’m glad I came to say good-bye. One other thing. You hear about that trouble up in Money a couple days ago?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The next couple were tougher, as they always are when they’re closer. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was surrounded by a couple dozen reporters, notepads and pencils ready to write down everything he said. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A couple of the windows are boarded up, and weeds and vines grow up the walls. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bloom fetched a couple of eggs, one from under the cat, and he held the warm eggs against his cheek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I practice a couple of smart faces. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Johanna arrived a couple of minutes later, her heels clicking on the sidewalk, her hands raised in a defensive position. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The hall was dark and briny, the couples smeared with soot and joy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Dad came up behind me and handed me a couple of napkins, which I used to wipe my hands off. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

An older couple was watching a little boy in diapers and a miniature Camp Jupiter shirt toddle after seagulls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They had already killed one of our friends, and they had jumped me a couple of weeks before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lydia tried taking a couple of pictures with her flash. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Each couple spinning across the floor, arm in arm, turning and turning, causing tremor after tremor inside me, as things start adding up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Sorry. There are a bunch of things I have to get around to get to you. This might take a couple minutes. Hang tight and relax.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Lily looked at me for a couple of beats. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, a couple of guys in the front row helped Cap onto the truck. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He suggested that I try taking Clomid, a drug meant to stimulate egg production, for a couple of months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was nothing except a couple of bumps left over from his last bout of acne. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been hanging out for a couple of months when she heard about the hookups. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s been an honor serving with you, kid. Maybe today you’ll save mine a couple more times.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We didn't mind a couple of weeks, but a whole summer? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The stable was only a couple hundred yards away. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“There are a couple of guys down there. Kelton thinks they might be dangerous.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A couple hours later, he returned to his room and complained that his stomach hurt. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I ate a couple more bites of salmon and rice, and then asked to be excused. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hassan kissed Aziz quickly, so the greengrocer across the street and his wife—who spoke to their individual cats more than to each other—would not spread rumors that the young couple were indecent. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You go down to the drugstore, and you pick up a couple packs of rubbers.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was another older couple in their seventies, waving from their second-story window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Since she estimated that she had a couple of hours before he returned, she decided not to be too hasty, and to proceed calmly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still going their separate ways in a couple months. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“A couple of the mechanics let me borrow them. Rain doesn’t stop those lads working.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

By the end of the game, I’ve done the math problem a couple dozen times. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of days later, at All-City rehearsal, Mr. Watras made a startling announcement to the group:The school district had just put a new policy in place. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Look at the menu. Notice how there aren't any prices? I bet a Coke here is a couple of dollars." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Those cars never lasted more than a couple of months, and like the Oldsmobile we’d driven from Phoenix, we never named them, much less got them registered and inspected. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks after I telephoned my old war buddy, Bernard V. O’Hare, I really did go to see him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when she said he’d “probably miss a couple days of school.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Fiona pumped a couple of shots of hair gel into her hand and worked the blob into her wet hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s mom and dad sell the store to an African American couple. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We walked through the party not quite like a couple but still mostly together, drifting between clusters of colleagues, drinking beer and lemonade, eating hamburgers and potato salad from plastic plates. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Today we have "120 or so" known elements–ninety-two naturally occurring ones plus a couple of dozen that have been created in labs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She digs a couple of books out of her backpack and hands them to me so I can have a pillow, too. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’d been keeping an eye on them in a pavilion of the guildhall as they took shape in stages, day by day, until finally becoming the crafts she had seen in the faranji couple’s dreams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yet tool-making is of little consequence unless it is coupled with the ability to cooperate with many others. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of them appeared to be just as fresh as the first one he’d examined. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I think I wore it for a couple of years, but I had to stop wearing it when I had my eye surgery. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There are people gorging themselves, others sipping wine, while a young couple kiss over the table and share their food. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He reached in the window of his car and pulled out a folder, started looking through some papers in there, peeking up at us every couple seconds. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I went to church a couple of times, once with Brett. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I unzipped the duffel a couple of inches and felt Beau’s sniffing nose poke wetly out. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If you can measure contempt, then all of a sudden you don’t need to know every detail of the couple’s relationship. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A couple of kids thought that was funny, but Nick played it straight, and just kept talking. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy filled it one-third full of bran and then he added a couple of handfuls of dried hops. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are beds in it, or rather bunks—a couple of wooden beams over which wire netting is stretched. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Ruby and her mom are away for a couple of days. And I didn’t realize I’d been hiding anywhere.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I’m so glad you got over that bout of depression you had a couple of months back. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a small sofa, covered in brown plush, a television set, an end table, a couple of chairs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Evil’s an unreality if you take a couple of grammes.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a colored man at the counter and a couple of white men at a table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only it more or less wore off in a couple of hours.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

One morning a couple of years later when I was at Oberlin College, I went to my mailbox and found a letter from her telling me that her husband had died suddenly of cancer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy who steps out looks a couple of years older than me, and is almost a foot taller, with thick black hair to his shoulders and black-rimmed glasses. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even imagine going into the kitchen and chatting up Mrs. Bernoffski while she took a couple hours whipping up some crummy European substitute hot cocoa. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I looked away from him to see a bearded man in red, Count Threpe, an old couple holding hands, a lovely dark-eyed girl.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of girls from cooking club wave frantically to Mama. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“No, I think I’ve got a couple still in my files—one I know Ratchett tore up in a rage. Shall I get them for you?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember I tried to run away a couple of years ago after a beating.... Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This was a bad mistake I guess but I let him ride down with me a couple weeks ago.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He led the way into what everybody called the greenroom: a small cinder-block cubbyhole with a couch, a table, a couple of chairs, and a private bathroom. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

But he and Ma got me a record player for my eighteenth birthday in March plus a couple of albums. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Throughout Europe, industrial capitalism, coupled with military force on a frightening scale, loomed ominously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After he moved to Seattle, he accepted an invitation to travel to Columbus and stay with them for a couple of weeks, while Harim stayed home in Seattle. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The bell rang, and after cleaning the floor, a couple of the girls said good-bye to her! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A couple security guards rush through the hallways, walkie-talkies in hand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks later, at a meet in Germany, my team again won gold, and I placed first in vault, beam, and floor, taking silver in the all-around behind Kyla Ross. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A couple hundred feet away, it cuts its engine. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a couple of dozen people in each house, men drinking beers from paper bags, young mothers nursing babies, old ladies sunning themselves on the sagging, weathered porches, and hordes of kids. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Julian and he were talking—in jocular, mocking, pedantic Latin—like a couple of priests tidying the vestry before a mass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the yuppies are waving me down for more decaf and the black couple looks ready to summon the NAACP. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were safely stowed among the buckets and mops, Harry yanked out a couple of the bristles that covered Goyle’s forehead and Ron pulled out several of Crabbe’s hairs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But that was just for a couple of days. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Every other week Mr. Kleiman brings me a couple of books written for girls my age. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Once they’d rolled down a couple of blocks, she relaxed and realized she wasn’t going to fall off. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It even has a couple of active pods on it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After a couple minutes, the Eagle came out and motioned for us to come back inside. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of the other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia’s idea of illuminating their tributes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Well, we lost a couple of weeks when they brought in a new Head Peacekeeper and his crew, but nothing major,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

All she saw was a butterfly and a couple of hummingbirds. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I spent a couple of hours visiting the seedier taverns around the University, making casual conversations, asking casual questions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It was a strange thing to do, but I figured we were only talking to each other for the next couple minutes. Sometimes when I’m traveling I like to be someone else.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m happy you guys came tonight. You and Penultimate are a great couple, man.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had asked permission to enter the library so she could not be accused of trespassing, yet the encounter felt impossi-bly awkward, especially since the couple seemed to be in mid-argument. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Daley seemed so small next to that podium, as if the world had crushed him down in the last couple of weeks. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had a couple of matches she kept there for when she had to relight Mrs. Caruthers’s fireplace, on the rare occasion it went out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But couple it with magnetism, and suddenly you have movement—waves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Our catalogue is a couple of mimeographed sheets stapled together at the top comer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the gym in the glow of a couple of outside lights near it and I knew of course that it was the Devon gym which I entered every day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That tree’s been dead for a span of days, but that one just got tom up a couple days ago ” “Why do you care?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I covertly used some sympathy to start the fire while Denna cobbled together a couple cooking skewers out of forked willow branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was because he was interested in becoming a couple with you; other times it was just for a one-nighter. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I do. That Darlin’ and Homer would make a lovely couple, don’t you think?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I brought papers home to grade, so we’ll see how much I can get done in the next couple of hours.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A couple of older aunties and some uncles join the group. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In a couple of hours it will be over. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Hispanic couple walks around, the woman howling about her knee. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the model of a brain he got for Christmas a couple of years ago. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He jammed it in hard, ground it into my face for a couple seconds, before dropping it onto the front console, below the gearshift. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Greasy Sae, the bony old woman who sells bowls of hot soup from a large kettle, takes half the greens off our hands in exchange for a couple of chunks of paraffin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There are a couple gallons of water, a thermos, and a large plastic cup filled with plastic forks and knives. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, put a couple of potatoes in that bed of coals, and I’ll set out our plates and mugs. I think we’ll have some of Jenny’s peach preserves by way of celebration.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For security reasons, she and William could not do what other couples did, and discuss “things at night that worry you and so on,” as Elizebeth put it decades later. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The last time I’d seen her was a couple of weeks earlier, when she was sitting in front of me in church and, turning around slowly, had asked me how I was doing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One couple is dancing across the floor, the other sitting on the bed above the bunker, kissing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a batde, then explode into a million colors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We head to Sasha’s, a clothing store that Rabia and I discovered a couple of years ago, tucked into a corner of the mall. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The small community was too settled and too frightened to run and hide in the woods because of something in the air and the premonitions of a couple of kids. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came to work at the start of the summer term in June, and they had gone out together a couple of times even before Bran had to leave for Florida. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, Minho and a couple of Runners had pulled out ropes of ivy and knotted them to vines still attached to the walls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In a couple of hours, our mom would be home from work, and we all knew it was critical that I started sobering up by then. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

S'pose if you don't get the word out before this fuse is burnt away, a couple of seconds, say, the dynamite goes off? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Aside from enormous smiles, the couple ignored them and began to plant a row of corn. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple times a year, the soldiers set sections of the forest ablaze to create more farmland. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I promised Dr. Z I’d help out in the Children’s Room for a couple hours today.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of cops walked ahead of me, so I slowed down. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, Colonel,” a couple of men said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which meant he’d only been a scythe for a couple of years. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The two guards stepped back a couple of paces, watching him like hawks. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple mornings a week we went fishing, but always on the Yazoo instead of the Tallahatchie. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

As it happened, this was exactly how a couple of the other newcomers looked—a hefty, bell-shaped girl and a wiry boy sitting near the front. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like a couple of the lightbulbs in your brain flicked back on,” Alec said, sitting down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And a couple minutes go by without either of us saying anything. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Or make up some viable defense for the decisions I’ve made over the last couple of days. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He and Werner met every couple of months on quiet rural roads. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pay for all our tickets, donating an extra couple hundred dollars in the hope that the arena remains open for many, many years. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Let me ask you a few questions, Dad. Just a couple.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the school steps, a couple of boys do the “Wipe Me Down” dance as Milez goes “Swag, swag, swag” on one of their phones. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had trouble squeezing the last couple words up my throat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure we were ever actually a couple. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Inside there was a desk and chair, a couple of sofas, in the corner a fridge, on the wall a couple of prints. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The couples change the record and start dancing in front of the sofa. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were a retired couple whose adventures outdoors generally consisted of a daily slipper-clad shuffle to pick up the mail and newspaper. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A couple, both with bright blue Mohawks, is arguing in front of the Fifty-Second Street subway entrance. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” said George, catching a couple and throwing them to Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’d seen a couple of births on that cable-TV show, and people usually yelled for a while; sometimes they swore and it had to be bleeped, but it never took longer than half an hour. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little shelf of books, a magazine on the table, a couple of photographs in frames. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And to answer yer asking, there’s shallow crossings a couple days’ traveling upstream but there ain’t no bridges for a good distance more either way.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Facing the altar, framed by the elevated white-sheeted shape of the vicar, stood the couple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The dry breeze from inland coupled with the cool ocean air was perfectly soothing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her fingers over a couple of sting spots that I’d been scratching. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of times while he talked, Dad’s voice got trembly and he cleared his throat. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had seen too many working couples who, after the children came and the bills piled up, rarely communicated with each other except in bitter snarls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were there, like a couple of chairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Told us we might be dark on the outside, but inside we were white like a couple blond boys from Hollywood. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Over the last couple years crowds had become a part of the scenery of the city to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For the next couple of weeks, Kim continues to steal corn for us whenever we run out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron said he’d had nightmares for a couple of weeks after they left Alabama ten years ago. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to Mary A. Woodruff, and I knew she was home because I'd had this letter from her a couple of weeks ago. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of boys would put a tin can on the car track and sit along the curb and watch with a professional eye as the trolley wheels flattened the can. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown so large over the past couple of weeks. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They asked us a couple questions we had no answers for before they took off, lights flashing, kicking up a cloud of dirt and gravel, dusting up the sun. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

While she drank a glass of water from the kitchen tap, the kiss continued, binding the couple into their solitude. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bitter left the studio alone for the next couple of days. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Rounding the corner, Percy let out a bull-like roar: “ROOKWOOD!” and sprinted off in the direction of a tall man, who was pursuing a couple of students. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

One evening in May, when we’d been saving our money for almost nine months, I came home with a couple of dollars I’d made babysitting and went into the bedroom to stash them in Oz. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was worth the walk for me if I could save a couple of pennies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the timer went off, I stuck toothpicks into a couple of the cupcakes to make sure they were done. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A few people mumble yes, and a couple of kids on the track team high-five each other. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

But even though he’d never seen the movie, he had read the front and back of the box a couple of times. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They waved aside the crowd that was gathering and made gestures of denial at the eager couple that had piled out of the down-swooping ambulance with a stretcher between them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The smart couples in their convertible roadsters driving by without a second glance? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've got this room reserved four times a week. I live pretty close. A couple hours here is better than being stranded at home all the time." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple came up to him to ask him what he was doing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A couple of minutes later, she heard Noa walk past the window of the hotel room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Carlos gets a couple of towels, and we do our best to dry off the dogs before dropping them off to their apartments. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“How would your mother like it if you brought home a couple of the finest orange butter squash this side of the Eld?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene’d had the bright idea to swap out a couple of Robo’s twenties with some of our piggy bank singles. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A couple glanced up at us as we came in, and I was well aware of the impression we were making—two handsome college boys, rich fathers and not a worry in the world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And did you know that they were a couple?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well then, let’s just give them a couple minutes to simmer and get their talking over with.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks later my dad and I were in the car and we passed by a McDonald’s. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

After of couple of weeks it disappeared and I did not know how to ask where it had gone. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room on his or Thompson’s small machine to haul the dead person out, however, nor was there space on the Anchorage couple s ATV. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a couple of weeks before Sinita got to her secret. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He says he can access the utility box in the storage room and throw a couple of circuit breakers.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The teapot and the rice pot seemed bottomless, but perhaps not; the old couple ate very little except for peaches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept looking back toward the others as he pushed his way past three screaming girls who were trying to remove a couple of pigeons from their hair. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as we got back down to the beach with a big bag of Mexican food I told Rondell: “In a couple more days, man, me and you are takin’ a bus up to Fresno.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But it was so exciting to think about sitting down to dinner with Annie for the first time as a real, honest-to-God couple. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He skimmed through a couple of pages, snickered, handed the book back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of girls thought it was her birthday, and she had thanked them and unwrapped the presents without telling them she wouldn’t be fourteen for eight more months. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even now, after all the events of the past couple of weeks, Jason seemed more like a legend than a person. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As she walked out the door, I took a sip of my coffee and stared over at the couple sitting to my right. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I’m sneaking out in the middle of the night and running away from home. I just want to go to Twig’s for a couple hours.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I sent in yours. A couple of photos of your paintings. Adam, I think you really have a chance at winning this thing.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They can survive a couple of days this way. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Turns out she took a couple of screenwriting classes in college, so she knows a little about it. She offered to read my script for me when I’m done!” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of bars of chocolates left and I cut those in thin slices. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a couple of quick bites to quiet my still-grumbling stomach and chased them down with another swig of water. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

‘Something about the rock shells, I guess. I need a couple of seconds to concentrate on making the shadow-jump. Otherwise I might teleport us into another volcano.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A couple of sparks flew out of its snout. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had the words to express how hard it was for your grandfather and me to be a couple, Scoob-a-doob,” she says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take a couple of days off, my man?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I told him I’d just quit my job, but he said that didn’t make any difference; I could miss paying them for a couple of weeks if I had to; he knew I’d get straight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was this rescue dog I knew about; she was a real scrapper. And I know a guy who sets up fights sometimes. He has a couple pit bulls. It wasn’t, like, an organized thing.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was hanging out with a couple of friends when the fight broke out, and like every other kid on campus, I wanted to see it up close. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The next couple of days were kind of like that: Mine and Annie’s universe got smaller and quieter. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They told us they first came across the shorties a couple of months after they started patrolling The Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about those statues? The sentries? We could take a couple to help fight.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I could see where Byion learned how to say a couple of words and have people think he’d said a whole bunch more! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t took no notice that I’d been doing a lot of growing in the pass couple of weeks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. It’s been a bad couple of years. My father and I weren’t exactly close.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a glorious day; I was sick of being poor, so, before I thought better of it, I went into an expensive men’s shop on the square and bought a couple of shirts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Vincent returned it in a couple of days, and the painter “thought my drawing good, and in fact it isn’t that bad.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The older couple wore matching gold bands on their rough and callused ring fingers, and the man’s nails, like Sparrow’s, bore dark crescents from working with soil. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You’re going to pay for that, boy, the man yells as he loosens his belt and wraps it a couple times around his hand to get a tight grip. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I want you to see if you can find Levant. Find Levant and tell him to come down here. Tell him to bring a couple kerosene lanterns. Tell him I need him right away.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I started it a couple days ago, after you quit talking to everyone.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He pushes over a table and a couple of chairs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had typed a couple of things the night before, so all I had to do was push a button. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

By the time I got to my aunt’s house, I found out that I had missed them all by only a couple of weeks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re acting like a couple, and everyone who comes around to talk to us is treating this like it’s totally cool. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, there was a sort of hilly place behind the chemistry lab from which you could see the lights of a couple of houses in New Haven. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He pulls out a thick roll of pink dollar bills and a lighter, and then sets a couple ablaze. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He spent a lot of time in neighborhood bars and he’d get into fistfights sometimes after a couple of drinks. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mong stands there a couple seconds longer and then he turns and walks out of my room. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We’d been back in Flint for a couple of weeks and they were still talking about what had happened, but never around us. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out and turned the air conditioning down a couple of clicks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“He did come here a couple of times. A nice man. Very polite. I knew he didn’t come from around here. He was looking for a book...” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

How do we honor the drunken death of a young married couple? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We talked for a couple more hours, but Grampa never once asked about Dad. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A couple looked Asian American, a couple white. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Gale and I divide our spoils, leaving two fish, a couple of loaves of good bread, greens, a quart of strawberries, salt, paraffin, and a bit of money for each. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I regret that there will be no “Hattie Mae’s News Auxiliary” this week due to my feeling puny these last couple of days. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Like I said, I wasn’t there. I’ve been up around the ironworks the last couple days,” he nodded to the west. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago, we even made a YouTube video of us playing it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He even asked if he could call his mom a couple of times during the meeting so he could have her check them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They drew it up on paper, signing their names and asking a couple of guys to act as witnesses. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “He’s only been gone a couple of months. He can’t be very changed, nor much older.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of weeks later she was much more used to all the different kinds of faces that age created. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s even a couple of mustard packs in here that helped a few people sweat out their fevers and chills.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of my mother’s co-workers also showed up. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The armrests was carved in the shape of a couple of snarling lions and the wood was shiny and wore down from so many folk gripping on to it. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls’ soccer team is there, too, along with Cassie’s friends from the stage crew and a couple of girls from the musical. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“We’ll stay in Montreal a couple of days. Sell the car. Then take the bus to, I don’t know, Saskatchewan or something. We’ll go to the weirdest place we can find.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ll, ah, need one of you to sign off on a couple things.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were to join him and a couple of other people for a week. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other seniors were surprised when we started dating a couple of months ago. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

You might think that unskilled jobs would be a snap for someone who holds a Ph.D. and whose normal line of work requires learning entirely new things every couple of weeks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we became aware that in another part of the office, a couple of the other women had noticed us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t tell any grown-ups what happened, but she told a couple friends in the ladies’ room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I'm trying to keep my balance when she takes one extra-big hop, lifting me a couple of inches into the air. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A couple of guys from the soccer team were there, too, a couple of the toe stubbers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Alex smiled there were a couple of teeth missing up front and some fresh bruises still on his face. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had some rough summers but it only went dry a couple of times as I remember. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours later, Emily came into the auditorium crying. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were still a couple of other people to interview, they told Jesse, but he was a leading candidate. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know a man got kilt here a couple years ago jumping in the big tank, and they told us we cain’t never let anybody go if they break in, no matter if they’re pretty.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

As we pulled out of the gas station, Delia put on a bright, happy smile on her face and waved good-bye to the couple as Juanita guzzled down her soda enthusiastically. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was so serious that I didn’t have the heart to tell him that we probably needed to fill a couple of those jugs just to pay for one airline ticket. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally he grunted a couple of times and started to bend over but his big belly got in the way and wouldn’t let his arms reach to the ground. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Quaking with fear, Chickenhound held his breath as the woodland juggernaut thundered by within a couple of yards of the hideout. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I watched as she stretched herself out across a couple rows of seats. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

More students poured into the classroom, a couple darting in just as the bell rang for the start of third period. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder, though, if you would mind answering a couple questions I have about what happens after the end of the novel. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Diego sent me a couple of texts, left some messages, but I deleted them unanswered and unread. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I spend a couple hours tuning AM radio to the weird bounces of night. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The familiar shoreline of Long Island appeared up ahead, and a couple of friendly great white sharks surfaced and steered me toward the beach. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Craig, I am Monica, a nurse on the floor here. I am going to ask you a couple of questions about what you’re feeling and find out how to help you.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was a huge debate a couple years ago about whether or not Deckers eighteen and up should be allowed to purchase drinks. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In a couple hours, they started moving the rail back to its place. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just ushers and a couple of elderly folk who hadn’t wanted to leave their seats. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All I could see was white, a few clumps of trees, a couple of farmhouses, and the muddy black trail of the oxcart winding through it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noticing that we were idle, a couple of Siriono kids tried to persuade Newell and me to look at a young jaguar in a pen, and to give them money for this thrill. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Many say retirement is the best part of life for a married couple. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man slowly moved away, peeking backward a couple times, hoping one of us would overrule Ozzie’s rejection. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of people are arguing about Shakespeare, and then someone stands on a chair and basically bellows Hamlet’s soliloquy into this other dude’s ear. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It was a long journey through the snow today, down a couple of neighborhood blocks, then around the funny lime-green house with the tiny white fence, down the hill to the railroad tracks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I am finished, though hardly exhausted by the effort, I meet Melissa, who is, with only a couple of weeks on the job, pretty much my equivalent. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex killed a couple of hours knocking a few balls around on his uncle’s snooker table—and then felt vaguely guilty when Jack caught him at it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Put them in little plastic bags and threw them in a cooler with some blue ice and a couple of apples and bananas. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He tosses the key to me, first doing a couple of fakes so I know it’s coming, but I still miss and have to pick it up off the floor. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A couple of sisters passed by and threw us a dirty look. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sister came to see me today, she brought a box of Eddie’s stuff—his basketball, a couple of books. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In an hour I saw only a couple of cars go by. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nighttime would be harder, but they still had a couple of unused blankets. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Smith waited a couple of minutes, then rapped his baton on a gate and shouted, “Lock in!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no Brahma bulls, only a couple of bucking Herefords. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of days I could stand, even make two, three steps, despite nausea, dizziness and general weakness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked a couple of people if they had seen her. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I listened to the music, not paying much attention to the lyrics, and studied the few couples dancing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Both couples divorced in the eighties and the end of their marriages marked the breakup of the band. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I looked at the dance floor; a wide gap had formed in the center of the floor, where two couples whirled gracefully. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Small children have their faces pressed against the glass, which is a couple of feet away from the pool. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With a knife he made a few small cuts above the tail, a couple of clean cuts at the head, and one deep slice up the belly. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I’m going to tell you about the crazy mess I got myself into a couple days ago. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sandy opened the front door for the couple, whistling "America, the Beautiful." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d first heard about it from a couple of my donors up in North Wales. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she wasn’t certain that it was third or not because Sula was acting up, fretting the deweys and meddling the newly married couple. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She fussed interminably with the brides of the newly wed couples for not getting their men’s supper ready on time; about how to launder shirts, press them, etc “Yo’ man be here direc’lin. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a couple of weeks, there were reporters and politicians all over Ida B. Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried up to the old couple's apartment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Baptist church looked a lot like the Methodist one we went to, pews, altar, a couple of stained glass windows. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington’s troops chased the British from the battlefield, killed a passel of them, and took a couple of hundred prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No...just a couple...and now that you mention it, I did see a strange one. I suppose it could have been... Perhaps...” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of chunks of chewed-up bread, a blob of baloney and some of the mustard swimming around in the bottle. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then I sorted out the carbons, stamped on a by-line, put the stuff in a couple of big manila envelopes and rang for a boy to take them to the Gare St. Lazare. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The old couple sat next to her; the grandfather fanned himself and his wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A couple of the girls put some junk in my hair to make it messy, which is basically like putting high heels on a giraffe. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Lydia, could you take a couple of pictures of me with my staff?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“This might take a couple of hours to harden, so be careful when you pack the ice in,” he says, way more enthusiastic than someone ought to be about silicone sealant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t desert, I just came home for a couple of days. Captain Champion had to go over to Waterbury for something so I decided to slip home for a day or so.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and find Julie sitting at her usual table, talking with a couple of new girls from another elementary school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But if he saw the letterhead, the game was up, because he knew as well as we did that Bunny and Henry had stayed at the Excelsior for a couple of weeks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“One day, when a beggar from a far-away land came to the old couple’s door, they fed him the last of their corn. Then their dry scraps of tortilla.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Fine, okay, I do think you two make a cute couple,” I say, sighing. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I passed by this playground and stopped and watched a couple of very tiny kids on a seesaw. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“We all need to know what to expect of each other so that in a couple of weeks no one says to Principal Peattie, ‘Principal Peattie, I didn’t know.’” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She took a couple and balled them up, gently pushing Moss out of the way. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I can take these liberties; he appears to enjoy them, especially after a couple of drinks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our first job was to hike a couple of miles through the jungle to our assigned camping area. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter regards me for a couple of seconds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A moneymaking sideshow for insecure couples who didn’t have true love. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” she said, waving to a couple of students as they exited her classroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, a couple of people, but not family. How about you?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“His ‘couple of questions’ stretched into an interrogation from which I soon discovered that he knew more about me than I could possibly remember about myself.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way back to the cash register, I stop for a couple Starbursts, a package of Twinkies, and an indeterminate number of GoFast nutrition bars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Older married couples are less likely to divorce and more likely to die than younger married couples. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how the shouting man in the otogar recognized us as Syrian but now that I see this couple, it’s obvious that they look completely different from Turks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt shame that I didn’t remember for m\\self, but I picked up a couple from a bunch on the counter. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once you have been at sea for a couple of days, it smells like every fish you have ever eaten, every crab you have ever caught, every jellyfish that has ever bitten your leg. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve been diabetic a couple of times, and the first time was harrowing. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When she broke the news that her aunt Norma had terminal cancer a couple of years ago, she bought Popkenchurch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She read a couple of languages and knew all the quality writers in the business. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s so different from the ordinary young couple,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some land of turning point arose the day a couple of kids wandered into the room, took in the scene and asked Jesse and the others if they were brown-nosing, scoring points. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of generations of principals, school superintendents, and school boards have pretty much just left him alone. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Only this time, a police officer, who looks barely older than me, stands a couple feet behind him. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

You still can’t love a Jesus as much as you’d like to who did and said a couple of things he was at least reported to have said or done—and you know it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In front of her, on the table, was a small piece of prickly pear cactus, just a corner of a tiny lobe, big enough to have a couple of spines sticking out of it. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The social workers estimated she was two months old when she came to us, give or take a couple of weeks. That was January thirtieth. So we decided we’d celebrate November thirtieth as her birthday.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a couple of years of phone conversations and visits, I agreed to marry him. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death of the royal couple ushered in a time of social chaos. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Nailer’s got a couple days free. On the boss man’s quota. Even Bapi wants to get close to luck like his.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kate said softly, “Let the gong alone for a couple of weeks, Cotton Eye.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the harder Naheed prayed to Allah that her name would be coupled with someone, anyone, else, the more sure she was that Eliza’s name and hers would be on the list side by side. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

An American Army captain and an interpreter also sat in the wooden chairs arranged beneath the couple’s sleeping loft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Pensacola, Florida, was only a couple hundred miles away. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I unwrapped the pendant and turned it over a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But from then on, I thought of Kevin and I as a couple. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I read for a couple of minutes before he barked again. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A drunken couple dashed next door to dance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was like every single picture of Lindsey Lee Wells ever taken—except Colin noticed immediately that they were all from the last couple of years. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I watch her for a couple of minutes and then step over the rope. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Miles Umlatt and a couple of other reporters called our house and left messages. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The peach trees had all died, but there were a couple of small oak trees still growing by an old abandoned cabin. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"I've had a rough couple weeks. I'm going to set my stuff down and find the showers." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Just think about it, okay? We don't leave for a couple of days. My dad...” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Ask me again in an hour,” Grace whispered, just as the door was flung open and a smiling couple greeted them. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, after a couple hundred yards, I sink to the ground and sit there, looking into the distance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her house was only a couple of miles away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

By the end of a couple of years away from home, we had more than adjusted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

How-ever, I understood that I was loudly discussed in the stores and on the streets—that the druggist and a couple of others had risen to my defense when the discussions became hot. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of opportunities to score against Shandra, but I didn’t. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one spoke for a couple of minutes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom kept it in her garage all these years, and a couple of weeks ago Dad drove it to Brooklyn in a rented van. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As we trotted away, the old couple waved to us from their door and watched anxiously as we took the worn path down the hill. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I carried a tin bucket of water to a shaded area in the five acres of scrub and dumped it on the ground in the same place a couple of times a day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

For some reason I started picking and flattening her cowlicks with my fingers like we were a couple of gorillas. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a family with no mother, a couple with no furniture, a man with no legs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed that there was tons of other food lined up on the counters, including a couple of already cooked turkeys, a few hams, and a whole bunch of pies and cakes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I'd have a couple of glorious bruises, and my pulse was still fast and broken. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A couple of quick flashes popped from the mysterious figure. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Guess the radiation has died down, unless a couple of freak shows are driving it.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was too bad, because I really liked where we lived, even though we’d only been there a couple of years. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z