He thought there were always eyes, close against the curtains, looking out at him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steered the trumpet through the curtains, far into the room, aiming it at the place where he knew the bed to be. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I continue until I’m close enough to see a curtain of vines hanging over the black area. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the window in Molly’s bathroom, also on the ocean side, a light cotton curtain dances constantly in the breeze, sucked toward the screen and out again, billowing toward the sink, an amiable ghostly presence. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was dark behind the thick red cloth that draped the stage, and the air smelled musty, but once the curtains were pulled, the light from the auditorium windows would fill the stage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mary had made us a curtain of protection. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stripped the Suli and Kaelish girls down to their underclothes, then bound all the girls’ wrists and ankles with cords from the curtains and gagged them with torn pieces of their prison clothes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As the curtain fell, Count Olaf strode offstage and looked at the children. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was more nervous than all of the students put together: the actors, the set decorators, the lighting team, the guy handling the curtains. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

An antique four-poster bed threw shadowy spires in the darkness, and a pale sliver of light poked through a gap in the velvet curtains. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I let the curtains untwist and I stepped out and gawked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the room beyond the landing, the burning curtain sloughs off its rod. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This dampens the tragic effect, and the curtain comes down on laughter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mack glanced at the burned curtains, at the floor glistening with whiskey and puppy dirt, at the bacon grease that was coagulating on the stove front. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they were drowned in the applause that greeted the players as they stepped out from behind the curtains. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She trotted down the hall, running her fingers through the beaded curtains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black twists curtained her face, stopping just past her shoulder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I want to see my mother,” I said to Gladys and stepped through the curtain. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She found herself in a spacious room with black walls and thick black curtains on the windows, through which not even a feeble ray of sunlight filtered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another breeze whispers through the windows, fluttering the curtains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain of heat divided the will to survive from survival itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had finished packing, Longridge went into the library to draw the curtains, and seeing the telephone he was reminded of Mrs. Oakes. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at her wood- paneled walls, her light pink curtains, her statue of a golden owl in the corner. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The stage is set: the curtain rises slowly on the great tragedy of the Osage—the long-awaited federal trial of two old-time cowboys,” the Tulsa Tribune reported. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She pulls aside the lace curtain and gazes out at the street, at the skim-milk sky. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He reached up through the open window and parted the curtains ever so slightly. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the mists parted, like the curtain opening at a mummer show to reveal some new tableau. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s so caught up that he doesn’t realize at first Henry isn’t at his side, and he turns back to see him hovering in the wings, just behind a curtain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I peer around Lenny’s nice curtains to look out the window. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She lay in her bed, which was surrounded on all four sides with thin linen curtains. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have anything to fight with but a curtain and some fingernails. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She looked at the dust-gray rotting curtains, threw them out, and made new ones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My voice breaks awkwardly on the word cheese, and I duck my head, shielding my face behind a curtain of hair. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the ticket booth the only way forward is through a heavy striped curtain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how long black Mary could keep the curtain drawn. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out the window, beyond the curtains, the flame atop the waste stack, high in the distance, flaps and shivers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Shall I draw the curtains, ma’am, then we shall all feel better. It’s a lovely day.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was evening; the hospital wing was quiet, the windows curtained, the lamps lit. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And after everyone walked by the window again, and the dog stopped yapping, I walked through the house reopening the curtains. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Or would it come out hidden behind a curtain of black hair, watching the doctors with its inscrutable dark eyes? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I see the warm, honey glow behind your bedroom curtain, your shadow dancing on the wall as you gently fold your red sweater and bend to lacquer the small nails on your toes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, the curtains slowly came unmoored from their rings and hung like the petticoats of an old woman, dusty and faded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I saw a shadow move behind an unshuttered downstairs curtain. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, she ducked under the curtains and leaned out of the window. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls were of clean stone, but they were mostly covered with green hanging mats and yellow curtains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was almost no wind, even up on the bluff, and the smoke curled and wafted upward like a curtain quivering as it shuttled across a stage. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s papered in small blue flowers, forget-me-nots, with curtains to match. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whirling around, she fled through the curtains and out through the shop into the sunlit street. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” she ordered, and with her other hand she pulled the center of the curtain to one side. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Alongside the clutter there is a starkness about the place that appeals to him: the floors are bare, the woodwork stripped, many of the windows without curtains to highlight their generous proportions. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was walking down a long hall and saw the curtains on a doorway at the end. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She decided to get out of bed and close the gap in the curtains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floors were beveled concrete, the shower stalls wood planks and plastic curtains crawling with black mold. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She whips the privacy curtain around my bed. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the room was a black curtain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud moved in front of the moon, covering the whole landscape in darkness, and a whoosh of wind rushed down the hill and into his room, billowing the curtains. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It had no name over its door and its window was empty save for a potted fern and a half curtain of brown linen run on brass rods along the back of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She obeyed, her gaze fixed on the golden wedgies that slapped the bottom of the woman’s bulging feet as she led the way through a curtain of colored beads to the piano. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled back a dangling grass curtain and ushered me in. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her close the window and fasten the shutters, and draw the curtains in their place. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I bought some nice paper curtains for Ignatius’ room once, but he tore them off the window and crumpled them up. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No curtain of vines hiding a glowing cave for escape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Toward the end she jumped off a railway overpass, into a river, her dress fluttering like a window curtain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then from behind the curtains came a figure looking like he wasn’t just sorry he was late but also as if he hadn’t done his homework. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

At the base of the dark cave, the mini-chinchilla scrambles through the vine curtain. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

George swept off through the curtain to help with the customers, and Fred led Harry back into the main part of the shop to find Hermione and Ginny still poring over the Patented Daydream Charms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He skulked behind curtains and furniture, and he hid if he saw one of the Alacrans in the distance. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick had the curtain pulled back with two fingers. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Over on the side of the stage, a shoe that looked like a peeled-open banana appeared from behind a curtain. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She climbed into bed in her street clothes, opened the curtains, and wiped the condensation off the window. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Gray lace curtains hung at the single window between them, and beside the window was a black table supporting an old- time TV set with rabbit ears. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Behind the curtain he had a chamber pot, bowls, water, and towels. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Klaus called out “Sunny” again, and pulled away the top fold of the curtains to wake up the youngest Baudelaire child. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

As for the woman, she crept around the corner of the curtain and began without a sound to prepare for the bed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the sides I fashion draped white curtains. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were sheer ivory curtains under embroidered turquoise ones and small brass sculptures on the bookshelves. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most of the beds were shielded off by curtains. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kabuo, his hands at her waist, turned and spoke to the curtain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stands up and walks back to the beaded curtain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She pulls back a gauzy curtain and ushers me into a small alcove. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The foundations of die Great Pyramid of Meereen were massive and thick to support the weight of the huge structure overhead; even the interior walls were three times thicker than any castle’s curtain walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The next chapter takes a peek behind the curtain of the ages, examining what life was like in the millennia separating the Cognitive Revolution from the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the man unspools the alley and then the hanging curtain of ivy and then the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the entire compact bathroom, there were only six things: the sink, the toilet, the towel, the shower, its curtain, and me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lazlo reached out a shaking arm and yanked the curtain closed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was sectioned off from the kitchen with a curtain. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was like a curtain had been lowered in front of me, covering my soul. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A bare space surrounded by paper screens and curtains of raw silk, perfumed with the scent of ginger and cream. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The country is all closed up, just like this place called Berlin, where an iron curtain has come down that keeps people from going in or getting out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A curtain separated our side of the room from the end where my parents slept in a four-poster bed veiled with mosquito netting. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The curtains on the street side of the house are closed, and the living room is cast in a reddish hue that seems to suit the heat and the smell. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy velvet curtains hung on either side of the window, like the curtains in a theatre. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was ringing down the curtain on an orangutan when the business of the King’s health made its ultimate intrusion. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But I wander for hours, and eventually, the light fades and night falls, dropping like a curtain over my eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Despite the run-down condition of the few pieces of furniture and the torn curtains on the window, there were touches of pride all around. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother went behind the curtain to the gas stove. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rope was not taut, and the curtain sagged in the middle. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The big man on the small horse rode over the ice-slick stones, right into the curtain of water, and vanished. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She walked over to the window and pulled back the lacy curtain. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The curtain hid a large bed and clothes on wire hangers lining the wall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But why . . .” His uncle drew back a curtain in the corner of the room to reveal an old Victrola. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The curtains were not drawn and the pane of the open casement reflected a gleam of sun which she could lose and find by moving her head on the pillow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The traveler, the curtain nearest the front, comes down right in the middle of where Volpe figured they should stage the play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once I saw Mother behind the curtains, smiling. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“In the name of the Republic of ChaCha, we —” The curtains parted with a sudden arrival. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Attend to me as I draw back the curtain to reveal a long-kept minstrel’s secret Let’s say you are out at an inn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was in bed, curled up tight, her curtains drawn, and she could not have said if it was noon or midnight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jumping out of bed, Martin pulled the curtains apart and was startled to see that the house was surrounded by dark liquid that kept rising. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And, remembering the Coopers and how we felt about them, I think my main feeling is sorrow at the curtain of fear and anger drawn down between us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ballroom was divided in half by a large curtain. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are air-raid sirens, and then we pull the curtains and turn off the lights, though our mother says the war will never come here. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tall grasses surrounded it like a thick curtain, and ivy clung to its face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We watched her sit down in class and pull from her canvas bag a blue and yellow ruffled curtain that she draped over three sides of her desk. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They entered a narrow hallway that led to the rear of the house, passed a room with thin curtains, passed a narrow dark staircase going up and went into a kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's just pulled the curtains closed and taken off his hat and jacket. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jasper, too, seemed to have no urge to pace, or peek through the curtains, or run screaming out the door, the way I did. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His face was drawn but the curtains were real. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sunflowers decorated the curtains, and a plastic sunflower was stuck into the front lawn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The movie theater's screen was hidden behind a thick curtain embroidered with golden stars. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gesturing to the short-haired woman to raise the curtain, he strode to the exact center of the stage and took elaborate bows as the curtain came up. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes; she could see the smoky light of dawn through the curtains. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He kept the isinglass curtains snapped to the windows to cut off the draughts, and tight around his neck he wore his gray wool shawl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The room is covered in darkness—the lights are off, and the blinds and curtains are closed. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Johnny told me how you ripped up an old dress of yours and made kitchen curtains out of it. He said it made the kitchen look fine, like the inside of a Gypsy wagon.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed the curtains open, and there was Norton holding a large white pig, which he brought down suddenly on a table edge, knocking its head off. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

All them colors and curtains make the room look soft and safe. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass, seated eight or ten feet away from the shower curtain, stared across the tiled floor at the blue bathmat alongside the tub. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then they take away my bundle and examine it, shaking out the two shirts and the two sets of curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every day Fannie talked to Black Valley miners and their families, telling the women they deserved to live like Americans: have bathtubs, indoor plumbing, and sanitary homes with curtains on the windows. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Then he stretches his back, rubs his hands togevver against the cold, looks out at the heavy curtain of darkness, and tells us a truly frightening tale. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I need one of those curtains in my bedroom.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Besides the awful curtains, there was a dead dog decomposing in the garden. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ominous silence dropped like a curtain around them and, except for the scuffling of their frantic footsteps, there wasn’t a sound. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger looked round the room wildly, then darted to a curtain and swept it aside and grabbed two heavy iron skillets from a wall above a gas stove. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As ever, the curtains were all closed; the circular room was bathed in a dim reddish light cast by the many lamps, which were all draped with scarves and shawls. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The curtain flaps closed like merciful black wings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the summer, the servants had covered all the windows with bamboo curtains to drive out the sun. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet looked at the point of his spear and then the curtain wire and, deep in thought, walked back and forth across the stage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain went up and the singing began, giving us a gray, gloomy version of Paris. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I am not hiding Jews. I’ve only bought cheap curtains from people who don’t need them anymore.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the way, speaking of Jews, I saw two yesterday when I was peeking through the curtains. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She tells Raise to hand her the scissors, then she jabs holes in the curtains. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

She shoved the bed curtains back and revealed a fat young Italian woman in the next bed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But when I went to peek out the curtain — again — it was suddenly there. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, and several of the girls slipped behind the curtains as if being sucked from the plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I pulled back the curtains over the sink and Mrs. Baylor caught my eye and smiled. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And then they were all hissing it, crowding in, pushing back the curtains of Isagol’s big bed to encircle Sarai on all sides. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

During Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, however, the iron curtain of segregation fell on federal employment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She comes out from behind the green curtain. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I kept watching nurses go in and out of the curtain around Mr. Savo’s bed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The curtains were drawn at the laboratory that night and Gregorian music played until two o’clock and then the music stopped and no one came out. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon seemed to float in a curtain of fog over the field. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soot stains marked some of the arrow loops, and here and there a crack or a missing merlon could be seen in the curtain wall, but it seemed little enough from this distance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The house was holding itself tight and lonely, even its curtains pulled together and tied against the day. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sheer puffy curtains are tacked to the walls. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There are flowers on the wallpaper and curtains, and the bed is covered with chenille. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Overstuffed pillows, fluffy bath mats, floral-print shower curtains, pastel comforter sets, four-hundred-thread-count cotton sheets, and dishes, all in the calm shades of baby nurseries. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Above the window was a sturdy metal rod from which the curtains had hung, andViolet took it down. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Just seeing the house drew some tension out of me, though the windows were dark, the curtains drawn as if no one had been around for a while. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

An enormous wall, like a giant patchwork curtain of stone, surrounded the thousands of houses of the city. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A grandfather-grey man emerged from behind the curtain carrying a long piece of leather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Browned photographs leered or threatened from the walls and the white, freshly done curtains pushed against themselves and against the wind. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one the gods walked past the curtain, and Skadi stared at their feet. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A sudden breeze made the flowered window curtain billow. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A child’s swing dangled from a cedar tree; four little steps painted blue led up to the porch, and from the window, between fluttering curtains, came the smell of gingerbread baking. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the blackout curtains closed and the mask half covering my eyes it was dark inside the hallway as I shuffled forward with my scythe waving in front of me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful windows, glowing behind shimmering curtains. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was much nicer since Kate had painted the woodwork and put up lace curtains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up on stage, a mannish-looking girl was dragging a boulder the size of a small refrigerator out from behind the curtain. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The aperture was so screened and narrow, that curtain or shutter had been deemed unnecessary; and when I stooped down and put aside the spray of foliage shooting over it, I could see all within. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Next to the desk is a tiny round metal sink; in the corner is a closet full of shelves with a clear plastic curtain serving as a door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Now that the flock has cleared, I can see Cal Price, the stage manager, stationed at a desk between the curtains. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Over the heads of the three philosophers hangs the curtain which rises at the beginning of a theatrical performance—a device that was used by Galileo’s engraver, Stefano della Bella, for the frontispieces of plays. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The curtains had been drawn here too against the dull grey evening. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fighting at the front that day was so ferocious that Masha thought it looked like “a continuous curtain of fire.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There were moments when he wished bitterly that he had not felt those possibilities, when he wished that he could go again behind his curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My curiosity gets the better of me, and I’m at the window peering out the other side of the curtain. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Gypsy wagon,” she thought, looking at the curtains with new eyes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Lotus had gone in Cuckoo drew the curtains after her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was midafternoon, and the curtains were drawn, but a lamp in the corner had been left on, a towel draped over the shade to mute it, and the thoughtfulness of this pierced her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I rolled out of my hammock and crossed to the other side of the curtain. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I gather the curtains in my fist and wait, willing Olly to show himself. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped out from behind the curtain, even though I’d promised I wouldn’t. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Searching around, Matthias came upon a good stout pole, probably used as a window or curtain opener. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The curtains are patterned with blue and yellow flowers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I reached the opposite end of the room where linen curtains diffused sunlight around the final bed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stare across my room at the rose wallpaper, the eyelet curtains, the yellowing photographs so familiar they are nearly contemptible. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The flames shot up with startling ferocity, sending up two curtains of fire, effectively cutting off the far corner of the shop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now she longed for a set of white frilly curtains. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a change of expression, nor of complexion—it was more as if a sheer curtain had suddenly been drawn across his face. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It drew back the curtains of my mind and forced me to pay attention. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun would make a yellow pattern on the curtain. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were no seats; instead, half a dozen brass bedsteads stood beside the curtained windows. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The curtains were drawn, but the daylight gleam around their edges was strong, and for all her spinning sensations of tiredness, she could not sleep. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They place the tree in front of the window, drawing apart the curtains so that people passing by the house can see, as excited as they were when they were children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And at night a black curtain falls over the world. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Tally peered out from behind a curtain of hanging vines. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The curtains were organdy, not your average white organdy but silver-gray, so the air came through with a slightly smoky shimmer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked past the dirty curtain at the door and pushed Odenigbo’s cup off the table; a pale liquid spread on the cement floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are woven curtains, and a colorful striped rug on the floor. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even so, one sultry afternoon when the curtains hung perfectly still, she volunteered to take Toscanini for a walk. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

At one point, he raised his assegai into the air for emphasis and accidentally hit the curtain wire above him, which made a sharp noise and caused the curtain to sway. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was there a shadow behind some curtain, waiting to see how things would go? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And there were lovely silver dots on the curtain, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fyrian hid behind the crinkly curtain of the old woman’s hair, staring at the baby with a combination of fear and jealousy and longing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He rose and bowed low to Frodo, and drawing the curtain passed out into the cave. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Between the alley and the stair well a strong draught came up, the curtains on the window flew around, the newspapers on the table swished, and individual sheets fluttered down over the floor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, a long-ago trio appeared, as if they were sneaking out from behind a curtain and taking their turn on stage. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can see through these houses, to what they used to be; I can see the colors that used to cover the walls, dusty rose, muddy green, mushroom, and the chintz curtains no longer there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pretend the world beyond the curtains doesn’t exist. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Fang pushed the moldy shower curtain to one end of the tub and started unbuttoning his new shirt, already ragged after a couple hours on my buddy’s back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The sun sank and the shadows of evening fell like a curtain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Oh, God, I thought, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We drew closer and peered through the dense curtain of green that surrounded a small adobe hut. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I saw the curtains blowing wildly, and outside rain was falling harder, causing everyone to scurry and shout. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the swaying curtains of snow, I catch a glimpse of movement, a flurry of color. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He waves at them before they slip back through the heavy curtain, and once they disappear he turns to walk home. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Most of Gogol’s toys come from yard sales, as does most of the furniture, and the curtains, and the toaster, and a set of pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other times he would have sworn they were up on the curtain walls, loping round like sentries. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The first raven took flight as their grapnels were arcing above the curtain wall, the second a few moments later. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He maintained sagely that there is always a trade-off involved in the adoption of any policy, and that if daylight saving time were instituted, curtains and other fabrics would fade more quickly. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcos decorated the carriage house with some frayed curtains that had once belonged in the drawing room but that neglect and age had turned to dusty rags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A draft, created by the open door, sucked the curtains into the gap of the open window. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In bewilderment, she stood at the window fingering the curtain edge, aware of a sting in her eye. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling as if I might cry, I grabbed one of the black curtains and wrapped myself up in it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All we children sleep in one bed, but my mama and father have their own bed, with curtain. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Klaus walked over to the lump of curtains to wake up his younger sister. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

That night, Dallas fell asleep quickly and was dreaming about his favorite place: a sandy patch of earth beneath a leafy tree, with a curtain of branches dipping down all around him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The slice of sky peek­ing between the curtains was the purple of twilight turning into night. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The windows were closed, and the curtains were drawn. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness hung from the canopy like black curtains, and as Tanin’s eyes adjusted, she picked her way among sprawling roots and rotting logs until she reached a clearing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I double locked the door and pulled the curtains. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There were hangings on the walls, but the only real furniture was a small desk, a bookshelf, and a large canopy bed with the curtains drawn around it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She led me through a curtain into the front room. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her tubes flop around as she looks from the door to the curtain around Mom's bed and then back to the door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the brother, the huge blackboard suddenly tore loose from its moorings and slid majestically to the floor, like a final curtain dropping on the chaos. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a four-post bed with curtains, an overstuffed couch, an empty bookcase, and a large table with several chairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The curtain of vines billows in the wind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were just like the von Trapp family, except they didn't wear clothes made from curtains or sing catchy songs about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

With a grand gesture he pulled the curtain open. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

First he skated just in that hall leading from the dining room to the doorway with the curtains where all the pigs were. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

At last they came to The Prancing Pony, and that at least looked outwardly unchanged; and there were lights behind the red curtains in the lower windows. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nobody wanted to be alone on guard duty, especially not on a crisp autumn evening where the air hung as stiff as a curtain and it felt like anything might happen. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Behind curtains, a window rises out of her reach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tonight, Minerva and I were sewing curtains in the middle room where the kitchen, living, dining room, and everything is. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red weathervane was Caesar’s sign that this was the house, the yellow curtains pulled shut in the back window the signal that Fletcher was home but his wife was not. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Look at the curtains! I tell you, he was here!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I give my head a shake so hair curtains my face as much as possible. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Behind its deep curtain the Forest was completely veiled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was as though a semi-transparent curtain had dropped between us, but through which they could see me—for they were applauding—without themselves being seen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it gets dark I go outside and look through my curtain, and yes, you can see pretty much everything, at least in silhouette. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way back we again passed Mrs. Dubicki’s house and saw that the black window curtains were now thrust open. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Whirled around on her heels—taking in the clean walls, the curtains, a beat-up sofa, a few stacks of books, and not much else—landed, and said, “Where’s the TV and everything?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they grew tired of waiting, the dinner smells climbed off the curtains and drifted through the Sea Queen windows to dance the night away on the dinner-smelling sea. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean closer and draw away the curtain. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He waved and blew kisses to the audience as the curtain came down again, and then his face once again filled with anger. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Stand here by the curtain so they can’t see you from the audience. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hesitated for a moment, thinking of the curtains. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As that song ends, the curtain closes and the house lights come up for intermission. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Through the ragged curtains, I catch a flash of a liquid silver face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They sit in meditative silence for some of that uncontrollable time, the motion of the train gently billowing the silk curtains, the scent of ginger and cream enveloping them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The white cotton curtains are shielding us from the early sunlight. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Max set down his box, went to the window, and abruptly shut the curtain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They stand in the kitchen with the curtains drawn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Carol lies on top of her own bed, which has a white ruffled spread that matches the curtains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On two sides the curtain was tied back, and Ged looked out at a room with walls of stone and floor of stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting a handful of old curtains, I stashed the drill deep down at the bottom, then pushed the box back underneath. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Before she could continue, a sparkle of light appeared next to us, like someone had opened a gold curtain in the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The odor of frying bacon and boiling coffee drifted to him from behind the curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I live in a house, with window curtains and a lawn, in British Columbia, which is as far away from Toronto as I could get without drowning. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She made curtains; she made bedspreads; she rewired Ralph’s old lamp. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra reluctantly slipped under the warm water and soaped herself while Pantalaimon perched on the curtain rail. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain moved—and suddenly, Bat Lady’s face appeared. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She lets the curtain fall once he has entered, leaving them enclosed in darkness studded with dimly sparkling lights, the glowing tip of her cigarette the one spot of color amongst the dots of white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A fog had come up, and Rena was as clammy as a shower curtain. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was one house, the one we just left, that wouldn’t answer the door even though we could see someone peeking around the curtain. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Charlie doesn’t want me to pierce the upper curtain of the mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He gets to his feet, walks over to the French doors and pulls back the curtain. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t forget what the coach behind the curtain had said about me being fat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Blackout curtains were hung in windows across America, from solitary farmhouses to the White House. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The house was all shut up, curtains pulled tight, letters and papers hanging from the black metal mailbox. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even from behind the curtain, I can hear Elizabeth’s brother laughing, her confident voice in reply, and the sounds pull me back to that lonely, hollow feeling I always get on Halloween. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Anything was better than walking all day on carpeting, than eating the soft bland food white people ate, than having to sneak a look at the sky from behind ivory curtains. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others halted startled; but the cry fell as if muffled by a heavy curtain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And Boom!...The sky opened wide and rain sheared down like curtains. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where Max got those curtains, but the material is dark and thick with white lilies printed on it, and I know immediately what they’re for. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a sight to see—the bright-painted wagons with little curtained windows, and the horses decorated with tassels and silver beads. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At length, tired out, they slunk under a curtain of brambles that hung down like a mat over a low rock-face. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

From that weird angle, through the gap between the wall and the shower curtain, I could see a slice of our backyard out the little window over the toilet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even if she knew what was behind the curtain, she certainly wouldn’t help him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When Timett ripped the heavy curtains off the bed, the naked serving girl stared up with wide white eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the curtain rose at Ford’s, the coachman and Lincoln’s servant Charles Forbes were on top of the carriage. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waxed the floor, took down curtains to wash and arranged books on the shelves. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ruby and Feral do, you know. But curtains, well, they don’t block out sounds very well.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The autumn sun poured in through gossamer curtains and onto marigold tiles, giving the whole room an amber glow. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was hard to see much in the dawn light—the sun was rising behind the house—but with the curtained windows glowing, it looked warm and cozy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

August walks to the velvet curtain and whisks it aside. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then the curtains breathing out of the dark upon my face, leaving the breathing upon my face. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly past the rows of red chairs, running his fingers along the red velvet and looking intently at the embroidered stars on the curtain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They face front and are not curtained off. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, he did not have to hide behind a wall or a curtain now; he had a safer way of being safe, an easier way. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long afterwards that the curtain on the small window at the back of the Professor’s store was pushed very carefully to one side. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ty'ree had left up the flowered curtains Mama'd bought downtown, and for some reason this was sadder than anything to me. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

A movement caught my eye—a curtain pushed aside in an upstairs window, and his face looking out, pale in the dark frame like a ghost in a haunted house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You are making all that up,” Luna said, tying her hair back in a long, black plait and hiding behind a curtain to change into her nightgown. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon patrolled the room, checking the wardrobe, the picture rail, the curtains, the view of the dark cloisters out of the window. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can see the rain coming down out over the ocean—a curtain of water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Two million American women of all colors received pink slips even before the final curtain fell in August. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A long curtain shut the back half off from view. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, they even costumed themselves with dusty curtains and old tablecloths, scissoring through the faded fabric with Mamá’s gardening shears or tearing them apart with their bare hands. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A man parted the droplets as if they were a giant beaded curtain. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And someone had beaten their dirty rugs right in the hallway, because my red bedroom curtain was gray with dust. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, a curtain drawn back. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

George hoped it wouldn’t hit against the curtain or, worse, fall and land in the bathtub with a thud. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A curtain of thinner tendrils hangs down from it, like a scraggly beard clotted with dirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The large double windows in Beefy’s room were flung open, his white curtains fluttering in the night wind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mine was brief—I mean, if I was too cowardly to reach out and touch a sweatshirt, you’ve gotta know I skipped the shower, with its killer curtain, altogether. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Where Lily has Dad’s buttercream skin and Gram’s green eyes, I’ve got Mom’s much darker complexion and curtains of inky hair. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She drew aside the curtain and leaned her wrist on one of the crosspieces between panes, but, feeling grit, she removed it, rubbed it clean with her other hand, and stood up more erectly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The Abbot shook his head reprovingly as Winifred lowered the lamp flame and drew the curtains. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I watch his shadow resting still on the curtain. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She reached behind the pantry curtains and began to rearrange the jars of peaches and apricots on the shelves, and he knew she was finished talking to him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He ran into the living room, parted the curtains, and peeked outside. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The big snowflakes still crowded behind him like the gauzy curtains in the woman’s house. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A damp, cool breeze shifted in the curtains. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A hazy curtain of rain was coming in our direction. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A sound of agitated tub water came from behind the shower curtain. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reynolds walked onstage and stood in front of the curtain. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m utterly flattened by the knowledge that one stupid moment could bring down this kind of curtain. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But everything has turned around so fast, like a magician’s trick: foreign hands moved behind the curtain and one white King was replaced with another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are cots arranged in two straight rows, with trunks beside them for what we brought with us, and large windows with elegant curtains on the opposite end of the room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But when having finished I switched it off again, I could see early daylight at the edges of the curtains. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a main that had burst, throwing a fierce curtain of spray into the night. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she led Raymie by the hand to the stage and pushed aside one of the red curtains. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

We stayed inside and peered through the curtains at the empty street in front of our house. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Once the curtain is drawn, Scoob expects Dad to sit back down across from him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The stage was massive, with vast red- and-gold curtains drawn back to reveal a magnificent make-believe forest with a rolling painted ocean at the back of the wooden deck. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But what little noise he’d been able to hear through the curtain had ceased. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the heavy curtain, it was impossible to block out the lights of the Cow’s Guts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was old Doctor Merrivale hiding behind the curtains of his office, plugging away with a Daisy air rifle. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s of my parents posing in front of a gossamer curtain of pale ivory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The curtains were drawn shut and the projector was sitting on one of the bedside tables that had been pulled over so it faced him from the doorway. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Vera went behind the curtain and Bigger heard her trying to comfort his mother. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sleep the day away and wake disoriented, battling my way out of the long, embroidered curtains around my bed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d replaced his lumpy twin bed with a new full-size mattress, added curtains to the windows, and bought a new dresser. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She shoved her phone into her pocket and listened, squinting through the backstage gloom at the heavy red velvet curtain. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It floats down around my shoulders in a glossy curtain. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At Grandfather’s house, everyone was staying inside behind closed curtains. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He scrambled out of bed and glanced at the windows with the drawn curtains, in confusion. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The curtain that had been hung between two poles parted. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Tally looked at the entrance of the cave, the sheet of water a solid curtain against the night “I hope so. Where’s everybody else?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I ring the doorbell and they don’t answer so I knock and knock. I can see that woman inside. Peeking out from behind the curtain to check if I go away.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a silvery building, nothing fancy, with plain white curtains and a carved stone owl over the doorway. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” Tab said, feeling for the opening in the curtain. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was now prudently making cute kitchen curtains, which would soon starchily oppose the wind. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she comes out, she pulls the velvet curtain shut and immediately changes her mind. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They push two tables toward the stage curtains, then stop to take a breath. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ayanna expanded the raft, we all stepped on board, and we floated through the cleansing curtain and back into the trash compartment. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were families in the barrio with running water inside their houses, electric bulbs shining down from every room, curtains on the windows, and printed linoleum on the floors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were big houses and behind the curtained windows there were eyes looking out at him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtains were never drawn in that house, and through the windows I could see huge snowflakes falling slowly on to an outside world that was as black as tar. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The bedroom with blue curtains and yellow wasps that worried the windowpanes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Translucent curtains hung in front of two windows, protecting the room from the night outside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sun set early in winter, but a little light still filtered in through the lace curtains Aunt Rose had crocheted long ago when she and her husband had first been married. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She drifted silently to the curtains and closed them securely before turning back to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fog was so thick, Percy couldn’t see Festus at the end of the prow, and warm drizzle hung in the air like a bead curtain. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

However, without curtains over the cracked glass, the sun streamed through the window every morning, so the children woke up early and sore each day. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Through the curtain of rain he glimpsed Woundwort dodging among his officers and urging them back into the ditch on the edge of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even if I had been on a team, the showers in the Chapel Hill High School locker room were individual stalls with curtains and everything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Through that door. Conceal yourself behind the curtains at the rear of the small balcony." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The electricity supply from Dunkirk must have been cut, but round the edges of some heavily curtained windows they saw the ocher glow of candlelight and oil lamps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rooms were big and anonymous, with wide-plank floors and no curtains on the windows and plaster walls painted white. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She slips behind the curtain covering the back of the shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At first, opening his eyes in the blackness of the curtains about his bed, he could not think why the dawn seemed different from any other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The dignified theater with velvet curtains is now a massive holding cell for German prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Missed the rippled velvet curtain going up, with lightbulbs in the clustered yellow tassels. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snapped the latches closed and rushed out of the room, the curtains blowing, flapping over the loaf of fresh bread still sitting on my desk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Two days after that, Max calls me to the window curtain, and I cover my mouth to stop my gasp of horror. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The curtain at the back of the room drifted in a cool stream of air from the window or door behind it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the curtains parted that evening, the audience murmured in surprise. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I ran through the house, closing curtains and twisting shut every blind I could find. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

About twice a year his mother washed a lot of curtains. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to pull the curtains on the day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The decor was not expensive but it was well cared for—creamy white carpet on the floors, soft floral paper on the walls, thick, pleated curtains in the windows. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Inside they could see a bead curtain hung across the hall entry, and a crystal chandelier and a Maxfield Parrish painting framed on one wall over a comfortable Morris chair. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donna locks the front door and I follow her through the curtain leading to the stockroom. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He thought the people for whom his mother washed the soft curtains could certainly write and would write a letter for his mother. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That room on the far right is Mummy’s; there are her pale blue curtains. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see if the blackout curtains were working. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding my breath, I stepped past the curtain. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That night, as Olanna lay on her uncle and aunt’s bed, she watched Arize through the thin curtain that hung on a rope attached to nails on the wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the far end an area flamed by curtains was prepared as a stage. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Under it all some part of his mind was beginning to stand aside; he was going behind his curtain, his wall, looking out with sullen stares of contempt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pumpkin had been transformed into a gleaming coach with brass door handles and windows through which lacy curtains peeked. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone wound himself in the folds of the red velvet curtain and peered out from it like an exotic spy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between Brooklyn and Manhattan, miles across the water, we saw the final curtain of New York City—the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Underneath the workbench, I pulled out the box of rags and shoved my hand beneath the curtains looking for the drill. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Through curtains of fire great winged shadows wheeled against a hard blue sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some poor kid started to throw up in the stall to my right; I could see his dark outline like a shadow against the curtain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind blew and parted the drooping branches of the weeping willow like a curtain, and Mariam caught a glimpse of what was beneath the tree: the straight-backed chair, overturned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d think of the shadow her hair cast on the ground when it slid off her back and hung down like a velvet curtain. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The beaded curtain announced Barbarossa as he entered the office. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

From below the scanty curtain that was stretched across the doorway that led directly onto the street came the relentless slip- slap of disembodied feet in slippers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leads me out of the room into the ER proper, past curtains that are alternately drawn and undrawn to show the cast of characters here on an early Saturday morning. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“What in God’s name do you want curtains for?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were sunflowers big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theater curtains. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large portrait of a woman posing beneath curtains in a theatre hung above a white fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was like Lorraine’s nightmare, where something forced her toward the room with the black curtains. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

As with the previous pair of pictures, many of the features visible by ordinary light were much dimmer in this one, and so were the curtains of radiance in the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed back the curtain and stepped out of the bathtub in her pink pajamas—she had dressed in the shower because she was much more modest than the rest of us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The lamps were on, making little soft pools of light on the pile of the carpet, and in the velvet folds of the curtains. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I sit on the window seat, looking out through the semisheer of the curtains. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were far enough away, she asked under her breath, “No idea what’s behind that curtain?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watch a fly buzz around the room, land on the overturned lamp and then on the naked curtain rod. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her husband called her attention to die children wrapping themselves into her curtains, she merely smiled and said, “Oh, let them be.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the room, beyond the curtains, Sophie suddenly heard what was obviously a knock on the door. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She suggested that she could be carried out in the litter with the curtains drawn. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She smelled the good morning wind rippling the curtains, bringing in the odor of grass and roots and damp earth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finn drew the curtains in the living room so that the people choking up the lawn wouldn’t gape. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were all boys like me who kept movie star scrapbooks and made their own curtains. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And when the curtain came down and I could be free, I didn’t wait for the audience’s breath to fill my sails after all. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later Dylan appears from behind the curtain. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Their house was very big and very stylish, full of squashy couches and beautiful throw pillows, silk curtains lining every window. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was easiest to feign sleep; Harry rolled over onto his side and listened to all the curtains closing themselves as she waved her wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Grace is a wreck before the curtain goes up on opening night. Talk about someone who could probably use some self-care right now!” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She leaned back on the window ledge, causing the curtains to sway behind her, and took a slow breath. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a small room with white curtains, a girl with long black hair climbed into bed with a book. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"It's crazy—everything's crazy. I'm going crazy. Wool disappearing—red silk curtains—it doesn't make sense. I can't get the hang of it...." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The curtains were still open, and the only light in the room came from the moonlight filtered in through the window. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Scorched curtains and soot fanned across the ceiling and cardboard peeling off the window and the very first pale light of predawn leaking through. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The curtain to her guard was sliding down. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The curtain was closed for a moment while the actors prepared. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A velvet curtain concealed the back of the bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On election day I went into the polling booth and drew the curtain behind me and unfolded my ballots. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my head back behind the curtain. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man wipes his hands on my apron and goes to the curtained window of my bedroom, where there’s a full view of the street and anyone who might approach the courtyard. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Billy could not imagine how the curtain was supported in nothingness, and he supposed that the magic curtain and the theatrical grief were part of some religious ceremony he knew nothing about. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lady in a robe comes back into this room, dresses behind a curtain, and greets us as she goes back out into the darkness. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his wrist to the sun coming through the blue curtains into his room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One brown bed, one bathroom, one window with brown curtains. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My eyes fixed on a triangle of light in a curtained window. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A hot desert wind blows in after him, rustling the limp curtains. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A few curtains were pulled aside by people peeking out to make sure that all was clear. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone of us kids had taken a good look through the partly open curtain and seen what was going on. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever lay beyond that curtain, she realized, was to decide the fate of one of them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The room seemed unnaturally bright for so early in the morning, despite the curtains being closed, and within only a few minutes, the headache had crept back in, claws out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s like the day when he put up the curtain to divide the room for Roli and me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The curtains are open and I can see the auditorium, which is small, battered, and empty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Johnson is good with tools from her years of overseeing set design, and plans how to drape the curtains and pavilions that we're sewing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I think it would be more fun to pull the curtain down right in the middle of the show!” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

If the tube lady wakes up, she'll be able to imagine the boy she hears behind the curtain. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I’d have to use my other approach. I don’t use this one unless it looks like curtains.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the window the curtains moved slow out of the darkness touching my face like someone breathing asleep, breathing slow into the darkness again, leaving the touch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands, confused, in the empty vestibule, and then a voice calls out from behind the beaded curtain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Around me the air is stagnant, despite the little current, the breath coming in past the curtains. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are red velvet curtains in them, red velvet sofas, red velvet rooms. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took his bride to his home in Medallion and put her in a lovely house with a brick porch and real lace curtains at the window. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He closed the curtains and soon realized he heard music. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Seth closed the curtain and backed away from the window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There were rows of empty deck chairs and a bar closed off with a chain curtain. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the curtains, eased myself back on the bed, and lay down. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like I’m a toddler and she’s afraid I’m going to climb up the curtains. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I think of the great city teeming on the other side of that curtain, and then the lights go down, and I love Paris. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Heavyhearted, Ralph pushed his desk back against the wall, shut the curtain, clipped together his equations and charts. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want to say this because he’s worried enough, and ever since that night, there’s something pulled in about him, as if he’s standing behind a curtain. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She gestures for Marco to step out into the rain, taking a drag from her cigarette as he obediently walks through the open curtain, trying to make sense of her last statement. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A breeze blows the white curtains in on either side of her, two ghostly arms embracing her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Ralph’s little brothers, sisters, and cousins, hiding in the woodpile and behind the curtains, were also waiting. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls open the curtains and there is the cell house. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their palanquin was stopped at the gate, the curtains pulled roughly back by one of the house guards. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dense thickets of halfdrowned trees pressed close around them, branches dripping with curtains of pale fungus. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes so bright a curtain couldn’t block them out. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was a large, grubby building with big bay windows and no curtains. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light peeked through the curtains of my living room window, and I thought I saw my mom’s shadow. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A curtain fluttered, or maybe it was my imagination, but no one answered. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Time to wake up, Chris,” she said cheerfully, opening the curtains of my window. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

That night when the heavy curtains parted to show the lit stage, the crowd yelled and clapped till Chap Cheney stood up, grinning, and took a bow. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A pale face peeks out from behind a curtain. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I remembered Monday afternoon when I had awakened with the curtain around my bed and Mrs. Carpenter bending over me, and I wondered what had happened to Mr. Savo. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful room, not an office at all, and much bigger than it looked from outside—airy and white, with a high ceiling and a breeze fluttering in the starched curtains. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A hand appeared through the curtains and forcefully swept one aside so that it rolled a bit, making a wide opening. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then I see him, behind the gray curtain, his back pressed up against the wall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I pull the curtain back and peek out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Figures in tricornes walked through the streets, gathering by carriages with curtains closed, and the smell of the docks hung over the squares. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When full dark came, somebody inside pulled curtains over the long windows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms were deserted, the curtains drawn, the furniture covered in white sheets so that each shadowy chamber they passed looked like some kind of forgotten seascape cluttered with icebergs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Something rattled the window behind the green curtain. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The lights came on just as I peeped farther around the curtain and saw Aunt Loma trying to push through the crowd to get to our folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I pull back the shower curtain and turn on the water. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

While Katie was putting up the lace curtains, Mary Rommely came over and sprinkled the rooms with holy water to drive out any devils that might be lurking in the corners. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is dark, stuffy, the blinds in the living room closed, the curtains drawn across the French doors leading to the garden. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the slaver pushes the door open, I get a glimpse of a heavily curtained window, a desk, and a wall of hand-drawn faces. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I remember him clutching the curtains in his living room, about nine years old, wearing gray, his dark eyes shut. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

But the windows behind all the curtains are dark, and behind every curtain there's a horror story, a real one. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a servant of some sort had got the place ready for the night-time, then left: the curtains were closed and there were dim table lamps switched on. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bright outside on this clear day after the night’s rain, but the windows of the cottage were small, and woven curtains were drawn across. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You told Malia you’d buy us new comforters and curtains. Forget about all that and buy the piano instead. I don’t need new stuff for our room. I only need a piano.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sound of Daddy pulling back the shower curtain echoes throughout the apartment. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s wooden and has dark blue curtains because the middle school colors are blue and white. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger went to the window and looked out at the white curtain of falling snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Through the curtain strung across my doorway, I catch a glimpse of a sky that looks as if it’s still undecided as to whether it’s night or morning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They moved out of the house and past the tree with its curtain of all-concealing leaves, and walked down to the river. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could see the shadowy forms of three or four people standing outside the tents; their headlamps flickered through curtains of blowing snow. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I listen for Roli’s breathing on the other side of the curtain. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The only space open to them was up on the stage, and they went up there, pulled the azure curtains down, made nests. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty airport curtain was a great comfort and a darkness and a shield. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophie wished she could see into the room, but she didn’t dare touch the curtains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was well into the sky, but the curtains were still drawn. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But before the redbeard could venture another guess Prosper had already pushed his brother through the curtain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rick remained by the curtain rope and said nothing. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

After these dreams I do awake, and I know I’m really awake because there is the wreath, on the ceiling, and my curtains hanging like drowned white hair. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until now he has seen radios only in glimpses: a big cabinet wireless through the lace curtains of an official’s house; a portable unit in a miners’ dormitory; another in the church refectory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A few of the girls peel back the curtains to see the changing landscape. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And it was as if a curtain went up and she was standing there—the old Vinny. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He and his aids now withdrew behind the curtain: the other party, which was headed by Colonel Dent, sat down on the crescent of chairs. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I peek through the curtains, and it’s a sea of bleary-eyed freshmen and seniors. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He introduced himself as Rowan, and they shook hands just as the lights dimmed, the curtain went up, and the music exploded too lush and loud for them to be able to hold a conversation. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This was so like the curtain that flapped in his brain that for a moment he thought the blinking was inside him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The classroom door opened as she spoke, and Snape stepped into the corridor, his sallow face framed as ever by two curtains of greasy black hair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When he looked up, he saw a curtain move in one of the parlor windows and a glimpse of Mr. Crane’s long, sharp nose and close-cropped white hair. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like walking through an invisible curtain. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sort of folded into herself, arms crossed across her gray kurta tunic, curls hiding her face like a makeshift curtain. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He peered out along the side of the canvas curtain, pulled it back, and then vaulted over the tailgate. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t exactly a spacious cavern, more an undercut in the face of the cliff, with a curtain of enormous icicles screening the entrance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I asked as she closed the curtain behind us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They’d constructed a wooden stage with a red curtain across the front. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They flicked restlessly from scene to scene and spent a lot of time studying boring places, like the spaces behind pillars or curtains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured us back into the living room and then moved down the hall to the room at the far end—the one with the black curtains hanging on the side of the entrance. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was immaculate; everything was done in plastics—the floors, the curtain, table tops of stainless burn- less plastic, lamp shades of plastic. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear Nan did battle with Mother’s old curtains.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass got up, took three steps over to the shower curtain, and waited for a disembodied hand to claim the washcloth. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Annemarie’s bedroom was about the same size as mine, but it had nice curtains and the walls were completely covered with all kinds of pictures and photographs, which I couldn’t stop looking at. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, thank goodness,” said Hermione weakly, pointing her wand at Mrs. Black instead; with a bang, the curtains swished shut again and silence fell. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Gerald smiled as he chatted with her by the backstage curtains. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear me all right through the shower curtains, but he didn't answer me right away. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Man like yourself, with such a fine establishment, I bet you hear a lot of talk in a place like this,” he said, stepping past the curtain into the back room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The air on the way to Madame Ruelles bakery smells of myrtle and magnolia and verbena; wisteria vines erupt in blossom; everywhere hang arcades and curtains and pendants of flowers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hurried into the parlor and pulled back the curtain. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Inside, the Sunbeam had lace curtains and two glass vases, which Nivea kept full of fresh-cut flowers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monster in his chest purred...but then he saw Ron ripping open the tapestry curtain and drawing his wand on Harry, shouting things like “betrayal of trust”...“supposed to be my friend”... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A short, pleasurable, if somewhat ghoulish, guffaw sounded behind the curtain. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then, on subsequent National Suicide Days, the grown people looked out from behind curtains as he rang his bell; a few stragglers increased their speed, and little children screamed and ran. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It came from somewhere to his right, where broken chunks of the curtain wall lay half-submerged beneath the bog. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The room was maybe half the size of my bedroom back home: a twin bed with olive-green covers, and matching green curtains covering the small round window above it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then it was gone, thudding down in the grass on the other side of him and disappearing instantly as if a curtain had been drawn. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Streams of sunlight shot through Cecile’s cheap curtains and pointed out Delphine, you got a whole lot of work to do. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only now did Penelope notice that, during the dancing, a curtained playing area had been quickly set up on one side of the ballroom, between the tall windows. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, a nurse would go behind the curtain, stay there for a while, then come out and walk back up the aisle. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I turned and walked slowly across the darkened kitchen, then pulled back the beaded curtain covering the doorway to the cab. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As I grab a cloak, Izzi pushes the curtain to my room aside. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, but too solemn: I half rose, and stretched my arm to draw the curtain. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Frantic, I tied my sleeping bag to the end of one of the curtain rods and waved it for all I was worth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came to Feral’s door, and all was not silent behind his curtain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Through the crack in the curtains it all seems less certain. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I could see the window in an angle of the passage, the curtain blowing softly, backwards and forwards. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In all the windows on that floor the curtains seemed to be drawn. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried back to the castle, thankful that the black curtain of night concealed me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

No edge of light escaped the thick curtains, but the room was bright with the light from the lamps. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each stall is made of a wall of curtains and consists of one little stool. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At one house I knocked at I thought I saw a curtain move, but I couldn’t be sure. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she vanishes behind her bed curtain, leaving Scoob at the table drawing in the margins of his map, he’s made a decision: he’s going to call Dad. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

My father is looking around, making sure the curtains are closed. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Clancy had left the curtain open when he went to answer the door, so Kylie had a full view of me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I pull back the curtains to greet my little corner of Bushwick and Jefferson Avenues, my very own way of stretching out my arms and yawning at the morning sun. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I tug open one of the heavy blue curtains so that a bit of light slips into the dark room. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I could have sworn that I saw the living room curtains move, but still no one answered. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a silver cord dangling from the ceiling, and as she pulled it, the curtains parted and revealed a mirror. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

For privacy, the men had rigged up curtained walls around their cots, small makeshift bedrooms, and in the dark Rat went quickly from room to room, using the flashlight to pluck out the faces. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of dreadful confusion on the stage, the audience was in an uproar, and the curtain was quickly rung down. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Lady, you did right. Now I’m going to do right, something I should have done long ago. Get behind the curtains, love.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

All that morning he had lurked behind his curtain of indifference and looked at things, snapping and glaring at whatever had tried to make him come out into the open. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the blue curtain half-naked women presented portions of themselves to wax. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They crashed through a curtain at the side of the stage and kept going, into more darkness. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once you were inside the curtain wall, you found yourself in a kind of wide alleyway, probably full of frightened sheep, with another complete castle in front of you. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my hammock on the other side of the curtain I envisioned her face: eyes round, pupils large, her eyebrows arched to the hairline. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting here nice and cozy in the front office, peering out through a chink in the heavy curtains. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I push aside the curtains and see the snowstorm has strengthened to a full-out blizzard. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The car is old with dark wood walls and dark green curtains. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing had changed—the frayed red curtains, the armchairs with the upholstery worn thin, the hideous mud-colored carpet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve got the curtain around his bed, and Mrs. Carpenter is in there with him.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It felt more like a curtain that could be lifted away. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

All foreign lands are inaccessible except to servicemen; they are vague, distant, and sealed off as though behind a curtain of plastic. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, it was painted pink and had flower-print curtains in the window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie wanted the green carpet with the big pink roses, the cream-colored lace curtains and the lovely little piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Checkered cotton curtains hang in the windows on thin white rods. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For underneath the curtain was nothing but another curtain. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, I saw the old swollen Frau peeking from beneath her curtains when those Hitler Youth irritants arrived at my door and insisted on coming inside. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He went to the window and drew aside the curtains and the shutters. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of rubbish in one corner of the room: cardboard boxes filled with mildewed papers and decaying curtains in a heap beside them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The stage has no curtains, but the ropes that used to open them still hang from their pulleys, swaying and ghostlike in the middle of the stage. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You know I’m buying curtains in the ghetto?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The curtain rose on Fern Arable holding a blanket in her arms, cooing to a pretend piglet, and the audience applauded. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A hot gust of wind blew the curtains back and sent the fire straight at me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to her to find it strange—the part of her that would have found it strange was on the other side of the curtain. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The curtains are open, which means he can’t get at his writing paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When she was ready, she stripped off Windy’s T-shirt and stepped into the warm water, pulling the curtain closed behind her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found his place near to the road, a little clearing where deer might have lain, and it was curtained thickly with the dry brittle trees that lined the road. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain parts again in about 1500 B.C., when an archipelago of villages, the largest known as Poverty Point, grew up in the northeast corner of Louisiana. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The curtain was dropped, the house lights came on, and the chanting softened, faded, and died. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

August comes out from behind the green curtain, wearing white tie. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As Welles stood in front of the curtain speaking to his cast, the photographer took this shot. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Zephyr and I elbow our way through, parting the curtain of bodies, until we have a front-row seat for the suicidal game that’s being played. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A curtain separated the colored car from the white, and only the porters and the conductor could pass through. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The star-filled tunnel has been removed, only a single curtain separates the courtyard from the entrance now. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry bellowed, directing his wand at her, and with a bang and a burst of red sparks, the curtains swung shut again, silencing her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Long dark curtains concealed the portrait of Sirius’s mother. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dropping the curtain and moving swiftly from the shadows into the candle’s weak light, I reached for the vial. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, Tom and Matt left off their glaring contest and began looking under pillows, behind curtains, in dresser drawers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be right with you,” came a cheerful voice from a curtained doorway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I'd only read about three pages, though, when I heard somebody coming through the shower curtains. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Raskunas had peered out from behind her curtains as we were being hauled off in the night. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Where once a mighty curtain wall had stood, only scattered stones remained, blocks of black basalt so large it must once have taken a hundred men to hoist them into place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

While my husband’s intentions crystallized as rock salt, and while I preoccupied myself with private survival, the Congo breathed behind the curtain of forest, preparing to roll over us like a river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the applause peaked, the principal actor stepped in front of the curtain. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The white curtains were gone, and he could see through the doorway to a small back room. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A photo booth where Hudson and I kissed behind the curtains and made stupid faces. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She looked around at our rental house and said, “This is a nice one you two picked out. I like the curtains.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

"It's gone, sir, dean vanished. I was going round drawing all the curtains and the one in the lav—bathroom wasn't there any longer." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The curtains and even half the windows were open. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From my hiding place behind the curtains, I heard a rustling noise and then the sound of weeping. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He whirled and saw the Ancient standing there, his hands parting the thin curtain of sedge stalks which hid their nest from the path. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He went to the curtain and called behind it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The curtains were drawn and bore black crepe ribbons, and the walls were piled with wreaths of flowers whose sickly sweet odor filled the halls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A velvet curtain concealed the back of the bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you feel like it, set the table,” the mother said, going behind the curtain again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A window took up one whole wall, and the room was bright, the sun streaming through gauzy white curtains. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The curtain, or the sheet or whatever it was, didn't move. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The curtains are still wavering in the small wind, the sun outside is still shining, though not in through the window directly. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed that in spite of his worries, Matt did not run the vacuum cleaner near the hems of the curtains, a favorite hiding place of mice. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed behind the curtain and peeked out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We now slowly ascended a drive, and came upon the long front of a house: candlelight gleamed from one curtained bow-window; all the rest were dark. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The curtain dropped away, and in the mirror I saw my hands shriveling, curling, growing long delicate claws. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some families had their curtains or shades drawn, but sometimes the material was thin and he could still see shadows of the people inside. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the library after dinner, and presently the curtains were drawn, and more logs thrown on to the fire. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I lay on my side, staring at a pool of white moonlight on the wooden floor, a gust of wind blew the curtains out, long and pale as ghosts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We watched him go down another hall to a room that had black curtains on the doorway. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I forgot the musty smell and the drawn curtains of the other windows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He saw windows framed by blue curtains that went from floor to ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard someone say, “Good to see you again, Bobby boy. How’ve you been?” and I turned, and there was Mr. Savo, lying on his pillow, the curtain no longer drawn around his bed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Or he would draw aside the curtain into her court and then spit furiously upon the tiles. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The nets hung down like curtains in the dark water and the salmon, unsuspecting, swam into them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This time he found fabric in front of him—heavy green velvet: the curtains of the study. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Link house stands on a cul-de-sac, up a slight rise with tall young oaks raining acorns over a small front yard and a curtain of cedar and pine bordering the back. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he pulls the very edge of her curtain back, he almost passes out. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting, shaved and in full uniform, on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I changed quickly and then used my nightgown to make an additional changing curtain for Jonas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I duck out from behind the curtain, holding back my smile. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the hall from the bedroom was a bathroom with a baby blue sink, a toilet ringed with rust, and an upright shower stall with neither a door nor a curtain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of the parlor, the curtains were a bit dusty and a bit worn, but well loved and comfortable. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Heavy curtains hang over her windows instead of rugs, blocking the dangerous light. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I watched our parents buy a sofa, then a rug, curtains, chairs to replace the orange and apple crates one by one, now to be used for storage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Defying the storm that threatened, the clouds that curtained the sun now pass, and we three survivors of a long-ago tragedy stand together in silence, beholding one another in the sun’s light. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He shifts his bunk curtain and sees that the one around G’ma’s bed is closed. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Emenike led him upstairs, and into the study, a clean, bright room made brighter by the white bookshelves and white curtains. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boy appeared as if by magic from behind the curtains and led my friend off by the hand, giggling and wiggling his hips like a woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Roke could see well enough in the dim glow through the thin curtains, but the intruder was having to wait for his eyes to adjust. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The curtain of silence is so thick that we cannot even be sure such things occurred—let alone describe them in detail. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was different paint on the walls, a pair of faded yellow chintz curtains fluttering at the open window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They flare high and angry as wooden doors and old curtains catch light. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I yank the curtain aside and trip over the fabric as I do. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A part that could have fallen off a bicycle, a curtain rod, anything, really. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold enough to shake out the curtains of rum in Adam’s head without restoring his timidity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, son, have a seat right there,” Dr. Maris said, nodding to a bed and yanking a curtain to create a fabric wall around them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I went into my own room and drew the curtains, but there was little to notice; my window opened into the courtyard, all I could see was the warm grey of quickening sky. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The long windows were covered with shimmering damask curtains. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gave him a harsher, older look—until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Thief Lord tried very hard to pretend that he was coolness itself, but Prosper and Mosca, as they followed him behind the curtain, sensed that his heart was beating just as fast as theirs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I open the curtain, letting the stormy light in. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I peer through the curtain of her room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The light edging around my curtains seemed not so much like light as its absence. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I lie, then, inside the room, under the plaster eye in the ceiling, behind the white curtains, between the sheets, neatly as they, and step sideways out of my own time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled a secret smile from my small space behind the curtain. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain had barely come down before the men from the Sociological Department approached. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled the curtains to darken the room, but the grey morning light found its way through the gaps at the side. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the curtained window was the summer heat of Madrid. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once in my room, I sat down on the window seat and pulled the curtain back. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And when they reached the palace, even before he had stepped out from behind the curtains of the sedan, the ruler was already calling out orders. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Take those curtains,” McGarrity said, waving a thick hand at the half curtains made of yellow calico with a red rose design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Drowned Forest lurked like a silent cemetery, and when we rotated the raft to face the curtains of mist and flame beyond, my heart skipped a beat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Naima peeked at him from behind the curtain, fiddling with the white ribbon she kept hidden on her wrist under the long sleeve of her salwar kameez. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The decorations, the fireplace, rugs, windows, and curtains were all painted on the metal floors and walls. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I can get behind that,” he murmured, burying his fingers in the curtain of her hair. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was too dark to see, so I pulled back the curtain and set his jar in the windowsill. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There were places you didn’t want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chian holds open the curtain for us, then closes it behind him as we step inside. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The room pulsed with feeling, the feeling flowing with the music and the breeze from the curtains, feeling colored by the blue flowers painted in a border around the walls. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled at him and disappeared behind the curtain. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some sort of heavy, industrial curtain hangs the length of the building, forming a sizable corridor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Floorboards had been yanked up, and curtains had been pulled down. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The nurse pulled open the curtains around his bed to show Kevin’s lifeless body to my mother and me. and placed him in a white body bag. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The entrance was covered with curtains of scaly reptile skin, and flanking the entrance, two torches made from colossal femur bones burned bright yellow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered how he was feeling and if the curtain was still around his bed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My companion looked up and watched her intently as she lowered the window and moved, still visible, behind the light curtain, watching us both. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you’ve spoken to your little sister yet,” she said, and turned to look at the shower curtain. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

James pushed back a curtain concealing a closet filled with a desk and computers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The candle in front of the Virgin had burned out, leaving a waxy smell that the curtains held in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth wall is a curtain of wooden slats strung together. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The windows are bare because I don’t like curtains. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She takes several clumsy steps toward the house and I quickly close the curtains. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But I was also sure something had moved that curtain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This is the moment when Jack pulls the curtain back and my family bursts into the room. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pushing through a curtain of mucus was almost as fun as Piper imagined. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She got up from the bed and disappeared through the curtains across the doorway. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I reached past the curtain and grabbed his shoulder, but he pulled away. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hazel himself paused in the mouth of the hole, as he always had behind the bramble curtain at home, and looked out across the valley. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtains were barely scorched, and the man had replaced them without comment. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The lace curtains were gray, the floors, although swept, grew sticky and dank. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After pulling the bunk curtain shut, he opens the small window near his head and lies faceup. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then they, too, shut their door and closed the curtains. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the captain announced that we were nearly there, at first I thought he was kidding; all I could see from the ferry’s rolling deck was an endless curtain of gray. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The floor is dark brown tile, and each shower stall has wooden walls and a plastic curtain separating it from the central aisle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Until the curtain comes up and he's standing there, ten years old and alone in the center of the P.S. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The curtain has big yellow check and birds painted on....” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawl up and look at my bed as I pull back my curtains to let the moonlight in. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We wore orange space suits that my mom had made from old curtains, and square space helmets we’d made from cardboard boxes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He did not wish to open the curtains and open the french windows, for he did not want the moon to come into the room. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow people clawing out of the darkness, hunched against curtains of wind and water as they dashed for safety. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

La Madrina told me she had to fashion Felicia’s necklaces from the beaded curtains of a restaurant in Old Havana. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not when he pulled the curtain and drew the sorceress up from the plank, not when the seed corn he’d piled on her stomach like peaches spilled off. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The outside of the bus is royal blue with shiny chrome rims, and the windows are covered in white linen curtains. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We tore through ribbons of ripped shower curtains, the body lotion, the bleach, to the line of cash registers at the front of the store. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

So, holding on to each other, they headed back through the curtain. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

From Good Friday to Easter, my parents had kept us inside, with the curtains drawn and the door barred. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled back the shower curtain and stared over at the closed door. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were thin curtains on the windows and you couldn’t see in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

My room, like Kitchen-Girl’s and Cook’s, is a dank hole with a low entrance and a ragged curtain that serves as a door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed the attentive faces around him for a moment and then sat down cross-legged in front of the starry curtain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door curtain lifted again, and the King was in the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scrambled up and saw the snake outlined against the landing light: It struck, and Hermione dived aside with a shriek; her deflected curse hit the curtained window, which shattered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In a third, he punched the air in exultation as the final curtain fell, although there was no curtain, there was no possibility of a curtain. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The larger room, dominated by an oven, was the bakery, and the other, separated by a flimsy curtain, was his bedroom. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The striped curtain beyond the ticket booth hangs open, and through the haze, Marco can see a figure standing in the shadows, illuminated by the sharp spark of light from a cigarette lighter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I could hear it a thousand times,” Riccio said, pushing aside a dark and musty curtain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mother’s voice sounds as smooth and soft as her creamy curtains and her skin glows as white as the milk she pours into the cereal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curtain in the room directly across the landing has caught fire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She let the curtain fall back in place and walked to the kitchen, wiping her hands on the dish towel slung over her shoulder. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She peered at me round an invisible curtain. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He draws back a curtain and lets me go behind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

After a while Gandalf got up, closed the shutters outside the window, and drew the curtains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But it was fresh painted, and chintz curtains hung in the windows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

There's just enough streetlight coming through the curtains, so I can make out part of his face when he turns it. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The jail in Tiburon did not have curtains like the one in Sylvan. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick let the curtain drop back into place and walked past me out of the room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Scared eyes peeked through curtains that were quickly drawn, and each door stayed silent and shut. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I thought I could see sunlight through the closed lid of my right eye, and I dreamed about waking up in the hospital yesterday afternoon and the nurse moving the curtain away. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In another box there was nothing but old cut-velvet curtains with fringe at the bottom. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the velvet curtain, my lounge singer’s voice began to purr. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My curtains are closed, but I can see a glow from Olly’s room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My hair made a curtain around his face. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A red velvet curtain covered the stage, and on either side was a small wooden door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The creature appeared from the curtains of webbing, and Annabeth realized that her quest was hopeless. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa poked his head through the curtain in front of his office door. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A white curtain separates me from the other people who lie here, groaning sometimes, coughing. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows were open and a damp cool breeze swirled through the curtains, bewitchingly wild and sweet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I checked the curtain hems, the chair upholstery, inside the phone—everywhere. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A face appears from a curtain, staring at me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went over to the window and pulled the curtain aside and looked out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Chantal’s clock says it’s three thirty in the morning, and Bad Leg’s voice eases through the locked windows and thick curtains to hover above my air mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ron, who had been searching the folds of the faded curtains, looked disappointed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A curtain of corrugated tin quivered as if something were behind it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Four posts held up a silk canopy and at each post dangled large silk ties holding back curtains. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It still lurked in dark, unclean corners, still clung to dirty sheets and curtains. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She had even removed the curtains, and for some reason I found this small detail shattering. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wishes the curtains were open, so that she could talk to the American women. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She put on some water to boil and then swept the porch; then she hauled out the curtain stretcher, but instead of putting the damp curtains on it, she swept the porch again. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the branches I could see the curtains on the bay window were closed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I read: I open the curtain to look outside. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And the waterfalls might have been curtains of pale silk hung from the cliff tops, too numerous to count. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stared at the palm-tree curtains and the dark world outside. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I pray where I am, sitting by the window, looking out through the curtain at the empty garden. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them the curtain closes.The spiders return to their killing ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following is from Nicole’s journal: The prep room is cold green curtains. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And how even the most organized trailer with nice curtains and a nice lamp and an alphabetized DVD collection is worth nothing if... The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Open cars of flowers—like convertibles in some nightmare Rose Parade—crept behind the curtained hearse. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We must enter from behind the stage curtains three at a time, stopping at each X before it’s time to hit the X in the middle of the stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He sat up quickly and looked over at Colin’s bed, but it had been blocked from view by the high curtains Harry had changed behind yesterday. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

No one came to the door, no window curtain stirred. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I want to get me some new linoleum for the parlor. You ever used them paper curtains, honey? They don’t look too bad. I seen some nice ones up by Maison Blanche.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes into my bedroom and peeks behind the curtains and under the bed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a vast open-air hall with wooden benches, a velvet curtain with Greek masks, and three box offices in the shape of lions' heads, through whose mouths the tickets were sold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Before he pulled the curtains of his four-poster shut, Harry set his tiny model of the Hungarian Horntail on the table next to his bed, where it yawned, curled up, and closed its eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It had printed curtains hanging on the inside, hiding its contents. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the edge of Stick’s bed, holding the curtain in my fist, staring out into the night. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Over a year ago and yet it still hung up there like a hazy curtain meant to remind them forever. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Uneasy, I turn, try to lift the window curtain. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Max grabs his plank of wood, steps toward the curtain, and I’m turning Helena, ready to run to the bedroom, when the door is kicked open, a little explosion of splinters flying from the lock. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Lace curtains hang limp over the two front windows. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He slips through a curtained door leading to the back-stage dressing rooms unnoticed. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When the introductions are over, the curtains close and the teachers rush us to the dressing room to get changed for the next segment of competition: talent. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A man dressed as a ketchup bottle is trying to decide between keeping his gold envelope or trading it for curtain number three. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Trey pulls back the window curtain to look out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

With a sudden movement, Mrs. Byrne drops the curtain and wheels around. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harry spent most of the afternoon in his bedroom; he couldn’t stand watching Aunt Petunia peer out through the net curtains every few seconds, as though there had been a warning about an escaped rhinoceros. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

From where they stood, hidden by the curtain, Jane and Michael could distinctly hear their voices. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The old woman led the boy to a room at the back of her house; it was separated from her living room by a curtain of colored beads. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let down my window-blind. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then Howard broke through that frozen curtain of time by grabbing his shoes and heading off up the path toward his house, leaving me standing there ashamed and heavyhearted. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caruthers still snored, and Ophie placed the tray on the small table before going to open the curtains for the older woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She went back behind another sheet curtain and came out with two eggs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had the window wide open and the sheets and blankets thrown back Mrs Helena Kingshaw drew the curtains across, the bracelets slipping and chinking down her arm, from elbow to wrist. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She was about to weep when the saleswoman poked her head through the curtain and said brightly, “How are you doing?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I twisted up the curtain in my fingers and held on. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Helen noticed a red rug, piles of books on the floor, white eyelet cafe curtains on the windows. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, after Connor and Mom came back from the store, he pushed the sheer curtains open. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She ran to the window and nearly ripped the curtains from their hangings as she opened them to the gray mountains and bleakness of Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then, amazingly, the curtains at the far end of the salon parted and El Patron walked in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two wide windows with sheer curtains, a closet with an ironing board tucked inside, a mini fridge, a mini wastebasket. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everything is blue and white checked in the kitchen— the towels and napkins and curtains and tablecloth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The housemaids would open up the house, throw wide the windows, draw back the curtains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to respect one another’s curtains, but it was an imperfect system, especially where Minya was concerned. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You can take as much manioc as you can carry,” the boy called as the womanpulled their grass curtain closed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The top was covered with Celestial bronze mesh, like the curtains that roll down over closed storefronts at the mall. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The curtain has already risen on Our American Cousin. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s something like a heavy curtain hanging clear across it. He couldn’t see through that.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, he closed the crack in the curtains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nor do I claim a lurking triumphant face behind a window curtain. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had he already told Cain what was beyond the curtain? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now, skirting the City, there were no green curtains; the whole car could be full of colored people and everybody on a first-come first-serve basis. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the curtain drops, Rémy whispers, "Be careful about carrying other people's secrets at court." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The curtains are drawn, but what light there is hurts my eyes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair curtained across their faces as she leaned even closer toward him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He replaced the curtains and the canopy of the bed with new velvet, and he had the bathroom floor covered with paving stones and the walls with tiles. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I get up and pull the curtain back. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When they came to the Chetwood already the boughs were almost bare, and a great curtain of rain veiled Bree Hill from their sight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And then the beaded curtain parts, though she heard no one approach. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The company room was being readied with fresh whitewash and new linen curtains. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Either something else had happened, or old Mrs. Burgess had come back from the dead to curse Nan for tearing down her curtains. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Her bedroom curtains flutter, then the front door opens. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

After a minute her oval face appeared, the shower curtain snug around it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She held the curtain as I stepped in, then she let it drop and all was dark. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sparrow wandered up the corridor, past her own room and Ruby’s, all silent behind their curtains. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Emily warned us, as she peered out at the street from between her drawn curtains. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry went to the window and pulled aside a shabby lace curtain. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ron crossed to the window and moved the heavy velvet curtain aside an inch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She had insisted to her father that the curtains not be entirely closed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

After a few moments, the curtains opened again and the main feature, The Million, by a director named Rene Clair, began. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A sliver of a man could be seen looking out at them, a man with long black hair parted in curtains around a sallow face and black eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I woke in the morning, the curtain was still drawn around Mr. Savo’s bed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beauty shops always had curtains or shades up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain parts to gasps and scattered applause. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Those are her old blackout curtains from the war,” Miss Volker explained. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t realize he’s lost track of Henry until the patient he’s visiting dozes off, and he recognizes the low rumble of Henry’s voice on the other side of the curtain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Good girl. Come in quickly. We haven’t got long,” said the Master, and drew the curtain back across the door as soon as she had entered. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight streamed in through the windows, and from time to time a gentle breeze lifted the curtains. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The stage had a piano on it and red velvet curtains that were always open. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now she is alone, cut off by curtains from the three other women in the room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a curtained gateway at each end, like the dramatic hole through which the circus people ride into their arena. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slithered along the curtains and followed Maria. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the monkey words would unsettle me; a curtain flapped loose inside my brain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve forgotten there’s a man sitting at the window, watching the street and the yard through the crack in the curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“He makes me feel like a dog,” Vera sobbed with her face buried in her hands, going behind the curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A little breath of sweet air moved the curtain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The curtain rises, and the set is a hallway in our school. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, the curtains of rain became so heavy and dark, we could not see more than ten feet ahead of us on the highway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A minor groundswell sounded behind the shower curtain, as though a rather delinquent porpoise were suddenly at play. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

George looked up, but all she could see was the heavy stage curtain, which enveloped her in a stuffy darkness before knocking her off the ladder. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Once he had us inside the dimly lit, bare living room, Karim locked the front door, pulled the tattered sheets that passed for curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Straighter, Vanessa,” Mrs. Caldwell whispers from behind the curtain. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Where they hit the windshield, they left blurry marks, until it seemed like I was looking at the world through a curtain of tears. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls who don't want to be looked at don't tie curtain tassels in their hair. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The black curtains lay in shreds on the floor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ma’s first shot had blowed a hole in the piece of curtain and one of the gold tassels had busted out afire. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“And get rid of those curtains. Maybe you could go shopping with me—can you get your mom’s American Express?” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Among the phrases he minted were “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” “their finest hour,” “the few,” “the end of the beginning,” “business as usual, ” “iron curtain, ” “summit meeting, ’’ and “peaceful coexistence. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Respect the curtain,” he intoned, and looked back down at his book. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“That you, Bigger?” his mother called from behind the curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I duck down and let the curtain fall closed, but still I listen, confused. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Drawing the curtains, Chronicler undressed for bed, laying his clothes over the back of a chair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The slightest movement, almost imperceptible, before a hand ripped back the curtain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I mean it from now on, just stay away from the windows. And don’t go into a room unless we’ve got the shades or curtains pulled.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

A nylon shower curtain, scarlet, with a design of canary-yellow sharps, flats, and clefs on it, was bunched up at the foot of the tub, attached with plastic rings to an over-head chromium bar. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once dusk came, we locked all the doors and windows and closed the curtains. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod, and they slip through the curtain, out into the bright, bustling halls of the hospital. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She pushes me down the bright white hallway, lined with doorways and drawn curtains and hand sanitizer dispensers mounted on the walls. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the lights were on and the curtains drawn, and the Gregorian music played on the great phonograph, Mack used to look down on the laboratory from the Palace Flophouse. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the room, I pull back the curtain on the bed farthest from the door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A host shows us to our table—a booth toward the back, partially hidden by velvet curtains that can be undone to shroud the space entirely. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The torrent overflowed the gutters, and a curtain of rainwater leaped off the roof. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert came in and began drawing the curtains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She ducked beneath a long curtain of vines and disappeared. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She left the window and walked toward white velvet curtains hanging against the icy wall. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She passed them in through the curtain of leaves and sat with her back to him till he was dressed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mosca gazed dreamily up at the curtain, which was glittering in the candlelight as if it were covered in golden spider's threads. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, when I glance up, I see a curtain of hair and dark eye sockets staring back at me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The man holds up the canopy's thick brocade curtain so I can speak to Rémy. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Abuela’s Miami windows were draped with white crocheted curtains, as was the glass-topped table, the sofa, the doors to all the rooms, and all the beds and dressers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The curtains, moving in the breeze, were like the sea’s foam. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The curtain is supposed to fall at this point.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is ten minutes until the curtain will rise. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I drew the gauzy curtains shut, my fingers sliding over their silky surface. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Soft light from the moon and stars came through the sheer curtains into our room, making patterns on my bedspread that I traced with my finger. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I walk into the mostly empty auditorium—curtain time is still more than an hour away—and I'm met by Gary, whose hair is dyed lighter, and chopped short and messy like mine. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The white curtain that divides my bed from the next patient’s whips back, and Johanna Mason stares down at me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I follow her behind the curtain that separates the two rooms. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She hurried to the window and opened the curtain. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his fascination with plastic, something I discovered when the shower curtain was riddled with tiny bite marks, my bedroom now had the honor of housing his litter box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Look up,” said the bear, as a waft of breeze moved aside the heavy curtain of the fog. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I moved from one bed to the next, peeking through the gaps between the curtains. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I creep up behind him and watch through the curtain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Stateroom 3 is glorious as well as a misnomer—it constitutes half the car, and contains at least one additional room, which is cordoned off with a thick velvet curtain. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He consents without a murmur, all join in a joyful chorus, and the curtain falls upon the lovers kneeling to receive Don Pedro’s blessing in attitudes of the most romantic grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I am— I mean, I see the mirror, I see my towel wave through the air, I see the shower curtain jump when I punch at it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lenny is also my mom’s boyfriend, and that’s why we get to live here with his nice curtains and end tables that are perfectly aligned with this couch. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He jumped out of bed and went to the window, to draw the curtain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not out to match it with the curtains or disguise it to look like something it's not. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It had a huge bed and flowing white curtains—and, oddly, a small antique rocking horse and a collection of old weather vanes arranged on a large wooden desk. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The male gods would all stand behind a curtain, with only their feet showing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Here, Jane!” he said; and I walked round to the other side of a large bed, which with its drawn curtains concealed a considerable portion of the chamber. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Milkman waited on the sidewalk, staring at the curtained window of the beauty shop. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the curtains, which I pull closed behind me, block the view from inside our bedroom. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Behind him a wood is painted on a curtain, and on the table stands a mug of beer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard footsteps—someone was crossing the stage on the other side of the heavy curtain. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He appeared through the thick red curtains and walked to the center of the stage. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the curtain on the living room window, a man’s head appeared. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The women were expected to sit silently, separated from the men by a bar and low curtain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get it open. I brought along a few tools—burglar’s tools, you might say—in my back pack. Should I climb up the stand? No. It looks slippery. I think I’ll try the curtain.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the doctor whisked open the curtain by my hospital bed and said, “So I heard we have a ballerina in today!” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the curtain of wings, Gregor could hear his voice beckoning. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one heard me when I accidentally tore down the shower curtain sneaking into the house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I went over and rubbed the curtains against my face. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

What did they do with everything—carpets, curtains, lamps, lightbulbs? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Every single time, it was like he had drawn a white curtain around his brain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Clancy had told me that when I felt it coming on, I needed to break all physical contact and imagine a white curtain sweeping between me and whomever I was with. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I swivel the big computer monitor around so I can sit and not have my back toward the doorway or the big curtained window. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked across the hall to Great-great-aunt Florentine’s bedroom and peeked through her curtains to see how many folks were downstairs. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of my shoulders is covered in lace, and the other is hidden behind a long curtain of silk. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I think you just like to wallow,” said Maria, striding in to open the curtains and windows. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Izzi gestures to a low door with a curtain strung across it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A stream of dancing lights, for all the world like the shimmering curtains of the aurora, blazed across the screen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner walked around to the side porch—the shutters had all been painted there, too—and he found a single window whose curtains had not been pulled. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

On a queen-size bed, under a window draped with lace curtains, his mother is asleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ophie cast her eyes around the room for something to distract the cousins before they could get started on her when she noticed an eerie light out in the garden, just beyond the lace curtains. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had converted what used to be a tool shed into his private world, with a padlock on the door and curtained windows from which sometimes rose sweet-smelling smoke. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He thrust the container between the curtains of the chair and, after a bark from the emperor, jumped into the chair himself. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Later when the curtains caught fire and were put out with the little towels, the captain told the boys not to mind it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Nawaz leads me between two rows of beds separated by white plastic curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gas lamps light the auditorium until the curtain falls, when they are dimmed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She hands me a robe and tugs the curtain around the bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then she took out the nice red and white curtains she had brought. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The trees parted like a curtain and suddenly there it was, cloaked in fog, looming atop a weed-choked hill. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

So the manager gave the signal for the curtain to go down, and the audience stood up and cheered. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He yelled something, loud enough that his next-door neighbors opened their curtains to see what was happening. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He repeated the steps of his plan, his eyes on the window left ajar, as the sheer blue curtains swayed. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When the window is partly open — it only opens partly — the air can come in and make the curtains move. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Seattle, anticipating this hazard, I’d stopped at a hardware store and purchased a pair of stout aluminum curtain rods, each ten feet long. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the cavernous chamber with its oversize hearth and red velvet curtains, the room in which Roza awoke was small, simple, neat, and so familiar. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Max watches carefully from the edges of the curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A warm breeze came into the room and lifted the lace curtains that fronted the windows. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the room was dark, the curtains closed tight. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent many hours doing nothing but lying on my side, a life jacket pushed out of place a few inches, like a curtain from a window, so that I might have a clear view. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The creek itself was viscous as phlegm, but its indentation marked the beginning of the brass curtain that separated the officers and their families from the enlisted men and their families. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we turned to sit down, she was over by the windows, in front of the heavy velvet curtains, holding us in a glare, like we were in a class and she was a teacher. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early morning light filtered through closed blinds and drawn curtains. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Old bedsheets, purchased for a quarter each at the thrift store, turned into curtains, a tablecloth, pillow covers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A nurse appeared and disappeared through the tattered- curtained doctor’s door. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last glimpse I had of her was her hand dragging the curtain back around. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I fled down an alley, past dark curtained shops and merchants washing the grime off their windows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the floor and twitched back the curtains and looked out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I longed for a confessional, for the safety of the wood cubicle and the green curtain that separated priest and penitent. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Theo visits him in the ward, which Vincent will paint later: rows of beds, with curtains to pull around them for privacy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A shadow moves in front of it so that I can see the outline of her, as if she’s watching me through the curtain. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Harry drew the curtains tight shut, then pulled the Cloak off himself and Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I keep the lamps off so that no one will see Antonio’s shadow through the curtains when he comes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair had come loose and was hanging in a tangled blond curtain all around her face. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In single files they sponge-bathe and relieve themselves behind blanket curtains. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The window behind the curtain was wide open, but nobody was walking on the pavement outside. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, what a sweet house!—How very beautiful!—There are the yellow curtains that Miss Nash admires so much.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Everything in the dark assumed a spectral appearance through white netting: a ghostly bureau, a ghostly toybox, ghostly curtains. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

On the left, a tidy bedroom with a single window and long curtains. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There’s sunlight streaming through the pieces of tissue paper Braselton Preparatory Academy calls curtains. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“All the curtains are closed,” I whispered, “and they are black.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Silhouettes kiss behind curtains; playful fingers examine and caress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was graceful, and she held on to the moment as tightly as she could, even after the curtains were pulled shut. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

You should have heard the clapping as the curtain came down on dead Helen Burns. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was only a curtain between my rope cot and the charpoy of my parents. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Dead rattlers drying on the shower curtain rod. A man with rulers for hands sitting in the room next door. You know, chihuahuas in the mini-fridge.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the back wall were two curtained doorways, with a larger curtained space between them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

That night, she washed out her dress with the cup of water, hanging it like a curtain from her sleeping shelf. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun broke through the curtains at the window in the room I shared with Jay I was already awake, excited and nervous all at once for the first day of school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, we arrive at a curtain labeled The Bottomless Pit. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was dark, with thick closed curtains, black couches, dim lights, and deep brown wood-paneled walls lined with religious scenes on blacklight posters. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The curtain of hair shimmied back over her own shoulders, where it belonged. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, a curtain in the green house moved. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Why don’t you just leave with your little one. Take the curtain, if you’re so interested." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sooty, cheap lace curtains hung at the window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A guy with a stubbly beard and tousled brown hair slid aside the velvet curtain and walked out, barefoot and in jeans and no shirt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He eyes the curtains furtively, as if considering hiding in them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I close my curtains, suppressing a smile, and walk away. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The curtains were still drawn, and they could hear Fang barking as they approached. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to pretend to sleep anymore, so I sat up and watched their silhouettes through the curtain. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I drew open the curtains and put away the handful of clothes scattered on the floor. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But everything’s lit with twinkle lights, and the hanging white curtains seem to glow against the sunset. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A towering black curtain had been swept across half of the room, blocking the other half from sight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As she left, already parting the curtain at the front door, Obinze’s mother said, “And make sure you and Obinze have a plan. Have a plan.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even wait to get it all the way unwrapped from the curtains of George Washington’s cousin. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather not be interrupted,” said Scrimgeour shortly, “or watched,” he added, pointing his wand at the windows, so that the curtains swept across them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He pulled the curtain and she saw the asbestos roll up like a giant’s shade. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They curtained the windows and crawled over me, trying to enter my mouth and ears even as they stung me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He could probably see what was behind the curtain from his place on the mezzanine. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance marched up to the stage and pulled the curtain shut. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The Packard’s trunk could fit four cases of liquor, its commodious, curtained backseat eight more. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She makes sure the blackout curtains are fully closed before turning on the lamp at Mr. de Vries's desk. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just like the crazy and grieving mother, Amá keeps all the blinds and curtains drawn, which makes our cramped apartment even more stuffy and depressing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The living room was decorated in shades of orange and brown, and the plaid pattern of the curtains matched the couch upholstery. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m standing behind the stage curtain, waiting for my turn to practice my evening-wear modeling. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The carpet on the floor is red, red curtains are drawn over the windows. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in the back, behind a curtain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So I closed the curtain around me again and waited. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They walked as quickly as they dared, past more windows sparkling with multicolored lights, the outlines of Christmas trees dark through the curtains. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Windows were curtained or uncurtained, but there were no lights glowing, no sounds apart from the surge and rush of the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The old curtains and rugs were packed away, and new ones in white, pink, and gold took their place. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I risk a peek through the curtains and catch a glimpse of a figure standing in the corner of the room, swathed in darkness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the sidewalk below my building is deserted, the windows across the street rows of dead eyes, dark with curtains and dresses and rugs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I took a quick one, keeping the curtain open and my eyes on the door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Above these was a small balcony backed by a curtain and, above that, a thatched roof which covered the rear half of the stage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opens, and I yank back the window curtain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

On opening night at Truman, the cast gathers three hours before curtain. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Whatever Comrade Pillai stored in his curtained cupboard, it wasn’t broken balsa airplanes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was hard and curtained, and his eyes looked at generalities and did not inspect details. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since no one bothered pulling the curtain around to give me some privacy, I decided I wasn’t obligated to wear the stupid-looking neck brace anymore. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The stage was dark for a moment, and silent; then suddenly, with a burst of golden light and an orchestral overture from the CD player behind the curtain, Angel stepped onto the stage. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We peeked through the curtains at the audience as the Upper School Chamber Choir finished its last song. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She could feel the blood washing down her face, a rippling red curtain falling across her brow and cheeks and chin, and she understood why the priest had made her close her eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There’s no breeze, my white curtains are like gauze bandages, hanging limp, glimmering in the aura cast by the searchlight that illuminates this house at night, or is there a moon? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while Balder was indeed beautiful, the feet she had chosen, Skadi discovered when the curtain was lifted, belonged to Njord, god of chariots, father of Frey and of Freya. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At 8:00 P.M., the management at Ford’s decided not to hold the curtain for the presidential party, and the play began without them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron called through the curtain as he pulled Harry’s limp fingers through the cuff. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I step through the curtain and my senses are assaulted. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In my room I kept the curtains pulled, the door locked, and the television turned up loud. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I pulled several straws from the broom and held them to the fire until they blazed; I rushed to the window and brought the flame in touch with the hems of the curtains. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the bare floor in front of the curtain was a boy. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My own fault, Artemis. Apparently I left a gap in the curtains. Mrs. Fowl couldn’t sleep.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I know,” Juanita chimed in from behind the shower curtain she was using to cover up while she dressed for bed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She would lurch out of dark corners; houses with crazy girls have locked rooms and drawn curtains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at the moment of greatest passion and conviction, that curtain flapped in his head and he forgot what he had been driving at. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then he bought a wide and deep carven bed, big enough for a small room in itself, and he bought flowered curtains to hang about it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He saw more guards standing in the shadows and Celia in a beam of light from a gap in the curtains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stove sat on a small table underneath a window that had plastic curtains. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she ambles to her sleeping corner and vanishes behind the curtain. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She looks over to where the sunlight is shining around the corner of Lenny’s nice curtains. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs was this plain old bathroom with a shower curtain that had all kinds of fish designs on it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He did not see the lace curtains parting, or Mrs. Cobb watching him sprinting, or hear her humming “I Have Some Friends Before Me Gone.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Some of the beds have curtains between them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ralph drew back his window curtain, moved his desk so that the sun kept his tea warm. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had no sail, just a single bare mast that jutted up mid-ship, a daggerlike tower that cut through the curtains of steam. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Deborah had her husband hang dark curtains on their windows and stopped answering her phone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The bridge table is set up in Hilly’s antebellum- style parlor with its deafening grandfather clock and gold swag curtains. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Right now the curtain is pulled aside so you can see both our halves at once. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze blew into the kitchen, stirring the ruffled curtains and carrying with it the odors of grass and flowers and orange blossoms. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Of course there was also a curtain on the side of the confessional to protect the sinners from curious eyes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arm got up, making a spidery silhouette against the pink curtain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a slight mist of light, coming through the cracks around the closed drapes, from the searchlight outside, where two men doubtless patrol, I’ve seen them, from above, from behind my curtains, dark shapes, cutouts. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm went to the window and pulled the curtain aside slightly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knocked, and after a moment, Aileen poked her head out the door, the black curtain curled around her face like a nun’s habit. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their industrious need made me light-headed: my dresses would be curtains, and my curtains, dresses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its pale yellow curtain flapped in the wind as if a ghost were caught in it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He stood again and began to pace between the window and the white curtain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In one of the sixth-floor windows, the curtain was drawn back. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a big black curtain hanging across the back of the stage. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Madge made herself scarce, although every now and then her golden eyes would flash from beneath a chair or behind a curtain, as if she were looking for Albert. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the curtain was a closed coffin displayed on a polished wood platform. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From the three-foot-tall pedestal, a geyser of sand spewed upward, arcing into an umbrella-shaped curtain of white particles before spilling into the circular basin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He opened the doors, letting the filmy white curtains flutter out into the afternoon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then I go to the window and peek beyond the edge of the curtain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The window behind the curtain let in enough afternoon light to hint at the shape of a bed and dresser. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But probably it was only that carpets and couches and curtains just didn’t make the right atmosphere for a game about hidden splendors and giant mysteries, in a land of mud and sand. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night I pulled the black air raid curtains to and read on and on, huddled close to our bedroom lamp. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I advanced; then paused by the crib side: my hand was on the curtain, but I preferred speaking before I withdrew it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When they knocked on the door of the gamekeeper’s hut an hour later, they were surprised to see that all the curtains were closed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Lying beneath his cold sheets that night, she watched him pull the curtains shut. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I crossed restlessly to the window and pushed back the long fluffy white curtains—which I had been forbidden to touch—and looked yearningly out into the empty street. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in bed, I push aside the curtain and let the sunlight spill in, brighter than any lamp. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We jumped up to look through the curtains, but Cecile came out of the kitchen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve always liked watching the sky drop down like a foamy purple curtain when a summer storm rumbles across Florida Bay. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A white censor was standing over me and, like dreams forming a curtain for the safety of sleep, so did my lies form a screen of safety for my living moments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes into the living room and turns on a table lamp and begins to attack the curtains with the hot iron. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He pulls the curtain back a little more. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

New curtains for the windows, like Mom was planning on. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she went downstairs to the kitchen, ran her hands over the sticky, grease-stained counter, the vinyl, flowered curtains that smelled like burned meals. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The curtains were pulled back from my bed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The curtain having fallen for the night, the evening over, and the first act set for to-morrow’s matineé. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Father stood at the window, pulling back the curtains every few moments to look out. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I saw the curtain had been pulled back from his bed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hornet leaned against the starry curtain and shrugged. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Abby and her violinist finish to surprised, appreciative applause, and then the curtains close partially while the stage is set for the final act. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A real house with curtains and proper shelves for my books and actual chairs to sit on, not old lard buckets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

White curtains divided the cave into different rooms with comfy pillows and woven rugs and platters of fresh fruit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Electric light glows from the radio behind the curtain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This curtain of silence shrouds tens of thousands of years of history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Watras tapped his baton on the podium.The curtain opened. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peek out from the corner of my curtains. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tab’s head appeared through the opening in the curtain. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Finally I saw a dark wooden sign saying welcome to turners station in the parking lot of a fire-scorched bar with pink tasseled curtains. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s dark in her room, and the one window behind her headboard is covered with a thick curtain. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At night, when I heard the cries coming from across the yard, I’d turn my ear toward my parents resting on the other side of the curtain. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him sip his tea and listened to the soft rustling of the curtains as they moved in the breeze. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The curtain went up on the second act before he could explain his meaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I could see the light come out from the dressing station when the curtain opened and they brought some one in or out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The wooden floor, the light blue walls, the peaked ceiling, the yellowed lace curtains around the window — these were all a part of my childhood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then she made her way over to a metal box fixed to the wall near the front door and hidden behind a thick, dusty curtain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange, appearing and disappearing again, a shadow half-seen behind a fluttering curtain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The only light in the room had been filtering through the curtains. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Those who remained were banished to segregated areas or hidden behind curtains so that white civil servants and visitors to the offices wouldn’t have to see them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The curtains were drawn, the large space lit dimly by lamps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A curtain pulled back in the window of the house next door. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She gets out of bed and parts the curtains, then returns to bed and shakes Nikhil awake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The windows—no curtains, like they want everybody to know what they got. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I look down and discover I’m holding a bundle of two shirts and what appear to be curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He placed Flying with the Cannons on his bedside table, crossed to the window, and drew back the curtains to survey the street below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He brought down the curtain and placed two chairs facing each other. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kept gliding until the line of smoky white became a cloudy smudge, then a curtain of fog. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Quick as a minnow, the net curtain twitched back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then they shut their door and closed the curtains. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I closed the curtains and pulled the blankets up to my chin, but it took me a long time to stop shaking. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’re certainly quick at counting,” he said and pushed the curtain aside. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Hullo!’ said Pippin, poking his head round the curtain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The knights had little curtains on the back of their helms, to keep the hot sun off the metal, like the handkerchief which cricketers will sometimes arrange behind their caps today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Green dimity curtains hung over the windows in Theodora’s room, the wallpaper was decked with green garlands, the bedspread and quilt were green, the marble-topped dresser and the huge wardrobe were the same. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I let go of the curtain, turn away, and press my back against the wall, breathing hard. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emilika lifted a curtain that divided the front of the store from the back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“In daytime my mama pulls back the curtain so that we children can play on her bed. If first we brush off our feet....” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to the window and, without moving the curtain, watch through the sliver of a gap. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Looking somewhat like a British officers’ club, the Marshall was wood-paneled, with plush burgundy velvet curtains, several fireplaces, and oak tables fitted with brass lamps. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But with the khal off hunting, it was pleasant to lie back on soft cushions and be carried across Vaes Dothrak, with red silk curtains to shield her from the sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Keeping the wall to his back, he slid toward the window and ripped down the curtain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Usually, this is the time of day Mom gets the house settled for the night—giving Dad his evening meds, putting away the dishes, closing the curtains. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I looks out on the porch and whispers to the other side of the curtain that divides the room, “Ma? You sleeping? It’s the sheriff!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There's shouting across the street, and I run to the window to look from behind the curtain. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And how am I supposed to find curtains for those windows? They don’t make curtains that big. Everyone can see right in!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A silent immediate guard appeared between curtains at the end of the dais. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Señor Diaz walked through a set of red curtains into a small back room where a man sat playing a solitary game of cards. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He stood outside the curtains and coughed, and Adina stuck her head out. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Blind anger had come often and he had either gone behind his curtain or wall, or had quarreled and fought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain billowed up, revealing Joana's tanned face in the window. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was sparely furnished, having but a small table, two chairs and a bench; but at either side there were curtained alcoves and well-clad beds within with vessels and basins for washing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Catherine, don’t—” the queen says, but Catherine grabs the heavy curtains with both hands and throws them open. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She stood blinking on the other side of the velvet curtains, in a poorly fit theater. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The evening breeze floated through the open window over my desk, waltzing the curtain from side to side. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then came curtains, a rag rug, Mrs. Soldano’s white slips, sheets, and a small, worn stuffed bear that I knew was my best pal’s. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white curtain caught in my hair as I passed it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered Mr. Savo lying in his bed behind the curtain. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He spent his day shut within four walls behind a locked door, so that no one would happen to walk in to clean his room, and with the blinds lowered and the curtains drawn. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone has been watching from behind a curtain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was more fun to rub your face against the curtains than on the clean sheets every Monday. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bent her head over the autoharp and her long hair fell down like a curtain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the competitors tried to look calm as he strode to the center of the curtain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Alex pushed the curtains back and peered out the front window again. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

A shadow moved behind lace curtains on the upper half of the door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I gave her a wave, her hand had appeared, flickering for a second in the wedge of light between the parted drapes before the curtain dropped and she disappeared. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The drawing-room curtains were open, and I saw that the room was empty. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I placed his arm-chair by the chimney-corner: I wheeled the table near it: I let down the curtain, and had the candles brought in ready for lighting. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He lifted a gunnysack curtain, rubbed a peephole in the thick coating of dirt, and peered through. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then closed and barred the heavy inside shutters and drew the curtains together. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The curtains on the windows are tied back, and moonlight flashes through the trees, alternately illuminating and hiding his face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We started off immediately the first day sewing curtains. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our so-called colorblind society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure—the structure of racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the driver’s side, there was a small opening in the curtain, and the deputy peered through it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All that was left were the curtains on the windows and a tacked-up Japanese print that Bunny had given him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lifting the curtain by his bed, he saw his father shooting baskets beneath the night light. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My curtain, my bed, and even the door to the kitchen were once again covered in dust. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mama pulled back the kitchen curtain and looked out the window. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

With its waterfall curtains and carpets of forest, the canyon was like a long and beautiful room, and Weep a toy city—a gilded model—at its center. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On the enclosed porch at the back of the house, a crisp white bag still sat on the wicker chaise, filled with lace she had once planned to turn into curtains. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

What if the curtain that separates us is not death but a chain-link fence and some land? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Squirming through the blackout curtains was a mass of tentacles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then the curtain was lifted and before he knew what he did he looked and he saw sitting in the shadowy recess of the chair, painted and cool as a lily, the girl Lotus. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He hated the too-strong aroma of her soup that filled the kitchen; the first thing he would do after she left was wash all the curtains because that smell would soak into them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was broad daylight I remember, there was no longer any pretense that the drawn curtains hid the sun. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She came in the back door with some folded yellow curtains which she piled on the kitchen table. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet was still dozing on the bed and Sunny was still hidden beneath the curtains. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

What if I get to school and the curtain falls again, leaving me alone once more? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, after I don’t know how many minutes, the line of actors onstage stepped back and the curtain closed in front of them. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The curtain had been drawn around Mr. Savo’s bed, and I could hear people moving around. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Because when those stadium lights are on or when that curtain parts, we are the best versions of ourselves. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We divide into two lines again, one on either side of the stage, graceful and smiling, and then disappear behind the curtains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was admiring the shower curtain, and he came in because he spotted me from behind and liked my sweater. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The walls creak; the window between the curtains is black; the town prepares to sleep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A face peeked through the curtains of the foyer window and disappeared. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Spare pieces of metal were propped up as roofs, and pieces of torn cloth were hung as curtains. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I closed the little curtain and leaned my head back against the seat. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But his months in the cell with Uncle had lifted, if only slightly, a curtain on the world beyond the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"You are the blood of the dragon, little one," she whispered as her litter swayed along, curtains drawn tight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in stained glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Immediately, now that they were out of Delaware and a long way from Maryland there would be no green-as-poison curtain separating the colored people eating from the rest of the diners. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and looked at a little patch of curtain above his head. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a good idea,” said Ron, rolling his eyes, and he resumed his examination of the curtains. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When we reached the front stoop, the black curtains above us fluttered, meaning my parents were watching out our window, waiting to see if I got home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ophie had tried to open the curtains to let in the glorious spring morning sunshine and had gotten an earful, and that was only the beginning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And then they were beneath the bridge, white walls heavy with curtains of grey fungus looming to either side, water foaming angrily around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sidewalls of the cookhouse have been raised to allow for a draft, but it is divided down the center by a curtain. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later the beaded curtain behind the counter tinkled into life and Ernesto Barbarossa appeared in person. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Winston peeped out, secure in the protection of the muslin curtain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I ripped the white curtain back, joining the two halves of the room while Chubs fussed with the TV, clicking the power button on and off. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s sunny today, the light glowing through the white curtains. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Through the living-room curtains, I see five of my uncles lined up on two sofas and a La-Z-Boy, grumbling over the news. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth’s curtains twitch in her windows as I walk by, and I give them a wave. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He glanced back into the room, with its braided rug and chintz curtains. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the front of the hall loomed the wooden ark containing the Torah, its velvet curtain adorned with ornate goldwork. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There at the window, with the curtains pushed aside, was the enormous long pale wrinkly face of the Giant Person, staring in. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind inflates the curtain, first blowing it into the room and then sucking it back against the screen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A tiny bit of light came through the shower curtains and all from our room, and I could see him lying in bed. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The paint is peeling, and the windows have sheets in them instead of blinds and curtains. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The white cotton curtains swell and sway, the folds rippling slightly. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she touched it to the burner, the stove burst into flames, setting the curtains on fire. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still dim enough that these spotlights continue to follow us around, but a bit of light reaches us from all the great big rooms blocked off by dark red curtains. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He went to the curtain and called behind it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dim light swirls in through the windows and the gauzy curtains. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The lights were off, and the curtains were drawn shut. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In one of the windows over the garage the curtains had been moved aside a little and Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Were they just on the other side of her curtain, even now? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

While the guy outside the next club was shouting, “Our girls are the best, right this way through the curtain!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The hospital is packed with people, all of them yelling or racing back and forth or yanking curtains shut. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She had never met the Señora before, but had often seen a sinister shadow rocking back and forth behind billowing lace curtains, back and forth into the night. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon I would see him emerge from the curtain of evening shadows on the long gravel road that led to our home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

George worked her way through the split in the curtain and surveyed the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her hair like a curtain, keeping me shaded. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The heavy flapping of the curtains being whipped in the wind, or perhaps the rustling of many wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Not them curtains in your room. Too hot the way it is.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thrust shoved them sideways, through a curtain of pale grey moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m hiding in my usual spot behind the curtain when I suddenly no longer want to hide. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chian ushers us out of the curtained area and back to the main ballroom. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I turned away from her and stared at the curtains, which were pushed to one side and were printed all over with little palm trees. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mama dried her hands and pulled back the curtain. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Around 8:00 P.M., not long before the curtain rose at Ford’s, Stanton left his house to visit his friend William H. Seward at his sickbed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor groped his way to the curtain and pushed the edge aside. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Once, when he went to open the window, he found sticks of dynamite behind the curtain,” a relative recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She sat up, gasping for breath as though she were being suffocated, and saw the early morning light coming through the curtains. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put me in the emergency room, a long room with a line of beds separated by pastel-patterned curtains. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he vanished through the beaded curtain with an indignant look on his face. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walked toward the bunched velvet curtain and stroked it with two fingers. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She led me through the curtain into a small interior courtyard, the heart of that labyrinthine structure. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offered her a chair at the fireside, having glanced through the curtains out of a window that fronted the street. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the curtain aside and watched Webb go up the street, looking like he was seeing a three-eared Easter Bunny. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

At that instant lights came on and the wall opened, as though someone had drawn aside a curtain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw his mother shake her head and go behind the curtain to prepare breakfast. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the curtains had been drawn Aravis found that she was in a courtyard-garden very like the one that Shasta had been taken into a few minutes earlier in another part of the city. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“But, darling—for Christ’s sake what are we going to do with curtains? We got no windows.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two Hairy Ishmaelites are making out between the curtains, and Taylor’s sitting on the floor with her eyes closed. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The mother waves a graceful hand in front of her as she leads the way, parting curtain after curtain of spiders’ webs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing else remained of a curtain wall that had once stood as high as Winterfell's. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I cross the room, part the curtains, and slide open the window. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As I stumbled for the door, the cannoneer burst through the center of the curtain and blocked my path. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, there was no door, just these curtains. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He was in the bed next to mine. There were no walls, only a curtain between us. So I could see him pretty well.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Susie is behind the curtain that closes off the sleeping area. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one seems to be watching; all the curtains are drawn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But when she smiles, her skin pulls back like a curtain, stretching her features until they are as lineless as a young woman’s. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron, full of turkey and cake and with nothing mysterious to bother him, fell asleep almost as soon as he’d drawn the curtains of his four-poster. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The net curtain in Mr. Castle's bedroom twitched. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jinx made his way through a cramped maze of tables, chairs, and empty whiskey glasses, past a frayed curtain. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That curtain is DIRTY. Those Kangaroos are DIRTY. Your hands are DIRTY.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two were easily ruled out—we could see the glow of the TV through the windows and curtains—but the others weren’t as obviously occupied. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The curtain of fog hung about a hundred yards away. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Scipio now pushed this curtain aside, adjusting his mask one last time and clearing his throat nervously. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A shimmering curtain of light separated the rear half of the car from the front. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But Snape had gotten to his feet and strode to the small window, peered through the curtains at the deserted street, then closed them again with a jerk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes glinted behind a curtain of black gauze, but that was about all I could make out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the hall a silver curtain parted and two young women stepped forward. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the porch light go on at my house and the living room curtain move at the Kahns’ house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The clock on the mantelpiece says it’s not even seven, and there’s a violent rain lashing against the big picture window, half-revealed by parted curtains. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a knock at the window, and he scrambled over to it, pulling back the curtain. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I got out of bed and pulled the curtains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty minutes before curtain, Wayne gathers the cast and crew in a small room across a corridor from backstage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Beyond the curtain wall were half a hundred acres of headland hard against the sky and the sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Pap put ’em all back in the crate and unwrapped the pistol out the curtain. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Between the curtain of trees at every side, the ever-receding contour of rising slope before you, and your own plodding weariness, you gradually lose track of how far you have come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of practice, Mom and Mr. Stokely came out from behind the curtain, acting as if nothing unusual had been going on. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nodding, he pushed back a curtain and stared off into the night, and Dany knew he was fighting the Battle of the Trident once again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She snapped her fingers and a sky-blue curtain rolled down over the mirror. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Burgundy curtains shut the darkness outside and made the one big room even cozier. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The bathroom curtain? What the devil do you mean, Rogers?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the curtain, hangers scrape against metal. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when my parents go to bed, I open all the windows—which Amá hates—and let the breeze flap the curtains open. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If he had, it could not have amazed him more than what he did in fact discern—a hand holding back a curtain, and eyes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, they crept past the Beiderman’s windows, which were covered by blackout curtains. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington walked into her bedroom and pulled back the curtain. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“They’ll put her to work mending curtains or peeling potatoes. Let’s talk about something more cheerful.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she sees I see her, she closes the curtain quick and disappears. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy curtains and thick carpet muffled the sounds from the train wheels. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Nora says, “Nate Silver won’t stop blowing up my phone for another column. Bought some new curtains. Narrowed down the list of grad school concentrations to statistics or data science.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Noiselessly, he went up the steps and inserted his key in the lock; the door swung in silendy and he heard his mother singing behind the curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you close the curtains again, you. If you sleep in that moonlight you’ll wake up blind.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sitting bolt upright, he heard the rasp of the curtains being pulled back: The dazzling sunlight seemed to poke him hard in both eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But I had caught a glimpse through the curtain. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love the exciting compromise between order and chaos. And who bought those exquisite curtains? I’ll bet it was you.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If she stoked it up—and hung a curtain across the pantry door—the cookstove in the kitchen should keep her warm enough. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, she hung the bag from the showerhead and closed the curtain, desperately hoping that this wouldn’t be the moment Scott discovered personal hygiene. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She lifted her bifocals to her forehead as she pulled the curtain open and let the morning sun flood the room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the curtains hid his vile habits, the smell of the perfume made her gag, and the clean sheets stank of his sweat by the time he was done with her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it is your turn, you pull back the fabric and step forward, only to be engulfed by darkness as the curtain closes again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the window, Harry could see Hogwarts coming nearer, its many lighted windows blurred and shimmering behind the thick curtain of rain. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The play is at the Eaton’s Auditorium; the stage has blue curtains with black velvet horizontal stripes on them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain draws back, flooding the room momentarily with light, and I get the glimpse of the Duchess’s face, her lips swollen, eye blackened, before the curtain falls back into place. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

On another occasion they were taken to examine the bloodied bedroom curtains hanging in the palace of the former dictator. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He thrust the light into the opening, but even the golden rays could not pierce the curtain of shadows. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And the blankets often weren’t even blankets, but a really odd assortment—old curtains, even bits of carpet. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m just leaning over the sofa to pull the curtains shut when I see a woman, her head bent to her chest, scuttling along the pavement on the opposite side of the street. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn off the water and drip dry a little, slide back the curtain, and step out of the tub. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Sorenson was snoring on the couch, using a curtain for a blanket. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The sun shone weakly through the curtains Ugwu had drawn when he brought her breakfast. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the curtain robes was draped over her head as a veil and she carried a big bouquet of only slightly wilted dahlias. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time I tried to get into your head, it was like a white curtain blocked me.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Somkit drew back the curtain of one of the cubby rooms. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But as his fingers graze the curtains, he turns to me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Now he dragged himself painfully to the curtain at the entrance of the tent, pressed his cheek against the cold ground, and tried to peer out. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the bed nearer the door, separated by a curtain from his roommate: the Hampden County postmaster, as we later discovered, who was in for a prostate operation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

One corner was curtained off for Hazel, where she kept her mattress and storage chest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The only decent place she could stretch out comfortably was in the tub, so she climbed in and pulled the curtain closed around her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then I think of the way he looked up at me through the curtain of his crow-black hair, of the curling edges of his drunken smile, and I don’t feel in the least bit comforted. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was very clean and neat: the ornamental windows were hung with little white curtains; the floor was spotless; the grate and fire-irons were burnished bright, and the fire burnt clear. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Emma and I sat down just as the curtain opened, revealing a straw boater hat floating atop a gaudy red-and-white striped suit. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The curtains are pulled and pinned together so there’s no gap. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With the sheets hanging from the bars like curtains? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand with Abby, peeking out at the audience through a crack in the curtains. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Fans along the shoreline peered through the curtain of rain, struggling to distinguish one boat from another. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight oclock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, behind a curtain, a lamp in the living room glows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But the house was not deserted, and the best parlour seemed to be in use, for there were white curtains fluttering in its window, and the window was open and gay with flowers. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She began searching behind the sofa and behind the curtains. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That the kitchen curtains burned from the plantains she left frying on the stove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the windows, she saw curtains, candlesticks, cupboards; and in one, a woman moving among her chosen objects. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline was almost asleep, but she slipped out of her bed and pulled open the curtains. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A cloth curtain separated his place from the rest of the shop so that it was like a small private room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two rooms near Briony’s had been dusted down, new curtains had been hung and furniture carried in from other rooms. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There is a delicacy and gentleness to Chopin’s music, though, that represents the final curtain call of the age of elegance and gracefulness, of sense and sensibility. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I want you to promise—” she begins, but I’m already at the window, sweeping the curtains aside. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fog was so thick that he could not even see the curtain wall across the yard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Along the opposite wall were curtained French doors bounded by two large Ionic columns. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As he pushed us out of the house, sniffling and whining, Doña Lola took down the curtain that divided the room in two and rolled our hammocks out of the way. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She makes herself small, barely noticeable as she peeks out from the curtain of her hair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She tosses the phone on the bed and walks over to the window, opening the curtains. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We park in front of a house with eight windows and billowing curtains. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then for some reason I have that feeling again, as if he’s stepped behind a curtain. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He tried to catch the dinner smells, but they escaped and climbed into the limp brown hotel curtains. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain is transparently thin; the door has no bolt. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine is about two children who live in a white house with ruffled curtains, a front lawn, and a picket fence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The curtains drawn, shoes taken down to be cleaned, the towel laid out on the chair in the bathroom and the water run for my bath. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Darling, could you close those wretched curtains? The light is intolerable.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mismatched candles burn merrily on every available surface, illuminating the sleeping doves in their cages hanging amongst sweeping curtains of richly colored tapestries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One by one the passengers brushed their teeth in the vestibule, changed into their pajamas, fastened the curtain around their compartments, and went to sleep. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here, with a Scandinavian conquest, had sprung up a wooden long-house—there, the original stones of the curtain wall had been pulled down to build a round tower for priests. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s like Prospero pulling back the curtain for the king and there’s Prince Ferdinand, who the king thought was dead, playing chess with Miranda like he was on vacation. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They would close the windows, draw all the curtains and cover them with black cloth, dim the lights, and silence the radio. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He held the stage curtain open just slightly, so she could only see half of his smile. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I went to the Banke Bihari, where there was a darshan each day—the curtains were opened for a moment to give a glimpse of the deity, which is a great blessing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The door was closed and the curtains drawn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I jump in front of the window to pull the curtains closed. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ambassador Rahel wouldn’t come out of the curtain because she couldn’t. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He replaced the sacking curtain and left the storeroom. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to stay focused on the movement of the PSF’s shoulder blades beneath his black uniform, but it was difficult when most of the curtains had been left open for anyone to peer inside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We could see the curtains move, so we knew she was looking out at us. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One moment, one step, and a person was there, through the curtain to another world. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead are not hovering nearby to knock politely at teacups and tabletops and whisper through billowing curtains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Behind her, Seema watched unsmilingly through a curtain of long, sleek black hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My body freezes as I wonder how long it would take for him to cross the curtain and find me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred the heavy, moth-eaten velvet curtains, ruffling his hair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pull the curtains aside as soon as I’m back in my room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked up the path with the certainty that I was being regarded from behind the white window curtains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks better that way—stronger when she is not hiding behind a curtain of hair, hiding who she is. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It filled the curtains with a daily dance and softly kissed my face. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had silver boots now, and a muff, and a piece of azure curtain which he wore like a toga. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the curtain aside to find that he’s already there in his window, staring right at me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could see Park's driveway from there, through the lace curtains. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, another bashful person had chosen the same refuge, for, as the curtain fell behind her, she found herself face to face with the ‘Laurence boy’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of sandalwood and cloves enveloped them like a soft, unfurling curtain. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sky was a black curtain; the stars, ice chips whittled by an old knife. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Idly, he pushed the curtain back a few inches to peer out at the streets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The moon shone through the curtain of falling water to lay a shimmering pale stripe across the sand, but after a time that too faded and went dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tim holds back the curtain so I can look out into the audience. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“What about this gray for the sofa cover and some prints in yellow for the curtains and the pillows?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Winter sunlight slants in through the window, between the half-drawn curtains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though spring sunshine peeked around the closed curtains, there was still a fire in the fireplace. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When my eyes open, I’m sick to my stomach and sweating, the afternoon sun streaming around the edges of the curtains and Siunek’s heavy frame. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She pulled the lace curtain aside and studied something passing in the street below. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the curtains of the windows he could see the muskets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness the curtain drops o'er life's dull scene: New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to place where he is, until he sees the elegant ivory curtains at the edge of the frame. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The anticipation of what he might find was strung tight in his belly; suddenly the tension snapped and hurled him into the empty room where the ticking of the clock behind the curtains had ceased. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is always in a bun, and her glasses are always slipping down her nose; her clothes always remind me of a curtain or a sofa. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” I said, motioning with my head at the curtain. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Something in her face is different—it’s like a curtain’s been parted in the middle of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was chilly away from the fire, the leaded glass not doing much to keep winter at bay, and when she pulled the filmy curtain to the side and looked out, she spied a man. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Before they went to bed, Mo pulled back the curtains so they could see it—a brightly colored Chinese lantern among all the white stars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The curtain was moth-eaten but it had kept its old splendor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was making a stage curtain, and it was the moment before the curtain parted or rose. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows didn’t have curtains or blinds, so the sun just poured in. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her curtains flutter, and voices drift down through the open window. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

From a year when I was six years old and there were records of Harry Lauder, and Maxfield Parrish paintings still hanging, and bead curtains, and “Beautiful Ohio,” and turn-of-the-century architecture. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few places have candlelight gleaming through scorched curtains or open doorways. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When her turn came, Francie pushed aside the heavy curtain and knelt in the confessional. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He would have been pleased to hear that, sir,” Celia says, her eyes briefly glancing over to the shadowed curtains at the side of the stage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tall glass doors with shattered panes stood open into the garden, torn damask curtains flapping like a loose tongue in the wind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The air swirls in a tempest around them, blowing open the glass doors to the garden with a tangle of billowing curtains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rationally, he didn't expect to actually find a murderer or kidnapper behind the shower curtain. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same PSF soldier was back at my curtain again, ripping it aside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All the servants crowded around the motorcar, looking at their faces in the polished metal, admiring the curtained windows, the velvet seats. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let my hair fall over my right shoulder, making a dark curtain between us, and tried to pay attention to the teacher. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The window curtains moved softly in the cool night breeze. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He got up and put back the curtains and opened the windows wide to let the night air in. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in one of the upper-floor windows, I saw a curtain shift. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even the sight of Peeta and me is enough to make people pull their children away from the windows and draw the curtains tightly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As luck would have it, I’m only able—except for a few rare occasions—to view nature through dusty curtains tacked over dirt-caked windows; it takes the pleasure out of looking. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then, all at once, beyond the curtains, she heard the voice of the sleeper in the bedroom. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was wondering just how the long fluffy white curtains would look if I lit a bunch of straws and held it under them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was ready to turn and leave, when she saw the foot sticking out from beneath the pile of curtains. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

When it was time for sleep, we drew the window curtains and turned off the lights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"What are you going to do with the curtain?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the night he was wakened by a light, and he saw that Gandalf had come and was pacing to and fro in the room beyond the curtain of the alcove. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

With her pale skin and white-blond hair she all but disappeared into the thin curtain that had been pulled around my bed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I am surrounded by an anxious silence—like the hush of an audience as the curtain is about to rise. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considering the crate half concealed by the fringed curtain at the back of the store, I highly doubted it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was no one in the streets, not even dogs, but he saw white faces at windows, a fluttering of curtains. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To think that he would sit on these sofas, polish this slippery-smooth floor, wash these gauzy curtains. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He was just giving a speech,” I said, closing my fist around a wad of curtain. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then she swung her legs off the bed, walked to the window and drew back the curtains. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will not” Arthur’s hand lifted the curtain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Names and dates, curtains and earrings, ships and theatres and angels rushed by as if they were caught in a tidal wave. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At the rise of the curtain, Faith and Luke are onstage, seated across from each other at a book-stacked table. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She glanced around the room and seemed to shrink even more at the sight of the sofas, the radiogram, the curtains. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That curtain, it was like something someone made up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was—into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets—to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around her, at the dishes drying in the kitchen, the banner hanging on the curtain, the door to the bedroom where Nunu was sleeping, safe and sound. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

My partner and I exchange a grin and then he darts behind the curtain, leaving me the stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes, everyone,” Ms. Albright calls, poking her head around the curtain. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The curtain blew a small wind dance through the cracked window. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When I open the curtains, the first rays of morning illuminate the room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was glad his mother washed his sheet and pillowcase every week, just like she did for the people who lived in the big houses with curtains on the windows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs curtains at the Black Swan twitched open and I think I glimpsed Isaac Pye in a kite of sunshine, giving us all the evil eye. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Their apartment was shadowy, too heavily curtained for a gray day. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The great double curtain wall still stood, for granite does not yield easily to fire, but most of the towers and keeps within were roofless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A new nurse breezes past the curtain with a clipboard clutched in his hands. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Normally she’d start spinning fantasies about an octopus’s garden and curtains of kelp and trout on the hassock but she’s giving me nothing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He drew the curtain and leaned his forehead against the cold stone of the mullion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded playfully toward the huge curtained bed in the comer of the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steps quietly over to the chair against the wall, right at the edge of the curtain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I made it home I closed and double locked my door and pulled the curtains. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I pull back the curtain of ivy where he’s scratching and see moonlight shining off another door handle. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Callie drew the curtains with a soapy hand, but even so the light washed everything out. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mina shut the hiding place door, it created a breeze, causing the window curtain to flutter open and reveal a view of a large, familiar stone building. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One of them was talking about making a small curtain for the tiny window in her bedroom out of an extra pillowcase she’d decorated with markers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

These would produce fabulous auroras, shimmering curtains of spooky light that would fill the whole sky. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When they were about fifty yards from the base, a thunderclap rattled Hazels bones, and a curtain of ice that would have covered Camp Jupiter calved away and fell toward them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

One of the curtains hung at a tilt below the pelmet, and though the windows were open, the air was dank, as though exhaled many times. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The dust in the curtains, if you will pardon me for hinting such a thing, has parched my throat to a crisp.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as long as “West Computer” was still the unspoken code for “Colored Computer,” the decision to draw the curtain on Dorothy’s group would require more nuanced consideration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

James pushed back a curtain concealing a closet filled with a desk and computers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One day she relented, and we set forth from the castle in a fitter enclosed by curtains and borne by servants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“All right, Miss Claudette,” a nurse says brightly as she comes around the curtain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My eyes scanned the room: there was a wardrobe, a dresser topped with carefully arranged figurines, lace curtains fluttering in a window. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I kept on looking at the patch of curtain, and saw where the sun had faded it, making it lighter than the piece above. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked away, I overheard another coach commenting to someone behind the stage curtain about my lackluster performance. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mom moves quickly to the lace curtains on the front bay window and peeks out. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's pitch-dark, the curtains drawn, and hotter than the dickens. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I heard my name for another curtain call. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if they stood at the window of some elven-tower, curtained with threaded jewels of silver and gold, and ruby, sapphire and amethyst, all kindled with an unconsuming fire. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Dylan drifts closer, but the boy says, without even turning around, “Lay a finger on that curtain and you’re disqualified.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then Vonetta popped up her head and looked through the curtain. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thick black curtain drops over my eyes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From behind the doctor’s curtain, sinister voices murmured, interrupted by howls from savaged children. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some patients have them open, others have the curtains pulled around their beds. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull back the curtains and this little slice of Detroit opens up to me—an empty paved road and small houses with only a narrow space separating one from the other. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the curtain descends on this current wave of attention and the thematic celebrations cool down, my sisters and I will remain proud. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streetlights glow through the curtains, putting a soft spotlight on Sherlock, who is fast asleep on my bed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Shifting in and out of the curtain of soot like a house in some uncertain dream. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I think about the house in my school reader, white, with a picket fence and a lawn, and window curtains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The silence came, lowering itself on him as if a curtain had been drawn. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tally saw that it was a window, a light inside glowing deep red through a closed curtain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I peeked through the curtain at the people taking their seats in the auditorium. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He peeked out at the audience from behind the big velvet curtain. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The curtains in the bay window are shut for the night. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Through a gap in the curtains around his four-poster he watched snow starting to drift past the tower window and wondered . Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At night we were to pull the black curtain that hung at our portholes so that the boat wouldn’t be easily seen. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usher pulled back the curtain of the box to reveal a boy her age already sitting there. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then, abruptly, sun filled the clearing, it was like a curtain being drawn back in front of a brightly lit stage. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The sky was a distant black curtain of falling rain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Close by Miss Temple’s bed, and half covered with its white curtains, there stood a little crib. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The first real snow,” he said, and seeing my glance at the heavily curtained window, “You haven’t looked out yet?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something had moved the curtain, just for a second, and I got the distinct impression I was being watched. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I crawl across the bed to get to the window and pull the curtains to the side. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth turns her head toward me, and I quickly drop the curtain. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a wide arch corresponding to the window, and hung like it with a Tyrian-dyed curtain, now looped up. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After the curtain closed, everyone in the audience started clapping. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As if he’d read her thoughts, Brullo snapped his fingers, and a guard standing by the wall pulled the curtain back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Shadows from the white crocheted curtains on every window cast lacy shapes on the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One much larger black spot is masked by leafy fern curtains. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The litter's curtains shielded him from that, and besides gave him leisure to think. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The lace curtain flapped in the kitchen window. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The curtains were almost always drawn, leaving the house in a tenuous darkness that kept the cruel desert light at bay. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bitterness rose in me at the thought of his rash deed, stabbing blindly at a curtain on the mere hope that it concealed the king. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The only time I felt any regret, if you could even call it that, was at the end of the play when everyone went out for their curtain calls. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Next, Melanie got some old curtains from her mother, enough to make sheer flowing robes for everyone. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord, I get so tired of this I don’t know what to do,” her voice floated plaintively from behind the curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Warm vapors rose from the earth, shrouding the trees in their moist breath, creeping up the walls to draw grey curtains across the watching windows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We filed one by one up a dark cement staircase at the back of the first floor, which was filled with empty beds and limp white curtains. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This mantle had a heavy silk tassel, like a curtain cord, to join it across her breast. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But though her windows didn’t shine and her curtains drooped with dust and nobody could of eaten off her floors, she kept the bed made, the dishes washed, and things in place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Showerheads line one wall, with see-through plastic curtains between them. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her gauzy curtains were torn, wrapped around twigs and green-leafed branches. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit walks on as though he had not paused, making his way through the curtains of velvet that separate the courtyard from the world outside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I let the curtain fall and duck away from the window. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adrenaline was pumping through him so fast, he was afraid that people could hear his heart beating through the heavy curtains that shut off their bedroom from the hall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Presently the captain of the Guard thrust aside the curtain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The curtains hadn’t been drawn, and the room was full of sunlight. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the stage, in front of a velvet curtain, were two flags: the Stars and Stripes and the unmistakable and portentous crimson Soviet banner with its hammer and sickle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The blood stopped spreading, but he still felt like he had a hot metal curtain rod sticking through his ribs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was outside, but it sounded pretty close, so I leaned over to my window, pushed the curtain aside, and looked out. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He ducked behind the curtain and emerged a moment later, a folded sheet draped over one arm and a peregrine falcon perched on the other. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother treated him to what were referred to as “curtain lectures.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the curtains were drawn at the next-door neighbors’, turning the panes of glass into blind rectangles. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

By nightfall snow was coming down so heavily that the moon rose behind a white curtain, unseen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Abra parted the switches like a curtain and went into the house of leaves made against the willow trunk by the sweeping branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse whisks the curtain open and pushes a wheelchair and a set of crutches into the room with us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They put up a curtain in the center of the room, and my parents lived on one side with Nation, and our roommate, Mr. Dambudzo, lived on the other. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I could hang out on the curtained stage and peek through the opening at the cute boys. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They were tiny white lights zooming behind black curtains in the sky. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Thick curtains for when the day became unbearable. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The sun was up, but it was struggling to pierce a thick gray curtain. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some shone like white lace curtains in the moonlight, but others struck unexpectedly from the darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The three rear windows were curtained in black velvet. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When we got to the room the woman pulled a curtain around her bed. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few experimental twangs and booms from behind the curtain as the instruments are plugged in and tested. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They were invited to the Hertzoon home for dinner, a grand house on the Zelverstraat with a blue front door and white lace curtains in the windows. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The doorway at the back of the room had a long white curtain across it, and it swelled open as she came through. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She searches for Ashoke’s face, but he has stepped behind the curtain the doctor has drawn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls back a bit of the curtain, then lets it fall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hofacket looked at him and then led us through the curtains without saying another word. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The morning light shone through the high lace curtains and caught her chestnut hair from behind, framing her face in gold. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia wants us to act out plays, with her dining room and its curtain for the stage. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dim glow emanated from a curtained window, and from within they heard a baby crying. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He shoved it into my hands and dashed for the doorway, tripped himself up in his hem, recovered, hoisted the skirts in a very unladylike fashion, and burst through the curtain onto the stage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They knew not to open the door unless they heard her secret knock, and they never put the kerosene lamps near a curtain or blanket. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But then they both finally got out of the car, and I stayed at the window wrapping myself in the sheer white curtains as I watched my mother and father. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She could see the lights of many torches on the curtain walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I got down on the hot boards, blinking my eyes again and again, trying to lift the curtain of blackness. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a beer bottle and an old rag of a curtain and he tore an edge from the cloth and stuffed it down the neck of the bottle with a coathanger. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They darkened the room, closing the curtains and shutting the doors. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open them, and I see I’m in a bed that’s not my own, in a room of white walls and one single window with open curtains and a closed door. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She could close a curtain on it, but the thought remained on the other side. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

All the houses along the street were dark now, their curtains closed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And peeking out from behind a dusty velvet curtain, looking in amazement at the scene before them, are four other mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Across the room, the curtain that hid Mr. and Mrs. Grasso’s bed was already pulled open. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Then she got up, opened the curtains, and let the soft morning light and the first sounds of the world enter the room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ten-foot curtain rods seemed a poor defense against crevasses that were forty feet across and hundreds of feet deep. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain lolled and was nourished by the scent of jasmine pushing the lace curtains out upon the dark air of the room. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Come! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!’ he said, trying to sound as cheerful as he had when he drew back the curtains at Bag End on a summer’s morning. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The pink lace curtains in the two large windows matched the color of her bedspread, which was thick and fluffy. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Clay, for example, slept on a soft, clean feather mattress, with perfumed sheets and silken curtains around the four-poster bed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the right was a white curtain, drawn all the way over to hide what I thought was probably the living area. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The guard stuck his head behind the curtain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Behind the shower curtain, Zooey closed his eyes for a few seconds, as though his own small craft were listing precariously in the wake. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Ma finally rasseled the curtain most the way off and got the gun level, it was too late. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The porch light shimmered, and the living room lights shone through the curtains. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Most, he was beginning to dread the curtain that might waver in his brain, blacking out the sense of danger, making a simpleton of him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She led us past a line of women having their hair set, across a stifling ghetto of hair dryers, and through a blue curtain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Joe’s torch was huge and bright as the tip of one curtain in the window touched the flame. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sewing us some window curtains out of dress material so they wouldn’t be looking in at us all the time, and had pins in her mouth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He presses his forehead into his hands and his hair forms a curtain around his face. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Streams and veils of light hung like curtains, looped and festooned on invisible hooks hundreds of miles high or blowing out sideways in the stream of some unimaginable wind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now that Samuel and Adam were seated together and the barriers were down, a curtain of shyness fell on Samuel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around to the nearby houses where, through parted curtains, curious eyes watched. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We painted it sparkling white and hung yellow curtains. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Azure curtains hung from arches which were shocking pink. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the curtain of smoke cleared, Nate could see ten cannons lined up in a row. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain around the model’s dressing area opens and a tall guy in a blue robe walks out. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Harrison’s murder fell upon the city like a heavy curtain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The curtains, pulled back to reveal the garden below, matched the blanket. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I took another step and the seam widened at the bottom, like a curtain being drawn at the start of a play. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Canvas stripes unfurl around them, uncoiled ropes snapping taut and platforms assembling themselves amongst carefully draped curtains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were ruffledy yellow and brown checked curtains at the windows and the same cloth was on the ceiling, glued up there like wallpaper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It all resolves when the curtain comes down. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He went down the hall to the living room and pulled the curtains back from the side window. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had drawn the red cotton curtains against the bright, cloudy sky, which gave the room a fiery glow at odds with the rest of the airy, light cottage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Harry’s head swam as he made his way over to one of the curtained windows. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z