Then the music started, and the brides had their first official dance. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Walk up to her and say, ‘Hey, mama, let’s you and me start working on the lambada so we look good for the natives at the dance.’ 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the dance floor it seemed to be more than it was: one hundred couples, two hundred people, four hundred dancing legs seemed to be a single festive flowery creature, a fabulous millipede. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They danced as the flames consumed them,- they staggered and writhed and spun and raised blazing hands on high, their fingers bright as torches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I picture myself at the top of the Eiffel Tower, climbing pyramids in Egypt, dancing in the streets in Spain, riding in a boat in Venice, and walking on the Great Wall of China. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every woman in the world could dance that way. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

His dad drove him over to my house before the dance, and Michael awkwardly handed me my corsage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I searched for a seat where I’d have a clear view of the dance and where others would have a poor view of me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time they got into such a good rhythm that her mother started tapping her feet and doing little dance steps as they worked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Onward and forward they went, moving toward the car, with Pita dancing in their midst. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But now the suitors turned to play again with dance and haunting song. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had big brown eyes, kind eyes, but something else danced behind them now. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Trout’s leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes against the glaring light, and watched, a little dizzily, as brilliant patterns of red and orange danced inside her eyelids. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And as far as the dancing goes, if you inherited my moves, the lesson will be a piece of cake.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They dressed like Americanos but walked with a jaunty hop that made them look as if they were dancing down the street, only their hips were not as loose as Puerto Rican men’s were. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She injured her leg and was out of commission with the dance company for a while, but recently she was given a big role in a new piece. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of town where people got together on weekends to build a new church, to hold Sunday- afternoon ice cream socials, or to kick up their heels at Saturday-night square dances. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Girls are getting up and dancing in the aisles. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Hurrying in, I saw they’d pushed all the parlor furniture back against the walls, Miss Love had put on a new dance record, and by golly she was teaching Grandpa the turkey trot! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Give me half a reason to dance with you, and we will see who is laughing at the end. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He hoped the cockroaches didn’t think they could keep Boots just because they did some dance around her. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On days like this the Wall shimmered bright as a septon’s crystal, every crack and crevasse limned by sunlight, as frozen rainbows danced and died behind translucent ripples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was just thrilled to be dancing on such a grand stage. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Catherine, you know how the community center’s holding a dance on Saturday?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man nodded, looking relieved to have fulfilled his duty, and walked back across the ballroom, threading his way past the many couples dancing there. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I never stuck with dance classes or did violin or any kind of organized sport. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Claire and I could dance around a subject for days and weeks. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you’re out here, getting the photographers to chase you, swanning around like you hate the attention, which you clearly don’t since you’re dancing with my sister, of all people,” Alex says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, could a partnership split up? Because then maybe you could dance with us, and Evan could be the one in a bikini.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe dancing with a lady at the Eiffel Tower. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

John danced around like he was the one hurting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I would be in Australia by Friday night, just as my classmates arrived at the Heroes and Villains dance. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The next day at the homecoming dance, I saw them dancing together. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Gilbert does not mean to dance, but there is a young lady disengaged whom I should be very glad to see dancing—Miss Smith.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Astronomers have watched stars dance around an invisible partner; the stars’ motions reveal the presence of the black hole even if the black hole is not visible. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Picture this: I will be trying to get Kelsey to dance with me, but she will only want to dance with Joe. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

This last statement sent the young sparrow off into a veritable dance of rage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When we were all in the room and seated on the floor, she began to play, and the dancer began to dance as if she were the one trying out, not us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

To see them dance was ‘quite a landscape’, to use a Teddyism. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They beat it in unison as if beating down grass were a dance, grunting softly in a long, low rhythm that ran back to us from the head of the file. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skills: dancing, physical co-ordination, sports, hands on experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build, expressing emotions through the body. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When I open the door, she’s standing there doing the potty dance, sucking on her fingers. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“You cannot go to the dance looking the way you look—for her sake, not yours. Let’s go shopping.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Elemental music is never music alone but forms a unity with movement, dance and speech. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I lay the board across the gap between houses, to the roof of our neighbors’ apartment, where I’ll have a perfect view of the dance. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile at how she laughed when we danced, with a freedom of spirit I found exhilarating in its possibility. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Og set the dance floor’s gravity on a counterclockwise spin, making all of our avatars slowly rotate around the club’s invisible central axis, like motes of dust floating inside a snow globe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The girl went up on her toes and made a slow turn and danced through the smoke. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were dancing with cripples at Astapor. Do you want to face real Unsullied with that lot on your side?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He knew it the day he gave up dancing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would flirt with me in the hallways or meet me after school, but they would ask Radine to the dances, or someone like Radine, someone they could safely be seen with. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve checked all along the sides of the gym, across the dance floor, out in the hallway, even past the little offices holding sports equipment. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always painted like this, half dancing in something of a trance, and she was always exhausted afterward. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mary smiled with the child and made the rainbow dance. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charlie . . . after that thing with Mary Elizabeth at the party and us dancing at the club and everything ...” I didn’t know what to say. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As it purred, the ground vibrated and pebbles danced. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, Bertha’s laughter danced through the screen door. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The public address system blared a slow number, and counting systematically to herself, Jean Louise danced through it with only one mistake. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tata Kuvudundu cast his bone predictions, and nearly every girl in the village had danced with a chicken held to her head, to bring down rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what you wear for an eighth grade semiformal dance.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Little basement dance halls with “For Rent” signs on them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep looking and it's spring again, the light's gold now, and dancing across the pine floors. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She did a little dance all the way back to the kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As they danced in the circle and music played, Spurge lifted the metal box hanging around his neck so he could expose the gemstone to the sun. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“There is much more dancing to be had.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while his body was stiff as a sandbag, you could almost see him dancing inside it. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We Built This City” comes on, and a girl with two handheld stereos hops onto the bench seat to dance. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At least, she would not humiliate Salvador or Rafael by her poor dancing. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The day of the dance—the day of Ivy’s thirteenth birthday—she woke up with a stomachache, but not a sick stomachache. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he expressed his longing for Poland, at that time swallowed up in the Russian Empire, through his highly stylised adaptation of Polish folk dances - mazurkas and polonaises. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

We began attending campus dances together, and before long we became a steady twosome. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gran danced with Johnny and then my dad, then with Granddad, holding the edge of her skirt with one hand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t he use that grace in his dancing? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We dance, but I don’t dare look into his face. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sailors and soldiers and tinkers had been observed dancing in the streets with nobles and fat merchants, and in every inn and winesink cups were being raised to the new triarchs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everything done her way, because she had a lot of very specific dance quirks. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“First they dance and hug for about a half an hour,” Walowick said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“And if you’ve already signed in, please take a spot on the dance floor and start doing your stretches.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mostafa seemed to come to himself; Harry, watching through the Omnioculars again, saw that he looked exceptionally embarrassed and had started shouting at the veela, who had stopped dancing and were looking mutinous. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And that was George Theodorakis, all right, dancing with her in the society page clippings. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Owen the Oaf began to dance with Patchface the fool, laughter echoed off the vaulted ceiling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Catarina hooted as she danced in a circle around Lupita, whisking the red dress about as if it were a partner. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He wanted to find Ron, to tell him about Gregorovitch, but Ron was dancing with Hermione out in the middle of the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Because I’m pretty sure I’m about to watch Nick get Taylor pregnant, right here on the dance floor. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. What about Lootie Bell in her costume, wanting to dance for her mama?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees themselves, turning and bending in the half light, looked as though they had gone mad and were dancing their roots out of the ground. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Because I like to see Ruth dance when you say ‘Quapaw.’” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you dance often, here at Castle Black?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Across the stage, the tall Tribal boy from earlier is dancing with a dainty Tribeswoman who has a smile like lightning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Grover Underwood and a team of satyrs danced around with their panpipes, playing harmonies so dissonant that the earthen-shelled ghosts cracked apart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Turns out that Little Miss India's too petite for Kathak; the dance works better with a body like mine. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only the engine sound fills the car while Melinda Boyd sleeps, but when she wakes up, she plays and talks and dances with her hands. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

All of us are waiting for Brian to speak, watching the dancing stone, mesmerized by it, as the air sizzles with coming violence. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The two old dancers were still dancing at Sixth Hour, midnight, after five Terran hours. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My heart dances with hope, but I suppress it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she did a hopping little dance around the sickbed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She could almost dance on the water, Malcolm thought, and he stroked the gunwale with love. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Below that, pistons and large cylinders engaged in a relentless dance with the ten wheels, two sets of small ones in front and three behind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All I then wanted was to write as those black people danced, with control, power, joy, warmth. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At this country dance Johnny for the first time saw Rab move suddenly into action. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand still hurts from all the high fives I got the Monday after the dance. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It wore a saddle and bridle with red, gold, and black tassles dancing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he’ll probably ask me not to go to the dance school auditions this spring. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And, most importantly—the thing you missed—that was the day Aurelia started teaching me to dance. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Three burly men were doing the finger dance, spinning short-hafted axes at each other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even sound awake yet, but he joined her in jumping and dancing around. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not far away the bent woman was dancing and gathering invisible things from the air. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large glass window was decorated with colorful skulls, marigolds, and dancing skeletons. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be the girl who swayed by the punch bowl and cookie table, pretending to enjoy watching everyone else dance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He moved with a strange delicacy and grace, as if he were close to dancing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The train beat on itself and danced on the shiny steel rails mile after mile. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Just a different dance with the same question. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As they had two years before, young men in slacks and shirtsleeves and young women in flouncy summer dresses danced out of the cabin and onto the decks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Examined it well from end to end and leaped upon it and bowed, and the others danced a response. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I mean if you're out at a restaurant somewhere and you see some old guy take his little kid out on the dance floor. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was a winter afternoon, and the library was dark and silent, lit only by the fire that was dancing in the chimney. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ponytail holders on her braids clink as she dances. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you telling me you forgot about the eighth grade dance already?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“All right, then,” Henry Dobbins said, “dance right.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we were going to try to get boyfriends and go to a dance. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The flames danced defiantly, and at first it seemed that the hoses were no match for them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In a few of the sketches, I paint Abuela Celia just the way she wants—dancing flamenco with whirling red skirts and castanets and a tight satin bodice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess you could say, dancing with Aurelia is like gym class. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was six years old, playing in the road, when a group of herd boys approached, singing and dancing. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Clothes that’ll make Dawn Madden dance with me at the Christmas Village Hall Disco. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tradition went like this: The sophomores and juniors picked up their dates first and went to the dance. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Donna does all the talking, and Pri dances while a small crowd begins to form around her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The couples change the record and start dancing in front of the sofa. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Over several weekends each June, the Osage hold their ceremonial dances, I'n-Lon-Schka. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I took out my notebook, lay across the bed on my stomach and attempted to write—anything to escape the death dance out there in the Mississippi night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember falling forward, and a warm hand on my arm, dragging me inside and pushing me onto a couch, and pounding, pounding dance music and a glass being thrust into my hand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The deweys with their magnificent teeth ran out from Number 7 and danced a little jig around the befuddled Shadrack, then cut into a wild aping of his walk, his song and his bell-ringing. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The spring dance was so much fun,” she said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She broke free to dance in a small circle, and her joyous cries came out as throaty, high-pitched whispers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

On the corner there is music from the bar, and Rafaela wishes she could go there and dance before she gets old. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mother allowed us to go to the big band dances in the crowded city auditorium. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go in and out the windows,” she sang, and felt her hands taken as she danced. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Baseball cap already on backwards, shaggy blond hair already poking from under the rim, the kid who danced in the living room with his mom grinned up at me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It turns out he was dancing his drunken jig to his new home when he was run over.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“When was the last time you danced with a girl?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about how we’d danced together for half a song, and my heart felt even heavier. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My sisters dance and laugh and give interviews and kiss cheeks and eat sweets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When we’d finished and I was ready to go, she said, “My sister Caroline teaches dance every Wednesday in the back of Papa Jay’s. There are lots of girls your age. You could join.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She nearly threw off her robes to dance. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When I finally got into the dance room with the other guys, we turned up the music and did our best to drown out the reverberations of the many basketballs hitting the floor. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Something like that. Anyway, they stage this dance outside the town limits to get around the law.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Here Mrs. Taylor ventured into the Street in Cairo, open at last, and witnessed her first belly dance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We were meeting in one of the dance rooms inside the schools gym, and my brother’s three new friends looked me up and down again, even though we’d already met. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Across the river in Manhattan, on Wall Street and Park Avenue, Delancey Street and Broadway, people danced under showers of computer cards and ticker tape. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to “their song.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I danced with her. With the lady on the white horse.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The fiddling and the dancing went on and on. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her pinkie dance in the air. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

For ten cents, a lonely fellow could dance one dance with a pretty woman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hand clapping led to singing, and singing to dancing. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he danced across the alley and waved to Ignatius. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The western sun danced on the windshield dazzling his eyes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I point to the mirrored orb dangling in the center of the dance floor—if there were going to be dancing at this wedding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The light of the fires jumped and danced, and the people sitting around the storytellers were boulders rising from the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The two of you danced every slow song together. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“And your dance moves are super awesome,” she adds. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They danced behind the windows; they stood talking on the terrace; they wandered here and there among the fountains and the flowers in the garden. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As she and Master danced outside, circled by clapping friends, he thought, They belong to me. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Flamenco dancing had no practical application in the closed society prevailing in the capital back then, but Nicolas ran a discreet announcement in the paper offering his services as a teacher of that fiery art. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience heaves a single sigh of relief, even though I am completing my dance long after the music has stopped. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was not the style of teenage West Virginia boys to wear a hat, except the black-felt kind with a feather in it, and then only at dances. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dwarf feet are designed for spadework, not for the delicate intricacies of ballet dancing or balancing on wooden steps. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sahara is shaking her head, making the beads dance again. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ruins stretch as far as I can see, dappled sunlight dancing against their surfaces, and drifting over them are a field of shining, jewel-like power-ups. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

The Zimbabwean proverb, “If you can walk, you can dance; if you can talk, you can sing,” is quite apropos here. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“See that ticket stub? I went to that show. It was at Madison Square Garden, the old one. Great show. I danced salsa all the way home.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They climbed the six flights of stairs easily—laughing and planning for the dance recital. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on and on about how great I was, how much she was looking forward to the dance, when I would pick her up for the dance, all the details. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He looked like one of those ballerinas that dance just on the tips of their toes. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can almost see em, swaying here in my kitchen, dancing to the blues. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She danced around him in the snow, poking his chest, his stomach, his side. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We let the mirror ball dance over us for a while, not saying anything, reclining in the stands. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Their feet danced for a little, but not long. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede awoke after dark, and when she opened her eyes there were lights dancing on the ceiling, reflected from the city below. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Nah. I hate the way it feels. It’s just a pimple. I’m not going to let something I can’t change ruin the dance.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The light dances around the room with the motion of the train, bouncing off the crystal chandeliers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Once, while dancing a piece from Swan Lake, she’d cried, so overcome by the beauty of it that she felt as if she really were the dying swan. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I think we’re witnessing a dance battle,” she whispers, threading her fingers through mine. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Nokomis was stirring the syrup using a dancing kind of smooth movement with her arms. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Manuel took me by the hand and led me to the dance floor. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Today he came to my side with one of the drummers of the Regiment, which sturdy youth I have seen perform most astoundingly in the course of our dances. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“So are you ready for the dance tryouts today?” she asked cheerfully. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

My phone goes off and I look down to see a notification from her app, a tiny pill bottle emoji dancing away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was a game without physical contact, and the quickness of the eye and the dancing of the feet were all that mattered. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s more to a dance than a list of moves. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I spent more time on the girls’ side, dancing one song after another. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We head for the dance floor and jump and fist-pump along with the rest of them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The student followed step for step, like his partner in a deadly dance. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell when it starts—she dances while lying there on the couch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about cotillion dances. I'm talking about real dancing. He doesn't even have rhythm.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The ocean of shadows swayed in a mad dance around her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You real dummy, Henry. Don’t you know? You just free dance ticket. She just using you.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind filled up like a pretty girl’s dance card. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ma would help Grandma and the aunts make good things to eat for all the people who were coming to the dance. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were so busy watching Anthony, no one noticed James T. had walked up to Frieda and asked her to dance, but Frieda said she’d dance the next dance with him. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room,” said Mr. Darcy, looking at the eldest Miss Bennet. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Ellis’s eyebrows launched into the twitchy dance they always seemed to at the mention of the words, “my mother.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“If you let me dance with you guys, I know you’ll win!” she begs. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I want to go get JP and make him come to the dance before it’s over.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Since I’d never made a lot of friends in Welch, I hardly ever went to the school’s football games or dances or rallies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not even in college yet. I just wanted to choose my own escort. He couldn’t even dance.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“And with whom would I dance, Your Highness?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It must be hard to stand there unclaimed, as if she’s at a high school dance, being looked over. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We must have danced back to back at the merengue festival in ’54. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pail beneath the pump jumped and rattled like a spider dancing on a hot stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is the first in our village to go overseas, and our people have prepared a dance for him. The dance troupe will meet us in Ikeduru.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maniac danced and pranced and screamed with the rest. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glassine bandage wrapping danced across the area between the huts, flattened itself momentarily against the small, still body of a dead NVA soldier, and then flew off into the jungle. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good news, guys! I got picked to be in Mrs. Atanabi’s sixties dance show for the benefit in March! Yay!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Martha, “I suppose you could. There’s not a lot of dancing here, and I don’t believe that we have ever had a show. But perhaps someday. Who knows?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

There are big doings at the schoolhouse this weekend: a dance to raise money for the Liberty Bonds. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Looking around the abandoned small towns we drove through, glancing at the gas level, fiddling with the turn signal, fingers dancing on the steering wheel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Jones was seen to leap from his chair only to do a quick tap dance and sit down again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At weddings, he danced with his arms spread wide like he was going to embrace the whole party. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“So, Jessie. Did you hear about the eighth grade dance?” he asked casually, leaning his elbows on the counter. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It’s weird though—I’m not as hesitant to dance here as I was at Big D’s party. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t do a two-step dance and first find out who was the truthful guard and then ask him which door to use. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I spot Gerald, dancing with a toddler who looks just like him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A slow, burning pain started to pulse up their arms and legs and dance across their backs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After we turned the lights out, I stared up at the ceiling, watching the shadows of the dogwood tree dance in the moonlight. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I saw, maegi. I saw you, alone, dancing with the shadows." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Glenn Burke was always standing on the benches in the Dodgers clubhouse and doing stand-up comedy, reciting poetry, and dancing around. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

When she came to the refrain, however, she did not do the dance about evil spirits, but improvised—as Eskimos do at this point. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t hop or run a race so much as spun and danced their way to the finish line. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I tell Bernard I need to use the bathroom, but I really just want to get away so he won’t ask me to dance again. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The harbour was a dancing thing, with fluttering paper boats, and the sailors on the quay were jovial, smiling fellows, merry as the wind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The new king’s coronation will be at the autumn solstice. Worry not. I have a plan to ensure our futures. Only concern yourselves with making ready for a great deal of dancing.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I like tap dancing. I don’t want to change dance schools.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, before your mind can calculate the answer it will wander away down the street with the child, dancing to the African music that has gone away and come home changed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Definitely not. I’ll be over here helping Violet get ready for the dance.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We don’t go back to school until after the first of the year, and to celebrate, there’s a dance in the gym. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, the nights of the Kerry dancing, Oh, the ring of the piper’s tune, Oh, for one of those hours of gladness, gone, alas, like our youth too soon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His knee was bouncing around like his feet were doing a little dance. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the form of balls of fire they danced with the Devil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s how it happened…minus the dancing trees and funky feet. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The flames tried to settle, and he prodded them to dance again. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then the block party and the music will move in, and everyone will eat and dance late into the night. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I will be expected to dance so fiercely that I wear through a pair every night. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If you must know,” he says, poking me in the arm, “Alicia is so very yesterday! I’m working up the courage to ask Monique to the dance next week.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The particles floated in the air before her, glittering and twirling as though dancing to a song of their own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed learning to dance more than she had thought she would. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“That was sixth grade, Amina. Everyone goes to the dances in seventh grade. You have to come.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She wanted to leap and shout and do a victory dance around the battered rickshaw. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin always said he didn’t know how to dance, and then he suddenly learned before a family wedding,” Nico says. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Two boys were dancing together in a club,” I want to say, “and nobody stopped them.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He steps out, dancing down the stairs, one foot forward, one back, a hand in his pocket. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have to sing or dance or a read a sonnet or whatever?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Look here, there's no need to make a song and dance of it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ben spun around in a circle pretending to dance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She danced about, and where she danced, fountains erupted from the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The whole world was challenging him, and the dance grew more violent. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Their insistent voices converged into the one pounding sound of dance dance dance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This time, I lingered out by the bar, and then, when the flapper girl grabbed me, I joined her dancing in the mosh pit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only boy who would ask me to dance was on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge, riding down a hill on his go-kart. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The shapes moved around in the gloom, ceaselessly and hypnotically, in a kind of dance. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was feeling different tonight from every other night; he did not need to dance and sing and clown over the floor in order to blot out a day and night of doing nothing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was told of her that she cried bitterly because she could not go to two dances on one Saturday night. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the grove of trees where Lucas saw the brujas dance?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She backed away and shook free of the ruined shield, then backed away some more and danced left and right and left again to avoid the downrush- ing axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So there will be a whole tot of us going to the dance together, misfits and fits, couples and not. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple people dancing behind him—friends, strangers, who knows, who cares—and this energy elevates me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The man danced back for another try, but Tyrion spurred his horse and rode right over him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"I don't see the dancing dolls being left out in the rain or given away to the maid!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The deejay is set up right in front of our stoop, and our whole building seems to dance to the rhythm of the music. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“From now on when you dance,” Father said, without allowing the trace of a smile, “you will dance hard enough to shed your lice.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Johnny hunted up his brother, Georgie, who was working a dance. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And from the dancing flames there issued a thunderous voice. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she flicked her whip, red flames danced along the barbed leather. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you be back in time for the dance?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I like to dance,” Laney repeated as she took another penny from the cup and tried to scrub it clean with the hem of her jacket. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My head bops to the music, and I swing around, but that’s not part of my dancing; I’m keeping an eye out for Jace. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Each girl had received a DVD of the dance steps in her prep packet, but they’d never had a chance to rehearse it as a unit. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Lore had opened her mouth to respond, but then one of the hunters appeared on the other side of the table and said, “Lore, come and dance with me, will you?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the door, we were greeted by a blast of warm air and the vision of shadowy, dancing bodies. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was smiling and watching the slaves do a bowing, partner-changing dance to the music of a banjo. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Our love brings the dance fever. It is like the King, always and forever.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I smile at the dancing pill bottle emoji. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I snuck away with thoughts of the University dancing in my head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The girl—Sam—stepped reluctantly aside, revealing a bathroom that danced with the flickering light of candles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

An official with a clipboard danced up to them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a stiff embraceless dance between her and the TV set. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milton looked away from the dancing children and saw the pillar of smoke right in front of him, blocking the street. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She paused, then added, “I’ve never been to a dance, have you?” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Nada. I got the dress because it’s my first real dance, that’s all.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Soon Valerian, my would-be murderer, might be dancing in the garden. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally figured out where I was and we made it to the dance, nearly two hours late. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Other dancers swirled around the floor and some girls even came and asked me to dance, but I did not respond. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Outhouse?” said the young spider, her body swaying back and forth as if she were dancing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

If you can sing, or dance, or tell jokes, get your act together and get ready to show your stuff. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swirling white air dances around the caged freezer lightbulb, and she pushes me right up against the dappled stainless-steel wall and kisses me with both her hands braided into my hair. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He had buried his pearl under a stone of the fire hole in his house, and he stared at the woven tules of his sleeping mat until the crossed design danced in his head. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The face of Janis Joplin dances across the other. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was great commerce and discussion between each dance, often beyond the scope of my understanding, the whole room a very Babel of rich tongues and alien conversation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Echoes of the music were dancing around in my head. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Didu talks about winning first prize in a dance contest the summer she was fifteen, and how everyone raved over her feet with their henna designs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And I saw your niece Sana. She danced with my friends at the wedding.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dr. Finch spent a solitary hour in the livingroom until Atticus and Jem arrived; his niece locked herself in the bathroom and remained there scrubbing herself and dancing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She let it dance on until it was certain. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Two middle-aged women blocked Robbie’s path to the sitting area and escorted him back to the dance floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I seemed to be the only one in the entire camp who didn’t dance, but it was fun to watch the others. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then we did a dance in our persona as the Shirondas. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Heard you talking about poor Myrtle,” said Peeves, his eyes dancing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Elsie’s request is that I go with her to the aerial dance floor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

That night, we had one of our dances. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had daisies in her hair; and she drifted over to us, her eyes all dreamy as she danced in her flowing, paint-splattered dress. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As tall as he was, he danced smooth. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My friends and I had rejected most of the societal norms of high school, but we still bought into the iconic powers of formal dances. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They flittered up into the air, dancing around the light, thousands and thousands of them, fluttering together, dancing to our song. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Two lines of Recruiters—there were dozens of them—stood back to back down the length of the gym floor, as if preparing for a dance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As directed by Bob Fosse on Broadway, the dancing was raucous, and the themes—Pippin’s relationships with multiple women, his struggles with authority and the church—were overtly presented. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He waved to the assembled, then cued up his first track, a dance remix of “Rebel Yell” by Billy Idol. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The inn’s reputation was eclipsed by more modem establishments with roulette wheels and long-legged dancing girls, but it continued to attract honeymooners from the provinces, who admired its worn charm and elaborate iron grillwork. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imitate the dance as best as I can, which makes them both laugh. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Partly it was my reputation, and partly Laura’s ballet style of dancing that helped to turn the spotlight—and the crowd’s attention—to us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin the color of clouds just before the sun starts to set, her long silver braid hanging down her back, a crooked-tooth smile dancing on her face. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Why do you hide in the shadows? Come dance for the strangers!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu and Ginika arrived together, the party still at its dawn, the dance floor bare, boys running around with cassette tapes, shyness and awkwardness still undissolved. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Will you dance with me, hidden here in plain sight?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

By the time I had celebrated my twelfth birthday back on December 7, 1953, I'd believed I had put aside my hurt over being left out of all the Maypole dances forever. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He reached out for Moss, and Moss danced away. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, excuse me!” she says, and dances out of my way. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing a dance to an Indian song,” Dimple said, feeling a flurry of nerves in her belly. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They cheered me and danced around the classroom. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we danced very carefully, unsure what music the other was listening to, unsure, perhaps, if the other was dancing at all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The months of exercise and dance practice had made Angel a lot stronger than Jordan expected, but he still managed to have her under his power with little difficulty. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet you dance in your room,” she said finally. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A few men nodded at these late arrivals, but the music started up, turning the crowd’s focus to the dance floor. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Shunned by established churches, they became a sect of outsiders, and their preachers condemned worldly temptations like dancing, movies, jewelry, and swimming in public pools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He leaped off my belly, his bony heels nearly knocking the breath out of me, danced a jig, then peered up at the leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I practically danced home, thinking about her having confidence in me and about that little peck. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We worked at our dusty tasks beneath the summer sun; later, we played for tavern dances. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They had never gone to a dance with a date, ever. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I danced for joy, hopeful Gillam Park would be that place. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd cheered from the road while we danced. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Titan grinned with delight and did a victory dance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The next day was a school day, and the dance broke up at eleven. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A snort escapes, which sets my dance partner to laughing, which makes me laugh harder. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had never seen him dance, and I never would've guessed that he could move the way he was moving, only because he was always so laidback. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We had some major negotiations over a formal dance at school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The kind of record that makes a boy want to dance with a girl without feeling stupid. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’m lost in a swirl of pretty women, and I go on ahead and dance with as many as I can. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw the three Trementina sisters dancing around me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home that night, Mom cleaned out a suitcase she’d used for her collection of dancing shoes, and I filled it with my clothes and my bound copies of The Maroon Wave. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For formal dances I have dresses which I sew myself because I can’t afford to buy them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just want to dance with you and then go sit at a round table with a lamp on it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She asked my mom to talk to me about how you just made a mistake and went there so you could drink and dance and stuff. Is that true?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And I have old powwow dance outfits,” he said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Jesus cured those crippled beggars, didn’t they always get up and dance off stage, jabbing their canes sideways and . waggling their top hats? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street in the shade of an awning a shoeshine boy was dancing for pennies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around, tall stalks of cane were weaving and dancing to the rattling rhythm of their knife-edged blades. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m still so proud of myself I do a little dance in the mirror. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Brick was trying to get T to step up into the Kings for real, instead of dancing around the edges like he had been. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I better go. Get there on time, okay? Farah and I are going to do a dance!” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, Sam took Patrick to the dance after Craig said he was too busy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Things like the homecoming football game and dance, even if I don’t have a date. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you dance? Or come and sit down a moment, there’s a corner in the terrace.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The unusual mannequin was dancing a little jig, arms swaying, feet tapping and shuffling, gazing toward the far end of the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Abby was dancing more for my sake than her own, and that felt almost as good as getting those tickets. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A royal photographer has swooped in and is snapping a shot of them dancing, one Alex knows will be leaked to Hello next week. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They danced into the living room and Joey started looking nervous. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even know people ate at a dance. I thought they danced.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Midway through his dance, he gathered up his leather balls and began to juggle. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But when I heard these songs, I knew I was going to create a dance woven around them.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They expect us to dance, or at least jump, to this horrible rhythm! Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had danced only at school with other pupils or our mistresses for partners. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But instead we’re all dancing, something else I never thought I would get to do—not just dancing, but dancing with someone who challenges me to live. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In days gone by, these men held Hypereia, a country of wide dancing grounds, but near them were overbearing Kyklopes, whose power could not be turned from pillage. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me his name the first time I met him at a dance, and later he got up the courage to come and stand outside my house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing barefoot on a damp lawn. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Strudels and tortes danced in the firelight behind the glass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“But it’s all perfectly true. When the Germans marched into the city, I danced in the streets like a youthful ballerina and shouted, ‘HeilHitler!’ until my lungs were hoarse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As they pushed their way across the dance floor, Harry saw cloaked and masked figures appearing in the crowd; then he saw Lupin and Tonks, their wands raised, and heard both of them shout, “Protego!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A swarm of shadows danced in and out of view on the path just ahead. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I liked to imagine that it was a long, wrinkly skirt that danced just above the ground when she walked down the banks of the White River. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wish I could run outside in the night and dance around in them. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I ran inside to the dance and ran around looking for someone who spoke Pedi to help me to convince her to come in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Francie liked to sit there and enjoy the warmth and watch the orange and blue flames dancing an inch above the bed of small black coals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ended up having a ball at that dance.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone is laughing too loudly, dancing too fiercely. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Benny wanted to take her sister to a dance? The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Even as I help cook, I bop, snap, do a little two-step, and follow along as Layla and Kayla practice their dance moves for the block party's talent show. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We placed it in one of the experimental chambers and hauled the philosophic machines against the wall so there should be space for dancing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Things could not have been much worse if we’d invited Blake Grunwald over so he could do a German dance, then get drunk, start a fistfight, and puke his guts out all over my bed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He showed us his dance move and we all giggled. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s a desi Pride and Prejudice! You love that book. But it’s better because there is singing and dancing!” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I dance around the room with one shoe because I forgot to take it off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s dark and grim back here, and clumps of dust dance over the floor when we walk past. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

People easily understand that ‘primitives’ cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never came back to the dance, and her boyfriend eventually left. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I love to dance,” she says, closing her eyes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the screen of leaves the sunlight pelted down and the butterflies danced in the middle their unending dance. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever watched the dance of the mamba and the mongoose?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On many of the sugar islands, Africans created similar dances in which people spin, jump, and seem to menace each other, then, just on the beat, click sticks and twirl away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Bronchettes, no longer duty-bound to cheer and serve up those reedy, screechy screams, started dancing away with abandon, their faces fresh and unvarnished by lipstick or rouge powder. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gusted over the car even under the overpass and it danced in the road beyond. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the glassy water just ahead of them and then to a patch far ahead where little ripples danced in the sunlight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candles burned lower and lower, making the light dance over the many moving faces of Lockhart watching him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She did her little celebratory dance, which consisted of lots of jumps and spins, but she seemed less enthusiastic than usual. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had probably danced with a lot of pretty girls in his day. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If only I could dance with this one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One night our crew got invited to dance in Soweto against another crew. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what scares me more—the swastika in our atrium or the Halloween dance Caroline might make us all have. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I like how the fire kinda dances and changes color. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A fire danced into life on the other side of the canvas; large shadows passed between tent and flames. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We took them to the dance first. Then we came after you,” Salvador replied. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Shadows whirled and danced inside a tent, boneless and terrible. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They didn’t say a word, but with widening eyes and small taut smiles they sent a charge of excitement dancing between them like a crackle of electricity. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched others dance for a while, clapping and shouting and having a grand time. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bright spots danced in front of his eyes, as if he'd stared at the sun too long. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Discussion groups, walks with friends, dancing to his music in the Harvard Square church. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls their children run through fields, play in pools, dance in teen-hlled rooms, all of them grown up and gone now— but wait! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

All I could see were pink and red hearts hanging from crepe-paper chains, clusters of girls and boys and a few kids dancing in the center, and Principal Myers manning the record player. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the dance she returned to Ginsberg’s and selected a pair of false bosoms, went home, and tried them on. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We danced about a mile apart the whole time, until during "Auld Lang Syne" he suddenly rested his chin on the tip of my head as if he were very tired. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“His Royal Highness Prince Henry wonders if you would do him the honor of accompanying him for a dance.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Your father and I can teach you how to dance,” Lillian stated. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will we have a dance and celebration for the guests, Mother?” she asked hopefully. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it’s pitch-black dark.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has his own stuff to worry about,” Summer had told me once, when she explained why she had never even told Auggie she’d gotten picked to be in Mrs. Atanabi’s dance. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

With four boys and four girls, they all took turns dancing with each other. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It must have looked like we were doing some kind of square dance with me moving around like one foot was nailed to the porch. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little wavering point of light danced through the air and fluttered around the head of the speaker. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was making tiny flames dance off her fingertips, while Feral leaned over his big book of symbols, ignoring her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Over the next ten hours, they will watch performances by two other high school drama troupes, have dinner, sit through a two-hour musical, and attend a dance. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two black butterflies danced through a cloud of bugs and disappeared. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, Red’s had exclusive claim to the residents of the dormitories with a hankering for drink and dance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She lifts one hand from the grips of her rollator, lets it dance around in the air like something important is coming to her. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Starting tomorrow, we’ll be back to working on our dance numbers and our walking, talent, swimsuit, and evening gown presentations, just like nothing ever happened.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“As you should. But don’t forget to dance or we shall be thrown out of the Great Protector’s presence! Left, left, right. And hop! Hop!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And surrounded by these silent trees, beside a calming fire, I watched the bones dance. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Wish I hadn’t bought this now,” said Ron, gesturing at his dancing shamrock hat and gazing longingly at the Omnioculars. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In Johannesburg, we toured the Apartheid Museum and danced and read books with young children at a community center in one of the black townships north of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On Saturday nights they played at a dance hall in nearby Blyn, where a farmer had turned, with the addition of some strings of electric lights, his chicken coop into Sequim’s most popular dance venue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Snowflakes danced in the beams of her headlights. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They bring the night alive with their warrior’s dance. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

To accommodate the dances, the Osage had erected, amid the encroaching wilderness, a pavilion, with a mushroom-shaped metal roof and a circular earth floor surrounded by concentric rows of wooden benches. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I joined him, and we did some of the moves we had learned together for a group dance to this particular song. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were laughter on hot city nights hot milk on cold city mornings, good food and good times fancy dancing and soul music. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He stands me up and somehow gets me to lip-synch and dance with him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Harry leaned up against one of the golden pillars and watched Ginny, who was now dancing with Fred and George’s friend Lee Jordan, trying not to feel resentful about the promise he had given Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Can’t remember no time when I danced in the street but that one time when everybody did. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a fact she could not blast with her disbelief, and so she cried with vexation and went to neither dance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Skin and bones dancing, lips upcurled like oyster shells, a no-count man with a femur in his hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No way. I’m not just going to stand here. Let’s dance.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We then played a game, and each time one of us scored a goal, he would celebrate with a soukous dance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Drums were beating as some of the women danced for the khal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know how to dance and neither do I,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Bubber was the only one who would watch her as she came out to dance. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Dancing Fan was still dancing, its rubber feet beating out the same syncopated Persian rhythm I’d been listening to all night, but that wasn’t what woke me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The poor guy got hauled off to the freak farm before he even had a chance to party, get wild, actually dance with a girl. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I figured he’d wait until the dance was over and then—” Her sigh cut me off. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds, Lissa dropped her arms and curtsied as if she were thanking an invisible partner for the dance. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I have danced all night in Haarlem, Amsterdam, and in Harlem, USA. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The first of autumn’s falling leaves danced along the streets beside us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At thirty seconds before midnight, they light the tips of their arrows with small dancing yellow flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everybody on the dance floor yells out the “started from the bottom, now we’re here” part. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She led him to the middle of the dance floor, where they stood alone, people staring and snickering. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was something radiant about Javi; he danced when he walked, like a boy unable to hold back his enthusiasm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sherlock’s whole body is wagging as he dances in a circle by the front door. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They just stood there, watching all the couples dance around them like they weren’t even there. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to dance with the tallest girl in the sixth grade. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Who would make him toy man dolls to dance? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Put on a tuxedo and dance the waltz with some pimply faced girl whose major goal in life is to master the bass trombone? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames from die yard fire were licking the blue cotton dress, making her dance. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Why did I take off so suddenly after—what?—one dance? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then we were off, Char naming each dance: a gavotte, a slow sarabande, a courante, an allemande. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t have felt more put on the spot than if he had asked me to tap dance while balancing the paints on my head. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Not dancing is pretty fun anyway, watching the girls dance. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clever citrine eyes danced back and forth as Mama tinkered with the lock, and when the beast flicked his forked black tongue between the bars, a smell like smoke tinged the dry air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Snowflakes danced in the awakening sky, touching down softly on Hazel’s long black hair. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She turns around so her back is to him, the view he really wants, and starts dancing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Before they made it off the dance floor, the room filled with a thundering beat that threatened to blow the rickety old sound system to pieces. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

How many times had he come here to see the dancing flames? Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise was sure Jem had made some kind of deal with Henry to take her to the dance, but she did not mind. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’d sip vodka and bake cookies, pass out the cigarettes and dance if a boy asked me to. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her mother made her quit, sent her for dance lessons, strapped her to a stick- and-chalk contraption that was supposed to help her attend to her movements. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end of Jeffrey’s first month of treatment, there was a big dance at school — the first one of my eighth-grade year, which is supposed to be some sort of big deal. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do a little victory dance when I scroll to a picture Mason posted, his tan arm slung around Mya’s shoulder. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Jane and Michael watched the dance, the Hamadryad secret and still between them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I danced the dance of anger,” Cole announced during Edwin’s next visit. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The Faun trotted in, half dancing, with a tray in its hands which was nearly as large as itself. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’m a klutz when it comes to dancing. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Below us, Wazir Akbar Khan’s white- walled, flat-topped houses gleamed in the sunshine, the laundry hanging on clotheslines in their yards stirred by the breeze to dance like butterflies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Keisha is up and dancing while Albert gives me a single nod. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It would be a crowd—a sad crowd; and what could be worse than dancing without space to turn in?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Once we were on the dance floor, I wasn’t sure I was seeing what I was seeing. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The completed National Core Arts Standards include dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We danced down the street pumping our fists in the air. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He wandered over to Ignatius and asked wistfully, “Do you want to dance?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys wiped the sweat and cookie crumbs off their hands and went up to girls to ask them to dance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Cap shuffled uncomfortably and said, “This isn’t the Halloween dance ... is it?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“About the dance—I didn’t mean to set you off. It is for a good cause. And I hope, if you come, you save one dance for me.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sea lay quiedy, bathed in a shy, light-footed light, a dancing play of black and silver that ex­tended without limits all about me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was why Rishon would go to college, and C Average would have its Halloween dance. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The country dances I found pleasant in the highest degree; the minuets too pretty for my taste, and dry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t go imagining how my friends would all want to dance with him, starting with Lucy Raleigh, but he’d say he’d only dance with me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The old scar, white and fleshy, still remembers the hard kiss of the dancing knife. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Small men by the hundreds surrounding him, dancing on his head and latching on to his eyelids. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Then we saw that the girls were doing some kind of dance, so we imitated them, cracking ourselves up. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes his happiness was so overflowing that he couldn’t hold it and he’d cut a dance caper to spill some of it out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held mine up and felt the bubbles dancing against my lips, then sipped it, feeling it burn in my throat, raw and sweet and unlike anything I’d had before. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But Mama had not brought me pink dancing shoes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you enjoy dancing with him at the ball?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My throat is parched; everything dances red and black before my eyes, I stagger on doggedly and pitilessly and at last reach the dressing station. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But tonight my mother is dead set on me watching television with her while she crafts props for the pageant’s opening dance number. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“We danced to this when we were eighteen!” said Mrs. Weasley, wiping her eyes on her knitting. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Immediately, five young women flocked to him and began asking him to dance, how he fared, if he would attend the Samhuinn ball. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He crooks his finger, and then he and Destiny go to dance, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“My Magnar is not one for dancing, I fear. If you will not dance with me, at least pour me some of the mulled wine.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We played games with me doing a dance on the top of the bar with a lampshade on my head and everyone laffing. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

We began dancing around in circles, and I wasted no time. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I still remember that time she was partnered with Auggie in dance class and looked like she was about to throw up. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Louisa was a born inciter, and danced circles around her brother. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He danced to the side to escape, skidding on the railing, almost falling. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Armed with guns, ropes, and clubs, the report said, they surged toward the school, in the doors and through the halls, dancing and shouting, “Two, four, six, eight, we ain’t gonna integrate.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine for the movie soundtrack, but I couldn’t dance to it.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rays of sun dance through the valley, painting light on the plains even as the floating isles cast patches of shadows; flocks of white birds cry out in formation below us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would have had a hard time keeping up with Ximena and Savanna, and Ellie never really loved dancing that much. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Malik’s the on-deck batter, and he’s waiting for me at home plate, dancing with his mouthguard dangling out of his mouth. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Really,” I tried to convince her, not wanting to confess my dancing problems. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were given our coupons without having to beg or dance. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had been dancing about the stage, waving his spear, modulating his voice, and now suddenly he became still, and lowered his voice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, Henry,” Alex yells, seizing Henry by one lapel as the music pounds on, “you have to dance. You have to dance. You need to understand this formative American coming-of-age experience.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And in between these dances she would curtsey and make sweeping bows and knock her head against the dandelions. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I watch with a lump in my throat as he brings up another constructed Memory—this time of the same night, with flashlights dancing through the park. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had seen them perform at several school dances. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She stood up to go, and as she made her way toward the exit, skirting the borders of the dance floor, she saw the huntress in the crowd ahead of her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What she needed to do was to tell my heart to stop doing its little dance when she came around and get her voice out my ear when I went to sleep at night. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the dance was over the old men cheered and beat their paddle-like drums. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m the only one at the dance wearing it,” Lucy said, taking a spin around and pretending to look for anyone wearing her dress. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was pretty, petite, and light on her feet, and if there was a Squadron dance on a Saturday night, she was the one the pilots went for. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I danced with them all--the whole three of them--one at a time. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He said it felt like it was dancing, and then he would have to get up and dance, whirling her grandmother around the kitchen until they were both exhausted. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Who goes to dances and can talk to her parents about anything and can walk around without always being anxious. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There are maybe fifteen people dancing, while everyone else spreads out on the bleachers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One night, my parents went out to some wedding dance. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Although in the reels and jigs they danced, every moment a different girl was clinging to it, none of them seemed to notice. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a little step back but he follows, like we’re dancing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I start to say, but my eyes drift back to the dance floor. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We waited more than a year, and then, on what would have been Joseph’s sixteenth birthday, when the apple trees were blooming and the bees doing their dances, Mrs. Stroud drove into our yard. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes danced and he winked at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We said hello to one another before changing into our dance clothes. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

That answers that question, thought Edward as he watched the hat dance away on the wind. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

When the dancing finished, the announcer explained some kind of shooting contest. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A made-up birthday, a dance after toiling under the harvest moon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My mother took me—it was in Ogdentown—and stayed for the whole dance, sitting on the side with some other mothers. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I watched the dance and turned down partners. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have so much to tell her, not the least of which is I danced with a boy who isn’t even related to me, and I liked it. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With the...with the dancing in bikinis and stuff?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He caught me looking his way and called out, “Save me a dance, Miss Gaither.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They did, and together, we danced and sang along with the song. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Naomi bit her lip, exhausted all over again by the complicated dance she was going to have to do during the coming weeks and months. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The beam stretched out into shrinking nothingness, a-glitter with dancing, shining motes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Next to them, along the back wall, sat the chaperones ... all keeping a watchful eye on the dancing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A tent like the size of a house with a dance floor, tables, lights. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Their dancing was slow, precise, controlled; it fascinated eye and mind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rodney’s doing a little dance to demonstrate what a good feeling there is. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our next three dances go smoothly, each one met with loud cheers and whistles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dancing, chanting boys had worked themselves away till their sound was nothing but a wordless rhythm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Only if you dance one final dance with me,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pooky and Tom looked like they were dancing, with Pooky trying to come inside the Big Store and Tom turning him back around. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not mind his not talking to Mrs. Long,” said Miss Lucas, “but I wish he had danced with Eliza.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I kept an eye on Orlick after that night, and, whenever circumstances were favourable to his dancing at Biddy, got before him to obscure that demonstration. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

If I couldn’t dance tonight, when could I? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Processions took place, sacrifices were held with dances and song, there was general rejoicing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And a skin of water too. Or I will burn this place down around your ears and dance among the ashes and your charred, sticky bones.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And besides, the Halloween dance was on Saturday night. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I didn't join them, but their silly dancing definitely helped with the process of pulling me out of my second-place slump. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sierra preferred crazy metal and alternative for relaxing or doing homework, but this would definitely do for the dance floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted my picture taken before my bangs fell and the rest of my hair looked wild from dancing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Friday nights were college nights at Club Victor, which meant no cover charge and a chance to dance to the offerings of a local bandmaster, Vic Meyers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They went to football games and the dances that always followed the games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Especially Mrs. Cybulskis, who sat to the side of the dance floor, holding a healthy new baby boy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I want to hear more about the shepherds dancing in the Easter egg,” Theodora said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But none of the boys asked her to prom or dance, she just stood by the punch bowl until all the refreshments were gone and then went home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The water shot up on either side of him as he jumped in, and then began to splash about, leaping and dancing, and throwing up his arms. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“You know you’re not going to be able to dance with me forever,” Candice said as she tried to match her father’s moves. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I want to dance! Will you join me?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Though I could feel Leafie’s eyes boring a hole in my back, I took his arm and we moved toward the dance floor. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Oklahoma boys did some of their dancing, too, and the Zuni guy sang a kind of honoring song for everyone. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No sir. I like girls fine. Just not dances.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I watch as the swirl of cloudy curlicues dance before me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I screamed the loudest hooray and danced around the kitchen like a fool. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But when she danced, it was with a feral grace, a controlled wildness that had been preserved secretly in her body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom takes him by the hands and they dance around the table. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

An upbeat, bouncy number played as the Cranes wove in a single-file line around blankets and collapsible chairs and a dancing toddler dressed like a monkey. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was leaping around Basta faster and faster, ducking, retreating, advancing, but suddenly he found that his fearless dance had trapped him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Etienne takes Marie-Laure’s hand and together, beneath the low, sloping roof—the record spinning, the transmitter sending it over the ramparts, right through the bodies of the Germans and out to sea—they dance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The noises sounded something like an Indian war dance in an old movie on TV, thought Ralph, puzzled. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

One ogre had fired up a portable barbecue and was dancing in an apron that said kiss the cook. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, the dance is over and everyone claps. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Together, we could hitch a ride in someone's limo and form our own little dance circle. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His eyes danced; he was enjoying the idea more than he should. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“So, do you think Conner likes me? I mean, are we going to the dance as friends or what?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

One man was dancing with his neighbor’s wife. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The late-afternoon sun dances off the tops of the maple trees that are planted all along the parkway. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Straight out into the sea they danced, under the moon one night past full, and the music was lost in the breakers’ sound. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kenya holds up her cup and dances her way through the crowd. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what to tell her, but before I can tell her anything, Bernard is standing next to me, asking me to dance, and the night is officially the worst ever. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Even I know this one,” Malik says, waving his arms like he’s dancing. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Whether it was the polka that they danced is another question. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcia is too bland for this neighborhood, especially on Saturday mornings when we go to Jenny's apartment and a bunch of us dance along to Soul Train. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It went even drier when Drew clomped over to Taryn and asked her to dance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Chris is on the bottom bleacher, playing one of his mixes on his phone for them to dance to. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I could just imagine what my mom would say if she knew about the dance. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If it had been any other dance, a regular dance, I would have stayed home with an imaginary illness. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her locker was depressingly empty, but the second thing kept her from despairing too much: June’s mom had agreed to let her go to the dance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I remember sweat-drenched men dancing the traditional attan in a circle, bouncing, spinning faster and faster with the feverish tempo of the tabla, until all but a few dropped out of the ring with exhaustion. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A feathery breeze was stirring, setting the flames leaping and dancing, their reflections in the black glistening oil cavorting too. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three gentlemen asked me to dance, but I declined each invitation. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they passed through the huge palace gates, Werfel warned Spurge, “You should be prepared to dance.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We eat too much popcorn, we drink too much soda, and we dance. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He'd thrust the torch into the mouth of one of the larger skulls and made the shadows leap and dance on the wall behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The reflection from the hearth danced in her bright brown eyes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was suddenly fun, the thought of the dance, and that I was to be the hostess. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This time two more piccolos and a flute joined in and three more rays of light danced lightly into view. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though the waltz was playing, those not dancing quieted themselves as the mysterious masked girl lifted her skirts and took a step, then another. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Taryn had finally grown tired of waiting around and asked Drew to the dance herself. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The dance had helped to ease the stiff pain in his hip and arm. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"You and I are going to the dance,” Joe shouted to Anne, "And so’s your Old Man. Get it? So’s your Old Man.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Zuppa Guy, who was usually really funny, and pretended to dance romantically with the babushkas so everyone would laugh together in all the languages, said, “This? This is American food.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As the night goes on, the boys grow braver, daring to approach the girls and ask them to dance. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four hours and six bottles into the evening, August and Marlena dance to “Maybe It’s the Moon,” while I lounge in an upholstered chair with my right leg draped over its arm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The beast snapped at one satyr, who danced out of its way, but then it pounced on another who was too slow. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wild and the dogs and the stunning joy of dancing through the wilderness with them hung over me—no, danced out ahead of me—every single waking minute of every single waking day. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If I dance just right, maybe I can ring “The Rains of Castamere.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So I just cranked up a chuckle of my own, reached out and took her hand again, and headed back out to the dance floor. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

If I was engaged in conversation, he was supposed to say, “Pardon me, Delphine. May I have this dance?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Got a man in the Bible, son, who liked music, too. And he got to dancing one day before the Lord. You reckon you going to dance before the Lord one of these days?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The new girl stared up, her mouth open slightly, saying nothing as she watched the sky shift and dance, a wash of shapes and colors. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Its wick emitted a gentle hiss and soft yellow light as a tiny petal of flame danced inside its glass hexagon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Fay still wants to go out dancing all the time. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Since parties went all night, you might need five or six DJs to keep the dancing going. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The children clapped their hands and danced along behind. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“It takes a long time to accept yourself for who you are. To see the poetry in your walk,” she says, shaking her hips like she’s doing some African dance. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a crisp autumn night, and leaves danced in the air, the threat of a storm whispering in the wind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had to interrupt their dancing to ask, “Auntie, was that my parents?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand, mija. But crying can help sometimes. The tango is also a dance. Women and men embrace each other and they dance all night, as if time didn’t exist.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The water danced brightly in the early sunlight; away to their right nearer the river's mouth, they caught a glimpse of ships' masts. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was already playing with the water jets dancing on springs from the ceiling. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern added, “We should sing a song and do a dance.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single fly, its armored back an oily, metallic green, was dancing a circle on his chin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He danced with his toes pointed in and rocked from heel to toe with beautiful rhythm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticks dancing, swerving, keeping the puck in endless razzle-dazzle motion. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I found her, Laika was joyously wriggling on the mat of the carcass, all four of her little paws, dancing, pointed up at the moon and stars. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I hesitate—my dad is a doctor, after all, and holy unhygienic, Batman!—but then she starts wiggling it and making her eyebrows dance. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Come, Darcy,” said he, “I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better dance.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I want to ask him if he still did the dance, but I’m guessing he didn’t. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The memory of running, climbing, even dancing, was alive and throbbing within her, but frailty made her hobble and limp. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Villagers heard her cries and quickly sounded the drum—not the fast, rhythmic beat for dances or ceremonies, but something slow and serious. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to think about that, and so, despite the throb in her legs, she got up to dance again under the bright full moon. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

On the floor, some guys are supposedly dancing, trying to get their moves ready for prom. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Have you danced the dance of anger yet?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Going to the dance with Conner wouldn’t be as romantic as going with Gregor, but it would be fun, I was sure of that. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There he could hear the usual warnings about alcohol, gambling, dancing, and cavorting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her heart hammering in her throat, Ash asked, “Will you do me the honor of dancing with me?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the dance, Laura pulled me aside and told me that she was moved by what I had said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He scooped her up and twirled her when they danced. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You know, you wouldn’t say a word at first. Your eyes were dancing around the shop, looking at all the others gettin’ their hair done, wincing if people laughed too loud. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just then one of the dancing little bits of light from the lantern jumped between the bars of the gate, and Laura saw long, shaggy, black fur, and two little, glittering eyes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lower my hands and open my eyes, and the flames dance before me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I can just see those big, thick eyebrows dancing. He’d love it! Maybe I’ll tell him. He might be interested in forming the United Mine and Rocket Workers of America!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents were dancing a clumsy, barefoot salsa on the grass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then it’s all raining down on us as we embrace one another and dance like maniacs. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Harry thought there was a rather knowing look in her eye as she told him that, but she could not possibly know that his insides were suddenly dancing the conga. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was all because of that stupid dance. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A part of me still wishes that I could return to dancing. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But don’t dance around like that afterward. It’s not cool, Squint” Tally stuck out her tongue. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking ballroom dancing now, to get ready for high school mixers and formal and semiformal evenings.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The after in after the love has gone, for example, is just the after which appears in after the dance, which everyone agrees is a preposition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I stop dancing and walk back over to the snack table. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The way she was speaking reminded me of the way Mom used to be, even though they aren’t related—bubbling up with laughter and stories, hands dancing in front of her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Behind them came Shmuel, dancing with abandon, his hands above his head and his black hair a dark halo around it. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One more week, Master,Underwood. And then, if you cannot prove your claims, it will be time for you to pursue another career. Something to suit your dramatic talents. Puppet theater, perhaps. Or tap dancing.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It might have her face, but it was a phantasm—just a scrap of memory dancing on a string—and everything it said and did came from the dreamer’s own mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then Ash felt someone take her other hand and pull her back away from the dancing girls, and the fairy woman turned to look at who had restrained her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know whether he was using the past tense because his daughter no longer danced or because he no longer had a daughter, and she feared the answer. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care that he could drive a bus or plan a dance. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

On the second floor, the lights are on in my old dance studio. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Branch danced at her feet, his eager nose and tongue damp on her ankles. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to dance in the air, and his happiness made her feel as light as the clouds around her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and called for her children, who all danced up, dressed weirdly in little elfin frocks. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I had already memorized the choreography of the Balanchine Nutcracker, so I expected to come out of class dancing like a real ballerina. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched my own sisters through my mother’s eyes, happily dancing this woman into our house. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ivy thought about mentioning the dance to Layla when she met her family at a park near the inn Thursday afternoon, mostly because she had absolutely nothing to wear. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

He walked out on to the drive, Jasper dancing at his heels, and I followed him slowly, feeling very uncomfortable still. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The floor remains empty as it must until El Jefe has danced the first dance. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the TV on mute and watched some people dance across the screen. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then some of the girls couldn’t seem to get the dance steps quite right. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marvelous dancing, everyone! Our next entertainment will delight you just as much, I’m sure,” she said. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” she said, suddenly, “do you like to dance? You know—” She held out her arms and did a complicated step as she hummed a Latin beat. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He used to play country fiddle at square dances and was twenty-two before he heard an orchestra. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The camera crew got sidetracked at a table of shellfish, and the couples dancing around us are either too drunk or too self-involved to notice. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Francie wished she could be one of the brave ones who took no part in the dancing but stood close to the horn-blower sucking noisily on big dripping pickles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding hands, we danced and danced, tipping our heads up and opening our mouths. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dance works like this: pole holders lay long, thick bamboo poles flat onto the stage. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was a slow song and Javi and Max were dancing close, caught in the soft cone of blue light from above. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fiddles, lutes, and drums, everyone played and danced and sang as they wished. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sonny dances down the aisle to a beat nobody hears. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But I would watch how black people moved, how in these clubs they danced as though their bodies could do anything, and their bodies seemed as free as Malcolms voice. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Qotho danced backward, aiakh whirling around his head in a shining blur, flickering out like lightning as the knight came on in a rush. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a polka, sometimes a Highland Fling and sometimes a special dance that she made up out of her own head. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

His feet almost touched the ground and they were sort of dancing around. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After setting the wreaths to water, the girls danced around the bonfire. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And I decided I can’t be upset about you going to the dance with him either. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He wasn't attacking anymore, he was just dancing backwards, his gloves up in front of his face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of the formal procession and behind it danced the riau-riau dancers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her blouse billows behind her like a sail and curls escape her braid to dance on her shoulders. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He danced under the tusks, hammering home a devastating uppercut with his medieval weapon. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The cheering men danced and marched down Broadway, HI tossing their hats into the air and shouting across the river at the silent ships of England. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the ring, their heads encased by black leather guards, two fighters danced around each other, ducking, bobbing, bouncing on and off the quivering ropes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Flitwick called them one by one into his class to see if they could make a pineapple tap- dance across a desk. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t really understand what had just happened to him.Those dancing lights, that fireball of rage, the adrenaline pumping like pistons in an old gas engine. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were dancing from pilot to pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evening would be filled with masking, dancing, and feasting. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her eyes dance, but then she gets all serious. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At once the needle began to swing round, back, round and on further, like a bee dancing its message to the hive. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In her haze her mother was alive and laughing, dancing in front of her cooking fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the basketball games, there would usually be a school dance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha, ha! Never say die, take a pinch of snuff, goodbye, goodbye!” squalled Polly, dancing on her perch, and clawing at the old lady’s cap as Laurie tweaked him in the rear. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So who's going to look like the classiest guy there? Besides, what do you know—you're not even going—to the dance, that is. The football game, however? Different story." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I’m grinning from ear to ear now, because I didn’t realize just how much I love dancing to drumbeat rhythms that pull at my core. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Remember at the Vets. Some of the girls danced with each other. Why? Because guys didn’t ask them.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I think she must have danced for him on the good nights, because he couldn’t dance, but before I fell asleep I often heard feet shuffling to dance rhythms. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was already in the middle of the dance floor, moving like a madman. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A memory of a town we had attacked during a school dance had been triggered. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So it’s not really dancing, it’s just random gyrating of her hips. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tonight we’ve danced among the stars—maybe her cherry ice is melting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade he told me glumly, as we stood in line in front of the auditorium door, waiting to go in for Friday square dancing, that I was plain. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

"With those boys you can start in dancing and end up kneeling." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he released me and did a quick two-second dance that looked like he was being electrocuted. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

"You have danced the dance before, my friend." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I crossed the dance floor without Eddie even trying to hold my hand. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Isn’t this the story of every transformation, though, that the past lies about its feet, in folds, so that when it should dance, well. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man standing in the aisle began to dance to the music. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Hana jumps up, pretending to kiss someone and dance with them across the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

That was the move he was doing at the moment the teacher ran out, so clearly the dance was the thing she found so disgusting. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The shadow children linked arms and danced in a giant circle around the stage, with a second circle and then yet another inside of the first. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When the flame danced into life, its reflection wavered on their dusty glass and silver. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We push past the crowd, strangers dancing against us as we try to clear a path. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Just like that, I became a dancing fool. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My new dance class at the Rock School was so much more fun than the class I had been taking. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just a horrible dancer. Terrible. In fact, I’m so bad I even have a rule against it. No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it’s pitch-black dark.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among dances, swimming, and tennis she soon found herself getting involved in the English language. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If my pals see my mother dragging me through the streets to an Irish dancing class I’ll be disgraced entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He took a step toward the dead Capricorn, staggered back, and turned as clumsily as a dancing bear. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Especially since she hadn’t told Isa that Benny wanted to ask her to the dance. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He came up behind Mama and grabbed her waist, dancing with her back. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That was a good dance. Now you keep the rhythm.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Tis whispered that she loves the young English artist who haunts her steps, and is spurned by the old Count,” said the lady, as they joined the dance. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cried and danced, through your body went the spell that cured Lucas, and your name lent strength to the curse that took one of us from the service of our Master. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can also yank us out, so dancing with her is almost safe. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He bade me return to the dance and take up my fiddle again, and so I stepped out of the chamber, he kneeling beside my mother to minister to her. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the schottische was a very energetic type of dance. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” The Goober said, swallowing, his Adam’s apple doing a dance in that long thin neck. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s gotten so bad that I’ve started daydreaming about dancing hamburgers. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s inside—Dad’s giving Semaj a bath, Mom’s still on her call with the caterer for tomorrow night’s retirement party, and Haley’s dancing around her room with her headphones on. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He shared how noisy his new neighborhood was, and we laughed about the time we performed a dance routine to “Shining Star”—one of Dad’s favorite oldies disco hits. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Near the end of our training, we decided to have a special Navajo dance at Camp Elliott to show our appreciation to those who had taught us so much. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had thinking to do; the possibility of someone helping Wick still danced just out of sight. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In another spot, people were dancing and drinking some kind of black liquid out of a pot that boiled over a makeshift fire pit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I also become renowned in school for imitating famous singers, using an imaginary microphone, flinging my hair around and dancing and singing and pursing my lips. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the relationship of music and dance to everyday life is so close that the people have no need to conceptually separate the two. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He put the palms of his hands against his ears and danced sideways for a while, and then backwards, and then did an erotic thing with his hips. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What was her name, Miss Love? Aw, it don’t matter who she was. Well, and we went to a dance place. Miss Love, tell about us at thet dance place.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As Allie and I walked, I remembered when I used to go dancing back in secondary school with friends. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The party will start with refreshments, followed by dancing—rock and roll on the record player for Susie’s friends and merengues and cha-chas by a live Dominican combo for her parents’ guests. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

"Dancing Queen" plays at every family wedding, and my female cousins and I push our way onto the dance floor to link arms and sway in a circle together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if she was wondering just how good a time they’d had in New York City or worrying what folks would say if Grandpa told it at the store about Miss Love dancing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It is after two more dances that she notices the brothers commanding the attention of a crowd in the dining room. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The former delivery boy danced into the Hoos' new lakefront home. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sahara's beaded braids dance around her round face. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She practically stopped dancing, and started looking over everybody's heads to see if she could see him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then Vonetta and Fern started dancing and singing: “You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That’s what it’s all about.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the shrub-lined trail, I begin to raise both arms and turn around, around, dancing down the meadow path to a cricket chorus. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There they stood, stooping in a circle round the little dancing and blowing flames. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She and I never before had danced together, but that certainly was no problem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eeben Axelroot’s airplane with coronas of flame dancing around the wings as it touched down on a field of waving pink grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firebreak was where we had talent shows and dances and outdoor movies in the summer, and where the kids played games. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There'd be music playing, and those rhythmic sounds would get inside me and make me want to dance the whole day. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Millet had some extraordinary ideas for events in August, including an elaborate Midway ball during which fair officials, including Burnham, would dance with Dahoman women and Algerian belly dancers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Axel remembers the way Byrd loved the crane’s dancing, the way Frank wished for the bird to make its trumpeting sound, and how he watched and listened for both. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she even climbed the trees and danced among the upper branches, her toes gripping the limbs as she moved back and forth, teetering a little less every day as her balance returned to her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With gushing admiration, they photograph indigenous clothes, pay money to watch traditional dances, marvel over everything about Quichua celebrations, crafts, folktales, rituals, gods and goddesses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let myself have a brief fantasy of Prince Dain’s coronation, of me dancing with a grinning Locke while Cardan is dragged away and thrown in a dark oubliette. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Who had bad breath, who had nice clothes, who could dance, who was hincty. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She leaps about like a goat. How unseemly! It would be better to put bells on her feet and have her dance at a country festival.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I baked a cake, which was lopsided but tasty, and Silly and I spent the whole day calling ourselves the Shirondas and singing and dancing wildly to the radio. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I preferred movies with dancing in them, singing, ceremonial masks, carved artifacts for making music: feathers, brass buttons, conch shells, drums. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go to the infirmary and recover, then come back. I am taking you out of the dance troupe!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slow bolero starts, and I feel myself being led towards where Trujillo is now dancing with the attractive, blond wife of the old senator. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t end it that way! Why were the ghosts dancing?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That remained deadly serious behind the whirling balls, as if it had nothing to do with his dancing hands, nothing to do with their skill, nothing to do with their carefree lightness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When we came out of our lesson, Mia cheerfully skipped over to our mother and said, “Mama, I just loved dance class!” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Mom nor George mentioned the play that evening, but once George was up in her room, she twirled around and around like a spider dancing on a web. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He opened his hand and there, in his palm, a flame danced for her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He danced with me,” Hattie said, her teeth stained purple from a blueberry muffin. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just to show him, I turned, reached out, and without really looking tapped the nearest female and said, “Want to dance?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We stopped to look at the posters for the junior dance and a girl gave me a bump in the back. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dance party stops and those guys come over, Chris included. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Isabella says, “Come on, let’s dance all together. Just the three of us.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stand these things a moment longer. Heavens, I'm dead beat. I don’t believe I’ve missed a dance. Anyway, it was a tremendous success.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like she came to dance and take care of business. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Piper tried to keep a straight face, but she made her eyes dance with mischief and humor. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ripples were running across the surface of the water when they arrived, making the reflection of the weirwood shimmer and dance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We wove through the dancing crowd, then out past the rock and into the darkness of the woods along the ridge of the bluff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Isabella and I start dancing with each other. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I glanced over at Ben, who was talking animatedly, a coffee stirrer dancing in his mouth as he spoke. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The dance was over and the hunters were going back to the shelters. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And I do know that he broke up with her right there at the dance. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every time it came up, I saw the colors dancing off its scales. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Fred and Chico danced and hopped and laughed and almost forgot about the prison bars between them. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Silver stopped short in fear and the crow seemed to dance before him, its great black wings flapping in a horrible commotion. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, he laid out a feast for them, and they danced and sang until dawn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I move to the living-room window and I can hear the words to his song, something about dancing in the streets. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The musicians fiddled, tooted, and banged as if they enjoyed it, everybody danced who could, and those who couldn’t admired their neighbors with uncommon warmth. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school dance committee tried hard to transform the cafeteria into something nicer. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They danced, too, bowing and turning in the solemn spiral. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Their square sails danced before the wind like sheets of paper. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. MacMahon danced to the door then locked up behind us. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He laughed as if I’d played a joke on the world, and danced a quick jig step. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Piece of friendly advice: Never insult your girlfriend’s dancing. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, he’d said no more than a couple of words to me in the last few days, not since that afternoon I saw him in the dance studio. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We played and swam and even started to dance and sing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I can’t reconcile the image before me with the handsome Tribesman I danced with. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I had already studied everything that was taught there except French, music, and dancing,” she wrote, “so I devoted myself to these accomplishments.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I watched him as they danced past me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

If you don’t like it any better, I’ll find you a different dance class,” she promised. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire snapped and danced, lively and warm, tinged with blue, but no flicker of its light came close to him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tonight they were dancing together when Lexie felt someone press up against her from behind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dunwing and her daughter led the dancing mouse off to their nest at the rear of the court under the farthest eaves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then, in front of us on the screen, there were a million monarch butterflies, dancing in slow motion in the sky. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It seems that a new candidate is running for Mayor of New York promising to give everyone who votes for him a lap dance. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined floating up to the ceiling of the gym and looking down at all those different groups, dancing in their tight circles. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I grab a red plastic cup from a nearby table, pour myself some cranberry juice, and start dancing alone like the girl near the fireplace. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The scarecrow paid no attention, went on dancing. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a bit worried about the peach,” James said to the others as soon as all the dancing and the shouting had stopped. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

And then she began to dance, a slow sensuous movement; the smoke of a hundred cigars clinging to her like the thinnest of veils. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls who danced around me that day later died in the massacre. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When she thought of Lord Shiva dancing, she imagined someone stomping their feet on the sky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s surrounded by teenagers whose clothing, hairstyles, and dance moves all indicate that the time period is the late 1980s.* Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to dance with a girl whose arms and legs were longer than theirs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I saw two people made of gold dancing the earth’s dances. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There we studied, talked, and even danced until the early hours in the morning, and it became a kind of headquarters for young freedom fighters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that I had the courage to go through the center of the line and dance in front of 500 people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As we read about the seventh-grade dance coming up in October, the announcements come on the P.A., and soon we are standing for the Pledge. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then all of us were dancing except for Big Ma, who yelled, “Cut this cake before the candles melt all over it!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Celaena scowled as the dance finished and the Crown Prince kissed the hand of the blond woman. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As the kids dance around the front yard under the night sky and the lights, I see something. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We do not speak of the kiss or the sparks still dancing between us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But this dance was not about wounded bird girls, and Sosie reveled in unleashing the full power of her body. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A hip-hop dance class begins in a studio directly behind us. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“This is where I dance all my dances,” he said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A friend of mine had a bottle of brandy that he’d smuggled into the dance. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As I’m nodding in contentment, my phone begins vibrating noisily on my desk, making the colored pencils dance. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I pass food stalls and dance stages, jugglers and fire-eaters, acrobats, Kehannis, singers, and players. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My parents managed to come to terms with me on the school dance. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“This is about the extent of my dancing.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“She came to the last one, she said, and enjoyed it very much. I did not know you have fancy dress dances here, Frank.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Isa, I’d really like for you to go with me to the eighth grade dance next month. Please, will you come with me?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I wanted to dance with Wishbone and then race down to Howard’s to tell him this news. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“You comin’?” The boy had high cheekbones and freckles and light brown skin lit up by the setting sun, which cast a long dancing shadow onto the causeway behind him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I like to remember things like the time she took me to my first dance class when I was in third grade. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

How can such simple ingredients make my tongue feel like it’s dancing with warmth and smoke? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know whether to smile, or to laugh, or to nod, or to cry and dance about. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Daddy gets around him, and dances behind Momma. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Rumors spread of half-clad women jiggling away, when in fact the dance was elegant, stylized, and rather chaste. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The juniors and sophomores already on the dance floor moved in a little closer, watching. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In one tomb archaeologists had discovered soldiers, servants, and even dancing girls laid out as though they were sleeping. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the rhythm right away, and I knew that it was the song that Fred had danced to in his bug-eyed glasses. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The school must have a budget for the dance.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They had songs we could dance to at family parties, and ballads that could send you into a black hole of sadness. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kurtz danced off, and I snaked through the flailing bodies. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I try to make myself remember the dance we’ve rehearsed over and over again, but I can’t seem to imagine it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“If you must know,” she said, “it’s about the dance.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Birds cried out merrily from the woods and the tops of the trees danced to rhythms all their own. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the dance floor; a wide gap had formed in the center of the floor, where two couples whirled gracefully. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The girl was the first to tell the fiddler to get busy and the first to dance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Basil was whooping and laughing and dancing around, stopping to scribble on a notebook pad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“C’mon. Lets sit on the bleachers and see if we get asked to dance.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bayonets made short work of two who reached us, Clippinger dancing about with his hanger. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She slid it open and stared down the hallway to where the brightness of the lamps sent long flickering shadows dancing across the paneled wood before her eyes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They quit hiding out to hold their dances when they found that their American friends didn’t laugh at them as they feared. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Like the blonde on TV, I swing my arms and dance around. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Quickly he began to play this drum, which made the strange animal stop looking for people to eat and begin to dance. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

His other brethren form up behind him, dancing and somersaulting with the zeal of acrobats at a carnival. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A whole lot of King Lords dance with women in the backyard. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to the dance, Benny! No one asked me!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I can’t dance like she could, you know that. And we already have biscuits.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mark stumbled backward but caught his balance.There were people all around him, hissing, baring their teeth, dancing about on their feet, all wild eyes and hysterical laughter. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Audubon Ballroom, between Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue, on the south side of West 166th Street, is a two-story building frequently rented for dances, organization functions, and other affairs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when a charming woman had invited them to a dance competition she was hosting, they’d jumped at the opportunity. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Okay, but you have to come to the dance,” Soojin insists. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Using only my fingers, I can make the black and white keys dance together and do whatever I want. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

There was a horrible bang—a thousand times worse than the sound of a balloon exploding—and the van was spinning, the wheel dancing right out of my hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It danced around its mother’s backside, bleating constantly for her to stand still long enough for a meal. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His dance of anger had really been the dance of forgiveness and healing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We fiddled dances, rounds, and catches, and the soldiers were glad enough of our company. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She loved dancing and took to it instinctively. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day faded and now the sun is sleeping and the stars are awake and dancing above us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he had ever aimed his rifle and stared down a flower girl eagle-eyed at a protest rally when he really wanted to dance with her at the senior prom. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

This siege was a more intimate affair, the latest step in a dance that went back many centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had daisies in her hair; and she drifted over to us, her eyes all dreamy as she danced in her flowing, paint-splattered dress. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the tournament was over, we formed a Soul Train line and danced on the basketball court. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A breeze had sprung, which caused the flames to dance. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you get the banana to float in a perfect vacuum in the center of the box, you can’t stop the wiggling entirely, because dancing particles give off light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We rarely missed going to the Vets on Saturday nights and eventually worked up the courage to ask girls to dance. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I took in Kazi’s words, let them dance and twirl in my head, replayed them over and over like a beautiful piece of music. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jake and the secretary proceeded to the dance floor and did a dirty dance, people falling back from the pair in shocked silence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom looks down, ceiling to floor, the same dance I’ve done a million times in this room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And I wanted to go to a party where there was dancing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then we got to the dance and she didn’t speak anyone’s language. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve been dancing in this festival since I was little, but this part always feels the same: stomach somersaults and trembly legs. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The Dugout was sparsely furnished—booth benches with backs on them along the walls, and support pilings scattered throughout the room that cut into the dancing space. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He danced on his front paws on the porch, his mismatched eyes smiling up at me, his tongue hanging out happy. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She closes her eyes the way she did during her interpretive dance for the class. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I guess she saw what there was to see in that girl’s face—and mine—as we moved out to dance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching them play one-on-one was like watching two dance partners perform their greatest hits. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Come on, let’s dance before I chicken out and hide in the bathroom,” she says. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Alter and I are going to the street fair down by the market. Unless he prefers to go dancing.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he started impersonating Frank Sinatra, singing “New York, New York” off- key and doing his lounge-lizard dance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They required him to dance there alone for three hours. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, we had just seen them in class a couple of hours before, but now the cafeteria was a dance floor, and they weren’t girl students anymore, they were girl girls. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids had been going to a dance down at St. Mary’s Hall, but when they heard Lorraine and I were having a party, they ditched that idea. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I danced a few steps, conversed with myself, and laughed at nothing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“My dad has one. He puts it on his shoulder and dances around, which is something I can never un-see.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I stopped dancing and watched, as many others did. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

How many angels could dance on the head of a pin, and with what matters did God occupy himself in all the infinite aeons before the Creadon? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Jason asked me to the community center dance. When I said no, he asked if I was embarrassed about him.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia looks from the twins back in the direction of the courtyard, where the light from the bonfire gleams along the edges of the tents, casting dancing shadows of patrons across the striped fabric. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Coordinated as she whirls, though how she knows what dancing is, he could never guess. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Neva: had Lyra seen it so brilliant and dramatic; with every twitch and shiver, new miracles of light danced across the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, my grandfather had proposed to my grandmother in much the same way, after seeing her dance in a village competition. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jose and Angel danced between them, a step ahead of Bud Martin. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My memories of that year were a revolving world of dark alleyways and breezy rooftops, dingy taverns and dance halls. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We can’t come to the dance. Jason invited me to his birthday party that same day.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel called the little icthyod to him, and she danced on his shoulder. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

So they began to hold dances night after night in the quarters, usually behind Tea Cake’s house. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

You’re seven years old, you made your First Communion, and now ’tis time for the dancing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At school there were dating and dances, but not for good Chinese girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two wires dangled from the heart of the machine and gently danced in the breeze. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she glided and shifted her weight, gracefully executing a combination of steps which the bent woman had danced long ago at seal camp. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fiddlers begin a different tune, the dance picks up around me, and like a fool, I stare into the crush, knowing he won’t come back but hoping anyway. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sun peacefully sailed through the white clouds, birds sang from treetops, the trees danced to the quiet wind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it's pitch-black dark. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are dancing, and I can tell she wants to say more. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Last year the dance was held just before the spring break. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had taught myself a little dance that I called “the boogie.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We would dance until cockcrow, then take off our sweaty shirts, enjoying the cool morning breeze as we walked back to our dorms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We would dance and vigorously shake our butts and hips—twerking, basically. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In a minute she’s snoring even if he’s still coughing and laughing about the days of his youth when he danced with Angela Sheehan light as a feather in the Wembley Hall. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And, in the midst of the grinding and sloppy making out, we begin to slow dance. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The dirty, get-on-down music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shameless or apart and wild. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever dance James Brown called out, the boys from all the sixth-grade classes threw down their Three Musketeers gloves to challenge one another. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he caught her by the hand and did a little dance with her, in the corner. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and, just like that night in the motel room, she danced for me, sitting motionless at the top of the gym. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“There’s cupcake places, like, everywhere, and boys can dance next to each other.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"You've all done so well. It was difficult to assign the parts for our recital. We have two lead roles in the dance—a princess and a prince." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We take turns dancing on the bed, then leaping off. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No. He looked right, in the direction of the jungle, as his fingers danced at his side. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They danced and sang and there was a partyish air about the gathering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They re up there dancing to rap music and throwing their booty back and forth. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Of this she was perfectly unaware;—to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Seniors took first years to the dance—that was the annual tradition? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

For me, music and dancing were more interesting and fun than sports or cars. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"Might one dance in the streets? Somebody give me an answer." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The veela on the other side of the field leapt to their feet, tossed their hair angrily, and started to dance again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They fall in abundance, and the people dance and sing praises to the Marked Girl who spoke with the spirit world on their behalf and brought a time of abundance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And they were so beautiful, those little flames, dancing in that still, silent church, dancing like they could hear music. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Where lonely women go to dance,” Sierra said out loud. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were starting to dance around the bull. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Long frustrated hours beside the fire brought angry movements, but the dance refused to come to him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He’s the personification of a preschool dance recital. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Fern balled her fist and socked me, and I said, “Ow,” just to say “ow” Vonetta dropped the postcard into the mailbox, then hopped and danced until Fern yelled, “Quit it!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s the theater boys—Simon, Martin, Cal, and a few others—and they’re doing what appears to be a country western line dance. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh, help, help,” Hermione whispered frantically, dancing uncertainly on the spot, “please...” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley’s heart were entertained. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

On Culture Day, Susan had stood before the class and wrote her Chinese name on the board and spoke of folding paper into birds and dragons dancing down the street. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Absolutely nothing about any of it appealed to me—not slow dancing, not fast dancing, not the dresses, and definitely not the rented tuxedo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can still feel the crispy hair at the base of my neck from dancing until I sweated. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you one thing,” Hilly says, “I won’t be hiring that rock-and-roll band again, playing all that fast dance music...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A world where guys who look like me and probably liked the Phantom movie, too, can dance next to other guys who probably liked Phantom and not get threatened or assaulted. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

Some believed silver-haired yumboes from the depths of the Greater Jungle had spirited the old man away and still danced with him barefoot by moonlight. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But I guess it's more like theater dance. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Each night Cole tried without luck to find the feelings to dance the dance of anger. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Kate, the day I go around pinching your scrap bonnets is the day I dance a jig naked in the dining room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then, beyond Chas’s shoulder, at the edge of the dance floor, I caught a glimpse of green surgical scrubs and soft black hair draping over the glint of a stethoscope. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They do a Michael Jackson tribute that ends with an amazing rendition of “Thriller,” complete with zombie dance moves. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheryl's so glad she doesn’t have to dance in this one. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It’s one of those awkward songs—part slow dance, part fast. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She’s there by the fire and Dad is there and they’re asking me the same old questions, the dance and the name of the dance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And it does, all night, one dance bleeding into the next, one song becoming another without a pause to catch your breath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At Christmas, there was another party—dancing, singing, three marriages. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, cigarette smoke is everywhere, and Raise is showing us how to do some new dance. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A flame appeared in her palm and danced across her fingertips. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, just the way Mary be dancing is worth watching, like she a sixty-year-old man who just hit the lottery. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She and her mother look so much alike, the dance portraits almost seem like glimpses of her own future. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind it trailed a growing bunch of revelers, dancing along with the beat, drinking and throwing their empty bottles to shatter against the huge, impervious machine. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I figured most of the kids were just bummed that the dance had been canceled. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

After she relayed the message, her nimble fingers danced across the keyboard as she typed a letter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could run, skip, jump—dance, even—on the vast linoleum without fear. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and began dancing to the soukous music that was playing as she left us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Torches flickered atop its ramparts, and the homed moon danced upon the dark waters of its moat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I danced one raggamorphy song with the girl, and then there was a slow jam. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Let these girls be reborn in light, undefiled by mortal lust, or let them descend to the Drowned God’s watery halls, to feast and dance and laugh until the seas dry up.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The music and dancing lasts for at least an hour. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then he tries to play it off like some kind of dance move. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The prom’s music came from this really bad cover band called The Gypsies of the Allegheny, but the drummer was good, so everyone had a nice time dancing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They bumped Piggy, who was burnt, and yelled and danced. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He found out that the returning bee performs a wonderful “waggle dance” that tells the others exactly where to go. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Patrick told me the story about him and Brad, and now I understand why Patrick didn’t get angry at Brad at the homecoming dance for dancing with a girl. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ash watched them laughing and dancing from her corner in the front hall, and no one noticed her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hoop, he could dance, and he could get down with his hands if anybody messed with us. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wolf down his food or dance lame old dances like he used to. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The second man-at-arms lunged, Brienne parried, and their swords danced and clanged against each other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He dances into the room, clicking two handfuls of spoons and forks together like they’re instruments. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Intricately wrought flowers in every color cast dancing rainbows into the mansion. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s dance or chorus or band. There’s leadership.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“What would a dance of anger be like?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Afterward they all danced around me in a circle and sang “Happy Birthday.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She nodded seriously, though her eyes were dancing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He held a funeral for a bird! He danced on the front lawn! He played senior citizen music! The Beatles and that other grandpa—Guitarfunkel, or whatever his name is.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They brought in celebrities to sing and dance and star in comedy sketches that taught children about the virtues of cooperation or about their own emotions. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He danced when Mr. P treated him to a handful of seeds. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dorn had practiced ballet for most of her life and still moved as if dancing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She knew that, even though she had never danced like that with another person and had refused Caesar when he asked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“And you will be going to this dance also, Salvador?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Some dance, some sing, one plays the pipe and one the drums. Good washerwomen too.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone was clean, and they all seemed to be participating in some sort of intricate social dance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once, in the light of the quarter moon, they appeared in silhouette on a domed, distant green, like figures dancing in someone’s dream. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They stand around awkwardly in a group until Drew Gilliam joins them, jokes around, and then asks Sierra to dance. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My stomach flips again, but I wrinkle my nose, about to delete the message, and then the four o’clock reminder for the AffloVest pops onto my screen, a tiny animated pill bottle dancing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

"You do know there are other dances that don't involve all that booty action, right?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now I have to sit in a chair someone has placed in the middle of the dance floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Four bartenders moved in an unrehearsed dance as they tried to provide drinks to the impatient Marines who screamed at them above the broadening dimensions of pandemonium loose in the Officers’ Club. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accordion, harmonica, wine, shout, dance, wail, round-about, clash of pan, laughter. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This dancing plague began with a single maniac who could not stop dancing for days. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was “interested in pretty much nothing else but singing,” one student recalled, “not taking part in dances or things like that.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"Because it's a party, Nood. Everybody will be partying and dancing and drinking," I cut in. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"If she can have a dancing lesson, why won't you let me say farewell to Prince Joffrey?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Across the river in the grove of trees the witches danced. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters made like a thousand dance videos since we’ve been off school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Where lonely women go to dance...Costume balls. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Except Abby kind of goes into her own world when she dances, so Nick and Martin end up bobbing self-consciously and pointedly not looking at each other. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Two fiddlers in the corner scraped a lively tune, and some of the more daring young people began to dance. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At the end she was knee-deep in foul-smelling water, wishing she could dance upon it as Syno might have, and wondering if she'd ever see light again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Of course there would be a party with dancing and good food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t Mildred Powell be fit to be tied to see me dancing with such a charmer? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mamou took my hand, and I took Sohrab’s, and we made a chain until we were all dancing and spinning and stomping and jumping and smiling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This is around the time when I remember that I don’t really dance. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So I never got to go to my matric dance. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was the kid Spoony made dance in front of his friends when we were younger. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They laughed, and I could tell that they were giving him some rhythm, but Needles was so caught up in dancing, he wasn't even paying the girls no attention. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And off in one corner there was a girl a few years older than Hazel, dancing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jimmy King, who was one of the best students in our class, played the drum as we danced. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had ran into them on several occasions during pie suppers and dances. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight on the water had left spots dancing in front of my eyes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire was kindled in the center of the dance lodge, and its fragrant smoke rose through the central opening in the roof. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then she’d probably want to burn a couple dozen candles and make me dance around them, and we all know that would end up with the cute firefighters storming our house again. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sasha and Nemo were useful additions, because they could dance either the male or the female part, depending on what was needed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Let’s all go dance,” June said, smiling at Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Compared with the desolate scene outside the car, his eyes look like the dancing flame of a lit match. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We thought we’d go for a few days with some of the girls and stay at a hotel there and go dancing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the night of the homecoming dance and you had the biggest pimple ever in the middle of your forehead. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He extended a hand to her, and she said in sudden realization, “I do not know how to dance.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first people thought it was just a latecomer to the dance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A book of photographs: a dragon dance at Tet, schoolgirls in white do dais, a temple built on a tree trunk. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kamara, the director of the center, gave a few remarks, and then boys started telling Bra Spider and monster stories and performing tribal dances. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The USO’s dance floor was always full of beautiful young ladies, but one enlistee stationed at the naval school had eyes only for the club’s secretary. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A white woman gets up from her blanket and starts dancing for no reason at all. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And you know how every spring you complain because you have to wear a dress and go to the father-daughter dance? But you always have fun?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Just — let Prince Aidan remain in the dark about one of his dance partners tonight.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were straight up dancing around that thing, remember? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I dance with every woman I can get my arms around. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to head to the dance. Come on.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The boys pushed the furniture to the side of the room, creating a dance floor of sorts. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We were dancing in her basement with a bunch of our girlfriends and somehow the CD got ruined. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Not one person with the dancing plague survived, but with their deaths the plague vanished. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They could speak, dance, love, hate, cook, teach, tickle, and even rock babies to sleep at night, but only if Minya let them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He skidded to a halt beside the tapestry of dancing trolls, closed his eyes, and began to walk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The other part of me danced with the bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watched him dancing, foot to ground, watched him throw the bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy kept dancing and showing off her ticket. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He throws a bucket on me, and we drip and cry while Helena dances because the war is over. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes wandered restlessly from candle to candle as he spoke, as if only their dancing flames interested him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Simon grabs my hand, and we weave through the crowd on the dance floor. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Louis hated peasants, too, apparently, and yet he had no problem sitting beside Jeanne—hoisting her in the air and dancing, even. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Hey, forget it. That just didn’t come out right. Don’t be mad. You want to dance?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

And let my fingers dance across the keyboard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You’re not going to dance? I have to insist. You and you.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Though Ron purchased a dancing shamrock hat and a large green rosette, he also bought a small figure of Viktor Krum, the Bulgarian Seeker. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In Norfolk, middies held hands and formed a human chain, dancing around cars like kindergartners, madly encircling the standstill traffic. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My uncle, who had indulged in blackberry liquor, danced a disjointed jig around the backyard of the cottage, trying to imitate our mothers. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Pacing back and forth, back and forth, each step like a long, never-ending dance. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The conductor started dancing a jig so Scruffy couldn’t latch on to the cuffs of his uniform pants and yank them down. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In front of us on a clear part of the street a company of boys were dancing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She could take dance classes and go to the community pool, sure, but she never stuck around long enough to make real friends, much less relive memories with them years later. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

All around me, what appeared to be a dance of death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I danced with a few people before I met Daddy. But when I found him, I knew I had a dance partner for life.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bo and Hornet had gathered all the candles they could find and their flickering light filled the movie theater with dancing shadows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her gaze is locked on the dance floor. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows she is exhausted, as he is— the night had ended with a long session of dancing to Abba songs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And when she was shown how, Violet did the dance steps the dead girl used to do. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allegra shrugged and returned to her new favorite topic, the eighth grade dance. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They danced to music as a poem was being read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was so sure, and they danced and walked all over me. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just, the family-mandated ballroom dancing lessons didn’t exactly cover this?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bigger crept on tiptoe toward the trunk with the skillet clutched stiffly in his hand, his eyes dancing and watching every inch of the wooden floor in front of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he knocks on the glass to get her attention, she keeps dancing and pays him no mind. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Before I can protest, Lorena pushes me right into him on the dance floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds, the two just stared at each other as the shadows danced around them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I guess not. Come on. Let’s go. There’s still an hour until ten. Maybe you can at least get Isabel to dance with you.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I taught her how to dance and all when she was a tiny little kid. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to say yes, and then we would dance a jig. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He danced around, trying to escape her swinging arms as the others egged him on. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The evening’s shadows dance across Hel’s face, and it reminds me of how she looked when Rowan Goldgale grabbed her and lit her with that strange glow. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

You remember that Samuel Hamilton said his children had gone to a dance at the Peach Tree School. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wait a couple of beats and then we’re off, floating around the dance floor in a swirling sea of people. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She wore a clinging green taffeta dress and high-heeled shoes, and when she danced dozens of slave bracelets clinked on her wrists. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Kasim raises the volume and he dances while slowly turning down the corner of Joy Road. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at the dance floor, trying to imagine it covered with spongy mats. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I lit the candle next; the flame danced in Dadi’s brown eyes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Occasionally Chuck or Johnny shelled out a dime for a dance, but to Joe the price seemed extravagant. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Especially since it now seemed that Isa did want to go to the dance. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“This is fine,” she said, as they began to tread the steps of the dance together. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“And maybe chickens will sing and dance the polka,” I mutter, pushing open the door of my room with my elbow. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stella, honey—I might not be fit for dancing, but I can certainly stir some batter,” Mama said, stretching her arms for the bowl. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By the time the bartender calls for last call and the lights flicker, I’m too tired to dance anymore. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bear began to beat his drum and dance. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kelly said they could take turns playing Charlotte, and George’s stomach danced at the idea of reading the spider’s words aloud. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Which brings me to another thing—I decided I’m going to do the dance thing. With Isabelle and the rest of them.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

With Fidelito dancing attendance, they carried him to a soft patch of sand. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a perfectly ironed, cream-colored linen dress, and her eyes sparkled with excitement, as if she were about to go to her first dance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The image she’d chosen showed a lean woman in motion, her shimmering dress whipped around her limber body as a man in a tuxedo dragged her across the dance floor. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Other backyards have lines with clothes that are bright and colorful and dance in the wind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now she fanned the flames by performing military dance exercises. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

This was the 127th annual one, and there would be singing, war dancing, gambling, storytelling, laughter, fry bread, hamburgers, hot dogs, arts and crafts, and plenty of alcoholic brawling. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was a bit pink in the face from dancing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Listening to music and dancing made me forget my troubles. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in the hot air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Got loose, he did! My dancing bear. World famous!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not lonely, just alone—riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria—even dancing, she danced alone—and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is even one stitched with the silhouette of dancing fauns as tall as the skirt itself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After giving itself a shake, it scampered in confused zigzags around the dance floor. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign— DANCE—but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flexed her fingers, and a small shimmer danced between them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Their fire whirled around him, danced with him but never hurt him: Dustfinger the tamer of flames, the man who breathed sparks, the friend of fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot--I had never seen him dance before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When the music started and the dancing commenced, they appreciated the extent of their gratitude for Jockey. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We walk hand in hand to the dance floor, and then Garrett pauses, facing me. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Another big part of our community—and a personal favorite of mine—was an elaborate dance procession performed by the neighborhood kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“So how come you didn’t go to one of a hundred normal bars to dance and drink, then?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“As the galvanometer spot swung across the scale, indicating that protons of 1-MeV energy were reaching the collector,” Livingston recalled, “Lawrence literally danced around the room with glee.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They wanted her as an image to dance around. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls’d drifted to the other, too cool to dance too. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The characters danced before my eyes, growing larger and redder, almost swallowing me up. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I reach Charlie, he strikes a pose and does an impressive dance twirl. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We danced to a second song, and when we sat down again on the stools facing the pool table, our backs against the bar, he slid his arm behind me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she was dancing, Sosie felt as powerful as any superhero. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She would dance flamenco, her skirts whipping a thousand crimson lights. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And tonight is a big night. Lawrence Welk is on TV. All the singing, dancing, and polka music. You’ll love it!” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Come to town often? You sure dance fine.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danny the K got up from the bench and danced to the tune of the Flipper song. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

With that he picked up his lilies, and then with a beckoning wave of his hand went hopping and dancing along the path eastward, still singing loudly and nonsensically. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He says there’s many a young man that was hanged and now moldering in a lime pit that would be glad to rise up and dance the Irish dance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don't know how long we were dancing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Small bursts of light danced in front of her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looked questioningly, reproachfully, at his mother, who laughed, watching him, and said, “Johnny want to hear some more of that music. He like to started dancing when he was coming up the stairs.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

No Muslim who followed Elijah Muhammad could dance, gamble, date, attend movies, or sports, or take long vacations from work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In case you didn’t have one of those, it’s the dance where the girl asks the boy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded him of reaching port after a long trip at sea; the temptation was to leap from the ship and dance and run on the solid and limitless earth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The official program dedicated dances to particular officials and guests. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Doña Laura had danced a bolero with Don Carlos that was as good as in the movies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She would turn the music up really loud and dance through the apartment, with Tiger her only audience. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night of Angel’s dance recital was stormy and overcast, but her excitement made the evening seem almost sunny. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our brother school, River Vale, is right across the lake, and we have socials and dances and whatever with them all the time. Almost every other weekend.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“You just look like one of those people who can dance well.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I look around the dance floor and see other people who are good dancers, and then I see myself in the mirror, and I see I am a nervous dancer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“That was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done,” Mom said when dance class was over. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then, better than a cat, she dances across. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was nearly dancing with anxiety by the time Wilem got back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I automatically stop dancing and sit back down. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed herself very much that evening, for she danced to her heart’s content. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crouched down to examine their shoes, hoping that my mama would be wearing pink dancing shoes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dancing with a handsome young man. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Me too. I danced with too many squares tonight. Lets melt ’em all down.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a new wave of rats danced along the edge of the clearing all three men ran to the truck and from it pulled long-handled nets. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"It was dark. There was that-that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His right leg is short and twisted and when he walks he does a little twirly dance and you never know when he’ll fall. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They walked arm-in-arm; he in his patent leather dancing shoes and she in her high laced kid boots. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching my parents dance to Tex-Mex music was my idea of hell. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’d left Lansing unable to dance, but now I went around the gymnasium floor flinging little gills over my shoulders and hips, showing my most startling steps. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s actually dancing, and I have to stop for a minute to watch him raise his arms and sway to the beat just right. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And yet there he was, Raymond Something, walking right up to her—it came out later that his date had suggested it—and speaking to her, and then they were dancing. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Watching the battle of wills between Captain Smith and Chief Powhatan is like watching the dance of a sword fight between two proud, powerful men. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Beatles are apparently the cue for people to get up and dance. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sierra realized something was dancing in Manny’s eyes besides his usual mischievous charm. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe God knew that right then, staying out of the dance didn’t feel like a big sacrifice to me, because he didn’t instantly cure my brother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t feel obligated to do one thing. I wanted to bring you. Let’s dance.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I hear a w-w-waming sound Every time you c-c-come around ...” She was dancing around Armpit and Ginny as she sang, and kept looking at Armpit as if he was the one she was singing about. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What felicity it is to hear a tune again which has made one happy!—If I mistake not that was danced at Weymouth.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It was close to five A.M., many dances and many bourbons later, when I reached Mary's. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now dozens of people—old people, people I thought were in line to buy stamps—have launched into a choreographed dance number, with high kicks and hip thrusts and shimmying arms. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

That I would never look right dancing with a boy, and for that I had Cecile to thank. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the thought of dancing with Manuel was enough to make my stomach do a flip. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the side of the dance floor. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes, she makes me think of the German girls, she looks so fresh and quiet, and dances like a lady.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he danced on the Ford’s roof, leaving footprints of steel in his truculent clog across the top of the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started jumping up and down and dancing around like a lunatic, yelling and going crazy. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Boom Box leapfrogged over his twin, jumping to the dance spot. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

In the upper deck they spill over and dance on top of the scoreboard. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

When we got to the Roseland, we danced the early part of the evening with each other and with different partners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should've given them the freeze, after they did that, but the trouble was, I really felt like dancing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma Smith was a West Texas flapper who loved dancing and cussing and horses. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But quite the opposite results were achieved, as the dancers danced themselves to utter exhaustion, and one by one they began to expire from heart attacks, strokes, and complete organ failure. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some villages brought out their lion and danced ahead of me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buzz of a motor from another boat dances across the water. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He sees his father turn red, trying his best to hold in his laughter as Gabriel stands up and begins to dance as he had witnessed their mother doing while dusting a few days before. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He began to dance round the body, waving his boar-spear and uttering horrible shrieks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except when he danced with the blond beauty. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Martial tradition says a soldier who dies well dances among the stars, battling foes for all eternity. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That evening, dancing and singing to myself in the kitchen, I make twice as many sambo jelly sandwiches. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Go on in there and dance with Mike." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mam says, Look at him trying to dance with that child in his arms, him with his two left feet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had very dark skin and huge eyes and dozens of long, skinny braids that seemed to dance around her face. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like a choreographed dance, vacant pods are being floated from the center of the hold, while metal supply crates take their place in the belly of the hold in preparation for offloading. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eager, but not wanting to seem eager, I made a slow dance around Denna before finally finding some excuse to spend time with her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Edwards’s reversal set off great celebrations of joy as black students from Carter held hands and danced at an impromptu pep rally. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful, the way the women dancing on the beach were beautiful, with kohl-rimmed eyes and long black hair. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Traft’s cowboys came to stand behind him, apparently oblivious to the music that signaled a lively dance called the racket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Certainly, sugah. Two Marines asked me to marry them before your father. Those were good days for me. I was looking and feeling good. Your mama was a dancing, finger-snapping, riding-in-fast-cars girl, you better believe.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Spider, who was literally squealing with excitement, grabbed the Centipede by the waist and the two of them started dancing around and around the peach stem together. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Walker frames are conjured into life, knitting wool is enchanted into chaos, and male nurses are made to dance tango. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He remembers the overheated dance hall from the entrance exams four years before: ladder nailed to the wall, crimson flag with its white circle and black cross below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And I can imagine that it’s us dancing out here, all on our own. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She told me that the other night she dreamed she had come into the apartment and set fire to all my books and notes, and that we went off dancing around the flames. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His girls were playful, wistful, always dancing across the house, jumping from bed to bed, singing with feigned vibrato, swooning. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

She could visit her mother on the beach, laughing and singing and dancing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I played it later, I discovered it was orchestra stuff for ballroom dancing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting cross-legged, sunlight and shadows of pomegranate leaves dancing on his face, Hassan absently plucked blades of grass from the ground as I read him stories he couldn’t read for himself. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But a poor man—what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He starts the girls dancing at this club,” I said, “and then, well, it gets worse.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“He — he asked me to dance. He did not know who I was. Then he took me to the conservatory.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A day never went by without one of them breaking into song, reciting a sonnet, or dancing a jig. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then Coach blasts his favorite dance music, and before you know it 32 we’re all doing the Cha-Cha Slide: To the left, take it back now, fall. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The mermaids were dancing and singing in Latin like the priests do at the cathedral during Mass. You were there with me too, at the bottom of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Another benefit dance was held, and the enlisted men at the Agate Point station were invited as guests of honor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then we will dance the night away beneath the streamers decorating the high school gymnasium.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The original illustration, a line drawing of five dancing men, was done by the late artist Keith Haring. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But, alas, he did not close his eyes, and the flame exploded around him and danced inside him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were songs and dancing on the Brooklyn streets in those long ago summers and the days should have been joyous. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the dancing had begun, Anh had perched next to the performers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Trees danced and swayed, dust and leaves rose up around us in boisterous swirls, and our jackets and outerwear took on sudden lives of their own, leaping and flapping about us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fifteenth boy looks out across the dance hall as if staring into a bleak, cold sea, then climbs back down. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I want to dance with like a whole lacrosse team, maybe with them holding me up on a Formica tabletop. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abel’s fingers danced across the strings of his lute. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, for three hours, Aru and Mini learned war strategy from Hanuman, dancing and etiquette from Urvashi, and folklore from Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Looking at her in her agony the maidens, all sobered now, the dancing over and the singing and the wild wand-waving, said to one another, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d never find him dancing, he was so uptight about stuff like that. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s out in the parlor right now looking at TV. Every afternoon, as right as rain, he looks at that show where them kids dance.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both step back and dance around each other. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Ben danced with my mother, his steps sure and stately. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The slow dance through the ideas led to writing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

While they read, I did my own version of the happy dance. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Death Danda, as if it were matching her mood, hopped and danced, then turned from a purple compact into an imposing stick at the blink of an eye. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But tonight I feel myself dancing with them. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“So your breath will smell like candy when you’re: dancing the slow dance.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tell us the truth, Did you go to your dancing classes today? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I bet you know how to dance the pocho dances, don’t you?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I forgot I have to meet Tricia to talk about dance committee stuff.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Square dancing. I never want to hear a mandolin again.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He put his name down for three dances, and I suppose he’s coming for them. What a bore!” said Meg, assuming a languid air which amused Laurie immensely. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look in the mirror, check to see if my hair is messed up from all this dancing. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“My mother loved going to powwows. But she never danced. She never owned a dance outfit. This couldn’t be hers.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Around the fountain, sculptures hid like tree sprites under the topiaries—cupids playing flutes and tambourines, or ladies dancing in their rain-worn stone gowns next to the huge pots of orange trees. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Brent says something to Beth in a teasing voice, and her colors glow even brighter and do a shimmering little dance like Roger’s had done in the car. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even when the song ends, we hold on a little longer, and I think it’s about three minutes we danced for. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He suddenly became very lively, almost dancing a jig on the sidewalk. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

That we’d have to kiss and hold hands and slow dance at the winter formal? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything or dance or anything. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We will sing and dance other things all night long. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, as one, they bowed or curtseyed in return, and the dance began anew. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Even the Springer Swingers were there, still in their dancing outfits. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And with my swirling and flowing skirt and dancing body, I form a river. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, with a war- whoop—deplorable and ungentlemanly tactics—be fell on the insurgent camp with the blood pounding in the veins of his neck, and Excalibur dancing in his hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Macon stepped back, one hand outstretched behind him, thinking all the while of how his father’s body had twitched and danced for whole minutes in the dirt. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I danced all day and took trains and buses all over the city to auditions, and at night I carried around trays of food and flirted with the men for bigger tips. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When it's done, Tiny and the kid dance offstage to thunderous shouts from the crowd, and as the lights cut. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Now that she was sure of Mike, she actually sounded sincere when she said she wished I would go to the dance. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like the looks of the Indian women she saw in Gallup, dancing at Eddie’s club with the drunks that stumbled around the floor with them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo's red hair dances in the sea spray. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A chorus line joins in, and the guidance counselor dances around a spangled cane. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed my mother and twirled her around, and they danced beneath the newly plastered ceiling of the living room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The men danced and slipped and fell over them. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw her uncle’s face shimmering among the tiny dancing lights. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The hall was lit with dozens of torches, dancing and fluttering, casting strange shadows over the hundred feasters, either revealing their true nature or concealing it—one can never tell. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The shadows come to dance, my lord, dance my lord, dance my lord,” the fool sang on, swinging his head and making his bells clang and clatter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Both loved dancing, motorcycles, Bob Dylan, bad puns, liberal politics, and National Public Radio. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Finn was so used to that face he had every detail memorized: the dancing eyes, the hint of freckles across the nose, the wide mouth that always seemed ready to smile at Finn’s antics. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some kind of sport or recreational activity—soccer, dance, swimming, professional hopscotch. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hermione cast the merrily dancing flames a dark look, and Harry distinctly heard her mutter “Slave labor,” before bidding them good night and disappearing through the doorway to the girls’ dormitory. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He stormed over and flung it open, and there at the top of the stairs stood Emma, a tiny ball of blue flame dancing above her hand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The wind danced with the tree outside our home, and the leaves made their soft flutter music. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Tree branches dance to the songs of the rustling leaves and cicadas. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“When I first came here, it seemed like my husband and I sat here all the time watching the raindrops dance.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If Jennifer were a dance, she would be the Agnes de Mille dream sequence from Oklahoma! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I cannot even see what you mean. Dance. Just dance. Quickly, guest. Join the dance.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

About an hour and a half later they’d been through the dance once, watched the video once, and then done the dance again. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked sideways toward Mamá, who was still dancing, oblivious to us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dorian was dancing with a small brunette with outrageously large breasts that he took no pains to avoid glancing at every so often. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

While I scraped plates and massaged migraines, she practiced dance steps with our classmate Farah. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Darren looks good when he gets dressed up for a dance and wears a boutonniere. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Some nobles started dancing, weaving in and out among each other. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Boxers sparred in a makeshift ring, dancing to keep their feet under them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Olanna watched them and wondered if they understood their mother’s mourning dance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then changing from a frown to a smile—“No, do not tell me—I do not want to know what you mean.—Where is my father?—When are we to begin dancing?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

As Mabinty Bangura, I danced on my bare toes in the mud of the rainy season, disturbing the breeding mosquitoes, who would rise up in anger and bite me—bringing malaria. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Carter band moved into the stands and members of the crowd started swaying dreamily back and forth as if they were dancing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Monday back at school, Evan approached me in the morning and broke the news that he'd spoken to his mom and she told him that the dance was too expensive. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most of them had some guy standing there rapping and a lot of pretty girls dancing around him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The realm could not withstand a second mad king, another dance of blood and vengeance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cool air is dancing with the rush of the Passaic River behind my building. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She dances well and she eats banana splits. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He attempted even to stick the cowboy with his cutlass, but the two were a wily and elusive dance team. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fingers and strings made a careful conversation, as if their dance described the lines of an infatuation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You got a bargain,” I tell Judd, and now my feet want to dance, my face wants to smile, but I don’t dare let the delight show through. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The male slaves, unlike the women, were not allowed to stay on the deck after they had been fed and made to dance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a mass and then a big party. Everyone gets dressed up and dances a lot. It’s supposed to mark the transition to womanhood. My grandmother has been planning mine since I was, like, two.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He turned over, holding his nose, and a golden light danced and shattered just over his face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Then tonight we’ll dance the mouse dance, and tomorrow you can carve a mouse.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I’d rather stay at home and scrub the kitchen sink, the bathroom sink, the tub, and the toilet before I danced with Ellis Carter. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We leaned against the counter, facing the dance floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“This’ll probably be the last chance in your whole life to go to a dance.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Push me around the dance floor, why don’t ya?” she says. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

More shadows danced beneath the tree, and the whistling picked up again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The bass was bumping, my crew was dancing, and everyone was having a great time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ser Waymar was panting from the effort now, his breath steaming in the moonlight: His blade was white with frost; the Other's danced with pale blue light. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The white people danced as though somebody had trained them—left, one, two; right, three, four—the same steps and patterns over and over, as though somebody had wound them up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn it on to listen to the music and watch the dancing and funny parts again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Instead, all the school officials present were giving us the same song and dance about our not responding to our attackers in order to maintain peace. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have danced a jig and said, “Less shirts for me to wash, wring out, starch, and iron.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ghostly flames danced on the beautiful palaces beneath Old Familiar’s wings, somehow throwing off real heat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I pulled a fish off my line and let it dance its last dance against the bank, then put it in a pail half filled with water. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The fever in my bones has subsided and the air no longer dances with flames, but Anatole still comes to me at night in the pelt of a panther. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m taking you down to Catherine Street to Mrs. O’Connor’s Irish dancing classes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Here, everyone knows the words; everyone dances to the beat just right. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered aloud as I observed the body markings swirl and transform in an endless dance. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Werfel’s elfin guest certainly seemed nervous about the dance of the flowers, supposed to represent the wonderful bond between goblins and the natural world. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I felt weird leaving you with that guy, but I recognized him from the dance.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

So, Khrushchev is said to be here dancing with the man-eating natives, teaching them to hate the Americans and the Belgians. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brutus leaped forward, skidded to a stop, danced about, and kicked over a chair, howling back. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like a place I used to go for dance lessons — when I was eight or nine. It was shaped just the same.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I hope the Beast is ready to boogie, because Mrs. Turton is ready to dance. Look,” she added, wiggling one of her sneakers in the air. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"We can watch the dancing and remember our young years. There is pleasure in that." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You think we could?” asked Summer, her eyes doing that little dancing thing they did when she was super-happy. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

By the end of the summer, Felicia is dancing infrequently and her pronouncements are few. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll dance on your grave, you sot," he said, and came on guard. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“While some parents hit their children, mine also punished me with dancing lessons.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge was entertaining a few locals with tap dancing and martial arts, occasionally singing into his megaphone, though nobody seemed to understand what he was saying. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to go to the dance? With me?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Everyone. People used to dance and sing and play—now they all quiet. Scared.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

So here I am, my hair dancing about like whiskers behind me, and my hands flapping like wings, flying above the world until Pa summons me away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glow of the fire lights up our faces, shadows dance on the wall. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Javi dancing like a grounded bird, wings flapping at the air around him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the song, the wedding party was asked to join them, and Felix’s mom dragged him onto the wooden dance floor. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the meal, the villagers started playing drums, and we all joined hands and danced in circles under the moonlight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Similarly, in Brazil there is a dance called Maculele, which some trace to the sugar fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself at the dance, trying hard not to step on Traft's feet. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They made their way past beer gardens illuminated by bright strings of electric lights, full of people singing gaily, dancing polkas, and hoisting steins of beer in their direction. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And I did, I could feel my heart getting warm, I could feel the flame in my chest as we danced in a circle. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was the kind of grandma who cursed and went out dancing, who had a devious spark in her eyes that would rival Gramps's. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I picked “Kiss,” because it’s fun to dance to and because Dad is an even funnier Prince. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Boy, howdy, would that be a trade worth dancing for. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like a majorette before the ever-shifting sidewalk crowd, I smiled during performances, and in Japanese dancing that is equivalent to a concert violinist walking onstage in a bathing suit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fay’s new boy friend is a dance instructor from the Stardust Ballroom. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I did a happy dance around the kitchen island, but froze when I heard my phone chirp. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then the twins realized they would have a fire near them as a comfort in the night and this set a few littluns dancing and clapping hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m not dancing on that stage by myself.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Later, as I shoved the book into my bag, I found the balled-up flyer Selena had thrown away at her mom’s dance studio. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I turn up the stereo and let my hair loose and swing it around and clutch an invisible microphone and dance and sing in front of the mirror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dance with a smile on my face, even when my partners are ugly, or terrible dancers, so that they won’t feel bad. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, for Italians, the supreme expression of their love of music was the emotionally charged operatic aria, for Russians it was dance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It includes many different kinds of music: lullabies and children's singing games, tunes that everyone enjoys singing together or dancing to, songs for celebrations, ceremonies, and holidays. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We danced until Big Ma told us to stop that noisemaking “like a herd of stampeding hippos.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After the white dances, when I helped to clean out the ballroom, we would throw out perhaps a dozen empty liquor bottles. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the goatherds’ god, and the shepherds’ god, and also the gay companion of the woodland nymphs when they danced. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The center table was cane, too, supporting an oriental vase with pictures of kimono-clad dancing women. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“She and her brother have been dancing since they were little,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

So it wasn’t until we were leaving the dance studio that I was suddenly reminded that I was in high school, and that, for some reason, Navid and his friends were kind of cool. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Paine sure did dance a long time with the notion before he said it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone came up the stairs toward her and bowed, she did not realize that he was bowing to her until he asked, “Would you like to dance?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost smiled, and a chill breeze danced across Ophie’s skin, raising goose bumps on her arms. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Smitty, as everyone called him, had become one of my own special buddies and I shook his hand when he finished dancing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad of it, I had almost caught the rhythm of it, the dancing, clicking jangle of it during the summer. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They performed a crazy kind of dance with their claws to scratch apart the caked manure and expose the meaty grubs within. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

From then on she was invited not only to the dances but also to the Sunday swim parties in the pool and to lunch once a week. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was called the finger dance because it usually ended when one of the dancers lost one ... or two, or five. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And now the suitors gave themselves to dancing, to harp and haunting song, as night drew on; black night indeed came on them at their pleasure. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She really dug this one song, this Christian revival number, and whenever it came on she’d drag me into the living room and make me dance with her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A playful gust of wind danced it over the Hudson River, and up Forty-second Street, and whisked it down the subway entrance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire makes the room warm and with the flames dancing in the coal you can see faces and mountains and valleys and animals leaping. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The first flames appeared, shy as maidens, darting and dancing from log to leg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For breakfast, they had eggs that were not cooked well, so that the yolk danced around, and they wore bouncy straight-hair wigs and maxi-dresses that grazed their ankles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Something bright and serene danced in his eyes, like the strange flames on the sticks near the altar. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A week ago, Harry would have said finding a partner for a dance would be a cinch compared to taking on a Hungarian Horntail. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Flames danced along the top of his glasses. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the driveway reading as Kava and Romey did their welcome dance around me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t need to be able to dance, though that would be nice. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He took her a dance card as a present and gave Nana permission to open the decanter of brandy and pour some in the lemonade. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doing any more of them burlesque dances out there on the prairie?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As the current swept the Shy Maid beneath the bridge, their shifting shadows danced upon the mossy walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

MidPass should’ve been a peaceful place, somewhere you could play, grow up, sing, dance, and let the magic of the world carry you along. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We dance around each other, but never intersect. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the evening, we held dances in the experimental chambers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Basically everyone who’s not dancing is filming this, but I’m too stunned to even grab my phone. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mooncalves perform complicated dances on their hind legs in isolated areas in the moonlight. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ever before in your life seen a rabbit dance?” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“So, do people actually dance at the dances?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They were so busy singing and laughing and dancing that they didn’t see the cargo ship as it sliced past the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now you be me, Lucifer, the loveliest angel of them all. dud: What do I do? devil Well, sort of dance around praising me, mainly. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

If he saw me standing alone at the dance hall, he would come join me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sherlock’s whole body is wagging as he dances in a circle by the front door. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Bast stood in the doorway, practically dancing with irritation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge danced around the firing platform, pumping his fist in the air and yelling, “That’s what I’m talking about!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a Sunday, and last night the dance went until all hours. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, when Presbyterians start to dance on the front stoop, you know that something big has happened. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

All around the dancing circle, men and women — no, these were fairies in their unearthly splendor — lay on cushions, crystal goblets in hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to dance some more before it’s over.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Penelope felt self-conscious gobbling away while the children were so gloomy, but the strenuous dancing of the previous day had given her a hearty appetite that no amount of stuffed dead animal heads could erase. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I was wishing that somebody would come over to us because I knew Peaches loved to dance and I figured that maybe a little shaking would get her out of her bad mood. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deep scratch danced across the shiny surface. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They leap into battle, the steps to the dance burned into their muscle memory. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And soon, the concrete, the stones, the marble tiles, the dancing rebar, all fell down around me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

High John danced between the iron monsters, tangling them up as they lunged at him and leaving them twisted in rusty knots, juicy targets for my hooks and uppercuts. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Johnny went into one of his dances on the little platform that he pretended was a stage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light danced quick in the river and the marshland, as quick as death or the snap of a claw. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We remain pressed together as more people flood the dance floor. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he had worked so long that the numbers danced in front of his eyes, he switched to other parts of the book. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goose bumps of yes danced down her arms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Do you dance to the sound of the bagpipes, or lace up the cords of your armor? Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I stare at the letters and watch them dance and move on the bright white page. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Very good! Let us dance and celebrate. Tonight we sleep as aristocrats,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the music stopped and the dance ended, Mom burst into applause. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Everybody lines up on the grassy area that’s become the makeshift dance floor. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Build up your strength for the next bit of dancing,” added Pa Schillinger. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then the dancers danced the future—a machine-future—in clothes I had never seen before. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s trying to get a moment of their time on the dance floor. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hello,” he said, as he danced with her. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Cole hugged his arms tightly to his chest and kept dancing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Being short herself, she was used to short guys asking her to dance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He said I could take a car for the dance. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jones had seen the bird flap around on the stage while Darlene tried to dance. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did what everyone else did at the hall: she danced. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“The queen noted you. Go, dance some more.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He knows the word walk, and he jumps from my lap and dances circles by the door. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

The nicer boys among us thought, buy her ice cream first; dance with her once or twice? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three girls came from the church dance because Jane Appling had invited them, and I think she had one @#$% of a nerve. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her survival instincts are incredible, her dances with fire always fun to watch. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy then pushed Frieda into James T. and they started dancing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I loved the tough guys, the action, Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca,” and I loved all of that dancing and carrying on in such films as “Stormy Weather” and “Cabin in the Sky.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been dancing with the football team ever since Jem came in.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I jumped out of my seat and did a little dance. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Glowing, while we were spinning around the dance floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Counting out their dance routines as they spray their hair. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Butterflies of different vivid colors danced from petal to petal, and they seemed to cloud around Ishtar as she ascended the stairs to the front door, still on her call. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to tell my friends about Tyler calling, because that will just lead us back to the dance and that will make me mad all over again. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“This is my potato dance, Grandfather. Look what I found. We’ll have a real supper tonight. Have you ever seen anything as beautiful as a potato?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’ll do you good to shake yourself a little, girl. If I can find out about that old man, I’ll invite him over, too. You and him can dance.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew she was not going to dance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He held a cornucopia in one hand and a drinking vessel in the other, and had vine leaves in his hair and a swinging tunic to show he was dancing. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She clutches her hand, performing an agonized dance while I blink, fighting to stay awake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people filled the room; they stood along the walls or danced under a ceiling festooned with red and white crepe paper. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Of course, it wasn’t polite for a prince to dance with only one lady, but he couldn’t focus on anything beyond his partner and the music that carried them onward. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Later, she wished that she remembered every word they said to each other as they danced. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The dance of death sweeps us into its circle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Katie refused to dance with the feller provided for her, a vacuous vulgar boy given to remarks like: “I thought you musta fallen in,” when Katie returned from a trip to the ladies’ room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up above them, flaming figures were dancing in the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are two girls holding beers and sort of dancing, and a group of guys laughing, and lots of people holding drinks or holding hands. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The rhythmic sounds might be the recapitulation of something else—an earliest memory, a score for the transformation of inanimate, random matter in chaos into the improbable, ordered dance of living forms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sponsored social dances, Christmas parties, and Fourth of July picnics for thousands. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Over the clatter of knife and plate and the low mutter of table talk, he heard Patchface singing, . . dance, my lord, dance my lord,” to the accompaniment of jangling cowbells. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Their church was far from the others, but they could be heard on Sunday, a half mile away, singing and dancing until they sometimes fell down in a dead faint. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soojin has a crowd of people around her and is an animated Ada Lovelace, although the way she is waving her arms around makes her look like she’s dancing more than programming a computer. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And just like dancing, like being able to move with each other without actually touching, in one smooth motion I handed the baton to Krystal. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She motioned for me to follow her, and even though I walked beside her on the way to the coach, I felt more like dancing. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If a white man asked her to dance, she would refuse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d finally get to have the homecoming games and school dances, study groups and student clubs, and all the crazy spontaneous times with friends. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There Kava and Romeo, our two giant schnauzers, would always be waiting for me, doing their welcome dance, which entailed wagging their whole bodies and jumping up and down at the same time. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He’s practically dancing around with the phone now, then he laughs a laugh so happy it blasts about a billion balloons into the air. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He wants to know why I’m dancing, that everyone knows dancing is a sissy thing and I’ll wind up like Cyril Benson wearing a kilt and medals and dancing all over with girls. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Watching kids dancing, I flicker my fingers on my knees. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned and danced out of the meadow and went to tell the King. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Us dancing, I mean? Did something about it feel different?” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Letters from people thanking us for the dance. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Blue dots danced in front of my eyes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At first it just seems like chaos, each person dancing to their own tune, but then I realize they’re just offset by a few seconds. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They stop and set them on the ground and Dill’s father dances up to them, clapping his hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Tall yellow flames danced from her fingertips like claws. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I listened to the music, not paying much attention to the lyrics, and studied the few couples dancing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on, even you can’t think that! People dance at a dance—that’s why they call it a dance! There isn’t even any music!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton breaks out into her white-girl dance while she takes large bites of her food. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It is a kind of dance. It takes many years of practice to become good at it,” she explained as we walked toward the gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I practiced dancing until my feet bled and my knees felt like water balloons. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"They dance differently to all the different tunes." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I been practicing a smash dance with it. The bird’s very smart. You oughta hear that thing talk.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do-si-doed around the dress like an offering dance and cheered as it filled up with water and tipped down to pour into the waiting coconuts. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A group of musicians played near the prince, and perhaps a dozen guests danced. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The unfurling of an embryo; the reach of a plant toward sunlight; the ritual dance of bees—every biological activity required the decoding of coded instructions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Channeling Sparrow, her sweet Orchid Witch, she willed the dead tree back to life and watched it set forth leaf and bud while the two memory-children danced around it, laughing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Somehow Daniel knows it’s time for something unexpected, not an eyebrow or a dance move, not a plan for what they could find in the woods, but a friendly dose of the truth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He starts dancing around me, which of course makes a bunch of kids look over. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

A pregnant woman smiled at her and moved slightly, making room; Claire recognized her as Jean, the wife of one of the fiddlers who were tuning their instruments and preparing to play for the dancing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We re three powerful half-bloods. Our presence should confuse him. Mingle. Act natural. Do some dancing. But keep an eye on those kids.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fire danced along their wings and they became swift. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she was not hunting, or carving, she danced, sewed, chopped wood or made candles. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine days later, all over America people were dancing in the streets. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And—okay—other than the musicals, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Simon dance. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Jason charged at Otis, who pulled his spear and heaved a great sigh, as if he would much rather dance Swan Lake than kill another demigod. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tim had promised he’d get me a beautiful date for the dance, but he hadn’t made any promises about any of her other qualities. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Clio was Muse of history, Urania of astronomy, Melpomene of tragedy, Thalia of comedy, Terpsichore of the dance, Calliope of epic poetry, Erato of love-poetry, Polyhymnia of songs to the gods, Euterpe of lyric poetry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking of what you said: I’m not going to let something I can’t change ruin the dance. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The shards of green burst to life as: spirits danced through her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No, Dimple. This is your idea. Let’s do a dance where you have to do most of it.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she could tell that I, too, wanted to wear white, to join the funeral dance of the grandchildren. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I’ll stay still. I don’t care much for company dancing. It’s no fun to go sailing round. I like to fly about and cut capers.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She whisked the guy off and started dancing with him, and that was the end of that short-lived romance for me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“The announcement is going to be made at lunch. The dance has been canceled.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Once, I managed to start a conversation with Elle at a sophomore dance. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As their friend the Lion, dancing past, bent down to take the wing of a Brazilian Pheasant in his paw, Jane shyly tried to put her feelings into words. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They try to ignore a Mother’s Day party downstairs, where 150 women from Nuevo Laredo laugh, shout, and whisde as their sons dance, pillows stuffed under their shirts to make them look pregnant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They had to learn to do dances waving red kerchiefs; they had to sing nonsense syllables. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart-shaped face, and her dancing deep grey eyes, and the brown curling mass of her hair. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

As the dance approached, I started getting nervous. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to the dance at all.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the engine room below, it sounded like Leo and the others were doing an Irish line dance with anvils tied to their feet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it had happened at homecoming while Grace was squeezing a baby out of her body and he danced, wearing a cheap plastic crown. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For everywhere the dance of maidens swayed and the clear call of the lyre sounded and the ringing notes of flutes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was probably the only one in this class who couldn’t dance a huapa-whatever, too. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She listened to them complain about how boring their upcoming weekend would be because they were going to the community pool again, and then they started talking about a dance class they took together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I love watching her dance, but it’s not my thing. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Bodies once alive, then lifeless, seemed to live again as the bullets tore into the dead flesh and made it dance in the afternoon sun. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sizwe and I put together a routine for our dance crew, there was no question who was going to be the star attraction. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was not a breath of wind in the darkness, and the glowworms were dancing above the dry grass as Dustfinger crept back to Capricorn's village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That’s when Mary Elizabeth asked me to the Sadie Hawkins’ dance after she said, “You looked really good in your costume.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The television was on but the volume was off so that the dancing people looked as if they were swaying drunkenly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"That's someone from the office" he told himself, and he almost froze while his small limbs only danced around all the faster. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following week I went to dance class thinking that we would progress to real dancing. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mac looked at Alex in surprised recognition, then broke into a wide, gentle smile, his eyes dancing in the warm glow of the flickering flames. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I have to admit,” Ximena said quietly, “she’s been really annoying ever since I started spending time with you guys rehearsing. She was so mad when she wasn’t picked for the dance!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He could still remember the first night she danced only with him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t want to dance, we can just sit there at the table, looking siditty by the lamplight and listen to the music and watch the people. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where lonely women go to dance,” she said aloud. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

This was huge, with white fabric dancing from it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z