“If it would save my daughters,” the parson said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His mother’s friends didn’t used to bring their daughters over quite so much. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looked like a low-grade bookmaker dressed up for his daughter's wedding, and he was clearly very pleased with himself this evening. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, she prays for an amnesty for immigrants so she can become legal and bring her daughter Belky to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her eldest daughter had joined the Young Wolf’s host as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Within a few millennia that single ancestral Polynesian society had spawned on those diverse islands a range of diverse daughter societies, from hunter-gatherer tribes to proto-empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, she’s only human. Even if she is a preacher’s daughter.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother fell to her knees, palms together, and pleaded with them not to take her only daughter. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, when the daughter hung up, she did not quench the old woman’s curiosity; instead, she placidly drank her coffee, went to her desk, and began to postmark a pile of letters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t know what got into you,” she told her daughter. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ammu tucked her naughty daughter in and switched off the light. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daughter. She said someday she would come here to live, when the time was right. You know her, Matty. You know she had things to accomplish there first.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

What were they to him, Silvertongue and his daughter, the boy, the bookworm, and the woman who was another man’s wife once more? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“His daughter. That would be the girl called Kira, the one who helped you leave your old place. He never talks about her.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“But then I read that letter from her daughters in Shanghai now, and I talk to Auntie Lindo, all the others. And then I knew. No shame in what she done. None.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But probably—or so Aunt Chipo said—he had found himself another wife and forgotten all about his daughter by now. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The project centered on a two-year-old girl from New Haven called Emily, whose parents — both university professors — began to notice that before their daughter went to sleep at night she talked to herself. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This next part has to be just right, or I'm blacklisted by the mother and hated by the daughter. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is where I leave you, daughter of Indra.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Have you heard the one about the tinker, the Tehlin, the farmer’s daughter, and the butter churn yet?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Eight years I cried for you, my daughter. Every night I held your clothes and cried for you.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She sent her daughter a friend request,” Molly tells Jack. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I take it you’re Terminus, the god of boundaries. Jason told me you protect the city of New Rome, right? I’m Annabeth Chase, daughter of—” “Oh, I know who you are!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, daughter,” he rebuked her, “what sort of talk is this?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His sisters, the Heliades, the daughters of Helios, the Sun, came to his grave to mourn for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew my son would have nice daughter.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Young Prince Mamillius, the king’s son, had not been resurrected like the queen, or saved like the baby daughter. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The woman stood up and handed her daughter to me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bade his daughter good luck, and ended his speech by saying, “If your man is a wizard, you must become a witch!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last the month had passed and the daughter was told that she could prepare herself for the journey. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m not like you. I would never leave my own daughter.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were greeted by his wife, Angelina, and their two daughters. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And so the years rolled by and we still had only one child, and that a daughter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re her daughter? But then, you must know what happened to it!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was only a farmer’s daughter, but she was beautiful, and also smart, as the daughters of farmers need to be, for farms are complicated businesses. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The women were wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The door pulled open and Terryl’s daughter, a sixth grader, chilly from waiting outside for a few minutes, climbed inside. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He walks across to the window, rocking his daughter from side to side, murmuring to her all the while. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did ask something of Miss Havisham, however, sir. I asked her to give me some information relative to her adopted daughter, and she gave me all she possessed.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"And sons too, of an age with yours. When she hears, perhaps she . . . she may take pity, and ..." "Send my daughters back unharmed?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Jefferson Davis...was married...twice. His first wife...Sarah...was the daughter of...President...Zachary Taylor. But Sarah...died...of malaria...three months after...they...were...married. He remarried...” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But Matty, a master of stealth, had brought him secretly, at night, to meet his daughter for the first time. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

My daughter, as she grew, was learning to use her voice, discovering her own ways to reinforce the boundaries she needed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Zeus was his father and Maia, daughter of Atlas, his mother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents definitely questioned why Izzy felt the urge to show so much boobage when their daughters never opted for low-cut tops. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"No sign of your daughter, Hand," the Hound rasped down, "but the day was not wholly wastedfWe got her little pet." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You know Hagen’s daughter, the one with the red hair. She steers a ship as well as any man and has a pretty face. Seventeen, and I’ve seen her looking at you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I admire the daughter, Ella, but she has gone to finishing school, where I fear she will be made less admirable. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s my daughter. I want to give her a decent education.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Elouise, the daughter of the Baptist minister, recited “Invictus,” and I could have cried at the impertinence of “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash's step mother was not wearing a mask, and she looked extremely vexed as she herded her daughters out toward the courtyard and the carriages. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ted Bell sold advertisements for the paper, and he had a daughter in fourth grade at Lincoln Elementary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His daughter leaned against him after he took the wheel from her, and he came into the harbor that way at midnight, the girl’s head against his arm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It just went to show, Mamma was proud of her only daughter’s intellect, deep down. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And she said shortstop...“Does your daughter have really shiny golden hair?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The kraken’s daughter turned out to be just a woman after all, the captains and the kings would say. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could protect our women and daughters from their jungle urges, which Dr. Bertram understood to be a particular fear of southern white men. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He married a schoolteacher and had a daughter who adored him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Camellia, this is an important time in our kingdom. The marriage of my daughter is on the horizon." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I think the end of my daughter’s carefree days began with the tannery. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, sir, they say . . . you see . . . I mean they say the daughter doesn't have a husband." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word had spread that one of his professors at Harvard—the daughter of a managing partner—claimed he was the most gifted law student she’d ever encountered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“All he wants to do is see her. That’s all. He just wants to see his daughter.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She was a crofter’s daughter, she loved me and she wed me, she put her trust in me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But add either an article, as in A daughter cooked dinner, or a genitive, as in Jenny’s daughter cooked dinner, and the sentence is complete. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I knew the stories of many bad sons and daughters who had angered their parents to the point of the disowning curse. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you feed him well, daughter,” she said to Big Ma. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was uneasy about his daughter but he could not have said why. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, ‘Aw, she’s too pretty just to kill! Cleo? Listen to me. Would I take my own daughter? No, by God. But, by God, I can take another man’s daughter!’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She made her way toward our dusty old car with her daughter trailing behind her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bigger saw Buckley give her the earring he had seen at the inquest, and the old woman told of how the pair of earrings had been handed down through the years from mother to daughter. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his sturdy character, Severo was overcome when his daughter’s nightgown was lifted to reveal the splendid body of a mermaid. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My girls’ clothes are secondhand, donated by a distant friend of my mother’s who has a larger daughter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When her daughter told her about the car crash, Terryl didn’t think about it in professional terms. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They kept talking about the man’s daughter, who would soon start med school. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She then turned to everyone at the table and said, “Everybody, this is Marc’s daughter, Nadia. She’s visiting from New York.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Her hands are shaking as she refastens her purse, and when it’s closed, she faces me and says, “No, excuse me for raising such a self-absorbed daughter.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She was already an expert pole fighter, daughter of a teacher trained at the Shao-lin temple, where there lived an order of fighting monks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on that occasion Blanca did not tell her daughter the truth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about his eight-month-old daughter, who still had no name, and about the child who was going to be born in August. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I dare anything for my daughter,” Mom replied, her voice dangerous, “and for the rest of these children!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My mother did not let it be known that she had already had two children and that some of these girls were young enough to be her daughters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not consider the daughter at all. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her daughter prefers the luxury of uncertainty, of time unplanned, of waste. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day they talked of what had happened to them both, and Demeter grieved when she heard of the pomegranate seed, fearing that she could not keep her daughter with her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you? If you had us for daughters?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He spent the next seven months building his daughter’s house from scratch. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I only stopped to see if. . . last time we met . . . how is your daughter?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mean to say it as though I would be ashamed to be his daughter, but I guess it just came out that way. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She also encouraged her daughter’s natural musical talent by enrolling her in piano lessons. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her tasks moved her continually away from us—her senseless shadows, a husband and living daughters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart rejoiced at this hint, and I pressed: “Then you have perhaps heard of their king? You have perhaps heard of the fate of their king and his daughter?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“The girl’s father was annoyed at his clever daughter, but he liked his grandchildren, so he forgave her.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put ribbons in the hair of his cousins’ daughters. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Where is my favorite daughter you would cry, and when I came home finally at three p.m. you would appreciate me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Jack answered for me by saying, “Ballet. My daughter is a dance student.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His daughter Annie—the eldest, and his favorite—contracted an infection and died, leaving Darwin numb with grief. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And they all lived happily until their daughter grew up and got married and had kids of her own. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The queen herself was absent, as was her daughter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He also took solace in the knowledge that he had never said a mean word to his daughter. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one they come out into the early morning sunshine, my son, my daughter, and Puli, the child I clung to who was not mine, and he no longer a child. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some night owls in Ilium heard Billy on the radio, and one of them called Billy’s daughter Barbara. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But this was the trip of a lifetime! You can’t possibly understand how important this is to my daughter!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He moves closer to his daughter and gives her a hug. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“My daughter is a good girl. She learns quickly and will serve you well.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“At least I gave birth to my daughter on the night that my mother was taken from me,” she would say. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I have been thinking, daughter. It was not wise of me to put you in Hamlet’s path. My intent for your advancement, and my own, was foiled.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was considered one of the top girls—and the principal’s daughter—and some girls thought maybe there was a connection between the two. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There is a mother with her teenage daughter sitting on the left side of the room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My daughter thinks I do not know what it means to not want a baby. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you finish your alpana design, my daughter? That way you can keep an eye on the rickshaw, too.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought he would take his daughter’s side. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“After my son and daughter went to jail, I was determined to go also,” said one mother. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is looking at me waiting, waiting for me to explain it away, to go back in time, to fix it, to give her back her perfect daughter who never gave her a moment’s trouble. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

"You mean other daughters have also had breakdowns?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“An-mei, you have been a good daughter?” she asked, smiling a secret look. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also the merchant’s daughter, but she wasn’t as important as his flock, because she didn’t depend on him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found himself engaged again, word for word, gesture for gesture, in the argument with his daughter with which this tale began. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What about me waiting on T. Ray hand and foot, and we were just father and daughter? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to apologize. My daughter died that day, and I wasn’t myself!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“All I ever wanted was for Elizabeth to have the best education possible. But associating with you nearly got my daughter killed. She won’t be talking to you again.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? Oh no. I wasn’t there. Bit of an event though, from what I understand. Mauthen’s only daughter and they were sending her off proper. Been planning it for months.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On TV, daughters sometimes sit on their fathers’ laps and the fathers pat their backs and kiss their cheeks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atticus Finch had watched Henry’s ragged pursuit of his daughter with benign objectivity, giving advice when asked for it, but absolutely declining to become involved. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I think about Angelina’s sacrifice for her daughter, its ending in loss, her grief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She concluded, “Thanks, everyone, for giving us our daughter! Now here’s Ashley.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He needed to know that his daughter had responded to the challenge as he wished her to. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

One daughter married an army general who for a time governed Formosa, and it was this uncle- general who encouraged Papa to enroll in a military school. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad went through the five phases of grieving— denial, anger, acceptance, whatever—in like one day. I think he’s more freaked out that he is old enough to have a daughter who has a boyfriend.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the river rose the river god with his Naiad daughters. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

At last he had nothing left except his daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t want a blueberry for a daughter!” yelled Mrs. Beauregarde. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong, Virginia? Did my daughter hit you? Did she yell at you?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all coming together. Most people don’t pay attention to that kind of news, but working in the ethics office, I hear it all. I remember something about a daughter,” she says. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The new mother dozed while her tiny daughter nuzzled and sucked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Throughout the biological world, genes generally travel vertically—i.e., from parents to children, or from parent cells to daughter cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, my daughter is vegan,” a mom chimes in, glaring up at Fatima like she’s issuing a challenge. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A good daughter, one of Ms. Gruwell’s favorite students, and now I have an amazing new friend—but I’m lying to my mom, Ms. G, and Zlata. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was definitely a daddy's girl, and he was definitely a daughter's dad. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The massacre came up only briefly, when I was playing in the yard with the youngest daughter, who was around two years younger than me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her father had given her a good home, an education, everything a wealthy shipbuilder could give his only daughter—but not forgiveness. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt it was extraordinarily stupid of me to bring his daughter’s name into the catfight we had last night. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“But both our daughters are going to college out of state, so I think she's got that all wrong.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My mother ain’t one of the world’s great mysteries. She likes a good lot of butter and prefers sons to daughters.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Therapist Dad, n.: pinched eyebrows, lowered voice, lots of questions, feared by daughters everywhere. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung kept his own counsel, therefore, only listening here and there in the tea shop when maids were spoken of, or men prosperous in the town who had daughters for marriage. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Naked and embracing, mother and daughter lay resting while the others cleaned up the afterbirth and bustled about with the new sheets and the first batch of diapers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"One parting request. Kindly make certain no harm comes to Sansa Stark. It would not do to lose both the daughters." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Oh. I... I'm so sorry, Mr. Borden. I hope you don't mind me asking, but this is pretty important. Do you think your daughter's death had anything to do with the electric blanket?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Certainly not,” he said, looking down at his daughter with love. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence, but I was the opposite. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was with the daughter of the murdered man. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He has two daughters whose pictures he keeps in his wallet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was she the woman who took the man, or the daughter who fled her womb? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ain’t my daughter,” Jordan sneered as he tried to force her to the bed. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman, whose name was Mosi, screamed with desperation as her daughter, who was about four years old, was torn from her arms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a hell of a daughter you got there,” he says. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The figures grew larger every time I looked up, and then when they were still a fair distance away I recognised my daughter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loses her backpack in the river, and the only photograph she has brought of her daughter, Jasmin, is in it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They let her through because they were aware of the fanaticism of some mothers, who sent their daughters to the bedrooms of the most famous warriors, according to what they said, to improve the breed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Board of Education ruling to integrate the public schools, Shuttlesworth had driven to Birmingham’s Phillips High School with his two daughters in the car. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was not a woman of the llano, she was the daughter of a farmer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without warning, Anna jumps to her feet, pushing her chair back—it clatters onto the kitchen floor, startling their daughter. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

About the time that Arcadio was named civil and military leader they had a daughter. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“If I could have foreseen ten years ago how things would happen, I’ve have cleared out too. I’m too old now. And besides, I’ve got my daughters and grandchildren here.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came up to me and introduced herself as Mrs. Williams's daughter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her mother, in rotting rags and filling the room with the stink of the grave, stood over her to curse the daughter who had denied her on her deathbed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His daughter’s request, for such it might be considered, of being admitted into her family again before she set off for the North, received at first an absolute negative. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her daughter’s talents, Celia realized ruefully, lay in her unsurpassed drama for the everyday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the night he lit a Charminar and wondered what his daughter looked like now. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and daughter were sorry for one another. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to give you the same deep condition treatment that I give my daughter. She has thick, curly hair like yours. I make the conditioner myself.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her greatgrandmother ran a grocery store, and so they were able to put aside some money and marry one of their daughters to the first Indian lawyer in the colony. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Mother-in-law,” he said, “I intend no discourtesy, but this is no ordinary visit. You gave me your daughter in marriage. I have brought her back to you. She is a barren woman.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton came forward a step, and fronted Jan. “You and I don’t agree. Let’s forget that. I want to know where my daughter is. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Moments later, as a band played, Nixon and his daughter, both beaming, walked arm-in-arm down the White House steps and into the Rose Garden. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A moment later Lord Asriel’s expression was bland and virtuous, just as his daughter’s could be, and from then on Lord Roke was more careful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Impulsively I give her a quick kiss on the forehead to remind her that it’s just me, her favorite patient, her daughter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he talked about his daughters, my mom and Aunt Helen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what would have become of us if it hadn’t been for Mama Mwanza’s daughters, who came running after us, bringing oranges and a demijohn of water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I would have pretended to be his daughter if he wanted me to. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, Victoria, is left behind, like me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Wow. The daughter of a lowly farmboy immigrant representing the entire school. Impressive.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I’m not the first woman on earth to have seen her daughters possessed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got your daughter, he printed slowly in big round letters. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, her father didn’t want anything around that reminded him of his daughter, so he returned it. It’s been sitting in my closet, shut away...until you came along.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At his daughter Megan’s swim meets, he ran the computer that kept time and the score. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is always how her tirades begin and end: “If Anne were my daughter…” Thank goodness I’m not. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“The Earth Mother—oh, yes!—she told us: ‘Look for the daughter of Pluto who lives again. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They worked hard to buy a place of their own, with everything they needed to raise their American daughters. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother tried to smile and looked into her daughter’s eyes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Aye, she has the mark. Like all Borrells, for five thousand years. My daughter’s daughter. Not the one who makes the stew.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The caption would read: “Chocolate family meets vanilla family in the artificial reality that is a mall. Caramel daughter caught helplessly between the two.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Alex’s whole reason for wanting to go into politics, when he knows so many past presidential sons and daughters have run away screaming the minute they turned eighteen, is he genuinely cares about people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be fetching him any more than he wanted his ragamuffin daughter summoning him home like a wayward schoolboy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I called the villagers to come identify any daughters they wanted to take home, but no one claimed any. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. For my daughter. You know her well?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead she tears through a shopping bag of photographs looking for a snapshot of her daughter, but all she finds is a walletsized school picture of Pilar in third grade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My daughter, she's at a friend's in Frankfurt and won't know I'm gone—" "But I don't want to leave. I live here." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Grace was proud of him, and his daughters were doing well. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who would want a zombie as a daughter? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

First she inflamed the heart of Queen Amata, wife of Latinus, to oppose violently a marriage between her daughter and Aeneas. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rafael, I don’t know what to do with your daughter anymore,” which is what she says when she’s mad at me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You know Olga never wanted to leave your parents. She would have done anything for them. She always wanted to be a good daughter.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“My daughter leave for college soon. Both our children will be far away. Hiroshi is hurting inside”—she presses her hand to her chest—“because I think he will be too lonely without anyone around.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The man turned to me and said, “I lost my daughter a month back. She got real, real sick, then she died.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She wonders if Enrique sends his daughter less money because he is spending it on another girlfriend. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"Sandi will show you," he said, putting his daughter between himself and Mrs. Fanning, who laughed at his discomfort. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

According to Percy, Hazel was a daughter of Pluto. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m going upstairs to pack, and you can tell your daughter who Fenoglio is.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The third daughter, especially, had gotten out of hand, making musical chairs of every man's lap. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Who is this ghost? Not an honored widow. Just a number- three concubine. If you take your daughter, she will become like you. No face. Never able to lift up her head.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she made her daughter stick to the natural, overgrown eyebrow look, then family members would whisper about it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My mother’s sister is my mother; my uncle’s son is my brother; my brother’s child is my son, my daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Gaddis thought of her dead son and her daughter’s withered arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man and his young daughter drive up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Of course I expected to work, but I thought we’d have fun pretending to be teacher and pupil when we were really mother and daughter. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not weeping for her daughter’s future, she was weeping for the past, and weeping in an anguish in which Florence had no part. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I imagined that Earl said his daughter could go only if Roger got his hands into her panties instead of me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were separated and made into rings and pendants for unmarried daughters’ dowries. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at what kind of daughter you have raised, always lying and sneaking around. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“To have my own daughter cast off by her husband. Poor little innocent baby,” she says, looking at Quentin. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still, how had a farmer’s daughter bought a silk dress? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I study my grown daughters now, for signs they are resting in some kind of peace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, Miss Lisa would come in as we were playing and ask my brother and me to call her little daughter Miss Mary Lee and her son Mr. Henry, though. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My only thought was to find my daughter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother was the daughter of a chief who sought to overthrow my grandfather.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“My daughter and her friends wanted to stay an extra night, so we did.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The husband has never seen the daughter; his wife was pregnant when he left. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Hisao Imada agreed that it was so—ah, yes, beautiful, he commented softly—and at the same moment his daughter turned swiftly forward so that her eyes met Ishmael’s in the mirror. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Years later, shortly after his daughter was born, Henry called our house one night in tears. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking when the girls were born, first one and then the other, that I should have had sons and not daughters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lover smiled, admiring the daughter from a distance. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Help me to appreciate the good husband you sent me and to take care of my two beautiful daughters. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hector takes the dove and swiftly twists its neck, ignoring his daughter’s cry of protest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The mothers and daughters in fairy tales match like a pair of socks, but we are opposites. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Either he has accepted that I am an adult now, or he has accepted that I am no longer his daughter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Once I wrote, “If my years are measured by inches, then I am certainly too young. The eleven-year-old daughter of an acquaintance dwarfs me.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t favor him. He thinks he’s the cat’s pajamas. Too good for the daughter of a man who don’t even own his own boat.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parson had two daughters, the monster went on, who were the light of his life. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mr and Mrs Wormwood looked forward enormously to the time when they could pick their little daughter off and flick her away, preferably into the next county or even further than that. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered that this annoying fifteen-year-old girl was actually the immortal daughter of a Titan. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

With tremendous good fortune and not a few connections they’d found a way to send their daughter abroad, on a student visa. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She assumed Agha would say, “No no. That’s impossible. You already had a daughter. Of course it’s me.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Graham had thought twice this time, however, for he knew that just a few months earlier Geyer had lost his wife, Martha, and his twelve-year-old daughter, Esther, in a house fire. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I was captured prisoner by the blackhearted, southron, faithless King of the Dragon, and then, in spite of it that she had three beautiful daughters already whatever.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped that his newly born daughter would be a little like Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days he quoted me, shaking his head sadly and concluding, “A daughter is a needle in the heart.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the daughter of a Dinka chief and was considered quite an excellent bride. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mummy, may I have one please? You see how she sounds so posh? Ha! My daughter will go places. That is why all our money is going to Brentwood School.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Somewhere around the boring part where the guy named Rolf and the oldest daughter are singing You are sixteen, going on seventeen, Jack nudged me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The flat occupied the top floor of a large private house owned by a man named John Oker, whose daughters managed its rental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Four years later their daughter was born, and they named her Jean Louise for her mother and her mother’s mother. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"I am the daughter of Commissioner Sivapan, and I have an urgent message for the Governor." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m Donna and this is my daughter, Sparrow.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“My precious daughter. Nothing will happen to you. My precious daughter.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I want to run out and hug him, tell him how grateful I am, tell him how much I love being his daughter. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nok had realized long ago that she was not her mother's daughter. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Burning down the palace, the palace of the king who had three beautiful daughters. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She made clothes for her five daughters throughout their lifetimes, and she also made curtains for the windows and sewed quilts for the beds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like Ishtar needed a friend just as much as her daughter did. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever lie? What the hell do you do? What do you tell your daughter? When she asks about your work, what truth does the lovely Isolde get out of you?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Talk was, the king did not mean to send for Queen Selyse and their daughter until the Nightfort was ready for habitation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ranee prayed to her gods, hoping that their gifted daughter, the sweet "Mishti" of her father's heart, would find someone else. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Emma achingly wanted to be with Annie, but since she couldn’t take care of her daughter, she took care of everyone else. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigheart’s daughter, however, had a guardian, and this man would have had control of the money. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She actually grew as her older daughter shrank into private misery. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He swept aside his daughter with the back of his hand, sending her flying into the black rocks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He lost his daughter, he came into the woods, he made some cursed dancing shoes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the three most distinguished—partly, perhaps, because the tallest figures of the band—were the Dowager Lady Ingram and her daughters, Blanche and Mary. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And it was something of a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when at the end of their journey the daughter first lifted herself up and stretched her young body. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doubles over, one hand covering his daughter’s name. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had pledged himself to marry a daughter of Walder Frey, but she saw his true bride plain before her now: the sword he had laid on the table. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Nivea realized that people never invited her daughter to their home and that even her own cousins did everything they could to avoid her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood rigidly holding her daughter’s shoulders with both hands as if to stop herself from fainting. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One of the daughters often strays away to handle bolts of fabric and talk with the merchants in their own language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath both sun and rain, with my sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters I will labor. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t have any proper skin, you know,” Nelson said, as if this were something anyone could say of a woman’s daughter without offending her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t have my daughter gone for most of the summer without a reliable way to keep in touch.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He watched as his daughters played with the bird and taught it how to sing. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede was always polite; she was the daughter of the King’s Chancellor, after all. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The eldest daughter and the middle sister have been living with the king all this time. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Clara exclaimed at the sight of her daughter, who was covered with mud and blood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An uncle told me that he wished more men in the community would encourage their daughters to be like me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you don’t ‘sleepwalk’ again, my daughter,” he said, smiling. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Dalton, could your daughter by any means, in your judgment, have been dead then, and you not have known or suspected it?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she was finished with Zizmo she railed at God for taking him so soon, and bemoaned the fate of her newborn daughter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father's dream daughter." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day Esteban Trueba summoned his daughter to take her to the dressmaker and try on her wedding gown was the first time he had seen her since the night of the beating. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Loma’s face flushed red as her hair, she was so mad, and she flounced off acting like a store-owner’s daughter to a hired hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

This farmer, a widower named Karl Maynard whose son and daughter were grown, gave him chores to do, but also sent him to school. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“This is my daughter, Elaine. How do you do? And this is Sir Lancelot Dulac. How do you do? All written in the stones.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense! Our daughter, regardless of any infirmity, must be buried with honor in our family plot,” he told her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes you were. You were a lord's daughter and you lived in a castle, didn't you? And you . . . gods be good, I never . . ." All of a sudden Gendry seemed uncertain, almost afraid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then, to show off her English that she’s learning in night school, she adds, “My darling daughter, she needs to understand it is necessary to go forward, not back.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse’s family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“It is not gossip that another of my daughters is sick!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singer seemed intent on making off with the daughter of Eddard Stark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He calls me daughter, and defends me, and says he’s proud of me, and calls me pretty and smart—all the things I always wanted to hear from my own father. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she decorating her brother with it like he a pig in a sty and I see that old disgust Miss Leefolt got for her own daughter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That would mean coming to Cabrillo Homes to pick me up, and the very thought of one of his daughters dating a Caucasian would have started Papa raving. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen years later—after I had grown up, gotten married, graduated from Fisk University, and had two daughters of my own—my family and I moved back to Birmingham to live. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It's your daughter,” he said; “they want to know if they are to keep dinner back.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sylvie mostly listened, but sometimes she would add something too, kinda like to fill in for what her daughter, Charity, had missed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

See me as the daughter of the man they arrested. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

"It was common gossip at the time, that Westing's daughter killed herself rather than have to marry that crooked politician. . . ." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh well,” he said, “I went to stay with my daughter down south for a spell. These New York City winters are getting tough on these old bones of mine.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Whoever said you lost out by having twin daughters is a liar,” Chief Okonji said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That is,” she added hastily with an apprehensive look at her daughter, “when you’re old enough to know your own mind.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. School,” said Leon, as if he’d forgotten where his daughter went five days a week. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sons and daughters and friends groped about among the pieces, trying to put some kind of world together again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. What? Yes, oh sure, you take the cab. I need to talk to my daughter. Yes, I’m sure. I’ll meet you back at the hotel later.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Strange things are happening,” Buttercup’s parents said, and off they went too, bringing up the rear of the cow-feeding trip, watching the Count, who was watching their daughter, who was watching the Countess. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I wasn’t exactly what she’d had in mind, a dainty daughter to help her bail against the rising tide of the rough-and-tumble boyish energy that always threatened to engulf the house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She ran away and took her daughter with her. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Surely she would point out that she had two daughters. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a picture on display of this daughter and her new husband. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My daughter and her classmates were within weeks of getting their thin envelopes or fat ones. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this evening, while Dad was holed up in his office and I should have been studying like a good daughter, I decided to break the rule. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Look, I think you and your daughter can go on home now. No need for you to walk around with us." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"And you are to wed one of his daughters, once the fighting is done," she finished. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They are my mother’s twin daughters from her first marriage, little babies she was forced to abandon on a road as she was fleeing Kweilin for Chungking in 1944. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was a graduate of the public school system in New York herself, and the daughter of a public school teacher in the same system. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I stayed home during the long days and cared for my daughters. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The tourist stuff was fine, but from the start I’d wanted to take my daughter to the places I’d seen as a soldier. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around him, I should behave like a daughter, not a girlfriend. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Outside on the streets, an angry rally was going on, and the SIM were too busy with crowd control to notice a dragonfly helicopter flying by with a terrified mother and daughter inside. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“In my intentions,” she said, “little else. It was a poor marriage I arranged for your daughter. I have brought this on her.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question is, can I trust his daughters to serve me in his place?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Lady Tanda expects me to lunch with her. No doubt she will roastme a fatted calf. If it's near as fatted as her daughter, I'm like to rupture and die. And how is your leg?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“What beautiful daughters you have raised,” Ultima nodded to my mother. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mia nodded and mm-hmmed, and wondered every evening if this was wise, if it was right for her daughter to fall under the spell of a family so entirely. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we do have a daughter, and a wicked one she is! Wicked like her father! She ran away this morning, the wicked devil!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And she pulled a lace kerchief from her capacious bosom, and dabbed at her daughter's cheeks, which had suddenly become covered with tears. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She told her daughters, once again, the story of her odyssey from Japan on board the Korea Maru. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, after all, it’s his daughter. Let him handle it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Chineke! Bless me. Let me find enough to fill my stomach. Bless my daughter, Ifeoma. Give her enough for her family.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when I’m not their neighbor, I’m their daughter! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The Reds say you’re charging ’em with spiriting away the old man’s daughter.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Billy the innkeeper and his daughter made no move, but only looked at the woman in the red dress as if for instructions. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne’s mother’s gaze lingered on her daughter another moment, like an innkeeper waiting for the last drop of ale from the barrel tap. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The daughter of the secretary of state has been sitting at the foot of her father’s bed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The queen studied the wives, daughters, and mothers who filled the benches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All you could do with honest people was lend them money and marry their daughters. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mother has said that she sees us more as friends than as daughters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mama Lessie told me that Granddaddy had always wanted to buy that Lionel train set, but as the father of five daughters, he never got the chance. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At forty-eight she has come to experience the solitude that her husband and son and daughter already know, and which they claim not to mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter visited her every day, but Moon Orchid kept telling her, “Don’t come see me because the Mexican ghosts will follow you to my new hiding place. They’re watching your house.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the back room with my children—my fifteen-year-old boy, my nine-year-old son, my two daughters—we were back there watching TV. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as their delightful baby daughter was born, they knew it was going to be the adventure of a lifetime. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The semicircle and egg at the end of Cleopatra are a conventional ideogram for “daughter of Isis.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death of his daughter, the haunting face of his wife each day at the trial, the realization that the evidence against him was piling up—it was too much to withstand. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The mothers were in reverent awe of her; they brought her small presents, they eagerly handed their daughters to her for Sunday Work. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She combs her daughter’s room for the Jimi Hendrix poster she made her take down and tacks it back on the wall. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty saw the blind man touch his daughter’s face, to learn her, and he watched in silence as they mourned Kira’s mother together, their hearts connected by the loss. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Actually, he was thinking about shearing his sheep in front of the merchant’s daughter, so that she could see that he was someone who was capable of doing difficult things. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, Lovey’s mother, Jeer, noticed her daughter’s absence and left their cabin to make a quiet search. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The culture of possibility that Daisy Ford embraced and put to use so brilliantly on behalf of her daughters was passed on to her by the peculiarities of the West Indian social structure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She told us that this sour woman's one daughter disappeared years ago, and never calls or writes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His two sons eluded him and he had had no further contact with his daughter Blanca. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His middle daughter and the baby slept on his bunk, his oldest daughter manned the wheel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He deserves to see his daughter making out with the preacher’s kid as punishment for making me grow up in this hick town. But come on.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“You could be my daughter, you know,” Mr. Byrne tells me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, Klara, came to the event and told us what it was like to be the daughter of two parents who had been in a camp. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t. But I’m trying to help our daughter. She has no friends.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baumbach said her daughter might have been an artist if things had turned out differently. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, when she said, ‘Yes, I am my daddy’s daughter,’ and gave that little smirk . Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her girls don't understand why she moved back to a Flushing apartment instead of staying in her oldest daughter's Manhattan penthouse. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Zeus’s daughter Athena countered him: she checked the course of all the winds but one, commanding them, “Be quiet and go to sleep.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seriously doubted anyone took pictures with the faded, wooden figures, but I agreed to go with him because I’m such a good daughter. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It comes from the fact that they didn’t get to do this with their older daughter. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She passed it on to her son Petras, who passed it on to his two daughters, who passed it on to three of their five children, and so on and so on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Van Dorn is into looks, and now she can relax because she knows what her daughter's friend looks like. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time she taught us the Puerto Rican national anthem, which said Borinquén was the daughter of the ocean and the sun. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t concern yourself with my crazy daughters. Come on, girl. You must be hungry.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This thing was that the son of Wang Lung’s uncle cast his eyes upon the second daughter of Wang Lung, who was his cousin and by blood the same as his sister. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Hatsue was born, the first of five daughters, and the family moved to a Jackson Street boardinghouse. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No one takes my daughter away from me.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Is he afraid she’ll feel jealous of him treating me like a daughter? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Still,” I said hesitantly, “it’s not fair to punish you for what your father’s done. I knew another daughter of Adas. Her name was Zoe. She was one of the bravest people I’ve ever met.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In ran Mrs. Bennet to her daughter’s room, in her dressing gown, and with her hair half finished, crying out: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But Mace Tyrell could not seem to see beyond the threat to his own daughter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I kept very still, not to waken my sleeping daughter, while the thoughts went galloping through my head, and question after question, unanswered. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mother raise her daughter with love and kindness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She was also a daughter of Ares, and I’d had a very serious disagreement with her father last summer, so now the god of war and all his children basically hated my guts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was intensely worried about her daughter bringing a son into America, because she could not save him, she could not secure his body from the ritual violence that had claimed her son. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“My daughter said, ‘Take a book of food tickets and you’ll have no trouble—no trouble at all.’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daughter, she still didn’t fill out the papers. She’s taking a very long time.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Her daughter had become a stranger to her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That her daughter would age alone, husband- less, childless. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later, in Paris, I was to meet Richard Wright’s widow, Ellen, and a younger daughter, Rachel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short time after the birth of their daughter, the unexpected jubilee for Colonel Aureliano Buendía, ordered by the government to celebrate another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlandia, was announced. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She and Olga were practically best friends, and I was the odd daughter out. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know that Mrs. Evans had a daughter. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered what Lady Minisa would make of her eldest daughter, kneeling here before her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He then went outside to see my wife and daughter and asked to speak to Winnie privately. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to tell me why my daughter was handcuffed?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Clara would smile without saying a word and Nivea would go on talking because she had grown used to her daughter’s silence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard one of her daughters was stricken,” said Mr. Brown. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man and his daughter enjoy a radio program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I guess he didn’t get the memo that his daughter is far from perfect. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then the door of the bed room opened, and Mr. Samsa appeared in his uniform, with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not in therapy, Sparrow, I was just making sure the woman treating my daughter isn’t a total idiot.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I do. As I recall, it was in the middle of his daughter’s birthday party?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Grandmother told me a story once about a man who had many wives and sons, but no daughters.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at my agonized smile, and her little daughter stopped crying when she saw Otto, her eyes widening in fascination. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the name of the Prophet’s daughter,” Fatima said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still he got the benefit of their kisses under cover of his daughters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I had not done so before because I was sure Nathan would not like his wife or his daughter going to a white man, a foreigner. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A collar for my daughter’s tiger. Bejeweled, as she said. Order it from the leather shop. A leash, too. Tooled with gold leaf.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The king then sent his youngest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, and she was so lovely and clever that he was sure she would succeed where the others had perished. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Having confided in a friend and then his daughter, Squire finally quit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a farmer’s daughter, Elizebeth had the skills to be self-reliant, but it was hard to find the time—and the supplies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Queen of Flanders’ daughter turned like a tigress to defend her young. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that a minister’s daughter would ever have a chance, jeez-oh-man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour later, after it got dark, my daughter came in and said, “Mother! Mother! A little boy just fell out the window!” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The year Buttercup turned ten, the most beautiful woman lived in Bengal, the daughter of a successful tea merchant. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A young mother with a pox-scarred face offered to freely tell them all she knew if they'd promise not to hurt her daughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But she shrugged and said, “Good riddance. Her daughter has lice. I saw the eggs in her hair.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No; there are only two; mother and daughter. The mother is a lady of some station, though not averse to increasing her income.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He told Severo that his doubts had been well founded and that in his daughter’s stomach he had found the same lethal substance as in the gift of brandy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried two pieces of luggage and a string purse; her daughter carried a covered basket of food. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She ran out to meet her daughter as swiftly as a Maenad runs down the mountainside. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained quickly that I was his daughter, which everyone thought to be uncontrollably funny. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called Thalia forward first, since she was his daughter, and promised her help in filling the Hunters’ ranks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The daughter would be right there, but the mom couldn’t say, “Don’t talk to those boys!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Imagine, a daughter not knowing her own mother!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them, the fat woman and her four children, three boys and a girl, Helene and her daughter, squatted there in the four o’clock Meridian sun. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

George was trembling, and their two daughters were visibly disturbed by the report. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She turned around to find her crisp-knickered daughter communing with cement marsupials. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eldest daughter, Miranda, no longer wrote him the happy illustrated letters she’d regularly sent his way throughout her earlier girlhood. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On another of my trips, I drove in from Bethesda with my daughter Sofia, our middle child. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Ho ho! No, it wasn’t the wine, and it wasn’t my many personal attractions. She wanted to consult the alethiometer about her daughter, Mr. Van Texel.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She balances Jasmin on her hip, nervously adjusting her daughter’s party hat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But for the past few days he had spoken to them about only one thing: the girl, the daughter of a merchant who lived in the village they would reach in about four days. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would ride in his car, and people would point and say, ‘There goes Jalil Khan with his daughter.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the day of her daughter's funeral, she wore a giant pink flower pinned to her lapel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Two sisters, two daughters, one wife, and my old mother,” the singer claimed, though not one looked like him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The expression on his face shocked both mother and daughter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Mr. Borden, it's really important that I talk to your daughter. Do you still have that message your neighbor brought to you?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus had already given him hints that the reason Aurelia had never been to the circus was because her father feared she was too sensitive—not a quality appropriate to an emperor’s daughter. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was home, in his daughter Nademah’s room, under her covers, looking through the window at a dirty white sky. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, Olive, skipped over to Mattie and her other friend. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hagen’s daughter burst naked from beneath the trees with two wolves at her heels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My unborn daughter waved at me, and my two sons hopped up and down, and a drill sergeant named Blyton sneered and shot up a finger and shook his head. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know she wanted to go and look for her daughters. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No passer-by would detect a daughter in this house. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wife and two daughters, though neither Louie nor his friends knew that they existed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

After he killed the farmer’s daughter, said the monster, the prince lay down next to her and returned to sleep. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Reverend Ipe went to Madras and withdrew his daughter from the convent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will tell you, reader, that I imagine her like Kelly J., who looks nothing like a pasha’s daughter, but very much like a Disney princess. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Or some dumb jingo in his hard hat and Bomb Hanoi button, or one of LBJ’s pretty daughters, or Westmoreland’s whole handsome family—nephews and nieces and baby grandson. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, cuddled in the haymow, were Grommet, the smith’s lardy daughter, and the pockmarked pig boy from the manor. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the voice I’d heard the day before, saying, Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open, speaking as plain and clear as the woman in navy speaking to her daughter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crept nearer and listened to what her daughter said. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Demeter, goddess of the harvest wealth, was still more the divine sorrowing mother who saw her daughter die each year. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his daughter who brought shame down on our name, not I. What I did I did for the good of House Lannister. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You want me to say it’s your wife and daughter,” she gasped. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Since we obviously have quite a long journey ahead of us,” he told Mo, “I'd like to introduce someone to your daughter.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Only I do feel sad sometimes,” he added, before they could stop him, “about the Queen of Flanders’ daughter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about how hard it must have been for her, losing a daughter. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their wives and daughters had been claimed for salt wives, those who were young enough and fair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But her daughter’s mind turned out to be elsewhere. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Songololo would move so she was out of the rain, at which point Anastasia would shift position and expose her daughter all over again. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now she has white hair and only three daughters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her older sister was usually beside her; their parents kept the older daughter back to protect the younger one. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She gets the point. Rise, my daughter, official architect of Olympus.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And, he said, don’t be surprised when your own daughter or wife wants to shoot a bow and arrow behind your back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir. All the necessary paperwork is right here. See? Just fill out the forms and mail them in with a check and a photograph of your daughter.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t look like that! It is Kit! I am Margaret’s daughter.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The client, seeing the quick and efficient work Zeitoun’s team was doing, asked him if they could paint her husband’s office and her daughter’s bedroom, too. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The wife and the two daughters and the son raised their glasses to their lips. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And why is it a secret, may one ask? If it’s just an innocent act of kindness on the part of Caesar’s little daughter?’ Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He pulled off his own piece, then passed it to his daughter. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved her house and enjoyed manipulating her daughter and her husband. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A bus driver’s daughter, she arrived in New York City from Krakow in the early 1990s, leaving behind a grown son. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Best of wishes to you. Your daughter and sister—a part of you—will go far from you. She will be yours but no longer yours.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’m nothing else, I’m her daughter, and I’m Trey’s sister. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The roof leaks, the garage floods, and slugs or take her daughter to the doctor when she gets sick. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your daughters, and I’m sorry about your hand.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The little ragged girl curtsies and replies, “I promise, Your Majesty, I will bring no harm upon your daughter. I just want to help her.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It concerned murder, the slaying of a Florida family, a Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Walker, their four-year-old son, and their two-year-old daughter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Baap returned, I heard him say to Maa, “He has the money now, and soon he will have our daughter.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The saddest part is that they sent you to live with the Pottses’ daughter, and even if you had wanted to, you couldn’t have confided in her.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ms. Louise’s daughter comes at night, but sometimes she has a business trip to go on, so Mom stays. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He disentangled himself from the blonde woman and came to stand between the twins and the woman’s daughters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

This sloop was named Sally Lloyd, in honor of one of the colonel’s daughters. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stormed out, telling her he regretted ever marrying her daughter and that she and the baby were not welcome in his house. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes they dress as ordinary humans,” her mother replied, trailing the tip of the brush over her daughter’s skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daughter said it would be the easiest way in the world. Just sit in the train until I got to Parrus. And now we may be here for days and days,” she wailed. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quito is a big, beautiful city, so much prettier than those boondocks where you live now. And my daughter needs a maid desperately. She’s an angel. She’ll treat you well.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, if I were your daughter,” I said, looking him full in the face, “I would wait until this train started up again and throw myself in front of it!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some representative examples: “Oh, my brother-in-law went to school there, too, and my friend’s son cuts the principal’s lawn, and my neighbor’s daughter knows a girl who once was a cheerleader for the school.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his voice striking the perfect sober note, Holmes apologized for the disarray and explained that Julia’s sister had fallen gravely ill and Julia and her daughter had left at once for the train station. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His daughter had seen this book in the school library in second grade and returned home deeply troubled. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His daughter Barbara was reproaching him for writing ridiculous letters to the newspapers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So for one night every November the daughters turned back into their father's girls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You want to take your daughter and ruin her life as well!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to say that Alba was a daughter to him, but that night he caught himself thinking that he wished he was neither her uncle nor her father but Miguel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To lift the lion’s paw knocker, to entertain thoughts of marrying the doctor’s daughter was possible because each key represented a house which he owned at the time. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The daughter of the richest Negro doctor in town.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was of him, diving into a river after his younger daughter, Rose, had gone under and hadn’t surfaced. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew that she would not want to hear him tell of how drunk her daughter had been. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They worked for many years to earn enough to marry the farmers’ daughters. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single surgery and some injections would end the nightmare and give my parents back their daughter, their Calliope, intact. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My daughter, Leigh, arrived on September 26, 1969—my mother’s birthday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The queen pulled her daughter closer to her and kissed her cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, my daughter tells me she’s introduced you to the other children here.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a story about a man whose daughter had unexpectedly died sleeping in her bed one night, and so the man decided to call upon her to say good-bye. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It took her that moment to remember that I didn’t live here, that in Congo her daughter was essentially an outsider. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter sat stiffly on the sofa, tugging at the red ribbon that held her braided hair up in a ponytail. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But Molly, as the daughter of a physician, understood that she was witnessing the birth of team science; a new paradigm of a research lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe it's the way she smiles or the way she touches her daughter's head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The benefit of being the ugly daughter is that nobody uses you as sex bait.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At that Mrs. Corry drew herself up to her full height and regarded her gigantic daughters furiously. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The monster closed its hands and the mist descended again as the prince approached the sleeping farmer’s daughter, his knife at the ready. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The parents of the quiet girl, on the other hand, protected both daughters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, June, who was Ivy’s age, sat in the passenger seat, gaping at Ivy’s nonhouse. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When I regain mv balance and look around, I see the Wives and daughters leaning forward in their chairs, the Aunts on the platform gazing down with interest. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about you and your daughter? Do you two get along?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A moment later the two daughters, tall and gracious, came out, followed by an even taller son. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How much is it worth to you to get your daughter back?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nielsen has never mentioned her daughter before and I sense that if I don’t ask now, I may not get the chance. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mrs. Alvarez is really a big softy just like her daughter. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He was arranging his blackboard against a tree stump on the first day of classes when a woman, some relative of Special Julius’s, brought her daughter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Reverend Ipe realized that his daughter had by now developed a “reputation” and was unlikely to find a husband. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pessimism was heightened by watching my daughter and her friends go through this insanely intense process. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I was always more my mother’s daughter.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every time the father took a wrong guess, the youngest daughter laughed loudly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her daughter and grandchildren lived in a mean little place called Rome, twelve miles north of the town she’d left. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba hobbled next to me, the general and his wife beside their daughter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Packing up her daughters, her art supplies, and her precious study book, she headed south to Amsterdam. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Agha, did you hear what Mullah Nasrud- din did when his daughter came home and complained that her husband had beaten her?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She never lied to Jam, always told her the truth, even if sometimes she couldn’t make it as gentle as she would’ve wanted, for her daughter’s sake. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter looks tired. If you wish, she may climb into my cart,” a ragged man on the road said. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, his first wife, Alice, died in his arms from kidney failure, a day after giving birth to their daughter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He told me I was like a daughter to him and that I’d always be with him in his heart. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He paused, stared at me with silent hostility, then called his daughter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were her daughters, both of whom needed a lot of attention. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“For the daughter of the town drunk, you sure got big plans,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Croteau daughters are the only ones among twelve first cousins who made it to college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

If I’m being honest, I know I push her away because I can’t be the daughter she expects me to be and still be what I want to be at the same time. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know anything about you,” the doctor said, “other than your name, which I don’t like, but I will abide by my daughter’s preference.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As you can see, we are located in Presidio Heights. It’s a fine residential neighborhood, but perhaps not an ideal spot for someone like your daughter...” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our daughter called you a liar in that note she left. I’d like an explanation why she might say something like that.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I send you to capture a child of the three elder gods, and you bring me a scrawny daughter of Athena.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He left off stroking his daughter’s hair and leaned forward, his big hands open as though he needed their help to explain his meaning. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is Third Wife and her three daughters,” said my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he prayed, I thought for a moment about who in the world would name their daughter Love. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It never would have occurred to her that she would be working this hard and still have to choose between paying the phone bill and paying for her daughter Ishtar’s prom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that Burt had gained access to Bigheart’s fortune by becoming the guardian of his daughter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Deceiving me,” said Fujiko in Japanese, “is only half of it, daughter. You have deceived yourself, too.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What’s more, both of his daughters were successful college fencers, and there was talk that the elder daughter might make it all the way to the Olympics. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Ah, a daughter of Chango,” the elderly man says and places a hand on my shoulder. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does not take well to being questioned by strangers, certainly not by ones who think they know her daughter better than she does. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was not sure she would be able to be their daughter, the person they remembered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The principal, Mother Lucy, wrote, “A brilliant, obedient student and a daughter to be proud of.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With all those wild hand gestures, you’d think I did a lot more than give her stuck-up Little Miss Princess daughter a tiny shove. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

On her way to the washhouse one morning after breakfast Fujiko had seen her middle daughter—she was only fourteen—standing in a group that included four boys dressed nattily in Eisenhower jackets. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Apparently she came in yesterday and freaked out because she heard that her daughter has to sit in classes with known homosexuals. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

That the tall one came equipped with a husband and daughter made the situation infinitely more appealing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His daughter Grace, Robert’s niece, would feature strongly in Robert’s later life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Across the tall iron railing that separated Meeters from the Met, and Greeters from the Gret, Chacko, beaming, bursting through his suit and sideways tie, bowed to his new daughter and ex-wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Brave Orchid worried over a daughter who had the mark of an unlucky woman; yes, there was certainly a girl with an upper lip as curled as Brigitte Bardot’s. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ortega does not want his daughter courted by anyone but a rich man’s son. He does not permit Salvador to see her, and Salvador does not. But he will not forget her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Iphigenia was praying aloud: “Maiden and Queen, daughter of Zeus and Leto, you shall dwell where purity is, and we shall be happy.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nivea went out to fetch her daughter and the two men were left alone in the drawing room, an occasion that Trueba, with characteristic candor, took advantage of to present his economic position. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, daughter of Indra and daughter of Dharma Raja,” he said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed she had two or three daughters, and that year they were all going to be debutantes, only she had loused up their debutante party by signing herself into the asylum. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

After my grandparents gave their daughter away to her husband’s family, they had dispensed all the adventure and all the property. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even extended education for girls to the daughters of wealthy Greeks who were part of the ruling class. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

All of us bring children—some are adults now like my daughter, Kellie. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the daughters, Lien, Mien, and Johanna, play the piano. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Going to Mass every day and turning into the perfect Catholic daughter Mom and Dad have always wanted. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Eventually they would change the house’s title into Sister Betty’s name, he said, or maybe into the name of their oldest daughter, Attallah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marbled sky lay heavy on the gray Great Lake when Grace Windsor Wexler parked her car in the Westing driveway and strode up the walk ahead of her daughters. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wagged her finger at her husband and daughters, laughing all the while, one of those eerie laughs crazy people in movies laugh. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“What about the baby, Jimmy? Think about your daughter.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Like the miller’s daughter—the one who sat at night in a straw-filled room, thrilled with the secret power Rumpelstiltskin had given her: to see golden thread stream from her very own shuttle. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am only myself, Hel, daughter of Angrboda and of Loki,” she said. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Soon, after she realized I was the same age as her daughter, she started calling me “Boo,” and insisted I buy a cell phone because she worried about me driving the interstates alone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I used my daughter’s crayons, a different color for each main character. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he asked for the most beautiful woman who had ever been seen on this earth, all the women brought him their daughters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At least, I assume she is his daughter, arriving at the same time, staying in the same house, but she does not resemble him. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, the first thing he’d thought when he heard the news about his daughter was what price the driver’s insurance company would pay. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard about your lady love, Chief Ozobia’s daughter,” Susan said, lady love in the comic caricature that she assumed was an uneducated accent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The log showed that he was the guardian of George Bigheart’s daughter as well as of four other Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For months no one could mention the daughter's name in his presence, though he kept calling them all "Sofía" and quickly correcting himself. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was the woman’s spoken concern: the fear of having a dark- skinned son or daughter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed in the bloodstained cloth, just as her daughter did. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Abbott turned to look at her daughter and really scrutinize her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Remember, I told you Constantine had a daughter. Well, Lulabelle was her name. Law, she come out pale as snow. Grew hair the color a hay. Not curly like yours. Straight it was.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In Briony’s family, Mrs. Tallis never had anything to impart that needed saying simultaneously to both daughters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It makes her think of her own daughter. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She made some of the children sleep on the floor and put Moon Orchid and her daughter in their room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Castro? I’m not out to hurt your daughter. I’m simply trying to be her friend.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"Well, the young woman is the old woman's daughter . . ." "And?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I knew what mothers and daughters said to each other, wouldn’t I tell you? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She imagined it in vivid detail: a Paravan’s coarse black hand on her daughter’s breast. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So went our talk; then other shadows came, ladies in company, sent by Persephone—consorts or daughters of illustrious men—crowding about the black blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is proud of his daughter, of her tough stance on law and order, identical to his own. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story she told about her third daughter no longer had the charm of a prophetic ending: "And, of course, she became a poet." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I told my daughter, ‘Those poor kids must be dying of thirst, poor things.’ The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach tightened as I worried whether his wife and seven daughters were now members of the drifting, clamoring crowd that had flashed at intervals on the screen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Parker is here too, with her daughter and son-in-law. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A daughter I could take care of and make happy seemed to heal some of my pain at having lost my own childhood. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Sister, I am so happy here. No one ever leaves. Isn’t that wonderful? We are all women here. Come. I want you to meet my daughters.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the hall they went, mother and daughter, faces flushed with accomplishment. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Right behind the lawyer’s desk are a white woman and a girl, her daughter, maybe. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, there’s a show based off this series. My Fabiana couldn’t put the books down, and now she’s glued to the TV every week. I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as my daughter did.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She opens the door, but her daughter stays outside. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tears of weakness and protest ran down Mercy’s cheeks as Rachel stooped to take off her oldest daughter’s shoes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine,” she said to Pearl now, and with a wrenching effort she let her daughter go. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But one picture stood out more than any other: in it, Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah Lacks, is surrounded by family, everyone smiling, arms around each other, eyes bright and excited. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And it says: Stay away from my daughter. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He pauses at the only fact he deems relevant: that this girl now left in his custody is, obviously, his own daughter and that her name is Celia. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe Leonard’s daughter will develop a phobia of birds being locked up in cages. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She then proceeded to enquire into the measures which her father had intended to pursue, while in town, for the recovery of his daughter. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m not worrying, because I know that I can trust my daughter.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high little voice was now directed at the other daughter. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t help but smile when he calls me his daughter. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At times, I can sense some ten-sion in him as he wills his daughter ahead of the other girl. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“A story about a rabbi named Jairus, who pleaded with Jesus. ‘My daughter is dying. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She asks about Belky, her daughter in Honduras; her own mother; and the deaths of two of her brothers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’m dead scared of that man. Oh, not the valet—the other—his master. Master, indeed! There’s something wrong about that man. My daughter always says I’m very intuitive. ‘ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew, after working in the fields all day, forced his wife against her will to get some rest while he sat by his daughter’s bedside at night. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Going to sleep while the Titan guarded you...she didn’t need to be a daughter of Athena to know that was one hundred percent unwise. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Those assertions are rooted in fear—fear that her daughter will be harmed by a society that still so often fears blackness. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Maria Isabel is sure her daughter is too young, at three and a half, to understand the truth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"Her blood is the blood of summer, my lord, but my daughter was bom here in King's Landing." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bailiff, who had a daughter about Bebe’s age, took her to an anteroom and pressed a cup of lukewarm coffee into her hands. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Go on, daughter. A nice big piece. We’re doing mighty fine on this side of the creek. Make sure you tell your old granny how well you’re fed.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“My daughter, she still didn’t do the papers.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Had he been able to see my daughter and her friends dealing with the same process, he might have avoided it altogether. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could have been the echoes of the jungle and nothing more, but Taylor was the daughter of a military man, and her senses were sharp. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But Yellow Kettle was dull and angry with sorrow, and couldn’t help her own daughter. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ellie’s eyes were wet as she looked up at her daughter. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Everyone, this is my daughter, Sara. She will be spending our club time doing her homework. Quietly.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

For a while we traveled with three other refugees from the invading army, a Dinka woman and her two daughters. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1845, married and caring for a newborn daughter, John and Mary decided to move farther north and make Chicago their home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had my share of fishwives and crofter's daughters, before and after I was wed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He takes Lourdes and her daughter to the park on Sundays. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A daughter who forgets how to eat, well that was bad, but it was just a phase and I was over it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“What you wish for, daughter, you cannot keep. It is the will of the gods.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had happened to her daughter, I wondered. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, Grandfather,” he said, “how did you get born and how did your daughter get born?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The oldest daughter motioned to the third daughter, who tiptoed into the circle the women had made around the old man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He indicated our grown son and daughter, playing dominoes, listening in on our secrets. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is how they worked things among the daughters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say that you will never dine with the devil if you have a daughter,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I want to throw pinecones at Divino heads, and more heads, too: those peoples—the American man and his daughter—who moved into Casa Rosa. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Tell your daughter that she has a bright yellow flower painted on her cheek.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I think I’m gay, and my girlfriend’s mom wrote stay away from my daughter. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

This particular lodge was the home of a Lakota medicine man named Worm and his two wives, their daughter, and their two sons. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was a poor sharecropper’s daughter who happened to be very smart. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

At a place where three roads met, we came upon a father huddled with wife and three daughters; the father placed his body between us and the girls. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“My daughter!” he calls out again, beaming as I wave to him. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

More recently, the youngest of Lord Yronwood’s daughters had taken to following him about the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had saved the life of the King, whereupon Bull Sparra had vowed to care for her and her daughter: but he had instantly forgotten his promises, leaving the pair to fend for themselves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Excuse my daughter,” Mrs. Steele says after a moment. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“But it doesn’t mean we don't love our daughters. You’re part of me; how can I not love you?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were the daughters of my father’s concubines. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Wes thought about what he wanted to make, the image of his five-year-old daughter came to him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That my own father could joke about his only daughter being pressed into domestic slavery. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It belonged to the thirty-eight-year-old, unmarried daughter of the family that, up to a few weeks earlier, had been living in the house. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“So a teenage boy was with your teenage daughter?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Enid believed there was only a “good Joyce,” that a “bad Joyce” was a theological impossibility, that any such person who might appear was by definition an imposter in the guise of her daughter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The detectives searched the house, then left, leaving Weichmann, Mary, and her daughter, Anna, behind. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that dazzling outfit, she could have easily been a chief’s daughter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Severo felt that it was time for his daughter to shake off her lethargy, stand firmly in reality, and learn the domestic skills that would prepare her for marriage, but Nivea thought differently. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she bent her head to whisper in her daughter’s ear. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Two cans is not a little,” her daughter called from the kitchen. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ve made your decision and now understand mine. As a daughter, you are dead to us. When you turn eighteen in June, you will leave this house.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Mother, this plan is awful” “During a lockdown,” Esperanza went on, ignoring her daughter, “no ships are cleared—with one exception: El Patron’s signature overrides everything.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Draper used to live in my hometown, which is Epiphany, New York, and her daughter, Mrs. Potter, still does. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Momly goes over there and feeds him, and makes sure he's all cleaned up while his daughter runs around taking care of errands and stuff. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I should send you to finishing school with her daughters. You might learn how to walk like the slip of a thing you are and not like a small elephant.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he was on the Beagle voyage, Charles had witnessed the funeral of another beloved daughter, the daughter of a native chief in New Zealand. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke into the stone, calling all of his nine sons and daughters and his twenty-seven grandchildren and his eighty-one greatgrandchildren to meet Windrider again that night at a feast. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s my family. Aren’t they lovely? My daughter could stand to eat less, but she always did have a sweet tooth.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Norwood’s two daughters brought their father additional pain by making poor marriages. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

With one successfully repatriated daughter, Papi might yank us all out of college and send us back. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In January 1957, Katherine’s daughters went back to school, and she went back to work: the second act of her life was about to begin. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung rose then, well-pleased, and he laughed and said, “Now we are friends, and have you no son for my second daughter?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was just mom, her new daughter, her boyfriend, and me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If his daughter was gay, and he knew, he probably wouldn’t have been so shocked by the Dad/Papi revelation, right? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

On the first day of school, she had proudly told the class that she was the daughter of a poor peasant from Khost. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had seen the devil Tenorio murder Narciso, and now there was no telling what he might do to avenge his daughter’s death. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two sons, six grandsons, some daughters. If Robert had fathered truebom sons, many who are dead might still be living.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For just a moment, I let myself enjoy the fantasy, but then I looked down at my sleeping daughter and I knew that was all it was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, given that a family has at least one daughter, what is the conditional probability that it also has a son? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her own daughter planning to move to a communistic nation where the roads are practically made of wall-to-wall land mines? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Isobel had taken her daughters to luncheon with the village philosopher, and Beatrice had gone into the City on an errand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mahalia Jackson, the greatest of them all—she was a preacher’s daughter in Louisiana. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked people to know he didn't care—There goes my mother’s employer's daughter, he once said to a friend. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You could say so. Your daughter was involved in an incident this morning.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me a moment,” I tell the president’s daughter, and put my napkin on my chair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the second cold month began, First Wife returned from Peking, where she kept a house and lived with her two unmarried daughters. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I expected more from the daughter of two PhDs.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A daughter's a daughter for life, Baba, I tell him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In spring and summer she will return to the Northeast, dividing her time among her son, her daughter, and her close Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She passes over two pages filled only with the addresses of her daughter, and then her son. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed her daughter’s eyes again and said, “’Stead of this being your last night it turned to your first.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“What I’m hearing is that you came home and found your daughter with a boy her age. That’s all you know. Is she a pretty girl?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She sat with her coat on, holding herself, while her daughters beat flat the straw in the mattresses and lit the oil heater. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shanta first, a big wedding which lasted for many days, plenty of gifts and feasts, diamond earrings, a gold necklace, as befitted the daughter of the village headman. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

How it took red toenail polish for a black woman to be considered a real person, how she wasn’t real just from the fact that she was once a human, a daughter, a mother. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

They would have seen families just like their own: sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, craftsmen, and tailors, individuals from all walks of life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Lourdes drops her daughter off at school at 7 A.M., cleans all day, picks Diana up at 5 P.M., drops her at a babysitter, then goes back to work until 2 A.M. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factory. Why is my daughter in space?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close by, fresher petals spilled across a newer mound—-the grave of Bonnie Jean Ashida, the Ashidas’ elder daughter, who while visiting Garden City had been killed in a car collision. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You have a daughter now," she says finally. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I had the pilot in my house, and at the time my daughter was three and a half and she kept watching it over and over again,” Anderson says. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second daughter, Polly, was born that year, and as his business took root Harry bought a stump farm—160 acres of recently logged land southwest of town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Gravely, the parents stepped over these, to show that they accompanied their daughter on her journey to womanhood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You disgusting little Squib, you filthy little blood traitor!” roared Gaunt, losing control, and his hands closed around his daughter’s throat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As she kneels with the dustpan, I can already see the coil in her back that says she is her mother’s daughter. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me her name and, one by one, so did each of her daughters. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The music stopped and both mother and daughter turned around to look at the old man as he yelled, “Inés, my daughter! Listen to me, m’ija. Gabriel is home! Inés! Your husband is home!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mention Jean, the widowed schoolteacher’s daughter. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Hector Bowen takes his daughter’s face in his gloved hand, scrutinizing her expression for a moment before releasing her, his fingers leaving long red marks across her cheeks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Is our daughter not dear to me also? Be reasonable.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense. I want you here, and your daughter wants you here.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d no idea. My history is very shaky, and the kings of England always muddled me. How interesting though. I must write and tell my daughter, she’s a great scholar.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s about a mom and daughter who go on a road trip together, but then all sorts of things go wrong.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When one nun told my parents that their youngest daughter had a ‘mind of her own,’ she meant the remark to be a negative criticism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind old man and his daughter felt safe there, and there Oedipus died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you tell me what your daughter looks like?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Isobel, the lord’s daughter, will have to be married, and squat in the straw, and scream with the pain and pray for her life same as me. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, he had secured the promise of a surreptitious meeting and disappeared before the L’Arche seniors rejoined their daughter. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A year after Lori was born, Mom and Dad had a second daughter, Mary Charlene, who had coal-black hair and chocolate-brown eyes, just like Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia is tall and slender like her daughter, with straight iron-colored hair cut youthfully to frame her face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He cried honestly when I brought out the trinkets I had saved for the right day, the day he gave me my daughter, a tiger girl. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I barely saw Mrs. Westing. Violet was a few years younger than I, doll-like and delicate. She was not allowed to play with other children. Especially the skinny, long-legged, black daughter of the servants." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death of the farmer’s daughter saw to that. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He passed away before I was born, but I've always wondered if he was purposely stalling so he could keep his youngest daughter in the same country with him for as long as possible. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other’s lack of understanding? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, though, being the tubby daughter of Clover City’s most cherished beauty queen doesn’t win me much street cred. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was not in love with the daughter of the King’s Chancellor. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like she’s just discovered her daughter is Wonder Woman, and for a moment I feel like I am. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

How does he regard the adults his sons and daughters have become? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Meecham stormed at his rearview mirror, catching and holding the image of his weeping daughter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had fifty lovely daughters, the nymphs of the Sea, called Nereids from their father’s name, one of whom, Thetis, was the mother of Achilles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re going to have to do something about it, unless you want all your daughters to be old maids.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see why I must destroy the girl, Percy. She is my enemy’s daughter. I shall crush her statue to dust. But you, dear Percy, you need not suffer.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you though, it was something to do with her daughter. Coming to see your mama.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My daughter did not look pleased when I told her this, that she didn’t look Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid was driven back to her daughter’s house, but though she lived in Los Angeles, she never saw her husband again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The family she was staying with gave her to the Russians to save their daughter. The boyfriend was a story she made up to continue on. She won’t really look at the baby yet.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I cannot look at the face of my Negro woodchopper without fancying that he sharpens the axe for my daughter. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How? I am a gentlewoman’s daughter. I have no trade.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His daughter, Jean, sold flower bouquets and loaves of fresh-baked bread in her marketplace stall while she flirted, laughing, with the gangly, self-conscious boys who stopped by. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

If Sourmelina had always been a European kind of American, a sort of Marlene Dietrich, then Tessie was the fully Americanized daughter Dietrich might have had. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Surely Tywin would never have dreamed that same fate awaited his own golden daughter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see his daughter married by the bishop, in a white gown, with an eighteen-foot train held aloft by pages and flower girls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she beat her fists on the altar, the old woman above her laid hands on her shoulders, crying: “Call on Him, daughter! Call on the Lord!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter!” she said, opening her arms for a hug. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mother and daughter were placed on stretchers and carried to die ambulance. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His long absences were quite bearable for Helene Wright, especially when, after some nine years of marriage, her daughter was bom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel up to daughters, I didn’t know how they worked. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Frank Buck, a tin worker, had either bolted from home or died in an accident, leaving Emma to care for a young daughter, Carrie Buck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She also felt this was personal— she had lost her daughter, and she wanted to grieve in a less public way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had a busy day ahead, every minute of it scheduled with meetings, but my mind would stay locked on our daughters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then she looked quizzically at Thalia, as if she weren’t sure what to make of this younger daughter of Zeus. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nine months later, the couple had their first child, a daughter named Catherine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And while Our Father was preaching the gospel of poisonwood, his own daughter Ruth May rose from the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one of my daughters fell in love with such a man, I’d be frantic. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Every man on that list has kin within the city. Sons and brothers, wives and daughters, mothers and fathers. Let my Brazen Beasts seize them. Their lives will win you back those ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lázaro has no sons to inherit his legacy and his daughters reject it outright. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“After all, I feel embarrassed getting a phone call from my daughter’s school that she hurt somebody.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I do feel the awkwardness of helping Isaac buy a car, when I’m not helping them buy a car,” Cate Woolner said of the daughters. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I did not like to play with Third Wife’s daughters, who were as docile and dull as their mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he returned, the Moscotes had put on formal clothing, had rearranged the furniture and put fresh flowers in the vases, and were waiting in the company of their older daughters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Separated from her daughter, with whom she had always been very close, Clara entered another of her confused, depressed periods. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this too was part of the tradition: the daughters came home alone. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My daughter—her name is Lily—tried to convince me that we should apply for what they call a variance.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was proud of Chasca, but I could see that the tears were those of a mother who had just learned she would be saying goodbye to her elder daughter very soon. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But later on, my sixteen-year-old daughter acted like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Every father’s dream, that his daughter will be out of the house before the hormones kick in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

So my daughter and I are alone in this crowded beauty parlor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily for her, she was visiting her daughter and grandchildren on the other side of Kobani at the time. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Clara washed her daughter, applied cold compresses to her bruises, and rocked her until she had calmed down. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how many mothers pushed their daughters at him? Do you know how many asked him to impregnate them, even, and not to bother paying a bride price?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His daughter, in her primary school uniform, was sitting across the table from him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The third daughter had shared a room with Sofía growing up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Aloe had shaken his head and picked his daughter up, locking her flailing limbs against his body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Why doesn't the queen trust her own daughter? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was about my age and had daughters in “Carolina.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the fate of Thalia, daughter of Zeus. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The murdered girls' families began making funeral preparations for their young daughters first thing that Monday morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Billy Pilgrim’s daughter took him home later that day, put him to bed in his house, turned the Magic Fingers on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Sybelle’s infant daughter was still on the breast, and she had judged the girl too delicate to expose to the rigors of another stormy crossing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her father looks at the injured dove and then back at his daughter, waiting for her to ask a different question. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Minos’ daughter Ariadne was among the spectators and she fell in love with Theseus at first sight as he marched past her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how Sima felt in England as her daughter claimed to be a Christian just days before they went back to Iran. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No! The ngozi killed my relatives. It made my daughter sterile. It will kill us all if it doesn’t get satisfaction.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother died when I was quite young, and certainly a motherless girl will come up wanting in some respects, but in my opinion she has a freedom unknown to other daughters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had three sons and two daughters, a houseful indeed, and none of them exactly held back. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Draper's maid of honor was to be her daughter, Mrs. Potter. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

King Ptolemy XII named his daughter Cleopatra, which in Greek means “her father’s glory.” Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

"I'm the daughter of a goddess, you know." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mabel sighed and stormed up the stairs, and I found myself still standing before them, wearing the same dress as their daughter and waiting for them to tell me something. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When Celia returns from the fields, she finds her daughter’s condition has declined. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’ll come here even though he knows I won’t let him go again, any more than I will let his daughter go. He’ll come all the same. Isn’t this world an amazing place?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the woman was his daughter, and she had drawn to herself all his conviction, all his weightiness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

These many hours, her daughter held Moon Orchid’s hand. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, my daughter, you may be the only Chinese these Americans will ever meet. Do your best. Be extra good. Upon your shoulders rests the reputation of all Chinese.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Is that the daughter? Or an impostor? And the orders we received, are they...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His wife was traveling on a train in New Jersey; his son lived in Trenton; his daughter lived just outside New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I look at the message again and wonder how many moms text their daughters’ best friends behind their backs like this. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then the daughter had come and had been able to sign the papers to bring Moon Orchid over. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, all five of her daughters graduated from college. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ranee keeps her eyes on the ripeness of her daughter's belly and obeys the voices. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My first stop is Edgar Street, where the lights are on and I can see the mother and her daughter eating. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will preach sermons in your favor. I will send my parishioners to you for their every ailment. You may have anything you like, if you would only save my daughters.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their daughters all helped, and the look in their eyes told me how strange it was for them to see a girl wandering after school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

As a daughter of Aphrodite, Piper could tell stuff like that. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had a daughter named Marilyn and a son named Simon. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, her father sighed and told her, “Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What kinds of lullabies will I sing at night? What kinds of legends will my daughter be told? What kinds of charms will I give her to ward off evil?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Ethyne transformed the room into a place of healing for both mother and daughter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Did she tell you the daughter was sending me these book- length emails, calling me three and four times a day at the office?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Her love for her daughter now literally made it hard to breathe. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Just tell him what is in your heart. That you want an education. For yourself. For all girls. For his sister, his daughter. For him.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Odin returned to the great hall, and he ordered Loki’s daughter to step forward. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But no matter who they asked, no one knew who their gomo was, or her daughter. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And I can tell Mrs. Steele wants to say something to her daughter, but before she can, Vanessa holds out a hand. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo braided her oldest daughter’s hair into a new pattern she had seen in a magazine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess you are your father’s daughter—always wanting to see new things.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When his coughing spell was over and he saw his daughter stretched out supine on the moonlit ground, Dufarge put two and two together. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“This," she said, “was your daughter's first day at school." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was the second severing of mother and daughter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Garfield hoped Lucretia would be strong enough to join them after her seashore rest, bringing their daughter Mollie with her. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“More, of course. Food costs more here. Tell him that your daughter, who is the oldest, must inherit his property. You have to establish these things at the start. Don’t begin meek.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am older than you and my wife is old and we have nothing except one daughter. We can die well enough.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But before he was freed, he fathered many children, all of them born into slavery, including a daughter named Henrietta Pleasant—the great-aunt of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The woman was bestowed many honors and accolades throughout her life, but her daughter brought her greater joy than any of them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harriet Blaine wrote her daughter of the dilemma: "Poor dear Gaffy, how wretched it is! Wounded and sore and hurt to the death, he now to save his life, must dare to lose it." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The singer, standing at the back of the crowd, was as poorly dressed as the doctor’s daughter was well dressed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would say to me when the rice bowl went up to my face too many times, “Look how much Huang Taitai’s daughter can eat.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised Robert after her own daughter died. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As it happened, Buddha chose instead to bless First Wife with another daughter, this one with two perfect legs, but—alas!—with a brown tea stain splashed over half her face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other family's daughters lived in my father's library, where I had always escaped when my siblings got on my nerves. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The palace had once been the home of Portugal’s Princess Isabel, the daughter of Dom Pedro II, Brazil’s last emperor. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“We have morals! You keep hanging around my daughter, I’ll shoot you!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was particularly enthusiastic about a papier-mache model of Big Brother’s head, two meters wide, which was being made for the occasion by his daughter’s troop of Spies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I am the first daughter of the first star.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Even me—I haven’t thought of other women since I met the merchant’s daughter. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife Alcyone was also of high descent; she was the daughter of Aeolus, King of the Winds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest daughter requested gowns of silk and lace. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Charlotte Woodward, a nineteen-year-old farmer’s daughter, wanted to work as a typesetter in a print shop. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My dad would brag to guests that his daughter spoke the best French, and I was so proud. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I got a text from Dee’s mom yesterday, and it said ‘Stay away from my daughter,’ and I’m really freaked out because what if I did this all for nothing? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

An extended rebuttal of your opponent’s arguments isn’t really necessary if you’re delivering the father-of-the-bride speech at your beloved daughter’s wedding. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He does not make it,” said I, “and has never made it, and has no knowledge or belief that his daughter is in existence.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nana said, “Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Prayer was what they wanted, so she served it to them, served it on her knees as if she were some common trollop of the streets and not a daughter of the Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Herbert agreed to bring Florence’s two daughters, Geraldine and Viola, to New York and drove down to Martinsburg in the black Ford he had bought. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He told me he occupied the two front rooms of the house where his daughter’s family lived. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes has held off, hoping to baptize her daughter in Honduras with Honduran godparents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She took herself and her china collection to live with her daughter. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she was sure she saw Dr. Packard’s daughter Paulette standing behind the water barrel, but she couldn’t be sure. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m only thirteen! I’m your daughter! How can you do this to me! NO! STOP!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I claimed Mama for my own and was jealous of any attention she paid to her daughters. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And then I’m going to make him tell me where the hell our daughter is.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Laila reached across the suitcase, wrapped her fingers around the softness of her daughter’s arm. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Here, Suna, I brought you and your daughter your favorite drink. A Shirley Temple.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She and her daughter lived barely above the poverty level. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalena doesn’t say much about herself, but she has a little girl, too, and so we are always talking about our daughters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the families of the Star Children held the hands of their sons and daughters a little more tightly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the Icelandic court reopened the case to allow Jinky’s attorney to present more evidence in support of her claim that she is Bobby’s daughter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew from my own daughter’s college visits that kids either connected with a campus when they saw it, or didn’t. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And erase Nino Carlitos’s groping and just remember him calling me his daughter and making toys for me and the boys. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ma Charles said, “My line has daughters. The names add on, but we keep the bloodline going.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Had come to Boston and had four sons and three daughters. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom paced back and forth, punching redial on the handset, muttering under her breath, how could you forget your only daughter’s birthday? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I talked about the fears I’d had early on about raising our daughters in the White House and how proud I was of the intelligent young women they’d become. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the first day of school in January 1957, following the Christmas holidays, she accompanied her daughters to a meeting with the school principal. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The remodeling was a true Ernest venture,” recalled his daughter Margaret, who turned ten that summer watching the builders tear off the front of the house and rebuild the structure room by room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Spoken like a true daughter of Pakistani immigrants!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His liking for Silvertongue's daughter was a more serious obstacle, and his guilty conscience didn't make matters any easier. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not a daughter, or a niece, or a token fat girl. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Slowly, greedily, father and daughter came forward to inspect their spoils. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

On that newfangled but soon-to-be obsolete machine I wrote not so much like a kid from the Midwest as a minister’s daughter from Shropshire. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I doubt you’ll do that, Milton. I’m the only chance you have to get your daughter back.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It seems clear, therefore, that Kendra made a decision to hide her daughter’s existence rather than suffer the shame of admitting that she had produced a Squib. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His eyes misted with love as he broke free of the others and took her into his arms as if she was the most beloved of his daughters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And the first time I saw you, I knew that her curse would hold. But I do not think she knew that her daughter would be the girl caught in her spell.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were shocked that Marc had a daughter Nadia who lived in New York, they did not show it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So he made a choice: “What has happened to my daughter has happened,” he told Dr. Javid. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You’ve done more for me in these past few weeks than my own daughters have.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time there was a wealthy man and wife with only one daughter,” Nhamo said as she alternately twisted and chewed the mupfuti bark into rope. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And indeed a daughter and a son were born. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The truth is this: that I am not a good daughter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They left a daughter, which, at its very birth, Charity received in her lap—cold as that of the snow-drift I almost stuck fast in to-night. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She was eating fish,” one of the daughters explained. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted her daughters to know how to face this in a manner that would allow them their dignity. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the king sent his second daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon did the same. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Secondly, both of my parents could read, and my father believed that his daughter should learn to read as well. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got this at the marketplace this morning,” he said, “from Mentor’s daughter. She’ll make someone a good wife. Is she as pretty as her voice makes her sound?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I told myself I was protecting my daughter. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Bitter and Aloe exchanged quick looks, reunited in their protectiveness over their daughter. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Or if it was the City that produced a crooked kind of mourning for a rival young enough to be a daughter. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, I just lay there with my eyes closed, and I thought whatever should I do, and I thought, ‘Well, I’m just thankful that my daughter doesn’t know the plight I’m in.’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara, who had spent nine years without speaking, knew the advantages of silence and asked her daughter nothing, joining in her efforts to erase all memory of Jean de Satigny. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spilled coffee didn’t really prove very much, Fujiko urged her daughter to see. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bingley of course returned with him to dinner; and in the evening Mrs. Bennet’s invention was again at work to get every body away from him and her daughter. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She wept when they gave birth to daughters, knowing that to be born a woman meant a life of humble hardship. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could. Or I could question the daughters sharply whilst the father looks on. That will wring some names from him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fishtail and LaPautre were there, however, and it was from LaPautre’s daughter Twilight that the girls heard the details of the game. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was not yet twenty and her daughter was not yet two when the love of her life collapsed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I turned my head toward where Ms. Knight and her daughter were sitting. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe my daughters were doing this sort of thing themselves, to someone else. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty Lewis said, “Not a thing. It’s just that you—” His daughter spoke up. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I had never heard anyone announce to their twenty-four-year-old daughter, as my mother had the week before, that the father she’d previously been told had abandoned her hadn’t even known that she existed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So when I said it was too late, that must have put a terrible thought in her head that her daughters might be dead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we had other help, unexpected but most welcome, from a daughter of Bear Island. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mama and Baba have enough to worry about without me acting like a disobedient daughter. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I think of the man who lost his daughter. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The one thing people seem certain of is that only a presidential son or daughter would have been daring enough to deface the White House. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She went on to say how Jalil’s wives had called her an ugly, lowly stone carver’s daughter. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She hesitated for a second before disappearing inside, and it took a minute for the beautiful daughter to show up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but it is not their fight, daughters of Lord Indra and the Dharma Raja. They will help where they can, but that is all.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She said her teacher told them about constellations before, which of course made me go in on her teacher's daughter. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She was a daughter of Athena, not some shrill girlie victim in a horror movie. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Smith worked mostly behind the scenes but occasionally came into the ring to hold relay horses for Irwin’s daughters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest daughter's temper flared easily with all she'd had to drink and eat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They only say, “When fishing for treasures in the flood, be careful not to pull in girls,” because that is what one says about daughters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A baptism would lift Lourdes’s constant concern that Diana’s unexpected death will send her daughter to purgatory. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I look at my daughter and now it is the first time I have seen it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No man ever wore a scarf as warm as his daughter’s arm around his neck,” said Patrick in his thick Irish brogue. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The BlackBerry dad isn’t so into this guy, and holds his daughter tight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Be gone, daughter! I will deal with this intruder how I see fit.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As tenderly as he can, he draws the brush through the damp strands of his daughter’s hair. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But ever since my grandma found out her daughter had started dating women, she didn’t speak to Ma too much. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the daughter's baby girl was born, his wife put her foot down. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In church one day, I had noticed a lovely young woman who was one of the daughters of the Reverend Matyolo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew to stay away from the kitchen, where they argued about politics, the price of ham hocks, whether or not his daughters were uppity, and which horse had won the trifecta. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His wife was Doris, a daughter of Ocean. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the hallway, staring at the picture of himself in his Navy uniform, the picture painted by his daughter, my mother. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

With help from some of the miners, he rebuilt the bridge, made it to Bonners Ferry, and returned just in time for the doctor to deliver his first daughter, Rose. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Alexander Helios, now betrothed to the daughter of the Median king, received Armenia and Media. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay, you can have my army, but you have to marry my daughter Maryam.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Did you see her—our daughter?” he asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Alkinoos’ daughter stood her ground, being given a bold heart by Athena, and steady knees. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother asleep in her nightgown, still believing she had four living daughters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied her like he wasn’t seeing his daughter—just the young lady he wanted her to be, once Clarion Academy got through with her. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I never said she killed the farmer’s daughter, the monster said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

At her words, the king realizes that not only is she his daughter—she is, in fact, the daughter who loves him best. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Celia searches the cardboard box containing the few articles Felicia left behind and finds her daughter’s black bathing suit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was horrified when, about six months after Malala’s visit, 276 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram, seemingly intent on causing other Nigerian families to fear sending their daughters to school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This was the divine speech Telemakhos heard from Athena, Zeus’s daughter. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with, Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

During long dark nights, alone with her daughters, she watched at the window, her gun loaded and aimed, until her husband came home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She held a silver needle in her fingers and was looking around in confusion, for it was the Sea King's daughter who had sewn herself into the embroidery. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were her grandchildren, after all, the son and daughter of her only child. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We can discuss that later,” she said, looking at everyone but her daughter. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as I said the name of our friend, the half-blood daughter of Zeus, Hera’s eyes turned toward me frostily. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Justice, the elder, was his only son and heir to the Great Place, and Nomafo was the regent’s daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose. For now. You may climb down your ladder to New Rome, daughter of Athena. Please try not to destroy my town.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Raising a daughter in Weep—and, well, being a daughter in Weep—was...very hard in those years. Every time the ground shook, you knew it was Skathis, coming to your door.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The woman looked at her three daughters, indecisive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had written, in her delicate handwriting, the name of each baby daughter across the bottom of those photogrpahs. Number the Stars 1989-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I just want you to be good to my daughter,” she said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He dramatically told his teenage daughter Jennifer, who had accompanied him, that the best thing to do now was to give the Lady Gin a “Viking funeral.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“There are a few young wives in town. A scattering of daughters.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

An engineer’s wife gave Miriam Mann’s daughter a shiny new penny to put in her shoe on her wedding day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Pleione. She had five daughters. My sisters and I. The Hesperides.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Was your daughter mixed up with those people, Mr. Dalton?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her older daughters took turns picking out outfits for me that looked good with my red hair. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"My daughter's been responsible for setting a few unnatural beauty trends among the younger courtiers. That terrible blip with the sea-blue skin tone, and the trend where courtiers matched their teacup pets." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Adaugo. I googled it. It’s Nigerian. Means ‘daughter of an eagle,’ right?” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Nearby were the tickle-violets which used to make their youngest daughter laugh when she touched them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inés finally gathered her daughter in her arms, visibly trembling herself now. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then I think about her crying as she makes a sandwich for her faraway, difficult daughter who doesn’t talk to her. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lillian Meecham disregarded her daughter’s objection and in a clear, lyrical voice filled with the soft music of southern speech, prayed to the Virgin, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No, my lady, but we thank you kindly. You must forgive my daughter, she has not been well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It expressed fear that she, the daughter, would also contract the disease. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my lord. You have a daughter, I believe.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Laurie devoted himself to the little ones, rode his small daughter in a bushel-basket, took Daisy up among the bird’s nests, and kept adventurous Rob from breaking his neck. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, my daughters have no interest in art. I never got to teach them anything about paintbrushes or oils. This will be fun for me.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This is my daughter, not my wife. Here, talk to Mary Anne, Cecil.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his age, Jimmy Zizmo treated his young bride more like a daughter than a wife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now, suddenly, Mom realized that recreational gymnastics might be the perfect outlet for her daughters—especially for me, her little bouncing bean who jumped and climbed on everything nonstop. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“She’s the one piece of beauty among all this ugly” Suzanne sits next to her daughter and catches me in the mirror. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His daughters had had to put up with this kind of attitude in an unsympathetic era. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And the bony son and curved daughters were brilliantly witty, like their father, telling of the long years and their secret life, while their father nodded proudly to each. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her husband left, they welcomed the chance to take her back from the in-laws; she could live like the little daughter for just a while longer. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom in a hospital bed with a baby in her arms, Grandpa Ted’s voice saying: “Mikey, my boy, I wish you were here with us. Your daughter is stunning.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Hurrying back to Frankfurt with her daughters, she found her mother distraught and Marrel’s business affairs in a shambles. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every year after that, the daughter came for her father's birthday, and in the way of women, soothed and stitched and patched over the hurt feelings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It’s that with her blond curls, light skin, and crazy, fluorescent dress she looks like she could be Dr. K’s daughter. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stood up, and when Zeni saw me, she practically tossed her tiny daughter to her husband and ran across the room to embrace me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following an early morning argument, she had enlisted their daughter to help her get a rope around his neck and then fired two shots into him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would’e build a house wit barrow stones? Would yeh dig something out o’ a barrow an’ give it to your daughter as a wedding present?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pilar thinks Lourdes is bigoted, but what does her daughter know of life? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I spoke to Bailey about it, he agreed that I was right, but he also informed me that Mr. Cullinan had two daughters by a colored lady and that I knew them very well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the daughter that no one knew about got herself gleaned.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

What could a burned-out black man say to the hunched back of his eleven-year-old daughter? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She went to her daughter’s to recover,” Lady Isobel said when Ash asked where she had gone. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might be the single most brilliant mind to ever attend the school—at least since my daughter got there.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Henry...you know...he doesn’t see me like a daughter.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably passed from mother to daughter like that horrible meatloaf recipe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The two lived with their three young daughters in a penthouse. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was why he’d cried out, “I did not send for you!” when he saw her; he had sent for a child, and the fates had brought him his own daughter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

What is known is this: the Dumfrey women—mother and daughter—weren’t home when Violet arrived. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would see his daughters, yes, but they knew he was safe now, and that money would be better spent elsewhere—in their college trusts, for example. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And when they found him, the daughter of the yeoman had died of exhaustion and fatigue. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Donald is not sure what the universe was trying to tell him by taking away his only daughter, but here is what he learned: no one can put a price on losing everything. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Give the old man a chance. He’s trying to get his daughter back, alive. He’s given you a big story; now wait.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I already knew Mrs. Hagen because she was Mr. and Mrs. Potts’s daughter, but I begged to stay where I was because I did not want to leave my new school friends. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I struggled with this dissonance—a whorish dress, gifted to a loved daughter—until the meal had been finished and the plates cleared away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His daughters affectionately referred to him as “the Warden” on account of his strictness—no makeup, no boyfriends, no staying out late. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So you see,” she said, “I can betray him easily. I can lead you to where he’s taking my daughter’s dæmon, and you can destroy Asriel, and the child will walk unsuspecting into your hands.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And Kaede did feel a certain amount of compassion for the Fairy Queen’s daughter, but she could never say yes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And suppose he’s sent those angels to look for your daughter?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“To my new daughter—may you have long life and happiness.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was the daughter of Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who had been changed into a wolf because of his wickedness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father and daughter had a strong resemblance to each other—both of them had the same broad, flat noses, the same mouths and foreheads. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was introduced to Horchow through his daughter, who is a friend of mine, and I went to see him in his Manhattan pied-a-terre, an elegant apartment high above Fifth Avenue. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linda draped an arm around her daughter, softly shook her head: “But they won’t hurt you, honey. They don’t bite—” The house was literally crawling with daddy longlegs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father refused to set foot in his daughter's house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, you know, I was surprised, of course, but once I saw her I agreed wholeheartedly—she was our daughter.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The priestess told him no, and added what was far worse: that his daughter would have a son who would kill him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” the man said, puffing out his chest just a bit, “I am looking for my daughter, Isabel. Have you seen her?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

After all, they had been kind to me and surely my father wouldn’t allow his daughter to be ill treated. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the plane ride in, I had read about a woman who had shot her husband and two daughters as they lay sleeping, claiming she was protecting them from “the bad people.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See? I told you a daughter’s just as good as a son,” Father would add. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I almost didn’t say anything. I thought, what’s in the past is past. Maybe she’s made a new life. But I see you’ve raised your daughter to be just as amoral as you.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It showed how desperate Generose had become that she was willing to leave her six-month-old daughter in the care of her three sons, ages seven, thirteen, and fifteen. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He did not sound like a father calling his daughter. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also have two daughters, by now grown up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

However, one evening in November that year, shortly after the birth of my daughter, Lucy, I started to think about black holes as I was getting into bed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me, in the jeep, my daughter Kathleen sat waiting with a government interpreter, and now and then I could hear the two of them talking in soft voices. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His punishment was deserved, but his daughter suffered as terribly as he and she was innocent of all wrong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late spring, when the page proofs for the second volume had been finished, Stanton and her daughter went to Europe for an extended stay. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“She...she is our youngest daughter,” said Habib, clearing his throat. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Wade, it was predominantly the daughters of middle- or upper-class families who could arrange and afford a safe illegal abortion. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The woman is about the age of the daughters, but twice as large. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the trail into the master bedroom, where he found his two daughters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Abuelita said that Papá was divorcing Mamá, but she didn’t mention that he had another woman and two other daughters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In some of the nightmares, I was the daughter and the charred remains became Papa’s. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She must be staying with her daughter now. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But she looked over and saw the bishop’s daughter, Julie, tucked between the edge of the wall and the piano, sobbing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And Sefia could see how much that meant to him, losing his wife, his daughter, the only two people he’d ever really cared about, besides himself. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the sweetness started in their Flushing apartment, after their daughter's written words had exposed her contempt and erased the sharpness from her tongue. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the opposite bank was Petronella, the merchant’s daughter, across the stream. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

But her daughter can only wallow in her own discomforts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What about your daughters? We have to get them out of this neighborhood, I tell you..." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you ever managed to find out where your daughter is, would you want to get in touch with her again?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We had thrust our daughters into all the strangeness and intensity of White House life, not knowing how it would impact them or what they’d take from the experience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course he died. I told his daughter two days ago he wasn’t going to last the week. Put some coffee water on.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“She has only one daughter, the heiress of Rosings, and of very extensive property.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

When a group of 3 steps up—a mom and her 2 daughters, who are barely 48 inches tall—the worker gives me a choice. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had a Touchable wife, two Touchable daughters—whole Touchable generations waiting in their Touchable wombs “Where is the molestee now?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The daughter of Lord Indra and the daughter of the Dharma Raja? Daunting indeed. Before you leave the Court of the Sky, there is something I’d like to tell you.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My daughter Sarah becomes the daughter he wanted, and soon we have Anne. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All this time, I knew she was married and had a daughter, but she never mentioned that her daughter was black. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She left her daughter with Clara and took the bus, carrying a clown’s valise covered with flowers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They aren’t just bad parents who were ashamed of their daughter for a teeny, tiny sin. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

So now I know Auntie Ying’s daughter, Lena, told her about my being evicted from my apartment on lower Russian Hill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched his daughter’s daemon rise and dominate her: her eyebrows, like his, were lifted, the heavy-lidded eyes beneath them grew round, and one corner of her mouth was raised dangerously. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Only a month ago, puddles were everywhere when Mrs. Bowman called me over to say her house had been sold to a woman with a twelve- year-old daughter. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the boys’ room miniature bunk beds were stacked three high, while the girl twin and I shared a room with the biological daughter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right, daughter? You seem so thin. And pale. Do you feel sick?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sons and daughters joined their mothers to support their fathers as they marched or picketed around the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She is Edna’s daughter, the lady who owns the big building next door, three apartments front and back. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had given him three daughters and a son, each black-haired. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That was where His Grace left Queen Selyse and their daughter Shireen when he assembled his knights for the march to Castle Black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thus encouraged, I played the false role of obedient daughter with even more zest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Brenda’s mom is there, her hand resting on her daughter’s shoulder. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Laura and her daughters would take the escalator, marveling at the moving staircase, she teasing them that this might be the ladder Jacob saw with angels moving up and down to heaven. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Elinor cleared her throat and gave Mo a reproachful glance, as if it could only be his fault that his daughter was precocious enough to know such things. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I know your biggest dream is to see your daughter after not seeing her for seventeen years.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As she had done so many times before, Maria turned to her daughters for help. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I am going to die and am never going to see you again,” she tells her daughter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If their mothers had only waited until the next morning to drive back over that deserted mountain road, they might still be alive to scold their own daughters about the dangers of driving at night. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please sit down,” Special Agent Gonzales said, watching Mamá surrounded by the love of five grateful daughters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Veteran hearts at this contained their dread while at your side the daughters of the ancient seagod wailed and wrapped ambrosial shrouding around you. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

To support her daughters, she took in laundry and later found a job as a cleaning woman at Wanamaker’s Department Store downtown. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As for a divorced daughter—according to Baby Kochamma, she had no position anywhere at all. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one will be shot or executed, Meggie will get her father back, and Mortimer will be reunited with his daughter. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Since when is candy contraband? Why did they come after my daughter in the first place?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He designed a house for John Walker, president of the yards, and met Walker’s daughter, Mary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After that, I will somehow pull myself away from my best friend and her daughter, and I will have to go and live. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Each morning Deborah left the assisted-living facility where she lived, and spent the day cooking and cleaning for the five or six men living in her daughter’s home. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I should like to “keep” you, too, if you will let me—I mean, in my heart and as my only daughter’s best friend. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The first time I ever rode on a motorcycle, Dad displayed a shade of fear I’d never seen before, and said, “Charlie Kahn, that’s my only daughter you have on that machine.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was an accomplished doctor who would treat patients in exchange for marrying their young and pretty daughters, some as young as thirteen or fourteen years old. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Within a few years, she was able to move to a larger house with her younger daughter, Dorothea. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His excuse to us, when we complained we were being neglected, was that he had to get acquainted with his new daughter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will become their daughter, though I never can bring myself to call them Mother and Father—our affiliation feels too formal for that. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

What kind of daughter would refuse this tradition? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She sees the shows her daughter puts on as “cute” and as a way for Katie to “get attention.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Blanca went along with his decision, for she accepted that a good conjunction of planets in her daughter’s astral chart would not provide Alba with everything she needed to get ahead in life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atalanta’s father, whatever his name was, when a daughter and not a son was born to him, was, of course, bitterly disappointed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now me,” said Laforgue, “I like to teach well enough, but I have a wife and a daughter in school in France—the money comes in handy, yes?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s her blood. Her child. She has to know. Go on, daughter. Call her.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She looked as pretty as she ever was, but not in any way different, not enchanting, not bedazzling in her daughters’ eyes, at least not in mine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to laugh at her, to tell her, I'm not here for you, I couldn’t be less interested in your daughter. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters came later, from the Cigrands, Williamses, Smythes, and untold others, addressed to that strange gloomy castle at Sixty-third and Wallace, pleading for the whereabouts of daughters and daughters’ children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They had been told by his daughter that he might never practice again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother said, “Call me what you want. I want to see my daughter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The smallest daughter found the process of moving as a group hilarious, giggled, and kept her dancing eyes trained on Otto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Candice couldn’t tell if she was talking to her daughter or to herself. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“All my daughter wants is to be a good, loyal citizen of the regime.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did they feel any sympathy for Bebe Chow, who would never get to see her daughter again? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Never mind what Silvertongue said, nor what his daughter thought—there was only one thing he wanted. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was killed by his daughters under the direction of Medea, Jason’s wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only his daughter Pearl was as attentive to him as always. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Conor watched as the young prince rose and looked down at the sleeping farmer’s daughter, who even Conor could see was a beauty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had promised to watch the final tilts with Sansa; Septa Mordane was ill today, and his daughter was determined not to miss the end of the jousting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I have a daughter,” she said in a voice as warm as light in a greenhouse. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“God, give me my papers. I want to be with my daughter,” she says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A nice cold hell where you can look up and see me help restore Mad Aerys s daughter to the Iron Throne? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As a little girl, despite everything, I wanted Papito to want me, to feel proud I was his daughter. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I instructed George to interview the prince about how he intended to look after my daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not much. I used to wear it when I was your age. But since I never had a daughter . . . well, I just thought you might like to have it.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Katherine’s mother moved to Morgantown to room with her daughter, bolstering her strength and confidence during her first days at the white school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I wish it wasn’t this way, but this is how the world works. It doesn’t mean I don’t love my daughters. I love each and every one of you.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But to those who wish to cross the Bridge of Forgetting, I always offer a choice. And I will offer the same to you. First, will you hear my tale, daughters of the gods?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many of his colleagues’ daughters have been harassed on the streets or even kidnapped. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days when Patricia looks at her daughter, she doesn’t see as much of herself reflected back as before, and it hurts. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wife and the two daughters and the son turned their heads to him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The daughter I know never would have spoken to me this way." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Laila marveled at her daughter’s manner of speech, her cadence and rhythm, her thoughtful pauses and intonations, so adult, so at odds with the immature body that housed the voice. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I held my newborn daughter in my arms and pronounced her a true Mandela. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look—one of the gnomes actually bit me!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lover noticed that the mother's eyes were those that looked at him softly at night from the daughter's face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The couple’s first daughter, Dessie, had been born out of wedlock, an event entirely within the realm of what Pitezel’s parents had come to expect of their son. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I remembered that I was my mother’s daughter—fighting this very destiny. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The buyers are an American family, the Walkers, a young professor new to the university where her husband used to work, and a wife and daughter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was the last time she would see her daughter—Emmett figures she knew she was saying goodbye. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I hope you understand,” she continued after her daughter’s departure. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his side stood three girls who looked like his daughters. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The man standing in the shade of the rubber trees with coins of sunshine dancing on his body, holding her daughter in his arms, glanced up and caught Ammu’s gaze. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite’s cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone’s heart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In two hours she managed to secure at least seven people who said they would come, including the principal of her daughters’ school. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After the three Reich doctors reached their decision, the parents were told that their son or daughter was going to be placed in a special hospital. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I, the only daughter, usually get roasted chicken, dried bamboo soup, and all-I-can-eat pudding. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the way back to his chambers, he came upon his daughter Arya on the winding steps of the Tower of the Hand, windrnilling her arms as she struggled to balance on one leg. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Zeus’s daughter spoke, they turned to listen, and soon the squires brought water for their hands, while stewards filled the winebowls and poured out a fresh cup full for every man. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We cannot even feed a goldfish for our daughter.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

No mother would leave her daughter without a good reason. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The daughter of the chief of some people near Kezi was one of the most beautiful girls in the whole of Matabeleland. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They bent their backs to unload heavy crates from ships and trains, or to carry pallets of bricks to and from construction job sites; their daughters scoured pots and boiled laundry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sorcerers existed, beyond a doubt, and it was only too likely that they would cast sleeping spells, and that a mother would care for her daughter in that fierce and tender way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She has to keep being my mother, keep taking care of me—the daughter who’s got a hairy leg and another leg that might never heal. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I’m trying to say to you. You never gave your daughters an image. No wonder they’re so mixed up. I tried with them.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening the authorities paid another visit to put pressure on Mary and her daughter, Anna. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s him, he’s been in Dome all this time, and now he’s seized my daughter.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their daughter turned them in, jealous of the attention. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Came the day at last, when Weston approached his daughter guiltily and suggested a “beautiful” visivox show in the village. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And what I’m doing as my mother’s daughter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lived in Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, who channeled some part of her grief over losing her daughter into fighting for better gun laws. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But though in his youth he had received prizes for his ability to deduce square roots from memory, he was unable to solve the mystery of his daughter’s disease. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m me. I’m not their daughter. I’m not Nel. I’m me. Me.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin suddenly felt every inch the farmer’s daughter— clumsy and foolish. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And what does he think about a daughter who steals jewels for a living?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I hold you responsible. You hear me? Our daughter isn’t the kind to just run off like that. You must have done something to her. Scared her.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His visitor, his company, his guest, his social life, his woman, his daughter, his friend—they all hung there on a nail near his bed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

He spoke of his love for his daughter, my commitment to the country, and my dangerous career as a politician. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife and I give consent that our daughter Jenny Elizabeth Creighton, age 16, may marry Shadrach Yale, Union soldier, under the witness of a trusted friend, Editor Ross Milton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was my daughter, I would call her Soleil, Sun, Moon, or Star, after the elements. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Even when all you want to do is travel? Or marry the daughter of a textile merchant?” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, as to that, Captain, when I left the inn this morning it was full of Black Ears. One is never quite safe when Chella daughter of Cheyk is about." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The last “first daughter” had been her grandmother, who lived in Istanbul now. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would not abandon a daughter to this life, but train her to read the columns of blood and numbers in men’s eyes, to understand the morphology of survival. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one guy, Dr. Levinson—he says his daughter goes to our school—actually admits the chicken bone is pretty funny. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She thought, as she would often for many years, of the photograph from that day, with the one golden feather inside it: Was it a portrait of her, or her daughter? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Families like my family, wives like my wife, sons like my sons, and daughters like my daughters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, Dimple, a grown daughter is a reflection of her mother. What do you think others in our community will think of me if they see you...like this?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I may be a preacher’s daughter, but I know a thing or two. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, Pamela, was a teenager already and not so interested in me, though I found all teenagers intriguing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed to make him feel like he was doing what a father should, plucking up his daughter’s courage, helping her face the terrors of the unknown. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He recommended that Carrie cut up the dresses and use the material to make clothing for her three daughters. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And during a still moment where neither prayer nor song could be heard, I heard the doctor say, “How much longer do you think the daughter will be in there?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After all her hard work, she was not to be included in his daughter count. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the most efficient system, but Mr. Archie and his daughter, Anna, were always there to help you find what you needed. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Treacherous daughters did not deserve to be mothers, and this was just punishment. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

So I told him about my daughters, and about our house in Peshawar and the veranda my brother-in-law and I are building out in the back. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Friedmans shared the place with friends who had a daughter of their own. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But for this he cared nothing, since he had sons and daughters, and he was willing enough to keep her for the pleasure she gave him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could walk and talk and laugh with a daughter of my own. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Here she wouldn't be Dimple Shah, wayward, Americanized daughter of immigrant parents; she’d be just Dimple Shah, future web developer. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

How about the daughter just stay in here forever? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some relief to the violence of these transports, by leading her thoughts to the obligations which Mr. Gardiner’s behaviour laid them all under. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

"You'll outshine your daughters, Ranee," Baba says, eyes following Ma as she heads to the bedroom. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Talking, I found she was the daughter of one of Imre’s councilmen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d only ever seen one black person, a little girl, the adoptive daughter of a family at church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had given him four children—a trio of daughters, then a son. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the family of Washington Duke: the elder Duke, his three sons—Brodie, Benjamin, and James—and daughter, Mary. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it felt as if Pearl were simply one of Lexie’s friends, there to celebrate her marvelous daughter: a promising young woman Mrs. Richardson might mentor, and nurture, purely on potential. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Old Selma Thurmer--she was the headmaster's daughter--showed up at the games quite often, but she wasn't exactly the type that drove you mad with desire. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Or does he sit up nights searching out a Verse for every potential infraction, and store this ammunition at the ready for his daughters? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent their days breathing in toxic coal dust and asbestos, which they brought home to their wives and daughters, who inhaled it while shaking the men’s clothes out for the wash. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"No you don't, Papi, they're private!" his daughters chimed in, crowding around him, wanting to spare each other the embarrassment of having their gushing made public. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You are still our daughter, and after yesterday...oh, my beta, if anything would have happened...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Aren’t you even going to open it marriage of their daughter Candace that liquor teaches you to confuse the means with the end I am. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would imagine he walked into the palace and looked up to see the daughter watching from a terrace above him in the grand hall. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

How they had opened a business, a restaurant, and taught their daughter that with hard work, she could be anything she wanted to be. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem right that they thought singing and dancing would change Cecile into someone who cried for her long-lost daughters or fried pork chops and made banana pudding. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see her too, to make sure his daughter really was doing better than before. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“This is my eleven-year-old daughter, Stella,” her father said, placing his hand on her shoulder. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want to see her daughter cry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But it was important to me, too, that our daughters feel released from some of the ingrown formalities of the place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course she is. That is not what this is about and you know it. This is about safety, and right now I need to talk to my only daughter alone.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for everything. If we had not gone to the hospital abroad, what would have become of my daughter?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eva knew there was time for nothing in this world other than die time it took to get there and cover her daughter’s body with her own. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His face had darkened with shame at having his pleasure aroused in public by one of his daughters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She bobbed in the corner, contented and proud of her daughters, Neewo alongside her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should give my mom what she wants tonight, the dutiful daughter who is thrilled to wear gold jewelry and high heels and wants to be a doctor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I went alone to summon my daughter’s husband. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They make narrative dumplings and stuff their daughter’s mouths so they say nothing more. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"One daughter almost killed, the other one a bomber. Smart-aleck kid, first she blows up my kitchen, then she advertises my cuisine. Win the inheritance— ha! Maybe I'm lucky my son is a dumb jock." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

My daughter Kathleen tells me it’s an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mothers are not supposed to be more beautiful than their daughters, and daughters are not supposed to die before their mothers. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Would I test myself, or my two daughters? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They said his daughter was in an accident. One that most professionals believed was not survivable.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Her name was Andromeda and she was the daughter of a silly vain woman, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The daughter resents a mother forever who keeps her from her love,” Ma said as we dressed to go to Eric’s house for dinner. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Her host replaced her soiled dress with one his daughter had left behind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The shifting light catches and releases the brightness of his shirt, the grey of his hair, illuminating the disapproving glare on his face as he watches the Carousel over his daughter’s shoulder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Earlier, the Klavern had been upset by the shocking news that Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s daughter had married a black man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was spit on the daughter's cheeks from the closeness of his mouth to her face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It had to hurt a little bit, realizing he was so close to having more freedom and more time, just as our daughters were beginning to step away. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Only after the exposition had Burnham and his colleagues learned of the anguished letters describing daughters who had come to the city and then fallen silent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Just when Matt began to think the man wasn’t going to say anything else, Senator Mendoza hissed, “You can count on one thing: You will never ... ever ... see my daughter again.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So maybe perfect people and unique people react similarly when their daughters get busted at a gay club. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And then there’s the scientist who showed me a picture of her four-year-old daughter and said, beaming, “We virtually adore her.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Upon the quiet daughter of Ikarios she let clear drops of slumber fall, until the queen lay back asleep, her limbs unstrung, in her long chair. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the daughters of Atlas, seven in number. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She arrived at the office early, went home in the late afternoon to check on her daughters, and then came back in the evening, maintaining a schedule of fourteen- or sixteen-hour days. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take too long for me to know I wouldn’t be changing my name to some Swahili translation for “oldest, tallest daughter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed that Beverly, the second of Mr. Clutter’s surviving daughters, had married Mr. Vere Edward English, the young biology student to whom she had long been engaged. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel nervous, like I’ve come to convince him to let his daughter go out with me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mary gave one to each of her daughters on their wedding day with instructions that the crosses were to be passed on to the first daughter in each succeeding generation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ishtar has a daughter?" he asked between chews. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The nice thing about the Queen of Flanders’ daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

How she’d leave her daughters and son for long hours to go into Guadalajara to work. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of her children, two sons and two daughters, only the younger girl, Barbara, had entered ordinary life, married, begun raising a family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How is your daughter? She was a pretty young woman.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and Brian had to help pull her off as Brian’s daughter, Veronica— who hadn’t seen Mom since she was a toddler—stared wide-eyed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let your daughter go back to school, and she will be protected,” one of the men said, handing Mother Lois an envelope. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point in my life, and significantly as his daughter, it is quite meaningful for me to contribute my prose to this living record. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without taking her eyes from her daughter, Jeanne’s mother said to Marc, “Do the men know where she is?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You go, then. Take your daughter and run away. Send me a postcard. But peace is coming, and I, for one, am going to wait for it.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Queen Selyse nodded, took her daughter by the hand, and permitted him to lead them from the stables. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mama Lessie told her five daughters never to open the door to a stranger, especially a white man. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He went the next day into the town and to the house of the merchant and he said, “My daughter is thirteen years old and no longer a child and she is fit for marriage.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Had Atticus known of the secret decision between his sister and his daughter he would have never forgiven them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Celia lay with her tom, bleeding feet beside her daughter and held her, rocking and rocking her in the blue gypsy dusk until she died. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel sees even more reasons to stay in Honduras with her daughter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike them, I was not the daughter of an earl or a duke or the cousin of a European prince. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"Well, Lillie,” he said to Mother, "I guess my spring chicken days are over. When you start getting pecks on the cheek from your daughters’ friends, you’re on the decline.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had four daughters, and I hung out with the younger ones at the party, even though we had some communication challenges. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ursa Major is up there, right where she’s supposed to be—protecting her daughter. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It would have destroyed Kendra to see her sons fighting like that, across her daughter’s body. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There, in Jableh, Mahmoud opened a hardware store, sent his sons and daughters to the best schools, and taught his boys every trade he could. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was the daughter of her most successful child.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He could get cleaned up and pay a visit on his eldest daughter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She revealed to them the contents of the letter their son had written to her daughter. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, Ashima will live with her younger brother, Rana, and his wife, and their two grown, as yet unmarried daughters, in a spacious flat in Salt Lake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Bordonis were Swiss, but Mrs. Bordoni was the daughter and heiress of a Spanish family that had settled in the Salinas Valley in very early times. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t permit him to show any kindness to his daughter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another, more likely version of events, Judge Cady is said to have strongly objected to his daughter’s remarks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Ma’am,” Augustus said, nodding toward her, “your daughter’s car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we’ll be forced to call the police.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was the guest at the home of the late black American author Richard Wright’s daughter, beautiful, slender, soft-voiced Julia, whose young French husband publishes a Ghanaian paper. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were passing near to the house when a voice hailed us; and we found a man stood before us with a fowling-gun; his daughter stood beside him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As the High Blade regarded the daughter that he could never publicly or even privately acknowledge, he melted just the tiniest bit. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Until that day they had never given a name to the eccentricities of their youngest daughter, nor had it ever crossed their minds to ascribe them to Satanic influence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You really think we gon’ let them talk to our daughter and twist her words around because she doesn’t have a lawyer?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wesley made beautiful clothes for her daughter— dresses just the right length and color and that perfectly fit Cynthia’s tiny waist. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The magic remained for them, almost un-bearable to me—the magic of children thrilled to know my daughter had a party. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We, the Shabazz daughters and our children, will forever be nurtured by our legacy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then two new daughter strands are made on the two parental templates, thereby forming two DNA molecules identical to the original molecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Why had she left her own daughter in the dark all this time? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On that particular Holy Thursday, Severo was pacing up and down the drawing room worrying about the scandal his daughter had provoked at mass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dona Mercedes, tell me, how do fathers show love for their daughters?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess a little happiness is too much to ask of my only daughter.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“She’s my daughter. You had no right to keep her here.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I envied these daughters, who worked together in such perfect synchrony. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my daughter, Rosa, was introduced to the father of a wealthy Harvard classmate, he ventured that she must have been named for a favorite maid. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she found it too difficult and painful to talk about her lost daughter. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lemore had changed out of her septa’s robes into garb more befitting the wife or daughter of a prosperous merchant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“In a woman, I said. Not a daughter.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The president’s daughter looks about thirty years old, around Susana’s age, and is an expert on mingling and posing graciously for pictures. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Clara, she went everywhere with her daughter hanging from her skirts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she wanted to show her daughter the artistry of true dancing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if one enormous Virgin Mary has had a whole bunch of daughters, most of which look something like her but not entirely. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One day, you’ll see it my way, and I will welcome you, daughter.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yitzchak, carrying both his daughter and his son in his arms, was still gulping at the air. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is, for example, a universe where Samuel Kingsley does not derail his daughter’s life. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was one month older than Waverly Jong, Auntie Lin’s prized daughter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had ever told her about the things she told her daughter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He immediately turns to everyone around him and says, “This is my niece, you know! Janna, my sister’s daughter.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Annabeth was a daughter of Athena, and a final stand didn’t sound good. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We need a rooster to turn eggs to chicks. Tell her, daughter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

An hour later, I’m dressed in my indi'gena clothes, sitting with the other queens at a long table with the president’s daughter. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Martin, we need to ask your daughter a few questions.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, she has a daughter, too, and it wouldn’t be fair to make them uproot their lives when they’re doing a favor for us.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Don’t go to the police if you want your daughter back safe. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had been my father’s rowdy daughter, then the queen’s favored lady-in-waiting. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Not to mention keeping this business thriving for my wife and my daughter.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every day after work, Noah wheeled the big automobile into the driveway and asked his youngest daughter, “What did you learn today?” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Later, when her oldest daughter showed a talent for music, Grandma Gilbreth decided to move again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But face or no face, nothing was gonna keep me away from my daughter.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The old woman, however, became weaker and weaker, although she was still able to tell her daughter how happy she was that she would soon be joining her new husband. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Okay, it just has to transfer. “You must be Natalie’s daughter, Beatrice.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“What do your parents make of their daughter being Adarlan’s Assassin?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Could she and her daughters make a living trading, painting, and selling? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“My child! My daughter! Where is she? What have you done? My Lyra—you’d do better to tear the fibers from my heart—she was safe with me, safe, and now where is she?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t put in that Constantine’s daughter was high yellow; I just want to show that Constantine’s love for me began with missing her own child. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"How am I to decide? I have only one daughter." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“She’s my own daughter. It’s just that it’s been so long. And she was hardly speaking to her father and me in those days. What will we say to each other?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“My daughter—” The woman fumbled in her purse and brought out a letter. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But something tells me she wouldn’t be thrilled about her daughter going to the same secret agency that had something to do with her son going missing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Though as far as I could see the wives and daughters did just about all the work. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not go back to my parents and be a daughter again. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor in charge of the study, the one who’d started the distant healing research—she was the daughter of some chess champion or something, remember?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Three were young mothers, each with a daughter in diapers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had opposed his daughter’s marriage to Colonel Moodus because he disliked attending weddings. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her daughters never called her Mom except when they wanted her to feel how much she had failed them in this country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His eldest daughter’s alarm was equal to his own. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

"My daughter often forgets her courtesies," Eddard Stark said with a faint smile that softened his words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It seems they've locked him in the crypt under the church. What else is in that note? Doesn’t your daughter say who it is she’s to bring out for Capricorn?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It turned out, Rindlisbacher explains, that the wife of the guy was the daughter of a police captain in Las Vegas. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mary, wanting to give one of her daughters to the church, decided that Eliza was the one. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church gave each dead girl’s family some funds to bury their daughter. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza, the second daughter of Mary and Thomas, lacked the prettiness and fire of her three sisters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day, with many a meaningful wink, Kali told us that it was time we looked to our daughter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of legends will your daughters be told? What kinds of charms will you give them to ward off evil?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They put her to bed and sent for her married daughter from up around Ocala to come see about her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I was,” Dad said, “until my daughter went missing.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Ortizes had three teenage birth daughters and four adopted children, plus a constant stream of foster children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The man who lost his daughter is gone. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our daughters lived more deeply inside it than we did, in part because social media governed teen life and in part because their routines put them in closer contact with the public than ours did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter she isn’t? What happened to your voice?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leigh, Joya,” I called to my daughters, giving each a kiss. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before I became less concerned with making sure Malia and Sasha looked like the daughters of a future president than making sure they looked like they at least had a mother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters, and my parents moved down there to be closer to them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Robert was in high good humor, the Lannisters were nowhere to be seen, and even his daughters were behaving. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“They think they’re your daughters, in case you forgot. All they want is to respect you. They said you have to improve conditions at Levy Pants if you want to see them again.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she were dead, she could see her daughter. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Laia’s a person, Helene. Someone’s daughter or sister. If you or I had been born to different parents, we might be in her shoes instead of our own.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“With so many pretty and decent girls around, the only thing that occurs to you is to get married to the daughter of our enemy.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The first time, I listened while he told another customer that his daughter loved to draw. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nay, he appeared so much otherwise, that his daughter’s courage failed. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply; but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her ideas always came after the sightseeing visits she took with her daughters to department stores to see the wonders of this new country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Or I’m just a daughter who doesn’t let people disrespect her dad. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I laughed, and Dad looked at me half amused and half worried, like, Is there something wrong with my daughter? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Marc is a former social media manager for a soda company, which he’s mentioned twice in his profile, and he isn’t sure if his daughter will reach him in time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We know my daughter was drunk last night when you brought her here. She was too drunk to leave here by herself. Do you know where she is?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The more the madwoman gathered, the clearer the path to her daughter became. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Immediately after the session ended, I speeded back with Duma Nokwe to find mother and daughter doing extremely well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gently throws a wisp of dark hair from her eyes and moves on, listening to the words spoken by her daughter. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She examined the photographs on the cover, the young Kenyan woman staring befuddled at the camera, arms enclosing her son, and the young American man, jaunty of manner, holding his daughter to his chest. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now he stayed away from the Senate for an hour to accompany his wife on her regular morning visit to their daughter and her new companion. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I won’t do that. There’s no way I’m sending my daughter away. Revolutionaries taking care of her. It’s absurd! ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

These were the beings who had fallen in love with human women, with the daughters of men, so long ago. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Although many thought you unworthy, I confess that I wished for you to wed Hamlet and become my daughter,” she said, her voice barely audible. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

John’s daughter, Jessica, turned to me and said, “But she laughs just like you do.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But once, she invited the daughter of the bishop at her local church to visit her when Terryl was visiting her maternal grandparents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had not held my now-grown daughter virtually since she was about her own daughter’s age. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I only have two options for my daughter, Dr. Cook,” Jay says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had a painful look on her face, and I wondered if she was thinking about her daughter. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The daughter of a wealthy Tory family, she was also a close friend of Major John André, England’s chief of intelligence in America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you take a bunch of practically grown, red-blooded daughters to Africa, don’t you think at least some of them are going to marry or what have you, and end up staying? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She is Ginger's daughter. Ginger is my dog, and I have given Julian one of her puppies." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I think before I fall asleep is: Stay away from my daughter. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But Emma was worth it; so, as his daughter Henrietta wrote much later, he “made up his mind to give up all his natural taste for tidiness.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Somerset smiled and then turned her attention to her daughter. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She pulled her daughters close and held them there. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes? And for how much longer, do you think? What about your daughter? Are you telling me she actually likes moving around the whole time? Believe me, I know what I'm talking about.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew helping family was what a good eldest daughter did, but this time after school with Miss Sadia wasn’t just fun; it was important. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She looked like everything Dad said his daughters shouldn’t look like. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because now that she knows what I look like, it's safe to leave me alone with her daughter. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third, on-duty daughter would get the third call, in which the first question would be, "Where are your sisters?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Do not ride your bicycle around the comer, ’ ’ the mother had told the daughter when she was seven. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this year, for his seventieth birthday, the youngest daughter, Sofía, wanted the celebration at her house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

On the morning of November 5, Election Day, Nixon climbed the stairs to his campaign plane, Tricia, named for one of his daughters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I thought of my mother, waiting patiently for me to arrive, worrying about her only daughter, perhaps her only surviving family member. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In fact he never forgave any of his daughters for marrying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have married Qarl, and gladly, but she was Lord Baton’s daughter and he was common-born, the grandson of a thrall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That she is the daughter of a ghost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The daughters will never know and the old man won’t mind because he’s only half conscious most of the time worn out from all his years in the English army in India. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stand it! My good daughters are gone, and the last one wants to feed my heart to the vultures!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eventually ate some poisonous food and died the same way her daughters did. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the play over in town, where his youngest daughter was singing the lead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Cassandra, one of Priam’s daughters, was a prophetess. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter in Jamaica was having some kind of problem and Mrs. Baylor needed to send her some money. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Beneath awnings, tourists browse over blue-and-white-striped sweaters and framed watercolors of corsair ships; a father sings as he puts his arm around a daughter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I know, but I can’t leave Kenya and Lyric. That fool’s crazy enough to hit them too. He don’t care that they’re his daughters.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

If she doesn’t have any more children and she works hard, she can give her daughter a shot at a good education. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes darted first to her daughter, then to those around her. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see a girl maybe a little younger than me—the daughter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I have any words in which to tell the meeting of the mother and daughters. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s horrible to us when she visits, and her daughter Ana isn’t much better. It’s no wonder she can’t find a husband.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some mothers asked if their daughters could live with her, in the flat behind the church. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She asked for her daughter, and they were gone. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

On the drive home, try as they might, her daughters could not engage their mother in conversation, for inspired by what she had just seen, Laura had begun inventing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her mother arranges for her to be retested privately, petitions the school, and gets her daughter admitted. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“If you are tired, you can rest. But I will continue to look for our daughter.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Another was that her eldest daughter married a severe young man with jet-black hair and an appetite for unconventionality. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“For you, my daughter,” he says, offering it to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marina had sent her mother, Anna, and her daughter, Tanya, to safety in a town far up the Volga River when war had first broken out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My dad found me and brought me here because he’d always wanted a son and just had stupid daughters. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But now they were just black-clad boys, some depressed, some drunk, shouting at one another across the lanes about philosophy and that butcher’s beautiful redheaded daughter. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a new doctor on the pediatric ward who just transferred here from Alabama, and he and his daughter will be coming over for dinner. Pretty sure she’s around your age.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A thirty-seven-year-old man, HARRY, has his daughter, LILY, on his shoulders. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“If she’s not my daughter, she deserves to be,” he would say proudly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d gotten a dud of a daughter who ripped her way out in the world and had done nothing but disappoint her ever since. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As I read about each of the seven who died, I thought of Otto Frank not being a father anymore, left with a diary instead of a wife and two daughters. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I went to pick my daughter up from school. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone else was there before him, a girl, whom he knew by sight as the daughter of the old Lord of Re Albi. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A daughter of Aphrodite does not wish to be looked at,” Zoe scoffed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But now I remember the wish, and I can recall the details of that entire day, as clearly as I see my daughter and the foolishness of her life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are our chosen child, our only daughter. We missed so much of your life, and we cannot erase some of the tragedies.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The mother and daughters stare, overtaken by beauty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth, when I solicit for the honour of a private audience with her in the course of this morning?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“My daughter was getting to an age where I was trying to tell her to do right,” Whitiker said of Ishtar, now seventeen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He tousled his daughter’s hair and sat on the couch. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daughter was a dancer. She was very good, too.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Now,” Eva looked up across from her wagon at her daughter. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A map that led her to her daughter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A priest sprinkles her daughter with holy water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“So he can boast about his attorney daughter to his friends. Another medal for the general,” Soraya said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So he decided to put the change down to growing maturity in his daughter. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Just because you’re related doesn’t mean you support him. This other daughter I knew, Zoe Nightshade—she fought against him. She wasn’t imprisoned.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She casts aside even her own daughter. The goddess would never allow my tapestries to be shown in the palaces of the gods. She was always jealous of me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We gave him Wallace as a name. That’s a solid man’s style. This ‘Lolly’ sounds like you’re talking to your daughter.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Of these adventures, Muse, daughter of Zeus, tell us in our time, lift the great song again. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday, she tells him, your daughter will treat you the way you now treat me. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed the sisters shared their father equally but they were determined to prove which one was the right and true daughter of Slim Jim Trotter. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a photo of a girl, who must be her daughter, standing with a brown man, the three little boys gathered around their legs, at the bottom of Multnomah Falls. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You never treated me like a daughter,” I tell her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Nicholas, you have ten minutes to speak to my daughter about this book that you’re reading, you understand? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was pregnant again and later that year, gave birth to Makaziwe, named after the daughter we had lost six years before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touches his daughter’s back with both hands, and she laughs loud and pure into the sky. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was worried about her daughter after her panicked visit a week ago. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see my difficulty, Madame. In this matter of the handkerchief, even, am I to believe you? Or are you shielding your friend’s daughter?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother struggled to keep her daughter afloat, but the chains were heavy and they were weak from hunger and captivity. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered, too, what would happen if suddenly his seven daughters were to appear on television, smiling and waving and blowing kisses to Mr. Pirzada from a balcony. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“That is a risk I am willing to take,” Hector says without even glancing at his daughter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Our daughter is in the hospital, too weak to do anything. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“In case,” he said, “the excellent Mrs. Hubbard should take it into her head to acquire first-hand details of the crime to write to her daughter.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a word, however, passed his lips in allusion to it, till their visitor took his leave for the night; but as soon as he was gone, he turned to his daughter, and said: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

On our third try, we were luckier and had a daughter whom we adored. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The goose did what?” asked Mrs. Arable, gazing at her daughter with a queer, worried look. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The peasants hid their daughters and clenched their fists helplessly because they could not confront him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Her daughters had long ago married and moved away and died. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That very night, both of the parson’s daughters died. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter’s just the right age to learn the trade,” the woman said. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ultima did not seem to fear him, nor the evil powers of his three daughters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have two wonderful daughters. They’re just as good as boys.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he crawled across the tablecloth, he remembered the words of the prisoner in the dungeon, his regret that he did not look back at his daughter as he left her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nobody in his circle of friends or family knew the truth about his double role—not even his wife, Leila, let alone his two daughters. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A reader. The daughter of two of the most powerful people I’ve ever met. You, Sefia, are what makes him special. Of course we want him.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Mean to her? It will mean she has lost her pet tiger. That’s all. She is Caesar’s daughter. She must learn to sustain such trivial losses.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Muses were nine in number, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, Memory. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How dare she say that! Act so sorry for us—and with her own daughter standing right there!” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then in Latin: “'Wisdom’s daughter •walks alone, the Mark of Athena burns through Rome.'” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even the daughter of Aphrodite couldn’t avoid making a face. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It took several minutes, but eventually the beaker was empty, and Mrs. Coulter laid her daughter down again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One has a daughter, eight years old, who begged her not to go. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her daughter guides her to an indoor courtyard, suffused with winter light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, she said, would not be writing back, now or at any time in the future. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Caesar’s daughter rides with a tiger and is not afraid! Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mabel hadn’t spent her freedom saving money to buy her daughter out of bondage, that was certain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow Father dared to approach Schindler with one last request—that his much loved daughter, whom he had not seen in two years, be put on the list of workers going to Brünnlitz. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My daughter has money, but everything in her house is for looking, not even for good-looking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes other people moved into his house, a young woman, maybe Morrison’s daughter, with her kids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She extracted a photograph from the crowded back of the piano, of her daughter with two Indian women, their skin dark and weathered, their smiles showing missing teeth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Despite the problems of his marriage, he could never blame his son or daughter for them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Were you in the habit of seeing, I mean, in the habit of meeting your daughter at such an hour?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fannie reported that her younger daughters attended school that year, that she was a widow and mother of four, and that she worked as a seamstress. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It’d be terrible timing to lose her job, with all the physical therapy she needs after her accident on top of her daughter’s mounting tuition. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In his absence, his eldest daughters, Cleopatra VI and Berenice, took charge. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Behind them stood the queen, with her daughter and her tattooed fool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Naturally, I did not discuss her daughters with her. I thought she was ashamed she had left them behind.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One moment, her daughter was in her arms, and the next, she was gone, riding away with strangers, someone else’s daughter and lost to Grace forever. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter explained that Gladys’s daughter had used it as an art studio before moving to New York, but that now it sat empty. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Lois was there with Mary, helping Mary’s little daughter read her New England Primer. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

While kids like my daughter were piling up grades and accomplishments, Jesse was joining a gang, dabbling in drugs, battling Mormons, school administrators, and conformity. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A comment: My 12 y/o daughter has been crying all day. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t want you to be that daughter, though. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I traded my girl, my own daughter, for this red tablecloth and for a hen and for a handful of cigarettes. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Mountain heard her out; the next morning he picked her daughter, to be certain she'd held nothing back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, Mama, I’ve already had it once a month for the past year,” her daughter said, laughing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” he says casually, “I’m just getting air, m’hija” My daughter. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they could not imagine how parents drowned their daughters, as they knew farmers in China often did — bathing the baby, it was called. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if her daughter loved this boy or if she knew the first thing about love. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tale of Cadmus and his daughters is only a prologue to the greater story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel worried that her daughter did not gain, and fussed over the fire concocting nourishing stews which Mercy obediently tried to swallow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I would show him that I was his daughter. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While everyone around us talked about the tragedy and asked themselves where he had been, the old man came back down the driveway to inspect the body of his daughter's estranged husband. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If only I were his daughter, I think and crush the corner of the award. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A short paragraph at the end of the obituary mentions that he is survived by a daughter of seventeen years of age, a Miss Celia Bowen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mom says, “Please let this be the first and last time you try to take my daughter out of my house without my knowing and giving permission.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“She gave her up because she was... ashamed? Because her daughter was white?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Grandfather towers over his daughter, his lip curling. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

How could a father’s sperm “absorb” the instructions to produce his daughter’s “generative parts,” Aristotle asked, when none of these parts was to be found anywhere in the father’s body? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s not every day your town throws a parade for your only daughter and her two best friends.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Occasionally Anastasia would bark at her daughter in irritation and Songololo would run away, only returning once her mother had calmed down. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It gave solace to the third daughter, who was always so tentative and terrified and had such troubles with men. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I always thought Angie would grow up to be something awesome, like a designer or an artist, but it turned out she was another Mexican daughter who didn’t want to leave home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If you or your daughter will just read that over, it’ll explain all the steps you need to take to renew Young Ju’s green card.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I loved any time I could glimpse my daughters in the context of their own worlds—free from the White House, free from their parents, in the spaces and relationships they’d forged for themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘How could a daughter of Aphrodite not approve? You’re a great boyfriend.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“If it came out that the High Blade had an illegitimate daughter, it would destroy him. He’d be in serious violation.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But though the father had made up with his son-in-law, there was still a strain with his own daughter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“If you must fight, take this. My mother, Pleione, gave it to me. She was a daughter of the ocean, and the ocean’s power is within it. My immortal power.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The screen door slammed on my mother’s words, “You must forgive my daughter....” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Lies and Wil, the two daughters who still live with them, are out boating with another family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Not your mother. You are not the daughter of your father’s wife, as anyone with eyes can clearly see.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When Alyce and the boy, who said his name was Runt, got back to the midwife’s cottage, Jane was out seeing to Kate the weaver’s daughter, who was having trouble with her milk. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been sitting there for some time, and now it was seven thirty, and inside, her daughter must be having her bath. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Which is the way he always talked about my father, who had married his dear departed daughter and produced, eek eek, Maxwell. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment I wanted him to put his arms around me as if I were his child, his daughter. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She asked. No, correction. She begged. She said she needed me. She was scared. And I figured that no matter what I thought about the whole thing, she is my daughter. My only daughter.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“They treated me like their daughter,” she said, tears rolling down her cheeks. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo, far from well herself, implored her daughter to live with heartbreaking cries until Grandmother ordered her to sleep in another hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The queen tells her, “Promise me you won’t hurt my daughter.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my mother hadn’t seen her family in three years, but she wanted me to know them and wanted them to know me, so the prodigal daughter returned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Husband, daughters, sisters, brothers,—one says,—all were taken from me, and still I live. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After long wanderings and many trials on land and sea he reached Italy, where he defeated those who opposed his entering the country, married the daughter of a powerful king and founded a city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been rumored that the two surviving Clutter daughters would be present; they were not, nor did they attend any subsequent session. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She did not want her daughter to do something she didn’t believe in just for appearances’ sake. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does she really want to hear about her daughter’s deeply underwhelming and unhappy existence in school? The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kleist and her daughter, Else, came outside as the soldiers approached. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is possible that this might have gone on for months, had it not been for the curiosity of one of Sibanda’s daughters. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Nivea hoped that the successive and unpleasant stages of growth would bring her daughter a few imperfections, but nothing of the sort occurred. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning right, she could almost see Father smiling at his amazing daughter as he passed cigarettes to the men, who shouted and clapped. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Benito, Steven’s older brother, had married the daughter of the Nigerian president because Nigeria was one of the richest countries in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told her sister that I was a barbarian who was not good enough for the daughter of Reverend Matyolo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t know. If a Southern merchant made a lot of money on tobacco, I think he might name his daughter ... Tobacco.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

First was an old woman named Queenie and her grown daughter, Violet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sometimes felt like a throwback to some lost era, when a household revolved solely around the man's needs, and it was the opposite of what I wanted our daughters to think was normal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Like any good daughter, I’ll be the one to nurse her in her old age. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The mother looked young, and the daughter looked old; the mother’s complexion was pink, and the daughter’s was yellow; the mother set up for frivolity, and the daughter for theology. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It is because of Captain Ortega’s daughter, Dorotea,” Mamá explained, with a deep sigh. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Since she was a daughter of Athena, plans were supposed to be her specialty; but it was hard to strategize with her stomach growling and her throat baking. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We crossed the river together, mother and daughter, facing each other, low in the boat’s quiet center. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked forward to the day when his wife, Kathy, could quit her job with the utility company and stay home with their daughter, Meaghan. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the Fairy Queen loved her daughter, too, but Elowen had never been able to see it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The mother spoke in Lithuanian to her daughter. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ma wanted Eric to officially come and ask her permission to marry her daughter. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I could feel one young mother’s disappointment at the reappearance of her husband’s weak chin on the face of her newborn daughter, and a new father’s terror as he calculated the tuition for triplets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It was after your second-grade teacher sent her daughter to that place near the lake. Do you remember? Your dad and I did the research and everything. We talked about it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Another cousin and her husband left behind a four-year-old daughter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was no way Aru could be the daughter of Indra. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Thank you for being apt suitors for our daughter." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was a merchant ship, and a first mate in love with the captain’s daughter. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Despite the sleeping bags under her eyes, Mrs. Branson made lively “ooh” and “aah” faces at her daughter, Sabrina, while waving a purple rattle. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Next to Brave Orchid sat Moon Orchid’s only daughter, who was helping her aunt wait. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard women reveal to men that the children they’d raised were not theirs and elderly parents inform grown sons and daughters that they were disowning them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, darling, you’re all right!” cried the mother hare, pulling her daughter close. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But it was to help one of her daughters out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I will not pay even one leone. She can walk...and she isn’t my daughter,” he answered gruffly, clearly insulted by the man’s assumption that he had fathered such an ugly child. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother used to go to all the poetry readings her daughter gave in town and sit in the front row applauding each poem and giving standing ovations. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But the Shibayamas were owners of a respectable house, and it seemed to them that Fujiko, the daughter in question, could do better than to marry a hired hand in America. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It is most natural, Madame. And now to return to the question you did not answer. Where is the younger daughter of Linda Arden, the sister of Mrs. Armstrong?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If anything, this is really going to make me look like the good daughter.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If they have slain the Kingslayer, then my daughters are dead as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They had lunch and then went to a park where the girls, including Terryl’s daughter Allyssa, played on the jungle gym. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“So, Connor,” Dad said, removing his ridiculous goggles, “what are you interested in? I mean besides pulling morbid pranks with my daughter and scaring our visitors away.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He said he had been kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians on the night of his daughter’s wedding. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia strokes her daughter’s hair, murmuring a worn lullaby, a poem she set to music once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not enough to feed her son and daughter each night, even when her ex-husband helped with the light and water bills. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They would holler, “There goes the preacher’s daughter, visiting the witch.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because a count noun cannot stand on its own—you can’t say Daughter cooked dinner— and a modifier doesn’t help; Beautiful daughter cooked dinner is still bad. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z