The days since spring, whenever I went to the reef to fish, he would not go with me unless I urged him to. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still six days until Christmas, but no one’s bothered to water it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a great commotion in the house, because there was going to be a party in Tres Marias for the first time since the forgotten days when Dona Ester was a girl. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laleh and I took two days off from school to get over our temporal displacement. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence. You hungry?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But wearing the thing is blazes hot in the summer, so I spend most days forgetting mine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Walking to Seoul could take days with two little boys. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

How could I spend the rest of my days with someone I had never seen? Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers and I would spend days, even weeks, earning the horse’s trust, just so we could touch it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One or two hard bites, in the early days, had resulted in sharp blows on the head and scoldings from his keeper. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I searched the ravines for several days before I found it, trees being very scarce on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snow would start falling in a matter of days, bringing them closer to Yulemas—and the final duel, still two months away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The guy was just...Three days after shooting Garrison Griswold and he still hadn’t shown any emotion. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was very tense because they were going to determine how much of the sixty days to six years I would have to serve. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Square by square, she searches the night skies for adversaries then scrutinizes the ocean, which is roiling with nine straight days of unseasonable April rains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No Vincent de Paul meant no lunch five days a week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless the distinctive spots of measles emerged a few days after the family’s arrival on the Toototobi. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have much time to think about it during the days, but at night, visions of Mrs. Dodds with talons and leathery wings would wake me up in a cold sweat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Three days and two nights,” I corrected her. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had a large purple bruise on her leg for days but what could I do except stand and watch my wife get beaten? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten days. The wall can’t go up for ten days, according to the edict. It’s enough time.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Bod had been coming down here every few days for several months: Alonso Jones had been all over the world, and he took great pleasure in telling Bod stories of his travels. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He then thanked Kaylene for what he characterized as her excellent probation report, reminding the courtroom it recommended a sentence of fifteen days. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Truman Drama will not perform for another three days.The kids attend workshops and scholarship auditions, watch the performances of other high schools, and go to dances at night. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Saturdays were the only days he was certain to find him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have talked to her little more than I have to Lily in the past few days. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Tyrion moved his saddle to Jyck's spotted gelding, who looked strong enough to last another three or four days at least. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Those were the only kind of days their marriage had — the early ones. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most of them worked seven days a week, and anyway, children and food were woman’s work. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the end of three days of intense litigation, the judge adjourned the proceedings in the late afternoon. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Snow fell on us most days, and the dirt road we walked on was frozen when we were lucky, freezing slush when we were not. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The landlord would have to give them thirty days to get out—at least that’s how it was in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered his vision from afar upon Amon Hen, so few days before, though now it seemed many years ago. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The days leading up to the show fly by. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s almost like it used to be, in the long-ago days, in the old house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I think about it for a few days?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Depends on how you get there. On foot? I don’t recommend it. On horseback or in a carriage, twelve, thirteen days, if you travel all day.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Half the men in the Black Swan’d’ve been members in those days. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

To complete the episode, I picked up Charley four days later, completely well. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I spent the next three days playing happy when other people were around, but spending all my private time crying in my closet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days—that was sad. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That is what a girl in Blundermeecen did in those days. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

At sixteen, I didn’t have the money to buy a Cadillac, but she had her own fine “rubber,” as we called a car in those days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pi’s post has been up for 13 days,” I remind him. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That tension continued for the several days of the gathering, while Doug prayed that the visit would not end in violence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After Deluca drenched him with the Uzi, Webb was out of school for two days. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Even on days when I climbed back to sleep near the chimps, I always wrote up my journal first. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he’s under constant surveillance. For the next three days, then probably another three after that.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The coroner,” he wrote Margaret three days after the collapse, “is a disagreeable little doctor, a political hack, without brains, who distresses me.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When they left, I turned to Mrs. Parker and said, “I give them two days, tops.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why they have to have seconds, pinutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, sentries, on and on, tick-tick, whoosh there goes two seconds, whoosh, two more. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I would have been hungry those five days, if the old physician had not kept me in the hospital. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s plenty colored boys looking for work these days.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We heard that Auntie Braxton is going to be back in a couple of days,” she said. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was September fourth, and for the first time in a very long time, the days were moving again. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The last few days of school mark the start of pageant prep season, which means my mom is on a diet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But the first time he and Joyce stopped by Bagley Avenue on one of these occasions, they found that Harry and Thula had been gone for three days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Virtually no subcutaneous fat remained on the body, and the muscles had withered significantly in the days or weeks prior to death. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad was within listening range of the story, he added to it by saying the house stunk for days afterward. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The way Grandma was or could be, we dreaded the thought of asking someone outside the family to endure even a few days alone with her. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. DiAngelo returned a couple days later, but she came home alone and she didn’t seem happier. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His voice reminds me of the days with my Aunt Fannie Mae, of the towering trees and Georgia’s glistening stars, of the rooster that woke us to the morning sun. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Only a few days after Hue fell, the Communists had completely surrounded Da Nang, cutting off the main road south to Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The days By rode I would sit a few rows from him in the back, on other days the driver was the most protection. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was he who pinned the notice on the school notice-board on match days announcing the team. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Moushumi has to teach a class three days after the wedding, they have to postpone the honeymoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The camp has been mostly quiet these five days since the Incident, as everyone now refers to the melee in the Mess. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The carriage holding the photographs of the brutal war and secret resistance, and everyone I have met and grown to care about in the past few days. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My face at the breakfast table was the face of all mathematical girls, counting days, measuring liquids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But only four days before my birthday, we heard terrible news and Mother canceled the cake. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most days he worked without a shirt or hat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He died in a few days, his hopes in ruins. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The news hit me in Geneva, where I had stopped for several days to talk with the Swiss phage worker Jean Weigle, who was just back from a winter of work at Cal Tech. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They were there one afternoon a few days before the race when a sharp rainstorm brushed over the racing oval. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Some days we took a dozen apiece. There was an Englishman up there." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And her wrists were so sore some days, she could hardly move them after work. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t expected to make it up the Gulf for another few days, if at all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was a thing that happened to one quite often in those days. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was also several days away from a shave. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The last few days have shown me how woefully inadequate those protections are. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Raj and Rupesh Uncle left days ago by train and are now on the other side. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I expected he would be sick for several days—I remembered the course of illness in Mr. Loomis—but I guess dogs react differently from human beings, for by nightfall he was dead. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Three days, four—I lost count. I never seen anyone. There’s no one here. I looked almost everywhere.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In these modern days, society cannot get along without French chefs,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He assumed that would be the end of the electrical grid for a few days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her blue coat with the silver buttons and the blue hat to match, and on the days when she wore these it Was the easiest thing in the world to offend her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“In the old days people were more together,” the old man insisted. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remained about the building for three days awaiting an answer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Blanca saw the long unpolished wooden table where two rows of children were awaiting their portions with pleading eyes, she began to cry and wound up spending two days with a splitting headache. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there wasn’t much else to do these days. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask her about the vision Hestia had shown me, about her early days with Luke and Thalia. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The guy was just...Three days after shooting Garrison Griswold and he still hadn’t shown any emotion. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The warm tides had washed over them for days, and the skin had loosened from their limbs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I always find that regular habits make for a calmer life,” she had told Bebe more than once, especially on the days Bebe was late for her visitation. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The front seat was so filled with fabric and country music and Wynn’s singing that I wondered if he’d noticed I hadn’t said a word during our rides for the past few days. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was the French problem that was most on his mind these days. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

An absolutely certain way in those days to draw down on one a wretched fate was to claim superiority in anything over any deity; nevertheless people were perpetually doing so. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the alien who lay ill, not acting, not caring, in a room in Sassinoth, two governments fell within ten days. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They all claimed they hadn’t been in here very long, a few days, a few weeks at most. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Its marks, its scars, its wounds from old wars and the walking-backwards days .all fell away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt kind of awkward doing this, but he asked me to most days. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I washed Mother’s hair this evening, which is no easy task these days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For the three days that the Captain lived with us, I avoided looking him in the eye. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there were thousands of adventures still to be had, and only a limited number of days left to have them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There have been days when I’ve wanted to live here, to ride a fancy bike to a friend’s house and swim in their pool. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The days continued to wear on, and their floe continued to erode. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

For instance, if you are a bank robber—although I hope you aren’t—you might go to the bank a few days before you planned to rob it. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I found a weekend job in an art gallery, crowded all my classes into two days, and became the news editor of the Barnard Bulletin. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The misery could not have been worse had they lost an engine in flight, as planes did back in the mortal days, when technology occasionally failed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He probably died on August 18, 112 days after he’d walked into the wild, 19 days before six Alaskans would happen across the bus and discover his body inside. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their dad couldn't stand having them even for a few days. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

You just have to move the poster to see them, just as they were in the days of Camp Greyhound. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The same streets she’d walked down when she began her first days at Carver High School. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hell, Kate, you lose all your contacts in a hundred and eighty days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last days of summer break are some of the best of my life. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She retreated to her sofa bed and stayed there for days on end, crying and occasionally throwing things at us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, your aunt Florentine can’t watch her anymore on funeral days, of course, so I’ve got to keep her close while I work. Maybe you can play with her when she wakes up...” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the party, I kept to myself and counted down the days until the end of the world—129 for the math-impaired. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ishmael would find later, long after the trial, that their darkness would beleaguer his memory of these days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he returned to his preparations, and that afternoon it was announced that the Heart of a Dream would leave harbor in three short days. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The PAC announced that it was launching its own antipass campaign on March 21, ten days before ours was to begin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, I tried to get more strategic in my tactics. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now that the days were hot again the Sunny Dixie Show was always crowded. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tilting and horsemanship had two afternoons a week, because they were the most important branches of a gentleman’s education in those days. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early days of space travel, one consideration in choosing astronauts was weight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Those had been the days before he had known anything about his true identity; before he had found out how his parents had died or why such strange things often happened around him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Governor Wallace’s hard face and tightly knit brows, plastered on the front of Time magazine some twelve days later, covered the nation’s coffee tables and city newsstands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The concert was four days away and no tickets had been sold. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The results of the matriculation exams were due in a few days. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Don’t argue, Charles dear, I’m sure that you would want some company, if you had to be in bed all these lovely, sunny days, you would want to see a friend.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If today counts as the first day, I have six full days to reach the belltower or the Augurs will kill me for failing the Trial. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But my birthday isn’t for three more days.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

With a one-hour program to write, rehearse, and perform every seven days, Welles and Houseman were under—in Houseman’s words—“conditions of soul- and health-destroying pressure.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even when the weather was warm, they’d have to stay out there for days, because it was always so damp in that hollow on the north side of the mountain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing the only suit I owned, and we could both see that it had seen better days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were short of weight and in poor condition when they made Dawson, and should have had a ten days’ or a week’s rest at least. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said my rosary, thirty times a day, for nine days, and for nine more days after that I waited. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days after the shipwreck, she and Matthias had formed an uneasy truce. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Except on days when I shave new prisoners, I cut the hair of SS officers and guards and and give them shaves,” he said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

So many of us were sick and exhausted that the elders decided our group should rest a few days by the creek. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three days of his absence, Mrs. Cobb appeared at the parsonage to ask if he had been sick. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I minded most, about the storm,” she added, “four days shut away down there with the deadlights up.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It took about three days by foot to get from the mountains to the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For two days Blanca and I lived out of boxes until we had the time to fix things up and put everything in order. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In eleven days, all my forces will be in place. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Luckily there were two more days at sea. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

A second sheet was added to this letter, evidently days after the first had been written. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of a fresh page, she carefully recopied the cipher she’d printed from the Book Scavenger website a few days ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Several days later, on the bus to Oxford, the notion came to me that each TMV particle should be thought of as a tiny crystal growing like other crystals through the possession of cozy corners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In those days, people didn’t talk about things like cancer, but Sadie always figured Henrietta kept it secret because she was afraid a doctor would take her womb and make her stop having children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I never quite feel fully rested even on my days off. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“We’ll only be staying a few days,” Dad said, “until we find a place of our own.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not a great many glorious causes for which to fight these days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Jet-lagged, I see. It will take some days to get back to your schedule.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

These days, guitarists who want to play a well-known pop or folk song can do so simply by reading a chart with the names of the chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My hair stays straight and loose—a discomfort for someone who spends most training days with her hair pulled securely away from her face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In later days, he was said to be the same as the Greek Cronus and the father of Jupiter, the Roman Zeus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time comes half an hour later when he suggests we play cards at his place in a few days’ time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as possible, which was three days later, Malcolm hurried to the priory to learn more about the child of the famous explorer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s now been two days since the fight, and no one seems to care enough to come and talk to me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They strolled back to the main street and entered the grocery store Dicey had gone into days earlier. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on my hands and in my mouth, and my food crackled with it; my eyes were full of it, after days of examining it, exhuming stones like bone. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had just gotten braces, and was making a lot of funny movements with her mouth these days. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Chess was the last thing on my mind these days. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Birch had told me that this was how he’d reacted for the past several days and that I could skip him if he did that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These past days, hunted by nightmares, she’d felt their presence even while she was awake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She’s not nearly as catty these days and is becoming a real friend. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My father’s arrest had come in September, and when Christmas was but two days away, my mother dropped a bombshell. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get closer and closer to the glass ceiling, and for the first time in days, I see the sun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The days when the phone rang and rang until they shut them all off. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two days later Larry Dunn stopped wearing socks on his hands and started wearing a pair of real leather gloves with real rabbit fur on the inside of them. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strangeness of Mr. Collins’s making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I ask if they can help clean up and paint the basement room over the next few days. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In an era in which one race a week was considered a full calendar, he ran a mare named Miss Cheyenne sixteen times in twenty-one days. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael and I had started running a few miles at night after work to help us wind down from the increasingly long work days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Three days later, Madame Fontineau overhears that the German garrison commander is allergic to goldenrod. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“In a few days. But it will come back again in a month.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she’s just really excited about cats these days,” I say quickly. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A few days later, following Ruth back to her room because she’s forgotten a book she needs for a class, he places his hand over hers as she reaches for the doorknob. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I sat on the edge of the bath, mentally going over the days’ routines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I just have to make it sixteen days. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At first, I stayed silent to protect Rosie—and there was no question she needed protecting, in those days elephant executions were not uncommon—but there was never any excuse for keeping it from Marlena. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She went to the bathroom and for the first time in days looked at her face. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We were a bit worried about the twins, but of course it wouldn’t have posed a problem even if they’d had to wait ten days or so and follow us down later. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was already mad that X-Ray had waited two days to buy the ad because he only wanted to pay for one week, and now the machine had eaten his money. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

During the week there were two days especially for groups of Roots & Shoots from the surrounding schools. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Baba arrived home long after dark. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But she had been hurting less as the days passed, and striking out less. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of those that did hatch, more than half died within 5 days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Amara flings open the door of the apartment. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Those were hard, fearsome days: In those days, it seemed like I couldn’t go anywhere and no one wanted to be near me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I’m hanging out with Char and the twins. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

One day, after a few episodes of this bleeding that comes for four or five days, then disappears for a month, the Doctorita’s mother, Anita, comes to visit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yummy, still as fiercely loyal as he had been back in their Thistle Down days, joined up with him again and promised to get him mounts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two days the track was underwater, stranding a cluster of grooms and loose horses atop a spit of land. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, that don’t sound like no fun date to me. But then again, you ain’t really no fun type of dude these days,” he said, texting somebody. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It ended eighty-three years, six months, and twenty-one days ago. It was a cherry-blossom day.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had thought it would be a simple thing to spot those kids again, but the more days they sat there staring, the more all these kids started to look the same. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It took us two days: chopping candied fruit, mixing the cake by hand, and lining cake tins with cut-up brown paper bags. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And so that’s how I set off running full out toward a river for the second time in two days, Manchee with me again and this time a girl on my heels. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

For hours, and sometimes for days, I fell without realizing it into the private explanation of the world. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be some days before I can get hold of one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t know how much money to charge for all the good days I wasn’t having in my old high school with friends who liked me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Saint Louis temperatures would rise above 100 for eight straight days that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now that I was closer I recognized him; he was one of the four I'd seen in the driveway days ago. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every day now, for I didn't know how many days, I had spent the mornings and afternoons and evenings wrapped up in my white blanket on the deck chair in the alcove, pretending to read. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

"You have two days in which to close your affairs." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last few days, Mother has been so cheerful, almost giddy that school has gone well. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He had three days to prepare for the final. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was late on Sunday night by then, and we’d been continuously training for days. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I silently counted on my fingers: twenty-eight days until the end of September, then on into October until the first frost. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, another hiker called and requested a helicopter because he was a day behind schedule and was afraid he would miss an important business meeting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

However, after several days of endeavour, in which I myself did my best to assist, his lordship was not able to discover the whereabouts of any of Herr Bremann's family. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their carbon preparation was a paint-like graphite suspension known as Aquadag, which they smeared onto probes for insertion into the cyclotron tank to be bathed in the deuteron beam for days at a time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We finish reading the first Harry Potter book a few days after Wes does. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the next few days everyone watched carefully for any signs of the sickness. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They had come far, and he was drowsy with the steady pace of their walking and with the long weariness of hard days and nights in the ship. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Not at all. Actually this region takes its names from us, although people barely know it. It was a trading post back in the old days.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then we studied geotropism by observing how our plant grew toward the ceiling, even after we tipped the plant on its side for a few days. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Alvarez hung around to “hold his hands for several days,” at which point Ernest staggered home to Berkeley to await the completion of repairs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I had to absorb procedures in a few days that the others had taken years to learn. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was so strange—he had known the old woman for only a few days, but now he could not imagine what he would do once she was gone. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The enthusiasm of the people in these great meetings, the thrilling oratory, and lucid arguments of the speakers, all conspired to make these days memorable as among the most charming in my life,” Elizabeth wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“He arrived here two days after you left.” How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tod’s umbrage rendered him momentarily speechless, during which pause Soulzeren interjected, “Be faster to fly, anyway. We can have the silk sleighs ready in a few days.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When it was over, Strunk had to be choppered back to the rear, where he had his nose looked after, and two days later he rejoined us wearing a metal splint and lots of gauze. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If we had another fifteen days, I'm sure we could get it done in time." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two whole days were given over to celebrations. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She did so for six days and garnered yet more publicity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If your teeth are still too sore, let me know. But it’s been a few days. Dr. Ashworth seemed to think you’d be more adjusted by now.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

This time the police arrested thirty-five protesters, who were sentenced to between six days and six months, depending on whether they had been arrested previously. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The other bad news was that the semester was only ten more days. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean,” Hazel asked, “heartrending days?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had helped the dyer prepare the shoots for their dye-bath a few days before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating, sleeping, bathing, laughing, talking, helping, and tending to Pita’s every need, that is how we spent the next few days at Abuelita’s house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They had no more huge feasts, but the leftover pieces of the cooked rabbit lasted a few days, and roots and tubers were plentiful every time they reached a river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had felt wind in his shelter, felt the rain that came with wind and had heard thunder many times in the past forty-seven days but not this, not this noise. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t like the peel job on the tree, so I was grounded for three days. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Lincoln had made a speech proposing to give blacks the right to vote, and last night, April 13, all of Washington had celebrated with a grand illumination of the city. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m busy as a bird dog myself these days,” Grandma said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the next seven days, each day was colder than the one before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A new sadness blanketed him, the sadness of his coming days, when he would feel the world slightly off-kilter, his vision unfocused. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was dull work, made even duller on the days I was partnered with a fellow named Reggie, an alleged genius unhappy with the course his life had taken. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Though Nan’s biker days were behind her, the look stuck. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I received a different kind of bombshell, this time a call from the clerk's office in Baldwin County. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the year after my accident, I missed days and even weeks of school. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In the old days, the hut was where they tried experiments. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

On game days, the kids from rival high schools razzed each other back and forth. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His body was light, the fat burned off from days of scarce food. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As we faced days of grueling punishment, I was also coping with the fact that despite the newspaper article, we had heard no word from the North Little Rock school administrators about Mama’s job. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was meant to feed us for several days. I do not think I have ever seen even a giant eat two of my oxen at once before.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Take my advice, get out of the house for a few days.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably in just a few days,” said the other man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But then, advances in robotics these days were tremendous. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Leila mustered the courage to return to the scene of the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We stayed offshore, following the lights north, and figured in the morning we'd locate an inlet where we might find a marina and rest up for a few days. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Whole days went by during which he just lay in bed and didn’t go to work. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to eat for three days,” Ear said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She spent her days watching game shows, her stories, and whatever else came on. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was also marvelously warm, almost summery, the way December days can be sometimes in southern California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were days, weeks, and months when I hated politics. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Though I didn’t read and had no use for a map, I knew my directions well from days of hunting and fishing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been in the hospital for two days with the blood loss and risk of infection. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why you’re so huffy these days. You used to be fun to hang around.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They could not remove the poison and so she died, two days before the new year. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was always bad news, so sometimes days went by before he bothered to take out his strangely sharp little key and open the metal box by the front gate. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let them find it, or we ain’t walking straight for some days.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He genuinely believed the accusations against him had been a serious misunderstanding and that once officials talked to his family to confirm his alibi, he'd be released in a couple of days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

“I stop talking to you for a few days and all sorts of stuff happens. The most exciting thing for me was dinner with my dad at Michelangelo’s.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In being man-made — by ingenious laboratory manipulation of the molecules, substituting atoms, altering their arrangement — they differ sharply from the simpler insecticides of prewar days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We fasted for three days, longer than we ever had before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But something changed five months and eight days ago. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I remembered his two little brothers clutching his mother, a woman whose swollen belly announced she was just days away from giving birth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Authorities sometimes held them for days without notifying their parents. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days Greek immigrants were beginning to use funeral parlors, but Sourmelina insisted that the viewing be held at home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Yee explains that this is because the days are getting shorter, so we have to make the most of the daylight hours. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She had been cranky for the last couple of days. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not only had Marina Raskova played a key role in the phenomenal achievement, but she had an amazing story of ten days of wilderness survival to tell along with it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In recent weeks, Uri was often gone, sometimes for days at a time. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As the wheels of the train clacked along the tracks, they seemed to chant—Four more days, just four more days....Three days, just three days....Only two, only two, only two....Tomorrow, tomorrow....Today! In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

An old German man had pulled me aside a few days earlier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We'd been phone buddies the previous summer, and ten days of spring break would feel like an eternity away from him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“People swallowed that one for years,” commented the Spelling Bee, “but it’s not very popular these days—d-a-y-s.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the people, who were accustomed to poverty and most of whom had never eaten chicken except at Christmas and on Independence Day, did not give up the euphoria of the first days of victory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent several days eating mutton that tasted like sawdust, picking bugs off my blanket, and sleeping. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days went by as I waited for Evan to make good on his invitation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were dead now, dry and filled with weathered dry dead limbs—enough for many days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And two days before, on the third day of June, Raymie Clarke’s father had run away from home with a woman who was a dental hygienist. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Two days before, he decided to rewrite the speech. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the days passed they began to develop their own way of communicating. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I try not to think of the worst days, but the memories crowd into my head at times like this. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I still remember when typewriters were useful, the dawn of the Commodore 64, and days when a song you loved would have its moment on the radio and then disappear into the nothing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I tell him I have other vices these days, and I catch his eye and 1 think he knows what I mean. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After six days on Nevis I am fatter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I spent the last 3 days removing Hull Panel 19 and the front window. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground crews, which had to replace twenty-four dirt- clogged aircraft engines in twenty-one days, resorted to spraying oil on the taxiways to keep the dust down. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Three days later, the forest arose, the ice melted, and for about a day or so we had warm, glorious weather. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to know about three days ago, about what he remembers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The doctor discharges me three days later, on the condition I return daily to have my dressings changed and breathing monitored. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Modified Julian Date is simply the Julian Date less 2,400,000 days and 12 hours, putting the zero hour at midnight on November 17, 1858. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t do anything, except watch. For days. The full moon came and raised the tide. The deeper water helped the shark swim back into the ocean.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was not able to gauge the effect of the mild pills he took occasionally to help him sleep and felt guilty about for days afterward. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As for Miss Kenton, I seem to remember the mounting tension of those days having a noticeable effect upon her. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three days into the march, the first man died. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And that was it, we didn’t say another word to each other for the next two days. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Driving, in those days, was a man’s business; very few women, especially African women, were to be seen in the driver’s seat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a time when we, too, had benefited—those days seemed very remote now, almost belonging to another life—but we had lost more than we had gained or could ever regain. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the blizzard continued without letup for five days, they grew weaker and weaker. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he seemed so old, just a graying forest fox living out his final days, a fact he had made peace with. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I had been counting the days before the new term began. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next three weeks were a honeycomb of determination with apertures for the days to go in and out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Vanderbeekers’ home—a humble red brownstone with a weathervane that spun on windy days—sat in the exact middle of the street. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After the first few days Six-Fingers would not let the boys throw stones at them, but the boys still gathered to jeer and taunt the sweepers. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voyage was supposed to take from twelve to fourteen days. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We’d been there for three days now, skipping school, hiding out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

This the day to shape the days upon. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe I only saw Supernatural Investigations as a way to learn about what happened to Quinton at first, but I’ve done so much in just a few days. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He worked through the pearly time, washed three days’ dishes, put the garbage into the surf. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For forty days, my mom sat in the chair for eight hours each day and never stopped erasing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t complain of aches and pains most days.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For the first time in days, Tree-ear grinned as he crushed the petal back into a fistful of clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Most Eskimo wives were left home these days; with the advent of gussak frozen foods, cooks were no longer needed for the hunt. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days being near any stranger was better than thinking alone about the cigarettes and beer and meat that he wanted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some days it’s a challenge just to get up in the morning. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several days after the convention began, prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison arrived. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

All day long, and the following days too, I squirmed while rumors spread like head lice and the Daniels predicted my downfall. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

We were far away from credit cards in those days, and the equivalent was an account at the corner grocery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him who I was and have him put his arm around my shoulder, so we could talk about the old days. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

For the past few days the fear that this might happen had tormented her almost as much as hunger. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife went on afia attack some days before the war ended, and we have not seen her since.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We rolled for days, stopping in the middle of nowhere. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Camping out isn’t a bad way to describe the vlogger these days. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“We can make it to Rome in three days—assuming, you know, nothing unexpected happens.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had made a difficult journey of six days, pulling along the mule, who was dying of hunger, in order to arrive at the armistice on time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jon knew that other men accused of treason had been allowed to redeem their honor on the Wall in days past. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The man police blame for his murder was killed four days later in an outbreak of violence that left four people dead in one six-hour period. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only the British officers had limes, lemons, and oranges these days—they and their friends among the Boston Tories. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later I had to go to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Department, where they videotaped my statement. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I had a secret obsession with them that predated my days at Lynbrook. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Augurs left me in the middle of the Great Wastes for the First Trial. After a few days without water, I started falling down a lot.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The kid’s about as gifted as a caterpillar. He brings home a B and it sets off six days of skywriting and fireworks.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

But on rainy days, the three of us had some of our best times down in J.T.’s basement. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And so she did not tell him that she grieved for the past, different things on different days, her tablecloths with the silver embroidery, her car, Baby’s strawberry cream biscuits. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For seven days and nights the Putnam was deluged and hammered. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the one I brought her a few days ago. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

How sometimes I didn’t understand why I’d been drawn to it, how some days it seemed as if the instrument had chosen me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night a few days later, I suddenly woke up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Look up into the faces of these wonderful boys who have been better friends to me over the past few days than I’ve been to my friends in almost two months. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“We will be communicating extensively over the next thirty days. My job is to monitor and approve all spending.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Even in the old days they didn’t make kids stick with these marriages if they didn’t like each other. They just drifted apart.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winter would be coming soon, Tata said, and with it, chilly winds, snowstorms, and short days. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I got back to Alpha Company twenty-six days later, in mid-December, Rat Kiley had been wounded and shipped off to Japan, and a new medic named Bobby Jorgenson had replaced him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, let’s,” Richard said, and until she met him in the hotel lobby, days later, he worried that she would not come. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he were to say anything, the baker would spend three days thinking about giving it all up, even though he had gotten used to the way things were. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more days and they may have traveled ten miles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Well, that was hardly a surprise because for the last few days people had been finding snakes everyplace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, on the morning of April 3, the expedition found themselves just one hour away from their previous camp. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At first there were only a few hundred people, but, as the days went by, more and more people came. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Well, perhaps there are some days when I feel like that. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

And for many days my heart hurts with the sadness that such a nice woman will not be a part of God's new world. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

In seeking these articles, I encountered the beads of a pearl necklace Mr. Rochester had forced me to accept a few days ago. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“School,” I say, trying to sound natural, trying to sound like my sudden interest in the old-school indie rock is what all the brown girls are doing these days. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later I received another letter of congratulations, this time from Stan Smith: Professor Killion had informed him about my scholarship award. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without even meaning to, I tell him everything that’s happened over the past few days. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed two days close to the bodies of the giants, and there were no trippers, no chattering troupes with cameras. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken four days for Salva to travel from the Ifo refugee camp to his new home in New York. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After several days of rest, however, it was time for action. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In the old days a hunter would shoot or trap animals just to feed his own family, perhaps his village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then it'll be back to five more days like today, worse than today, far worse than today. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

After three days of sullen looks and stubborn silence, everything was back to normal. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When it’s glorious, I want to live in that place, where the stars are just marking a vast unreachable shell, like they used to believe in days of old. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The mansion, which had been so full of servants in days past, now seemed to have only this one. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe on special occasions only. Initiation days, Choosing Days...” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of that night, and for six days and nights that followed, Nat found out what men meant by the Roaring Forties of the North Atlantic. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Kruse arrived in Base Camp, he says, “it was still another three or four days before I could walk from my tent to the mess tent without stumbling all over the place.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She cried for days before the wed- din’.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greatly improved since the days of Apollo, Ares EVA suits allowed much more freedom of motion. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie passed away in her sleep three days after her hundredth birthday. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For three days and nights the watches seemed endless, and the men turned in all standing. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those bygone days a bishop visited the Milagro parish about once every five years, and when the bishop came he confirmed all the small fry in town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only for a couple of days, until she took a look at this grandmother, to see for herself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

One Bay Area sports scribe took to calling him the “sphinx of Berkeley” and wondered if he even so much as said hello to his wife in the evening these days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We make it to the observation window outside Uriah’s room, and Evelyn is there—Amar picked her up in my stead, a few days ago. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘Queer things you do hear these days, to be sure,’ said Sam. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dog teams broke the trail as much as possible, but in three days they covered only seven miles. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

With the help of those who were able-bodied, they managed for three days. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I've struggled for days to eke out extra time from him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once the ship was three days out from Buenos Aires and there was no chance of returning, Blackborrow was brought forward to face a furious commander. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"I still have three days to decide, right?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He walks her back to Silliman, and they arrange to have coffee a few days later. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later I was put in a cell by myself, where I slept on wooden boards suspended from the wall. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then I put on coffee to boil and brought out my garbage-bucket laundry, which had been jouncing for two days, and rinsed the detergent out at the edge of the lake. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I heard it was in the old days long time ago they had this Scalp Society for warriors who killed or touched dead enemies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after we opened for business, every chair in the front room was filled, the air thick again with arguments, tobacco smoke, and the smell of fresh coffee and cakes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after Fannie’s death, grieving people lined the streets before dawn, waiting for her casket to pass by. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“A spectacle of rhetoric. These days, I hope they get the spectacle done early so I can retire at a decent hour.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She had the glassy look of someone who hadn’t slept in days; who was running now on instinct and adrenaline. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He would grow up and she would be proud of him and he would take care of her all of her days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants me to see what has become of her, since her days of sloth and overeating and-failure. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It could be ten or eleven days before we had a proper meal or slept in a bed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He explains the branches of marine evolution and the sequences of the geologic periods; on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At last, partly to hurry her off and partly out of a lover’s uncontrollable curiosity, he went into the bedroom to wake her up—a proceeding which was possible in the days of the levee. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got the account a few days after I moved in to the foster home. My boy Malcolm took this one photo of me, look...” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I consoled myself that I had three more days to think about it, brooding in my tent like Napoleon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I have no intention of dragging her into anything. I just want to make it plain to her that none of us have seen Bunny for three days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I signed in to an old chat program I hadn’t used in years. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Later, we also saw local South African films with black stars whom we all knew from the old days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent too many days making it too easy for him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, the mother sends me to bring food to the grandmother in the hospital. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was waking up, it came to me why my boss had seemed annoyed when I asked him for two days off: today is Saturday. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Just now and again you run into a student you know—a carer or donor you recognise from the old days—but there’s never much time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the following days, she was mostly silent, withdrawn, as they sat outside and watched the carpenter cutting, hammering, smoothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For two days we explored Rome, a city that is both a living organism and a fossil. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Of course, it's the longest day in the history of long days. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A couple of days later, I was reading by myself in a quiet corner when my ten-year-old brother, Travis, wandered up with an odd expression on his face. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The days passed, and Ivy’s heart welled with sorrow until not a crumb of hope was to be found in Poppy Cottage. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Six days a week, I take the bus across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to where Miss Leefolt and all her white friends live, in a neighborhood call Belhaven. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He got stuck and they had to feed him for forty days and then he finally died.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The sum total of vegetation on this land was enough to keep one cow in food for approximately sixteen days out of every year. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most days she just dozed behind the counter in her rocking chair. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had seven cents between him and starvation and the law and the long days ahead. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll bet I got fifty letters some days from white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I don’t have anywhere to go, no real obligations, the days blend together; I can’t even tell them apart most of the time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was just a few days before Christmas and I didn't want it to ruin her Christmas. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after I entered prison, I realized that I wouldn’t like talking about this part of my life. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhere he’d heard that normal usage of water was a gallon a day, and even at that rate he had enough for three weeks—twenty-one days. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But three days later, when the shop was so full that Izio had come to help after classes, I saw Izio grinning at me, eyes crinkled, pointing over a Russian soldier’s head toward the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Now, I know hip-hop is what you kids are all about these days,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So the glad days passed; and on the eighth day of May the Riders of Rohan made ready, and rode off by the North-way, and with them went the sons of Elrond. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Things at Grandma and Grandpop’s were pretty awkward for the next few days. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“One of the deputies said it reminded him of the old days of proper Indian raids,” Ridgeway said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She never drank from the water fountains at school, even if she was thirsty, and some days, she could make it through the school day without having to go once. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She sobbed and stomped for days; Jasmine was more adaptable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I spent a couple of days with Reverend Cooper and his wife. They’re the ones brought me out here.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Okay, maybe I’ll ask my mom to make me a baloney sandwich one of these days.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn't make up a good lie, despite the good job I had been doing lying over the past few days. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Two days later, on Wednesday, the boys showed up on time, ran hard, and were focused during their drills. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"First days are hard," she scolds, her African accent just as pronounced as my Indian one. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All I know is that I’m not gonna be the next one to get Dear Diary, A couple of days ago one of my friends was laid to rest. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sat at one of the empty tables in the back and watched as guests finished their lunches and went about their days. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His mother’s days begin with the ritual of a Beny More song called “Rebel Heart.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma tells me that she and Geak came here five days ago with stomach pains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of a fresh page, she carefully recopied the cipher she’d printed from the Book Scavenger website a few days ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The hallways were piled with patients who had to wait for days, like a moaning herd, to be examined. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly six years ago, before leaving for London, I had watched her die on that bed, had found her playing with her excrement in her final days. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Especially considering that our first section tournament game is in two days. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Sergio slipped his hand into his jeans pocket to feel the twenty-dollar bill his grandmother had given him three days ago. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was almost like sailing in die days before the war, they told me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem was that we had used too much fuel in finding it, and that meant we might have to cut short some of our other plans for the next two days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo was pretty much the same person when he got the right results as he had been only a few days previously when he was still getting the wrong results. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This would be more than enough, because Grandfather wasn’t eating very much these days. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few days, she came up with a new girl’s name for the baby “Oga is happy,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You ever pull fourteen days straight and come home to a sweet woman, clean sheets, and a fifth of Wild Turkey? Eh?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve days later, on the evening of July 26, the men were ready to try the device on Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Within days they arrested several Communists, who were tried and convicted. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s all right behind the haze of dopamine: losing the campaign job, the restless days pacing his room, Do you feel forever about him? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Smith led Seabiscuit up onto a railcar, and the Howard barn pushed off for the Detroit Fair Grounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next two days, Naomi’s body moved through her daily routine. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I always scanned previous days’ entries for moments of excitement. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some days Cordelia decides that it’s Carol’s turn to be improved. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had never told anybody about those days; he had worked hard to forget them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But later on Bigger No. 3 was killed during the days of Prohibition: while delivering liquor to a customer he was shot through the back by a white cop. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knocked on his office door a few days before Thanksgiving. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For three days we didn’t bathe or brush our teeth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And Miss Love just about died as Aunt Carrie said, “Rucker, is it the style in New York these days for a lady to dance by herself?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Keneally was so impressed by my students that a few days later we got an invita-tion to meet Steven Spielberg at Universal Studios. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I fight it now, and I will do so until the end of my days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle had left some clothes at the house, and she took them out and sat with them for days. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, Tree-ear visited the kiln every evening in an attempt to glimpse Kang’s mystery wine cup after it was fired. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I did not see the bodies, but in the coming days I read the paralyzing and chilling descriptions in the newspaper. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Four days in this house, and how many mistakes he has made! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My throat was starting to fill up with all the days Mama had been dead and me not crying. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

You never knew what was true until days or weeks or even months afterwards. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days seemed to last too many hours, and the nights were too dark and brought strange dreams. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was even in a book at the library, about Georgia mansions from the pre-Civil War days. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s five days past your due date now. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, he stayed alone in the bow, brooding for the three days it took them to reach the tip of the Peloponnesus peninsula, the first safe port they could find. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He knew, from the disaster with his little boat two days before, how strong the swirling motion of the water was. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’d felt chilled the last few days, no matter how hot it was out there, but now I just felt the heat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He must confess that it was he who had carried the gold away, time after time, every ten or fifteen days of all the months he had worked at the shop. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

After a couple of days of this, the crew would really be tired. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told him what Nemesis had said: that in six days, Rome would be destroyed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was August 28, 1972—a month and five days after I had been born. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Every clerk in every country was a man of culture in those days —it was his profession to be so. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told us we would be back in a few days and convinced me to leave behind my dolls and dresses. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

According to my math, dogs under 6 months old are adopted within 3 days. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They did not discuss Ron at all over the next few days. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I screamed so much when I was having Vishal ki I couldn’t talk for two days afterward!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Where would his mind be if she went missing for four days? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Seventeen days the Jew will not talk to me! And now he does. I am honored.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After Jamie was stung, he writhed in pain for two full days, which is almost three thousand minutes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some two or three days later I noticed a change in Kuti: his eyes lost their dullness and the whimpering that had been so harrowing to listen to lessened and stopped. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strider judged that it had fallen two days before, and had washed away all footprints. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And where was he, on this, the day of all days? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

First edict: Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days, under penalty of death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria eventually found a place in Montgomery that agreed to take Walter for a short stay—no longer than ninety days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My guess is it won't be much fun, what with me having died ten days ago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a hot potato that I’ve been holding on to for days. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She ran away from home three days after his funeral. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you and your father talking these days?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In those days, we just called it getting old. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At any moment the slip of a chisel or a careless blow from a hammer could ruin days’ worth of work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And if people who have been going there for many years cannot describe it, what can I do after two days? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had it really bad. I’m getting out in two days.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I thought: I’m not the only one who needs someone to keep an eye on them for the next few days. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Five more days, and then the day before the day! They’ll soon go.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

After cleaning out his stomach with emetics, she wrapped him in hot blankets and fed him egg whites for two days until his harrowed body recovered its normal temperature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By now, days had passed; Jonas no longer knew how many. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I found out though over the next several days. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things started out all right, but then there were three stupid days of stupid rain in a row. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He spotted Ginny two tables away; she was sitting with her head on her mother’s shoulder: There would be time to talk later, hours and days and maybe years in which to talk. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m fixing to check it out again one of these days,” Styx said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Leading up to the trial, I paced around the house for days. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I once wanted these white moccasin- type shoes that were the fashion in those days, and I bothered Tateh to buy them fior me so much he got sick ofi me and relented. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three days that they stayed in the house, to the satisfaction of Úrsula and the scandal of Fernanda, were like a state war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We go up to the front two days earlier than usual. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five months, which is 150 days, which is millions and millions of seconds, but I couldn’t calculate exactly how many right then. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For the next few days, I jump every time there’s a knock on the door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There are so many inquisitive people and institutions abounding,” said Arobin, “that one is really forced as a matter of convenience these days to assume the virtue of an occupation if he has it not.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days’ journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of the wagon, supported by sacks of squash and hills of pumpkins, Shadrack began a struggle that was to last for twelve days, a struggle to order and focus experience. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time they have a fight, she takes the kids and leaves. Then, two days later, she comes back.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

What's scary is that I still feel that way on some days. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Sí, a son and two nephews. I will go mañana to visit them, and then in three days I will come back.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Ben had awakened that morning, while it was still dark, with the butterflies, the old, invisible protozoa of fear that invaded the stomach on the days of contests or of testing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby was thirty days old, and we had to be careful about infections, foul breezes, and the evil eye. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I hope not. Not that there aren’t days. But I’m trying to channel that bitterness into determination. Maybe I can make a difference for someone else. That’s all.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the February supplement wouldn’t be out for another three days. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bright hours when the young rebelled against the descending sun had to give way to twenty-four-hour periods called “days” that were named as well as numbered. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jane Franks, who had been teaching for thirty-one years and eagerly counted off the days until her retirement at the end of the year, felt the same way. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you think you can manage, I might head home for a few days. I’ve got an installment to write and some weeding to attend to.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When she had seen Professor Papadimitriou some days before, he had told her how to contact him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hazel was decidedly late, and she had endured enough days with Mrs. Jacobs to know how this was going to go. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Five days later, the Russians surrounded the inner city, prepared for siege warfare. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bors had managed to find him at an abbey, during his two days’ absence, and now he came back in the nick of time to fight Sir Mador for the Queen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent several precious days happily tinkering with his engine, wasting lovely, almost warm, oyster weather. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were all to sail, he said, that summer, or the first days of fall—hulls laden deep with treasure, manned by crews of heroes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days she cooked biscuits and bacon; some days bacon and biscuits. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he was two days old he was set outside the house in his crib, and in accordance with Kikuyu custom, all the elders of the tribe walked past to give him their blessing. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The past few days the ghetto had been left to the Ordners, the Jewish police established by the Judenrat, Jews appointed to govern other Jews on behalf of Hitler. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I also knew that we needed a break: I’d started scouting for a private place where we could go to decompress for a few days in January, immediately after the new president got sworn in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But wrapping them up in the napkins you asked for earlier—extending this meal for days, if possible. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“He has to stay in the hospital for like days.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When Valerie called me a few days later to follow up, I told her I was still thinking the offer over. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Kapugen had seen them walk long miles in spring, with legs and ribs for the mothers who stayed in the ground with their pups for almost ten days after birth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, four days later, Nukita warned us that a similarly predacious swarm of print and television reporters lay in wait for us in Kathmandu. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is many days before we see the first sign of a possible end destination. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took three days to get the fireplace worked out so that it didn’t smoke me out of the tree like a bee. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One voyage to the east, and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He don’t have much to say these days. He’s dying. Might be he’s dead. I haven’t seen him since ... I don’t remember when ...” “Where is he? Take me to him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She would be imprisoned wherever she stood...maybe for days...maybe till death. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evil days for me were stored up in the hidden mind of Zeus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago Miss Thomas’s little boy Jimmy got caught up in some kinda whirlpool there and they didn’t find the poor soul’s body for three days.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like the old days again, just for those few moments. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Two days later, after we had run ourselves into the ground harvesting the rest of the honey, Zach showed up with the prettiest notebook—green with rosebuds on the cover. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milly has been a joy from the very first moment we laid eyes on her, and our love for her has only grown deeper and more vast as the days have progressed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Girl,” Ginnie Sue said, “in all my days, I have never seen no one pick a chicken clean like you.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By October the days were blue and cool. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His gray suit is wrinkled and he’s got bags under his eyes like he hasn’t slept in days. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We camp for days on a bench in a gray station in District 7, awaiting a train that never comes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But he’s leaving now, so he is, and a sorry day it is for his poor mother that prayed for a son with a pension to take care of her in her latter days. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The boy, too, had his book, and he had tried to read it during the first few days of the journey. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the days are darkest, dear, you latch on to happiness wherever you find it.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Eight days she had lingered there before the Mountain gave the command to march, and every day she had seen someone die. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He wondered what other adventures awaited him in the days and years ahead. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In those early days, we are told, women voted as well as men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the look on her face, of a pain that was not her own but was for the whole world, that look that most all grown-ups seemed to express in those following days. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The way he mangled their grace, wit, and self-esteem was the single excitement of their days. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two days he’d been riding his bicycle throughout the district looking for the boys. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day for all the days. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all, there hadn’t been any excitement in this place for days. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

For days the Store was a strange country, and we were all newly arrived immigrants. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I Skyped with a producer named Kara, who went on about how she followed my career and wanted to know more about my life and story. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Still running the speakeasy? Those days are numbered. Lefty better find something else to do.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Three days later, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal, denying them the right to habeas corpus. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Within three days he could lift his left hand to his nose. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“When I was sixteen, I left home and told my mother I was going to find my father’s killer. I was gone for six days.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Once, there were many. But those days are gone.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The landlady says that one of these days the rental service will pull it out, but maybe by that time I can learn to play it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she gave in and said yes to Orpheus Fisher, who had been courting her tirelessly since their high school days. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was like Id been unearthed from a coal mine after being trapped for days and days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t ask my dear and patient wife to take two days to drive me back to Virginia or Pennsylvania, so I decided to drive myself. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was like one of those days that it’s raining on one side of the street and not on the other. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"You must say the prayers I give you and keep the lambskin in place for ten days and ten nights," she said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A few days later, he walked with it into a London building which, from the outside, looked like a church, steepled and grave, but inside was shabby, harried, knotted with people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had our first hot days before school was out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny that I eat lunch with these guys five days a week, but we never really hang out apart from the group. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Moss experienced a flash of a memory then: Esperanza, days earlier, making the college fair about herself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It took nine days for the Moscow group to travel to Engels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As Smith watched him in racing combat, images from his mustang days assembled in his head. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She muttered on like Cecile did and looked mean and tired like Big Ma looks on washboard days. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been two days since I found out Uncle Max is moving in. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Games begin in two days, and trust will only be a weakness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But after the first few days, when things quieted down, he wanted to go and find them, and that is when the fight began. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pack enough clothes to last for two days and leave for Suesetta’s house. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“How many days have we lost so far?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like days had passed since Mom woke me up this morning. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

After six months of packing parachutes, Oshiro was tired of the long, repetitive days. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“A few days earlier, Taborlin had met a tinker on the road. And even though Taborlin didn’t have much to eat, he shared his dinner with the old man.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Dodgers were 7½ games ahead of the second-place Cardinals when the dog days of August ended. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Those were our successful days, when so much laundry came in, my mother did not have to pick tomatoes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in an endless blur of exhausted days and sleepless nights. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

On her previous first days, she had always kept her head in a book, and here she was waving to almost-strangers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If I’m going back in time, I’ll focus my memories on the good days. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father in particular became less cocky and unbearable for several days after receiving a dose of Matilda's magic medicine. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Second Part of Rhetoric 89 That teed up what was to follow: the somewhat hangdog expression of national determination that was, a few days later, to lead to the formal declaration of war. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Since postslavery days and through to modern times, debate has raged in the African American community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I sold back all of last semester's textbooks two days ago, and I don't really want her to see the book on solitude. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Six days out of prison, one day before he reported for duty near Aldershot. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The other one was Marissa, who lived next door and was two days older than I was. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sleep next to a holy candle for seven days, then on the eighth day, spit. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beaten, deprived of food for five days, and his cafeteria rations were cut in half for three months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“He knew. This is twelve days old. So my father knew this when we left Pax.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She realizes that there have been other days when the pink-yellow light of morning made everything look hopeful, but not to her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A few days later it had turned into a joke between them, typical ugly stuff. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

All of us kept a reserve supply, because some days—Sundays and holidays—the market would be closed, and we were never quite sure when this would happen. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Mecca derives its power from the heritage of Howard University, which in Jim Crow days enjoyed a near-monopoly on black talent. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Our days began before the sun came up and ended well after it retired. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have to get my rig together, do a piece of sharpening, and put my house in order. In a few days I’ll send the equipment with Tom.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Young folks ain’t got no sense these days,” she said at last. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slept soundly for the first time in many days. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began writing home for the money he had sent back in better days; soon that was almost gone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She still wore long skirts on non-game days and made a home of her school desks. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The days grow ever more strained and my mother’s eyes more sorrowful. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beard was black and heavy as though it had grown for three days. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Mother Smith sent word that she had to help a family of eight that had just lost their mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four days later, the doctors reported that “the progress of the President toward recovery continues uninterruptedly.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After several good days in the city, he explained, warm weather reappeared and deaths increased, jumping to 82 on October 22. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the old days on the island there were children to keep away the gulls, which would rather feast on abalones than anything else. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim would spend a few more days in Ch’ulp’o, visiting the potters whose work most interested him, perhaps stopping by the kiln site occasionally. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They rolled Yossarian away on a stretcher into the room with the other soldier who saw everything twice and quarantined everyone else in the ward for another fourteen days. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

And I didn’t want to wait a few days. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The days were growing short and a little fire burned all day in the cookstove to keep the house warm. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the weekend wooing her, and they were married just a few days later. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most days he'd woken up in a sweat, unable to shake the image of her towering over him, dragging him back to prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Most days, I filled her in on my softball game schedule or complained about too much homework or mean teachers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to get him to talk about the past few days, for any clue to his thoughts would be of immense help to me; but he would not rise. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Twenty days after they lost Annie, on May 13, a new child, a son, Horace, was born. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what kind of word is February? They taught you to count the days by the Christian calendar in Lublin?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered—or thought they remembered—that the Sixth Commandment decreed “No animal shall kill any other animal.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Behind the mourners from school days’ past sat the throng of people who had heard and loved his electric blues guitar licks. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A few days in advance of the meeting, Birge sat down with a stack of index cards to construct his case for giving Lawrence whatever was necessary to keep him at Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Six days later, by the following Wednesday evening, she was able not only to lift the cigar up into the air but also to move it around exactly as she wished. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I told them all, “I disobeyed Mr. Muhammad. I submit completely to his wisdom. Yes, I expect to be speaking again after ninety days.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days ahead of time I practiced looking sorry, levelheaded, bright-eyed, and determined to succeed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On hot days, Fred and I liked to take the spiral staircase downstairs and sit on the rug in the children’s section, looking at books. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The entry was dated March 16 of the year before, just three days before Lázaro’s stroke. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Even if Zero was somehow alive after more than four days, how would Stanley ever find him? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Papa had said we must wait until I was seventeen, but he consented to giving me those three days of dispensation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

La Belle Sauvage was bobbing comfortably on the water, which had lost the racing fury of the past days and was now flowing steadily, faster than the Thames in Port Meadow, but not much. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"This was Fimi's. She was the only thing left living in her village—the militia had even killed the livestock. She'd spent two days hiding under her mother's body." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A few days ago she would have found this story so beautiful. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some days they looked angry when they told me to “give it a break,” and it took me a while to realize they weren’t really mad at me, but at each other. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

During the days, after Jerome left for work, I drank vodka—mostly because Jerome couldn’t smell it on my breath when he came home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the days go on, more and more people begin to treat Davi as if she were invisible. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten days, it was almost a routine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We left two days later in a black pickup truck, driven by a man Rafael had found who took people to and from the border. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She had been there for the last three days, ever since the mailman had delivered another letter from Milton. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were days I would happily have traded the entire future of England for a single jar of mayonnaise but unfortunately the opportunity never arose. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your next school term begins in a few days," she said, "so we don't have any time to waste." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My ones are a distance between me and victory, not days between me and tragedy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

These days he is quieter and more withdrawn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filled out a bunch of forms and then had brand-new bank accounts, complete with debit cards that would arrive in seven to ten days. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She spent her days, her tendril, sap-green days, walking up and down, up and down, her head jerking to the beat of a drummer so distant only she could hear. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first meeting with Professor Steinberg took place a few days later. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

A strong walker, pre-acclimatized to the altitude, could cover the distance from the Lukla airstrip to Everest Base Camp in two or three long days. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Your face seems familiar. I’ve probably met you here in the old days.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A simple routine, true, established in a short few days, and yet...? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In February 2011, days after his break with LiNK, Shin flew up the West Coast to Washington State. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Can you cover dinner? I know these last few days of the month are tight. And Hector’s been pretty fussy today. I think he’s teething.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

His body was brought down to Base Camp, where, in the Buddhist tradition, his friends brought meals to feed the corpse for three days. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“They call me Wednesday these days,” he said, shaking the old man’s hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Ten days into it, this is beginning to look like a livable lifestyle. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most days, she was extremely uncomfortable, and spent her time knitting baby clothes down by the waterfront. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was May and our Hot Seats were over for the year, but on some days we still gravitated to the studio after school. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

After, Jude spent days with me in front of a mirror, pressing her finger into my tongue, again and again, trying to teach me so I could have The Sweetwine Gift too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There Jaime and the others spent two days without food or water, rotting in their own excrement, blood, and fear, until they were all driven by truck to an area near the airport. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I could think of nothing to fill the silence, Richardson continued: "Mr. Stevenson, I have thirty days. Please say you'll help me." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A few days later, when I had been at the hospital for about six weeks, Dad appeared alone in the doorway of my room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There must be someone home, at all times. Thieves come, even in broad daylight these days.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Reggie felt like he might be turning a corner. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the days when the woman comes, we have to stay out of her way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have him out of it in a couple of days.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy and his grandfather crossed into their third state in four days. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, we were repeatedly warned that nothing mattered more than avoiding any activity that would get us expelled. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You haven’t been this late in a span of days,” he said as he handed over the bowl. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was the custom in those days for passengers leaving for America to bring balls of yarn on deck. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’d liked the movie fine the first time, but the need to watch it a dozen times in as many days was beyond him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe a few days into senior year, after everybody stopped bothering me about the boat, I reached out to Dri on Facebook. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the days went by, the aid workers confirmed the news. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We called these times without food our “black days.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that remained of those days was his fury and his outsized pride. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that it was morally indefensible to waste any part of an animal that has been shot for food, McCandless spent six days toiling to preserve what he had killed before it spoiled. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doubtless Mr Coldfield failed to come to breakfast in the black coat, and more days passed and still he did not, and that was all. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Humperdinck and Buttercup,” the Archdean said, “I am very old and my thoughts on marriage are few, but I feel I must give them to you on this most happy of days.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She’d heard of one, some years ago, who often forgot to change the date sign, so that it might say, “Wednesday, Week 38, Year 227” for several days in a row. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the three days we had together, Chandra was treated as a guest. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, three days later the Voice published an issue. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we barely eat, we have two days of food left—at best—no money, and half a table. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A few days later a tall white man with a gleaming star on his chest and a gun on his hip came to the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in days, the voices of Ares and Mars had started to argue again in the back of Frank’s mind, debating their favorite forms of violent death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One of these days, I'm going to get a passport and fly all around the world. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Taking care of the American dead was the first priority in combat and as a result, the bodies of the Japanese soldiers were often left unburied for days. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days grew shorter and colder, this new sense of expectancy increased and her heightened awareness seemed to give new significance to every common thing around her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Those were lawless days and it was not safe to leave your house—or even to go to sleep in it—unless you were certain that it was impregnable. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the rainy days when Mother wasn't feeling quite bad enough to stay away from the windows we used to play under it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, these lovely last days of swimming in cool water under a bright blue sky will fade from our memories like a pastel drawing left in the sun. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather you didn’t ask me that," said Mo. “Let’s just act as if we were on holiday for a few days. This looks like a good place for a holiday, don’t you think?" Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’d made my way into the Arcanum in three days instead of the usual three terms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since he had started wearing it on race days in 1930, he hadn’t lost a race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He looked like he had not slept in days. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was just too hungry these days to think and Kevin’s death was merely an excuse. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

For a few days, the school could talk of little else but the attack on Mrs. Norris. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I always looked at that time in the hospital as being my actual birth, because I remember nothing of my life from before those days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I called Dante and told him that we’d be back in a couple of days. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

During the first days my mother came each night to visit me and my brother, then her visits stopped. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two days ago,” he said, putting it together. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There had been a storm just a few days ago. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The October days are lovely and I want to sit outside looking up the lane at the way the sun slants along the wall opposite our house. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I know I’ve been a bit rough on you the last couple of days.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He looked even worse than he had three days ago in D.C. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As the days passed, Sass had little to say to me, addressing me only to give an order or to scold me for not carrying the order out as she wished. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

None of us was allowed near the infirmary during the next days, but I heard all the rumors that came out of it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left town without picking up his check, which had been ready for collection for over two days before his departure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, if you have any liking for the road, go over the ground covered by the book, spending a few days in Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was a lot for three days.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been waiting for that kiss for days. I do like a story with some good kisses in it.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was three days later when the hammer blow that Brienne had foretold fell, and five days before they heard of it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That makes three days in a row you’ve missed. I’m sure your teachers will understand, but no more, you hear?” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was the hatred that for days had truly let him down into the regions of death. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was her first night home in seven days, and when I got in, I learned that, yes, Coach had called and warned her that something was going on between Guzzo and me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It would take me six days to get home, six undays of staring at acoustic ceiling tile and watching television and sleeping and pain and wishing for time to pass. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ten days after the British flooded the river with their ships, news that the Congress had declared independence arrived in New York. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Owner had very little use for ground these days. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In those early days, Pollard and Woolf found common ground in their quick minds, cerebral riding styles, and keen senses of humor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twelve days, to be exact,” Daddy points out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Hah! So can I!” she said, and he knew then for certain how changed this village was, for in the earlier days, girls had not been allowed to learn. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘It’s July twenty-second already. Counting today, only ten days until -’ ‘I know,’ Jason said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He laughed and joked, as if those two days hadn’t even happened. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The next few days were some of Harry’s worst at Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Two days later, he rides out on Friday. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My mother who thought that nothing having to do with my father was in the present, that everything involving him was in the past, in the old days, in her old days. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They told me they had been patrolling the city for the past three days, staying awake on coffee and pills. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days, her mother had told her, that half language was the voice of the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stayed for a few days with my mom—she was getting better—and then they drove me back to school. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tour cousin paints well. In the old days, she would have been chosen to decorate the shrines of our gods.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Water is all-important; with plenty to drink, you can survive for weeks; without it, you will be dead within a couple of days, no matter how determined or brave or intelligent you may be. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too clever, sometimes. He’s always talking back these days, raising his voice. He’s changed. He has so much anger in him now.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Within days they began to sicken and die. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We have no power or phones the next morning, and that has Grammy worrying she’ll miss the Game Show Network for days on end. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Hub Heap, who came out here in 1939 and later started a successful oil field supply company, remembered well the single event that embodied his early days in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All told it buys me about 90 days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guys have to dress “business casual” on game days, and yes, he looks nice. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on rainy days when we did not work, our family went to watch Mexican cowboy movies. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Only a hot spell lasting several days triggered it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Business that had been refused a few days previously was now welcomed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could get a job in a shop or a gym, spend her days by the sea, find a place to live. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be fresh. I was thinking maybe you’d like to work with me over at the Exchange a few days a week Just after school?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My parents and sister were leaving to spend five days in New York City without me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

His days were spent drilling the guard and practicing his swordplay, making the yard ring with the sound of steel as Bran watched forlornly from his window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The magazine where I’d been working two days a week had offered me a full-time job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, when mass communication for Africans was primitive or nonexistent, politics were parochial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben could tell if it was going to rain, when the first frost would come, tell whether there was going to be a long stretch of clear sunny days. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You could spend days in there if necessary!" my grandmother cried. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Black leaders stationed sharpshooters on the roofs of buildings, and, in a reversal of what had been taking place for four days, blacks began pulling whites off streetcars and assaulting them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And my mom made it a point to take more days off. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And, lowering her voice, “Plus it’s been thirteen days since my last you know what.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We had not heard from my father for two days when I drew the picture. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

These past few days on the Current, Archer had looked happier and more relaxed than she’d ever seen him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When he heard that Lord Cheldthorpe would be arriving a few weeks hence, he spent days rushing from room to room, his gown sweeping behind him, waggling his hands rapidly before him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I just called him up a few days ago to chat with him about the rally, to make sure he knew how hard the kids had been taking these new initiatives.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On bad days the orange walls held hands and bent over him, inspecting him like malevolent doctors, slowly, deliberately, squeezing the breath out of him and making him scream. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He consults his map and for the next few days he follows the routes she has charted for him with a pencil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, I open my mouth at least twelve times to tell my mom that I’m entering the pageant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They pitched a small square camp tent for him and brought him supplies and fresh things to eat every two or three days. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Miss Lucy’s words had puzzled me and I kept thinking about them on and off for the next few days. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few glorious days I had the upper hand. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She had been despised as an underhanded and conniving witch since her days with Caesar. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“And you forgot to take the lid off. Do you know, I was more than ten days working at that lid? Be more careful in the future.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She had been watching the wolves for two days, trying to discern which of their sounds and movements expressed goodwill and friendship. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am full of dread going home these days. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Originally, the police had arrested my mother for writing a bad check; but Dusty admitted he had stolen the checks, and she was released six days later. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Percy told her about the last three days—the gorgons who wouldn’t die, the old lady who turned out to be a goddess, and finally meeting Hazel and Frank at the tunnel in the hill. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mom called every three or four days to see how I was doing. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

On one of the days I was avoiding Jupe, I saw her talking to a short-haired girl in the hallway and didn’t think anything of it because Jupe is always talking to someone. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In those days, New Orleans could do that to a person. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Wally took her turn. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He began to lose track of the days. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten days hence she was sailing to the States on her way to Japan to marry an American she had known in college. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I had followed his life so far, from when he was a calf on the prairie to his days in the feedlot, but his death was the one event I was not allowed to witness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They made their way up and down Unter den Linden, where the sidewalks were jammed with foreign visitors and provincial Germans, more than a million of whom had poured into the city in recent days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One boy gets so depressed he stops eating for days and bangs his knuckles against the concrete wall until they are raw. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The days passed, the sun rose and set and rose and set again and again. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

For days at a time they’d leave my mom and auntie with relatives so they could travel for work. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When she opened them again, they told her that she had slept four days. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It's something she's said to her students a hundred times—when we were exhausted from back-to-back training battles or we hadn’t slept in days. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Yep. We’re going to be in Puerto Rico for five days. And here’s the best part: we leave in two days!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Like a prisoner, Sophie counted the days until she would be free. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The gruel we have been swallowing has been almost plain water these last few days.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it was Friday, that meant Sukkot was in two days. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But he had made the call, taken a step, broken the routine of his days and nights. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he also warned that “difficult days” still lay ahead, that “We are still in for a season of suffering.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few days, it will be time for the Moon Festival, the Scholars’ midsummer celebration of the largest moon of the year. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although it had been only about ten days since the two women were murdered in Shenandoah National Park, there was already a small poster appealing for information. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was working sixteen-hour days, but security meant that he could only tell her the barest details about what he was doing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“In those days, no one thought in terms of one bomb destroying a whole city.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They told me you might sleep for a few days. They were surprised you woke so soon.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s as though I’d been blundering about in the dark for days, weeks, months, then finally caught hold of something. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I received a message on my fax machine. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came out this way two years ago and spent three days in Stamboul then.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that bovines have a typical gestation period of approximately two hundred and eighty-three days?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’ll withdraw for hours or days, and Alex comes to understand this as grief time, little bouts of depression, or times of “too much.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the president of the Italian Gymnastic Federation released a new statement apologizing for everything, and people finally moved on. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was almost true; I would be twelve in a matter of days. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, Nathan drafted an experiment that would compare water consumption between Nali’s heirloom kernels that had been passed down to her through many generations and store-bought kernels. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One of his neighbours, who did not seem to bear him any affection, said that he had gone away two days before, no one knew whither. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Eight weeks, sixty days, i ,400 hours more, and she would have made it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some snakes weren’t venomous at all and spent their days eating crickets and mice and finding a nice sunny rock to lie on. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping he’ll spend a lot of time straightening his bow tie and telling us about the good ol’ days and not giving us much work. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

This happened because of the good will that the house of the Bentivoglio enjoyed in those days. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seems now that she wept for days. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

For eight days, on alternate four-hour shifts, he watched with aching and bleary eyes those glinty metallic forms move against the vague background. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The days of endlessly schlepping back and forth to church were no longer my problem, and I was lazily sleeping in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Three or four days,” said a weathered man without looking up from his mug. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He worked seven days a week, every week. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be able to trust my balance until my head had a few days to mend itself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though there was plenty of work to be done in the short winter days, there were not many guests to feed or look after. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if all the pent-up desires of my childless days were now bearing fruit. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, Lyra went everywhere with Mrs. Coulter, almost as if she were a daemon herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The next several days were a cauldron of anxiety for me, and for Travis too, no doubt. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have much time to hang out these days, not with the ferocious pace I’d set and the breadth of my self-assigned duties: moodiness, anxiety for the safety of every person, insomnia... The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Thank God she hasn't lost her cooking skills, even though her hands aren't as steady these days. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was her way of saying the final days had arrived. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many days had passed in this way, living from nightmare to nightmare? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer, who was Jewish, still had family in Germany, as well as Jewish friends from his student days. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And no ladders. He could break a hip and have a limp for the rest of his days.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone is thinking about two days off from school, grandparents coming for dinner, the Syosset-Farmingdale football rivalry, and all that. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

For three more days the siblings went door to door asking for help. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Those served me well when I was on my quest. Gift from Dad. Of course, I don’t use them much these days. . . .” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few days before school ended, Doon had found the worm on the underside of a cabbage leaf he was slicing up for dinner. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my best days happened behind that door, and they would never happen again. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I spent the intervening days catch- ing up on my sleep, working in Kilvin’s shop, and enjoying my new, luxurious accommodations at the Horse and Four. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Five days later, Lourdes’s boyfriend gets time off from work to drive to Orlando, where Enrique has been staying with other immigrants and waiting for him to arrive. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know where I was three days ago, much less why this Minho guy would find a dead thing called a Griever. So back off!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Within a few days, he had no more time to see me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your guessing this thing surprised me, as it took me ten years to think of it. Your second guess, sodium oil, was not as good. I tried it years ago. Eleven days.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was little more than drudgery by another name, but it was as close as women could get to real astronomy at Harvard–or indeed pretty much anywhere–in those days. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then a few days later, Ruth too started telling me about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, in addition to inviting skilled Greeks to immigrate to the capital, the Ptolemies barred native Egyptians from spending more than twenty days in Alexandria at a time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m used to slinking into strange villages, strange palaces, and houses—it was my job in the old days. If you know what I mean.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Alex spent most of the school day trying to decide whether he should skip suppers on days when he had lunch in school. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re supposed to keep taking the pills, four a day for another ten days.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In those days it had been wonderful to be selling crystal, and he had thought how he would become rich, and have beautiful women at his side as he grew older. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had only three days to prepare for the meeting, and they weren’t sure where to start. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My room and board is paid up until the end of the year, but that is only six days away. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In former days I would have said something annihilating to her, some scabby, scalding remark, but I can’t think of anything right off the bat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘You knew I couldn’t help you any more. You should’ve found another way to keep going with the statue. But you wasted three days watching over me. Why?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Eleanor got off at Park's stop. park He was suspended for two days. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I guess I was a little happier than on regular days. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My dream life became very rich, and I seemed to pass entire nights reliving the high and low times of the old days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A three-day strike that is canceled on the first day is only a one-day failure; a strike that fails three days running is a fiasco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was that near the end of a wild and wet evening in the last days of October the five travellers rode up the climbing road and came to the South-gate of Bree. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t come down from his office on the third floor of the house since he returned from D.C., now a few days. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Henry was mostly gone, often working twelve- and sixteen-hour shifts for days in a row until his team hit oil and they moved on to look for a new site. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As days turned into weeks and the likelihood of finding Father deteriorated, our situation became increasingly desperate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

If you were a company, you could evaluate the software for ninety days. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Washington, DC, where she’ll spend three days meeting her senators and the members of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, thanks to Olivia. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The district is a hive of movement and sound, busier on a regular day than most markets are on festival days. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Our first significant precalc test was only two days away, so Alaska grabbed the six precalc kids she did not consider Weekday Warriors and piled us into her tiny blue two-door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember the windstorm and the rain we had three days ago?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The Talentine show was Friday, and Mr. Partridge had been telling them for days that it was crunch time. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We became very good friends in the week or ten days that he stayed with me, and he helped me a lot. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was warm, too, more like the dog days of summer than the breezy beginnings of it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But it’s not a temptation to which I would ever think of yielding in these postmodern days. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Except the days keep ticking by, and I still haven’t handled it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Still, he missed the old days with Master. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Again and again in the days following, increasingly angry, I was obliged to hear my mother and father: ‘Speak to us en ingles.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only real sense of movement came from the crowds of fairgoers who bustled through the streets, endowing it with the vigor and lively mood I associated with village market days. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a drastic transformation, in just a few days. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She kept them there, until the first few days of school were over. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In meetings over the next few days, Groves was given the complete picture. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was doing this a lot these days—checking to see if the phone was still working. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It’s the last days before the DNC, and he hasn’t been able to catch the coffeepot before it’s empty in a week. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There are days his legs are so bad he can hardly walk at all and you can see Mrs. Hannon worries. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“What you doing with yourself these days, boy?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lola loves to tell us her memories of these colorful little stores and shacks in the Philippines where everyone stops for sodas and treats on hot, humid days. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I walked to school a few days instead of taking the bus.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Things that had been so familiar just days before my last visit to Stuyvesant became strange, and I felt I was losing the mental faculty for making sense of the world around me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s hungry; except for the ersatz coffee, a week’s food ration doesn’t last two days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I wish it was possible for me to show you the sea bottom in those days—the black bodies, the blood, the bones broken by boots and clubs! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is the fact that I’ve hung out with Nick and Leah after rehearsal three days this week, which means three chances to tell them about the gay thing, and three times wussing out. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, I have no control at the moment over what my days off will be. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They measure trips not in days but in shoes lost, beatings taken, belongings robbed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the four days since starting their journey into the unknown, the expedition had traveled only twenty miles down the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

On the coldest days the manure steamed, as if the hydrants themselves were on fire. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A few days later, my storehouse rolling with nuts, I began the race for apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days of confinement had made everyone lethargic. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Some days, they walked so deep that Ivy forgot there was anything beyond the forest’s borders, and she emerged from its shadows puzzled to find Poppy Cottage standing just where she’d left it that morning. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Was he supposed to chum butter and sew doublets like a girl for the rest of his days? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Very slowly her mind assembled the last days and rearranged them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several days before a feastday we would learn the movements for a procession. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went through whole days feeling dizzy with sorrow. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crooked Ava had not lost her power to dissemble since her days of harassing Cora—she hooted and stomped as if it were the height of the Christmas celebrations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Over the next several days, Min sketched what seemed like hundreds of designs. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Third Trial, the Trial of Strength, is in two days. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Luke and Dawn Celeste will be with them for five days. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For the next few days he spent all of his free time either in the library with Hermione and Ron, looking up hexes, or else in empty classrooms, which they sneaked into to practice. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Diego laughed, and I wanted to preserve the sound in a jar for the days when laughter was scarce. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And just like in the old days, I see black, feel my knees crumple, and I’m out before I hit the ground. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In those six days, there is no time to think of a good name for Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her about the deadline of only ten days, and she looks like she might cry. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She’d bought him inexpensive pots and plates, the kind she used back in Cambridge, as opposed to the gleaming ones from Williams-Sonoma her children buy for her these days as gifts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a few days, she was replaced with a temporary commander. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

These were the greatest days, when it was just him and me, going to one of his important meetings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days after my parents’ return from New York, I came the closest I ever came to fighting with my mother. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on her run that day, and for many days after, when thoughts of Luke kick up nerve-dust and angst-gravel, she tries to think of those hemlocks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ten days after their wedding, he had to return to school, while my mom waited to get her visa so she could join him in Louisiana. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even Page, who had burst out crying a few days ago when she was alone with Ifemelu, saying, “I just can’t believe he didn’t reach out to me.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She showed him the bankbook then, and again the next day, and again a few days after that, trying to provoke a response. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, reporters and dockers were startled to see him leading Seabiscuit out in broad daylight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few days after that the UN would make another drop. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some days I’d rather face the British again than listen to the sound of my dear daughter-in-law,” Grandfather said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to talk about what happened at St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church, South Grove, Massachusetts, sixty-seven days after the end of sixth grade, just four days before the start of seventh grade. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see you both back here in thirty days for your adjudication.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Convinced that Jesus had spoken to her directly, she devoted her days to battling the evils of drink. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I handed him a copy of the magazine article, with its photo of a serious-looking Jesse and Eric, and explained that the clean shaven one was, as of a few days ago, an applicant. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her first reaction was of anger, shocked at the risk I took, but over the following days her posture improved and her voice carried a lilt of happiness. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The day was hot and sticky, as all the days had been since they left the Sorrows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was more than I wrote on some days. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a big change from the tidy American scene I’d left two days before. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

These are the days when going into any building you cross a mat of dirt and cinders led in by others before you, thinning and finally trailing off in the corridors. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often told me how hard it was in those first days after I arrived. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember anything about the days before I was a ghoul,” said the famous writer Victor Hugo. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As is, she is shy and skittish, possibly because she never leaves the hive, but spends her days confined in darkness, a kind of eternal night, perpetually in labor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, a Sunbeam cookout that lasts for three days and exterminates all samples of niger implies success. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimly, he remembered reading about that; in the olden days they had believed in canals on Mars. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Over the following hours and days, reading classified cables in his Pentagon office, Ellsberg learned the truth about the South Vietnamese attacks on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The good news is that there are still four days left of vacation, which should clearly be devoted exclusively to sleeping and writing to me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I was watching that video the four of us made when we were a few days out on the water, when JoJo was trying to reassure us we were going to be okay. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those all-too-rare days when her mother took her to the lake. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the march, through the hot days of early April, he carried the pebble in his mouth, turning it with his tongue, tasting sea salt and moisture. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there are no hormones or antibiotics in their feed to speed growth, they get to live a few days longer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Over the next days he paints out in the fields and at Dr. Gachet’s house, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A few days prior we had two carts and three horses but some German soldiers we encountered had taken one of the wagons and two horses, claiming they were needed for the war effort. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You know what I want to do one of these days?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a funeral for Ben a couple days later. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nine days from that day, on the isle of Barri, Frey and Gerd met for the first time, and they married in a field of waving barley. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then, four days ago, on a cool rainy day in March 2002, a small, wondrous thing happened. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That case of water lasted only two days. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bob Rutherford, who was sitting next to him in the booth and spent his days in the herculean task of trying to sell real estate in Odessa, felt the same stirrings. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wounded in Arles, hovering in that space between life and death, his head was filled with “primitive memories of all of you, of those days.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Before long she was delivering so many babies that Audrey and I spent our days driving around the valley with her, watching her conduct prenatal exams and prescribe herbs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had outdistanced his supply lines, left food and forage days behind with all his wagons and mules and oxen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’ll want to take sweet Miss Lily up to the mountains one of these days. What do you think about that?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I want to minimize how often I have days with no travel. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not indeed go to my room any more, but comfort myself with the thought that a few days are not enough to judge by. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Furball was gone only two days. Matt was trapped for six months. It takes time to recover.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Tessie had given an honest accounting of her days. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was two days before I could get to see her again. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A few days later, there was a special ceremony for de la O and the other men who had been injured. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of a great day, one of the greatest days of my life. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I climb back into the cab, I have three heavy bags full of food, enough to last us a week even though she'll only be here three days. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Once, she spent hours searching for the right person at Bellevue to give her a letter, only to be told to come back in two days. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Our society still had a long way to go, of course, but in the early days of September 1963, I felt a genuine hope about the future—about things improving between the races in Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We talked a little more, about things like scheduling — my mom and Jeffrey would be in Philadelphia at least two days a week for the first month of treatment — and how to handle telling people. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after a few days winter was upon the town again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If he misses two days of kindergarten in a row, he’ll probably miss, like, a whole letter of the alphabet And what if it’s a vowel? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been kind to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days I couldn’t find water, and when I did I had nothing I could use to carry it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He recalled the grave lines of the jockey’s profile from the days when they had crossed paths somewhere out West. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that had changed a few days earlier in Trapis’ basement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In three to four days he’d be home and there’d be a malt and a hamburger and his mother and father. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four days after Anna’s wedding, Vincent moves to Brussels for his trial period at the school. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At the thought of days, Aru slowly turned over her hand. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

No one but the mother and midwives could touch it for several days. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Vivian tends to pick up discussions they started a few days earlier right where they left off, as if it’s perfectly natural to do so. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In those days, a black man with a B.A. was expected to scrape before a white man with a grade-school education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town talked it for three days and said that’s just what they would have done if they had been rich men like Joe Starks. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The next couple of days were kind of like that: Mine and Annie’s universe got smaller and quieter. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He said we didn’t have the proper facilities, but in those days hospitals were a major source of infection, and more people died in them than were saved. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days were long and the atmosphere tense. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And yet, a few days after Samar’s tearful wish, something happened that made me wonder if I’d finally witnessed too much. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

However, a few days later, despite his care, they had another unexpected encounter. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had sixty-two days to go and he was trying to stay alive. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One or two viruses can become a billion viruses in a few days—a China of viruses in a bottle the size of one’s thumb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Pellinore, not without a few sighs for the good old days, was forced to resign his rights in her to the Saracen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe yesterday, maybe a couple days ago. 1 don’t remember. You know, 1 might have seen him in Rael’s, or waved when he drove by in his pickup, 1 don’t know.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was one who had seen better days.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things continued to go well the next few days. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The water was frozen, and the snow had been falling for so long that Bran had lost count of the days, turning the lake into a vast white wilderness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine a girl rushing through her days with her head down, her face hidden behind her hair. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We are dazed here because we still remember the hot cities in which we were born, where the first days of spring were laced with fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In those days, gas cost less than twenty cents a gallon, but that was a lot then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was feeling grumpy, I could tell, because some days she’d let me watch for way longer than fifteen minutes, pretending she didn’t notice that the timer in the kitchen had gone off. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

After people left, their homes sat unoccupied for a few days, then either militiamen took them or strangers moved in. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You have three days to get it onto your head, kin slayer. Three days before I will depart here, unsworn, unchecked in power, and unimpressed. And I am certain not to be the only one.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And I don't know if a couple more days would help. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam lay four days in bed, so stiff and aching that he could not move without a groan. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me it’s too hard! After today, or I guess it was a few days ago . . . anyway, after that, it should be nothing.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The field in Milam Park was completely unused; it seemed little to ask that the Fugees be allowed to practice there four days a week. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Five days after receiving the letter from Wallace, on June 23, baby Charles got sick with a fever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In point of fact, in those days lots of Michigan towns were like that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sent Dr. Runciman the draft, and a few days later we met in his office. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He hopscotched electronically around the country, hour after hour for days, browsing through the help- wanted ads on newspaper websites in dozens of American cities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three days’ grace I had would see me, given no mishap, at farthest to Kuseben on the Gulf, eighty-five miles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway he related long pointless anecdotes of his undergraduate days, speaking familiarly of dead and departed professors by their first names, usually incorrect ones. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three days they boarded another train and began a languid crawl toward California. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have no memory of the three days after I left her village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think Father was secretly pleased when, a few days after we moved in, I decided to use the time to pay another visit to the demoness. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Students at that black school had been protesting since February 5 a segregated bowling alley in town, with demonstrations growing in size and intensity over the next few days. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were many days when I spoke to no one in the home except my mother. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put another way: Turn off the device for a sustained period— whether hours or days. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Eleven days later, the moon was at three-quarters waxing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was lots of excitement for the next few days in school as the yearbooks were distributed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was taking mail anywhere from ten days to two weeks to make the journey these days! An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Even with a full light crew it would take them several days to strip the clipper of all the brass and copper and wiring. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Five days ago I told Jose, 1 said ‘Jose, 1 want to cook a turkey, go cut me off the head of one of the turkeys.’ The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d sulk for days if he missed a chance to be with you. He’ll be completely worthless to us if you leave him here.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These days the prevailing fashion in politics was one of obsequious submissiveness to the religious authorities, and ultimately to Geneva. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Or she might have changed and become the kind of woman who waited four whole days so that she would not seem too eager, a thought that dampened him even more. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Your memories stretch from city days to nature reserves to lazy hours on the beach. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab returned to the days of cut-and-try; any configuration that produced a stronger or sharper beam was incorporated into the standard, even if the experimenters could not figure out why it worked. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“No way could we have patched together a plausible story from this. Good Lord. It was weeks before I got over it. Camilla couldn’t even talk for three days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever was going on with me, it didn’t help that my days were so long and my routine so regimented. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She went back to eating earth and the whitewash on the walls with the avidity of previous days, and she sucked her finger with so much anxiety that she developed a callus on her thumb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My trip to the sky takes me many places I can’t remember, across many days that I can’t count, before I arrive back where I started. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Over the past few days, her handwriting has become familiar, easier to read. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They got worked out. It was my fault. I got all freaked out about her being on pills and we broke up for like, a few days.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down and hesitating, thus began: Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Buckley brought forth the knife and purse Bigger had hidden in the garbage pail and informed the Court that the city’s dump had been combed for four days to find them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His performance was a severe blow to the organization and we all immediately realized that Dr. Moroka’s days as ANC president were numbered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He became a much beloved king, the monster said, who ruled happily until the end of his long days. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pickett himself hadn’t yet been charged, although an editorial in the paper from three days before his disappearance criticized the authorities: “The Indianapolis Star Has Enough Evidence to Indict Russell Pickett; Why Don’t the Authorities?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Back in the old days, when we always had food in the house, I would whine if we were out of my favorite stuff. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then, a few days later, Jones got her biopsy results from the pathology lab: “Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, Stage I.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a period in which the Western world had enjoyed order, tranquility, unity, and oneness with its True God and Trinity, there appeared winds of change which spelled evil days ahead. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave us three days to come up with the money or he’d claim everything inside the place. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three days’ delay, during which the crown prosecution stood over for the production of the witness from the prison-ship, the witness came, and completed the easy case. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

To explain why I had broken our date two days ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He who lives by the sword must die by the sword. Maybe I’ll kill him myself one of these days.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serena herself sometimes takes a few days off, tucked up in bed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was not a recluse; my ten days there were divided among ANC business, seeing old friends, and occasional jaunts as a conventional tourist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laila had lain on the bed, groaning into the pillow, missing her parents suddenly and with an overpowering intensity she hadn’t felt since those terrible days just after the attack. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Levi’s a cheater, and I still haven’t gotten my revenge—other than not talking to him for 15 days. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

“As usual, my friends, you overstate my accomplishment. Nevertheless, the essence of what you say is true. Among the authorities these days it is difficult to find a sympathetic listener.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a few days, she will be the one preparing the feast. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

You could spend days scanning cells, looking for a virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next three days the praise continued for my plea to save Sir Fig Newton. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Hence fourteen days for Frank and Jim; I thought that was really a very' long time to spend inside the tiny Gemini cockpit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men, Shamsoun said, first escorted their children and wives into the hills—journeys that took days—and then returned to their villages to save what possessions they could before the government convoys arrived. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They arrived two days after the hurricane struck the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For the first time in days, his fingers itched to start up their old tapping. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Without her young to inspire her, it would not take many days for the nurturing instinct to die. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But based on the president's condition after two days, Agnew and Hamilton believed that no organs had been injured. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two days of incessant walking, mostly looking for jobs. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to really suck it in to get it buttoned these days. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the few days that had elapsed she had recovered her icy, somewhat acid, calm—but still a trace of embarrassment broke through. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe in a few days. When my parents settle down a little.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I think my troublesome days are long gone,” I said sadly. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It's a textile mill. These days we mostly make, uh, tampon strings.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The pleasant days when he was happy and Mama was around. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Scott Wasden was born on January 4, within three days of the absolute perfect birthday for an elite hockey player. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She had practiced the phrase for days with her handmaid Jhiqui. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s exactly four days until Nochebuena, and I don’t have much time to finish my presents. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve been drifting around at sea, have spent days searching for an effective antidote to that terrible word “easy.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

All feats on that great field In the long warfare, Dark days the bright gods willed, Wounds you bore there, Argos' old soldiery On Troy beach teeming, Charmed out of time we see. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to Tijuana for a couple days to do some study about these wild rabbits they got down there. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had decided to always have enough on hand for three days and after spending one night with the fire for a friend he knew what a staggering amount of wood it would take. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This last sends me drifting off in a sci-fi direction: And as the time thieves headed back to the year 3420, loaded with weekends and days off looted from the twenty-first century . Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I was on the floor in Mabel's living room, looking through photo albums. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Although Harry watched his two friends more closely over the next few days, Ron and Hermione did not seem any different except that they were a little politer to each other than usual. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His mother was at work during the days and sometimes in the evenings, and his sister was generally busy in school until later in the afternoon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her belly was swollen with the kittens she’d have in just a few days. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then she smacked it down on the counter and said, “That SmartMart outside of town is going to be open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. A Supercenter is what they’re calling it.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Some days, they would finish early and sit around telling stories. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the last few days have shown me what our family is really made of: we are our memories, our love, and our things. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Here I first sensed the vitality of English intellectual life, so completely absent during my initial days in my Victorian room several hundred yards away on Jesus Green. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

On hot days I’d sit on an apple box outside with the cool stones against my back. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Fifteen days left and this crazy war might still spoil everything. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often thought of Tutok, but on these days especially I would look off into the north and wish that she were here to see me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, I will. About a week or ten days. Soon as you can get around.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four days after they arrived, we were scheduled to take a medical examination. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They come back to me, die scattered days of that summer with the Object, each encased in a souvenir snow globe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The prospects for peace,” he said, “are not as bright as they looked only a few days ago.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I love him and all I can think, all I can hear in my mind, are the words I said to him a few days ago: I would never deliver you to your own execution. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m the only one left in town these days. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sneaky’s off visiting his grandparents for a few days, so I can’t run up to his place. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Another concern was Myers and his love of fantastical narration, so we sat down with him a few days before the hearing and tried to make it as plain as possible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, it was before the days of sound movies, because Dad kept hollering instructions. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raft was tossed as a dried thistle goes rolling over a field in autumn days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t mind if you leave it tied to a chair for three days sitting in its own effluvium with an iron rail strapped upright against its spine so it can’t lean back. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“We have four other days to choose from,” Tía says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was two days after Dad’s death, and the house still smelled of flowers. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, for at least three days of that week they would be in the Savage Reservation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We work for three days, arranging and rearranging. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How many clothes can you wear in two days?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

This invitation marked the first time she ever really looked at him—he realized it then, and was to remember that look for many days and nights. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was the dear master of the sweet days in the Shire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Then no. I don’t like the mirror much these days,” I grumble. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We don’t usually do all of that, but I guess this is one of those days she needs it more than I do. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

This sometimes went back and forth for days. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t care, because in those wartime days such jobs as I could aspire to were going begging. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine days later he must go back and examine the bodies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire paused before saying, “Well, I mean, that sucks, but at least you’ll see your dad next Tuesday, right? It’s just a few days. Maybe you can spend more time with him next weekend.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

Even now, in these days of microphones and loudspeakers, we all know that a group meeting is no way to resolve issues for a group of thousands of people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before being put on this strange diet, new arrivals to the feedlot are treated to a few days of fresh long-stemmed hay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That was back when they were inseparable, when they were both into geocaching, a treasure-hunting game that uses a GPS to find hidden stashes of goodies, and the early days of Book Scavenger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Lazlo had many times fulfilled Thyon’s research requests, and once, in the early days, when he’d discovered a rare metallurgical treatise he thought might be of interest, Nero had even said, “Thank you.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rumor has it that a little freshman got punked a couple of days ago and her gang was planning to retaliate. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

During the first couple of days at Wal-Mart, the weather was cool and I kept it in the trunk of my car. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days pass, like sand falling from one side of an hourglass to the other. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She called him at work, or left messages at his apartment that he would receive days later. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But I feel really bad about it. I know there are only a few days left before we have to hand in our project and make our presentation. What should I get started on, boss?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The infection and fever had lasted three days. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The days were shorter now, and the white sunlight cold as it settled onto the field and thought about dropping frost. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Just started a few days ago,” I said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After a few days Daddy gives me 150 guilders—converted into Swiss money, of course, but I’ll call them guilders—and tells me to buy everything I think I’ll need, all for myself. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On market days, traveling merchants and local farmers came from miles around, selling everything from bolts of cloth to scented soaps and balls of twine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His gaze wandered to the window, as if he could catch a glimpse there of those long-forgotten, happier days. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad is home for all five days of our holiday break. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to see whether the army has any discipline these days. Good boy. I knew it would be good for you. You’re a man and a soldier, my boy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For three days I could only move my arm up to here.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I nodded sympathetically and reviewed with him what I thought would unfold over the next few days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He spent fourteen days in jail, was fined ten dollars, and departed from Worcester on another wet November afternoon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spends a lot of time in the library these days and I think she's really enjoying herself. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We promised: in three days, when we would see the smoke rising from the chimney, we would think of him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all met up in two days’ time: the ones who drove, the main campers who'd stayed behind to pack up, and the remainder of the failed rescue crew. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For days, I’d been half expecting a summons to the Big House. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Seventeen days he journeyed without change of weather, always steering, never letting sleep close his eyes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first two days his face got sandpapery the way it always did on weekends. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For a year following his graduation from high school, he rowed obsessively—up and down the channel on foggy days and on long voyages out among the San Juan Islands on sunny days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After a few days the serving boy, who took care of the napkins, spoke to Lin Nai-Nai about it and Lin Nai-Nai asked me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At school, where Charlie couldn’t interfere, Edward and I were inseparable — except for those rare sunny days. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After three weeks, my father came back, but he could only stay for a few days. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His enemies and doubters, however, said that this Gotama was an idle fraud; he passed his days in high living, scorned the sacrifices, was unlearned and knew neither practices nor mortification of the flesh. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days, five elfin warlocks would form a pentagram around the target and spread a magic shield over it, temporarily stopping time inside the enchanted enclosure. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Out of the tournament in both singles and doubles, and unable to visit the black ghettos of Port Elizabeth because of rioting there, I left for Cape Town two days before the week ended. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Midway Airport in Chicago, it would top 100 for six straight days and hit an all-time high of 109 on July 23. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I figured out what Ernie meant a couple of days later. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

We’d fled there many generations before from the highlands of southern Congo during a time of great war and sickness, and settled where the soil was reddish black and fertile as the days were long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

That day, I moved very far from the disadvantaged child I had been only days earlier. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six days later Janet stood at the counter of the Penny Pantry. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few days later, we received our next sign. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he’s been cooped up at home for the last two days, and he needs to get out as much as I do. Look—he’s all spent!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, when I arrived for our next meeting, he was subdued. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On those days Roy’s father always gave him the newspaper so that he could read it on the bus and pick out a timely article. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mood in the town was already somber when the first death of the quarantine was reported a few days later. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You fool children went to Kiev and back in two days?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

On days when I was not in school, the honking of the horn was for me like the final bell on the last day of school. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was evidently the portion of the castle occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more air of comfort than any I had seen. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In Port Elizabeth, an ANC stronghold, and other areas of the Cape, the response was better on the second and third days than the first. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope that the canvases of the last few days will compensate us for the expenses of travel,” he writes to Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

An old Paravan, who had seen the Walking Backwards days, torn between Loyalty and Love. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today is eighty-five days and 1 should fish the day well. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we didn’t know was that he would go much further in his campaign against girls’ schools in the days ahead. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘I suppose we haven’t lost more than two days by my short cut through the Forest! But perhaps the delay will prove useful — it may have put them off our trail.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We just pretend to think about talking, and we mention from time to time that one of these days, we really should sit down and talk. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They had four days before reporting back for duty with their new regiment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When he spoke again, he was not so vague and breathless; but he was still remembering back to the bad days, as before. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was very backward in those days and the combination of poverty and provincialism made for some amusing incidents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few days Boori Ma moved her baskets and her cooking bucket to the rooftop as well. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The summer days passed while they talked about going to find Moon Orchid’s husband. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days, Lourdes recognizes her husband’s face, his thinning reddish hair, and the crepey pouches under his eyes, but he is a stranger to her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountaintop was never free of it, the gorge was blocked; only on the warmest days could I hear, deep under the ice, the trickle of water seeping over the falls. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Via brought home three tickets to her school play a few days after Daisy died. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then, in mourning for your father, Hassan wore black for the next forty days. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she had to backtrack to correct a mistake, throwing out hours or days of work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mother was overwhelmed with holiday orders, so I passed my days on Buck’s Peak just as I had as a child: in the kitchen, making homeopathics. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was counting the days on the calendar, wasn’t I? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She threatened to put him in jail and I was on restriction twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—possibly forever. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Things like Do Not Steal were, I think, hammered into boys’ heads a good deal harder in those days than they are now. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And possibly dinner for the next few days.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then the workers, foraging ceaselessly through the hot days of summer, will destroy countless caterpillars. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Wall was weeping copiously, had been weeping for days, and sometimes Jon even imagined it was shrinking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The compass was my most valued possession and I’d lost it twice in two days! Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It became obvious what had happened when, a few days later, the Republic of Korea Army arrived back in town. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was seeing a scene from back in the days when they were on the run, before Grover found them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the meantime my days are duller than a lifetime as a mill girl endlessly loading shuttles—nothing to do but suck on my cold fingers, like Jamie in the North Sea, and worry. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It is a different tale altogether, and if all goes well, I may have a shot at telling it one of these days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at other times, I think that’s wrong—that it was just to do with me and Ruth, and the sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his days hanging around the Republican Party headquarters on Fifth Avenue. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They had lived with various forms of evil all their days, and it wasn’t that they believed God would take care of them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He did not have the skills he would need to survive in the coming days, those of outdoorsman, hunter, or river boatman. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was in the early days, shortly after the treaty between the Aesir and the Vanir, when the gods were still making a home for themselves and Asgard was undefended. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

For a few days, Vanderbilt thought Riddle would reconsider and run War Admiral in the Bowie Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You expect to make it to the earl’s manor in four days?” he asked quietly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Autumn was born a few days earlier than expected, and I was relieved that we would not have the same birth date. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Thursday Lecture day, the day of public punishment, was two days away. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They might not find him for two or three days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been twenty-five days since I woke up. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We will just need to keep you for a few extra days, but by then the wound should be all healed and we’ll send you on your way. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe I only have a hundred and thirty-eight miles left? Nine days.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She no longer carried it with her because she feared losing it during her long walks through the woods and her long days hard at work with the dyer. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"School's out in a few days, Horace. I'm coming up to the gym and see if I can whip some of that belly off you." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d committed myself to spending three days a week working in my capacity as First Lady while reserving the rest of my time for family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her mom taught on those days and had to get in her practice hours early. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt tells us the story of creation, how God made the world and all things in it in six days, and rested on the seventh day, the Sabbath. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how I made it through those six days. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the smell of your fruit and the labor of your days we abhorred. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the days before we were due to reconvene, I wrote papers for a set of London University examinations for my LL.B. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It’s better to be honest, especially since I’m lying about near everything else in my life these days. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

We must have been walking for days, I do not really remember, when suddenly two men put us at gunpoint and motioned, with their guns, for us to come closer. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Time slows down in prison; the days seem endless. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were two more days to go at the campsite. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Blanca stayed behind in the country with her parents for a few more days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when she got better, maybe some days I would let her slide and not force her to take her medicine. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In late August, as the days grew shorter and the air turned sharp and autumnal in the Brooks Range, McCunn began to worry when nobody arrived to fly him out. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been two days since he’d returned home from the fight at school. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And now it was only four days before he would be back in that same village. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had no prior involvement in Mr. Dill's case, which meant getting up to speed in the thirty days before his scheduled execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A few days after Jim died, at the viewing of body, Jackie had asked the girls to look at their father so they could know and understand that this was a real thing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After all those days searching for the Missouri River, after being trusted to carry a gun, after being listened to, after having some kind of say, York returned to St. Louis with the others. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

You may not be aware of the Hayes Society, for few talk of it these days. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But there were also days when her poking and prod-ding led to a small foothold inside him, a tiny ray of light inside an intricate cavern with more depth than anyone could possibly have realized. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been many months since she had smelled such fragrance; the jasmine, these days, was reserved for special occasions. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I can barely get to your class most days.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

How did I date him for eight months and four days? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been doing that a lot these days. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was two days old the first time I met Auggie Pullman. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They would not be missed for at least two days. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was denied because of an earlier drug possession charge for which he had pleaded guilty and served thirty days in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it was not at his accustomed time, for he was not scheduled to be with us for another few days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one of them we search two days in vain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I might have to go away again. And it won’t just be for a few hours or days or weeks.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Some days Bran wondered if all of this wasn’t just some dream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘No. She thinks these days I’m bad enough to steal a wig off a parson’s head.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact I feel irritated and can’t help wondering whether I could have gotten the same result without spending $30 and three days on detox and bloat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some days, ever since the summer, when the whole feel of Jack seemed to change. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There’s only 1 situation where I need to subtract any days. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This procession of gray days in a mental fog must eventually cease. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In eight more days, unless Piper could pull off the plan Aphrodite had explained . . . well, there wouldn’t be any more movies, or theatres, or people. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For fifteen days Verrazzano and his crew were the Narragansett’s honored guests—though the Indians, Verrazzano admitted, kept their women out of sight after hearing the sailors’ “irksome clamor” when females came into view. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My own braid was two days old, and tufts stuck up here and there. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Apart from the Saturday in April when he was branded and castrated, one could imagine 534 looking back on those six months as the good old days. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Five days and 150 miles into Mexico, he committed the mistake of falling asleep on top of a train with his shoes off. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Hodag’s magic resides largely in its horns which, when powdered, make a man immune to the effects of alcohol and able to go without sleep for seven days and seven nights. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To hear her tell it most days, there was no end to my flaws in the domesticity department. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My brother Richard and I often spent whole days on the mountain, so it was likely no one would notice until sundown, when Richard came home for dinner and I didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And I say, “I don’t get out of work until five. Tell Addie and Joe I’m sorry. Maybe I can get my days switched here and next Friday—'” Skeezie walks away, shaking his head. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his shirt, wiped his brow and said, “Whew, sure is hot out these days. I can’t wait to go swimming.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It appears that this shall be our occupation for some days to come. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Dad hadn’t swallowed anything—no food, no water—for nearly three days. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On Ellis Island the people were thin after forty days at sea and had no fancy luggage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Midnight passes and I’m twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Scars are interesting things, New Voice. Ucho will carry the one on his nose for the rest of his days.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We were down to one week, a mere seven days, before we would lapse out of status. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They told me about their days dealing with people who had been raised less brilliantly. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the big white house and the store and laugh to herself. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Just two days’ journey down this road,” the soldier replied. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came home from the hospital a few days later, finally and irrevocably robbed of his ambitions. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Speaking of people from Poland: Billy Pilgrim accidentally saw a Pole hanged in public, about three days after Billy got to Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the closest Davos had come to His Grace in the eight days since Black Betha had joined the rest of the fleet off Storm's End. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The heat is subsiding a little, but I'm more woozy planting today than on even the hottest days. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t had a lot of time lately, but one of these days, he will. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In five days the populations of orangutans, zebras, hyenas, rats, flies and cockroaches had been wiped out. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We always had hot days and warm nights. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not after a blue rinse. We have residual heat signatures all over the place. Mostly solinium flares. It won’t calm down for a couple of days.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Three days after that, on my day off, I go to Mrs. Krajewska and ask if she has a hammer. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Rain fell that night and lasted for two days. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later Mrs. Moss came to me with a baffled look in their eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without knowing it, that was the beach he had been walking to for days. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Along with this solar calendar, there was a ritual calendar that had 20 weeks, each of 13 days. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the smell of rubbing alcohol and blood lingered for days afterward. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As the days melted into weeks, she tried not to think how very kind it was of Betsy to keep reading to her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some days I hauled lumber or stones; other times I pounded rocks into gravel or dug up cemetery markers that the Nazis then used to pave the roads. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Eight days into this, Max comes to me after work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Finally the doctor said he would give me four days. So I can tell his family.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They worked twenty-hour days, setting up instruments to measure the blast, and building a 100-foot steel tower to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken two days, but the girls had found Taylor’s hiding place deep in the jungle and had gathered to watch her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But in the days before school closed, I’d have nightmares about how to get there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No, just to be certain we'll keep him here a few days. Want to keep him under observation. Then he may leave." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d guess she was pushing thirty; an “old settler,” as we called them back in those days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trans-lunar injection meant firing the Saturn V’s engine for the final time, putting us on a course which would barely miss the moon three days later. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late spring, as the days grow longer and warmer, the snakes will all slither back to their thinking spots. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In fact, I had been wondering for some time if we should not discontinue these meetings, given how they prolong our already very busy days. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leo had noticed that Percy seemed to get winded more easily these days - probably because of that nasty acid air he’d been forced to breathe in Tartarus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He’d only bought it a couple of days ago, but now it was too small. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nokomis taught, but someone had to tend the sugarhouse fires, so many days she stayed instead of going to the ceremonies. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wish I’d kept count of the days since I left. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Two policemen had found Bebe several days later, lying under a park bench, unconscious from dehydration and hunger. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Three days, perhaps four, it is hard to know. We have eyes out along all the roads, but it would be best not to linger." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She says, “Who’s helping the special needs kids there these days?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In the polar region, the sun falls below the horizon for 180 days. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At last Aeneas was told in a dream that the place destined for them was a country far away to the west, Italy—in those days called Hesperia, the Western Country. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s eyes roam over the elegant wood desk, which Davis had so thoughtfully tidied before running off two days earlier. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was only days after my father had died. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Attempts to quarantine Georgia are unsuccessful, and the new Fixers, whose sole function is to replicate, consume the entire planet in three days, leaving behind nothing but an ocean of gray goo. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A few days earlier a half dozen drunken soldiers had noticed her cow in her barn, butchered it right there, and carried the slabs of beef back to the encampment in the dark. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the rest of the crew hadn’t been down in the stables with Leo, talking with the victory goddess Nike over the past three days... Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Four days later he again prodded Hunt: “The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The other time he saw Rab moved out of himself was a few days later. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she felt as if she had suddenly gotten older in the last three days. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of allegiance the young student might have given his mother and father only days earlier, he transfers to the teacher, the new figure of authority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days passed, the family’s fears began to be allayed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized the flaming orange shade of the paper: it was the sheet Mrs. Port had sent home with her few remaining students days before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Will’s father would often be on the road for days, sometimes weeks. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

So many that Quentyn, seeing the port for the first time from the deck of the Meadowlark, had told his friends that they would only linger here three days. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He spoke of hell as an expert, not the mush-mush hell of these soft days, but a well-stoked, white-hot hell served by technicians of the first order. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on those days, so much light and warmth fills the room that it's hard not to believe in a little bit of everything. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It would take several days to examine each one, to watch for each color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In those days, we didn’t wear baseball helmets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His music was what had brightened the bleakest days of his boyhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“That explains why, each of the last six days, you weren’t at your house.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

That she came back a few days ago and is truly right here with us. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Zhenya wrote a letter home five days after her squadron’s first flight, her tone was full of enthusiasm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This is where, days before, the skip tracers had tried to slip through the camp’s wire fences and Hayes had “taken care” of them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Soojin shouts two days later, rushing into the gym, where the rest of us are waiting for the morning bell to ring. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When I heard that we would be sleeping on the ground for three days, outside, under a tent, I thought that was insane. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some days after Roosevelt’s death, I received the only letter I had ever gotten from Call. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spends her days lying down, a pink plastic wastepaper basket by her side, the shades drawn, her mouth and teeth coated with the taste of metal. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she could close her eyes and sleep for two days. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She began to fill her days with classes at the War Memorial Community Center. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Under the influence of lull, Sarai’s days had been nothing but dreamless gray moments between one night and the next. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And outside the gym were a weight-lifting area and a lawn, tended by inmates who, on warm days, reclined there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the first nice days in March, when you finally get a hint of spring after the long, crazy cold winter. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“He had to go out to Raleigh—medical conference. He’s not due back for three days.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It’ll take us a couple of days to get your money together,” she said to Mr. Robert. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months back, in December, he was actually paralyzed—he couldn’t move at all for a few days. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Darius, who doesn’t like school, who is sometimes stupid and mostly a fool, said something wise today, though most days he says nothing. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most days it’s a struggle to get a comb through this carpet. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Everything that the Nation of Islam did in those days, from Mr. Muhammad on down, was strictly on a shoestring. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naheed and her family were making the pilgrimage as well, all the way from Columbus, Ohio, even though there had been days this past year when they had been afraid to leave their house. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He was a work friend of Ma’s who had known her since the old days—back when she was still with my father. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Every year in the spring, the fifth graders of Beecher Prep go away for three days and two nights to a place called the Broarwood Nature Reserve in Pennsylvania. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

On July 7, five days after the shooting, Corkhill announced that he wouldn't start formal legal action until he learned whether the president lived or died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tally wondered what she’d smell like when she arrived, after days without a bath. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A couple of days ago, Shay had explained that the plump meat in the stew was rabbit. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now that we were seated, I was in no rush to spill the trauma of these last few days onto him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few days later, my job cleaning the ghetto ended, and I was put back to work in Plaszów. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

With so many marginally qualified climbers flocking to Everest these days, a lot of people believe that a tragedy of this magnitude was overdue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley and Zero slept off and on for the next two days, ate onions, all they wanted, and splashed dirty water into their mouths. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A few days later the next issue of the journal arrived, this time containing seven more Pauling articles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Three effing days outta my whole entire life but it’s like nothing that happened before really happened, like that was all a big lie just waiting for me to find out. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

During these days, in visions or dreams, scenes of home float up to me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was thought that he died several days earlier, which would have made December 12 perhaps the last full day of his life. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As long as it’s only a few days, you say. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The cold, cottony light of a winter storm was something he gave thanks for after living without windows for seventy-seven days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bunderson discussed the upcoming trial, just days away, and explained the latest plea agreement. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could make her happy in her last days, pretend that the wedding is going to happen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For many days afterward, bodies would be dug out of the rubble. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly what we talked about those days was the army and the Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Back in those days, they arrested someone that just hung around and didn’t work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within four days he had set up a small company that was selling cheap plastic ballpoint pens specially imprinted with the word frindle. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was postmarked Boston, four days earlier. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On those days we competed with one another to take care of her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But he assumed their passports and visas were being processed and they would join me in a matter of days. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to send a blood sample to Kinshasa, see what diseases he might have. We’ll have to keep him separate from the other nursery bonobos for a few days, until I get it back.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We loved them dearly, and the image of those days still makes my heart pause in its beating. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Of course it didn’t help that we’d all been booted off the property a few days ago. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“And Schillinger and Old Hirsch a few days after that. I can’t stop them now. Not without one of us going back to the ghetto, and I do not want that to be you.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I did seventeen years, two days, four hours and twenty minutes on a twenty-year sentence as a third striker,” he explained in an interview posted on the Ella Baker Center’s website. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From your berry-picking days, you know that you select particular berries or berry bushes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His future closed about him as he went Fifteen days to Dover was the time assigned to any felon who had taken sanctuary. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mirrors must have been expensive in the old days, so they made up that story to scare us.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A lot had happened to Cara in the last ten days. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, we don’t live in the pioneer days. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For days and days Arya tried to work out how she might steal past the door guards to see him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He has mood swings: he is very sad some days, low, tired, angry. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To say she was getting little sleep these days was an understatement. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were only a few more days of oystering left that winter of ’44. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She thinks you’ll be back in two days. Me, I know different.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was twenty-nine days into the journey, and food supplies were frighteningly low. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

My forehead hurts along the knife cut, but after three days the bleeding has stopped. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I worked on these for days. I really hope you like them.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

During the days we dug up delicious fat purple potatoes, chatting and joking all the while. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, the Germans arrived in Amsterdam by foot. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our idea of a vacation was two days of car camping, or a night spent at the Napa Valley Embassy Suites so we could swim in their indoor pool. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

These days, honestly, she just seems bewildered by me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In those days there were two dark elves who lived in a fortress by the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We weren’t, and for the forty thousandth time in the last two days, I went over it all again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he had come to his senses—after nine days God gave him the power to tell her this thing could not be. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We spent the next two days training like crazy. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tells them about the first three nights and four full days in twenty-four-hour lockdown. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

These thoughts pester me throughout the long, boring days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The past six days, since he last saw Pond, had been uneventful. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On Olive’s stormy days, Grammy says we need to be extra good to her. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

On most days, my brother and I stayed in the house, pretending we were other people by dressing up or playing with paper dolls, puzzles, and blocks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Some of you have come to me, concerned about the things that went down in Oakland a few days ago.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Would she even remember me, the awkward boy she had known for a few days so long ago? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Note: Even if your waterer should last your flock for several days, you must still check it, in case the water has been dirtied, spilled, etc. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But on most days, especially the warm ones, life exhausts him; the worsening traffic and graffiti and company politics, everyone grousing about bonuses, benefits, overtime. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, her organs have seen better days. They are a little soupy. But I’m really surprised about the overall condition. It’s better than I thought.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I still wish we could borrow a kid for a few days. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Danny returned to school at the end of the first week in April, apparently too soon, for he was back in bed two days later with bronchitis. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He and his ships were driven across the sea for nine days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, these days I wish I was back to being invisible. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Francie counted the year’s passing not by the days or the months but by the holidays that came along. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s days and months and years, and the adventure is gone now, and it feels like forever. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had been in a terrible mood the last few days because he was not sure where we would work now that the grape season was almost over. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What if Call’s mother should brag to my mother about how much money Call was bringing home these days? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During one, my mother got pregnant with their second son, who died a few days after he was born. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

John and I look pretty similar, although he's grown a little stockier from long days at the plant. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I remember it was in the spring when the days was longest, for the light was coming through the window and there weren’t no lantern going. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ebola does in ten days. ^ what it takes aids ten years to accomplish. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, Link continued to phone me every night. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, we sit at lunch, talking about what we want to do after graduation when he brings it up all on his own. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He left critical forms lying on the floor for days. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had been brought into the station on September 6, seven and a half days after the hurricane passed through the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Vacation days, no-homework days—days that could have been filled with whistling plunges down Valentine’s Hill were filled instead with hateful frowning at a cloudless sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I got to worrying about the deer, and for many days I climbed trees and cut down tender limbs for them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hardly imagine the pleasure that would fill his days when the building was finished and flesh-and-blood women moved among its features. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

From counting annas, as the days went by, we began to count rupees. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enough to sleep for days, but I cannot. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the first days of February 1923, the weather turned violently cold. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The cold did not let up for days. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She is so extra, he thought, but it was why he loved the days when she took up cooking duty in their house. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally after a few days, the kitchen phone rang while me and Bertha were out on the porch eating egg salad sandwiches for lunch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The bank of windows was opposite the narrow attic door, and every now and again Ophie found herself gazing longingly at the small door as she remembered her days of blessed freedom. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d read once upon a time that storm petrels can appear when it clears after days of rain, but I’ve never seen one. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I succeeded in reaching several trustees' secretaries during the days that followed, and all were friendly and encouraging. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You kissed me, just a few days ago, in front of the Green Police." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Plus, based on the last couple of days, the Runner was home hours early. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And if they couldn’t do that in five days, Rome would be destroyed, and Hazel’s brother, Nico, would die. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Conversely, you could be within fifty yards of it and not know, as we had seen at Pleasant Pond a few days before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, he telephoned me to meet him again at the Black Muslim restaurant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We calculated that if we earned eight annas each day and contrived to live on four, we could save the money we needed to return in forty days. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “So, here is an estimate. If we say Shayleen got here on October fifteenth. That means she has been here three hundred thirty-six days.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

"Some days are better than others, and my arcana can repair it. But tonight is a bad one." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Once he asked Danny and me what we were reading these days, and Danny answered honestly that he was going through Freud. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As long as I’m carrying Ruth May piggyback through my days, with her voice in my ear, I still have her with me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he smiled for the first time in a long while and said in Spanish: “When I die, burn mercury in my room for three days.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She carried on like this for days, and the days turned into months. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This forbearance on his part on hot, cloudless days, if that is what it was and not simple laziness, was not good enough. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain might add some weight, but otherwise it would be one more day layered upon all the other days. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still call her on my cell phone every few days, but she never stays on long. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days earlier, we could have decided whether they would live or die. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

On rainy days, she left earlier and walked to school slower so that she would be soaking wet and rate the privilege of drying in the furnace room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I echo, an incredulous smile starting on my face and then fading when I remember that Vivi didn’t bother to tell me the story, even though it must have happened days ago. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that fall colors have nothing to do with when fall comes? It’s all about how much rainfall you get. And the days getting shorter.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to get fired one of these days.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, though, I’d stay home and go fishing with R.C. down on the Yazoo. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Arthur Evesham'd died of a heart attack a few days after our visit, in fact. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Earlier on this day, alerted by sensor 53, agents caught eleven Mexican men who had been walking across the desert for four days. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people’s educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Three days later, a new decree: every Jew had to wear the yellow star. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other days he’s full of energy, ideas, vigor, hope. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The days were long, beginning before dawn when the sea was purple black, ending with the sunset when the sea was burning red. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I shall stick to my plan: take the archaeologists to their spot and go off by myself for a few days to look for the anomaly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took only two days for the other kids to make his life miserable. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

After three days’ time, we were gaining on them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“If this is your present temper, my friend, you will perhaps be glad to see a letter that has been lying here some days for you; it is from your cousin, I believe.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say the rules change every two days. And they almost never come into the city anymore.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a cool dark summer night in the first days of blueberry picking time, and Omakayas had just fallen asleep when something made her awaken, a dream or a sound. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

O’Brien got around to thanking the old woman a few days later, telling her how his wife had been jealous of such a fine sweater. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later he was accidentally shot by his own troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville and died eight days later. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen—which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She started missing days at work, and then she stopped going at all. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I only vaguely knew the names of the trees around me, and all I knew was due to Charlie pointing them out to me from the cruiser window in earlier days. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s mothers, not fathers, who give away daughters these days and help with the arrangement of the marriages. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if this is true, mind, but I heard this story in the market, just a few days after you’d left with your grandfather. The oldest Ogilvie girl, the one who got sick?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew winter was coming, although each day the sun would rise in a bright sky and the days would follow cloudless. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he stopped working for three days, that might mean we would not eat fish one night or could not pay the mortgage on what we thought of as Lynn’s house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My own mother named me after her best friend, as women did in those days. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knows that Frank would stay away for a few days, sometimes a week, then two. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It has been nine days and your debt is discharged. If you came to hear me say it, you can go now.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

After holding in this rank mouthful of words for many days, I spilled them out into our ant-infested boat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be like re-portioning the days, hours and minutes so that there were exactly twelve months of thirty days in every calendar year. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

World- class city is a phrase they use in magazines these days, a great deal too much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tune had come, time that he measured but didn’t care about; time had come into his life and moved out and left him different In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been two days since the bathroom talk come up and I was hoping it was over. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, I thought about it like a secret. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A few days ago just a single day outside seemed like it would be enough, but now that I’ve had one, I want more. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We snuck into each other’s rooms by night to trade secrets, argue, commiserate, spy, and continue chess games and monopoly games that had begun days earlier. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months and twelve days till your birthday. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It took Harry several days to get used to his strange new freedom. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

There are two of them—non-pigeons—sitting here, and Axel is sure there are more, though on days like this it doesn’t always feel that way. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Little, who wasn’t doing so well these days, was there too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially they were those who had not adapted themselves to what had once been called the Atomic Age, in the days when atoms were a novelty. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And Ulbrickson, publicly at least, seemed to have other boys at the front of his mind these days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Seems like we would work and work and then one day, sometimes even in the middle of the day, they would say go home, come back in three or four days, whatever. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And two of those days were for a depressive episode after a fall in Bowdle, South Dakota, essentially the halfway point. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe she will lay another one, and then in a few days I can make breakfast for Mom and Dad. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Man, you are never in all your days going to pull that girl,” Froggy said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’m smarter than Devon even though he is three years and one month and sixteen days older than me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would only be gone a few days in Oslo and the children would take good care of me. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a pity Laurie isn’t here to help us,” began Jo, as they sat down to ice cream and salad for the second time in two days. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell would stick to your hair and clothes, like cigarette smoke, as it wafted into our classrooms' open windows on warm days back when our school didn't hive air-conditioning. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She remained in that position for hours, perhaps days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Terrible how they let kids so young play rough sports these days,” she said to her friend. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It had been a frightening moment when two days ago she realized that the tundra was an ocean of grass on which she was circling around and around. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She went two days ago with the other lady English.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some days Jay will tell me stories that make up for the memories I don’t have. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I will have known him for eight days. m I should throw this page away, burn it maybe. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for a few days, the greenhouse was our home. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Angrily, Werfel remembered the days of stiff pride and snotty silence. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It had been five days since he had first notified them, and during that time, Dasch's fear and anxiety had gotten the best of him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Once each afternoon, for seventy-seven days, Hatsue Miyamoto had appeared at the Island County Jail for a three o’clock visit with her husband. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everybody else left in stages over the next two days. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If it was Monday — and you could usually count on Dudley to know the days of the week, because of television — then tomorrow, Tuesday, was Harry’s eleventh birthday. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

At the least, she could count on a few days of good behavior from him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Oakland High School administration began to investigate, they found that in the preceding couple of days, Jeff had slapped or grabbed the butts of two other ninth-grade girls as well. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

With the bouncing of the car, the emotions of the past few days, and the doctor’s potions, Clara had acquired a skill at giving birth that she did not have the first time around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ninety days and ninety nights without a corpse, and on the ninety-first we wed?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She gave him a good slap every time it happened and in three days he was cured. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It would also be one of the most unique, and no event in American history would be more unique than what took place only fifteen days after the year began: the Great Molasses Flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s because her trek through Idaho is only seventy-four miles, about five days of her trip, but she’s feeling great. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still he did not come. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I think about how Danielle and I are decked out in boots as though it were the winter, reminding us there will be cold, dark days ahead. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Paul had spent five weeks in jail; she had been on a hunger strike for twenty-two days. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He’d been thinking about it for several days, and it seemed to him I need more friends. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The days on the galleries had been uniformly dispiriting. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably one of the best days me and Diego ever had with the old man. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m reminded of the days when I was a good student. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later she called me on the phone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? But back in the old days—” “Oh, we’ve raised our standards! To pass, you must show proficiency in all twenty. Isn’t that great?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mary also knew that a native of a place so flat it was practically underwater would need a leg up before hiking for days in the rarefied altitude of the Wyoming mountains. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They were coming back to her, the days of the endless hours. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Zed’s going to park here for a few days.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were days when Mr. Das looked at my work and shook his head. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In his reply, Senator Hillyard wrote that the January session was coming up in only three days and therefore he wouldn’t be able to do anything about the issue this session. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Their first shadow-travel experience together two days ago had been a total fiasco, possibly the most humiliating episode in Reyna’s long career. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The days and nights at sea were all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon for the next three days, the four of us gathered in Becca’s backyard to continue hammering and nailing those pieces of plywood together. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As the days and weeks passed, the saboteurs got to know one another a little better. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She’ll be all right even if I don’t come back for days. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than two days those planes will probably drop the memory serum virus over the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The Gee Bee could fly a circular course at over 250 miles an hour, which is slow today, but in those days that seemed plenty fast. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought all he wanted was to have nothing unusual sully his days, that what he disliked or feared most was uncertainty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day the gods hold their council here, and it is here they will gather in the last days of the world, before they set out for the final battle of Ragnarok. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The single window had once provided a view of the Columbus skyline, but I’d spray-painted it completely black a few days after I moved in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Over the next several days, Dasch traveled by bus across America to San Francisco. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Dad gave me this sad smile and said, “I think she needs space right now,” which seemed to be his answer for everything Mom-related these days. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For days, I wasn’t able to write a single word. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He always got happy talking about the good ol’ days, even though most of his stories ended with people getting messed up. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“How are things at school these days, Izzy?” she asks me tonight. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“July 29 “A big storm dumped so much water on the mountain the last three days that the dam washed out—logs, rocks, and mud. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relenting slightly, Olmsted said he would think about it and agreed to meet with Ellsworth two days later, on Ellsworth’s return from Maine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some days he read all day and late into the night. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

During the harsh days of the early 1970s, when the ANC seemed to sink into the shadows, we had to force ourselves not to give in to despair. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been in the county jail for several days on burglary charges when McMillian was arrested. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had killed many times before, but only during the last two days had this impulse assumed the form of actual killing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The unhappiness produced by the knowledge of that engagement had been a little put aside by Elizabeth Martin’s calling at Mrs. Goddard’s a few days afterwards. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I don't know what prompted me to turn on the television, but I'd been away from home for four days and hadn't seen any headlines. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I miss the old days. When everyone was little and we all stayed at home together.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the early days of Branwell’s silence, I wondered—in light of Nikki s injury—if a new generation of survivor guilt had spilled over into him. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Postorius advised that he had arrived in New York City two days ago from Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I am thrilled to be here and able to return home in a few days. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worms are not plentiful on the downs and there had been no rain for days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haskell ran the Dregs, but these days, he preferred to sit in the warmth of his room, drinking lukewarm lager, building model ships, and telling long stories of his exploits to anyone who would listen. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For three days, the Japanese bombed and strafed the atoll. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some days you remembered the world was full of wonderful people you hadn’t met yet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had been lean since the early days of the war, but now he was emaciated—so thin that his bones stuck out and his face looked craggy and old. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

With Stuart out of town for the next six days, I can concentrate solely on the interviews. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The Santa Fe steamer chugged into town—three days early....” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And one morning, late in September, he shared some breaking news, additional details of which were passed quietly around B-block for the next few days. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she moved through her days—feeding her family, painting, teaching—she puzzled over what she found. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Apparently, this was one ritual she'd started in the early days of their marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jonas knew, on days when he arrived to find The Giver hunched over, rocking his body slightly back and forth, his face pale, that he would be sent away. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I become shy only when my older sister wonders what I am doing these days. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not part of the Irish mob, or whatever they’re calling themselves these days—or whatever they’re forbidding people to call them. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the days after the unexpected loss, the family mourned, but Elizabeth’s father, Judge Daniel Cady, was inconsolable. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Lyndon Johnson formally approved Operation Rolling Thunder, the sustained bombing of Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some days he'd just sit on that bed with his hands hanging down between his knees. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

My last few days of being sixteen, and living in this house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarrelling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I went out to the garden I had been neglecting—I had scarcely looked at it for ten days—and the field I had plowed but never planted. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was then working for a new law firm and they did not give me permission to take two days off to attend the conference in Bloemfontein. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt, who spent much time by El Patron’s bed these days, said, “They’re very beautiful.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gotta tell you, guys, I had a very different show planned out a few days ago, but I don't really see the point in getting into any of it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On sunny days I would wear them with my cormorant dress and the necklace, and walk along the cliff with Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have three hundred sixty-five days of immunity.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Three days later I encountered more police officers—the ones who broke up our family forever. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If he stayed Derek would die of thirst in two, perhaps three days. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But first, I slept for a long time, days it seemed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pen scribbled across the page: $5 an hour, for three hours, three days a week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You know what I mean. People are more at ease—a couple of days’ sunshine and we become Italians. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z