Her iPod was almost dead, but she figured it had enough battery to last through a few songs. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mother sat on the hood of the truck, watching as they began to dig into the dead earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

At this, those who were still standing helped the dead men get up from the courtyard floor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A marsh where the dead reeds lay over the water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ve meant to come and tell you. He’s a dead man unless you can wake him up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The meerkats were bringing ashore dead fish they had not killed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents are dead. They were trapeze artists.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The rug is covered with thorny dead roses. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I think one favor from the dead is all I can manage today.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If Gaea was telling the truth, Sammy had been dead for over forty years. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

People were lying dead in the streets and others were running for their lives. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lizzie was found the next day just 150 feet from the front door, but quite dead. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the sick were dead and die healthy ones were sick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He reminded Tyrion of a dead sea cow that had once washed up in the caverns under easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, relenting: “I’ve seen pictures of him with the Sitwells. And T. S. Eliot. Also—there’s rather a funny one of him with that actress—I can’t remember her name. She’s dead now.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, a detachment returned through the gates with two of their number dead, arms sprawling, the hair on one a ruddy sop. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“There is a dead guy she has to see!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Joe was standing right where he’d been, not moving, frozen in the path of the dead woman and her gaping maw. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m opening in the morning, and then by the time you get home from baseball tomorrow night, I’m going to be dead to the world.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The dead patch spread outward, as if poison were seeping from the soles of his shoes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“He’s dead, so you couldn’t know him now.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At that, why, the half-naked women behind him just burst out clapping and cheering, as if they could no longer confine their enthusiasm for a dead goat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great black lake, teeming with the dead... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They were like shouting, “Chip in my head? I’m better off dead! Chip in my head? I’m better off dead!” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She looks dead to me,” I say to the young woman. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just remembered. There is a Mass Sunday at Saint Agnes for a dead refugee woman.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The drawing at left, from a sixteenth-century codex, is a winter- count-like depiction of a year dominated by smallpox; two men lie dying or dead, their bodies spotted with pustules. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was poisonous, unnatural to let the dead go with a mere whimpering, a slight murmur, a rose bouquet of good taste. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Cap may not be dead, but he’s definitely gone.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

By the fall of that year, so many dead fish had been found in the Yellowstone River that sportsmen and Montana fish-and-game administrators became alarmed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I watched the Kennedys grieve over their dead child just as anybody else would. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A guy hit a car and it spun him in front of me, and I T-boned him. I think he’s dead.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He shook, convulsed, and finally fell to the floor, dead. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And there they stood in the dead city, a heap of boys, their hiking lunches half devoured, daring each other in shrieky whispers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She covered her face and her chest started heaving and I realized she’d driven all the way home thinking I was dead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I know she is dead,” she said, and at last, it felt like something that had happened long ago. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There weren’t any sword wounds and Vizzini didn’t seem broken. There were just these two goblets and Vizzini dead. Poison is my guess.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He marches me down the alley and then down the street, past the living and the dead, into a building that seems to be offices, though people are sleeping here as well. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I know Silvey is soft on me, he always has been, and I think he is brokenhearted over Julie, but he was dead stiff and formal escorting me to my interview—awkward, you know? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She could be dead for all he know. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll put shucked corn down in the barrel without any water,” I explained as we went out to bury the dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Why would your dead mother want to do this?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Once she is dead, I will have you three burned as well, as false saints and practitioners of the arts of the Devil.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We came not to destroy the town,” he said, “but only to reclaim the dead.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the dead man with his sad expression. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Around the time that I’m deciding it’s too late, that Peeta’s dead, moved on, unreachable forever, he gives a small cough and Finnick sits back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph thought of “The Little Match Girl,” a story he’d read in school last year about a girl who ended up dead in the snow after a freezing night filled with beautiful visions. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Uncle Claude could only have been dead for a few months, but he wasn’t going to correct her. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He sat next to the drowned man with his enormous paws neatly propped together on the dead man’s lap, his tail wagging a mile a minute. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Park, dead on the fence, had not told him where he might find China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rosa would force Leo to stay for a picnic, as if hanging out with dead people were good for his appetite. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Baba says if we lie as still as dead people, perhaps our fears will be still too and let us sleep. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just as it passed our gate, the heavy framed picture of the dead man toppled from its stand and fell to the dusty ground. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faces were dead, as if someone had constructed dolls from parts of the corpses of humans and of animals. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At night the dead girl from Vienna strides the halls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The kidneys become jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Hizdahr has his own Spider, I am as good as dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jhogo looked terrified as he struggled with the stal-lion's weight, afraid to touch the dead flesh, yet afraid to let go as well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Grant’s telegram states that Sheridan has ridden over the battlefield, counting Confederate dead and captured, particularly the many top Confederate generals now in Union custody. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you know he’s not dead? You hit him pretty hard.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"The king's not dead, that's only summoning bells. One tower tolling. When the king dies, they ring every bell in the city." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My first class, the room is freezing, like how I imagine the North Pole in the dead of winter, Santa’s elves hiding for cover. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Stay put or I’ll shoot you dead!” he yelled at her; then he turned to Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Any dead man whom you allow to enter where the blood is will speak to you, and speak the truth; but those deprived will grow remote again and fade.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the concreteness of being outdoors was another matter—like the difference between the concept of death and being, in fact, dead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Having taken the pirate captain prisoner, sailed slap over the schooner, whose decks were piled high with dead and whose lee scuppers ran blood, for the order had been ‘Cutlasses, and die hard!’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has not escaped. He is dead. He died last night.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened to not speaking ill of the dead?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Of course I didn’t know, would probably never know—if the experts were right, I would soon be dead, burned in intense white clouds hotter than the sun. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Most of the enemy were dead, dying, or yielded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was trying to bring his sister back from the dead. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you have an alternative, Alter? Do you want to wait for Mr. Whitby all night, if he’s just lying dead in there?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A snake and three dead chickens hung from its grass-covered body, swinging as the mmuo walked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Eva’s house there were four dead robins on the walk. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you still looking at a dead man?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Having no friends except for the dead one following me around wasn’t great, but still, there were other, braver kids who wanted to be my pals. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But by the time the Spartan reinforcements arrived, there was nothing to see but dead Persians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

First there was the log on which he himself sat; a dead tree that must have been quite exceptionally big for the platform. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The stump end of the dead mesquite was big and heavy. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if I am real, then you must be dead.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my hero, my jump-shooter. Let me touch your feet. No, your feet smell like something dead. Let me touch your golden hair or your runny red nose. Let me touch your emerald bellybutton.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t kissed me and if I hadn’t sat on the porch Friday night going over it in my head, Mango might not be dead right now. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her Living Curl had long since been pronounced dead, and on the whole she appeared to be adapted to within an inch of her life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man was lying on the path in front of us, dead and staring at the sky. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might, as Philip had suggested, announce that one of the other two men was dead. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly her head dropped off the round pillow where it lay, and she shuddered and was dead. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“When he is dead, that will be a new thing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because we found that dead guy when we were kids. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The union leaders were either in jail or dead, political parties had been indefinitely recessed, and all student-worker organizations, and even professional associations, had been dismantled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am your Prince and I’m not that bad—how could you rather be dead than married to me?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was the color of bruised flesh and storm-dark seas, the bleak and hopeless blue of a dead girl’s eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Or this: discovering that your dead friend is actually alive and driving the truck you’re riding in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His nose had found the scent of the dead geese. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled the gloves on, reached into the hole and placed the two dead rats into the sack. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But probably he was dead before he was shot. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impact of this feat on the Dufarges was so acute that their hearts literally burst, and they dropped dead at the Laughing Man’s feet. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A body must follow the call of nature, even in the dead of the night. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy’s dead, he kept saying, which seemed profound—the guy’s dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course we don’t want him to be dead!” said Hermione, looking shocked. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s easier to cope with a kicked bucket than a corpse; if it isn’t human, it doesn’t matter much if it’s dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His other arm bolstered Nurse Duckett, who was trembling and sobbing against him, too, her long, angular face dead white. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Their souls are taken from the battlefields by Valkyries, the warrior-women charged by Odin with the task of bringing the souls of the noble dead, battle-slain, to their ultimate reward. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If Hooper was dead, if Hooper was dead, if...He didn't know what would happen, except that he would be on his own. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He had raked underneath the frangipani trees, and dead leaves and pink flowers lay in piles, ready for the wheelbarrow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was, evidently, a plot within a plot, and White suddenly became suspicious of the litany of dead witnesses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe they even burned his library, but he was definitely dead. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those rings. Just taking a break from the sun. You seem like nice company, you know. I mean, as long as you don't have the plague." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain said, “I’ll be wanting to go back to Little Round Top as soon as possible. The Regiment will bury its own dead.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, Berlin was engulfed in flames, and 125,000 people were dead. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A bolt of lightning struck Cain dead for the horror of what he had done. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Off a dead man’s finger. Kinda risky using it, but I couldn’t see another way of getting my balloon back. You reckon that sergeant suspected anything?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Knowlton dead, Washington had no way of knowing exactly what went wrong in the planning of Hale’s mission. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In that cemetery,” said Granny, “you couldn’t tell Abner from a dead Yankee.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When Mom found them that final morning, one asleep, one dead, they were holding hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s a dead rat decomposing in the wall, right near the hot-air vent. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

This leads to great confusion in the kingdom of the devil, and this strife leaves many dead and injured, which is why children make the perfect soldiers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

One of Ethel’s neighbors told her about it in the market and Ethel fainted dead away, pitching into a row of preserves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The square was named for some dead lord, but no one ever called it anything but Fishfoot Yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Less than four weeks later, on April 12, the president was dead of a massive stroke at the age of sixty-three. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The beaten earth appears defeated and dead, but it only appears so. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reside, if you can, in the last place of the dead. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the cabin it smelled stale and dead, like old carcasses and snakes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Uncle Antonio would go to Mass the next morning with their neighbors, who would honor their own dead. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A few days later he found her dead with a pile of other bodies ready to be thrown into the fire. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the full light of the morning came no signs of the wolves were to be found, and they looked in vain for the bodies of the dead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“How do you know that Todd’s not dead?” one of the girls asked me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

All ten serpents turned belly-up and floated dead in the water. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t nobody say anything about it round here. I just knowed she had something rare, cause she been dead a pretty good while, but her cells still living, and that’s amazing.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I know that is an absurd thing to consider—a dead horse falling out of the sky—but it actually happened. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He would die if it was not found; or, he was dead already, and would never again be joined to the living, if it was not found. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sagging skin, sickly green, her ribs as prominent as a child’s dead of starvation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday, July 20 Oh Little Book, We all just got back from the cemetery burying Patria’s baby boy that was bom dead yesterday. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he left the monkey house, he and the other veterinarian placed the dead monkeys in clear plastic bags and carried some of them across the hall to a chest freezer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the waste heaps and the mist, there lay the first town of the dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The startled owner, hearing the commotion, did what he thought was only appropriate: he took out his gun and shot Price dead. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dead, of course: wet, chargeless, and fifty years from the nearest cell tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I can feel Tobias staring at me— he knows I didn’t see Will in the monitors, and he didn’t know that Will was dead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Art is just what I said because you’re supposed to say something, like you say “It’s okay” when someone dies, even though it’s obviously not, because someone is dead and they shouldn’t be. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Part of her would have liked nothing more than to lead her people back to Vaes Tolorro, and make the dead city bloom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lots a cars passing us today, which is strange, cause Myrtle a dead end. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“If you want food, get in line. Now. Schnell. You must eat. Hungry Jews are dead Jews. Dead Jews do not work.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, the new people must work extremely hard to prove they are worth more alive than dead. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took his arm, clutching it in a dead rigid hard grip as if her fingers, her hand, were a small mass of wire. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look him dead in the eye, and he glares right back at me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I see it as my responsibility to ignore the emptiness of the streets, the nonfunctional stoplights, and the occasional clusters of walking dead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. So would Dad. And being dead won’t be good for my business.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Who cares about anything anyhow—Sandy is dead, Sandy was her friend, now she'll never see him again—ever. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least they know they are dead. You don’t even know you’re alive.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He tried to settle more com-fortably to steer and from his pain he knew he was not dead. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Idly Eleanor picked a wild daisy, which died in her fingers, and, lying on the grass, looked up into its dead face. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad has Malachy and the twins out of the bed and sitting on the floor by the dead fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘Do you mean that he is dead, and that you knew it? You have been trying to trap me in words, playing with me? Or are you now trying to snare me with a falsehood?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Vivian’s paying me to do a spring cleanup of her property—get rid of dead branches and all that. You?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up the dead earthworm with tweezers and laid it out on the table in front of us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They fired at the second man again, destroying his other arm, and he fainted dead away. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"Four brothers dead. A dozen wounded. A third as many as the foe. And we took captives. One died quickly from his wounds, but the other lived long enough to be questioned." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And it stood on the side of the living, and he on the side of the dead. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There are 3 billion of us on the earth, and all 3 billion must be dead, on a schedule, within this lifetime. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day I slaved away, scrubbing down her porch, sorting buttons, picking dead flies from her screen door. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And he looked past the Wall, past endless forests cloaked in snow, past the frozen shore and the great blue-white rivers of ice and the dead plains where nothing grew or lived. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The girl was still sitting on the piano stool, the torn sheet of music splayed at her feet like a dead bird. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As for him ‘feeling dead,’ that’s probably just a consequence of his being gone from your life for so long. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the dead land outside, he would turn and come back; he could not go farther without his plastic suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I look up and see him, sitting back on his knees but still panting a bit from the climb and the heat and the effort of bringing Peeta back from the dead. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nine months after the invasion, a fight broke out in the shop, which led to the earliest major roundup and hundreds dead. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He met nothing for ten minutes, but kept running into dead ends. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The echoes rang through the dark-ness, and all around them the dead of Winterfell seemed to watch with cold and disapproving eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“She's gone now, I think, dead. I can't even remember her face. But she was different. How?how did she happen?” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if to avoid the eyes of all the ghosts, the dead ones who had built their town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"They are both dead, Stark and that Robert who broke my walls with his stones. I vowed I'd live to see them both in their graves, and I have." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Pupo had said he wouldn’t start the revolution until he saw the dead body. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

No one in the world had the power to remove the dead man’s disorganized effects from Yossarian’s tent. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Has my host made a fool of me? Who is dead?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room on his or Thompson’s small machine to haul the dead person out, however, nor was there space on the Anchorage couple s ATV. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was dead five hours after having been released from the hospital with the simple instruction to “get some sleep.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“When we left, there were reports of a thousand dead. Do you know what the total is now?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still half in the nightmare, I run down the hall, out the front door, and around the side of the house, because now I’m pretty sure I can scream at the dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He would lecture me about his latest research into the boring life of some dead guy while I ate tiny forkfuls of mushroom omelette and nibbles of cinnamon bagel with butter. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Nurse is dead and Yezzan’s dying. It could be dark before anyone thinks to miss us. We will never have a better chance than now.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I cradled the book to my chest and turned to watch Mom as she slept, dark and dead to the world. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And no one expected those dead boys to bite their buddies and turn them as well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Gaea brought her back from the dead to throw you Amazons into civil war.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

ME: No. Frank Socrates doesn’t have conditions, because he’s dead. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

That we would be so easy to kill was the only reason we weren’t dead already; like a gourmand about to enjoy a fine meal, there was no reason to rush things. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I smile, threatened by an animal already dead, still climbing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Say what? last Your stepdaddy been dead over a week, she say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess old Easter’s dead at last,” he said. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The male agents at the CIA Moscow station handled the first dead drops. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now Jackson was dead, and Garnett’s honor was compromised, and he had not recovered from the stain, and in his company there were many men who would never let him recover. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proceeding cautiously, Kyril Montana advanced through underbrush and dead leaves, automatically avoiding twigs and small branches that cracked underfoot. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a menacing rustle in the leaves just before a putrid smell soured the air—the smell of something long dead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We made for the lighthouse in a dead run. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

How could he tell her that he hated the house, that his mother and father were dead and didn’t know it, that if it wasn’t for television the place would be like a tomb. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brushed away the leaves and there it was, this big, fleshy, vase-shaped mushroom that I was dead certain had to be a chanterelle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even then I kept seeing the soldier’s body tumbling toward the water, splashing down hard, how inert and heavy it was, how completely dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried not to look at the dead flies stuck in the goopy puddles on the ground. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“You act like you never saw a dead body before,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then with great suddenness—two friends were dead. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cole took off at a dead run down the slope. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” said Woundwort, “and bring four others with you. Jump to this side”—he moved slightly—“there’s a dead rabbit on the floor—one of theirs.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

However painful it must have been to predicate the harsh word dead of a beloved sister, no euphemism—has passed away, is no longer with us—could have ended that sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No, but seriously. It was never exactly proved that Lancelot is dead.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood against the chain-link fence in front of the dead man’s neighbor’s house watching the gargantuan canine panting and licking his chops and whining inside the car. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Me, Patty, Sunny, and even Coach went dead quiet. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I stare down at the dead body of a soldier clad in military black, a knife still protruding from his chest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The sweat on my hands froze my fingers to the canister’s fastenings the same way a curious child’s tongue sticks to a pump handle in the dead of winter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So we just have to read the mind of a dead person,” Takumi said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear was so called after the mushroom that grew in wrinkled half-circles on dead or fallen tree trunks, emerging from the rotten wood without benefit of parent seed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The bombings were front-page news for days: Two hundred twenty-four people were killed in Kenya, ten dead in Tanzania. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Gods, he’s dead, he’s dead, I saw him dead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Died? He’s not dead. . . Hugo said out loud. “Who isn’t dead?” said Etienne, who had been reading over Hugo’s shoulder. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The same way the muttation wolves last year weren't really the dead tributes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s green now, preserved by the ice. But inside it’s dead. And the moment that ice melts, it’ll turn brown and wither into mush.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They knew where Harry’s bedroom was, having once rescued him from it in the dead of night. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Which he feared more, the living dead or Grandma’s aim, he didn’t tarry to tell. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those folks are dead, so I don’t know if they’re good names or not. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The military ambulances took off, wailing into the still newborn night with the dead and the wounded. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I ran into a dead end after my third turning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She’d read about pyramids, triangles of stone, with dead people buried inside them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I hear him say my name and the thought feels like nothing more than a dead end. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Though he wasn’t yet forty, he was in danger of becoming a relic in a Wild West traveling show, living but dead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I stay in the parking lot with Bo for far too long, but am lucky to find that my mom is dead asleep with her door closed when I get home. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The grateful citizens made him their King and he married the dead King’s wife, Jocasta. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here in the Congo I am pleased to announce there is no special difference between living people, dead people, children not yet born, and gods—these are all muntu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

L for letter—this letter was definitely not dead. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

If Pa’s dead, maybe she’ll stay in the house a while. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I hate her now, even though she’s dead! God knows, I hate her right now. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then I don't know what to say, because the only alternative to growing older is to be dead, and after Bas, Ollie and I don't make those kinds of jokes anymore. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Twenty-one tributes are dead, but I still have yet to kill Cato. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Not long after that, just over two months later, she was dead. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

No one knew my past, my white mother, my dead father, nothing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scared? Of what? The chidings of old men? Sam, you saw the wights come swarming up the Fist, a tide of living dead men with black hands and bright blue eyes. You slew an Other.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some alive, most unmoving—probably dead, Mark realizes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Rashid pulled his eyes away from the dead man and dug his phone out of his bag. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The MTA might be dead, but the Super was still very much alive. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Was I dead? The bacon hasn’t gotten me yet.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But she would have been dead and he would have called himself lucky. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nanna, his wife, went to look at it for the last time; her heart broke and she fell to the deck dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead hollow lay just feet away, its tentacles splayed like starfish arms from beneath the boulder that had crushed it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Something I see stops me dead in my tracks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They reminded me of my trip to the Underworld—the way the spirits of the dead sounded as they drifted past. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei thought the broad-shouldered man looked more annoyed than sad, his head bowed only the smallest fraction in respect for the dead. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And here’s how I know: I thought at first that she was just dead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

If Oscar hadn’t dropped out of the sky, Noah would be dead. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Because of my dead parents,” I said, a little meaner than I felt. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Tobias, he doesn’t remember anything. The man you knew doesn’t exist anymore; he’s as good as dead. That man doesn’t remember kill—” “Shut up!” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the dead plants and replaced them with new ones. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When I wipe off a silver mirror with my hand and see myself dressed in a dead faerie’s clothes, a shudder goes through me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. Something has happened. Prepare yourself for a shock. Your employer, M. Ratchett, is dead!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was child’s play. Now my father is dead, and I am no longer young,” he said despairingly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“But what matters is only that Claudius believes me to be truly dead. Does he?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His lover, with her rope necklace, hanging dead next to him in the tree. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I had seven sons as well, but four are burned and dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There, in a meadow, they took cover. They put up barricades with saddles, boxes, with anything they had, even the bodies of dead horses. They dug shallow pits in the ground.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The way Laurie seemed to come out of a dream—born the living child of a father five months dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermod mounted it and prepared to ride down, ever down, to greet Hel in her high hall, where only the dead go. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But since I’m moving with the pitch, I have a great jump on the ball, and on the dead run and with my glove fully extended, I snag the ball backhanded and knee high. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A big crowd gathered immediately, people hovering around the dead body. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be dead in an instant and all she would have to say is that I sneezed and jerked my head forward and impaled my own self on the wire. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Who ever sees dead birds, in anything like the huge numbers stipulated by the certainty of the death of all birds? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll notice that everyone is getting these things after I’m dead. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cool night breeze wouldn’t mean much if they were dead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The story that is told during Black History Month is one of triumph; the system of racial caste is officially dead and buried. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not much could be “up” when you’re dead and stuck in the attic. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The army looked on in horror as the stricken victim shuddered and lay dead at Cluny’s feet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I didn't feel like I was back to my normal self when my mom finally got home from work, but the fear that I was going to drop dead had gradually subsided. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, I can’t be a lumberjack, Ma. I got this dead tree of my own.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The time some guys cornered two VC in a dead-end tunnel, no way out, but how, when the tunnel was fragged and searched, nothing was found except a pile of dead rats. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you eat the congealed blood of a dead pig?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My heart throbbed with pain as I watched my brother lying on the ground, pretending to be one of the dead bodies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Soph, you’re breaking up. I can barely hear you. Good luck on the test. Knock ’em dead—” The line went silent. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my shoes as I said the words, barely missing stepping on a dead grasshopper. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not muscle strong or fighting strong—a kind of strength that gave him the self-control to meditate instead of falling apart, or to ignore what other people thought, and find meaning in a dead bird. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“We are all dead, then. You gave us death, not freedom.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was beyond the pale, even for Minya, to keep a dead child as a pet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nailer could imagine the dead crew boy’s ghost in the ducts with him, creeping through the darkness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"They're all dead," said Piggy, "an' this is an island. Nobody don't know we're here. Your dad don't know, nobody don t know." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon Parkhill did some target practice in one of the dead cities, shooting out the crystal windows and blowing the tops off the fragile towers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that light, exposed in a druggy moment of reckoning, we all considered him for the role of dead man. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Dead in their beds! They’re all dead in their beds!” she shrieked. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In June of that year, 1777, we found out that Father was dead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he did go back to the fish, it was dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s my blank stare—that I’m looking past them, staring at the little dead girl that looks like my sister standing in the middle of the courtyard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The resulting conflict left two dead: a federal agent and Sammy, who was retreating, running up the hill toward the cabin, when he was shot in the back. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Harry thought this was strangely kind until Uncle Vernon stopped dead, facing the platforms with a nasty grin on his face. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Two dead men, the old corpse and a new one, the one who had not got his drink of water for two days, were dragged out. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“None that would own me, sir. Mr. Reed is dead, and his wife cast me off.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

"My uncle Euron has not been seen in the islands for close on two years. He may be dead." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“So,” he said, by way of greeting, “the fool is dead, is he?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Jody saw how dry and dead the hair looked, he knew at last that there was no hope for the pony. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to say to her—I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I succeeded in digging a hole in that w^all of dead and dying people, a small hole through which I could drink a little air. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Shadow had had any doubts as to whether his wife was dead or not, they ended then. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Again and again, I raise the machete and hack off pieces of its body until it lies motionless, dead. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drags that dead leg around like a useless burden. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father said, “In war the dead pay the debts of the living,” and they have paid us well. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crouch behind the trees in the old orchard, sniping at one another, shouting: “You’re dead!” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing how fencing had saved him from a life of dead ends, he decided he wanted to help other young kids without a lot of advantages. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She ran down one alley up another, and another, until she came to a dead end. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The two girls walked until they couldn’t see the cove anymore, or the camp and cabins, to where a dead tree stuck up out of the sand, smooth and white like a bone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“A mother with a girl clinging to her skirts. She had a boy babe too, all swaddled up in fur, but he was dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, I’ll make sure you stay dead,” he growled, advancing on me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Am I? When those concentration camp Jews hunt down Nazis, are they hating Nazis or loving dead Jews?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The signs of our elopement were subtle: My parents’ wedding picture was gone, as was the grainy photograph of my grandfather and King Nader Shah stand­ing over the dead deer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lied and said that my parents were both dead and that I had been fending for myself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Remember what I said about wishing you were dead? You do not want me to sing.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the battle was done, Dany rode her silver through the fields of the dead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear me? Tell them that nobody’s medicine will work on my son. He will not marry an abnormal woman, unless you kill me first. Only over my dead body!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am his son and since he is dead I have taken his place. I am now Chief of Ghalas-at. All my wishes must be obeyed.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Huffer leaned awkwardly over Mrs. Linga’s cold body and held the paperwork on the kitchen table corner right where she had hit her head and dropped dead. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“If some old lady is in there she just might drop dead.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mama Tataba’s body next to mine in the pew, meanwhile, was a thing gone dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm faster this way. Seriously. Better that only one of us is out there hunting for the money. You won't do Mom any good if you're dead." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was downright ratted with knots because I hadn’t even brushed it once since we got out of the water yesterday, when we found the dead man. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They used dead reckoning and followed coastlines as far as they could. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Mitraillette and her sister agree he’s dead scary—calm and soft-spoken—never says anything without consideration. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She would be doing her homework or texting Miles on one side of the bedroom while Summer and I huddled around my laptop, scrolling through page after page of dead ends. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He’d been trying to ignore the dead praetor, but now Varus walked over, surrounded in a hazy white aura, his deep-set eyes like sinkholes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They started out by pulling the rest of the dead weeds and stacking them in one corner of the yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is. I mean, I’ve never touched an animal that was dead.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And somehow, I told them each the inexpressibly horrible news that our mother and father were dead, and that it was possible they’d been murdered. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She remembered clearly the urine running down and into her stockings until she learned how to squat properly; the disgust on the face of the dead woman and the sound of the funeral drums. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Quite possibly they presumed me dead. There was nothing anyone could do to help me." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They en-countered no one but a lone old crone, carrying a dead cat by the tail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Virginia! Come outside! I found a dead snake!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So were too these men I worked beside: transformed against their will into the dead; and asked to die again so that they might be free. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh—certain furry beasts that took on the personality of a dead person.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want it to be true that his wife and children were fifteen hundred miles away and might by now presume him to be dead. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He had come to the veranda rail, looking down at them in the dusk, and now he bowed with a deep welcoming gesture, “‘These being dead,’” he said, “‘then dead must I be.’ The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I definitely didn’t want to be dead from a book. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Around the old man were bodyguards to protect him in the shadowy world of the dead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life would turn to ashes—at least for me; rather be dead and join the dead! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

To offer the dead body of Bessie as evidence and proof that he had murdered Mary would make him appear a monster; it would stir up more hate against him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We lost everything over the weekend. It’s all gone, all the vegetables. All our vegetables. My string beans. I wanted you to eat my string beans, and now they’re dead.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dread lay on Gilly’s stomach like a dead fish on the beach. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was dead weight as she tugged him forward. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She might have thought she was dead, too, but she knew she wasn’t. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Here was a hush in the night, moonlight and shadows, a thick carpet of dead leaves underfoot, densely, wooded ridges sloping gently down to the streambed, the underbrush thinning as the ground fell away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was glad that he could not see the dead face. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He had no idea whether Vice President Johnson was dead. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I am to live in it, then I want her dead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope that’ll do, if I provide for you like a Jordan Scholar,” she whispered to the dead boy, and forced his teeth apart to slip the coin into his mouth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the baboon spider was nearly dead—its legs quivered slightly—the wasp flew off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has the right to know her lord is dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I looked up at her and, to my horror, saw that she was dead serious. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t think any of us had the courage to crash a party by delivering a dead man to it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’s got a pile of dead roaches already. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What kind of world is it, Miss Louise, where princesses are taken from right under our noses and queens drop dead and we cannot even take comfort in soup?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Anya ran across the bridge, past the pile of dead trees, and into the Nightingale’s wood. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing that “lived” inside this monkey was the unknown agent, and it was dead, for the time being. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of his mother dead in the coffin. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you could make a study of the dead, Stevens thought from time to time, you could make a study of the living, and make them testify as no cadaver could. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We’re all dead and just hoping that we come back to life when we get into the World again.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters were thrilled by the little naked, winged bodies like storybook griffins, and by the horrible fact they were dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself,” she told him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

"So that settles one point definitely. Someone was alive on the island after Armstrong was dead." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

When I dismounted from that car, she came running towards me, her arms out like a person seeing someone brought back from the dead. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here they were, back in Kansas City—dead broke, to boot, and driving a stolen car! In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You’re damaged and ugly, but not dead. I suppose that means I’ll need the help of a god to kill you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I am not supposed to know that Will is dead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He found three more dead monkeys in Room F. They were dying steadily, a handful every night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you've ever been close enough to see the yellow spots, you are probably dead. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Penelope felt self-conscious gobbling away while the children were so gloomy, but the strenuous dancing of the previous day had given her a hearty appetite that no amount of stuffed dead animal heads could erase. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

They made satin tufted shrouds: white ones for dead virgins, pale lavender for the young married, purple for the middle-aged and black for the old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the wicked ones had harmed his mummy, then even his ba was dead, for a man’s soul could not live if his former body were destroyed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Lev and the others showed me the same reserved respect they held while tending to the dead, averting their eyes whenever possible, their faces solemn even as fear and confusion darkened their gazes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In her periphery, she felt people watching her—other beastkeepers who’d perhaps thought her either lost or dead—but she ignored them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If only Papá had been more willing to do his job and make us a family, maybe El Sacrificio would be more than just an exotic name printed on a dead man’s driver’s license. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bykovski was dead and my dad was maimed and they were acting as if it were all a relief. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I was concerned that’s what Ice was, one of Harlem’s dead. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A dead bird is an incongruity, more startling than an unexpected live bird, sure evidence to the human mind that something has gone wrong. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We heard that there was no officer to spare, with Bugloss under arrest and Charlock dead.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rush of dead brown leaves, Asha told herself, bare branches creaking in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If he doesn’t have this operation,” the Capital City doctor told them, “your father will be dead before six months are out.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner some dude with a hood over his face is knocked out; either he’s had a really good time or there’s a dead Decker on this train. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I can imagine the silk texture of that cool air, the smell of Congolese earth curling its toes under a thatch of dead grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In ancient times, the House of Hades was a major site for Greek pilgrims. They would come to speak with the dead and honor their ancestors.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The dead man was sitting by the side of the trail, leaning against a coconut tree with his eyes closed as if he was sleeping. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he says, ‘Dad, I ought to have grabbed back the gun and shot Smitty dead. Killed him ’fore he killed the rest of that family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rock would just sink dead into the center of my chest, right into my heart. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“But—” “I might be dead by noon; use this.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can’t talk to someone who is dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The right one, mulish, untouched, stares back dead at the lens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I’m right, then my parents are dead,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I whacked him between the ears with a dead stick. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes up residence inside him, a living doppelgiinger to face down the dead Viennese girl who haunts him every night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He said, “Got it,” many times over, and “As good as dead if they do, sir.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Grossman needed to cut away more dead tissue—he felt that the wounds still weren’t clean enough for a skin graft. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He slips from Al’s grasp, dead weight, and crumples to the floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Not dead, not murdered by some local boys who thought he’d gotten too uppity—just “gone,” as if one day he’d up and disappeared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was like a certain stretch on the P. L. M. between Fontainebleau and Montereau that always made me feel bored and dead and dull until it was over. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, “He tried to murder me. I should have been a dead man if you had not come up.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

My head’s reeling from the ghastly events of the last five minutes—Boggs mutilated, dying, dead, Peeta’s homicidal rage, Mitchell bloody and netted and swallowed by that foul black wave. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I know you hate it when I mope around, and even though you’re dead, I don’t want you to be mad at me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I never been that close to a dead person.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

All the street's signs were dead, all the day sounds had lost their stable meaning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst part of it was not being allowed to cough or make a sound, and knowing that if I did, I was as good as dead. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But then I realize that, no, he’s dead serious. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had a whole collection of newly purchased murder weapons and dead UPS men in her basement and/or attic. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The face of the dead man looked vaguely familiar. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

You let them go wanting, sit on road shoulders, crying next to their dead mothers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead were free and the living were safe, and there was an end to the dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get the newspaper images of the dead out of his mind. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Say . . . whatever you need to. Protect and defend, gods old and new, you have the words. Write. I'll sign it. You give it to the council when I'm dead." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After a while, he said, “Do you honestly believe you traveled back over a century in time and crossed three thousand miles of space to see your dead ancestors?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“His daddy’s dead now. Last time I seen him, he’d jest set fire to a dog.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Why do you keep asking? I told you, they’re all dead. Probably hundreds of thousands.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Two of the sheep were found dead in the stream passing through the pasture, and the remaining sheep were repeatedly driven out of the stream, several having to be dragged forcibly from the water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Now he's dead," I said after a moment. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Their weapons were the tradecraft of spies—the dead drop, the brush pass, the one-time pad—and their missions almost always had the same goal: to obtain vital information about the enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“In the old days a hundred throats were cut every Saturday night, and money was as rare as a rattlesnake higher than eight thousand feet, and everybody dropped dead from TB before they were forty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I found out, he was dead. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now they were covered with dust and the shells of dead insects. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Must he now face the probability that Luath, too, was dead? The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm happy to because then I don't have to look at the dead crow. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“When they heard the calls of their dead, was it with love that they approached the jeep? Or fear? Or anger?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A deserter and a Pole? I’m sorry, but they’ll be dead on the road in a day.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the cold wet, I smell dead magnolias. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Good as their boys were, they figured their chances of taking the gold were slim to none—not out in lane six and not with Don Hume looking like a dead man. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dicey wondered if Momma had named Sammy after her brother because he was dead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was all done and Estella was dead, he wished he could bury her with her mother and so be free of the shame of it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What? I better ask before y’all have me sleeping in the house with a murderer, waking up dead!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Every time she have an attack she scream enough to wake the dead. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their church was far from the others, but they could be heard on Sunday, a half mile away, singing and dancing until they sometimes fell down in a dead faint. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It would not be long before he was dead. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The King of America wants a tall, thin man in the Congo to be dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, as God is good and holy, I promise you, in such a cursed place as this, only the dead shall know. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Try it,” he warned, “and I’ll set this whole field on fire. Stay dead. Stay away from us, or the grass gets it!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind sleeping under the same roof as the dead,” said Jacquel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure you’re supposed to kiss a dead person,” said Turner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I mean, give me all the peonies you want when I’m alive, but once I’m dead, better to give donations on my behalf to a good charity like Doctors Without Borders.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fine-looking box, no doubt, but many of those assembled here in the Old Palace of Sunspear might soon be dead, depending on what was in that chest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, his character’s dead in this song. Kind of.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I was never allowed to tell a single person, or else we all might end up dead. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also pictures of the dead kids, and even though I knew it would only hurt me to look at them, I did. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of a half dozen stripped new deads in front of the apartment building, with no guarantee they’d ever be removed, which meant dodging rats just to get through the door. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Harry’s dead parents, who had been a witch and wizard themselves, were never mentioned under the Dursleys’ roof. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I can’t think of him dead. He seems maybe more alive to me than before.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing he noticed was a listing of the dead. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But the ruins prove it! They prove that I am the Future, I am alive, you are dead!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear crunching—footsteps in the frozen dead leaves covering the ground. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When word reached Octavian that Mark Antony was dead, he feared that Cleopatra would kill herself or burn up her treasury or both. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

In another bout, two men armed only with short swords fought each other until one was laid low—whether dead or not, Aurelia couldn’t tell. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Drive was completely dead, like everything else, as we drove past store after parking lot after store after parking lot. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But that’s also how C. diff starts—your stomach hurts because a few bad bacteria have managed to take hold in your small intestine, and then your gut ruptures and seventy-two hours later you’re dead. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Push up onto my elbows and look her dead in the eye. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Come on, you wimp,” she said, and jerked my hand forward and pressed it against the dead man’s neck as if I were going to take his pulse. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Poaching some limelight off a poor dead black boy and the hand of the white man who put him there. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And still he sat there, as still and as cold as the statue of the dead child. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I work for you, and plant and build and harvest for you, and do the work of your dead servants, I would like to taste your brother Suttung’s mead." Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Teasing, tormenting, as cold as a dead hand closing on my wrist. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was still in the camp or perhaps dead too. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This is the worst idea in the long and storied history of terrible ideas, right on up there with Julius Caesar marching up to the Roman Senate when he knew everyone wanted him dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve never thought about all the empty spaces at the Moon Festival, all the places where the disappeared, the dead, and the lost should be. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The moment when he had stood above Mary’s bed and found that she was dead the fear of electrocution had entered his flesh and blood. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, the Confederate race to North Carolina will stop dead in its tracks. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We’d lived there long enough to use up all the dead wood close to the cabin. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

With their kind parents dead and Count Olaf treating them so abominably, the three children were not used to kindness from adults, and weren’t sure if they were expected to do anything back. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were fixing to close the lid on her and nail it down, and she wasn’t dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” said Lyra, “that’s what we need to know, because we’re trying to find the land of the dead, and we don’t know how to get there. Where do we go then, when we die?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She cut the little dead body up, put the limbs in a kettle over the fire, and served them to Tereus that night for supper. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Billy’s father is dead, you know,” said Billy’s mother. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I felt dead selfish and bossy and mean, and tried to apologize to Papa Thibaut’s mate, in my rubbish French, for denting his fender. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Often after Mass ended, I would feel as though I had taken a very long walk with the dead. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

If the opossum could pretend to be dead, the robot could pretend to be alive. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Black newspapers were claiming that the Negro Leagues were dead, and that seemed to be the case. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sound of a door opening stopped my heart dead in my chest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"This is no jape. I saw it with my own eyes. I tell you, the dead walk." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Something about seeing them makes me feel as if she is not dead until we find her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Werfel’s voice echoed around the rocks and stones and cliffs, over the skeletons of the fallen dead. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

My hand searches for the corner of a step, and I squeeze from between Edward and the dead guard. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

So many dead rotting bodies in the streets! Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you remember how it was. If one turned up in a room, everyone pretended to find it dead boring. Then you came back half an hour later and it would always be gone.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One: the dead will take everything you love. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

That was when she finally quit moving and looked dead at the tree. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Or a dead end, if that’s what fate decreed—nothing but a blank, pitiless wall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In December the exposition experienced its first death: a man named Mueller at the Mines Building, dead of a fractured skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It felt like magic, like someone back from the dead. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore screamed; the noise echoed all around the vast chamber, across the dead black water. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

If they were dead, their parents would demand satisfaction. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

More dead men: a long neat line of dead, like a shattered fence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to tell her she looks dead.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They gathered about his bed and waited respectfully, the living to his right side, the dead on his left. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I’m staring at her hard, because she says, “I don’t use dead people to get out of class.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like reading that—the description of a waterlogged dead body. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pop’s passed out in his wheelchair again, dead to the world with a beer can in one hand, Grandmom’s rosary beads wrapped around the other, and the TV remote in his lap. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The boy’s dead, praying to toys won’t change that, and there’s work yet to be done before the show, which Baaz expects to begin on time.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He found he could hide from daylight and moonshine, and make his way swiftly and softly by dead of night with his pale cold eyes, and catch small frightened or unwary things. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We came upon a carriage abandoned in the street, the door open, a horse dead before it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He had expected walls and turns and dead ends, but this is different. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had left something lying round that would let them know Mary was dead. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I made a promise to Eleanor Roosevelt to see them to their graves, and I can’t drop dead on the job—so let’s get going.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Being born mortal is like being born already dead. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She saw the dead blue change to living white. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, I think Nana would be better off dead. I mean, if I got to where I couldn’t take care of myself or didn’t recognize my own family...what’s the point?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” he added, helping Kira find her way around a puddle with a dead rat in it, “they wouldn’t want Matt, I’m afraid. They only want us for our skills, and he hasn’t any.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Commander," said Beck, putting on a headset as he slid into his acceleration couch, "I know you don't want to hear this, but Watn— . . . Mark's dead." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They should have just killed me! I’m dead already! They took everything away from me!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As long as Mami wasn’t on the list, there was no reason to think she was dead. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a real live dead person. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Better a dead father than an absent one,” Blanca enigmatically replied, and she never mentioned it again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he took the wight’s head off at the neck, and for half a moment he exulted ... until a pair of dead hands came groping blindly for his throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I say, “That dead man from Lascaux. Well. He sure has a pointed thing on him. You know that, Calvin?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

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

It was the way he’d lived his life, moment to moment, breath to breath, since that terrible morning when he’d woken to find that Jordie was still dead and he was still very much alive. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He looked dead serious, then all of a sudden laughed again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"How long do you plan to hold that against me? You said you didn't want dead Roman for tea!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His face was dead white but he managed to give me a grin—not much of a one, but a grin. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw nothing more, until they stumbled over the body of Frodo, lying as if dead, face downwards on the grass with his sword beneath him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His horse was nervous, rolling her eyes, backing away from the dead men as far as her lead would allow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mini tilted the compact from one side to the other, as if she were trying to catch and read all the things that the dead spoke around them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Go and do as I’ve commanded. I have my dead to mourn.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He crawled out from under his blanket and eagerly followed his teacher, winding his way through the crowd of Gladers who slept on the lawn, their snores the only sign they weren’t dead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I hear his muffled laugh through the flashlight and it shoots me dead with happiness. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I moved closer to the center of the open window, and she looked me dead in the eye. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo dressed the dead woman again and wrapped her in a cloth to await the funeral. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until his advisor tells him, just wait — and the next day returns with a dead horse he’s bought. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t see the body, it’s easier to believe nobody’s dead. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My answers to her questions were brief, followed by dead silence. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I visited a re-creation of the Revenge of the Nerds house on the planet Skolnick and spent a day searching it, but it proved to be a dead end. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His baba had been dead for ten years; now he was staring at him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“And I bet he said those days were dead and over with,” I cut in. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There it sat, perfect as a fresh-laid egg on the dead sea bottom, the only nucleus of light and warmth in hundreds of miles of lonely wasteland. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cold, dead matter of the stars would decay away, leaving nothing but a smear of radiation that spreads equally throughout the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maddie flew alone, careful and happy, low over the snow-tipped Highlands on those pretty tapered wings, deafened by the Merlin engine, navigating by dead reckoning. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Over two years, and so few dead. Amazing.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the dead face one more time, and then with widowed sedateness he opened the door that led out into the hospital corridor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That I’m of more use to her dead than alive. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Like you, he let himself get too close, but then he also got himself dead. In my book these are two big strikes against him.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The owl is dead—” was all I could say. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the horse was still dead, of course, but it was unbumed. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were staring at us in silence, but in that way of theirs, as if we were nothing but stones or dead trees. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sandy Sterling, in the next chair, smiled dead into my eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “I bet they found another dead body!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“And what could you hit—a dead elephant from two feet away?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran could not tell whether she was alive or dead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He said that trains pulled up to stops filled with dead people from both sides of the border. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Four men dead in as many heartbeats, and for what? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"This room has not been touched this morning,” I said, "even the windows were shut. And the flowers are dead. Will you please take them away?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Louise grabbed at the coyote’s neck, growling, and having made certain that it was dead, tried to bring the sheep back to life. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The white woman is watching Kalinda too, but the next second I blink and she’s gone and there’s nothing but a dead rosebush standing where she was. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Medgar Evers, ” he say, his voice sound like it’s rolling backwards, “NAACP Field Secretary, is dead.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With each dead end, I felt an escalating fear. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

This was where they came when the warmth had seeped out of their bodies; this was the dark hall of the dead, where the living feared to tread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A terrible nightmare follows, where I’m lying at the bottom of a deep grave, and every dead person I know by name comes by and throws a shovel full of ashes on me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The going here was softer; the middle was overgrown with grass and the ruts on either side were full of dead leaves. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the sun set, he sped earthward, landing lightly on his dead branch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The oaks might be half dead, but something else was distinctly alive out there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This was to hold dead monkeys and tubes of blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of lullabies do we sing to our children at night? Where do you bury your dead?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Other than that, I found many shells, some bodies of dead birds, pieces of cork, and chunks of sponge, but nothing I could really put to good use. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this dead man had tried to kill him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The day the baby was born, I spied, in the dead of night, midwives, under a cloak of great secrecy, digging small holes near the house. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe we would both be dead by tomorrow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members, that’s what Milton felt, seeing his father sunk in desk light, jutting out a moist underlip, scanning a dead language. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The hills were replanted at great expense, but in another year the new roots, too, were found to be dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hannah looks uncomfortable, too, but not because she doesn’t want to think about dead things, the way I don’t. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The road to Montgomery led the marchers through cotton fields and scraggly pine thickets, across twisting rivers and creeks and into dark, gloomy swamps where dead trees draped with gray Spanish moss hugged the roadside. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both she and I gained a certain degree of respect from our peers because we knew what dead people looked like. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faces floated in the air—the judge's face crowned with that mockery of grey wool—the cold dead face of Mrs. Rogers—the convulsed purple face of Anthony Marston. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

If they got separated now, they were dead. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Chango, who believed the lizard was mocking him, aimed a lightning bolt at the tree, intending to scorch the sorry creature dead. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the living to look after the dead, sent Bronn to take charge of his captive knight, and went alone in search of his father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was walking to school, lost in feeling sorry for myself—my dad was dead, my mom in rehab, my girlfriend missing—when I saw the Bat Lady for the first time. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

In any case, practically overnight, Bobby turned himself from a dead stockbroker and incapacitated bon vivant into a live, if somewhat unqualified, agent-appraiser for a society of independent American art galleries and fine arts museums. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Only as one speaks of the dead,” Orestes said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I shout, “Thanks for saving me, Violet. I don’t know what I would’ve done if you hadn’t come along. I guess I’d be dead right now.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were a few groans, dead sounds from dying earth, most of them soft and low. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he loathed the man, and wanted him dead. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She had a beautiful foreign-looking face, dead white skin, large brown eyes, jet-black hair. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell said cautiously, “Did you...hear anything, when...when you were dead?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She meant the Homestead Strike, which had ended in a shootout that left over a dozen men dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In which the last people to see her before she appeared at Mrs. Janssen's are all dead. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’d rather be shot dead than face such a horrible, prolonged death! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“The trouble with you, Homer, is that you don’t know who your real friends are. When the company gets into trouble, it’ll throw you out like a dead mouse.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With his dead body in her arms she leaped into the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wilt thou aid this hand to lift the dead?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her foot edged forward, and then she thought, He’s dead, he’s dead, the sweet old bear, he died a long time ago. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The factionless are the last hope any of us has, now that half the loyal Dauntless and all the Candor are simulation-ready, and half the Abnegation are dead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The Mountain’s dead, as is my father,” Jaime told him, “and some might say your head was recompense enough. You did declare for Stark, and kept faith with him until Lord Walder killed him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He cut a hole through the door so the dead bolt could be locked from both sides. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad’s house is at the end of a long road, farther away from everyone else, with walls of chipping white paint and a front yard of dead yellow grass. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It’s not every day you see someone you care about come back from the dead. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She kept a photograph of her dead husband on the windowsill, beside the braided horsehair basket that was a gift from her son. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you so blind, or is it that you do not wish to see? What do you think will happen when all these enemies are dead?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After the marriage, in the dead of night, they killed their bridegrooms—everyone except Hypermnestra. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked in alive and she walked out dead. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Knowing my great-grandmother, she probably told the dog, “Go on, boy. Wake the dead.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

‘If I had my way, you’d wish you were dead now,’ said the other. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Because otherwise, both you and I are dead.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Remember the old vow: May God strike me dead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me a peck on the head and said, “Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began—more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did the gentlemen change their minds as soon as Captain Smith told them that those two men are dead? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She put her hand on his cheek, turned his face to hers, and stared him dead in the eyes. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

To that I replied with a song, to remind her of my dead father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He felt that he was growing rich in dead relatives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But that’s the kind of luck we have—dumb dead relatives who go outta their way to interrupt your good-night’s sleep to give you a lucky number that only brings you bad luck. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

His mouth was open and his teeth were bared, like one of those dusty, dead animals on display at a natural-history museum. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The windshield of the SUV was filthy, smeared with dead hugs, even though Dad had squeegeed it when they last stopped to refuel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. Used to. But I wouldn’t be caught dead in that thing now.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I never knew your juggler existed until this very moment ... but yes, I am sorry he is dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His nose is flat against my chest and pointing up at my chin and I feel sorry for him because he’s dead and the world is laughing at him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They stopped dead at the sight of the girl and the tiger standing together in the glittering, lamplit antechamber. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“So it doesn’t have to be, like...my dead relatives that go into my pictures, right?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was purple, so still Mother thought he was dead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A chill breeze rustled dead leaves in the woods. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many dead people do you think there are?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as the hog was dead Pa and Uncle Henry lifted it up and down in the boiling water till it was well scalded. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second reason that I think Phoebe nearly fainted dead away was that there was Mike Bickle, Phoebe’s potential lunatic, in her own living room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I am trying to be brave, but every time I think of that pretty baby dead in a box like it doesn’t have a soul at all, I just start to cry. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was back in the dark cavern, spirits of the dead drifting around me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“And then we had to drag you back like a dead fish. Almost got us all zapped.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were splayed out crazily across the dirt floor as if they had suddenly dropped dead in the middle of a wild dance party. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I demanded, suppressing my rising fear that Hamlet was dead, slain by Claudius. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to pretend to be dead,” I say quietly. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Anchel is dead. Daphne is dead. The rats found Shed, Fangor. King Gorger has launched his armies. They come for us,” gasped the woman. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maester Luwin trailed after him; By the time they reached the battlements, dead men and dying horses were strewn about the market square outside the gates. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mam says that dog has to go tomorrow and Michael cries all night and cries worse in the morning when he finds the dog dead in the bed beside him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

However, when the grizzly overtakes you, as it most assuredly will, you should fall to the ground and play dead. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, how is it? I mean, you gotta touch dead people?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Charlotte was dead, but George was alive in a way she had never imagined. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We were already a good four, five hours into Fang’s tomorrow, and I didn’t know if he was dead or alive, if he was home lying in bed or swinging from a rope. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The courtyards were littered with uprooted trees, broken bits of walls, and dead chickens. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also occurred to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The first thing she saw was the dead man on the wall. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air is thick with the putrid scent of the dead, and my hands are slick with shambler goo. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Parts of me are dead, or clearly dying. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks ago, he ran out of English class because we were readin’ a play about some dead white guy. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shaking her head, she smiled and spoke to him again in that strange, even tone she takes when she’s dead serious. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shagwell the Fool hacked the heads off two dead knights and pranced about the castle swinging them by the hair and making them talk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then, with a lurching heart, I realized what it was: a dead man swinging from a crossroads gallows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although I had heard her right, heard her say he was found dead on his office desk, I asked, “Did he get a letter bomb? Was it a letter bomb?’ Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The waving arm was green from the elbow up; all else was brown, dead. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was what I would be from this day forward—my commitment, my character as long as I lived—and nothing alive or dead could change my mind! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I say nothing as we walk through the bodies of the dead toward the outer wall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The garments the sisters took from them were decorated with black hearts, grey lions, dead flowers, and pale ghostly stags. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I moved past Mother, looking at the piece of paper tacked up, fluttering next to the dead man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Their eyes looked dead; their expressions were frozen, like a puppet’s. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His son discovered me exhausted and half dead with cold, and gave me a hand to bear me up till he reached home where he could clothe me in a shirt and cloak. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now, thanks to my wants, Dad was dead and the only thing Mom was in love with came out of a needle. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Troy did not fall because Paris was dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the food was for the dead babies, some to exchange with other families, and some to give to the rezadores—the people who prayed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master’s yard. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Each will be a sulky child who often wishes he were dead. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They left a dozen dead in the water, only two reaching the shallows, where we dealt with them briskly," the rider reported. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The lights in New York’s Times Square spelled out the message “Prohibition is dead!” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

No one knew if Sloth was alive or dead. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She went to the grove where the dog was buried, and when she arrived, she found Gwenforte, the dead dog, resurrected like Lazarus, standing on her own grave.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

One had been dead for nearly fourteen years—dead in a Chicago tavern, a knife kicking in his throat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was this that made me get to work in dead earnest. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep. Through dead eyes, no doubt about it. Not a spark of electricity in that brain; the camera is running on its own battery.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

By the time the waters finally receded, 400 people were dead and the whole of the Delaware Valley was devastated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of her website sitting dead and empty, I add: We should write about our wanderings so we have something to show for them besides pictures. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All that was left of Troy was a band of helpless captive women, whose husbands were dead, whose children had been taken from them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His front door was open, but the hallway was dead dark. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was once given a large fee to raise one from the dead, and he did so. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now the dead towns doors lay wide and they thought they could hear the faintest crackle, like autumn leaves, from inside. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many notables had given Chiron their sons to rear, but of all his pupils the child of dead Coronis was dearest to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eula, the dead clam, starts talking before she’s even sat in the chair, before I can explain anything, not stopping until ten o’clock that night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a flash of green light, a yelp, and the fox fell back to the ground, dead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

By the end of Sunday night, two were dead and forty-six were wounded. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And then I realize that many of them are dead, or so near to being dead it’s almost the same thing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I could be dead in a minute,” he said grimly, then clutched my forearm. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

People dropping dead at a feast or slowly, inexplicably declining into shadows over a period of months. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was the third brother among the Olympians, who drew for his share the underworld and the rule over the dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My family is all dead, or traitors; how can I...” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even mention the forty-two thousand old oil paintings of stuffy dead guys with fur collars no one cared about. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the same, I wonder what the dead people would look like. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had dragged me on foot from the ice-encrusted sprawl of Lake Michigan to the slaughterhouse district, which bustled with life even in the dead of winter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And then the line was quiet but not dead. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

No offense to the dead, but soccer is a really stupid thing to stay awake for. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To gather the felled trees and chop the standing dead ones was part of the field pay too. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “You take in a huge bunch of air and lie there like a dead man.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of salt and dead fish. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I dunno,” the sheriff said slowly, still not taking his eyes off the dead man’s face. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have heard that the Butcher King of Astapor is dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only then did the arm remember it was dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Back home, late in the night, Maman had just about given me up for dead. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re both dead now, so I suppose that makes me an orphan, too,” she says after a moment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mundín and I craned our necks forward, wanting to make sure that the bad guys were really dead. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Numbers alone do not win a war. You have not seen them. Half of them are dead on their feet.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Get me a new doctor who he isn’t already dead himself?’ Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They saw him walk right up to Arnold, and they saw Arnold look up at him and faint dead away. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Instead of one, two girls will now guard the camp at night. You are to shoot the Youns dead when you see them.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her life was already out-of-balance and now her dad was dead. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Orleanna Price, Southern Baptist by marriage, mother of children living and dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The injured soldier who had begged for a kiss now floated dead near our lifeboat, his head strangled in the netting of a raft. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So if we could free Thanatos, then the dead would stay dead?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We was already dead and I wasn’t gonna spend my last minutes on earth begging no worm from the bottom of a outhouse for my life. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Most days, she spent more time with the dead than with the living. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he is dead, there will be a choosing, and the knives will come out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even today, some of these numerological superstitions are not dead. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things didn't go exactly as planned, but I’m not dead, so it's a win. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swung him like a jump rope, like the wagon men had swung dead Jon, and let him fly, and the Flop went sailing through the air, landing in a slushy splash. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On my way to the post office I think, Why should I squander money on stamps when I have two legs to deliver the letters myself in the dead of night? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But I’d become part of a system, as permanent and complex as war itself, made a dozen small choices that had led to these dead creatures with their wide faces and chapped lips. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was dead before his fortieth birthday, a tape recording of one of his last sermons serving as his own funeral oration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor purses her lips, and I know that Lynn is as good as dead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was just about to greet him but stopped dead in my tracks. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“And why do you have a dead animal wrapped around your neck?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In Vietnam, too, we had ways of making the dead seem not quite so dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because at home was my mother with her dead eyes and my little sister, with her hollow cheeks and cracked lips. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was dead before his sword hit the floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She dropped dead; her very flesh had melted away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was already dead tired, and the anger was still begging to be fed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had been buried without funeral or rite in the Cook County Cemetery at Dunning, amid the mad and the unknown dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He knew at once they were all dead. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ai’s face was badly frostbitten this morning, nose, ears, chin all dead gray when I chanced to look at him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because the carving depicts a man instead of an event, the date is generally thought to be the dead man’s name. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You are a marsupial, and are nocturnal, and are known for mimicking the appearance and smell of dead animals when threatened.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The brother cut the notched black ear from the dead bull and trotted over with it to Romero. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His mama and father and brothers and baby sister are all dead on the bottom of the river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Am I alive only because Ruth May is dead? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the corpse over with his foot, and the dead white face stared up at the overcast sky with blue, blue eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The dead saw what they believed they would see. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The direwolf had a rabbit in his mouth and another dead and bloody on the ground before him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Miss Volker cares, and she said he has brought a death plague into this town and that people better beware or they’ll drop dead.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was an eerie sight—Shady and Jinx, their arms reaching up from the ground, as if the dead could provide some comfort for the living. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The police got a warrant out saying he wanted dead or alive.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Long Island, dead ahead. Let’s slow down, dear. ‘Dead’ is only an expression.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Not reporting a dead body is a violation of the health code, but I wouldn't worry about it. Is there anything else, Turtle?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lined paper flops like a dead bird’s wing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I found some shelf fungus growing on a dead tree and ate it after washing it in the pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since my search for a patron had come to a dead end, I knew my best chance for self-sufficiency lay in becoming an artificer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The later poets define the world of the dead more and more clearly as the place where the wicked are punished and the good rewarded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war in Europe had ended and the railroad cars piled high with dead were a distant clamor, though it had not quieted down entirely. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while everything she said made sense, it didn’t do a thing to that dead feeling I had. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he started talking about let a equal acceleration and let t equal time and suddenly he was scribbling letters and numbers and equals signs all over the blackboard and my mind went dead. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest! Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. Drink and devil had done the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When I watch the news and see unarmed black men and women shot dead over and over, it’s kind of hard to believe this world is mine. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was never anyone there—not on any of those nights and not today—and yet I stopped dead as I looked into the darkness this morning, because I could suddenly see myself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln—whose hat was still circled by a black mourning band in honor of his dead son—spoke for a couple of minutes, and delivered 250-odd words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He abhorred the idea of eating live worms or dead insects. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

How could a brave, handsome young man be as dead as that? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now that he was dead, it belonged to Mammachi, their grandmother, and Rahel and Estha were on their way to Cochin to see The Sound of Music for the third time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there were merely ruins littered with the bodies of the dead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She needs to smack that creature dead, because enough is enough! A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now as the vacuum-underground rushed him through the dead cellars of town, jolting him, he remembered the terrible logic of that sieve, and he looked down and saw that he was carrying the Bible open. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must have told her I was dead. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she laid him on the porch and put some soft rags under him tonight, he might rise from the dead, like Lazarus did in a meetin’-house story. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sobbed out that he ’as lucky to be dead; now he didn’t have to work all day after coughin’ all night, and didn’t have to worry bout gittin’ enough vittles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A thin ribbon of thick water that lapped wearily at the mud banks on either side, sequined with the occasional silver slant of a dead fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I begin to find reason in this, as the priest said when he discovered the dead rat under the altar. How is it your hand is so practiced, friend? Someone has taught you well.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There were a few dead mice scattered around, which only reminded me of the dead old ladies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He should’ve sent an ambulance and in the twenty-five years I’ve been cleaning houses nobody ever tells you what to do when your white lady keels over dead on top of you. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Among the dead animals that lay stretched in unnatural attitudes was a badly injured weasel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The hind legs scrabbled wildly in the air for a few seconds before the message got through: It was dead. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Gran was pretty annoyed by that, by Aunt Glo in general, who Gran said was always trying to call attention to how different she was, even after she was dead. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu lay on a mat in his mother’s hut, staring at a dead spider squashed on the wall; its body fluids had stained the mud a deeper red. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was dead the whole time, but we didn’t know. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wind hurled the sand ship keening over the dead sea bottom, over long-buried crystals, past upended pillars, past deserted docks of marble and brass, past dead white chess cities, past purple foothills, into distance. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Luke Castellan is dead! His body will burn away as I assume my true form!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the Geats wanted to argue, they hated the dead Dane so much. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the nine Pe-2s that had taken off on that mission, only five returned, and everyone was sure that Masha and her crew must be dead. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By the time he got out of the hospital the town had come alive again, like the miraculous reblooming of a withered desert flower that all but a handful had given up for dead. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t believe you get messages from the dead. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And there’s never any guarantee you won’t end up dead yourself. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would tell them whether she thought Bull Meecham was alive or dead. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the loud silence of his dead wife, perhaps it was Ruth’s disturbing resemblance to her mother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That muskrat was dead a while. When was the last time your neighbor got the boat out? Oh right, you have no idea. Awesome. Okay, then when was the last time you borrowed it?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He no longer believed in the chupacabras or vampires, but the dark, dead stillness of night brought them back. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he’s finally dead now and laid to rest in some African voodoo cemetery, or worse yet eaten up by the wild animals, well, amen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was hearing reports of unchecked violence, widespread chaos, thousands presumed dead. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And even the trees in dead center were near enough that the sea breeze could take the ball into their branches—if he could hit it high enough. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I find his phone tucked into one of the boots, but it’s completely dead. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Popo would use her sharp fingernails like tweezers and peel off the dead membranes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

More dead jungle ruins flashed past, an astonishing amount of wealth and materials left to rot and fall back to the green tangle of the trees and swamps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama planned this from the beginning. I see now how she made sure I was dead drunk before sending Amala to me. I feel as if I’ve been dropped into something I don’t entirely understand.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the dead were decently sewn into their winding sheets, but most were buried in the clothes they died in. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the president’s brain is dead, his body remains alive and is able to function at a survival level. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into his mouth and felt his own tongue; it was dry and dead, the carcass of a tiny rodent. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Skardebek had found something dead and rotten to eat, so she was chirpy. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, he was dead in the Great September Fire, along with my ma and little brother, like so many others in the village. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“What about the dead fishermen? The malaria epidemic?” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Familiar scents filled his nostrils: wet leaves and dead grass, the rotted carcass of a squirrel decaying in the brush, the sour stink of man-sweat, the musky odor of the elk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad wouldn’t be able to use them, because he was dead, and the renter also pointed out that it would probably be nice to have things of his around. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She handed Claire a dry cloth and together they dried and tidied the dead woman, folding her arms finally across her gaunt chest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don’t expect them to do a thing for you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a child of the Underworld can summon the dead legions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The enemy either had retreated or was dead. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, and dead men with black hands and bright blue eyes shuffled round a cleft in the hillside but could not enter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Darrell always pulls up pictures on his phone, pictures that Jasmine calls disrespectful to the dead, and I can’t help but agree. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She said she and Salim were ‘dead excited’ to be leaving Manchester as they’d had enough of the rain. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people are dead, but he has survived and even looks well fed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can it? All my family are dead — let me have another look—” “You had it to yourself all last night, give me a bit more time.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He fed the fire by hand, and it was like an offering to a dead giant. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any dead or wounded had been carried away. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That was standard procedure to make sure a dead man’s identification would not get lost. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in mid-February, a Hazleton animal caretaker who will be called John Coleus was performing a necropsy on a dead monkey when he cut his thumb with a scalpel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use the pool cue to pop the balloon, sifting through the dead remnants to get to the message inside. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I mean, that’s redundant because all vampires are dead,” says Bonnie. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Goblin flung up his beautiful head and went off on a dead run. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would not have loaded me on this helicopter, would not be flying me across the lush forests if I were dead. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can change things in later years, but with 93’s your freshman year, you’re going to have a lot of dead weight. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mom had been left for dead in a pile of bleeding bodies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At sixteen, I’ve probably witnessed more dead bodies than a mortician. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once, an hour before dawn, his breath left him and I was sure it was the end: he was dead and would not be raised. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard in places like Pennsylvania it’s a lot harder to get around, except for in the winter, when the dead lie down and become dormant. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Raking some dead leaves into a pile, she picked Little Ann up and laid her in them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life not only formed the soil, but other living things of incredible abundance and diversity now exist within it; if this were not so the soil would be a dead and sterile thing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go,” she says, her face blank, her eyes dead. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected the landscape to be barren and dead but it wasn’t: the hedgerows sagged under the weight of life, berries and flowers and birds’ nests. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful in her church and Drum in his tupelo sat quietly through screaming gusts and dead calms. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But there all resemblance to any child, living or dead, ceased. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either it was dead, or it was undergoing the change that he’d read about in a library book but could hardly believe was true—the change from a crawling thing to a flying thing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to the powder room. Y’all watch her in case she collapses dead of hunger.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Try it and you can thank me later. Where I’m from, they say a man will come back from the dead to get a drink of it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dany, starved, slid off his back and ate with him, ripping chunks of smoking meat from the dead horse with bare, burned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he was the most electric personality I have ever met, and I still can’t quite conceive him dead. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no, she’s not dead. Don’t think that for a minute. Last I saw her, she was recovered from the fever and bent on following you to the farm.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tending to the dead was an act of ultimate kindness, and such things were meant to be performed in silence, for an audience who would never acknowledge it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Here I was, looking at an actual dead person, a person who I had seen alive just days before. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was after five in the morning when he found him lying almost in the dead center of the Lawn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the worst kind of luck to leave a dead body in the open overnight—especially when the person died of unnatural causes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The trees in the garden were gold and brown, half of the leaves already dead on the earth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As I waited, another terrifying thought came to mind: What will happen now that Dr. King is dead? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three dead men in uniforms sat slumped over their desks; each had a loaded rifle next to him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what I expected to see— maybe a flag at half mast in respect for the dead. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Not that crows take off their feathers in the sun either, and these men were just a flock of crows: robbers, carrion-eaters who liked to plunge their sharp beaks into dead flesh. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Of Magdalene called Lena and First Corinthians, of his father trying to stop him dead before he was born. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t connect the two— the dead Mr. Hamilton and the live father. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another tried to push his brother—maybe they were brothers—out of the way so that he could have a bite of a dead bird that they were both competing with a hundred flies for. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A pod’s activated ahead of us, releasing a gush of steam that parboils everyone in its path, leaving the victims intestine- pink and very dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Even in the dead of night, New York is never silent. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But you threw her out the window. She’s lying dead in the street.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then I get some dry clothes from the house of a family who are dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Why had no one been to honor the dead this day? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Farther along the road, we saw a black man sitting in an odd attitude by the side of the road, and smellt an awful smell; and when we reached him, we discovered him dead. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He remembers believing that he was dying, that perhaps he was already dead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dead rooster was hanging from one of his massive, gloved hands. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m dead,” he thought, but he didn’t feel dead because his nose hurt so badly and his mouth was full of fur. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My eye was dead on the ball as he put it softly against the backboard. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And so, in a shocked silence, the column of the dead began their journey along the edge of the abyss. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Falling asleep and waking up with a start when my mother tries to creak the door open to make sure I’m, you know, not dead. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of dead flies around. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

At night when he was trying to sleep, Yossarian would call the roll of all the men, women and children he had ever known who were now dead. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then someone flung a dead cat over the Poor Fellows and Warrior’s Sons alike. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This time, I definitely have to look him dead in the eye. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A crow had once taken Mors for dead and pecked out his eye, so he wore a chunk of dragonglass in its stead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The shark was headed to Guam, and the biologists would never get to look for whatever it was that they looked for inside of a dead shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Where else was there for me to go, Bast? Everyone I knew was dead.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Zombie feet, dead butt, haunted spirit—pieces of her are dying off already. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Either he must go down the hill into the desert lands and lightless cities of the dead, or he must step across the wall back into life, where the formless evil thing waited for him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Moody swept the dead spider off the desk onto the floor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fat flies rise from stinking holes where dead bodies rot beneath smoking ruins. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Lying dead on the floor with cats crawling all over her.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Families used to stay in one village reliving the same disillusions. They buried their dead side by side.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

An odor of loam and dead leaves hung in the corridor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

You must understand, my suffering was unremitting and he was already dead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Mom, I guess. I don’t think I wanted to be dead as much as I wanted to be gone.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I want the monster out of there. Him and his wet nurses. You cannot leave them in that same tower as the dead girl.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Ye can stay here for the time being. Pa and Auntie are long dead and there’s not too much call for their rooms these days.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you dare talk about the dead like that,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From the evening with Aunt Rose’s husband and the subsequent conversation with Aunt Rose, Ophie knew the dead could do things to the living, especially when they were asleep. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We’re dreaming, right? We died in the middle of the night and now we’re dead and our dead brains are dreaming, right?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The dead request five more minutes,” she would say, and bury her head in the furs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s a kind of gun, and it kills you dead. Mi mama—” His voice choked and he didn’t say any more. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob fingered a patch of dead raspberry leaves. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had read in it: “Only the unwise think that what has changed is dead.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was clinging to a tower miles high, and his fingers were slipping, nails scrabbling at the stone, his legs dragging him down, stupid useless dead legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes were open, but he was so still that I did not know if he was dead or alive. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched while Horace removed the dead man’s skullcap and placed it beside the dead man’s shoulder. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The marshmallow dropped dead into the fiery depths. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Five of the six workers who had been eating lunch in one of the sheds in the North End Paving Yard would be found dead. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But the dead man at her feet didn’t say a word. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I cut off some boughs for a mattress, then I leaned some dead limbs against the boulder and covered them with hemlock limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was led by two bedraggled men, and it pulled a wagon with a dead and naked body on it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Others have tried. Somehow I keep coming back from the dead.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Gallup police would find his body in the bushes along the big arroyo, and he would be just one of the two or three they’d find dead that week. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

All across southern England houses and villages were devastated, large buildings were swept away, farm animals were drowned, and as for people, the number of missing or dead was, for the time being, uncountable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Yossarian clenched his fists and looked at the long bone-handled hunting knife hanging in a holster over the cot of the dead man in the tent. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“For that I curse you! I will see you dead! And you, Narciso, I swear to kill you!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reward wouldn’t do him any good if he was dead. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he added, “Birmingham is not a dying city; it is dead.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The man is not dead, he is dying, but he is not dead. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the headline doesn’t really fit the facts. You don’t call a bunch of dead rats mechanized just because you find them on a shelf near a motor.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Big bite after big bite, while the two of them return to staring at dead birds in a frying pan. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s not fast enough, Blackberry! We must get on. Bigwig may be dead.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined all the frogs Stan and I had paid for, beneath the ice, motionless bumps on a muddy bottom, more dead than alive, hanging in a cold, dark limbo until next spring. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t a psychic know about all that kind of stuff? Can’t they, like, talk to dead people and stuff?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When Billy got his clothes back, they weren’t any cleaner, but all the little animals that had been living in them were dead. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned in slow pirouette, dead arms outstretched, snow dusting her dark hair like powdered sugar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mama brought Jumper, who snorted and shied away at the sight of the dead animal. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pierced the feet of the dead man and fastened them with thongs to the back of his chariot, letting the head trail. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead families are buried together in one grave. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not dead. No need to call the bailiff to cart you off. Now out of that heap and away.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a better idea? You’re dead either way, right? What are you going to do? Surrender? Let them call you a pirate and string you up?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes before each bell, he’d rise like the dead and shuffle on to the next class. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe like Yeller, Jumper could scent the dead bull’s sickness. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Causey was a master of half expression, half smiles, and half glowers, for all nuances of expression stopped at the invisible frontier that marked the dead sector of his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The dead man was a bandit come to rob the inn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When finally I reached the place, all out of breath, I found her lying dead, with a bullet hole through her middle, right where it had to have shattered the heart. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foxes could carry off dead squirrels and possums. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we reached Tucson, my Aunt Ophelia was dead. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“The next morning, she said, ‘There’s a dead tree in the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all of that was dashed to hell two days after I was born, when the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They have been laid to rest in the river, without ceremony, in the dead of night, lest the enemy perceive our weakness and rally in their own sickness to strike us while we ail. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“It is partly a charity-school: you and I, and all the rest of us, are charity-children. I suppose you are an orphan: are not either your father or your mother dead?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why grown folks can’t say someone is dead, they think it’s a lot easier to say “gone.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Usually, the wizard would quickly cut off the head of the guilty snake, but this time, the dead man took pity and allowed the cobra to live. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

And he does not go to a Catholic school, but to a public school named after a dead politician. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the battery dead there was no way to get the Datsun running. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run back from the edge to a dead tree, throw myself against it and break it off and drag it back to the cliffwall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they’re drunk, and all of a sudden—bang—somebody’s lying dead in the gutter. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it’s taking this long he must not be dead after all. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The guards got a stretcher out of their own cozy car, opened the dead man’s car and went inside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had already attempted 2 circuits over field prior to passenger’s departure and found it dead tiring so I stayed overhead for half an hour to burn off fuel before a final attempt to land. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“White or dark?” she asked, looking me dead in the eye and not recognizing me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she was right there before me, that busy, priggish, conceited little girl, and she was not dead either, for when people tittered appreciatively at “evanesce” my feeble heart—ridiculous vanity!—made a little leap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Princess, you have much to learn. Alive, nobody matters much in the long run. But dead, some men matter more than others.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It this way. You recall them parts about Jesus raising the dead and curing the sick?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And as Citra listened to various snippets of conversation, she found herself angered that it was all about the four dead scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then while she wiped all the green cheeses and rubbed them with butter, she told them about the dead, cold moon that is like a little world on which nothing grows. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I trust you realize that you are a dead man, Lord Eddard?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s a dead body in the tall grass only a few feet from where you are. That’s why this spot was left empty last night.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that segregation isn’t dead—just look at schools and neighborhoods and workplaces, and you can see that it’s still all over America. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Someone dead whose spirit was trapped and couldn’t get away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew about the weather, omens, the living, the dead, dreams and all illnesses and made a modest living with her skills. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If your son is dead, Lucius, it is not my fault. He did not come and join me, like the rest of the Slytherins. Perhaps he has decided to befriend Harry Potter?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He set about the work of sawing through the dead man’s skullcap. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sam Westing was dead, but maybe, just once, she could beat him at his own game. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead ivy along a stone wall and a mailbox and a fence along the road and the dead trees beyond. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be mad at her, but it’s obvious she’s bored reciting these lines that have been burned into memory from telling hundreds, maybe thousands, about how they’ll soon be dead. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I hope I’m not going to hit a dead end. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Quickly she dragged the dead man from the pathway into the shelter of the brush. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot regret that he is dead—not at all!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let Him strike me down dead right here in the gutter where I sit!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bustles about, uprooting dead plants and weeds, and mulching new life into the tired dirt. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The black- light walls are lined with plaques paid for by families of the dead who are asking the angels to bring their loved ones back to life and give them a happy eternity. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No, Dad. If Lice is dead it’s because he was greedy,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As everybody we see there is dead we do not waste any more time, but report the affair at the next stretcher-bearers’ post. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two dead bodies in front of me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m only saying it because you’re upset that I think Devon is still alive so I’m showing you I Get It that Devon is dead. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy is dead, but Prince Dain will never be king. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you wish you hadn’t saved my life? Is that it? Do you wish I was dead?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

One time I even saw a woman try to climb in the casket with the dead person. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t look so dead serious, I’d think he was trying to get me to come with him to his camp. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Like I’d figured, it had taken her and Lisbeth till dark to get the wood dragged up and the fire to going around the dead cow. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then get out and stay out! . . . rather die rather be dead! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he doesn’t, I’ll have no choice but to risk going to his house in the dead of night. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kaup’a’ta was going to lie there and pretend to be dead. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days, the dead were kept at home. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

An absence so decorative, so ornate, it was difficult for her to understand how she had ever endured, without falling dead or being consumed, his magnificent presence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t catch my breath and I was afraid, and I thought that maybe Dante was dead, and then there was all this panic living inside of me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He made his rounds with Sergeant Amen, checking each room, and here and there they found monkeys dead or in terminal shock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach was looking at me like he was dead serious. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Can you arrange away that dead little girl off of my kitchen table, Pastor? Work out a Lazarus number?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Ophie and her mother traveled from Atlanta to Washington, DC, on the Birmingham Special, Pennsy enfolding the wounded pair in the embrace of her passenger car seats, the dead took notice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Marched off the porch, right out into the dead of night, where supposedly the animals were wide awake and walking around like human beings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of them was Lelia, sitting on the grass, cradling his dead blue head in her arms and lap and rocking on her knees. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was dead and he brought me back to life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Granny seemed to have gone out of her mind, for she stood like stone, her eyes dead upon me, not saying a word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose...we should pull her out and lay her down. Sort of treat her with respect. I dunno. But if the shopkeeper came back and found a dead woman in his shop...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a dead, furry animal frozen to it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Slightly ashamed of herself, she scoured the image for any sign of Mark Watney's dead body. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we don’t catch this bird, you’re a dead man, and I’m just prayin’ that when you go to heaven you don’t bump into your long-lost feathered friend, Michael Jackson, up there. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A crystal had been set in the soft earth, and Lommy wanted to take it until the Bull told him he'd better leave the dead alone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When the Waterworks burned down at around three in the morning, the pumping machines went dead, and the water supply to the city stopped. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the other outlaws fled, authorities went to inspect the dead man and saw his gold front teeth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The ecstasy he found in her had illuminated the dead tissues and outlined the hollow of his spirit. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t want to ever be like him. I don’t want to live that way. And if I were dead, I’d basically be living that way.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her countenance—despite the rumors—was still youthful and pleasing, and she endeavoured to carry on ruling in the manner of the dead king. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

When a fireman arrived a few minutes later, Ivy was dead. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He lived in a shack on the riverbank that had once belonged to his grandfather long time dead. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the movie, almost everyone is dead, and there is this insane moment when the Spartans start stacking the bodies of the dead up to form a wall of corpses. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And pitching their dead bodies into the woods. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I felt guilty about stealing from the dead before,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Lemures or Larvae were the spirits of the wicked dead and were greatly feared. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a sickening moment Penelope thought that the dead creatures draped around her neck had miraculously come to life and were now seeking some kind of awful revenge. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He sat there a long time looking at her dead face. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was skin and bones, his eyes were dead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other students were misfits, they all seemed to have dirty hair and oversized mouths and shrunken foreheads and in my estimation were as dumb as the dead. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she didn’t move. Dad was already dead, but she didn’t want me to go too. She tried to plead with Voldemort...but he just laughed...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Actually, no. Everything would be easier if I was dead.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Just eighteen months after the investigation, he was found dead in his home in Philadelphia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I hoped she would seem less dead there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Later we sat by a wood stove in the warming house, all alone, and after a while I asked her what it was like to be dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody can speak for the leaders of the two guided groups involved, because both men are dead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The one where the man wants his lover dead rather than have her face the evil that awaits her in the world. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I knew it shouldn’t matter, because once you’re dead, you don’t feel anything. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, I shouldn’t be here. I committed no crime. But no one knows I’m here. I haven’t gotten a phone call. My wife thinks I’m dead. Can you call her?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They must have taken a hundred pictures each of the dead VC. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Sunjin’s father is dead! I thought they weren’t supposed to take the head of the household!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"My lord, we all feared you dead, or . . ." He looked at the clansmen uncertainly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He returned at about five in the afternoon to find her nearly dead from loss of blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it is will appear, even later, in colored plates, in books; like the work of Leonardo da Vinci, whose studies of hands and feet and hair and dead people I pore over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grigori hadn’t kept these remnants to inter them with the dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The wireless operator could see, through the shattered Plexiglas of the cockpit, the young pilot desperately trying to free his dead navigator from a torn and bloody helmet. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And then, because the childrens are a little greedy, it is true, Paolo says, “Is there anything else your dead husband doesn’t need?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It hasn’t hit me yet: that Edward, by far the most talented transfer initiate we had, the boy whose blood I cleaned off the dormitory floor, is dead. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

With Hector dead, Achilles knew, as his mother had told him, that his own death was near. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black grass had been trampled by eons of dead feet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, too far back for the children to see, other inhabitants of the world of the dead had heard what was happening and were coming to join the great march. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I want to point out that twenty-two dead tributes will never recover from the Games he helped create, either. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the largest in the for­est, or in its dead centre, or remarkable in any other way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it about time you got over that? Bury your dead, Jean Louise.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I will not look behind me: All that’s there is dead forest and smoke. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They dashed back with both living and dead swinging in their fists. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Weylin ordered the man stripped naked and tied to the trunk of a dead tree. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Frank, a medic whispered, “There’s no way. She was dead. She has to be dead.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And all the while my Mrs. de Winter, my lady with her smile and her lovely face and brave ways, the real Mrs. de Winter, lying dead and cold and forgotten in the church crypt. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Take a quick shower before you get dressed. ElViejo is dead.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as things are now it is a pity that they should stay here; the orderlies will of course grab them as soon as he is dead. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man’s horrible face. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were a few bare trees around, and some snow gusting over dead brown grass. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead lay sadly in blankets, curled as though sleeping. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"Bad trouble, Brother; they trying to —" Then the harsh sound of breaking glass, distant, brittle and fine, followed by a crash, and the line went dead. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was to inherit them, the legacy unfurling before me this way: you worked from before sunrise to the dead of night. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the season, the dead were hard to distinguish from the living. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She ordered Shinae to go with her to the police station, but the girl refused, saying she was terrified of dead bodies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"It's an awful thing to find a brother dead. You'd have need of a drink as well, Lord Snow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“These men have been dead a long time, but I know their words point, one way or another, to Clansse.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cold air blew in, whistling a mournful tune like the dead singing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The few leaves that dangled from the branches were brown and dead. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I have to warn them before it’s too late, but when I take out my cell phone, the battery is dead. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then he goes back inside the house to deal with my pop, who has recently returned legless from the hospital, clutching my dead grandmother’s rosary beads. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean”—the medic lit a cigarette and glared at her—“some kids called up and said there’s a dead guy in the basement. But there ain’t. So nothing. Nada.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes closed, trying to feel pious and sorry for the dead soldiers, who died for us, whose faces I can’t imagine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sells the few things he owns: his bed, a gift from his mother; his leather jacket, a gift from his dead uncle; his rustic armoire, where he hangs his clothes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about my father, who was dead and buried. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“But I will rebuild on this space. This was my father’s space before I was born, and my mother’s after he died. Now that she is dead, it’s mine.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you're not here to make funeral orations for dead traitors. You're here to read aloud, and I am not going to tell you so again.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He’s dead, of course; but I expect there’s someone here who was with him. I’ll go and find out.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was discovered that the rabbi was not dead but was being cared for by the Russian peasant, he was brought into the still-intact home of a Jewish family and nursed back to health. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Is it wrong to be glad that someone is dead? she thought. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, the bodies of the dead saboteurs were taken to the morgue. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

By the time they were back at the end of the ward Linda was dead. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My emoticons are puncture-ation marks from the time a dead horse fell out of the sky onto me and my mother. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

All my fear lets loose...all my hurt...even anger that Mama Ya-Ya is dead. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He says some of them are saying to bury rocks in your garden right now, and after the white people are all dead, dig them up and those rocks will be turned into gold. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Texas, dead blackbirds, dickcissels, and meadowlarks were found at the nests, and many nests were deserted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Did they miss or is someone like...dead?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Later, as they ate and drank together, and sang regimental songs, their reunion would also become a memorial service to their dead: an act of remembrance. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Aunt Lydia pressed her hand over her mouth of a dead rodent. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this single sun-drunk stripe, Weep was as lush as Lazlo had always imagined it to be, and the rest of the city looked more dead for the contrast. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Corpses clogged the streets, mainly those of loyalists to the dead president and anyone who looked like a Tutsi, the ethnic group historically opposed to the Hutus. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"So, am I dead?" was my first question. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She wanted him dead, so she could steal his place as their father's heir. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Well, Minya and the ranks of ghosts that now filled the arches of the arcade, crushing Sparrow’s vines beneath their dead feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’m already dead, she told herself, as calm as the skeleton dog. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“How do you know she isn’t alive right in this very town? T. Ray could’ve lied about her being dead, just like he lied about her leaving me.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“How would you like her to drop dead in this room?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That ‘your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost’ routine is a dead giveaway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She comes out of the front door and stands there for a second, sees us and stops dead. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet against the door of the stall, my head against my knees, I’m thinking of what I would say to a dead woman and wondering how I am ever going to go to class. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Within hours, tens of thousands of dead fish were floating on the surface like autumn leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was dead before I remember, but George Hamilton told me about it many years later and his eyes filled with tears and his voice croaked in the telling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The view from our breakfast bar is dead forest. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But a month later, the same neighbor who had awakened Thom from his enchanted sleep came across the farmer again, except this time he would not awaken, for he was dead. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At first he thought it was a lake, and, like all the other lakes he had come upon, dead. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The god struggled, flinging the dead aside, breaking off ribs and skulls, but the skeletons kept coming, pinning the god’s arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“If he were ten days in the water, he’d be dead, or mad from drinking seawater.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stepped forward, muscles tensed, ready to use force if necessary, but she scrambled away, almost tripping onto the dead weeds of her yard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

No newsmen were allowed in Sing Sing at the electrocutions of four men on July 7,1891; prison officials claimed that each was dead within six minutes of entering the execution room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I train with the dead,” he said flatly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Men and mounts alike were trotting by the time they reached the trees on the far side of the sodden field, where dead shoots of winter wheat rotted beneath the moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“One dead person to another, girlie? I wouldn’t be talking. You started this whole thing! If it weren’t for you, Alcyoneus wouldn’t be alive!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I do have feelings, you know, even if I am dead —” “Myrtle, no one wants to upset you,” said Hermione. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And the second I say it, I realize that if she does, she’s going to see her two dead sons lying in front of the truck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Though I can hypnotize the mafia and raise the dead at will, I seem incapable of erasing the circles beneath my eyes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now it abandoned her and went to the place where the living walk with the dead. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Shuck thing just looked dead— like a wax statue. Then boom, it was back to life.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I see a raggedy lake with dead trees stuck into the marsh around the edges. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The big ape’s mother must be dead drunk on the floor somewhere. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held back, pretending to limp a bit from my dead leg. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In Philadelphia itself an increasing number of cats were dropping dead every day, attracting, one Philadelphian complained, “an amazing number of flies and other insects.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“But wouldn’t it be better if we already knew we were dead so we’re not living in the fear of how it happens?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It might even be arsenic and he would be dead in ten seconds flat. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

And if heaven was on the other side of a black hole, dead people would have to be fired into space on rockets to .get there, and they aren’t or people would notice. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly, every dead legionnaire in the cavern drew his sword and raised his shield. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I feared that it was a brave but dead hobbit that Aragorn was carrying.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And we know we can use it to draw the great aurochs and the dead man on the root cellar walls. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They saw the likenesses of their foes and their friends: the sons of Atreus, old Priam stretching out his hand to Achilles, the dead Hector. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mikey’s hand goes faster in his pocket, so fast the spout gives a lurch and collapses and Mikey is rolling on the ground yelping, I’m dead. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Wherever we were, there were still traces of the dead leaves from the fall before staining the highway’s cement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Somebody thought the dead man’s work was important enough to keep hidden from him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Place your hands on the table. I will build a bridge between the world of living and dead.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My parents are dead, too,” she said, finally. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They meet up at their rendezvous spot of Soper’s Hill in the dead of night. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly seventy of the ruffians lay dead on the field, and a dozen were prisoners. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At the close of day, when night comes, the troop goes to sleep in a dead, leafless tree. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pennsy didn’t mind the dead, because they left her passengers alone. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And no sooner had the men finished digging out the dead men and butchering the horses than another corpse was found. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then the dust figure rose from the end of the hall and rushed him, raising its dead hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He understood at once, recoiling in pain from the realization and shaking his head with a protesting and imploring grimace, that Nately was dead. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Leaves and dead fronds fly through the air, sticking all over her Butterbatch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Another one dead? By Meshe’s guts, and not hardly winter yet.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the brilliant glare of the moon the only colors were stark black and dead white, and every edge was jagged and every surface bare. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact,” he said, “the general plan of the furnace was not unlike that of a crematory for dead bodies, and with the provision already described there would be absolutely no odor from the furnace.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I have seen a Heart lying on a Plate, jolted with Electricity. It had as much to say dead as alive.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She rubbed at her arm and lifted her chin to look him dead in the eyes with the stubbornness that she’d shown that first day he’d driven her home. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Just three nights ago she had dreamed of Daario lying dead beside the road, staring sightlessly into the sky as crows quarreled above his corpse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A survivor of the brutal pogroms that had spread across Russia over a decade ago, Motke had seen the faces of the dead and broken everywhere he looked—his wife, his friends, his neighbors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the dead hours Frodo came out of a deep dark sleep to find Sam shaking him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He recognized a dead pine tree that had been split by lightning in a nearby clearing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Was she like Lazarus and had just now come back from being dead? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘A bunch of dead losers waiting for a free handout from Gaia, whining that the world owes them something?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For me, eating them would be like eating dead people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel turns his face from the ground to me and looks me dead in the eye and says, “1. Can’t. Breathe.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A dark and restless sky still moved overhead, but where was the hard ground, the wet, the mud, the dead birds? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The only good colonel, he decided, was a dead colonel, except for himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Occasionally Cora’s mind tricked her and she’d turn the story into one of her memories, inserting the faces of ghosts, all the slave dead, who looked down at her with love and indulgence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At 8:44, the doctors pronounced him dead. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person— perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it was their first time dealing with it, that would at least explain why they wilted like dead grass after only a few seconds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Will you hide among the dead, as you always do? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

There's no doubt in my mind that he’s dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My ears ring from the gunshot, but it’s preferable to being dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Which he realized would be very difficult to do if he was dead. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Set your bag down and get to gathering up a bunch of twigs and any dead leaves you see, will ya?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

A television journalist in the Farm Belt once said this about a suspected outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease: The pasture contained several cows seen by news reporters that were dead, diseased, or dying. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Lawrence became more interested in the military applications of nuclear research, he grew more dismayed at the lack of progress under the dead hand of the Uranium Committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Max won’t have a ration in the ghetto, because the Germans think he’s dead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That may be true, but fear of the uncontrollable is not a concrete enough reason to give Jack Kang for the Erudite wanting us dead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not speak ill of the dead, no matter how hideous their fashion sense,” Taylor instructed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As if to say that being dead was home. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, old man, your little friend has quite a good imagination. Don’t you think we would know if the Timekeeper was dead?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Eventually,” he said, “one of the people back there is going to start thinking about collecting the twenty-thousand piaster reward and the gold medal the VC gives out for a dead American.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“How much did a dead Archduke cost in those days?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

White with the ashes of a thousand dead covering their faces, their bodies. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She said, “Khaled, nothing about this sea feels dead to me.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little white silent town on the edge of the dead Martian sea. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both started working on the dead girl’s rings, tugging them from the cool flesh, trying to get them off. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before Hector could approach, he who knew well that armor taken by Hector from the dead Patroclus aimed at an opening in it near the throat, and drove the spearpoint in. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Agent Olsen asked: “You said good morning and his response was . . . ?” “I just got in an accident and I’m freaking out and I think the other two guys are dead.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her bowstring was taut, the arrow nocked to it in readiness; she could have pulled and loosed in less than a second, and Mrs. Coulter would have been dead before she finished drawing breath. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell when he got to Ernie because a wavering voice cried out, “I’m dead.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

No wild creature could have carried the dead body away. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just in the last year, I had tended to so many of the dead and comforted so many mourning families. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That's how I got the news about our boy, shot dead like a dog in the street. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy tribute from her district is dead. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Other times, the younger boys sat by rocks weeping and telling us that the rocks were their dead families. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Or I had. Seven of them. That was to start with, but now the bounty hunters have had time to get to work. So some of them—maybe all of them—are dead.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Horace Whaley placed the heel of his right hand against the solar plexus of the dead man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Very well. There. I can do without the rest” He straightened himself, holding the bloody sword, and looked at the dead body which had killed its mother. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only clothes they had or would ever have—like the only life they had or would ever have—was what the citadel provided, and the citadel provided the garments of dead goddesses. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When Bill realized that she was dead, he let out a torturous cry. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He did not bother any more; the horses were all dead too soon. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

South of the city was where our dead were buried—but not my mother, whose ashes returned to the ocean that killed her, which was also the ocean she loved. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The air smelled like kudzu, mud, cool gravel, and dead fish. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He laid the dead moth on the bedside table and fell back to sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But Park was dead and South Korea seemed impossibly far away. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Finding nothing, no bait and no new idea, I sat up—only to dis­cover that I was dead centre in the focus of his stare. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to go back into that house with its dead man and his gun and my blood that is not my blood and their madichon. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Thousands of dead people have come through Snowberger’s and have ended up in either the “Rock of Ages” or the “Everlasting Arms” section of the Snapfinger Cemetery. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I glared up at the god of the dead. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Good heavens,” cried the mayor, “is he dead?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sister whose hand I am clutching in the picture is dead. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Half my beasts are dead or gone, and my reputation is in shambles!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A dead rodent with a pointed nose and a long tail. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I led some of the boys in singing hymns, and I always took my turn at burying the dead. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He still couldn't make out what it was, so he walked a little nearer before he stopped dead in his tracks. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s someone who gets off on dead people. Latin’s dead, isn’t it?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Further, they stated that the money their society had collected for making coffins and burying the dead “has not defrayed the expense of wages which we had to pay to those whom we employed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She wiped her eyes and looked at the dead animal. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few days ago, I saw him dead on the nightmare battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She tried to tell her mother and father that she was helped by the first girl, but they cried out in anger that her sister was dead. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Pigeons are suddenly dropping out of the sky dead,” said one witness. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the living swam; some of the dead floated; the ones in heavy mail . and plate sank to the bottom, the quick and the dead alike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were as brown as dead sycamore leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would sooner have them dead in the ground,” said Yarwyck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d sometimes been locked in the crypt overnight with only the skulls of dead monks for company, and he couldn’t even count the number of times he’d been called stupid or worthless or worse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There are many thousands of us, nearly all dead. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But Matt never knew, just before he opened the bathroom door, whether the dead man might be lying on the other side, staring up at the big light in the middle of the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shattered on top of the siege tower, drenching the dead wood in lamp oil. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I am sure that she thought Cardan had to be dead, or worse. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was dead and Apollo kneeling beside him wept for him, dying so young, so beautiful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably just a couple dead men doing their voodoo death whisper in my ear, but I definitely wasn’t getting a good vibe from the girl on the glass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Longstreet cleared the brain, blew away bloody images, the brilliant fence in the bright gleaming air of the afternoon, tried to catalogue the dead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laid my pillow over my head to protect myself from visions of the dead, but I could not breathe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I used the name of God in vain, then God would strike me dead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I want you to float on your back. It’s the same idea as the dead man’s float, but you don’t have to hold your breath, and you can keep your eyes open. See?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m just playing, man. I ain’t touch no dead people, and Mr. Ray told me I don’t have to. I just help out with setting up chairs and stuff like that.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘You smell -’ ‘I know. Like I’ve been dead. Probably because I have been. Oath to keep with a final breath and all, but I’m better now -’ She stopped him with a kiss. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “Well, for thousands of years, humans have believed that birds will guide souls to the place of the dead.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There was a dead silence for a minute or two. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I did mind, now that she was dead, was being in mourning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So we make it to the other curb, and we're not dead, and nobody's too near, so I say, "Close call . . . sorry about that. Some kid on a scooter. You all right?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the queen takes care of his dead body for a year. And that’s when the god feels sorry for her. So the god brings him back to life.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her skinny arms were trembling from the dead weight of her son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I'm amassing quite a pile of dead before me, and I take a few steps back, giving myself a bigger space to work. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The little girl who is now dead sits in the back seat, with her two best dolls, her stuffed rabbit, mangy with age and love. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Battery problems. Let’s say you had a battery problem. You couldn’t run. No lights. You’re dead in the water. What would you do about it, Mr. Gillanders? Would you, say, put a spare in?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Look at all the great stuff I’m missing. No neat name for me. No dead muskrats. No torturing people on the way home from school. No making mothers scream. No Treatment on my birthday.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The quartered carcass of an ox filled the wagon bed, along with two dead sheep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe they read her letters, maybe they only looked at the postmark, but to a man jack they all replied: “Send us your next letter after Papa is dead!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An aftermath of a dead man was probably still lying on the flat, flat earth, breathing up the dirt till it lined his lungs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nightly nightmares of a dead girl gift wrapped in a shower curtain. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She lived on the opposite side of Jefferson Park, a mile away from me, in a nice condo on top of a stationery store— the same block the dead guy had lived on, actually. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I think they’re all dead. But it’s not like the Nazis had a monopoly on evil.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A dead end in this maze really will be a dead end. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The railroad tracks are littered with broken dolls, old tires, dead dogs, and worn shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was not even looking at the dead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the only one of us who will offer a dead beetle up to heaven. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t dead, but it was unable to fly. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When they lowered Sophie Mol’s coffin into the ground in the little cemetery behind the church, Rahel knew that she still wasn’t dead. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would know that Mary was dead; they had stumbled upon the white bones of her body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after Herbie first dangled the feeder from a limb, only a few tiny red drops remained inside the jar—the rest of the feeder was crammed full of well-fed dead ants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the time the bell rings, we have a pretty good-looking cast of our dead queen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They were both dead by the time they arrived at the hospital. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I clench my eyes tightly, blocking out the image of the dead bodies we’ll find in the First Arrivers camp. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the gunners makes unimaginative comments about the smoke, a dead horse he can see at the base of the walls, the intensity of certain quadrants of fire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I knew that the spirit of the dead hovers about for a time, and the swooping dove seemed very like Hari. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he found the freshly dug trenches filled with his dead comrades, all mowed down by the Russians. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain,” a man calls out, “there are seventeen wounded, no one dead.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a dead gorse bush King Pellinore was sitting, with the tears streaming down his face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat with his back against the wall, the small stone wall this side of the dead horses, plucking grass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt the sound of the pistol shots made them think that he was shot, captured, or dead. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A small stream of ash spilled onto a thicket of dead mesquite. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

God bless Mam, God bless our dead sister and brothers, God bless Ireland, God bless De Valera, and God bless anyone who gives Dad a job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Come see the dead man in the monkey house. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was a balding man, wearing a frock that was slightly different from the dead around him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When Ned had finally come on the scene, Rhaegar lay dead in the stream, while men of both armies scrabbled in the swirling waters for rubies knocked free of his armor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Upstairs in Kenyon’s room, on a shelf above his bed, the lenses of the dead boy’s spectacles gleamed with reflected light. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then firing began and when the crowd was dispersed, Mrs. Sellins and Philip Strezelecki, a miner, lay dead on the roadway. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

An alarming number of cases came to our office involving prisoners who had been found dead in their cells. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the evening of their departure he watches his parents standing in front of framed pictures of his dead grandparents on the walls, heads bowed, weeping like children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then they begin to show images of the dead, just as they did with the tributes in the arena. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"Raise our children in the land of the dead? I will not do this." The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My sweetheart, released after three years without formal charges, was waiting here to raise the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to sleep instead and keeled over sideways into a dead faint. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the shadows moved, it looked for an instant as if the dead were rising as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And for a while there, once I realized you weren’t coming back, I hated you even though I thought you were dead. No, because of that. And I hated...” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She lay buried in the crypt of the church with all the other dead de Winters. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Next to the Jordan women haunting me day and night, the dead men felt like friendly ghosts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’m looking both ways, getting ready to cross the street, when I spot a dead bird in the road, its small shadow cast from a bodega’s lit awning. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the field the dead sedge was drifted nearly out of sight and the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires and the silence was breathless. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once inside, my eyes dart to the wall of dead fighters. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The doors were dead black, either ebony or some black metal which is not found in our world. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Would the Navajos just break down as soon as they actually saw dead people? Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if she had heeded Aunt Rose’s ominous predictions about the dangers of the dead, then Ophie would not have befriended Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If the city was dead, then he might get through to explore its ruins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“When you are young,” Mom said, “you only see how death affects the living. When you get older you worry about how your death will be greeted by those who are already dead.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stepped out of my closet to go pay my respects to the dead. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rosie may have been the one who killed August, but I also wanted him dead. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

By night’s end, 139 more had been injured and eleven more lay dead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I visit the local branch of my bank, I don’t think of this vast business as a tree, but ‘branch’ here is a dead metaphor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His screams stopped my mother dead in her tracks; she spun around and said to me, in a whisper, “Go quiet your brother.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of the dead, I began to think about how quickly things pass by in this world. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no telling how long he might’ve been dead; as long as the loop kept looping, it could be fifty years and only look like a day. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Of course she is,” Alex said, praying that the Most Holy Mother’s arms were big enough to embrace the millions of souls, dead and gone, crying for her mercy. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

"Your father is dead, lad. Do you think you can bring him back?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I dusted the powdery corpses of half a dozen dead butterflies off a cement bench and lay down on the quad under the moonlight for a while, contemplating my sisters and our rebelliousness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be dead, to turn into the rain, my eyes melt into the ground like two black snails. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba was sure that she was dying, if she was not already dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cracked mirror tilts over a sink littered with dead roaches crocheted together with cobwebs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were not dead and he could bring the pain of life by simply opening and closing them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slim, dead, dainty young man of about twenty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear the dead man coming up the steps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t remember much of what had happened after the duel yesterday, but at least she wasn’t dead—either by Cain or the king’s order. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The dead and their bones ended up in a tiny graveyard next to the abandoned church, at the foot of the volcano, where there is now a proper cemetery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took another bite of corn dog and stared at the patch of dead grass under my feet, chewing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The weathered slope was covered with dead grass, rocks and stunted olive trees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Later on, Vega reminded me, “I told you she was keeping track of the dead bodies.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Walking here in the daytime is bad enough, but at night, ghosts of the dead haunt these deserted streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Clean up this mess,” he ordered, and he marched away, leaving us to carry away our own dead. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Deedee told us that the darts came from the sky. We saw the dead bodies in your little settlement.The same thing happened to us. All were trying to do is find out why.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Matthew held the letter at arm's length, the way Luke had seen him hold dead baby pigs when they had to be carried out of the barn. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I told her as I focused Grandpa’s camera, “you didn’t. They just gather the bones. Only humans bury their dead.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He ran from die shelter to the pines and started breaking off the low, dead small limbs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, “or is it a dead secret?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Katniss, Prim isn’t dead. How could they kill Prim? We’re almost down to the final eight of us. And what happens then?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the black book back to her, leafed past the terrifying portrait of the dead thing, and drew the candle closer to read the descriptions of various monsters. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On his black T-shirt was a dead white pig with flies buzzing around it and the words OFF THE PIG in white letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman, her voice edged with hysteria, said, “You heard, you heard, but if they were all dead, how could anyone know for sure?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba was like the widower who remarries but can’t let go of his dead wife. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it struck me that for a whole night, we were living with a dead body in our garage! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The drovers they brought here to oversee the Negro patrols and fortify the border think the Negroes in your part of town should be taking all the risk to herd the dead, not them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“To be hung by the neck until dead, then have your body chopped into four pieces, which are sent to the four corners of the kingdom,” the mayor continued. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sense death. Either my brother has been here or... the basilisks are dead?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sam heard the noise of their harsh voices, flat and hard in the dead air, and he could distinguish two voices from among all the rest: they were louder, and nearer to him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The trees behind the monkey house had lost their leaves, and dead leaves rustled across the lawn. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But beneath them all was a feeling she would not lose for a long while after—a deep and profound sadness that the best thing about Daffodil Manor was a dead woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I shot my eyes at him: that goofy look on his face was a dead giveaway that he set this whole thing up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Though I did not care for the company of dead folk, it was easier to make my way through them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You celebrate the dead man’s life—or in this case, his eight lives.You were supposed to be the ninth, Matt.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the safest plan, but at least Jason had the satisfaction of knowing that he could call an air strike on this noisy mob of dead guys if the situation got dicey. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Vaughan remained at Bigheart’s side for several hours, until he was pronounced dead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If it were simply a question of the dead man, things would be different, don’t you see?” said Francis, leaning forward in his chair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“College will teach you that God is dead. But God is not dead. He is alive and he shows himself to those whose faith shows signs of life.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And there, at the bottom of the waterfall, strewn across the wet rocks, was the shattered body of the dead robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But was it decent to leave him out there like thatI Even after he was dead? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He worked all through the morning at die wood, breaking down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them in smaller pieces, storing them neatly beneath the overhang. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they dared to raise their heads from the dusty road and get up on their feet again, one of the armorers, Tonya Yudina, was dead. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I already knew it but I felt my body go rigid, as though I were the dead one. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Deep inside I’m wishing that they would all drop dead and then my duty to Eleanor Roosevelt would be over.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But Enrique fears he will end up on the streets or dead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Through the wire I heard gunfire, screams, shouts, then a big crack sound, and the phone went dead. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a sorry group we were, brutalized and bandaged, yet luckier than most; certainly more fortunate than the dead family upstairs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here is a dead body in a locked room: How did the murderer get in and out, and what did he use as a weapon? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of these paths ended at a clod with a natural hollow underneath it In the hollow—again with the strange appearance of aimless purpose—he found two dead ants. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

During Easter vacation Tom said good manners were no harder to learn than rolling over or playing dead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the farmer gazed at her face, it was as if a glamour slowly fell away from it, and he recognized her as his sweetheart, Grace, who was believed to be dead. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Area Teenager Chooses Poorly My mother, the pacifist, would kill me dead if she knew what I’d just done. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Take it in your right hand. Lord strike you dead on the spot, if ever you split in any way sumever! Kiss it!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A huge pile of dead ones littered the base of the tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle I had heard was dead—my only relative; ever since being made aware of his existence, I had cherished the hope of one day seeing him: now, I never should. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad’s e-mail says Those who can’t bear to look a bear in the eye are already dead. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhere above, the rockets burned down to civilize a beautifully dead planet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you wanted me dead, you had only to say the. word, and one of these staunch friends of yours would gladly have given me a red smile." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was the face of a girl, beaming as if Danny Pike were her little brother back from the dead. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A scream not for others, not in sympathy for a burnt child, or a dead father, but a deeply personal cry for one’s own pain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At last he gasped: ‘Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What’s happened to the world?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I walk down the hall and pop into my room, where Muqtada is putting his distinctive shape in the bed, turned toward the window, in his continuous dead reverie. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They found the gates broken down, the walls partly demolished, and the inside strewn with the unburied dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The nitrogen runoff has creating a “hypoxic,” or dead, zone in the Gulf that is as big as the state of New Jersey—and still growing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was twisting to look at something, and she followed his gaze, understanding and suddenly curious too: what had happened to the dead men’s daemons? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The police, in blue uniforms, are encircling them and thirty-odd additional migrants who have spent the night among the dead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Chicago Tribune reported that two-thirds of the dead were white. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So when I said it was too late, that must have put a terrible thought in her head that her daughters might be dead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he know we were huddled together with a dead baby? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I think she might be dead!” he shouted with delight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Looks creepy,” Fina murmurs, staring down the narrow, gravel road with piles of dead leaves strewn across it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I thought you were dead," he remarked, finally smiling at me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On the hillsides old crops dead and flattened. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The sight of dead men awakened them all. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, it’s dead?” someone asked. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After almost an hour of complete chaos, and after hundreds of arrests, the mob began to thin, which finally allowed paramedics to come in to help the wounded and haul away the dead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The dactyl lay dead; a rifle shot had taken half its head off. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He would track down his father, or his dead father’s story—either way, he would become his father's son. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The ward upon the cave mouth still held; the dead men could not enter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was dead, and then I wasn’t, and why? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go see what else the armory has in your size? We still got a whole bunch of dead to face.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Alex tried to decide which was better: dead body ash or volcanic ash. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The female alights on the top of a dead tree, panting from fatigue and fear. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not think he could stand to discuss Sirius; it had been painful enough to hear Uncle Vernon say “His godfather’s dead?” and even worse to hear Sirius’s name thrown out casually by Slughorn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The stands were scarred, the walls needed paint, the naked light bulbs seemed ugly, their bare, black wires like the dead branches of a stunted tree. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cold air blows in with the smell of burning leaves and dead things piled on to bonfires. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

As dead and empty as the house around him? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In twenty seconds we were back in the courtyard, leaping over dead Mr. Crumbley, diving down the dry well. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Jackson is dead,” I say, my voice flat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The pale young gentleman’s nose had stained my trousers, and I tried to wash out that evidence of my guilt in the dead of night. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The enormous black ψ painted there had stopped Zu dead in her tracks and turned her face a sickly shade. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Your grampa and his friends in the White Citizens’ Council are pretty worked up over it They’re dead set on keeping the colored schools separate from the white. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

This turtle is an experiment to show how the heart of a reptile can keep on going after the rest of it is dead. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “A dead horse fell out of the sky and landed on me. It broke my back. It’s why I blank out, have seizures. Cade calls it ‘doing my thing.’ 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That tree’s been dead for a span of days, but that one just got tom up a couple days ago ” “Why do you care?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nico wished he still had the sceptre of Diocletian, but he doubted a legion of dead warriors would make a dent in this army. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Why are you frowning? Another dead cat video?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gosh, would I be worth any more than a dead cow and mule? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The Skull: “The skull of the dead man is in his grove.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It had dried; and the thought came to me that he had been dead for some twelve hours. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“And in the morning,” Minya went on, “when he’s found dead in his bed, the moths will have turned to smoke, and no one will even know what killed him.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Their job is to fly around the world picking up dead warriors to act - when resurrected - as bodyguards for the gods' home of Valhalla. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You hear me? If those men find us, we are dead.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She stood in the doorway: the boy is dead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to help. I wanted—” “You can’t, all right? You can’t help me. No one can help me. My wife is dead, and the police think I killed her.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A carpenter was found to build beds; a horse, cart, and attendants were hired to bring in the sick and carry out the dead. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I thought about my mom’s face when she first heard that my dad was dead, how she had died on that day too. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I know then that I will hear them over and over again, echoing in every hour of every day until I am dead or I make it right. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He heard the first moans but saw no dead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet he dropped dead of a heart attack,” Kevin said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He lay with his arms spread out, partly in the water, and I thought he was dead. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is an enemy who wants me dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But is he dead?” said Ron, three days after they had arrived at the cottage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

More than ninety percent of the district’s population is dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I worry that everyone will try to flee the same direction and the wall will end up a grand choke point, serving up panicked folks to the dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He’d looked up at those creepy gold masks on the judges of the dead and realized that he would stand before them someday, maybe very soon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by dead guys and tombstones and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And once my dead friend found me, he wouldn’t let go. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As the keeper of a magic that connects the living and dead, Lucera signifies a kind of living crossroads. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The triangle at left, defined by the mast and two ropes, includes the dead and dying. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town on public buildings to frighten the others away; ornithologists said that it wouldn’t work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The book’s about a kid who has an awful life but gets a chance to escape it when he finds out his dead parents were wizards. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas whispered, trying to avoid the real question that had popped in his mind: He’s not dead, is he? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After I had taken several turns I caught the rancid smell of something dead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stretched out before her, acres of dead grapevines hung in rows on wooden lattices, like gnarled miniature skeletons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Lincolnshire, heavily agricultural, seemed to have suffered most, with reports of 10,000 birds dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I saw it in his eyes every time we talked about his parents, who were dead when he was not. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The vault had a five-spoke wheel that controlled the dead bolts and two keyholes on either side of the handle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Just so. And now you are a dead girl." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You told them our plans, and they got the police involved, and now he’s dead, and it’s your fault!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When we busted into the circle it waren’t neither a dead body nor a lion. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He checked himself into a hotel, and days later an employee found him stretched out on the bed, dead. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The lights are out at Freak's house, and I'm thinking: The stars clicked off and I don't even know why I'm thinking that, it's like a dead voice in my head or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Al isn’t dead last, but unless the Dauntless-born initiates completely failed their version of stage one of initiation, he is factionless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“We would all be dead or kidnapped if it wasn’t for you.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“There’s a way to stay alive and a way to be dead,” Big Ma said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The dead man continued to float in front of us like a giant water-logged voodoo doll—a bad omen to be sure. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Angry, starving, sinister apparitions of people who’d never been happy when alive, much less dead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Her dead eyes flickered, and there was expression on her face. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The dead are not hovering nearby to knock politely at teacups and tabletops and whisper through billowing curtains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I know your house is small, but Salim is dead keen to meet his cousins again. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the journalist should have said was: Reporters saw a pasture containing several cows that were dead, diseased, or dying. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But time wasn’t going to change the fact that his mother was dead and that everything sucked. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A building was burning to his left, and one walkway was littered with the dead, marking the passage of one of the scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“He’s dead. No cousin is going to bother over getting you back, not like he did.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Jay put the book down and crossed his feet over each other so he could pick at a bit of dead skin on his heel. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Would Russ, the young man in the car in Chicago, have ended up dead if he had been confronted by just one officer? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone I am attached to in the world—this new world—is dead or gone. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The old lady ate a piece, and the next morning when Cholly went to empty the slop jar, she was dead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought dead bodies made you squeamish, like when we found that old beggar who froze to death.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The priest stayed with the dead woman so that the mice wouldn’t treat her disrespectfully. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This looks like Shadow’s climbing rope. He’s dead. What are you fools trying to tell me?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If not for Aunt Tuti, I would have been lost in a vortex of jealousy and despair over a guy who had been dead for over a hundred years! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As a result, the canoes were left behind, along with what remained of the dead animals after the men had eaten what they could. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The slaveholders lived in dread because the most faithful house slave might at any moment become another Nat, attacking the master, in the dead of night, with no warning. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished that Odinchezo and Ekene would shout at her too, and question her for being alive, instead of dead like their sister and parents and brother-in-law. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I've been with a dead person only twice before, at my grandparents' funerals when I was eleven and twelve, and then there was dim lighting and music. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I know Clove's dead. I saw it in the sky last night," h says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But he was hurt now, hurt inside, hurt in his ribs and he stayed hunched over, pretended to be dead. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mounts subsisted on the tough brown devilgrass that grew in dumps at the base of rocks and dead trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Tho I can believe he wants you dead.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She sat still all the time—so still as one dead; and she grew whiter and ever whiter till the snow was not more pale; and no word she said. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He believed that her destiny was marriage and a brilliant life in society, where the ability to converse with the dead, if kept on a frivolous level, could be an asset. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture showed Lassie, all bones and wet fur, running along with a dead rabbit in her mouth. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The thing falls dead, dropping at my feet, its eyes going dark. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Alyssa had been dead six thousand years now, and still no drop of the torrent had ever reached the valley floor far below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The crew looks out and sees only dead things, floating and rotting on the surface of the ocean. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His hair was mussed, his face moved nervously, and the dead calm was gone from his eyes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bob was dead; I had met him only a few times, but I felt that I had known him through his brother. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The vermin are dead. Rats! Mice! Even a possum! Oh my God, it’s an old-fashioned massacre, so come quickly.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“My mom heard the noise and came running. Rocky was already dead. The raccoon was—like that—and Buffy’s chicks were all staring up at it, so Mom grabbed the shovel and...I’m sorry.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

His ugly spotted dog stood on his chest, lapping at the blood pulsing from his neck, and every so often ripping a mouthful of flesh out of the dead man's face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I think about looking for an old suffragette in a nursing home, but they are probably all dead. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then if he’s dead anyway, why not put him out of his misery? Dri, Matt’s in if you are.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm waiting for the scream, and I'm ready to take off running, and I'm thinking, Oh, man, I’m dead! Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like talking into a dead phone. 4TH JUROR: The woman saw the killing through the windows of a moving elevated train. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four Old Ones scattered hastily into the hall, where the strange blue-white cylinders still hung ghostly round the three walls, burning with their dead cold flames. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He saw a dead body that looked like... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dead here were following their loved ones around, restless and unhappy, just as they were everywhere. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was a good thing, then, that their nursemaids had been dead already. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Quit Using Cell Phones was dead before it started. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I suck it up like a Jackson’s supposed to and look her dead in her eyes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But many others were hurt or maimed or dead upon the field. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I sure never put pink goo and a dead bird in there. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And Gurgi, like all of them, would be better off dead than in Arawn’s grasp. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And, of course, there are all the dead people who rest temporarily downstairs, until they go off to the Snapfinger Cemetery. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘We saw it also, but that was in the dead of night before Gandalf left us.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This is shockful because Signora Divino only and always wears black to show that she was once a married lady but now her husband is dead. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the long perishing of children from kakakaka I saw the air change color: it was blue with biläla, the wailing for the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I go to work,” she said wearily, “and I don’t know when I’m going to get that call, that your son is dead or in jail again.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

So we’re both dead, looking at each other across the high-top bar table. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four of them are dead in there! Stupid pigs,” he said to another guard. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At first, I think it might be dead, but its dark eyes follow me as I walk in front of it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He jumped up and waved the dead body of Ultima’s owl over his head. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bodies of the indigent dead were carted to the potter’s field and dumped, but no gravediggers were there to bury them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But then I realized that she meant she wanted to see me in this ward, as opposed to dead. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I don’t know how people can work out in the sun all day. I wouldn’t make it as a fruit picker. I’d be dead.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would be in black, with my dead white face, and I would throw myself at this priest's feet and say, "O Father, help me." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Aretha would never be caught dead in one of those, I thought. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They were all, as far as I knew, dead. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Crows flapped off an occasional jackrabbit carcass; a black-and-white shrike sat on a fence post with a dead kangaroo rat dangling from under its talons; cows lumbered moodily off the dirt path into the sagebrush. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her mosquito net rigged up over it, so it didn't look that strange like a real uncovered coffin with a dead person inside. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his mother really was dead; perhaps both his parents had fallen down dead that morning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I felt the unbroken line of me and of her stretching back from our cribs to the dead guy to acquaintanceship to now. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I heard. But they’ll change Cold Sassy over my dead body.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Seanie, expressionless, with his unblinking dead eyes, exhaled and stood, saying, “I’m going for more ice cream.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cain’s attention was on Celaena as he said, “You were brought here—all of you were. All the players in the unfinished game. My friends,” he gestured to the dead, “have told me so.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You can hear me, too,” the dead woman said, and it wasn’t a question this time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Her Grace is not... she ...” “... is dead. May the gods grant her sweet sleep.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he had actually come up into my loft, on his own in broad daylight, without any of the family knowing he was here, which is dead alarming of itself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Out of a helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale green luminosity. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Campbells got a new son that way after their boy was taken by the measles, but I wasn’t dead. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Adam had looked at Samuel in his casket and knew that he didn’t want him to be dead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All we seek,” he told Theseus, “is burial for our dead. We come to you for help, because Athens of all cities is compassionate.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. de Winter has been dead for over a year.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Taking what might have been measured as a halting half step and then pulling a stiff, dead leg forward, dragging a foot turned sideways in the dust, the man limped into the yard. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right after the accident I wanted to be dead. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Westley, indeed, had not the least idea that he was racing dead into the Fire Swamp. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still activated, but it might as well be dead for all the good that does me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to say. Pretty nearly everyone to do with that case is dead.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up again and again in the night, never sure of where I was, or when it was, or who was alive and who was dead. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t explain that Nyla and those who came before her stole these things from people like me and my dead family. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We pretended with our heads thrown back, our arms limp and useless, dangling like the dead. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. The battery’s nearly dead, though. I can’t keep it on all the time.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I mean, I'm not glad he's dead or anything. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Or maybe God Himself would strike me dead on the spot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Afterward, the townspeople found a local man dead in a ditch near the railroad tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And when he was asked to show up in prison so the other saboteurs would know that everyone was caught and the mission was dead, he complied. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She stood beside him, still holding her dead bundle over her shoulder. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They use animal blood. And they never give you the smell of death. I do admit this was the deadest guy I’ve ever seen. I mean, he was really flat.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Does someone start it at quitting time, I wonder, now that she is dead? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s your father. They called me from the factory, they found him lying dead on his desk.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Your pa was dead set on that dress. I figured—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I saw the cut, but my boy was dead before I reached him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He hated the man, but he didn’t want him dead. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Black Cat clue had led them somewhere after all, but what if this number was now a dead end? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A week after the killings, blacks in many cities held demonstrations to grieve for their dead, to show communal solidarity, and to vent outrage. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks were not afraid of the dead—“the piteous dead,” the Odyssey calls them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the sun was down the sky, and a series of dead cities lay ahead of them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn't you fall down dead like your master, or vanish? Why not?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hannah had spoken as though her husband, so many years dead, were still here in the little house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the country- side, the forms and coloring of the dead are strange; these are the wild creatures. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While still alive they did divide Their favorites from the throng, Yet how to pick the worthy ones When they were dead and gone? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the ridge, even on the other side of Burden Hill, there are no leaves; everything is dead. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The words dead, diseased, or dying are supposed to describe the cows, but they’re so far from home that they seem to describe the reporters. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit on her porch, or I watch while she works her small jungle, snapping off dead leaves, forking rotted manure into her camellias, talking under her breath. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even dead, she was a better person than us. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would be worse off than I am now, and Madoc would likely be dead. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell you what was different this time around, only that when I woke up, I felt deader than usual. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I scream loud enough to wake the dead. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Also, how you gon’ get the dead bird out the cage?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When Harriet heard that long slow wail from the fields, she knew he was dead. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead remained dead, no matter how much we wished they could come back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There's a horde on its way. Big enough to wipe us off the map. We don't get the town evacuated, we're all dead.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If Julius Caesar came back from the dead, he would’ve had no trouble recognizing Reyna’s troops as worthy soldiers of Rome. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like the business you’re in. But then,” she added with her amazing detachment, “I suppose someone has to bury the dead. How much is a plot?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A harsh war horn sounded, and as the dead soldiers formed up ranks with their guns and swords and spears, an enormous chariot roared down Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What can there be to tell you? They are all dead.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mr. Blake's face appeared in any of the windows, I was dead meat. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there are other pieces of toilet paper there already, melting among the bracken and dead leaves, but mostly there are not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a self starter, but the battery was dead, of course. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Word was that underneath the good times and the easy money something evil ran the streets and nothing was safe—not even the dead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat there, Rob’s mom holdin’ back tears, and my folks didn’t even bother to show up. / should be the one dead, not Rob. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want people to see me naked when I’m dead!” yelled Brooke into the air beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, me neither, but how hard can it be? Complete fugging idiots shoot guns all the time. That's why there are so many dead people.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian was the snake in the garden, the witch in the gingerbread house, someone to fear even though she was dead. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

"They would rather be live cowards than dead heroes." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, on the Union lines, a cannon thumped, the ball passed overhead, exploded in an open field among the dead bodies. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we got closer, and I couldn’t pretend they were anything other than what they were: three horses dead in the road. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Watch the charge and see the picador try and keep the bull off, but then don't look again until the horse is dead if it's been hit." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Just then Nana shuffled in with her sandals flapping, in her froufrou of starchy petticoats, to announce that a group of men were out in the courtyard unloading a dead man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you not see the crops are dead? There has been no rain and the river is dry.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, in a hushed lull, as he lay alone, with everyone else scattered across the field, he looked dead. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits of the dead made way like the Celestial bronze was a blazing fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

You see, those poor dead creatures returned to the earth, their bodies nourished the soil, and they helped create the most dazzling spring bloom the island had ever known. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The woman looked as frightened as if she already heard it rustling through the dead leaves. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Con was stunned; he couldn’t believe that Tali was dead. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dead man held a red-and-yellow cane with a tassel like the ones sold at the hamburger booth at the show. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“This time it’s going to be different. There will be ten thousand dead.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most days Cuba is kind of dead to me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He's dead now. He used to be my best friend years ago." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The thing that worried Tendai most was the almost certain presence of dead spirits in the room. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When I saw you fall, I thought you were dead. And there were so many things I needed to say to you.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then she carefully opened another box and pulled out what looked to be five or six dead foxes with open beady eyes, limp paws, and fluffy tails. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to prove that she was dead, so by the Soviet Union’s strict military regulations she couldn’t be given the award. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Amaranta felt humiliated and told Pietro Crespi with a virulent anger that she was prepared to stop her sister's wedding even if her own dead body had to lie across the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"The girls from Districts One and Four are dead. There's ten of us left." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On its branches a few dead leaves hung silent and still. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A sixteen-year-old black boy is dead because a white cop killed him. What else could it be?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But I really, really hated that my phone was dead. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“There was a canoe of men, my husband, Hat, among them. They passed by Spirit Island. Saw the dead. Saw you.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards away was a tall snag, the dead stalk of a Douglas fir, standing over the meadow like a sentinel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tenorio threatened with his fist, “for what you have said to shame my daughters and my good name in front of those men, I will see you dead!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be that after everything there was still some capacity for hope in her—that he might be glad she wasn’t dead? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Right at the beginning Life said it would be that way. He said, ‘In war the dead pay the debts for the living.’ My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second, a third member of the quest was dead. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every eye, living and dead, was fixed upon Professor McGonagall, who was speaking from the raised platform at the top of the Hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lourdes lifts her dead father’s gnarled hands, his papery, spotted wrists. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurried into the great pink-stoned city, whispering among themselves, because dead cities have a way of making you want to whisper, to watch the sun go down. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

So tired I was almost dreaming, I walked back to the square—past the post office, past the hardware store, past the movie theater with its dead marquee: plate glass, cracked sidewalks, stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Trying to understand why I cried ten minutes after Lucas told me Ada was at Russell’s but never shed a tear when my cousin dropped dead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

More men dead, and no corn brought back to James Town. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s for my job. Remember? At the funeral home. Where I touch dead people,” I said, pretending like I was going to touch him. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Julio watched as the expedition that he was once so eager to join headed down the River of Doubt without him, knowing he was left for dead. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The dead knew where Pennsy’s engine would take the girl who could see, and if they couldn’t follow her, the least they could do was to tell of her arrival. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I just got a call about another possible dead person—a Norvelt original!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Lori and Brian and I would use the rocks to decorate the graves of our pets that had died or of the dead animals we found and decided should get a proper burial. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the blanket over Rocky as if he were already dead, and then he jabbed the rifle butt into the muddy blanket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The snakes might be stinking by the time Mama called on him to empty his pockets, but they’d be dead. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday, October 7, a total of 82 dead were carted away for burial. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z