| 单词 | distant |
| 例句 | One by one the women were unchained and dragged, screaming and kicking, to a distant area of the ship or a corner of the deck. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But the young dog was the leader: however longingly the bull terrier looked towards a distant curl of smoke from a chimney he must turn away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This system is 1,500 light-years distant, an objective for human exploration in the far future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Light clouds came up out of the sea in the distant South and were blown away upon the breeze. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When I caught up to Emma she was standing near the plateau’s edge, gazing out at the countryside below, sloping green hills falling away to a distant plain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The fire was becoming a more distant memory, even though Sasha still wore compression stockings. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They would soon now be going forward into lands wholly strange to them, and beyond all but the most vague and distant legends of the Shire, and in the gathering twilight they longed for home. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It sang to me the night my brothers came home from the war, and in my dreams I sometimes saw it guiding their footsteps as they stumbled through the dark streets of their distant cities. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Following a lead by the astronomer V. M. Slipher at Lowell Observatory, they began measuring the spectra of distant galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If a radio telescope were built on Venus, it could detect the Sun, the Earth and other distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had stepped into a vanished world from the distant past. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He knew, without a word from Gwydion, that the Dark Gate of Annuvin was not far distant. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z They sat at the window and ate in their robes by candlelight a midnight supper and watched distant cities burn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, those who paid tribute to him were forced to strike at more distant halls to gather the gold they paid to Hrothgar—and a little on the side for themselves. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It spoke to my spirit: immeasurably distant was the tone, yet so near, it whispered in my heart— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Another musket cracked fire, but this was more distant. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Thunder rumbled above and there was the distant whine of the vast clouds of flies, but this little patch of Manhattan echoed with Belet's laughter. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Once he lifts his pencil and stares into space and says, “Lesser spotted woodpecker,” and Werner hears a bird’s distant thrumming travel across the grounds and through the wall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But Werner hears it in his right ear like a distant prayer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He wanted to say something, to protest or to ask more questions, when Thor said, in a low rumble, like thunder echoing on a distant mountaintop, “And me? What did I actually do last night?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A blinding, sickening pain...a flash of light...distant screams...and the sensation of falling down a long tunnel... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We can hear the faint static emanating from the trunk, and the spooky, distant voices speaking French and English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Madison observed the buying frenzy and complained that unscrupulous speculators “are still exploring the interior & distant parts of the Union in order to take advantage of the holders.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And even though the relation must have been distant, the Queen Mother still looked upon him with great favor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He watched the sky over the distant Black Mountains the way Josiah had many years before, because sometimes when the rain finally came, it was from the southwest. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A few seconds later, a rumbling sound washed over them like distant artillery. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The thunder was far away and the soft sound of it was more like a distant whisper. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z In that case the absorbing matter might not have heated up yet or the light from distant stars might not yet have reached us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks away, distant again, but I’m grateful to him anyway, because for the first time since the raid, I feel less alone. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A distant, faded memory of sucking on pennies as a kid popped into his head. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As the years passed, due to the carelessness of some of the Whitcomb brothers, it became difficult to maintain their whiteness, and some distant and some not so distant relatives married each other. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once you’re in the arena, the rest of the world becomes very distant,” he continues. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Two ravens skimmed deliberately along the distant treetops, floating into the open over the ninth lake and drifting down through the subsequent meadow- land, heading into Deerhair Canyon, where the Milagro posse had retreated. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were distant rumblings of war but life on the mountain remained unchanged. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Keeping my eyes fastened on those distant clouds, I took a breath and said, “Do you think you could maybe stop drinking?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In Understanding Our Universe I read that stars are really distant suns. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark’s finger was twitching on the trigger, but relief washed over him when he realized the advancing figures were only kids.They were filthy and had that strange distant look in their eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z As I fasten the iridescent black buttons, I catch notice of the number tattooed on my arm—A28865—from the day I lost my name in a distant world. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It’s strange to feel so distant and so familiar at the same time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It shows the river rolling lazily between meadowy fields dotted with trees and farms, against a distant backdrop of sere hills, notched with a V where the river passes through. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, as we shall see in the last chapter of the book, in the not so distant future we might again have to contend with non-sapiens humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We heard the distant sounds of drunken laughter. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain is a distant throb to my desire to do a little sickle work across Bill’s face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I run grinning into the night and hear a commotion in a distant field. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Northwestward stalked the dark forest of Fangorn; still ten leagues away stood its shadowy eaves, and its further slopes faded into the distant blue. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He heard distant monks, meditating in the covered walkway, muttering softly. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Away in the east the evening light lay pale upon the dim lands of distant plain and wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I had developed a self-sufficiency that kept me distant from others, emotionally and psychologically. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As I think back to that way of life now so distant, I feel a sense of longing, particularly for my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They are always there; they never change position; and they are very far distant. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the sensation of vibration in my hands, against my face, and the distant sound of an M-16 firing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He closes his eyes for a moment like he’s listening to distant music. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Though it had been only half a year, the Great Library had become memory, as though his mind had sorted his seven years there and archived them into a more distant past. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But their envy and resentment only made her feel more distant. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was no longer possible to view conditions even in distant Europe as irrelevant to the work going on in Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I have made arrangements,” he said finally, “for you to be raised by a distant relative of yours who lives on the other side of town. His name is Count Olaf.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z We could see across the Haven, toward the hospital; and there we spied the distant sick struggling out of their huts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I saw explosions from shell strikes blossoming on its distant shore. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z All my thoughts and movements were dictated by distant hopes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind us came the sound of screams, laughter; ahead the footfalls of the running boys, distant fire trucks, shooting, and in the quiet intervals, the steady filtering of shattered glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For she had been expecting an older version of the boy she remembered, distant, quiet, in corduroy jeans and a sweatshirt, a few pimples dotting his chin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She came to class every day wearing the same distant, bored expression. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Out of the surrounding silence and darkness came the quiet ringing of a distant church bell, thin, faint, but clear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The lawn mower starts up somewhere outside, but it sounds distant, faraway. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She trained it on the distant walking forms. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A distant scream of sirens swells and fades with the mood of the breeze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Ghohg had installed his own magical early-warning system: long, monstrous nerves that snaked through the hills and would jolt when a distant guard stomped on the other end. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Sputnik, and anything else, was going to always come in a distant third. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had visited governors of distant provinces before; he had attended state banquets and done his best to charm those his father asked him to charm. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Water dripped from somewhere nearby, and the sound echoed off distant walls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But the more distant Hailsham grew, the less important the essays seemed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A horn’s brassy trumpeting split the air without warning, its summons rising from the distant Temple of Lkossa to reverberate across the Night Zoo’s lawns in long, sonorous notes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He said he was a Korean War veteran, and backed up his claim with lively stories from places in distant parts of the world. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Percy had been so worried about himself that he’d forgotten his friend was only a distant descendant of Poseidon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Down a lonely dirt road deep in the woods, we ate venison in a falling-down country shack belonging to some more distant cousins. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been quite convinced that the common room was empty; he had not been at all prepared for a hulking figure to rise suddenly out of a distant chair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It was late afternoon and the dark-orange sun floated heavily over the distant mountains. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z She had a distant memory of the taste of real tea, buried with her recollections of sugar and birthday cake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She pushed long wet strands of hair off her face and stared to the distant ships and their docks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The sound of her voice was as soft and distant as the look in her eyes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was playing in the flapping of flags and awnings, in the rumble of distant traffic, the click of heels on the dry paving stones... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The sun was just rising behind the smoky, distant shacks when we reached her place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed distant but in a warm way that felt like she just really hadn’t got to know many people yet. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “The Enemy must have some great need or purpose,” said Radagast; “but what it is that makes him look to these distant and desolate parts, I cannot guess.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Staying close to the walls of houses and courtyards, he followed the distant bulky figure around a corner and into the thoroughfare, then along the thoroughfare to the beginning of the docks. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A new president was in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a distant cousin of that most upbeat and energetic of presidents, Teddy Roosevelt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Most of the Mark did not appear to be unduly affected by the thunder, which was still distant, as Chervil had said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The work was a distant echo of the work of Donders and Helmholtz, and the idea that brain activity could be measured. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A group of men was walking down the distant castle steps. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z In the distance we saw the outline of a temple, not too distant however, with a yellow oil flare burning from the top. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Proceeding in the same way, we can compare modern Taiwanese, Philippine, Indonesian, and Polynesian languages to reconstruct a Proto-Austronesian language spoken in the distant past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If I hold my finger before my eyes and examine it first with my left and then with my right eye, it seems to move against the distant background. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the lecture had already started and there were only a few empty seats, he ostentatiously collected his things and moved to a seat distant from me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the only steady source of illumination, though distant, appears in the upper right-hand corner. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Their relationship, always distant, had grown colder still. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Worsening Kate’s mood, if that was possible, was a distant, irritating beeping sound, the erratic honking of a faraway horn. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Although she supported the distant boycott, the fact that Durham's own public transportation was segregated didn't concern her too much since her employer drove her to and from work. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some distant, rational part of my mind thought: of course, to make it volatile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The keys that are most distant from C major, with six sharps or six flats, are on the opposite side of the circle. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They calculate the many months that they were in that distant city together, on trips that had overlapped by weeks and once by months, unaware of each other’s presence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “But Ceylon is a distant land, its people are not ours. How will you fare?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I was too sleepy to find a distant focal point. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Uncle Clark lived in Greenwood, which was but a few miles distant. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was from a distant cousin and arrived mid-November. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He often thought about the cold, distant regions in which the little creatures really belonged. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z On the morning of March 14 counsels for the defense again stood before Judge Tate, there on this occasion to plead for a postponement of the trial, which was then eight days distant. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky is white, the distant horizon gray and sparking with faint lightning—not just ahead, but in all directions. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just Auntie An-mei’s little brother, but also his wife’s stepbrothers and stepsisters, and a distant cousin, and that cousin’s husband and that husband’s uncle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And there it was again—distant thunder on a cloudless day. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The blur of faces along the rail thinned, then vanished altogether, and the din from the crowd quieted to a distant rumble. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It soon became clear that Humason was better able to obtain high-quality spectra of distant galaxies than any professional astronomer in the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she started browsing through the pictures of Dill, looking distant. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z There was silence down the line, broken only by distant mechanical clicking. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The black and purple benches, highest and most distant from the sand, were crowded with freedmen and other common folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was the first American-discovered planet and no one was going to be distracted by the thought that it was really just a distant icy dot. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As for the fire, it was already a distant memory. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It’s an enormous power line stretching across eleven hundred miles of jungle, connecting hydroelectric dams below Léopoldville to the distant southern mining region of Shaba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes he acted so distant, like last night, when he’d been reluctant to talk about that old Roman legend. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And his father prayed, his head lifted up and his voice going on like a distant mountain stream. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It shone brilliantly in the dark valley, so distant that she could blot it out with one hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was these wrongs which Agravaine’s colder blood could recognize as far too distant and confused to serve as weapons against the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra thought she could even hear them: a vast distant whispering swish. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The night before—when he and Scipio had headed off for the Isola Segreta—seemed like months ago, and now he felt like a traveler, returning from a journey through strange and distant lands. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She perked up when I mentioned Grover, hut when I told her what he'd said, she seemed to get distant again, suspicious. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s possible some of them are distant relatives. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z According to a number of early cosmologies and the Jewish/Christian/Muslim tradition, the universe started at a finite, and not very distant, time in the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened to the distant sounds of revelry while the night deepened. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The distant voices and faraway footsteps he kept hearing echoed through the chamber, like the voices of ghosts trapped in the walls. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Their voices sounded faint and ghostly, as if dozens of ghosts floated over the rubble, crying in little, distant voices for help. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time she reached the godswood, the noises had faded to a faint rattle of steel and a distant shouting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I didn't want to admit it at first, but I could sense that Slash was acting distant. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z What if the prosecutors, hoping to justify Zeitoun’s incarceration, tried to make a case against him—a connection, any distant connection, to some terrorist activity? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He looked at me for a moment and his gaze was distant, other-worldly, the face of a stranger. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun came up, gradually, and I marvelled at how, as it emerged mysteriously from behind the distant shacks and veld, everything suddenly sparkled and filled with warmth and sprang to life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A rumbling noise off to my left sounded like distant thunder. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin remembers him being just as cold, distant, and domineering as the others. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They heard uproar from the distant boundary of the school as what sounded like hundreds of people came swarming over the out-of-sight walls and pelted toward the castle, uttering loud war cries. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It’s not that she was unstable or anything: just distant. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The only sounds she could hear were the distant cries of the cliff-ghasts, high above, and the crash of waves on rocks, some way off. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A little way on, Gwydion stopped, raised his shaggy head, and narrowed his eyes toward a distant ridge. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “Remember when I told you that when you don’t know the truth, people can’t force you to tell it? Best to keep things distant.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Sheed sat on the hill, a great westward view of the sun sinking over distant trees. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The quiet stretched out, over the long grass and distant trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The marketplace bustled in the background, but it seemed to be distant somehow, as if Hazel and this man were the only true things in the world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In the evening it all descended unseen, an invisible ash of distant fires, soiling us everywhere. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His only answer was a buried white feather, a distant memory of wings against the sky, and a feeling of weightlessness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Within minutes, the ground was littered with dead bronze-beaked pigeons, and the survivors were a distant trail of smoke on the horizon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z When they had gone—a triumphant Selvam in the van—and the place was quiet, I did indeed hear the drums, muffled and distant, insistently calling. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She had passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He feels obligated to attend; one of the presenters on the panel, Amit, is a distant cousin who lives in Bombay, whom Gogol has never met. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She looked up to the sky, and her face went from distant to angry in a flash. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But he persists in moving forward, always keeping the distant mountain at his back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We have evolved with a tendency to link causality to things we can touch or feel, not to some distant or difficult phenomenon. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And then Kelton points ahead, where the light of dawn crests the distant mountaintop. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He inhabited a gray winter fog on a distant elk mountain where hunters are lost indefinitely and their own bones mark the boundaries. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I imagined her in the distant release site, hearing word of the attack and worrying about me from afar, and my father waking up in Miami to terrifying news. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a hazy and distant sort of knowing that settled into me, one part freaky premonition, one part doomed daydream. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Flayrah? But isn’t it rather late in the morning to raid a garden?” said Hazel, glancing at the distant roofs of the farm behind the trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Moments later the two of them were in Mr. Curtain’s office, poring over a chart of Morse code, hastily scrawling a transcription of the distant honks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A distant fanfare sounded, announcing an arrival at the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Men and Dwarves were mostly talking of distant events and telling news of a kind that was becoming only too familiar. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The voice was distant, warbled, like an echo in a long tunnel. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z My girls’ clothes are secondhand, donated by a distant friend of my mother’s who has a larger daughter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The corridors outside were deserted and the only sound was the distant phoenix song. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The distant roof was a tangle of budding branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Esteban Trueba spent many hours with him, first in front of the crystal set, and then, with the battery-operated radio, awaiting the miracle of the distant, anonymous voice that gave them contact with civilization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, they are but distant cousins: logos in rhetoric being another of those bendy shadows cast on the wall of Plato’s well-known cave. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps some thieves were stealing livestock from the nearby farm, they said, explaining away the distant sound of gunshots. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The waves still break with foaming tops, the wind still chills damp skin, but with every rolling wave, I see the distant shore. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I saw faces from my distant past and distant future. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A heavily muffled figure was hobbling up the lane toward them, silhouetted by the bright lights in the distant square. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was a plaything, made in the distant past for the use of infant woodlanders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z On one side of the road, thickets and small trees rose steeply, while on the other I could now glimpse through the foliage the distant countryside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Not the time Apa, with a distant edge in his eye, took us to see the new houses being built on a nearby hill and said, We shall see. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z They continued on, and at sundown he smelled smoke from a distant fire. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It is a remarkable thought that that distant tiny twinkle has enough gravity to hold all these comets in orbit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As I ran out of the room to chase after the distant backs of my parents, my mind was reeling. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the men who had spread the name of Salem so far and wide that natives of some distant islands thought Salem was a country—near the United States—and probably bigger. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while he sat with unseeing eyes as if walking in distant memory or listening to sounds in the Night far away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And then, distant at first but growing louder, the thunder of the engines of American bombers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But the look on her face was a hard and distant one; it separated him from her body by a great suggestion of space. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The only numbers that escape are the ones that are equally distant from the two rivals—the numbers on the equator, like 1, –1, and i. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He touched a black key on the piano and it made a dull sound, like a distant drum. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Joseph was reading when a distant clicking noise had caused him to look up. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z News from the outside world was like listening to the radio on a drive through the mountains—the distant voices clear for a moment, then warbling, and then washing into static. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Each stroke of the distant bell seemed to make her wince. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z His rage was dreadful and yet Harry’s grief for Dobby seemed to diminish it, so that it became a distant storm that reached Harry from across a vast, silent ocean. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Celia hopes that the sea, with its sustaining rhythms and breezes from distant lands, will ease her son’s heart as it once did hers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were done, his face took on a distant look and then he turned to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I lie still, listening to the constant, distant wail of sirens coming from somewhere outside, my eyes fixed on an old water stain on the ceiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He squatted again in his spot three rows distant and tried to concentrate on his own work. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear his voice, no words because I was too distant for speech, and no thoughts—those I saved for later. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Black trees tilted, stunted black arms pointing as if to a distant place untouched by flame. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The inhabitants of the planets of distant stars witness quite different constellations in their night skies than we do in ours—other Rorschach tests for other minds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dawn was starting to break but stars still twinkled faintly in the distant, pale eastern sky. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At that same hour, before the distant manor of Odysseus, the suitors were competing at the discus throw and javelin, on a measured field they used, arrogant lords at play. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Pappachi agreed to let her spend the summer with a distant aunt who lived in Calcutta. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He woke to the sound of distant thunder and sat up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He could still hear screaming and shouting from the distant Quidditch field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But her father remained in town, and her mother, when she wasn’t nurturing her migraines, seemed distant, even unfriendly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The teller spoke again, but the sounds were more distant now, coming, it seemed, from underwater, or far away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Merry waved his hand towards the steaming lake; and as they looked, they heard a distant rumbling and rattling, as if an avalanche was falling from the mountain-side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The man raises it, silently fires it into the air, and a second later Pete hears the delayed report of the gunshot, dull and distant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Winter came and winter went, and the war went on in the same distant way. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood close by Boatwright’s legs with all her fur bristling, her lips drawn back, her tail slowly swinging, a deep growl like distant thunder coming from her throat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “It started with the sun flares,” the woman said, her gaze growing distant. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Lightning illuminates the distant clouds in erratic bursts, but it’s still too far away to hear the thunder. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Gold highlights gleamed from inlay and fastenings like distant fires in that wood, winking every time he moved. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The world below was distant and small; it was dwarfed by a sky so blue and vast the clouds were lost in it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the distant land the boy came from, they called it the levanter, because they believed that it brought with it the sands of the desert, and the screams of the Moorish wars. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Pancha acted out running into each other in the grocery store sometime in the distant future. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But there were no boats, apart from one upturned whaler rolling in the distant surf. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I want glasses of ginger ale, squeezed orange juice, the sound of distant radios. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It should have sickened me, but I had seen corpses so many times, I took in the sight of gore like a distant memory. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There were extra trains coming in and out of Moscow’s station carrying soldiers to the front and civilians to the distant countryside in the east, where they hoped they’d be safe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The smells filled his nostrils,- the sharp fresh tang of pine needles, the earthy odor of wet rotting leaves, the hints of animal musk and distant cooking fires. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even though we all spoke in Navajo, we had come from many distant parts of Dinetah. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The reflections did not fede and he looked and looked until a distant noise brought him back to his senses. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z In their nervous state, every statue’s shadow looked like Filch, every distant breath of wind sounded like Peeves swooping down on them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The Finns were small and distant, much too far away to catch. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Last week, he had met two Nigerian men, distant friends of a friend, who said they knew an Eastern European woman, and he had paid them a hundred pounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes, while having a conversation, it would occur to Ifemelu that Aunty Uju had deliberately left behind something of herself, something essential, in a distant and forgotten place. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I could see smoke from the dragon guardian at the pine tree, the glitter of the distant Fleece. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I wondered if Frank was standing beside him at the telephone, and if that was the reason he was so cold, so distant. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘Nay! The riders are little more than five leagues distant,’ said Legolas. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was impossible to make out what she was saying over the sound of planes and distant concussions, so we took off running across the bog. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z As the lift rattled away again, Harry shivered slightly, looking toward the distant black door that marked the entrance to the Department of Mysteries. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Papa works a lot—he has since I was a baby—and Mummy’s always been...Mummylike and distant. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His expression was at once casual and turbulent; his eyes were distant and his mouth was steady, but his nostrils flared slightly with his breathing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Or was their tenure somewhat less cynical, more a matter of improvisation, motivated by the distant but vague object of forging a lasting harmony between Greek and Egyptian? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The six demigods gathered on the quarterdeck and gazed at the distant column of dust still rising from the site of the implosion. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her expression grew distant at times, the same thinking expression she had worn earlier while she was working. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the distant clomp of a horse’s hooves sent me running like a hounded rabbit. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She peeked over the edge of the ship, and suddenly, green and golden beyond the blue of the sea, the land appeared from the distant mists. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When they had harvested the most conspicuous and abundant animals of the farm fields, Mole led her to more distant fields. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z With the whirlpool barely a yard wide and closing, I drop the doubloon, close my fingers around the puzzle piece, and thrust my fist upward, offering completion to the distant sky. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I had forgotten just how distant the 1960s have grown. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Fireflies glittered in the leaves of the elm trees and in the ferns and in the hazel bushes, flickering on and off like the lights of a strange and distant city. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Presently I heard Pilot bark far below, out of his distant kennel in the courtyard: hope revived. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Ku’oosh continued slowly, in a soft chanting voice, saying, “Maybe you don’t know some of these things,” vaguely acknowledging the distant circumstance of an absent white father. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The day after, Diana and Mary quitted it for distant B——. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I treated him with indifference, and I stayed aloof and emotionally distant. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a ditch thirty or so yards distant that we employed as a latrine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Pleasants’ father came from a family of Quakers, and one of his distant relatives had been the first to fight successfully to free his own slaves through the Virginia courts. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When the preparations were complete, she had nothing to do but contemplate her finished draft and wait for the appearance of her cousins from the distant north. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If Arp is right, the exotic mechanisms proposed to explain the energy source of distant quasars—supernova chain reactions, supermassive black holes and the like—would prove unnecessary. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She places the scope to my eye, and points it in the direction of the waterfall and the jungle at its edge, on the distant side of the field. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Could Beethoven hear the music of the distant future? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The rest, with faces contorted from the strain of trying to listen, saw distant men gesturing wildly into the sound-killing miasma of whispers, coughs and creaking shoe leather. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Laying their outline map of the island on the snow with the compass, he would sight ahead to a distant pass or peak and take a bearing by that. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “It may be that the day of useful nuclear energy is not so far distant after all,” he wrote to his fellow cyclotron builder Alexander Allen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He saw square brick towers, a great red temple, a distant manse upon a hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It saves us from the bitter days of midwinter, when the darkness is broken for only a handful of hours and the sun is cold and distant, like the pale eye of a corpse. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The idea of having a family was so far off to her, the idea of not having one felt equally distant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z At this time of day, Stanley sometimes could see some distant hills or mountains on the other side of the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z All you could hear was a crow calling somewhere up river and the distant sound of cars along the highway. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It seemed like the alcove was growing more distant, like she was looking at it through the wrong end of a telescope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The train came to a stop with a jolt, and distant thuds and bangs told them that luggage had fallen out of the racks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When, thirty minutes later, he heard the noise of distant helicopters coming from the west, he struck out away from the timber trail and into the woods. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The choppers were already distant silhouettes against the darkening skies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The thin air had a shimmering, crystalline quality that made even distant peaks seem close enough to touch. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z We had breakfast in silence long after Papi left for work, Mami distant as another country, shrouded by something dark and grievous that we couldn’t break through. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A flock of birds from one island is storm-blown to a distant island and cannot fly back to its island of origin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The distant gramophone stuck now, suddenly, on a grinding, wailing, sardonic trumpet-note; this blind, ugly crying swelled the moment and filled the room. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Madam Hooch put her whistle to her lips and gave it a blast that sounded shrill and distant —-they were off. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z With another form, you keep the distant past but lose the present. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The Taliban seemed like something far away then, something bad in a distant place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "We shall see," said Primus, and his voice was the wail of a distant night bird. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z We turn to our mother, whose expression is solemn and distant, as if she’s remembering something. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z At first everything seemed quiet... but then I heard it: the distant baying of dogs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Away to the north, close to two or three miles distant, the swells looked strange. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then from somewhere, within the sound of the rain falling, he could hear it approaching like a summer flash flood, the rumble still faint and distant, floodwa- ter boiling down a narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It is the distant forest voice calling its child home at twilight. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “He has always been...distant and not terribly forthcoming, but he is the closest thing to family I have. And yet he tells me nothing.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The hours passed; it was late afternoon; and still she felt distant from me, still she refused to meet my gaze. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As Ron and Hermione emerged, spluttering and gasping, from the depths of the lake, the dragon flew on, its wings beating hard, and landed at last on a distant bank. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her gaze goes distant, her face twisted with the memory of some distant horror. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The only sounds were the steady clop of their horses' hooves, the rhythmic tingle of the bells in Drogo's hair, and the distant voices behind them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Lady Constance did resume her former distance toward Penelope and the children, but in fact, she became distant from everyone. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The sun rose over the distant hills, so everything below them shone and sparkled like the entire city of Rome had just come out of the car wash. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There was nothing to be heard except the gentle wind, the heather bees, the skylarks very high, and a few distant snuffles from Meg. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z School was a distant memory; Tony hadn’t seen the inside of a classroom on a regular basis since eighth grade. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “This knowledge was passed down from distant ancestors, from their days as kings and queens and healers in the heart of Africa. So listen carefully and—shhh—don’t tell anyone.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A few disturbing noises mixed in as well: distant screams, crying and wailing.The isolation of their dank little storage room doesn’t seem so bad now. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The clicking noise of telegraph machines at the Western Union seemed distant. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A second later there appeared from round a distant corner, the dark shapes of two men walking backwards and carrying tall candles. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The children’s pronunciation was crisp and mature, so distant from Michael’s stiff recitations back on Randall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In Boyle Heights the teacher felt cold and distant. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The distant rumble of thunder unsettled him more. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He wakes in distant quarters of the night and sees Frederick in his bedroom in Berlin, wearing his eyeglasses and necktie, freeing trapped birds from the pages of a massive book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Home gradually began to feel more distant, almost like a place in my imagination. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The panthers ran in circles, changing color, and ten million animals, running before the fire, vanished off toward a distant steaming river.. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z From far off across the great cavern, echoes answered, and his voice bounded from cliff to cliff, doubling and diminishing and causing those distant ghosts to pause in their endless procession and look up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Birge’s goal was to wean Lawrence from Yale’s aura of prestige, which could seem overwhelming compared with that of a distant public university. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His voice got distant then but I could still hear him. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z With a glance at the distant Petunia, now hovering beside the swings, he lowered his voice and said, “I know what you are.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But inside were vast cavern-ous spaces where slabs of stones had been cut, hauled to the surface, and transported down slippery narrow roads to make distant buildings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The roar of the distant train whooshed into the station. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Thomas heard a distant voice, screaming the same words over and over, something about him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know where Caleb is—researching whatever made him so distant yesterday, probably—or where Christina and Uriah are—exploring the compound, maybe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A small figure distant on the road, bent and shuffling. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The nights when sleep felt like a distant cousin they’d met long ago but didn’t know well enough to talk to. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Four arms spring from its summit: the nearest town to which these point is, according to the inscription, distant ten miles; the farthest, above twenty. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I feel a distant twinge of panic, but I make my mind go quiet before I send my body deeper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Near Silence fell after they was passed, the Silence of the Grass & the Sky; & in that Silence, there was a distant Crackle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Moments later there was a distant glint of sunlight on metal, followed by a muted thwack. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia half expects him to pull pink tea roses from behind his back as he used to when he returned from his trips to distant provinces. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the audience had begun to drone; a distant, churning sound that brought back some of the terror of the eviction. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His few thoughts seemed distant from his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z After the ceremony, I walked back to the river and watched it meander on its way to where, many miles distant, it emptied into the Indian Ocean. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her movements slowed and her gaze grew distant. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At first we didn’t realize what it was—it didn’t sound like the gunshots we’d been hearing, distant and powerful. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Part of the issue was that old acquaintances and distant relatives were surfacing from nowhere and with a flood of inquiries. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He was all alone, no one joined him, and it was like some distant echo from the pep rally. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Then he turned to the boy: this time his expression was cold and distant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was silence in the room, except for the distant rushing of the sea. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Instead, his voice held a low resonating quality, a certain flat and steady intonation I found appealing, like the rumble of distant thunder. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As a child and as a teen, his parents were exhausted, distant, and uncommunicative. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The distant boom of artillery switched from its sporadic night rhythm to the purposeful daylight pounding. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But all the celebrating felt like a distant world I couldn’t fully be a part of because of the gaping hole where my heart used to be. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And they chimed and jingled like distant glass bells. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z And it was about then that Lyra felt the first distant lurch of nausea, pain, and fear that was the unmistakable touch of the Specters. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Davos gestured at the distant lights flickering along the walls of Storm's End. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He read books to find new ideas for his classes, visited with colleagues, kept up with old students, wrote letters to distant friends. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When the planet is far from the Sun, it covers a much smaller arc in the same period of time, but that arc corresponds to a bigger area because the Sun is now more distant. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As he writhed slowly on his back near the coals, his heart pounded a steady beat like a distant drum. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z His ship came safely through the storm which wrecked or drove to distant countries so many others. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Its deafening roar dwindled to a distant rumbling thunder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was Australia, that distant island-continent, that loomed in his imagination as his ‘America.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A distant siren shakes me out of my sleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Ben had found out from Philip that she was the senior class’s runaway valedictorian with Philip himself an earnest but distant second. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z These photographs were the true antiques of the family, which seemed to feel that a photograph should commemorate only the most distant past. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z These nymphs their gentle mother bred and placed upon Thrinakia, the distant land, in care of flocks and cattle for their father. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They heard a noise—the lowing of distant cattle—and they looked at each other and grinned the grins of hungry men who would eat that night. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He and Kim remained cordial but distant, no matter how much I tried to sell them on each other. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hubble began to measure the spectra of distant galaxies–the business that Slipher had begun in Arizona. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Some of them had rather large brains, an upright posture and two little front legs very much like hands, which they used to catch small, speedy mammals—probably including our distant ancestors—for dinner. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On that distant stretch he saw a cart slowly pulled by a bay horse. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Now a strange man came up to him, an easterner fresh from spilling blood in distant Argos, a hunted man. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z About a block away from the peak of the hill, a hum like a massive swarm of bees rose above the distant sounds of traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He glanced to the west, where the light of the setting sun could be seen dimly through the trees, like the glow of a distant fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He sits astride Traveller, looking down from a distant ridgeline. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But Alec had already started running straight toward the distant flames, which seemed to have grown in the moments since it had begun. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z These were distant and magic lands and nobody went to them just for a holiday. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Poverty to him was an abstract, distant concept, applicable to the tenants at Tres Marias and the indigent patients his brother Jaime helped; he had never had any direct contact with it himself. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When we send spacecraft to the planets, when we observe double stars, when we examine the motion of distant galaxies, we find that throughout the universe Kepler’s laws are obeyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The grounds were very dark now; the only light came from the distant windows of the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Mingo had been distant to her on account of the attention that runaways brought to the farm, and when he heard she was wanted for murder, shunned Cora altogether. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The voices grew too distant, as if Mama and Aunty Ifeoma were on a boat moving quickly to sea and the waves had swallowed their voices. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Dark trunks traveled up into the distant sky, connecting this world to the one above. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z You do not agree with my politics but you never have, and there are no new rumors about my distant past floating around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then she did hear something: a mysterious, vastly distant rustling and crackling. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The sounds of the assault on the castle were muffled and distant. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Following with his keen eyes the trail to the river, and then the river back towards the forest, Aragorn saw a shadow on the distant green, a dark swift-moving blur. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Commercial jetliners, minor glints and distant hum, took years to cross the sky. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The fields are flat, the wood is too distant and dangerous—the only cover is the graveyard and the mounds. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Tsunamis would rise up and head devastatingly for distant shores. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Out there was the gray beach with the slow combers rolling dull and leaden and the distant sound of it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The guilt and hurt and jealous fury receded into the distant past; it appeared that the storm had been weathered. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z From beyond the door I could hear a distant scrape of chairs, a murmur of voices. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was coldness in his voice, a distant calm. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A sound rose out of the darkness, faint and distant, but unmistakable: the howling of wolves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z About a block away from the peak of the hill, a hum like a massive swarm of bees rose above the distant sounds of traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Finally there was a distant, muffled thump—the rear door of the theatre being closed and locked. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The teepee filled with the twitters of a bird and distant traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Soon the white form of the Lady was small and distant. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The cry of a girl ready to be forgiven, years after having sold her sibling out to a pair of adults who would, a short time later, die on a distant continent. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z At the far edge of the bog a bomb fell, its muted blast followed by a distant rain of excavated glop. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He assumed Master would give her his distant yes-and-no answers and she would go back to her piano. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Any sign of danger, a distant howl, the inexplicable break of a branch, sent me flying back to the fence at first. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And then, as they both took a fourth piece of chocolate from Madam Pomfrey, they heard a distant roar of fury echoing from somewhere above them.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z To their right the moon, smoky and yellow in thin night cloud, stood over a clump of distant pine trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z From a distant radio I heard the desolating music of a dance orchestra. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Brightly colored figures were appearing, one by one, out of nowhere at the distant boundary of the yard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was a landscape scene, a calm blue sea and a distant land. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Because telephones, radios, and televisions did not exist, people in the distant portions of Chicago did not know very much about the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Sheed kept pushing his way to Otto, seeing the residual camera flashes from the corner of his eye like quiet lightning in a distant cloud. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The wire, strung diagonally from one comer of the parapet to the other, stretched across her view of television antennas, billboards, and the distant arches of Howrah Bridge. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z By now the reader will not be surprised to learn that an apparently arcane debate about the distant past could become vehemently personal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He looks first at Jena, then makes an arm gesture toward a distant marble hovering over a rock jutting high out of the far end of the lagoon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I heard August scolding, “June, what got into you?” but her voice was so distant. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he next looks up, a soft glow shows behind a line of distant trees, as if something is burning out there. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Dalton was somewhere far away, high up, distant, like a god. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The Queen’s presence was much more distant now, and she felt almost unmoored. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Did you hear that, Paula? This young man believes all books were written in the distant past by dead people who picked up the stories from heaven knows where. Plucked straight from the air, maybe?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My hands are trembling, I feel cold, and there is a distant humming in my ears. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I feel as distant from my body as the lights of the faraway city. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A good try, Cupid said, his voice already distant. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I sensed her movement, her presence in distant parts of the building. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z As I moved, sounds of distant gunshots and screeching swelled and then subsided. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z We did form a union, though one in which we remained distant from one another. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Above that was another, higher and more distant, and still higher a third, no more than a flickering spark in the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then she put her lips together and blew, making a noise that began as a whistling, and then sounded like a distant wind. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z All the sounds were faint ones from distant traffic or from the humming of air conditioners up and down the block. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Though they still made a show of being a couple—they still did the punching-on-the-arm thing when they parted—I knew them well enough to see they’d grown quite distant from each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the sun rise over forest and mountains and set over the distant palm shore. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, a group of haggard-looking Ministry wizards rushed past, pointing at the distant evidence of some sort of a magical fire that was sending violet sparks twenty feet into the air. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I nodded and felt a distant sort of release, as if something inside of me was draining away. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She hunkered down in the dark against a damp stone wall and listened for the pursuit, hut the only sound was the beating of her own heart and a distant drip of water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A cluster of stretch limos lowered over a distant building. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘One only of us is an Elf, Legolas from the Woodland Realm in distant Mirkwood. But we have passed through Lothlórien, and the gifts and favour of the Lady go with us.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Turner felt the heavy air they dropped, heard their rumbling like the distant chariots of the Assyrians. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The aunts had gone to Bethlehem to help a distant cousin prepare for her wedding. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her nights were lit by distant stars and the shimmer of moonlight on snow, but every dawn she woke to darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Brooklyn became just a memory as I led them to distant lands where palaces shimmered against desert sand and paupers became princes with the whush of a magic wand. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Just as the complexity of the mess Fve dragged everybody into begins to overload my brain, a distant chain of explosions sends a tremor through the room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z That must be the top of the Castle Rock, distant and unmenacing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, most are so unimaginably distant that their light reaches us as no more than the faintest twinkle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He could hear the fire rustle and the distant clunk of dishes being washed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There is jasmine in the breeze, and the aroma of distant citrus trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z People wanting to visit more distant solar systems would have to set out with the understanding that they would most certainly die en route, hoping that their descendants would someday reach their destination safely. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And afterward, in the small cabin, they’d do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But she said it to the empty darkness of her bedroom, and heard nothing in reply but the low trundle of a distant lorry, making its way through the night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He spoke slowly, deliberately, a slight, distant whistle in his voice accompanying some of his harder syllables. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Papá stood perfectly still, his eyes cold, distant even as he held hands with his new woman. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Harry and Ron waited for the distant sounds of two dormitory doors closing before seizing the Cloak, throwing it over themselves, and climbing through the portrait hole. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z After a few minutes’ progress up the dark tunnel, a distant sound of slowly shifting rock reached Harry’s ears. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Perhaps she resembles some distant relative,” other family members had started to say. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Martin turned down Peralta, and the neighborhood felt familiar, but in a terribly distant sense, as if Moss had been away for years and was only just now returning. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But then distant dust spurted from the plane’s front wheels. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1815, California was nothing more than a distant Spanish colony—a colony this woman had probably never heard of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Again, safely distant—though it was hard to tell where the sounds were coming from. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Suppose that, by chance, among the distant ancestors of this crab, one arose with a pattern that resembled, even slightly, a human face. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, to my amazement, I heard distant but distinct sounds, a whisper of music and something else, the laughter of children coming from high up in the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z On the sides, layers of different colors were stacked on one another like the distant mesas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z For millions of young Americans, and their families and friends, Vietnam was no longer a distant conflict. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The sun seemed to rest upon a distant hilltop like a giant orange on a giant table. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The sleeping pill was an extraneous gesture; I didn’t need it, but the mere possibility of restlessness, of an afternoon full of bad dreams and distant plumbing noises, was too unpleasant to even contemplate. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The cloud necessitated the hasty evacuation of nearby Marshall Islands residents to Kwajalein Island, four hundred miles distant, where they were treated for radiation sickness. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "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 He knew he’d been frightened, but his fear was a distant thing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At a time when many middle-class children and parents grow distant, apart, no longer speak, romantic solutions appeal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And then something whispered in one distant corner of her brain, and a picture of Mrs. Jacobs at the overhead flashed behind her eyes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z That distant quality also gave the voices a ghostly resonance, like someone calling from the grave. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In high school physical education classes, I withdrew, in the regular company of five or six classmates, to a distant corner of a football field where we smoked and talked. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small relief that I eventually stopped feeling my skin and stomach and head, could sense nothing more than the distant pressure of the ground against my feet. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, Annabeth had been distant ever since they had left Charleston. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Remember that Hirohito was a distant god to them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z All of us bore its taint—not because our distant ancestor had been tempted in that distant garden, but because each of us, lodged in Adam’s body, had actually tasted the fruit. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then there appeared to be less common sources per unit volume of space for the nearby sources than for the distant ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Faraci’s voice sounded scratchy and distant, like a faded recording. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There was something—a faint and faraway click and then a dragging shuffle—so soft as to be almost entirely lost in the distant drone of traffic and the beating of a racing heart. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He was lying at the bottom of a deep dark pit upon a pallet of warm wet straw and at the top of the pit he could see the cold blue of the distant sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Roz was about to unload a whole armful of annoying pinecones when a distant roar echoed through the forest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The air tremored to the distant roll of a cartwheel. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z These old rags could be my death, outside on a frosty morning, and the town is distant, so they say.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Wagons rolled on the cobbles with a sound like distant thunder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On the distant horizon, Kyle could see a volcano spewing molten lava. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Somewhere beyond it all, the ocean was still beckoning, a distant and urgent cry, but the terrible voice saying Sierra’s name drowned out almost everything else. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Marriage was still in the distant future, but the stage was being set. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because...” said Thor, creasing his brow and pondering so hard that distant thunder could be heard in the mountaintops. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z There was moonlight and the sound of distant dancing and whispering. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In no part of Oceania do the inhabitants have the feeling that they are a colonial population ruled from a distant capital. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Entering the common room, Harry looked around, and to his surprise he saw Ron sitting ashen-faced in a distant corner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z After an hour, the Mind toiling with nothing but repeated Warnings & Desperate Strategies & Calculations of Escape—it resolves itself to distant Explosion & Danger. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z All the world was frozen, the distant trees, the telephone lines, the grass in the yards of the downriver houses, the ground itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He could just make out the entrance he had climbed through: small, round, as distant as the moon. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They rose with surprising speed into the clear North Carolina air until the din of Lakewood was a distant murmur and the entire city of Durham lay beneath them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I dressed quickly, something stronger than butterflies battering recklessly against the walls of my stomach, my argument with Mike already a distant memory. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Men would come in from distant towns and before they left Pamplona stop and talk for a few minutes with Montoya about bulls. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They were like the moon: distant enough not to enter her thoughts too often; bright enough to inspire wonder. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But there are detailed differences that prove important: Japan is somewhat larger and more distant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jessie held the phone in her hand and watched lightning flashes light up the distant hills. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Other times, the echoes had a life of their own, so every footfall became the tread of a ghostly army, and every distant voice a ghostly feast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z What looked from Washington, D.C., like a distant battlefield of the Cold War, appeared completely different from the vantage point of North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There was the sound of laughter — thin, distant, like bells. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He answered questions from Linton and Judge Willmore in clipped language, polite on its face, but distant and just shy of hostile. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But my voice sounded like a distant storm dying, waning in my ears. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z "That's a long cruel climb by night," Ebben said as he eyed the distant spark through a cleft in the rocks that sheltered them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Cook began to talk about the kinds of quality people who had lived in Daffodil Manor over the years, all the many Carutherses plus their cousins and distant relations. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I urge you, though, to call on Menelaos, he being but lately home from distant parts in the wide world. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They withdraw from mixed neighborhoods into distant suburbs, gated communities, or guarded apartment towers; they shop in stores that, in line with the prevailing “market segmentation,” are designed to appeal to the affluent alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The bees swarmed again behind my eyes, making the scene grow dim and distant. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky, the land were distant then; trees and hills moved past the windshield glass like movie film. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The night was still except for the distant rush of traffic on the highway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A distant speck on the horizon, the elf fell through the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Gazing back on that black hill above Gettysburg, that high lighted hill already speckled with fires among the gravestones, he smelled disaster like distant rain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Candlelight spilled from only a few windows, and the stars were faint and distant, as far away as hope or the dawn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a tall, lean man with a thin black moustache and narrow blue eyes, and a perpetual expression of distant and sardonic amusement. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He picked up a bigger rock and threw it at a shadow line twice as distant. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I drift off to sleep, carried by the sound of distant conversations. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z On the rue des Patriarches, she hears a distant stamping, as though thousands of people are on the move. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Everybody has a story,” Mrs. Lonogan said, her voice dreamy and distant. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was an ugly little building without a front door, set in a landscape of distant, gray-brown mountains and flat, white-gray basins. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Cluny waved cheerfully to the distant figure of Constance on the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In a moment I hear a distant “What?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But if we look at distant galaxies, there seems to be more or less the same number of them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I peered through the scope, searching the mountainside, fixing distant stalks of wheat between its crosshairs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her hearing sharpened and she felt the dreadful noises in her bones: a distant screeching of brakes, the slam of a door, gunfire, the crush of boots, a muffled scream. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When he spoke, his voice was crackly and distant. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Friendly but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent her days, her tendril, sap-green days, walking up and down, up and down, her head jerking to the beat of a drummer so distant only she could hear. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I hold the rabbit foot so tight that I bet some distant, footless bunny must be wincing or shouting. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He failed, his arms again pointing to the distant ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Sometime in the distant past, a line of ancestral creatures must have developed this structure and found it worked, just as generations of long-ago crawling things in Mary’s world had developed the central spine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She still remembered the bursts of fire from distant cannons, the explosions of water on either side of the ship. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Now the main retreat was scarcely two furlongs distant. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When I run across him in the course of looking after the animals, he is polite but distant. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z For the present, he could not be spared, to his “very great mortification and regret; but still he looked forward with the hope of coming to Randalls at no distant period.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Every few minutes the insects' piercing whine is supplanted by the boom of distant thunder, rumbling over the taiga from a wall of thunderheads rearing darkly on the horizon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It's going to be difficult to send my updates—someone might notice that I'm connecting to a distant server instead of an intra-city server, so my entries will probably come less often, if at all. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z When the distant church bell struck the quarter hour, Reynie finished his sandwich and rose from the park bench. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z There had been strong winds and heavy rain all day, and as Wood spoke, they heard a distant rumble of thunder. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z That was the life I was used to—and it felt as distant to this one as the stars in the night sky. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I crane my neck in the direction where the distant object is hovering, in an attempt to see what power-up had caught Asher’s eye. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He lay in the high barn loft all night, listening to distant animals and insects and trees, the little motions and stirrings. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He separated from the group and rode to Lee’s tent and the motley bright cloud remained respectfully distant. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And I remember the smells of the hills, wild azalea and a very distant skunk and the sweet cloy of lupin and horse sweat on harness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The wind that tugged at Cole’s tattered clothing seemed distant. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They could see the movements of an ant walking as far away as the distant river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z What they found was there was a decided increase in the sense of urgency when the text came from a significant other, as opposed to a friend or more distant acquaintance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They had not gone out with that intention, and did not really, even in those distant days, believe that every leaf you caught would mean a happy month next year. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The last streetcars were going by, taking the now distant sounds of the neighborhood with them. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The land is so pale and desolate that I might be standing on a distant, dead moon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z At the same time, the memories of his life in Sudan were very distant. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Using fairly straightforward tools of astronomy you can easily enough determine that the bulbs are of equal brightness and that one is, say, 50 percent more distant than the other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His eyes were fixed on distant brown hills, the reins loose in his hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was to succeed a distant relative, an aged country lawyer who had a well-established practice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He called her his youngest sister although she was the child of his father’s brother, and he had been more protective, less distant, with her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z She turned that way, and saw only the city, streets and alleys and hills and bottoms and more streets and more alleys and the stone of distant walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This name has an aura around it, like an amulet, some charm that’s survived from an unimaginably distant past. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The most obvious explanation of the red shift was in terms of the Doppler effect: the galaxies were receding from us; the more distant the galaxy the greater its speed of recession. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly there were no growling engines, no whistling bombs, no pops of distant guns. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Her face was beautiful, but even with a dreamy smile on her lips she seemed cold and distant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His voice came floating like an echo from a distant mountain so that I thought I was having a nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The parabola has a special property: it takes the rays of light from the sun, or any distant source, and focuses them to a point, concentrating all the light’s energy on a very small area. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z How we longed to poke that dune with the sample arm, look for life beneath that rock, see if that distant ridge was a crater rampart. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We pretend we re a pair of daredevil explorers who’ve discovered a giant prehistoric monster in some distant jungle and we've brought it back for the world to see. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When astronomers peer at a distant galaxy, they are looking backward in time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The e-mails and phone messages addressed to my former self come from a distant race of people with exotic concerns and far too much time on their hands. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z From the distant sound of the surf, Nailer guessed they were at least a mile from shore. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Instead, it is affixed firmly to a distant time, to a place far from Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He stopped climbing; he listened; he watched. liie woods gave answer: the rustle of leaves, the icy rush of the stream, a distant hoot of a snow owl. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was a noise then, from the desert, from far away, a distant howl, and the ghouls gibbered and they huddled closer to the flames. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Last night she was as into me as I was into her— but today she's distant, withdrawn. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It was dimly lit with torches flaring in brackets on the walls but its distant end was lost in gloom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I see now why he takes such a clinically distant approach to his work. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He was said to be involved in high politics, in secret exploration, in distant warfare, and she never knew when he was going to appear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Prior to this first weekend in the country, my recollections of that fall are distant and blurry: from here on out, they come into a sharp, delightful focus. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Caroline seemed distant the night before her wedding. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Even a jackhammer trilled like a distant woodpecker. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Guests whiz past, their laughter a faint, distant echo. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I’d seen it happen a million times already, kids caught out there in one way or another—killed, imprisoned, shipped off to distant relatives. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And the distant floor seemed to darken and change. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing they could do but stand there like fools and watch her shape get smaller in the sky—a distant moon, a fading star, then gone. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The other side revealed nothing but darkness, though a rumbling hum like the sound of distant machinery grew louder. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The tub was filled with clean water that had been gathered in a cistern or pumped from distant pipes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They let her in to see him, and he did not recognize her; his eyes were milky and distant. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z White was still unconcerned and stayed at his window several minutes more as the distant sky got brighter and brighter. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Mollie, frightened, got up and went to the window and could see something burning in the distant sky, as if the sun had burst violently into the night. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Bigwig took them well out into the field, so that they could see the distant arch in the embankment about four hundred yards away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I had always felt a vast distance separating me from the boss, and now I felt closer to him, though still distant. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She caught Nicole’s eye and they both looked away quickly, as if neither one wanted to ruin the happiness of this rescue with some distant, probably unfounded fear. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The open sky in front of him was a deep purple, slowly fading into the bright blue of day, with tinges of orange from the sun on a distant, flat horizon. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For Christmases and birthday parties and summers packed with distant relatives. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z It is clear, nonetheless, from these legends, and from the evidence of their peculiar words and customs, that like many other folk Hobbits had in the distant past moved westward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I was convinced that this child would be a part of a new generation of South Africans for whom apartheid would be a distant memory — that was my dream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It burned redder than the other stars, and did not twinkle, though sometimes it flared up bright and sometimes dwindled down to no more than a distant spark, dull and faint. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At length even Gimli could hear the distant beat of galloping hoofs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z This remarkable star, 5,000 light-years distant, is now called the Crab Supernova, because an astronomer centuries later was unaccountably reminded of a crab when looking at the explosion remnant through his telescope. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My siblings descend, and the distant stillness around me becomes a warm, chattering flurry. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But the laws of the schools were aimed at something distant and vague. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The naked waste, as far as the eye could pierce, even to the distant menace of the mountains, was dappled with the fitful moonlight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Nothing but chirping birds and the bang of a distant door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z But there was a knight called Sir Pinel, who was a distant relative of the Pellinores, and he considered that revenge was necessary. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A few colored men sit under a distant shed, staring into the heat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Beyond it a rutted lane ran between low well-laid hedges towards a distant clump of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was lying on solid ground, the sound of the ocean far distant. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A distant hum behind me caught my attention. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z No distant call or slam of a door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “And you must remember, my love,” said Mr. Popper, who had never before been out of Stillwater, in spite of his dreams of distant countries, “that travel is very broadening.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z In the distance she could see the pale spires of the palace, windows lit with hundreds of candles in the dark night, presiding over the merriment in the Square like a distant, decorous Fairy Queen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then at last it began to be mixed with another sound, a vague, disastrous noise which sounded first like the roar of a distant train, and then like the crash of a falling tree. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z A shell burst dimly a long way off, a dull and distant thumping. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Again she had the unpleasant understanding that this place must have been built by Fabrikator craft in some distant past. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A strange stillness prevailed over the scene as the stentorian thunder of bombardment yielded to the minuscule cries and commands of distant voices. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z No other sounds; no motors, no airplanes, no distant pop of gunfire or howling of wounded men or yapping of dogs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was the distant rumble of heartburn, the ominous tingle of perspiration. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Harry moved his head a few inches to get a clear view of the distant front doors. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z "Don't struggle, now," a voice said, sounding distant and muffled to my water-filled ears. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The ground shook as a distant rumble increased in volume and the wreckage around us vibrated. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was as if she had the Tibetan gift of placing her skinny adolescent frame in her client’s hands and transporting her soul to some distant place. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In that case, the more distant the galaxy, the earlier in its history we are observing it, and the more likely it is that we should see it as a quasar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There is an island washed by the open sea lying off the Nile mouth—seamen call it Pharos— distant a day’s sail in a clean hull with a brisk land breeze behind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z As an adult he lived in England while owning two thousand people on the distant island. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I’m two steps back to where I came from when, just like before, when guitars and fiddles twang like a distant fiesta. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the Loop men and women gathered on rooftops and in the highest offices of the Rookery, the Masonic Temple, the Temperance Building, and every other high place to watch the distant conflagration. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was surrounded by the scent of wood smoke mixed with distant honeyed flowers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When the distant cheers had faded to silence and the yard was empty at last, Winterfell seemed deserted and dead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Or it’s a commerce of imagined dreads, the Bethlehem housewives somehow convinced that a distant, black Communist devil will cost them some quarter in their color-matched living rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Off in the distant horizon lay the reality that the task of reaching the necessary energies would overmatch the elegant bench science of Rutherford’s generation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They stand as still as statues, their masks long since melded to their features, any semblance of emotion a distant memory. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It still makes me shiver to think of the dull, distant drone that signified the approaching destruction. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It sounds like the name of a kind of crayfish, or of one of the aliens on my brother’s distant planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The big outlaw, his hair and beard looking bonfire red under the bright sun, gave a distant yell and altered course. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z She could see the distant glow from Jack’s house coming in the window, and she wondered what he was doing, and if he was okay, and if he’d eaten, and what he’d told his parents. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z We crawled in and lay listening to the rain and the distant barking of dogs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The Earth is our moving platform from which we observe the motion of the other planets against the backdrop of distant constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Far out on the distant water, a few red and green lights glowed like fairy fire—the running lights of clipper ships crossing the Gulf. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Everyone assumed that Pong must be some distant relative of the old man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He laughed and his voice echoed in the distant forest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Cathy’s father will have to fly to France one day and find her great great distant grand cousin on her father’s side and inherit the family house. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The top of Everest, two vertical miles above, seemed so impossibly distant that I tried to limit my thoughts to Camp Two, our destination for the day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It’s silent, no voices of children; only the monotonous cawing of a crow, and behind it the sea sound of distant traffic. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside a hundred dim red candles burned like distant stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The body plans of vertebrates depend on this property: if hemoglobin’s capacity to deliver oxygen to distant sites was disrupted, our bodies would be forced to be small and cold. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The closest thing I’d had to human contact since the airdrop, the distant lights triggered a flood of emotion that caught me off guard. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a convict ship bound for a speck of an island in distant waters. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z When he first took her in his arms, Hagar was a vain and somewhat distant creature. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer is that distant matter would be rotating with respect to directions that little tops or gyroscopes point in. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z From their table, they had a clear, if distant, view of the Ice Court’s outer gate and the first guardhouse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Shapley discovered that the globular clusters were not centered around the solar neighborhood but rather about a distant region of the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Robin Flint had ranged ahead to scout, and he came galloping back with word of a far-eyes watching from the roof of a distant windmill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A second anti-air battery fires from a distant corner of the city, and then the 88 upstairs goes again, stentorian, deadly, and Werner listens to the shell scream into the sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The queen’s smile was distant, and the nephew, Hrothulf, picked at the table with a dirty fingernail. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Mr. Reilly had lately become somewhat distant and unapproachable, and Mr. Gonzalez dreaded the thought of a battle with him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Its thunderous hooves became an early rumble of distant thunder, and in moments it was lost to sight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z "The docks are dark and distant, and the streets are not safe by night. Men." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z By midmoming they could see lightning flickering to the west, followed by the distant crash of thunder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Aristarchus proposed a universe with the sun at its center and the stars set in a sphere that was unimaginably distant. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z We watch for a minute or two as the dust trail keeps rising, heading toward Haven at the slow speed of a distant cloud. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They were both related to Robin Lacks, the father of Albert, Ben, and Winston Lacks, which meant they were also Henrietta and Day’s distant cousins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Looking across the rushing water, I could see it over on the distant shore—the bus side—of the canyon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Many who lived here, Farmer told me, came from small villages in the distant Andean mountains—handsome people with jet-black hair and high cheekbones. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Galaxies would become ever more distant from one another, and the star stuff that drives all the energetic reactions in the universe would become more rarefied. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He heard distant screams from the thundering roller coaster. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Galileo had discovered moons circling Jupiter, not planets circling a distant star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The sun suspended above it in the afternoon is a pink, round dot in the distant white haze you may stare at and never go blind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Demetrius manages a shout or two, his green eyes flat and distant as if he is somewhere else entirely. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z June’s biting her lip now, her expression a little distant as she types out a response. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Nothing, though—there was no sound now but lapping water and the distant sound from the lighthouse. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The first several images in the stack are landscapes—shots of the surrounding bush, the overgrown trail, distant mountains, the Sushana River. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But if we wish to find the Earth, we must redirect our course to the remote outskirts of the Galaxy, to an obscure locale near the edge of a distant spiral arm. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Millie was not here and the Hound was not here, but the dry smell of hay blowing from some distant field put Montag on the land. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat all the way against the hard door of his truck, trying to will myself into something small and distant from him. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The western mountains were like a distant wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The shouting from the examination room was more distant. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was light-years distant, but O’Brien was still standing at his side. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Suddenly we heard the distant music of a lone bugle and then the strains of a brass band accompanied by the steady beating of African drums. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Heat rays from the late afternoon sun arose from the gray concrete, shimmering like the weary tones of a distant bugle blown upon still midnight air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He was chasing the glossy head, still distant. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z When they caught a glimpse of the country westward the distant Forest seemed to be smoking, as if the fallen rain was steaming up again from leaf and root and mould. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The sun that lay on Lothlórien had no power to enlighten the shadow of that distant height. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He found no trace of Dolios and his sons nor the other slaves—all being gone that day to clear a distant field, and drag the stones for a boundary wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the distant sound of officers shouting orders on Broadway and the clatter of cart wheels. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A distant woodpecker drummed against a rotten log. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When they were done, there was no sound but the faint crackle of the flames and a distant sigh of wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This can be seen in the bending of light from distant stars observed during an eclipse of the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The night dragged on, the rain ending and the clouds scudding away and the stars blinking on, one by one, looking cold and distant. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks,” said Harry, in a flat, distant voice. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She thought she heard a few distant shouts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Long ago, before the war, before Wandsworth, he used to revel in his freedom to make his own life, devise his own story with only the distant help of Jack Tallis. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The light in the distant woods had stopped flashing, and Sticky turned from the window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z His gaze settled on the top of the distant mountain and Robert changed the unspoken subject. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z To Tristran, then, they seemed as distant and unknowable as the world of the Arabian Nights. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He kept his eyes on the distant fire. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He doesn’t even seem to be here anymore, for the look on his face is distant and grim. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There’s this distant slam of the front door shutting and dog nails skittering across the hardwoods—Nora’s home. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Vines tore from the ground, and Tally could feel their complaints through the soles of her shoes, like a distant earthquake rumbling. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Birds flew onto dancing treetops below me, and many distant towns flickered on the bright horizon, each with a minaret that pointed to the sky like a pencil pointing to a page. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z We both loved books and stories about stars and distant planets and spaceships. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Because I was afraid she would hurt Henry,” the dead boy said, eyes distant as he looked into a past that only he could see. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “They came two months ago,” Jed said, his voice distant somehow. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The wolf’s ears cupped forward and tuned in on some distant message from the tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The evolution of life on Earth is driven in part by the spectacular deaths of distant, massive suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he caught a distant but clear sound—a kind of wailing or crying, wavering and intermittent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared up, her face regal and distant, and spoke directly into Annabeth’s mind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Now repenting of their wickedness, the Bible explains, the tribes resolved to “go to a distant land never yet inhabited by man, and there at last to be obedient to their laws.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, the distant screaming of the dogs and the calls of the three men stopped. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A lantern was bobbing at the distant foot of the castle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z His wife was, if anything, even more distant and suspicious. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That shot destroyed the quiet, moonlit peace of the hill, and it shattered my childhood into a thousand fragments that long ago stopped falling and are now dusty relics gathered in distant memories. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wiggle some fingers at her in hello but feel more distant from her than ever before, if that’s possible. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z There was only Robbie, and the clothes on the gravel, and beyond, the silent park and the distant, blue hills. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Prometheus tried to comfort her, but he could point her only to the distant future. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The air hummed with voices, distant motors, and the muffled droning of the loudspeaker announcing what buses were leaving for what cities. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave him his tip, received his bow and realized that already he was far from me, distant as the Negro is distant from the white. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My voice sounded muffled and distant to my ears. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The cloudburst had passed into a distant echoing thunder roll, but it had left a rain determined to go on for a long time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I stood at the window to admire the sunlight slanting over the golf course, and burnishing the bare trees on the distant hills. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His eyes were gray now, a distant wintry gray. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun has set and I can only see his face from the light of the distant moon. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The long concrete sweeps of the interstate exchanges like the ruins of a vast funhouse against the distant murk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Gimme eat, I said,” he ordered loudly in harsh tones that 128 rumbled ominously through the silent tent like claps of distant thunder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The few windows were glassless, and the air blew in like the chilly breath of a silent and distant God. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When her mother said there had been no light for two weeks, it seemed suddenly foreign to her, and home itself a distant place. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The only time I let my feelings out is when I lie in bed at night and listen to the distant krump of explosions and barrel bombs, to the alarms and sirens after an airstrike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She could see a distant looming of land, low and flat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “The old man huddled in the dark doorway, his bony face lit by the burning yellow in the windows of distant skyscrapers.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I thought of the ficus hedge that bordered our yard, and the distant skyline of Los Angeles. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Jon gave one last wistful look to their distant fire, and followed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Many members of the hostile class were resettled to distant provinces along the Chinese border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Why, even at the moment of his escape, must some inexplicable warning murmur in a distant region of his mind? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We waited for another minute before a lone round of white phosphorus landed in the distant trees. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In distant rooms I heard laughter and the sound of running feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The stars popped in the night sky like distant firecrackers, and beyond them the great streak of the Milky Way came down out of heaven and draped a swathe into the ocean beyond. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Sometimes on Sundays the boy walked with his parents to set awhile at one of the distant cabins. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I needed to keep this discreet, keep it distant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The hills are lit only by moonlight, no sign of distant settlements or, anyway, of ones with lights still burning. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But in this game, there was nothing except the two other pterodactyls, the ocean, and the distant volcano. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z And now, she seemed almost as distant as she had the day they’d met. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z By noon they were at the town of Old Lyme and Dicey had identified the distant rumble, grown louder now, as the Thruway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer stared at the distant sails hungrily, wondering at the places they went, and whether any of them were better than his own. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Yet there it stood, immense and beautiful, the great horses framing the distant purple mountain beyond. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The dead grass on the distant hills was a yellowish red, not orange but a drier color: orange-white, like the haze in the air. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything is silent apart from the cicadas in the distant trees and the truck engines. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Hathaway gazed out at the distant cities twinkling in the starlight. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The alethiometrist had just finished speaking, and Lord Asriel stood up, crossed to the window, and looked out at the distant glow of the Clouded Mountain hanging in the western sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We saw a distant flash of electric blue, which was followed by a slow deep rumble. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The medic truck's sirens sound distant for a moment—they're making a turn somewhere—and then all of a sudden, they're deafening. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It was clear to me that a military victory was a distant if not impossible dream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the concern all over his face; his eyes were always distant, his mouth downturned. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The prairie became as hard as stone, birds disappeared from the sky, and the Grandfather sun looked pale and distant. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Shards of broken glass in a window frame chime, trembling and shivering like distant bells. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Royalty, ” the king said, “has many responsibilities. And one of them is not becoming involved personally with even the distant relatives of one’s enemies. Put him down, Pea. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Suddenly I was cocooned in silent, blissful darkness, with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z From any one dot’s perspective, the other dots are all rushing away, and the more distant dots are rushing faster than the close dots. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z From somewhere beyond the house come the thump of distant mortars and the screech of shells hurtling overhead. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She packed them, tied a thong to the new caribou skin so she could drag it behind her, and lined up her pointer stones with a distant frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I can't look at him; I squint at the cold light on the distant field. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He talked about the accident in a distant way. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The possibility of finding a match now seemed as distant as the sky above us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The distant city was a bright coin nestled in darkness, the fireworks of New Pretty Town the barest cold-blue shimmer. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z What is more, it gradually moved, with respect to the distant stars, much faster than any remote object could.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the opposite side of the lake, from a distant cliff face, gush three waterfalls of varying heights. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z All he could see were the distant lights of Ravenel strung like a bracelet down the river shore. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Already she was becoming distant, carried away by the speed of the train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “The one who told me was a distant cousin. He knew someone who escaped.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra felt a distant flurry of motion erupt somewhere nearby. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Now it seemed ages ago and in a different season and a distant land. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists think that when expansion is followed by contraction, when the spectra of distant galaxies are all blue-shifted, causality will be inverted and effects will precede causes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Grant us, Lord, a Thanksgiving feast together in that distant day; and we shall tell our children—Eat goose? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Wishes for some dark and distant future only he could see. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew about the accident, of course, in a distant sort of way. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She had pushed her silver DDR-era eyeglasses onto the top of her head so that she could take pictures of the distant sunbathers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Down a long hallway, Aru saw the skyline of a distant city. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She told the story of each one, and Lyra felt her heart stir with admiration for these great, brave, distant heroes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Once in a while, one is taken down when a connection is made by a distant relative who remembers: My cousin had a child by that name. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A distant rumbling snapped me out of my daydream. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z There were crescents and quarters, gibbous and full, and they weren’t charms, they were moons—real miniature moons, cratered and luminous, as though lit by the rays of some distant star. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Like distant thunder, the sound seemed to come from everywhere at once. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sting should have kept things distant, just the way I needed them to be. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Because of erosion on the Earth, our monuments and artifacts will not, in the natural course of things, survive to the distant future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was very bright and still, and there was a silence, except for the high distant song of larks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He stayed silent, looking now into a distant place, a place that Claire couldn't see. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She drummed her fingers on the tabletop, her eyes distant as if she were deep in thought. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Loki, when he returned from one of his journeys to distant parts, was unrepentant. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But it comes to me now as distant hearsay, which is a gift. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She tilts her head and gazes out over the dash at some distant point as if she’ll see the answer there. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My mom had distant crushes and a few experiences with unrequited love, but there was no way she knew exactly what I was feeling. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Nailer stared at the distant docks and the bustle of nighttime Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, by midmorning we heard the distant tolling of a bell. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z We hear the muffled rumble of the front only as very distant thunder, bumblebees droning by quite drown it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s depression affected Mama a great deal, and I thought she became distant even when he wasn’t around. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Without them there would be no water or air or rocks, no stars and planets, no distant gassy clouds or swirling nebulae or any of the other things that make the universe so usefully material. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nancy was amazed and proud, and her mother, often so timid and distant, had hugged and kissed him, insisting that he wrap up in a quilt and sit close to the parlor fire. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching his fiery body rise between the distant mountains, I could feel him in my own beating heart, spreading love throughout my chest and warming my entire being. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The catastrophe in the sky was distant, slow, even serene. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For a long moment there was no sound but our breath and the distant drip of water. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Aristarchus suspected the stars to be distant suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All that remains are distant echoes and husks of what used to be. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That night, Annabelle lies in bed and listens to the rumble of distant thunder as Saint Christopher swings over her head ominously, like a vial of incense during mass. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In the 1920s, in a direction opposite to M31, observers found a distant pair of spiral galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We went in a bunch, out of the dressing room and down a dim passage aroar with the distant sound. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the kind of pale, almost colorless eyes that made him seem distant and angry whether he was or not. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I look into her blue eyes, distant and familiar all at once. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The rain squalls, now past, have rinsed the haze from the atmosphere, and distant, backlit hills stand out in crisp detail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I can be pretty distant when I put my mind to it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I dropped the spoon I’d been given and slurped straight from a wooden bowl, my table manners a distant memory as greasy, delicious broth dribbled down my chin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He could hear the wooden planks of the stage creaking overhead, the distant, muffled voices of the actors, and laughter from the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After resisting the idea of abdominal surgery for years, he had finally relented after consulting with Snell, but now he seemed to be looking ahead to a more distant prospect. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z No western school even dared to compete until Stanford appeared in 1912, only to finish a distant sixth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I know this room is supposed to be more or less soundproof . . . but I swear I hear the sound of guns and the vibrations of distant screams. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Mrs. Owens asked the flickering shape in the graveyard, now little more than an outline, like distant summer lightning in the shape of a woman. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Drumbeats sounded, faint and distant, like someone was playing somewhere out on Isihlangu. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The plaza was empty, and he saw no lookouts on the paths, no boats on the water, no one on the distant bridge. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, she heard nothing but distant birds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But in that moment, I wished he were one of those stereotypically cold, distant American dads or those stoic, strict Asian dads my friends always complained about. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Many times in the past he had been brisk, distant, removed from them, but now he patted them on the head with just a word and they felt it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then go ahead,” Chaol said, pointing to a distant target along the far wall of the abandoned hallway. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A rumble, as though of distant thunder, told them that the feast had just ended. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I heard the distant rattle of wheels on rails, felt the air rush past, and then there was silence. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Thus our lives never changed, but went round the rolling years beneath the starry vault of distant Heaven. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It was the only sound that accompanied the distant lullaby of the wind, and it made it seem as if the whole forest was breathing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Thus, early Australians and New Guineans were probably capable of intentionally traveling over water to visible islands, and were using watercraft sufficiently often that the colonization of even invisible distant islands was repeatedly achieved unintentionally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Diego’s eyes, so like the slugger’s skin, grew distant and hard. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A single huge chimney dominated the distant skyline. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Some distant memory from the first night he’d had the journal was curled up at the back of his mind, but he couldn’t recall it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was a very distant man, my father. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Siddhartha sat absorbed, his eyes staring as if directed at a distant goal, the tip of his tongue showing a little between his teeth. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow the distant planets sensed the Sun’s presence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She loves him and wants him, but he also seems a little distant right then, as he has been lately. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Faint stirrings and distant sounds came to her from deep inside the belly of the Palace. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was nice enough—polite, friendly, but distant. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sound at all, except the occasional distant barking of a dog or a lowing of a cow. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s hoofbeats on the road, distant but approaching at full gallop. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z No other sounds but the hoot of an owl in the woods and the distant surf on the beach. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He heard the tires spinning in the gravel, and then they caught onto the asphalt, and Colin heard the rumble of the eternally struggling engine grow distant. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z There were dots in some of the distant fields which I assumed to be sheep. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Over the roar of the wind, I heard a distant bellow, an angry, tortured sound that made my hair stand on end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “But my home is still many miles distant.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I was disappointed; I had taken time to write it and he seemed distant and uninterested. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Without any previous agreement, without knowing each other, they had arrived from the most distant corners of the coast, captivated by the talk of the jubilee. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Meereenese of lesser birth crowded the upper tiers, more distant from the carnage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sky came closer, and it stretched forever above her, away and away to distant lands she’d never heard of. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Slavery, we were taught, was a distant and unfortunate period in American history and had led to the Civil War. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She was cold, distant; I knew that she had already made up her mind, that a decision had already been made about me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The sounds of distant cannon fire reached them, but there was no splintering of wood, no splash of iron in the water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z As they headed off, Mark realized that the dream from the night before seemed like a distant memory again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I try to let the secondhand music and the distant blazing suns and the far-off happiness fill me, but it is not enough. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She said she was going to visit some distant cousins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why should a distant theological riddle interest a healthy, thoughtless child?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z At night the pool is quiet, and I swim laps and then just float, watching the ceiling or closing my eyes, all the sounds foggy and distant, the lifeguard keeping watch. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I go up the stairs, my face, distant and white and distorted, framed in the hall mirror, which bulges outward like an eye under pressure. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced up at the ceiling as if retrieving a distant memoiy. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z He had always existed in his own right, and he lives at this very moment in a distant land that must seem to him like a great vessel of strangers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He chose the composition of distant stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was suddenly black and milky with distant, diffused light. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Tendai saw, in a distant, shadowy way, the country of Zimbabwe with its millions of souls. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z So distant was she, living in her country of sorrow, that I dared not question her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Long aqueducts conveyed water from the distant mountains across the lake and into the city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I wonder if it doesn’t explain something, though. Why he acted so distant when you were little.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Bran could hear the distant clash of arms through the windows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His head came to rest on Rowan’s shoulder, while all around them distant cries of agony filled the icy air. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Outside the walls of her secret garden, it is our town, with rain falling on houses in rows and on the distant, metal towers of the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When she stepped into the corridor and heard distant heavy footsteps in the stairwell, she thought of German jackboots, and her stomach lurched. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I stayed curled up till the roar of the Harriers finally sank under the hum of distant cars and nearby trees. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I thought of quiet Hatun, my older brother, slaving away on the distant roads. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I thought it might happen in the distant future, once I’m a grown woman with an important job and my own house and a husband and children. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It all felt rather distant and untouchable, fading to smoke around the edges. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But it sounded, at the same time, far away, as if she were moving someplace distant. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He is far away, distant, dedicated utterly to the Resistance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Suddenly someone was calling his name, the sound oddly distant. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the first quarter of 2000, the poorest 10 percent of workers were earning only 91 percent of what they earned in the distant era of Watergate and disco music. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I often sat under an isolated tree on a distant part of campus and wrote in my journal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The sonnet form allowed me to make my poems look and feel like real poetry without being as distant as some of the other British poetry I had read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z There was unemployment in the North, and in the capital the effects of the distant war were still being felt. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Soft and sour, the smell of distant death. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever was happening in his distant body now, he could not change or stop; his chest heaved, his laughter rose and bubbled at his mouth, like blood. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Smiling at my irony, I would say that I had been invited to join ‘minority leaders’ on trips to distant Third World countries. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The engine’s whistle blows mournfully, a distant sound that somehow cuts through the insistent buzzing in my ears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Unseen, they had followed them to their warren, which, though a long way off, was not too distant to be attacked, especially since no time would have to be spent in searching for it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterwards, as we lie in comparatively good cover, one of the food-carriers reports that a couple of hundred yards distant there lies a wounded messenger-dog. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z You could smell the stink of gunpowder and hear the distant burping of the machine guns. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was staring at the sky, the dark clouds, listening to the distant thunder. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Cricks and creaks came from nearby and distant quarters, as if the house were twitching in a sleep of its own. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z They regarded the people at work, the faces in crowds, as very distant from us. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Freedom lay on the distant sandy bank of this river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z If you are in a park and someone is playing annoying music, you know that if you move to a more distant spot the music will seem quieter. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He seemed a distant man, often lost in his own thoughts as he stood behind the counter stacking porgies in the basket for deep-frying. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ghost returned as he crested a rise and saw the distant glow of lamplight from the Lord Commander's Tower. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was almost to the threshold when she spoke, her voice distant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z By the time I left Corvallis, Oregon, to enroll in a distant college where no ivy grew, I was speaking to my father with a clenched jaw or not at all. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The ka-ka-ka of shooting, the cries of men, the smell of death, the blasts of explosions above and around him were distant. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He jerked his head in the direction of the distant shelters where a thread of white smoke climbed up the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Off in the trees, the distant scream of some frightened animal made him look up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He pointed to a distant bit of shore. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He did not know the name of Rigel but he saw it and knew soon they would all be out and he would have all his distant friends. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The tumult of 1848—the bloody populist revolutions that swept fiercely through France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria and overturned social, political, and religious orders—largely passed him by, like distant thunder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They were, in fact, distant cousins, something they never found out. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mormont paid no mind to the mongrel crowd; his eyes were fixed beyond the siege lines, on the distant city with its ancient | walls of many-colored brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I didn't want him to be self-involved and distant like the stoner boys I pined for in high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, there is a low pulse in my knee right now, a dull throbbing sensation that feels the way distant sirens sound. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z At the end of that picnic, watching the distant flames leap up to the sky and blank out all the stars in red flame and oily smoke, she had laid her head on his shoulder. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Far off to the east, beyond the city walls, he saw pale wings moving above a distant line of hills. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She could hear the distant sound of swordplay, and the shivery wail of a man screaming in pain across die bailey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I tried, persistently but in vain, to reach out for his love and understanding, and each time he reciprocated by becoming more distant and inscrutable, more morose and frightening to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Exiled like a criminal to a distant land.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It was like seeing a vision of some past life, a life so recent and so distant that I could remember the exhilaration without being able to remember what it felt like. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He followed and caught up with the pair, coming up beside them in the late twilight lit only by distant lantern-gleams. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z But their role in my life was a distant one, and I thought little if at all about the white man in general or relations between my own people and these curious and remote figures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hated the fact that my whole family was treating her like some distant figure from our past, when her energy, memories, and face were all I thought about. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Mormonts of Bear Island were an old house, proud and honorable, but their lands were cold and distant and poor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But as the lights and sounds of distant bombardment continued and no bombs fell directly on us, it became clear that neighboring areas were the immediate targets of attack. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z She pointed at a distant temple tower rising above the forest of buildings. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z As I crested the ridge, a prickly feeling crept over me, and I looked around to see a man watching me from a distant outcropping. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The central problem, however, was simple: How could one look through a powerful telescope at a tiny, distant object and make reliable observations while on a ship bouncing about on the waves? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the distance, the roof alarm goes off as Will opens the door to get back inside, distant but blaring as it echoes down the stairwell, reverberating in the hallway. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z It came from that distant glitter she thought was the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Oliver’s stomach rumbled, the double chocolate pecan cookies he’d eaten an hour earlier a distant memory. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z "But whatever happens, and I say it again, we must tread carefully from now on. I have not forgotten that strange and distant glimmer on your face after you tipped over the last glass." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Mary’s countenance was equally intelligent—her features equally pretty; but her expression was more reserved, and her manners, though gentle, more distant. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Then she noticed the glow of distant fires well above them; a tower keep, built upon the steep side of the mountain, its lights like orange eyes staring down from above. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Out the window, far beyond the neighboring block, beyond the ramparts, the single light of a boat appears and disappears as it rises and falls on distant swells. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The long windows looked out upon the lawns, and beyond the lawns to the distant shimmer of the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The sky tumbled overhead, unspooling into a reflection of fireworks on water and rising white buildings that appeared as distant and inaccessible as the medieval Neamt Citadel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The way she stood, the bright sash around her waist, and the two glossy braids falling over her shoulders made me feel that she had performed this ceremony in some distant past. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing could hasten more the progress of these reflections & sentiments which are secretly undermining the institution which this mistaken zeal is laboring to secure agst. the most distant approach of danger.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They all looked over at Hayley, whose eyes seemed distant and vacant. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As he said it, there was an explosion from overhead: All three of them looked up as dust fell from the ceiling and they heard a distant scream. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Then I heard the distant crack of a breaking branch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Since that morning in the marketplace, he had never again made use of Urim and Thummim, because Egypt was now just as distant a dream for him as was Mecca for the merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She became distant again for a moment, pursing her lips and staring remotely as she walked. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Sam thought that he heard cries and wild shouting also, but the sound was faint, as if it came out of some distant cave. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And then everything grew quiet except for the distant sounds of the people outside, who’d be coming for them soon. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They crossed into a field and plodded on toward a distant stand of trees skylighted stark and black against the last of the visible world. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The wind began to blow steadily out of the West and pour the water of the distant seas on the dark heads of the hills in fine drenching rain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Priests come to the school to recruit us for the foreign missions, Redemptorists, Franciscans, Holy Ghost Fathers, all converting the distant heathen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She followed his gaze and saw a distant tremor of movement, quite different from the shimmer of the heat haze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It began as a soft growl, like distant thunder, and finished as a roar that shook the trees and the rocks of the valley and the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He heard the limousine start up, the distant slam of a door, the fading roar of the engine. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But the boy ran off along the canal toward the distant town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Voldemort was supposed to be far away, in some distant country, in hiding, alone . . . feeble and powerless. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Now that he had left the plane, the city seemed even more distant and unreal. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They were awakened by gunshots fired into the distant sky by the Khmer Rouge, but I was so tired I slept through it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Silhouetted against the sky, they looked like a travel poster for a distant land. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Look,” I say, pointing at a distant cluster of buildings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The voice of the pilot came over the speaker system, distant and metallic. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Thanks to him the Street of the Turks, with its dazzling display of knickknacks, became a melodic oasis where one could forget Arcadio's arbitrary acts and the distant nightmare of the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For a safety expert at the top of the chain of command, who lives every day with the responsibility for managing risks, the bird traps set out by her underlings are a distant memory. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The summer nightfall was unbroken by owls and so quiet that they could plainly hear the intermittent, monotonous “Chug chug chug” of a nightingale in the distant woods. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She went off to deal with a distant customer, and Katz watched her go with something like paternal pride. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The distant rumble of the waterfall grew louder with each passing minute, and then a slash of white appeared through the trees. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z This phrasing of the question seemed to set off a series of weak and distant lights where the other had thrown a spark that failed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The imprint of the doe faded away with every blink of his eyes as he stood there, listening to the sounds of the forest, to distant crackles of twigs, soft swishes of snow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z From the distant sound of Liz's voice, I can tell they are out of the vehicle but still close by. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And, as she passed through the trees, it might have appeared to a distant observer that she seemed to twinkle, on and off and off and on, like a tiny star. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Blue water and green lands and distant mountains in every direction. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The sun was dropping slowly from sight, and stripes of purple and orange and crimson and gold piled themselves on top of the distant hills. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z She found temp work at legal agencies, keeping alive that distant dream of going to law school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They stayed in El Paso with Apá’s distant cousin and worked at a restaurant until they were able to save enough money to take the bus to Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Books were unheard of in Nhamo’s village, but very occasionally a magazine found its way from the distant cities of Zimbabwe. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was based on a play that had been published only the previous year and was set in recent times rather than in the safely distant past. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He lay back and sighed at the distant ceiling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Like the touch of the brothers’ distant God. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z This time Esteban Trueba did not attempt to hold him back, because he thought a trip through that distant nation of starving people and nomadic cows would do his son a lot of good. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The roar from the reef became very distant. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Jaja says a brief, distant “Ka o di” not making eye contact with either of us, before he lets the guard lead him away. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He never saw the punch, but he heard it thud against his ear and then the distant plop, like a stone splashing into the pool at the bottom of a sewer hole. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z By then, Beatrice’s stepbrother was a distant blur, a bronze-colored wisp vanishing into a snarled tree line. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She could imagine him, this seafaring friend, white-haired and weatherbeaten, coming shyly to the door with his small treasures from some distant shore. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Gregor’s eyes traveled up the distant rows of people as he tried to find the ceiling. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In his seat, Reggie continued to look distant, but increasingly he was anything but. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His eyes became distant, like secrets carved in stone. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Alby’s screams, now distant but still audible, only made it worse. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Other than the distant sounds of the chaotic dance taking place down the street, he couldn’t hear a thing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Somewhere distant, there was a faint crackling sound, but he barely heard it over the roaring in his ears. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The galaxies were so distant that even these great velocities were not directly measurable. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For some time all three moved on quietly over the grass, while the shadows grew stronger and the wood pigeons clattered among the distant trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only a few notes, but mixed with the soft rush of the wind and the smoke upon it, I hear...the strum of a distant guitar, and laughter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Sitting on top of the cupboard were baskets filled with pieces of candy glittering in silver and gold wrappers like distant stars. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z She was awakened every dawn for prayer by the distant cry of azan, after which she crawled back into bed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The engines were distant now, but he knew that any moment they would be closing in again. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I released the handle and the bucket splashed, a distant sound. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I've grown up with only a handful of photographs, and most of them are grainy and distant. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was awkward as a pebble on his tongue, and sounded like the name of an enchantress from a far distant land. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z From the porch upon the top of the high terrace they could see beyond the stream the green fields of Rohan fading into distant grey. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Word had arrived that in Venice someone called Galileo, using some sort of new instrument, had discovered four planets circling a distant star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I thought she was a very distant relative. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt stared up at the impossibly distant bushes peeking over the top of the cliff until he was dizzy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few minutes it was creeping up the lower slope of the distant mountains, making that young world every moment softer. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I ask him why we need a “thing” and he says, “You seem different, distant—not yourself. Maybe shooting around once or twice a week would help?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten million fireflies blinking on and off around my head, as if all the distant stars had come down to Earth just to say hello. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I hear the distant closing of a door, around at the side, footsteps on the walk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy was a child of Poseidon’s better nature—powerful, but gentle and helpful, the kind of sea that sped ships safely to distant lands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On the way back, just outside Port Harcourt, he heard the distant rattle of gunfire. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Since only 10 percent of thru-hikers make it this far, and it is too distant for most day hikers, the trail in Maine is much more thinly used, and so the foliage encroaches. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She nods and stares across the far side of the lake, to the distant icy mountains where the water pours over the plateaus. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I thought a lot and developed the far-away look of a dreamer, for it was always the distant heights which fascinated me and drew me to them in spirit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Past the gates, distant chimneys belched black smoke and a sickening stench filled the air. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The loop hadn’t yet reset, and the bog was pocked with bomb holes, the sky buzzing with planes, walls of orange flame marching against the distant tree line. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z You could talk about a mighty boar which had nearly slashed you last winter, but he only stared at you with his distant eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Her old life seemed as distant as the radio programs she listened to, or President Roosevelt talking about the war. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And that was in another place—a dry, stony land of long winters and low sun, distant. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I glanced once more at the distant mountain, but the stranger was gone, as I knew he would be. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Wherever you look, there is no alternative to the megascale corporate order, from which every form of local creativity and initiative has been abolished by distant home offices. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a distant mutter of thunder borne on the rising breeze. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And what I did not realize was that my life would be radically changed by deceptively distant events. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Toronto is behind us, a smear of brownish air on the horizon, like smoke from a distant burning. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He made a fortune in sea traffic among those distant races, but while he did so, the foul crime was planned and carried out in Argos by Aigisthos, who ruled over golden Mykenai seven years. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The elder’s wife sang in the choir and I fell in love with her as only a twelve-year-old can worship a distant and unattainable woman. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Squire Julian Gingivere merely nodded, and addressed them in a regal but distant manner: “Good afternoon. Very clement weather for the time of year, don’t you think?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The more distant Clara became, the more I needed her love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the city, a building collapsed in a great gout of fire and smoke, and she heard distant screams and the wailing of frightened children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Nailer cradled the spyglass in his good hand and peered at the distant beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z To travel hundreds of miles to a distant city with Musab and Ali? Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z But that was the moment I first noticed it, something in his voice, or maybe his manner, that set off distant alarm bells. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook his head, his eyes getting all distant. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Percy still couldn’t get over the fact that Frank was a distant relative. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Annabeth and I sat on the ridge in despair and watched the distant baby-blue shape of the Cyclops as he moved among his flocks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And increasingly there were distant but dark rumblings from Germany, intimations of the third and most tragic act. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My mother became even more distant than she had . been before—more removed from the world, and more removed from us. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Everything else was thought to be either part of the Milky Way itself or one of many distant, peripheral puffs of gas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Maybe Connecticut Koreans are too distant, perhaps they think they have more money or class than other Koreans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The silence in the dark house was broken only by the distant, grunting snores of his enormous cousin, Dudley. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z On a black screen, a binocular-shaped template of vision sweeps back and forth, taking in the distant refugees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Here the dust and heat began to recede; the short grass and stunted corn seemed distant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Water roars in her ears, the sound of it like a distant faucet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The sky was a distant black curtain of falling rain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In his new personage he was always cold, sullen, distant, contemplative; always wrinkling his brow and scratching his balding head and wringing his hands and muttering curses and complaints, especially on Fridays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z George had been listening to the distant sounds. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, a quaint expression you sometimes hear, still, from older people: I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard something else: my heart thumping, blood pumping in my ears, the distant tick of the clock in the hallway downstairs. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z A whisper of rain was beginning through a sunny sky, distant black clouds not close enough to throw the valley into darkness. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Frodo half expected to see the small distant figure of a horseman on the ridge dark against the sky; but there was no sign of one. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Aureliano made progress in his studies of Sanskrit as Melquíades' visit became less and less frequent and he was more distant, fading away in the radiant light of noon. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z From this vantage, the distant castle on Aegon's High Hill was directly behind him, with the comet hanging forebodingly over its tow-ers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Looking at the horizon helps,” yelled Maddie, her own farseeing eyes focused on the distant place where the battered gray land met tumultuous gray cloud. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The rumble of the car faded, became part of the distant background hum. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It lands with a distant, muted splash in the pond. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As the earth goes round the sun, we see them from different positions against the background of more distant stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By the unforgiving calculus of relations between distant fathers and resentful sons, that was reason enough for Shin’s loathing. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Dimly lit by a distant streetlight, two flashlights, and a jack-o’-lantern, it was almost too fascinating to bear. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I let the pole drop from my stinging blistering fingers, pride taking a distant second to fatigue. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Her voice was flowing amber, liquid with the accents of the distant Summer Isles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This is the face her patients most often see—slightly distant, professional, and concerned. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, Harry thought that his inexpert Apparition had thrown Dumbledore off balance; then he saw his face, paler and damper than ever in the distant light of a streetlamp. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t think badly of him,” she told me in a distant, floating voice. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, I saw the receding glow of the minister’s lantern like a distant firefly in the black night. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They have a hoarse, distant bellow like a rutting stag and make their way high above the howl and whistle of the smaller shells. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the Death Eaters waved his wand and the scream stopped, still echoing around the distant mountains. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The roaring, crackling, spitting forest fire, still safely distant but getting closer, and the occasional hoot or holler or laugh of their new unfriendly friends. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was a fact of life, but if I brought it up, people would suddenly get interested in their hangnails and cuticles, or else distant places in the sky, and seem not to hear me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of them were Shay, but there were obvious differences: One looked wild, slightly angry; the other had a slightly distant expression, like someone having a daydream. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I held out a carrot and whistled again, a song about mermaids, Apple’s distant cousins. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But a bright and beautiful blur, no matter how distant, was better than a reality that was dull and gray. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard the distant gunfire and the squawking sirens. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This uncertainty applies, incidentally, to relatively nearby things as much as to the distant edges of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What I enjoyed most were the “fatigue marches” in which you are equipped with only a gun, bullets, and some water, and you must reach a distant point within a certain time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ear, Eye and Arm often looked down on these fires and imagined they were back in the distant village of their childhood. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Face level with the handlebars, Harry could see nothing but distant lights growing nearer and nearer: He was going to crash and there was nothing he could do about it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Peering into cases of exotic butterflies from distant lands—glittering even in death—Maria once again felt a deep longing to know more about them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I hear distant laughter, but here in the hall, we are alone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But the screen is dark, and the sound isn’t tinny or distant. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Today we combine a laser and a photocell, or a radar transmitter and a radio telescope, and in this way make active contact by light with distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Kennedys’ house shimmered for a few days like a mirage, an oddly distant but pretty vision, framed by jagged points of multicolored light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z That the sun was larger and more distant than the moon was generally accepted by most contemporary authorities. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She has a vague smile on her face, as though she’s listening to distant music. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I tried to think through the drugs, through the distant pain, but there was no honest explanation I could give them—none they would believe. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “It can’t be solved,” he said, his voice now quiet and distant, spooky. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z All night they ran through the darkling wood, but as die sun came up the sound of a distant horn came faintly through the trees, and they heard the baying of a pack of hounds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I know that soon all of this will be a distant memory for both of us. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But you can tell the girls by their stained, frilly dresses, castoffs from some distant land. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Positioning one atom the proper distance from its neighbor often caused a distant atom to become jammed impossibly close to its partners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The only variation in the dusty brown-green emptiness was a distant smudge of darker green, which he made for because Balthamos said it was a forest and there was a river there, which led south. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I thought I wanted to be like Papa, at least sometime in the distant future. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His foot slipped and for a moment he dangled above the distant deck with nothing but his slippery palms clinging to the ropes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The street lay dead quiet in the light of the lately risen moon, the gunfire thin and for a moment, distant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence writing brings power to modern societies, by making it possible to transmit knowledge with far greater accuracy and in far greater quantity and detail, from more distant lands and more remote times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The loud toll of the distant Joseph Bell brought Cluny whirling back from the realms of nightmare to cold reality. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The rain was only a faint sound on the roof, and the sound of the thunder was distant, and moving east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked out over a valley blanketed in snow, distant church bells chiming through the glittering silence. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her voice was distant and faint, coming, I thought, from near the bam. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He found himself staring out windows, wistful, yearning for that distant, unattainable horizon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Their voices were just murmurs, the distant music that a conversation makes when it’s too dim for words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The last thing they heard from the garden under the ground was the hyena’s distant laughter dying away as the gates closed behind them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She listened for their distant shouts: There was nothing. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents’ footsteps pace back and forth above my head; the sounds of the household, the Mixmaster and the telephone and the distant news, filter down to me as if in illness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Amaroq answered with a bark, and the distant wolf said something else—she did not know what. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s merely a smile, a formal kind of smile, friendly but a little distant, as if I’m a kitten in a window. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The robotic voice inside my head repeats the words, but this time fainter like a distant echo. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There were several letters about distant relatives dying, school and job acceptance letters, invitations to weddings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Until that moment, as horrible as the disaster had sounded to Alex, it had still felt far away and distant, across the river. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Royal watched him, a distant and angry compassion in his face. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Though we stood in Denmark’s woods, there floated as on abreeze the imagined scents of the distant Bible lands: myrrh and aloe and henna and cinnamon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Charles was not all science by any means: He bathed the baby, kissed him, hugged him, walked him when he cried; he was anything but the stereotypical distant father so often portrayed in Victorian literature. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I desperately tried to understand how such an intelligent woman could be reasonable and understanding one moment, then seem so cold, distant, and dispassionate the next. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow the memory of the falling rocks faded with the owl’s cry, and what had been frightening and unexplainable grew distant. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As we sat around our campfire that evening, eating a scratch meal from tins, I heard the distant, grunting roar of a lion. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z As the years passed, his time in Faerie must have seemed like a distant dream. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The fire was miles away to the north, a distant, pulsing red sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I can’t say she wasn’t nice, because she was, but she seemed kind of distant, like I was a casual friend. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The real Henry is beautiful, distant, boring, and closed. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The ringing of a distant bell, combined with the echoing of some cry or call along the passage by which I had come, interrupted the conversation and caused Estella to say to me, “Now, boy!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Bridey’s mother and other people in our lane and lanes beyond will come to the door to ask Dad if he’ll write a letter to the government or a relation in a distant place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It is helpful to look at counterparts from a distant place and a century far removed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The distant sound of a car engine died into a hum. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She chewed her food in little bites; her eyes were distant. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was now that they were back from England, living in the same house again, that Olanna realized just how distant they had become. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And beyond the lighthouse, distant cliffs rose dimly, and beyond them, those great wide rolling hills he’d seen from the place he’d first come through. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It told of Personal Legend, and of the many men who had wandered in search of distant lands or beautiful women, confronting the people of their times with their preconceived notions. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound surprises me—it’s genuine and boyish, so unlike his distant demeanor from our meeting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dicke and Peebles argued that we should still be able to see the glow of the early universe, because light from very distant parts of it would only just be reaching us now. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A sudden and stark silence fell over the world, broken only by the distant cries of a bird. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A wide valley is opening up around us, flat at the bottom where the river is but distant hills beginning to climb up on either side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His eyes turn distant, those familiar walls going up until he’s looking at me in the same way he had during our first meeting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They prepared to welcome her, even as they waited for her to be carried back out to the hungry sea, a distant head dipping out of sight once more. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The chaplain lived in a clearing in the woods about four miles away between the officers’ club and the first of the four squadron areas that stretched away from Group Headquarters in a distant line. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Under certain conditions our exhalations freezing instantly made a tiny cracking noise, like distant firecrackers, and a shower of crystals: each breath a snowstorm. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z How did we manage to settle so rapidly in so many distant and ecologically different habitats? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark held a finger to his lips and tilted his head toward the distant voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z On a high, he grows quiet, sleepy, and distant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Only once was I successful, when I saw a distant Mushie and Ikwa lounging and grooming in the clearing of the burned-out house. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z With it come the scents of salt and hay and fish markets and distant marshes and absolutely nothing that smells to her of war. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her feelings were real enough, but with an unseen, distant cause. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z No plague patrols wander the streets, and the only sounds come from occasional cars and the distant blare of JumboTron ads. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Coolly distant, when she was watching the band and jiggling that foot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The sky was clear and crisp; distant stars blazed in the cold night. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The Unseen City had never seemed more distant, or more out of reach. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It completely encompasses the distant tree, making it glow a hot blue-white and causing the surrounding air to crackle with electricity. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I read about the distant countries of the Indies and fantastic creatures discovered by voyagers on land and in the sea. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There are crops, animals grazing on the slopes, workers in distant fields. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A distant memory tugged at her—something about Tartarus and fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Eventually, my eyes adjusted, and I was able to pick out a few distant shadows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The towers of a castle on the cliffs peek through the distant mist. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The hobbits looked anxiously at the distant hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Whether or not Bobby was hypersensitive, he did suffer from hyperacusis—an acute sensitivity to noise and even distant sounds—and it was clear that Tal, in particular, knew just how to rattle him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The doctor in charge of the study, the one who’d started the distant healing research—she was the daughter of some chess champion or something, remember?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The distant white walls promised rest and safety, a chance to heal and grow strong, and Dany wanted nothing so much as to rush toward them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The more distant the objects that astronomers look at, the farther back they are looking in time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His voice grew distant as if he’d traveled back in time, then it fell flat, drained of all emotion. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z In 1921, however, all that was still on the distant horizon. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At some distant, unspecified future time, he said to himself. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air—a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z As the sun drops behind the distant mountains, the light in the east takes on a blue haze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The distant call of the charcoal man’s horn sounded at the far end of the market. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice sounded muted and distant, like he was speaking with a pillow against his face, but she still heard him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Andromeda was not a cloud of glowing gas; it was a cloud of stars so distant that they looked like a smear rather than individual points of light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Along the western horizon the lower clouds formed a single purple mass, against which distant trees stood out minute and sharp. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z No light from the moon, stars, or cars along the distant road pierced the inky blackness. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Outside, a distant clap of what sounded like thunder echoed, and the darkening window rattled in its frame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “At the tip of Spain. And over there—” She pointed south, to a more distant stretch of red and ochre hills. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She felt a twinge of disappointment at how distant he was. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Thomas took it all in with a distant and muted wonder—he was far past being surprised or overcome by anything ever again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He lay on the concrete listening to the voices that surrounded him, voices that were either soft or distant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One moment she is actively engaged in the conversation, her laugh echoing her sister’s, and the next she seems distant, staring through the dripping candles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And then, as in a dream, they were no longer riding toward a distant hall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Even without our Links connected, I sense a certain unease in him, something that turns his eyes distant, the same thing that made him break away from me that night at his home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hear the distant thud of the door, and all falls silent. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Might she have been some distant kin of someone I haggled with on market days? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Olbers’s counterargument was that the light from distant stars would be dimmed by absorption by intervening matter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z How I wished I could be the moon, watching everything from the safety of the distant sky. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z As I lowered my glass, a distant blast echoed through the midway, followed by two more bangs in rapid succession. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He smelled the distant odor of the desert, perhaps even of the mesquite surrounding the oasis.Things traveled so much farther at night. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Johannes Kepler, the man who discovered that planets travel in ellipses, took this idea—the infinitely distant point—one step further. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dany could hear the distant call of night birds, the hiss and crackle of the torches, the gentle lapping of water from the lake. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You say you’ve seen these plants?” said Bigwig, turning his ears to catch the distant rustling of the beans. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped to look at them, jagged and red peaked, looming there like a distant mountain range. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re the eyes of something that isn’t known but exists anyway; like the green eye of the radio; like the eyes of aliens from a distant planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Hazel and Bigwig went with them to the southern end of the hanger and watched as they slipped away, heading to the west of the distant farm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Spotting a distant harvested cornfield, she flew to a tree at its edge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Of course, of course,” he said, his eyes still distant. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, looking back, I think that it might have been I who had become distant as well. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He felt himself slipping, struggling to separate reality from memory, the immediate present from the distant past. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The outside world felt distant, and she couldn’t make out the whispers of the fourth graders behind her. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Over on the highway he could see headlights and taillights moving east and west, but he felt alone, as if that world were distant from him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They had started at Springer on the 28th of March—a date that seemed impossibly snow-flecked and distant now in the full heat of an August evening—and had hiked continuously for 141 days. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The hubbub from behind was as loud as ever, but more distant. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He dropped a nickel in a telescope for a better view of the Brooklyn Bridge, then swept across Lower Manhattan and out to the distant Statue of Liberty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The more distant circles of the hall kept up their convulsions, but the central one had altogether frozen. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Of massacres in distant countries, pregnant women dismembered in the squares. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In a distant kitchen, because of the heat of the day, someone was preparing a cold lunch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Then anew sound began, a distant booming and throbbing. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z When Lourdes was a child in Cuba, she used to wait anxiously for her father to return from his trips selling small fans and electric brooms in distant provinces. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. I find it a frustrating, humbling, infuriating experience.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z 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 I breathe in the soap smell, the disinfectant smell, and stand in the white bathroom, listening to the distant sounds of water running, toilets being flushed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z This combination must have been the result of a happy accident in the distant past. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Aaron’s scent moves closer to the road but I’m feeling so poor I don’t even look up when I hear distant Noise now and then. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He heard nothing, however, except the distant twittering of birds outside. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At the moment his expression was distant and preoccupied. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, within seconds, a distant rhombus of ocher light containing her outline widened, paused, then narrowed to nothing as she entered the house and the door was closed behind her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The outer door closed with a sound like distant thunder, and again the lightning came, as if in answer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was weak, but it was blue-white—and the gleaming pea that was the distant source of light was not Old Sol. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Henry is looking down, eyes distant and cast toward the grain of the table, and Alex can practically feel the energy roiling up from Catherine across from him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “My God, there are none so distant that fate cannot bring them together. But, dear child, your stockings. And your heels! You must be famished.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was something familiar about him, something distant, but the more I tried to see it, the more it stayed out of reach. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I could still hear the distant sounds of the carnival, but it occurred to me how isolated we were. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The house was silent when we got back, save for some poor creature who was screaming away in one of the distant wards, and a low, moaning sound from Renfield’s room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z His gaze turned distant for a moment, then he grinned. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The distant look in his eyes, as though he was peering over his shoulder at something far behind him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But in the Bree-land, at any rate, the hobbits were decent and prosperous, and no more rustic than most of their distant relatives Inside. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was a dark smudge against the distant hills that blinked in and out of sight as the road curved. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then she noticed lizards warming themselves on a distant rock. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Imagine standing in a field at night and trying to decide how far away two distant electric lights are. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Down along the docks lining the Delaware, cargo was being loaded onto ships that would sail to New York, Boston, and other distant ports. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z To carry water from a distant spring through the fortifications, he ordered a great tunnel built. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I hear the distant sound of music, old Afghan songs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Candles flickered here and there in front of images of the saints; a faint and distant clatter came from the organ loft, where some repairs were going on; a servant was polishing the brass lectern. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The distant wails of the Grievers grew closer as the night stretched on, every minute seeming to last longer than the one before it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He paused, fingers on the buttons of his waistcoat, his look distant, almost dreamy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At that moment a bell rang from some distant place within the house. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The tanks seemed to be heading for the distant channel Matt had seen during lunch. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When I reached Morningside the shooting sounded like a distant celebration of the Fourth of July, and I hurried forward. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z All his life seemed pale and distant compared to what he was experiencing now. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Harry glanced again at the raw-looking thing that trembled and choked in the shadow beneath the distant chair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her mother squinted at the girl in the photo as if she were a distant relation whose name she struggled to remember. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “It even has lights from a distant village against those hills.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We are quiet for a while after, content to contemplate the stars above us, to find music in the distant sounds that drift up from the forges. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He stayed up a long time, watching the distant lights of Opium.There weren’t many.The mansion sat by itself in a sea of dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As always, I was electrically aware of Edward sitting close enough to touch, as distant as if he were merely an invention of my imagination. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her hair is styled in two braids and her gaze is distant. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z South and east they stared to where, at the edge of the oncoming night, a dark line hung, like distant mountains of motionless smoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z All foreign lands are inaccessible except to servicemen; they are vague, distant, and sealed off as though behind a curtain of plastic. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine standing on that cold, distant planet, breathing hydrogen and helium, viewing Earth from the other side of the solar system. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Florida heard the faint wail of the freight train as it wound its way through the distant hills, and she pulled the quilt up close to her face. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z And it was from there they watched the distant flames eat up everything they knew in the world. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The parents of a child provided, on average, half the content of that feature; the grandparents, a quarter; the great-grandparents, an eighth—and so forth, all the way back to the most distant ancestor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He waited, listening to the distant shouts—and at last the lights blinked, blinked again, and came on. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Outside there would be a porch with rocking chairs, where you could sit and smoke your pipe and watch the sun sink into the lovely distant hills. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I heard, from somewhere distant, the calls of the adult bonobos coordinating their foraging. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His head was wrenched sideways, as if loose at the neck, and the dead young man seemed to be staring at some distant object beyond the bell-shaped flowers along the trail. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I was on my parents’ living room floor, staring out at that distant world, impenetrable to me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Lee Cheun points to a group of girls walking in a distant field. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Are they all just distant memories we are passing to each other? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z So one has a set of events, a region of space-time, from which it is not possible to escape to reach a distant observer. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We had all written letters that Mother planned to mail to her “contact,” a distant relative who lived in the countryside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The ground seemed to answer with a distant rumble, like a growling heart. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The scrape of boots, the distant sound of voices. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This was a cold and distant world; a world of white secrets carefully guarded. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Laughter has become a distant memory and I cherish the echo of a different time. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The fine thing about soccer,” said Ralf, with a distant look in his eyes, “is that you enjoy both the game and the trimmings.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I listen for the birds and feel my fear as a distant thing, a hammering heart and a squeezed chest, but not something that exists in my mind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “The land offered by the King is distant from their farms.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel’s eyes were stormy and distant, the way they’d been in the House of Hades - like she was peering into a different layer of reality. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He told her she’d make new friends and have new things to look forward to at Stanford, that all of this would be a distant memory soon. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Mr. Grote has become even more distant, up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, then skinning and smoking the meat at night. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Here, the angle being measured is not between the observer and two distant objects, but rather the stars are being read as if they were the hands of a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There were streetlights, pavement, the rumble of distant cars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I try to ignore the distant thump of the soldier’s body hitting the dunes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Only their scratching pens, kids' stomachs, flies entombed in the strip lights, and distant cries of free kids ruckled the silence. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She paused, listening to the sound of some distant partygoer screech in laughter. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But more recent observations by Ricardo Giacconi may have resolved the X-ray glow into individual points, perhaps an immense horde of distant quasars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Far away, maybe ten miles or more, there was a great burning, but between it and the Riders lines of fire blazed in a vast crescent, at the nearest point less than a league distant. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Once, in the light of the quarter moon, they appeared in silhouette on a domed, distant green, like figures dancing in someone’s dream. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Classical music’s infatuation with mining the riches of the distant past only reinforced the popular impression that it was backward- rather than forward-looking. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Far away to the east, perhaps a mile distant, there was an unbroken wall of sound. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened to their song, distant and plaintive. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z At the Maifeld, the boys began to hear the distant sound of crowds cheering, the noise slowly swelling and growing nearer, then loudspeakers blaring, “He is coming! He is coming!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By then he could hear distant music, and he knew it was time to change for the feast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Meggie couldn't remember ever hearing it before, yet it sounded familiar, like a distant memory that wouldn’t take shape properly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In the more distant parts of the town the Trojans were able to gather together here and there and then it was the Greeks who suffered. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Always there is the muted rattling of her father’s tools inside his rucksack and the distant and incessant honking of automobile horns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z What we actually see, however, is almost exclusively red shifts no matter what distant objects beyond the Local Group we point our telescopes to. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists toyed with the idea that the spiral nebulae were not distant island universes but rather nearby condensing clouds of interstellar gas, perhaps on their way to make solar systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were far away and distant, and though she didn’t look at Chaol, she felt him studying her face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Harry thought even Professor Sprout seemed distant with him -— but then, she was Head of Hufflepuff House. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Soon the distant noise of Ron straining to shift the rocks was gone. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z We... girls read her all the time,” I say, and again we stare at each other long enough for a distant telephone to ring three times. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He set his eyes on some distant goal, bowed his wings, and flew southward as silently as the shadow he cast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z People accustomed to keeping domesticated animals lacked the conceptual tools to recognize that the Indians were practicing a more distant kind of husbandry of their own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The distant roosters began to crow and the air changed and the dawn was coming. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z All of it felt so distant to me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And then came the sound of a distant roar, like a lion just sprung from a trap. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything sufficiently distant—people, trees, buildings—is squashed into a zero-dimensional point and disappears. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Her command was emphasized by the roar of thunder somewhere out in the distant sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Here and there, military men in fancy dress uniforms are looking up at the distant flashes of fireworks in the sky. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Jonathan had a memory too that some prisoners were sold into slavery, or sent to distant places, never allowed to come home. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z But the more frantic Mami became in her search for the right treatment for Raymond, the more distant Papi became, as if we were all wounded in some way that he couldn’t help. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Called, I say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Outside, the view was the same one she saw from her own bedroom: trees, fields, and beyond them, on the horizon, distant purple hills. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z One midwinter’s day, when the sun was as distant and cold as a dull silver coin, they saw that the remains of the scraeling’s body had been removed from the ash tree. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “The last time, Jane! What! do you think you can live with me, and see me daily, and yet, if you still love me, be always cold and distant?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Can black holes serve as time machines, carrying us to the remote past or the distant future? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So once again she turned her back upon the distant hill and closed her ears to the song of flight and freedom that the wind sang as it played amongst the hill’s stony ridges. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He blinks hard and opens his eyes very wide, like he’s peering into some distant world. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They are silent and distant—always alone, always wary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously, so that the links between any two people, anywhere in the world, are few and distant? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From the roof of Killington there was a 360-degree panorama over nearly the whole of New England and on to Quebec as far as the distant bluish nubbin of Mont Royal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I—I’m not sure,” she said, though the mention of a flood story rang a distant bell. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The sounds grew more and more distant behind her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Once, at dinner in a restaurant in Victoria Island, somber waiters hovering around, she had seemed distant, her eyes on the wall behind him, and he had worried that she was upset about something. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The sounds of police-station activity, the clumping of boots, the occasional howl of pain from somebody being interrogated, seemed distant, as though they were coming from somewhere else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The humming of distant machinery had grown louder, and the wall vibrated as his fingers traced an invisible line along its cool surface. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z On the far stage, under the distant lamps, they could just make out a figure: it looked like a dark black bundle left behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Like a stream running down into the ocean, the line veers toward a distant fog, out of which rises a tall, smoking chimney. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I dared not sit down even at a distant table. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Estha settled against a distant pillar and they sat through the performance like this, separated by the breadth of the kuthambalam, but joined by a story. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard distant laughter, the plaintive sound of pipes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Coraline took a deep breath and stepped into the darkness, where strange voices whispered and distant winds howled. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Her voice is a distant sound on the phone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “So ends the famous Harry Potter,” said Riddle’s distant voice. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z After she leaves for the restaurant, I walk quietly around the house looking for anything to prove that the distant voices, which seem more and more like a dream, were real. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z And how many more of them hid in distant treetops, waiting to be discovered? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She gazed contentedly at the distant shadow of Karoyi—now Angel—Mountain. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Carlton and Ruby were distant cousins before they became husband and wife. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was not the river nor the curving cars that flashed through the dark, but pitched like a distant crowd or a swift river at floodtide. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw the narrow stony road, the foothills rising high and wild all around them, and the jagged snowcapped peaks on the distant horizon, all the hope went out of him in a rush. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In other words, the great forests of the western Amazon may have looked considerably different in the not too distant past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When he speaks again, his voice is weary and distant. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He lined up the top tree on a mountain with the weather-vane rooster on the peak of a distant barn and scrambled down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z All the imagining might have worked if Virgil’s ears had been closed instead of his eyes, but because they were open and alert, they picked up a distant sound in the darkness. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There was a silence broken only by the chink of knives and forks from downstairs and the distant rumble of Uncle Vernon’s voice. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Tyrion could read that look as easy as a book: so near and yet so distant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Théoden King of the Mark had reached the road from the Gate to the River, and he turned towards the City that was now less than a mile distant. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The setting seemed so familiar; yet it also seemed so distant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The sun, though not especially hot, was nonetheless so brilliant that it made any fairly distant image—a boy, a boat—seem almost as wavering and refractional as a stick in water. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z As the children mounted the hill, an early evening mist began to settle, and through its haze the lights of distant harbor traffic shone in blurred colors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This is the property of an infinitely distant point—a zero at infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The theory predicted that light reaching the Earth from distant stars would be bent by the gravitational field of the sun to a much greater degree than was predicted by classical Newtonian physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Our Navajo nets kept everything connected like a spider’s strands spanning distant branches. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Japanese and Ainu have no demonstrable relationship, and the relationship between Japanese and Korean is distant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The teepee filled with the twitters of a bird and distant traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He motioned to the distant clock with his walking stick. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Finally Reyna pointed to the cluster of temples on the distant hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z To his servants he said that the guest was to be taken to a distant room where he could hear no sounds of grief, and given dinner and lodging there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was done, he staggered back and sat down hard in the grass, a dull distant look in his eyes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He was absorbed in Olanna’s voice and so he did not hear the sound—boom-boom-boom—from somewhere distant outside the windows, until she stopped stirring and looked up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The three others had hiked a great deal and told us all about the trail ahead as far as Maine, which still seemed as distant as the next cosmos. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z This time there was definitely something other than a human body part visible in the frame—a distant feathery form, unevenly illuminated by the camera’s flash. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When, at last, I see their distant figures return, my siblings and I rush toward them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That southern province, however distant and unknown, was exactly what he had been waiting for. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry heard a distant voice shouting something in response. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Some said he had gone to a city and some said he was in far distant parts with his wife and his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The house was dim and quiet, the rainfall more distant as she left the attic behind. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They chattered companionably about the distant past, waiting for the golden griffins to appear in the sky. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z They had a difficult time convincing their wives that they had to go off into distant fields. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His deep voice rolling out like distant thunder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But in 1929, Edwin Hubble made the landmark observation that wherever you look, distant galaxies are moving rapidly away from us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like chickens drinking, the students lifted their eyes towards the distant ceiling. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been funny, all the afternoon, distant and cold and angry. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I spotted a faint red light bobbing in the distant shelves and pointed towards it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Modern radio telescopes are exquisitely sensitive; a distant quasar is so faint that its detected radiation amounts perhaps to a quadrillionth of a watt. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When I go back to school, Cordelia and Grace are polite but distant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was answered by the distant barking of a dog and an inquiring whinny from the horse, Bob, comfortably bedded in his stable. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was just a moment when resounding in my head was the distant echo of a word from my boyhood—Barsoom. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re like the names of distant cousins, people who live far away, people I hardly know. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He also said he had heard that the camps would disappear in the not too distant future. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was rumored that he had abandoned power and fortune in his distant nation, although his origins were actually never known. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In the west, I noticed dark clouds piling up across the horizon, like a distant mountain range. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I longed for distant and unknown places, but even more I longed to know about love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He was still too distant to make out clearly, but she knew it was him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My sister Ferula helped me get closer to the del Valle family by uncovering distant links between our ancestors and theirs, and seeking out every opportunity to greet them as they came out of mass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the exhibits, on the shelves of our museums are the fragments of distant worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And none of them knew why the opposition had painted that Asiatic word on the walls; they had never heard about the piles of corpses in the streets of that distant city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They had smelled the distant wood smoke and the pattering stream, the hint of mutara, the wild gardenia, on the breeze. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And Sherlock Holmes finds out that Sir Charles was killed by a neighbor called Stapleton who is a butterfly collector and a distant relation of the Baskervilles. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A distant voice that only I could hear replied: It was shot twice. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I yelled, and the boy looked at me, expression distant and caught somewhere between grief and horror. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days’ journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Now something stands up a few yards distant. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Fog lay in pillows in the folds of the hills; the distant mountaintops shone dazzling pink and white beneath rays of low sunshine that didn’t touch the Spitfire’s wings. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Consumed by the great drive toward wealth and power that had begun after the end of the Civil War, America seemed to have scant interest in celebrating its distant past. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Her voice sounded faint and distant, as if she were speaking from atop a high mountain. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment she understood that he had been waiting for her ever since the distant day when he had sat her on his knees, when she was just a child. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just hope the boogie man doesn’t live on that thing,” she said in a distant, haunted voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z "The wolfswood," Benjen Stark called it, and indeed their nights came alive with the howls of distant packs, and some not so distant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But, late that afternoon, the warriors reappeared from behind a distant fringe of trees. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z We imagined the places we would go and the people we would meet, far away from Bartlett, Indiana, population 14,983, where we felt like aliens from some distant planet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Their children were like distant but exposed wounds whose aches were no less intimate because separate from their flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z An aluminum wedge scraped them into the sink, where hot water whirled them down a metal throat which digested and flushed them away to the distant sea. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z To the north, the wind had destroyed all vegetation, and she could see the immense plains of dunes and distant hills quivering in the sweltering light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was small and seemed like it was old and distant. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It gave me an out- of-body sort of feeling, to cast my sense out into a crowd this way, prodding distant corners for traces of danger. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It’s unbearable hearing the last distant sounds from the women as they’re taken who knows where. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Treebeard stood alone there now, like the distant stump of an old tree: the hobbits thought of their first meeting, upon the sunny ledge far away on the borders of Fangorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As the distant door dosed, silence returned to the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then that Jonathan first heard the distant tapping of the drum. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Once she thought of warning her about the scorpions, but Meme was so distant, convinced that she had given her away, that she preferred not to disturb her with the impertinences of a great-great-grandmother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Others appear as virtual figures, as if they’d logged in from distant places to be here. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They watched the hands on the chronometer creep toward seven o’clock, and then from far below came a distant blast of the factory whistle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A wide red plank of dirt—the so-called road—flat-out in front of us, continuous in theory from here to somewhere distant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Very distant now came the washing of the sea in the bay below. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z For a while, Spurge argued, but Werfel kept trekking across dry pastures, and Spurge kept following him, pleading, until the city of Tenebrion was just a distant dot behind them on the horizon. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The aging children of distant cousins greeted me like long-lost friends. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But only three years after Comte’s death, it was discovered that a spectrum can be used to determine the chemistry of distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the ensuing silence the mother heard the drone of a distant lawnmower. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It all happened so quickly that Nina could still see the distant fire of her own burning aircraft as the German soldiers led her away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Lyra consulted the alethiometer to begin with, but warily, and learned that they should travel in the direction of the distant mountains they could see across the great bay. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in a shift in the wind he heard a distant faint patter. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Around him was a raucous entourage of assistants, sycophants, distant relatives and assorted hangers-on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was just turning from the window when he saw a distant flash, a pinprick of light among the trees on the mainland shore. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the sound came drifting across farm and field and rolling plain, indistinct as the murmur of some distant sea, but swelling as they rode closer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Alone, with sword in hand, he ran from house to house, smashing down doors, racing up stairs, leaping from roof to roof, as his ears rang to the sound of distant bells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And the answer returned to him like the tolling of a distant bell: merely for the truth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The single unblocked window revealed distant bursts of light where the castle stood, but inside the room it was dark except for a solitary oil lamp. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Young Tristran Thorn, eight years old, did not attend, finding himself packed off to stay with extremely distant relations in a village a day's ride away. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z It reminded Aru of walking to school on a cold February morning, when the sun was bright but distant and everything was a little too stark. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The veterinarian was unable to pinpoint his origin and Clara decided that he was from China, because most of her uncle’s baggage was from that distant land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t sound distant, antique, exotically quirky, with strange tuning and asymmetrical, jerky rhythms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He was well out into the great field and looking for a sight of the distant arch when he felt along the ground the first stamping thuds of the alarm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t care about the saints, but I was fascinated by the castles perched on distant hills, the towns on outcroppings with switchbacks leading up to them, the ruins in the shadows. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Bob stared at the Doors, but his gaze was distant—lost in the past. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, I was planning to attend a meeting in a distant area of Johannesburg and a well-known priest arranged with friends of his to put me up for the night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Neon signs that seemed good- humored and inviting during warm weather turned cool and distant. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Princesse wanted to paint the sound that came out of the shell, a moan like a call to a distant ship, an SOS with a dissonant melody. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z From time to time there came the crash of glass, shots; fire trucks in distant streets. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But that night, when I opened the door, the music didn’t stop…it just sounded distant. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The distant child had stopped singing now, and it was dead quiet. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a low crack, like a distant boom of thunder. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The road was dark, but a distant light rose over the familiar cliffs of the river valley. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Annabeth stared at the distant shape of the Argo II floating above downtown Sparta. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z That same insistent pull she’d felt in the zoo had guided her through the lemongrass fields as the zoo’s towering brick walls grew distant, and the city of Lkossa’s outer slums rose to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It rose swirling off a hundred distant fires, its sooty fin gers smudging out the stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z To our ears came distant jeering cries of, “Come to us! Come to us, sweeties!” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They’re lighter brown than mine, with specks of hazel and green, what she claims is the assertion of her distant Pashtun blood. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Six heartbeats later came the thunder, like a distant drum. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The words tumble out, making a sound like the rumble of distant thunder, taking shape, depth, and substance. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z His emotions crash against mine, roiling into one, and he is undone in this moment, the reserved, distant, proper version of him stripped away to reveal the part that is unthinking and savage. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The air grew warm and very still under the great moist clouds that had floated up from the South and the distant seas. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Away to the eastward the distant fires flickered, and now it seemed that here and there they crept across the plain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We were irreconcilably other, and never was it more obvious than when the three of us walked through the empty plane, the stewardess nodding sympathetically and gesturing us toward our row in the distant back. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z White had no doubt what would happen if he didn’t succeed: previous agents on the case had been banished to distant outposts or cast out from the bureau entirely. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I thought there had been swings, but I had been so young and the memories were so distant that it could have been a dream. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The sound of the river came through the tiny window, along with a distant echo of voices. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently they became aware of the distant throb of a motorboat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Caleb’s expression becomes distant, like he is looking into faraway places. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Her face appeared calm—but distant and unyielding to love. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My fingers were dead and distant from the cold, but I managed to hold the camera up and out over the yawning mouth of the crevasse. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Things were going hot and dark, but when they found his body washed up on some distant shore, they’d know he’d gotten what he came for. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In the field, tall elephant grass glistens with morning dew while gray smoke floats into the sky from distant villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the sea was calm I would venture above deck to consider the blue expanse of sky and the distant horizon, beyond which lay my future. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Presently he felt soothed and distant, though his hand was hurting abominably. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The light, as it grew, began to show the upper field, while the distant hedge and brook remained dark, linear shapes below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesper aimed between the slabs at a distant stand of trees, and Nina realized there was another Grisha there, a boy with dark hair. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I heard again the distant sound of fighting. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved against the background of more distant stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was mystified when the youngest son, a Zionist, decided to leave his home for distant Palestine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His face takes on that distant look it wears when he’s working something out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The sun had not yet lifted above the hills marking the distant horizon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was rising from wherever it rose, behind the distant factories maybe, or over the blind river. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Finally we called on some distant relations, who scolded us profusely for not having come to them in the first place. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Humason and Hubble found, to their amazement, that the spectra of all the distant galaxies are red-shifted and, still more startling, that the more distant the galaxy was, the more red-shifted were its spectral lines. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A girl with long curly hair shouts “Hey! ” next to my ear, waving at a distant friend. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She started toward a small, distant cage, in the center of which jutted up a branching dead tree. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She heard distant music and happy voices talking and laughing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A distant flash of lightning showed him a tiny creature huddled against his chest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Not movie-star handsome, which was something else; this was a distant, unearthly beauty. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I moved into the street, listening to the distant sounds of the riot and seeing in my mind the image of two eyes in the bottom of a shattered glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z September, Pop starts to unravel, becoming sad, distant. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Pluto, covered with methane ice and accompanied by its solitary giant moon Charon, is illuminated by a distant Sun, which appears as no more than a bright point of light in a pitch-black sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One troop of soldiers didn’t look like the others, but they were too distant for a clear view. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I caught Chubs looking back toward it over his shoulder, just once; the distant orange glow reflected in the lenses of his glasses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A sprinkle of lights strung along a distant shore. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z In the late afternoon, when the deluge finally let up and the thunder became a distant echo, they descended from the branches with deep shuddering breaths. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z At a stretch, she and Bobbie could have been distant cousins. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z She had been a little distant since the wolf attack, and it made Kaede anxious. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Every count whose cook added the bite of costly black pepper to his food knew he was getting a taste of far distant lands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In her novel Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison captures this distant relationship between the black working class and the Mutual. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z By the cold, distant light of the stars, Nhamo could still make out the white robes of the prophets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Orkney faction could only grumble, a distant and almost subterranean complaint. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I myself had trouble making a dog or a bull or a lion out of the distant pinpoints of light. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I hadn’t needed much time at all to become emotionally distant about Stef’s death. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And the other, fainter galaxies must be more distant still, a hundred billion of them, sprinkled through the dark to the frontiers of the known Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Radio telescopes can detect very faint, very distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That too was distant and hard to be sure of, blanketed by millions of snowflakes and blown this way and that by little puffing gusts of wind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And an hour later, as I was getting hungry and wondering when supper would be ready, we heard distant sounds again—the sounds of marching men and horses trotting and orders being shouted. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The old lady stirred hers with a spoon, her eyes very far and distant. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They interpreted the weak sources as being the more distant ones, and the stronger ones as being nearer. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment there was no sound except the scratching of Henry’s pen and the distant crash of dish racks in the kitchen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In the cavernous stadium, the cheers seemed distant, tinny. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Oars rattled in oarlocks and the distant buzz of a pilot boat wafted across the water to them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A distant scraping of metal against wood echoed through the house; it sounded to Thomas like a Griever was climbing on the back side of the Homestead, opposite where they were. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The distant horizon blurred a little, and the birds’ trills and the soft golden blanket of sunlight over the fields and orchards seemed out of place—like laughter in a church. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was high in the sky and while there were distant, fluffy white clouds on the horizon, the sky above her head was a deep, untroubled blue. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He could barely see her face, but from her tone he knew her eyes were narrowed, as if trying to focus on a distant object. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They were not rich and distant like Mr. Dalton, and they were harder than Britten, but in a more impersonal way, a way that maybe was more dangerous than Britten’s. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Lost in longing, Louie imagined himself on a train, rolling into country he couldn’t see, growing smaller and more distant until he disappeared. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z There was a low crack, like a distant boom of thunder. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Everything was still, and far-away noises seemed near and clear: fowls chattering in a yard, someone closing a door of a distant house. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “It is the land grant to all of the territory from the silver mountains to the blue hills, from the dead salt sea there to the distant valleys of moonstone and emerald,” said the Leader. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z That time now felt like a distant memory, something so far behind them that they didn’t have to concern themselves with it, not any more. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There were rocks and sand drifts and a distant eminence, as natural and unselfconscious as any landscape on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Either way, thoughts of Faith and Fang and Astelle and how I’d just been slain outside by a single note seemed distant, muted by the church’s shadowy stillness and the Pastor’s lingering calm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The silence wrapped around her like a quilt, a silence made up of trees growing and corn ripening, of the bright sky glowing and the distant water following its tides. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are some greenwitches who claim that the Academy—and the Council—are too distant from the people of this kingdom,” Kaede explained. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She certainly hadn’t expected to feel it for Taisin, who was usually so distant and self-contained that any possibility of a deeper connection had seemed impossible from the beginning. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It seemed to be coming from the rocks of the mountain, but it was always distant, as if it were coming from inside the mountain itself. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Around them, the sounds of the feast continued, but muted and distant, as if their little cluster of couches had slipped into a quieter dimension. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then he gained speed and rocketed toward the distant glow of the sun above. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “They are not distant scholars, Elinor; they have studied your herbal practices in detail.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed angry all the time and so distant from his usual sweetness. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z |
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