He says, “Mason, think you can scare us up a couple of hammers?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The taller of the two young men said to the other, “Heck, we almost bagged us a couple of people with that shot.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Baker-Howard feud in Clay County, Kentucky, began in 1806, with an elk-hunting party gone bad, and didn’t end until the 1930s, when a couple of Howards killed three Bakers in an ambush. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was on a bench, trying to ignore the Daniels’ whooping and yipping, designed to catch the attention of a couple of girls. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

My brother, the prodigal athlete genius girl magnet, will return to school from...let's say baseball camp...in a couple of days. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of cafes down the way, but any colored man understood that question to be “a restaurant that will serve to colored?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Dixon’s window of availability is extremely limited. She’s due to start filming a major motion picture in a couple of weeks.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad had never been able to buy the class pictures for us, though a couple of times, Mom secretly snipped a snapshot out of the packet before returning it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A quarter mile from Fry, a couple of human-shaped silhouettes were visible at the forest border. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He yanked out a couple of chest protectors and laid the kid down, careful with his head. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driveway was filling with Jeeps, a couple of pickups, and some small sedans. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gets a couple of cheers, but not many. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I remembered his mentioning Jack a couple of times over the past few months. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“There are a couple of minutes before you need go,” said O’Brien. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She had to pluck a couple of pieces out of her braces, which had new purple and pink bands on them. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

After bouncing a couple of times, I finally settled down to earth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our catalogue is a couple of mimeographed sheets stapled together at the top comer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to march up there, flip a couple of tables over, and say, Excuse me, June Boatwright, but you don’t even know me! The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lodged in the corner was a small stove surrounded by a couple of pots and dirty tins. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Charlie swallowed, and opened and closed his mouth a couple of times like he was trying to drink the air. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

For a minute, they could have been a couple of kids in the Overland. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I head to the table and smile widely at the women as I pick up a couple of green cups. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Constitution—with a couple of short sentences, solemnly agreeing to take on the country’s every concern. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He picked up a couple of balls and handed them over. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only the Comfort Inn has a room available, at $49.95 a night, so I make a reservation there for a couple of days. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her house was only a couple of miles away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When Shady went back to the stove for my breakfast, I leaned across the counter and peered behind it, but there was only a chipped coffee cup holding a couple of nickels and a button. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The girl’s face tightened, and she took a couple of uneasy steps away from the edge of the ice floe, squeezed her arms to her sides, and leapt over the dark crevice. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He says nothing for a couple of seconds. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

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

To my left, a couple of blocks down, I could see some lights, some traffic. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I swallowed a couple of times and the knot disappeared. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Jeffrey was still playing with Joey, as well as a couple of other kids now. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve only been to the children’s museum a couple of times, and both times Daddy was there. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He checked out the stitches, checked out the face, asked about the head, gave me a couple of pills I recognized as Tylenol for the pain. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This little flowered book has now survived a couple of decades and multiple moves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The other girl laughed too and a couple of the boys behind me sniggered. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’d offhandedly give them each a couple of dollars to just stick in their pockets, to have something to spend. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a couple of weeks living at Mama’s, I got used to the sorrows heaped upon my heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her vague idea was to go along the river a couple of miles and then head off to the left, which should be south. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Finally he grunted a couple of times and started to bend over but his big belly got in the way and wouldn’t let his arms reach to the ground. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

They were leaving in maybe a couple of years? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We drove past farms, fading old houses, gas stations, a couple of sandwich shops. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of days, he wanted me to go out with him again to some bar, but I said no. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After it happened I had to see him home a couple of times because he thought the kids were going to jump on him because of what his brother did. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

S'pose if you don't get the word out before this fuse is burnt away, a couple of seconds, say, the dynamite goes off? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I'd have a couple of glorious bruises, and my pulse was still fast and broken. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And there were more people sitting around than I first thought too, mostly it was men and big boys, but there were a couple of women every now and then and a kid or two. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not very smooth about shifting and I killed the truck a couple of times trying to shift into second. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty-four hours and a couple of embarrassing moments later, but here they were. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When a couple of hours had passed I heard something stirring in the Count’s room, something like a sharp wail quickly suppressed; and then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

You have to see this, Teresa said to him just as Newt dismissed his helpers—they clomped up the wooden stairs, a couple of them grumbling about doing all that work for nothing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A rotisserie chicken, a couple of plastic tubs of things covered in mayonnaise, a watermelon wedge, a couple of bottles of Polar Seltzer, and a bakery bag of cookies. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Already a couple of Scots had turned and were muttering to each other. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There would be a couple of knights who had suffocated themselves in their own helms during the course of a battle, a misfortune which frequently happened in those days of violent exercise and small vents. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two blocks away, a couple of guards were crossing to Greengate Square. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he returned to Boston for one of his month-long tours at the Brigham, I followed him on a couple of memorable cases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Whack,” one of the guys muttered, but Greg and a couple of others peeled away from the group. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were at the center of a group of admirers that included Tina, Paige, and a couple of skinny football guys. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our fingers touched a couple of times, and when they did, I said, ‘Sorry,’ and she just smiled shyly. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think a couple of little ones fainted. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of guys in overalls, including one dude sitting against the hay bales pretending to play an acoustic guitar. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

For a couple of weeks all it does is munch and grow. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need a couple of kids to be my informants.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t tell what part of him it came from but it took only a couple of seconds, and several deep breaths: that brought no relief, to recognize it as the pain of guilt. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t just townspeople. It’s my father. Do you really think a couple of locked doors will stop me from going?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They argue that a teacher who has only been teaching here for a couple of years doesn’t have the right to pick her students and teach them for four years. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They even kept in touch and had a couple of reunions in Moscow after the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The principal made a couple of announcements, but don’t ask me about what. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he proposed marriage a couple of years later, she found it hard to say no but impossible to say yes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Only the senior inspector took a couple of paces forward, and as he did so everything became clear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

There were a couple of guys I used to hang around with, the Gomez brothers. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They stretch for a couple of blocks in either direction, then turn into dirt roads, then into wavy fields that rise into mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept talking the whole time—we must have looked dead casual, a couple of chums having a walk and a smoke together. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She tried it a couple of summers ago, but after a week of easy jogs with me, she asked, “When do you stop counting your steps?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I actually learned to play a couple of summers ago when my parents had a trial membership at a fitness club. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

An overhead projector beamed a movie onto the dummy to her left, turning it into a perky woman who looked like Haley would probably look a couple of years after she graduated from college. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

For some reason I started picking and flattening her cowlicks with my fingers like we were a couple of gorillas. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Practice was better than it had been in a couple of days. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He picked up the hairbrush and removed a couple of strands of hair that were stuck to the bristles. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was some way behind; the Cleft a couple of hundred yards ahead, or less. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Several other butterflies and a couple of large dragonflies actually rested on the face of the mirror itself. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I spent a couple of days looking for him around The Wells to do an interview, but I couldn’t find him anywhere. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again the newly self-titled overlord of crime had outsmarted a couple of mere animals. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She’s a couple of years younger than me, but we were very close. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We grabbed a couple of spinning rods and headed off to Thunder Beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Addition after addition, porch, shed, and a couple of barns, the end one at least four stories hig^i. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s gonna stop a couple of kids pulling a wagon,” Johnny Cakes said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s worth looking at a couple of tricks that allow O’Connor to keep this unblinking focus on his protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Professor cleared his throat a couple of times, as though about to speak, and finally said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He looked at a couple of pages, closed the book, and tossed it onto the chair. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I heard. Don’t much go on ’round here that get past me, but for the past two weeks, I been engaged in bringing a couple of coffles back from the markets in Charleston. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mameh came up to me in the store a couple of days later while I was standing behind the counter and placed the bracelet on the counter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a lot of time in neighborhood bars and he’d get into fistfights sometimes after a couple of drinks. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess now was my moment to believe in the Port-a-Cath, which was an IV tube that had been surgically implanted under the skin a couple of inches above Jeffrey’s right nipple. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a couple of frozen cars but saw no one else for most of the trip. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Greasy Sae, the bony old woman who sells bowls of hot soup from a large kettle, takes half the greens off our hands in exchange for a couple of chunks of paraffin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I shot a couple of rounds sitting against a wall, ignoring the bandage on my foot and everyone else. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was always a little concerned with the idea—you know, this guy’s going to come back and write a story that’s going to be read by a couple of million people. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, Minho and a couple of Runners had pulled out ropes of ivy and knotted them to vines still attached to the walls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My dad had stayed at the house every night, refusing to go on any out-of-town runs or to stay away from my mother for more than a couple of hours at a time. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I looked into a garbage can and saw a couple of limp chicks inside. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I lift my walker, twist it a couple of inches to the left, and plunk it down again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I worked a couple of weeks for other railroads, to get their identification, and then I was set. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in a couple of hours, that lifelong fact about me, the one that always seemed to surprise people, would no longer be true. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Barack, he recalls, was friendly and confident and made a couple of minutes of easy small talk before we ran up to my apartment to pick something up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I shouldered past a couple of kids, and opened my gym locker. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Only Indian tribes are allowed to run casino operations in Florida, so Dusty somehow persuaded a couple of rich Miccosukees from Miami to buy the marina and make it part of their reservation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I guess some genius thought it would be hilarious to cross out a couple of “i”s and “n”s. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He took a couple of steps backward as he watched the limo drive down the street and turn the comer. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I only had a couple of minutes to chat with Rose before they said she had to go. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“It will only take them a couple of days to clear it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Ayyyy, she said yes!” he just has to announce, and a couple of people actually clap. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I could do what Ariana did—bake a couple of small batches with different amounts of sugar, so I could see which one tasted the best. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“They have satellite uplinks. Once you’re a couple of miles offshore, a regular cell phone is useless.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to make a picnic for you next time? A turkey sandwich, a plate of potato salad, a couple of Cokes, and a big slice of apple pie? Wouldn’t be too hard...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sat there for a couple of seconds after I played the last note. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I just have a couple of scrapes and bruises,” he explains. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“We had a couple of meetings, the first with the family and then once alone,” he says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had been hanging out for a couple of months when she heard about the hookups. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps if you spin a web and catch a couple of flies you’ll feel better.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then young Wilkie took over for a while, but only for a couple of years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

God knows ’tis little trying you’d have for you’re well known for having a kind heart and I was wondering if you could spare a couple of sweets for the little boys here. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I guess you realize we wouldn’t have come all the way to Nevada just to chat with a couple of two-bit check chiselers.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its main street consisted of some tired old stores, a bank, a couple of gas stations, and a crumbling hotel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say this was just for a couple of nights, but it went like this for six weeks. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Thus unburdened we made our way, asking directions a couple of times, not into the town but to an outlying farm. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Napoleon was calculating how to get sugar without having to fight the English fleet, a couple of beet-sugar factories had begun operating around Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He always carried a couple of thousand dollars on him, his own money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t get her to a hospital within a couple of hours she would lose the arm, I was pretty sure. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the plastic to cure overnight and went home for a couple of hours to try to get some sleep. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he hangs out with Reid Kingsley a little bit, and the two Maxes got him playing Dungeons & Dragons a couple of times at recess. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“She just sort of latched on to us for a couple of days.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Too dizzy to walk, Kaira’s stepfather had to be held up by a couple of police officers as he was led out in handcuffs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She thumbed through a couple of pages and said, “Here we are.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But in a minute I heard the rifle crack, and a couple of minutes after that he came back carrying a dead chicken. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Shay, a couple of her friends. The Boss might have made it out He and I made a break together.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of stations came in, but he wasn’t looking for variety, just information. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He shook his head a couple of times before he began. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I fluffed a couple of pillows and laid them down for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of tables were occupied, but it wasn’t noon yet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The men followed, and Dasch led them over a couple of sand dunes before coming upon a gulch. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The next group of areas consists of ones that did domesticate at least a couple of local plants or animals, but where food production depended mainly on crops and animals that were domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t get a chance to move on to the next suggestion because Selena walked up with Diana and a couple of boys in tow. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Great big front porch that you got to walk up a couple of steps to get to. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He passed me the flask again, and I swallowed a couple of gulps, feeling the alcohol loosen my limbs and my brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You’re right that they might fire at us as soon as this pops open. Let’s not charge through like a couple of dumb gorillas. Get over there and wait for my command.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

For instance, I had testified: “I was sleeping on a top bunk and I can recall a couple of occasions when I was taken by my hair and just thrown on the floor.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was not till a couple of minutes later that the other, more probable explanation had occurred to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We each took down a couple of sips. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I’m going to stay here and torment my sister. I just have a couple of more months to do that.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just felt like we’d chosen to spend a couple of easy days together, days when my list and his didn’t even exist. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 per cent of all bird species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Stopped at the Crillon. George made me a couple of Jack Roses. George's a great man. Know the secret of his success? Never been daunted." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I sat crosslegged for a couple of hours and smoked cigarettes, squashing them out on the instep of my slipper and putting the stubs in the breast pocket of my pyjamas. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I got lost a couple of times and had to ask directions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What he does is make a couple of cuts to see the quality of the meat, and then he uses a little tool to take a sample of the fat content. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hall and a team of scientists took the core to a canyon a couple of miles from the lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I get my mom to buy the Monkey House book, and I read Alicia a couple of the stories over the phone. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard that a couple of girls started crying and refused to be in the same room as Silas during English class. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He explains the basic equipment you need: a couple of magnets, some small iron bars, some iron pointers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the school steps, a couple of boys do the “Wipe Me Down” dance as Milez goes “Swag, swag, swag” on one of their phones. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then we could get out of the box, and scientists and doctors could check us for a couple of weeks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can take these liberties; he appears to enjoy them, especially after a couple of drinks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lasted a couple of months at the compound before disappearing one Sunday. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Just think about it, okay? We don't leave for a couple of days. My dad...” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You know I like you, Alex. You drive a hard bargain, and I respect that. I don’t cheat you. For you, a couple of cans of chicken noodle soup.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mom spent a lot of time reading, and Dad got the shed set up so he could work on inventions, and I made a couple of new friends. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took a couple of steps in silence, then Lori said, “Ding-dong, the witch is dead.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The oppressive heat and constant rhythm of the wagon wheels finally made Polly sleepy, and she dozed uncomfortably for a couple of hours. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The marionettes don’t just swing around in thin air over a couple of hay bales.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She and Leandro had been asleep just a couple of hours when they heard a knock that didn’t wait for an answer. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. Give them a couple of—Candy, what do you want?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

No one spoke for a couple of minutes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. There’s a train that goes from here to Seward. We might be able to catch one tonight. It only takes a couple of hours.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sheriff took a couple of steps toward us with his hands held up. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

C.P. arrived home a couple of hours before dawn to find his wife, Mary, still awake, sitting up in bed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stares at me with that same scared look Papa wore only a couple of hours ago. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he and I only talked a couple of times, but as I stood there, I started to cry. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“So, everybody prayed, but the next day, only a couple of kids said they had any. Senor Pedraza said that didn’t seem very fair.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For a couple of minutes he had the feeling that he would die if he did not reach a lavatory soon. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I rolled up a couple of pairs of jeans and stuffed them into the bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

True, a couple of caveats were thrown in, but these were clearly meant to suggest that Durham, for all its achievements, still possessed a sense of humility. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The police don’t usually come running when a kid’s only been missing a couple of hours. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He appeared dramatically upon the edge of the clearing, just as a disturbed branch, whose burden was too heavy, emptied a couple of hundredweight of snow on his head. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny gravely pinned a couple of shirts on the line, his mouth, like Lydia’s, full of wooden clothespins. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a couple of houses, a post office, and some trailers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I bounced the ball hard a couple of times and when the kids turned around I started my move to the basket. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Isaac bit his nails, and I could see some blood on the corners of a couple of his cuticles. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

With a couple of barrels in the back, the wagon went slow enough that I could of run and caught it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had those bays trained like a couple of hunting hounds. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes were riveted to it, and to me it was like a battering-ram or the bows of an icebreaker or maybe a couple of high-explosive bombs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a pretty good cook, and a couple of years ago she invented a snack food of her own. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been losing touch for a while, for a couple of reasons. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a sort of pedant’s passion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“For a few seconds. Suspends its respiration; yours, too, but humans can function without respiring—perspiring?—for a couple of minutes, but the vagus nerve of an andy—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dimple wasn’t completely sure they grasped the concept of college—that, in just a couple of weeks, she’d be living apart from them, making decisions for herself. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“How would your mother like it if you brought home a couple of the finest orange butter squash this side of the Eld?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of them get over it after a couple of weeks, but some never do, and they have to be “washed out” of pilot training. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleared her throat the way Jiichan sometimes did, and a couple of girls glanced at her, but that was it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had a good lunch with a couple of bottles of white capri. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Garfield finished his work on Friday, he decided to stop by Secretary James Blaine's home a couple of blocks away. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Later, at dinner, she laments the fact that she’ll be thirty- five in a couple of months. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to see that Daddy had told the truth: except for the cast and a couple of scratches on her face, Mom looked totally fine. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of mentions about me and the piano recital, but mostly they show that photo of me and the blood. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You know what I mean. People are more at ease—a couple of days’ sunshine and we become Italians. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lewandowski has lost his appetite, he even gives away red cabbage and sausage after he has had a couple of mouthfuls. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“SILENCE!” yelled Uncle Vernon, and a couple of spiders fell from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Let me bring a couple of slices over to the fellas first. Kids don’t need all this sugar.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My sister and I stood equally thunderstruck a couple of feet away from her, clinging to one another in fear, wondering what was happening to our mother. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this one girl, a couple of years ago, that was even crumbier than I was. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He glided down the creek with a couple of small carp following, but they were like minnows compared to him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the washers and dryers, a couple of which are running, there are gray concrete walls, a wobbly table, a big metal sink, and a red plastic laundry basket. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

By that time a couple of other guys had shown up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in line, myself included, shuffled forward a couple of steps. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I took a couple of stairs real quick and braced myself on the last one. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should be sending an experienced sage, not a couple of students. You heard my daughter—she isn’t even familiar with the Borderlands Treaty.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of pairs of socks in the sack and an extra shirt and pants. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snipped a couple of twigs off their apple tree and stripped off the leaves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But if he saw the letterhead, the game was up, because he knew as well as we did that Bunny and Henry had stayed at the Excelsior for a couple of weeks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It's always nice to get out of the cold, but I think this woman was fooling herself in believing that these men would prefer a Rembrandt to a couple of reubens. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That he would be home in a couple of months, maybe three, maybe a little more, depending on how things went. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But there were human beings down there, whatever was left of them after a couple of hundred years, still sitting in their blackened cars, as if still trying to escape their fate. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“And there are plenty of animals that can create enough galvanic force for a spark. Clip eels, for example, can generate enough to kill a man, and they’re only a couple of feet long.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Scrimgeour took a couple of steps back from Harry, glancing at the hole he had made in Harry’s T-shirt. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Turner stepped back from the plate and let the bat swing low a couple of times. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There were only a couple of carts left when I grabbed this one. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her brothers and sisters wouldn’t wake up, and besides, this would only take a couple of minutes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

While Tony doesn’t classify as a close friend, we have worked on a couple of assignments together so I know where he lives. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Except for a couple of army jeeps the parking lot was empty. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the JV boats—the one Bobby Moch was steering, the one that now and then left the all-sophomore boat in its wake—also contained a couple of promising surprises, also sophomores. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I kept making typing mistakes and had to go back a couple of times to fix them. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those seats need redoing, and that trim, and there’s a couple of leaks, and it needs a fair amount of sanding and varnishing.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed them, still bound and soaking, into the bottom of the boat, where they wriggled uncomfortably, like a couple of bearded lobsters, and he rowed back to shore. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I pushed past a couple of cows, trotted out into the middle of the field, and sat down about fifty yards away from where Father was standing among the cows talking to the cow-boys. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It would be a couple of years before she was confronted with the whole rigmarole of separate bathrooms. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When they reached the other end, Edwin had succeeded in pushing Cole only a couple of feet away from the fine. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But a couple of the bodies were almost cut in half. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ms. Jen would check in on her a couple of times. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Rounding the corner, Percy let out a bull-like roar: “ROOKWOOD!” and sprinted off in the direction of a tall man, who was pursuing a couple of students. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The version he built for me was three feet high and a couple of feet wide. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t look like someone who has the Most Important Interview of His Life in a couple of hours. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I use the rest of my dog-walking money to buy a couple of gallons of the blue paint, as well as a gallon of white paint, and several paint rollers and trays. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Each morning we rose at first light, shivering and rubbing arms, made coffee, broke down camp, ate a couple of fistfuls of raisins, and set off into the silent woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It falls upon us in a single massive deluge that only lasts for a couple of seconds, but it’s enough to drench us, to soak the ground, and to wound the fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I had a couple of friends in my old school who didn’t get annoyed by my tics, but I don’t really see them anymore now that we live so far apart.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tom is now just a couple of feet away from me—he’s just inside the door and I’m just outside it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was sand beach a little aside of the rocks, he glimpsed this a couple of times as he tried to swim free of the rising of the next breaker. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

This morning Mom discreetly gave away a couple of gallons to some friends around the corner. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to struggle to my feet, but a couple of the girls held me down. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

For a couple of hours, they talked and laughed incessantly about nothing in particular while they dried slowly. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He would lie low for a couple of hours, go to Gringotts the moment it opened, then set off — where, he didn’t know. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He said, “I don’t know, but it shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dam there for the mill, and below the dam a couple of hundred yards was a large pool. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aileen and I were in a couple of the same classes, and I’d found a way to partner with her in them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s gonna be dark in a couple of hours. No good tramping around at night. Let’s get us a long dose of shut-eye.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I'm trying to keep my balance when she takes one extra-big hop, lifting me a couple of inches into the air. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

All I had, though, were a couple of bright filmy evening dresses that would have drawn attention to me, and, under the circumstances, made me look ridiculous. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Did they cook it? No. So don’t give me any lip and drop at least a couple of Washingtons in there. You can afford a Lincoln. I know how the lobster market is doing.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“What makes you think you can stop a mall with a couple of T-shirts?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mustafa finally managed to win him over to American food, and the two have shared a couple of late-night pizzas over the past few weeks. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One day she found me drinking bootleg with a couple of the boys in Chinatown. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” she said, waving to a couple of students as they exited her classroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The wages Winn-Dixie is offering—$6 and a couple of dimes to start with—are not enough, I decide, to compensate for this indignity. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing that my father is working on one of the booby traps we planned out a couple of Saturdays back—which I’m sure will turn out awesome. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So Papa was working on getting them back to America, but they hadn’t heard more for a couple of weeks. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the houses had no roofs, others were little more than a couple of walls partly fallen in. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Campbell Junior must of thought we were a couple of hyenas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Jordan was still at work, so Gerald got Angel from next door and fixed them both a couple of Aunt Queen’s “scramburglers.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw that in one of your mom’s photo albums a couple of weeks ago and slipped it into my bag when Jupiter went to the bathroom,” she says. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

His father had had a couple of beehives in the back field too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only been a couple of hours since it happened in the city above them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of officers in the street and more standing behind the spectators. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this girl really was a sage in training, but even if she was lying, what harm could a couple of girls do? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Look, can I stay here for a couple of nights?" he asks. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But, curiously, though we had come a couple of hundred miles north, spring seemed further advanced here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, Rosemary says, “Is there anything I can do for you?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And for a couple of weeks it seemed to be working that way. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I lean over, take the bag, and pick out a couple of pieces, hanging off the bed, a strange compulsion forcing me to stare at the screen. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then to Donovan, Powell added, “Stay with him the rest of the shift. Then, come back. I’ve got a couple of ideas.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Before her lay a pristine pond, a couple of hundred yards across, with a small, verdant island at the center. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the windows reflected the sky, and one of the Black Jackets was repairing a couple of broken tiles on a roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Cloud Pond was a couple of hundred acres of exquisitely peaceful water surrounded by dark coniferous forest, the treetops pointy black silhouettes against a pale blue evening sky. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Separating hydrogen and oxygen only requires a couple of electrodes and some current. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She coughed a couple of times, closed her eyes, and fell asleep. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even know until a couple of days ago. I wasn’t planning on leaving so soon, but Mother thought it was best if I went with Raul.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The door was closed and nobody was about to open it for me, so for a couple of seconds I had to let go of my bottom with one hand to turn the door-knob. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went in and got a couple of cigars. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was mid­week and there was only Baba and me, us and a couple of long­haired, bearded tourists—“hippies,” I’d heard them called. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus’s recipe said to add a couple of eggs next, so we did that. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I made my way to the circulation desk, where I found Grandma holding a couple of mystery novels. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the second half, Felix scored eight points, all on fast breaks, and had a couple of assists. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She got a couple of hot dogs out of the refrigerator and put them in a pot on the stove to boil. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she’s off down the hall, trailed by a couple of orderlies begging for her autograph. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The taxi driver, a sallow, yellowish man, shriveled like a chickpea with the cold, said, “I wouldn’t take you more than a couple of blocks near. I don’t go to have my cab wrecked.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I could probably get us a couple of bucks. I just gotta wait for Ma to get back from work," he said, which meant he had nothing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He had a couple of days’ growth of sparse, blond beard. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t ask him about it, because he died a couple of months ago. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

However, they taste just like potatoes after you’ve been eating them a couple of weeks, and to my way of thinking are extremely good. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sister came to see me today, she brought a box of Eddie’s stuff—his basketball, a couple of books. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I had a scribbled note a couple of weeks ago.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I glanced around—I only saw one other student and a couple of librarians. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Or Lauren. I wanted to tell you first. But a couple of months ago, I went with Joaquin and Grace to visit our birth mother.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There were five pigs, three sows, and a couple of bar’ hogs, all but the pigs wearing our mark. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a few false starts, I realized she was dying to go into the woods, so I’ve taken her a couple of times and showed her how to shoot. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes he settled outside the Waystone, set up his sharpening wheel and began to grind a knife. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It looks like he hasn't shaved in a couple of days. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Two other TV crews showed up, along with a couple of extra Coconut Cove police cruisers, summoned by Officer Delinko. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, all right. She said you guys were a couple of overweight wimps who didn’t know the first thing about hiking and that she was tired of carrying you.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The huge plate-glass windows of the Stop & Shop have been broken for a couple of years, since people looted the store during a hunger riot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I jiggled it up and down in my hand a couple of times and it felt like none of the rocks was missing but I opened it to count them anyway. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He read it in a couple of days and, after a conversation with the school librarian, moved on to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a thousand-page novel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Struggle a bit. But only for a couple of seconds, and then I gotta take you out of here.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I miss the dummy by a couple of inches and lose what little attention I had been commanding. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once they’d rolled down a couple of blocks, she relaxed and realized she wasn’t going to fall off. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had no children, just a wife, Glass, who ran a small healing spa next to the gym Hibiscus owned, where he trained Redemption and a couple of other kids. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Professor?” he said quietly, after a couple of minutes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m Thomas—been here just a couple of days.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn't a big company, just a small rural enterprise run by a couple of brothers operating out of a low-ceilinged concrete building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Blue dress flouncing, a couple of hundred strands of pearls draped around her, an ivory cane that she didn’t really need. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone claps and whistles, and a couple of people even stand up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She stretched out the piece of white cloth she was carrying, held it by two corners, flipped it front to back a couple of times before I even recognized my shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It comes out louder than I mean it to, and a couple of freshmen turn to stare at us. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, a couple of streets over, on Randolph, there’s this really nice Vietnamese restaurant,” he says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Harry, “only after we ran into a couple of Death Eaters in a café on Tottenham Court Road.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of a couple of hours Alf was restive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There are a couple of others coming too.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I was only a couple of months out of the academy. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I noticed that there was tons of other food lined up on the counters, including a couple of already cooked turkeys, a few hams, and a whole bunch of pies and cakes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She noticed me as she placed a couple of burgers on her tray. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As it became clear that Reggie planned to win this game, Coach Turner tried to argue a couple of the umpire’s calls. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was very quiet, though she nodded a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I went a couple of hundred miles on the Kerm Ice one autumn, years ago.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They can survive a couple of days this way. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no milk and no sugar, but she did find a couple of ginger biscuits in a drawer, and Lyra took one hungrily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was traveling light this night, so I just took a couple of spears from the jar and put them in my pocket. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The extra distance is just a couple of feet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rocks were crunching as the man in the black hat walked a couple of steps up the road, then stopped again. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I look around, in case there’s anyone nearby, but I only see a couple of kids playing catch down the street. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The man took a piece of gum out of his pocket, unwrapped it, folded it in half and stuck it into his mouth, chewing on it a couple of times. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the portrait hole, they found Sir Cadogan enjoying a Christmas party with a couple of monks, several previous headmasters of Hogwarts, and his fat pony. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I somehow didn’t know him, even though his family lived in the same section as I did, just a couple of streets over. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gregor caught a glimpse of a couple of shadowy shapes scurrying along the wall and grimaced. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been doing more thinking than I was a couple of years ago. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a couple of people like Gale and me, who’ve been in charge of our families’ food supply for years, it doesn’t sit well. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We’d been back in Flint for a couple of weeks and they were still talking about what had happened, but never around us. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a colored man at the counter and a couple of white men at a table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was after midday when we began the walk back to the camp with a couple of rabbits and one patchy-furred squirrel for lunch before an afternoon march to the next bunking. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

After Astelle and Fang and a couple of deadly lists and a road foil of frogs, the answer to her question seemed stupid and weak even to me, but I said it anyway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I sit where I can watch the nurses’ station and, beyond that, a couple of hospital rooms. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She came to work at the start of the summer term in June, and they had gone out together a couple of times even before Bran had to leave for Florida. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to come up and feed my dogs when I be up the river fishin’ f-f-for a couple of days.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she grabbed a white box from the wagon bed and placed it on the curb, a couple of feet beyond the piñata of bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of charpoys up there—beds woven out of thick scratchy rope that are like shallow hammocks. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be mad at me,” I said, and I reached over Grandma and opened and closed the door’s lock a couple of times. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I get a couple of smirks too though. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He even asked if he could call his mom a couple of times during the meeting so he could have her check them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I taught creative writing in the famous Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa for a couple of years after that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I am finished, though hardly exhausted by the effort, I meet Melissa, who is, with only a couple of weeks on the job, pretty much my equivalent. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Capricorn. Go on. I've heard you mention that name a couple of times before. But who, for goodness sake, is this Capricorn?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Within a couple of weeks I would lose the chance to talk to my children face-to-face, ever again, except through glass,” he worried. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I'm working through a couple of scenarios, one of them involving rat poison and soup, even though poison is a cowardly way to murder a man, when I stop short. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

All it meant was that I had to throw a couple of switches, which would fill rubber bags on our nose with air, and then we would slowly topple back upright. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbie spent a couple of hours out on the porch after that, blushing every time a local resident, who was usually practically vibrating with what Herbie interpreted as hostility, approached the store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Z continued to pull at it and budged it just a couple of inches more. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

From it he took a small bundle of food, a couple of coins, and a flintlock musket. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of mouthfuls Ron had pushed his portion away, looking queasy; Harry had only persevered so as not to hurt Hermione’s feelings. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

By the end of a couple of years away from home, we had more than adjusted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The swelling in my brain went away a couple of weeks later, and then they came on fast. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t desert, I just came home for a couple of days. Captain Champion had to go over to Waterbury for something so I decided to slip home for a day or so.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the still lifes, what I’m showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know what was going on, so after a couple of minutes, I followed her. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked as though someone had dumped a couple of garbage cans inside the cabin. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one mentioned only a couple of odd bearlike noises outside in the night, but what really caught the attention of the shelter’s chroniclers was the unusual liveliness of its resident mice and even rats. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Louis had not managed to find very much money for our expedition, so our possessions were few and simple—a knife, fork, and spoon each, a couple of tin plates and tin mugs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably related to something that Miller, who had filled in here a couple of days earlier, had mentioned to me at lineup. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the windows some ancient wooden santos, and a couple of newer ones that had been carved and painted by the expatriate Snuffy Ledoux, were hanging. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been a perfect roost for secretly filming the casino boat, except for a couple of problems. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

His last book was published a couple of months before the election. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then I underlined it a couple of times. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Lucas began, “a couple of guys said they saw the Lazarus yesterday. Said it swooped down in front of their truck, right behind a diesel, over on Highway Nineteen. That absurd enough for you?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Vola had nailed a couple of boards together, and now he could swing over miles of rough country, quick and sure. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But a couple of Underlanders were scribbling down every word he said like it was golden. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve just got back from visiting a couple of museums and getting a tour of the Capitol. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He unfastened the makeshift saddle pack he’d made, which contained his tool kit and a couple of other things he'd salvaged from the Birmingham wreck. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Justis had traveled with the team for a couple of years in the early eighties. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Matron stepped back a couple of paces and folded her arms across, or rather underneath, her massive chest. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a henhouse outside, and the barn, which now only housed their old camper van, would have been perfect for a couple of cows or a horse. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He slid his chair a couple of inches toward Trotter’s end of the table, so that he was no longer directly across from Gilly. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dad had stopped by a couple of times in the last week to collect dirty clothes, but I didn’t want to deal with it, so I sent him away. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I remember I tried to run away a couple of years ago after a beating.... Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made me promise that when I start learning college subjects in a couple of weeks I won’t read any books on psychology—that is, until he gives me permission. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Goss and a couple of other young Indwellers, and a physician from the nearest Domain, watched in silence from seats by the hearth while I crossed the hall and entered the circle. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I guess me and Ma could drive a couple of nails into the cabin walls and set the stone on ’em. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

As I munched on a carrot, I heard a couple of girls enter the bathroom. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s now been a couple of weeks since the party. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Papi asks when the flash on my camera goes off a couple of seconds later. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

My heart skips a couple of beats and my stomach flops. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I can last another night here if you send up a couple of boys with some Sherpa tea, first thing in the morning, no later than nine-thirty or ten,” Rob answered. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the vegetarian diner a couple of blocks from the church, the place with chill music, hemp bagels and petitions at the cash register. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Those are a couple of ways to think about it.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tonight the dispatcher was reporting a couple of minor fender benders and a local boy who went missing on his bicycle during the electrical storm. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dial their number, the land- line, and let it ring a couple of times, then I hang up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I unzip it, I remember how I’d first found Sandy here that night, only a couple of weeks ago now— how everything would be different if he hadn’t come here. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Somehow his great-grandfather had survived for seventeen days, before he was rescued by a couple of rattlesnake hunters. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I think they’ll be attacking us at dawn. We ought to be able to stop them for a couple of hours.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She dump you already?” he asks, after taking a quick look down a couple of aisles to verify that she’s really not here. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of human children as well. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Here you just went a couple of steps from the front room and bam, you were there. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They were there, like a couple of chairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter regards me for a couple of seconds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

With the third hurdle behind us, we still had a couple of more tasks to perform before our day was over. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a couple of them, you can still see the stub of a , crosspiece, burned black. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He flipped back a couple of pages and pointed at “I’m sorry.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach drops and a couple of tears fall from my eyes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The women who know teach the men who don’t, my thirteen are occupied, and Siunek is a surprise prodigy, able to finish a sleeve in just a couple of hours. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Picking his way among stacks of magazines and a couple of book racks, he stood next to a bulletin board. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Once you have been at sea for a couple of days, it smells like every fish you have ever eaten, every crab you have ever caught, every jellyfish that has ever bitten your leg. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The army of Elfland is on the march even now, and shall be at the Bonecruel Mountains within a couple of days. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“And if I’m going up the side of a mountain I want a couple of bottles of Budweiser beer along!” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of New York City stations that still broadcast, but Alex preferred the ones out of Washington and Chicago, which now came over loud and clear. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In camp I had already danced in a couple of talent shows. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped very much that they would all assume he had been involved in something heroic, preferably involving a couple of Death Eaters and a dementor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But it was merely an office with a desk, a couple of filing cabinets, shelves full of papers and books. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

What was possible to say was already in print on a banner that repeated a couple of promises from the Declaration of Independence and waved over the head of its bearer. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of hours, when most of the screams of anguish from the women had long since ceased, he opened the door of the small room and led Amari back to the deck. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was anxious about seeing Benny again after their super-weird conversation a couple of days ago. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dad had spent a couple of hours that morning getting me two chapters ahead in algebra. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stuffed a pile of silver into the cabby's hand and dropped a couple of Kleenexes to cover the mess on the floor, and ran in through the lobby and on to the empty elevator. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Okay, let’s get back to shopping. I still have to buy a couple of tunics for school.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I step back into the box, tap the plate a couple of times, bounce the bat off my shoulder, and bring it about my head. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

My dad rolled his eyes, gathered up his gear to drive a couple of blocks to the beach. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Izzy was a wisp of a girl, both skinny and short, but she sported a meticulously groomed mane of black hair that added a couple of inches in all directions. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

After a while I sat down in a chair and smoked a couple of cigarettes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He gave his orders quickly, and in a couple of minutes every animal was at his post. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

You still can’t love a Jesus as much as you’d like to who did and said a couple of things he was at least reported to have said or done—and you know it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I stepped into the church that day, propped up on the Pastor’s arm, I thought I was stepping through a couple of sloppily painted, standard-issue doors, the kind they sell at Home Depot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It went on like that for a couple of weeks. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a couple of weeks in jail, waiting for a bail hearing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I got in a couple of good punches,” answered Amos, wiping his lip. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

So after a couple of days passed, I called him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I imagine they’re likely being spooked by a couple of shadows, but if it finds them looking for a few girls from Miss Preston’s, I’m certainly not going to tell them otherwise.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

With the exception of Will and a couple of the others, we all share the same body type: narrow shoulders, small frames. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But lunch is just a couple of hours away. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She peeked her head in to check on me and said, “I’m going to lie down for a couple of minutes, Melody. Are you okay for a few?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A posthole digger, shovels, a few bags of quick-set concrete, large buckets with lids, a role of fencing wire, pliers, and a couple of hammers were piled on the ground near the bushes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He tapped the barrel and turned the wooden spigot, spilling a couple of inches of warm golden-brown liquid into a clean glass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of men sitting off in a corner of the inn, and one drunk Franciscan friar, asleep on a table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Commons was deserted except for a couple of haggard old janitors and the red-wigged lady who sat at the switchboard and knitted all weekend, paying no attention to the incoming calls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The social workers estimated she was two months old when she came to us, give or take a couple of weeks. That was January thirtieth. So we decided we’d celebrate November thirtieth as her birthday.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There was a hospital there, Crow. Until a couple of years ago. That’s all.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Mami,” I said a couple of weeks later as she changed out of her work clothes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You’re not looking, Pudge. When I go into your room, I see a couple of guys who love video games. When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They drove a couple of miles past the store and then turned off onto a gravel road that wound up a small hill through thick foliage. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of blankets, and I lay there on the bed thinking and trying to warm up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He was thrown out of the country so many times, the history books couldn’t keep up with him! He came back from exile in ’47 for a couple of years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every other week Mr. Kleiman brings me a couple of books written for girls my age. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The yells of Sir Meliagrance brought the hurt knights hobbling to the door—the commotion spread—tire-women and serving maids, pages, turf boys, a couple of grooms, all came with excitement to the scene. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too bad about Caroline’s lessons, but she’d had a couple of good years at Salisbury. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught myself a couple of times, forgetting we’d agreed to just be friends, and I wondered if it were easier for Diego. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They probably took only a couple of seconds to come out, but they seemed to last about half an hour. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Let me make a couple of calls,” she said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I gave you a couple of weeks for the rest of last month’s rent, and I’m still waiting on that,” she says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She turned the book to me, it was a big map of Michigan and a couple of the states that were next to it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was empty, save for a couple of packs of cyclists that whizzed past, wearing those obscenely tight spandex shorts. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Calves are weaned for a couple of reasons. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I’d been inside the White House just once before, a couple of years earlier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Oliver, Elena, and Miles came, along with a couple of their parents. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

From all the fast breathing going on you’da thought the five other scared people had come back and brought a couple of scared friends with them. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She took a couple of steps closer to me, worry lines all over her face. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She read a couple of languages and knew all the quality writers in the business. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ve analyzed a couple of samples. It’s lethal. Worse even than the stuff Iraq was brewing up in the Gulf War.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had a couple of hours before daybreak, so Jason suggested Percy try to get a few more hours of sleep. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Except for the stationmaster who checked my ticket and a couple of railroad workers, the station was empty, and I wished I had a book or magazine to read while I waited for my train. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, a small one with wings like a bee landed on the edge of the jar, staring into it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” I said, “so let’s think. If you were a wight, where would you take a couple of kidnapped ymbrynes?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After a couple of mornings, I could stumble through a few lines of Homer without too much headache. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The first off was Lang Heo Hew, unchanged, of course, precisely as I had last seen her, three years ago in my life and a couple of weeks in hers. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The women who observed your training earlier today. Grace and Patience Edgar and their mother, Wilhelmina Edgar. They’re newly arrived from the Charleston Compound and were interested in engaging a couple of Attendants.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He hit his forehead on the table a couple of times. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The washer spun to a stop, and Gregor piled the clothes into a couple of dryers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Only it more or less wore off in a couple of hours.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I blinked my eyes a couple of times ’cause it looked like there was a note on my clothes. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just drop a couple of subjects?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His magical eye followed a couple of passing first years, who sped up, looking nervous; it rolled into the back of Moody’s head and watched them around the corner before he spoke again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He’s a cousin from Australia, staying for a couple of weeks; he’s Jason’s oldest friend, best man at their wedding. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The community center is a couple of streets over on Ash. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, Boo Boo let the image go. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In the back of the truck, a couple of men asked Shin where he had come from and where he was headed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And after a couple of twists and turns he spun around, anxious, and hissed, “Listen!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The police were trying to clear the highway, but a dog had jumped out of the van and was running up and down the turnpike as a couple of officers chased after him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ma came home carrying two cans and a couple of brushes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out and turned the air conditioning down a couple of clicks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I followed his carriage a couple of times on my bike.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

So I never thought of it as an option, and, aside from a couple of teachers, no one encouraged me in that direction. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hugged her again, kissed her salty, scratched cheeks, and whispered, “Maybe in just a couple of days. I’m so excited!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We wait a couple of beats and then we’re off, floating around the dance floor in a swirling sea of people. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Browning grass and a couple of trees wasn’t exactly his idea of a park. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Er—ah—Jonathan Hodges thinks you show a good bit of promise, Nat. He thinks a couple of months—maybe three—under Michael Walsh will give you just what you need.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got pulled to my feet by a couple of football players who dragged me under the bleachers and into the coach’s office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right away I got a couple of decent mangrove snappers, and Dad caught a fat keeper grouper. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she’d be gone for a couple of hours and then she wouldn’t say where she had been, with her face blank as if she couldn’t say. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ignored the call for a couple of days until Lis encouraged me to give him the courtesy of a yes or a no. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had enough food to keep him going for a couple of months. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She was getting creative with stretching their food, so maybe she’d get a couple of extra meals out of it for him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m within a couple of buildings from my goal when things begin to heat up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The people-sea surrounding the bar parts and Tiny gets a couple of beers and offers me one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of days, no, within a matter of hours, a process was moving fast and well beyond her control. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I had a baby a couple of months ago. I gave her up for adoption, too.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My head came up and I spit out a bellyful of water and took a couple of good, deep breaths. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chairs in front of the cafes were empty and a couple of women pushed their baby carriages past the wet tables. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a couple of kisses, I would tell them. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Most of the reception committee had left, too, only a couple of them still waiting for us to turn up in case something awful had happened to us. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I did, though, talk to Tommy about it a couple of years later. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe in a couple of months, sure! I need more practice, though." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She goes off to join her friends, a couple of younger girls who are just as well-dressed as she is. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You left a couple of babies,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the new school year had already started, my parents gave me a couple of days to settle in before sending me off to be tortured. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once, a couple of years earlier at a luncheon for U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Henry shook a few aspirins into his hand, along with a couple of mystery pills from his pocket, and washed them down with the glass of whiskey Charles gave him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He got married a couple of weeks ago. Wife lives over in the boss’s house. Seems like Curley is cockier’n ever since he got married.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s bad enough I’m lost in the forest with a couple of runaway slaves!” she told Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the doorway, holding a couple of thick books. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There they played cards, particularly a game Michael and Sasha had learned from a couple of seniors when they were freshmen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if you spin a web and catch a couple of flies you’ll feel better. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“He just swished a cloth off the top of it and said, ‘Well, it isn’t ours yet, but it will be in a couple of weeks.’ Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They landed with a heavy thump and Alec punched away, landing a couple of shots before two other men were on him, jerking him off the guy’s body. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After I’d been out there a couple of times they realized who I was, so they wouldn’t even let me into the encampment. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pouted and gave me a couple of dirty looks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I lost sight of them a couple of times, but then I’d glimpse a black blur leaping between trees and I’d regain my bearings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of months earlier, all the national parks, along with all other nonessential government departments, had been closed for a couple of weeks during a budget impasse between President Clinton and Congress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Turner stood up, drank from his canteen and stepped into the procession, slipping in behind a couple of Highland Light Infantry men. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He and his parents were staying with Auggie’s family for a couple of days while they were in the city meeting with doctors at Auggie’s hospital. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’ll get Mack to fill in and you can take a couple of weeks off.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her fingers over a couple of sting spots that I’d been scratching. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been asleep but a couple of hours when that bedroom was blazing with light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His real name was Charles Walker, but everyone called him Trout because his two feet smelled like a couple of dead fish. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The sergeant, after a couple of minutes, knew too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of seconds, he starts grinding his teeth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of old men at the wheels of these trucks, some younger men, and a fat belligerent-looking woman on the seat beside one of them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would’ve come with me today, but she’s in California with her family, touring Berkeley and a couple of other state schools. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We ran into a couple of Italians we knew and McAdams, the vice-consul, and they came up with us when we joined the girls. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It sputtered slowly for a couple of minutes, and then suddenly smoothed out and was running fast. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Papa glanced over at Mama, laughed and replied, “It’s only a couple of years older than you, vieja.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a couple of Trevor’s friends. From basketball. Now that Trevor and I are friends again, I’m going to try to get to know them.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She practiced a couple of times—pushing it in, pulling it out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After I have been startled a couple of times in the street by the screaming of the tramcars, which resembles the shriek of a shell coming straight for one, somebody taps me on the shoulder. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had an inordinate and unfair amount of homework, and there were a couple of hours of decent working light left. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Another deep sigh, another subtle shifting of weight, and then she takes a couple of steps backward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

So far there were two short extension cords, a couple of rolls of burlap-looking twine, and some metal rulers. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Miles Umlatt and a couple of other reporters called our house and left messages. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every kid at the party was a runt beside her, except Harry, who was only a couple of inches shorter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s a couple of blocks down and not too far out of my way. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“And, well, I feel like I need to tell you a couple of things—about me.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“In a couple of weeks I’m supposed to spend the day with a nine-year-old girl dying of some disease. I was her wish!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Fifth grade started a few weeks ago, and a couple of cool things have happened. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The men came a couple of steps closer and raised what was in their hands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s happened a couple of times since the hack. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Alec ran the last few steps, reaching the side of the rotating section of ground at the point of the pivot, only having to jump a couple of feet to safety. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

—Well, a couple of days ago some basketball scouts were here from Ohio State and Michigan State—friends of mine from college—and they were looking for you. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I’d say Miss Lucy had it about right when she said, a couple of years later, that we’d been “told and not told.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me? Fine. 1 mean, yes it sucks, but you know. It’s not like I knew her. Collectively I spent maybe a couple of hours with her. Seriously, I’m cool.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of other people in the stairwell watching us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He answered back that he had only been in there for a couple of minutes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Put the stirrups down a couple of notches. Now, hand me my gloves. I’ll be back in ten minutes.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So if we’re spatulas, what does that make you? Safety scissors? Or are you just a couple of tools?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She shivered in the cool air as she walked past a couple of old farmhouses—and there, sitting on the steps of a two-story house, were the pink-faced boy and the little one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could see a couple of grown-ups moving around looking lost, trying to pick things up, then the smoke would cover them, and then the bulb would flicker out and they’d disappear. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few grunts, a couple of pushes, and out came Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” she continued, “he’s been there for forever, but a couple of months ago, he just wasn’t there anymore.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I would go outside, but I didn’t have a bike and the closest park to our apartment was past a creek where a couple of kids had died once. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When we left, we threw kerosene on the thatched-roof houses, lit them with matches, and fired a couple of RPGs into the walls. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He spent a couple of hours dreaming of his rosy future. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just filling in for a couple of hours for Mike.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

After school today, Mom says, “I’ve got a ton of clothes in my trunk that I want to drop off at Goodwill. I might even find a couple of surprises there as well!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The shiner had been a whole lot bigger and blacker a couple of days earlier, he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Danny was gazing at a couple of stunt kites with snaky ribbony tails. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Fiona pumped a couple of shots of hair gel into her hand and worked the blob into her wet hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I see a couple of letters with the wiggly writing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“There are a couple of bookshelves, and then I have to go through the desk drawers and stuff. I’m sticking the phone in my pocket, but I’ll leave it on so you can hear me.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I also grabbed a couple of apples from the counter and two bottles of water. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The cap’n said, “Look, I know you’s a busy man, but I’d be willing to pay good for a couple of days of your time if you was to come over with us.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I haul myself out of bed: I can go down to the shops now and just have a couple of glasses before I go out. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened, this was exactly how a couple of the other newcomers looked—a hefty, bell-shaped girl and a wiry boy sitting near the front. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And we have to be back by four thirty for milking. That gives us a couple of hours.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He’d put on a couple of hundred pounds since I’d seen him last, which of course was the whole point of the feedlot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Just a couple of days ago, I’d been standing in front of my apartment, looking in despair at a bright yellow eviction notice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I fell a couple of times but not as hard as that first time. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first year after we moved to Bridgeport, our parents tried really hard to get Auggie and me together at least a couple of times a month—either at our place or at Auggie’s. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I have a couple of things on my record,” I reply, trying to keep the annoyance out of my voice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then it was time to leave Eagle in lunar orbit, light Columbia’s big engine for a couple of minutes, and come on home. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we sat at the kitchen table for a long time talking about everything, so Mom heard the whole story a couple of times. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the seniors like my sister and Sam and Patrick only have a couple of weeks. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The King had only to send far a couple of boars and he would have been to supply them himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had seen him on the tricycle a couple of weeks ago and mentioned it to Dad. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I just saw her for a couple of minutes when I went back to get something to eat. But she would hardly let me touch my food.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way back to Matthew, stopping a couple of times for James to pick up some produce and other items from the farmers’ market for his mom and grandmother. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He kept coming back to a couple of things that didn’t seem to belong. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I brought a couple of plain white T-shirts, and Cap showed me how to scrunch, twist, and tie them up, securing them with rubber bands. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In fact, he’d said no more than a couple of words to me in the last few days, not since that afternoon I saw him in the dance studio. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be cool if somebody could invent a bubble- talking machine before fifth grade starts in a couple of weeks? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We now even had a couple of blankets, a leaky washtub and a baby’s crib. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d passed only a couple of freshman football players who acted like they were too cool to notice him stroll by. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I take a couple of bites of the pizza, but the oily cheese makes me want to gag, so I stop. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You can go and be back in no more than a couple of days at most.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They told us they first came across the shorties a couple of months after they started patrolling The Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single afternoon could hold a couple of official events, several meetings, and a photo shoot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One morning a couple of years later when I was at Oberlin College, I went to my mailbox and found a letter from her telling me that her husband had died suddenly of cancer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alec had reached out and closed the door after Mark came through, maybe buying them a couple of seconds. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The two walked over, clopping the whole way like a couple of horses. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I clump-clump-clumped down the steps, stopping a couple of times to yawn real loud. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of weeks later she was much more used to all the different kinds of faces that age created. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But the groundskeeper thought it would be safe for a couple of bicycles to leave by the river path on the opposite bank. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But there were a couple of tall streetlamps, which made the space seem imposing, especially this late at night. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They lose that point and a couple of others. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were racing again in a couple of days. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If they’re willing to help weed for a few days, a couple of us will take turns sitting with Pete and making sure he gets meals and medicine.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Down the valley a couple of crows were calling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He promised Brian and me that we’d be shooting that bow and arrow like a couple of full-blooded Indian kids by the time we came back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I joined Neil and Buzz and a couple of friends for the astronaut’s traditional launch-day breakfast of steak and eggs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time the kid moved in a strange sideshuffle a couple of yards to his right, where he stopped and raised his rifle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told my friends that there was going to be room for a couple of more students in Ms. Gruwell’s class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’d had a couple of drinks in the afternoon, but I wasn’t drunk.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later she would come in pulling a couple of snotty babies in a wagon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He tosses the key to me, first doing a couple of fakes so I know it’s coming, but I still miss and have to pick it up off the floor. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a couple of pair of gloves! Let’s put ’em on!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs barked; a couple of bats hunted moths around Harlan Betchel’s mercury vapor security lamp; the evening pulsed gently like a calm heart. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She has a birthday present for you—and a couple of other surprises as well,” replied Aunt Queen with a tightness in her voice that Gerald had never heard before. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I skipped lunch a couple of times.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Later that day I stole a couple of male chickens and set them down in the field. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I went to church a couple of times, once with Brett. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We all went back a couple of days ago. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He spotted a couple of bridges, but they didn’t look right. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“In a couple of hours. I don’t even wanna see it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

By the end of his junior year, he was already being courted by Division I college teams, a couple of which would probably offer him a free ride. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There were a couple of hundred of us crammed into the little courtroom who had not had any water on their bodies for seven days,” recalled Thomas. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared a couple of moments at my brother, now twelve years old. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train jerked forward suddenly and a couple of people clapped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Small children have their faces pressed against the glass, which is a couple of feet away from the pool. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We were to join him and a couple of other people for a week. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then a couple of children might go there to play, scrambling up the side of the heaps and tumbling down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I'm nervous and make a couple of mistakes, but I also pull off two more "spectacular catches," according to Lakshman, so my teammates are pretty happy with me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It seems like I’ve only shut my eyes for a few minutes, but when I open them, I flinch at the sight of Haymitch sitting a couple of feet from my bed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Trey’s gotten cornered by a couple of the other deacons not far away. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the main room were a couple of round tables with broken chairs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I know a couple of girls at the mosque who want to date openly and not sneak around. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They will spend a couple of months there before boarding the truck for Poky Feeders. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Get us a big ole eggplant, and tomatoes, and a couple of them squashes.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had just come to town a couple of days before, bringing almost nothing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a couple of Allied airmen had to jump out of their burning plane. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My mother made me take Sam a couple of doors down to watch TV at the Muramotos’ apartment. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Whyn't you both join me for a couple of drinks in that bar over there? I've some friends waiting as well." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Sorry if I have been antisocial since leaving Nero,” she said after they had walked in silence for a couple of minutes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She rubbed the red spots with garlic every day, and within a couple of weeks they were gone. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then I opened a plastic box full of water and put a couple of electrodes in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the tables of the inn there were a couple of other voyagers, traders of the East Reach, but most of the men were townsfolk come there for good ale, news, and conversation. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t much in it—just a couple of beds. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When’s the last time you escaped to the mortal world? I was there a couple of years ago. I know the way! Besides, I understand what we’re facing up there. You don’t have a clue!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I toss the sword onto the top of the wall and locate a couple of possible handholds before backing up a few steps to get a running start. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

One evening in May, when we’d been saving our money for almost nine months, I came home with a couple of dollars I’d made babysitting and went into the bedroom to stash them in Oz. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I've ridden the elevator a couple of times in the Justice Building back in District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Worse—she even had a couple of bad grades in that notebook that she’d hidden from her parents, which she knew was dumb. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So most workdays I’d end up at Mrs. Valencia’s place for a couple of hours until Mom or Dad could get home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were also a couple of times in February when Julian, Miles, and Henry played tricks on Jack. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Larry Dunn didn’t say anything so Byron grabbed his hair and jerked his head up and down a couple of times. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let me choose a couple of new outfits—with jeans—none of those practical, baggy sweat suits for this trip! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I can spare Levant to help you out for a couple of hours, tops. ” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In English, apart from a couple of occurrences in a text of 1589, ‘scientific’ does not appear until 1637, after which date it becomes increasingly common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, there was a sort of hilly place behind the chemistry lab from which you could see the lights of a couple of houses in New Haven. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“He pulled it out of our family album a couple of weeks ago,” Audrey said, sounding put out. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The crowd parted, and a couple of paramedics hustled out, rolling a woman on a stretcher. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was too bad, because I really liked where we lived, even though we’d only been there a couple of years. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At a yellow house on Tipperary I stepped on a couple of those white snap-pops that somebody had scattered all over the sidewalk. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a small fire and a couple of people were killed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A grizzled old colored man stirs a big pot of something over a fire, and a couple of small, dark-skinned boys run to and fro as the old man barks out orders. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“If I can get a good night’s sleep,” I said, “and a couple of meals under my belt, I can do a lot of chopping.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But 1 IF had had a couple of ski masks, so the girls could wear those day and night. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I have to go to work, Ruti. Just for a couple of hours.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was there with them a couple of times, and I felt like an intruder. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of minutes the soldiers were formed up in the training ground ready to march. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played for a couple of hours and returned, hot and sweaty, but more relaxed. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sirens continue to wail outside—they must be less than a couple of blocks away by now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of such locations in our solar system. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malik’s won a couple of awards for his short films. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I waited, and I even hinted to Edna a couple of times, thinking she forgot. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“We still had a couple of things to move.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

‘Well, that gives you a couple of hours for study and recreation. Then here from six to ten. Does that leave you enough time for plenty of sleep?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Rachel had painted it a couple of months ago. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And behind it, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker lay ironed out upon the grass as flat and thin and lifeless as a couple of paper dolls cut out of a picture book. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

This school had a couple of green spaces, and I’d picked one at random to make my own. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he slapped his hat into the palm of his hand a couple of times. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The British column was disappearing around the bend, but a couple of dozen troops had stayed behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the part came on with me and Derek up on the roof and she saw the whale guy she stopped the tape and played it back a couple of times. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I went upstairs and got myself a cup of coffee and a couple of soft-boiled eggs, which I ate alone at a table near a window in the empty main dining room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were more vans with OPD emblazoned on the side and a couple of cruisers. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So February sneaks in a couple of beautiful days early on, and just when you’re stretching out like a cat waking up, bang! Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head when a couple of the free-lancing girls ran up to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We left with a lot of “Yes, ma’ams” and “Yes, sirs” and a couple of salutes, just because it seemed like the thing to do. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was funny how in just a couple of months I had got so used to doing everything on my phone. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I shuffle over a couple of feet and lay him on his side. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My handbag is a couple of feet away, in the corner of the room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother frequently had to resort to a couple of tablespoons of her Lydia Pinkham’s. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I had to admit it took only a couple of minutes. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of flowers on the table. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took the little stove with them and a couple of pans and he heated water and poured it into the tub and poured in water from the plastic jugs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I ate an apple from my backpack and shared a couple of granola bars with Beau. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And, she added, give them a couple of bottles of whiskey. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He guessed a couple of ribs were broken, yes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She opens and closes her mouth a couple of times. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My shoulders relaxed and seemed to drop a couple of inches. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The upper part has a couple of small holes in it, which is where the urine comes out. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Sure’s if her eyes was mirrors or a couple of shined-up silver cups. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Below me a couple of cowpokes stumble out of the saloon singing some song, the words too slurred to make much sense. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was Lance Devlin, the mine owner’s son, with a couple of his buddies. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Furious, I head for the stream and kneel beside a couple of men watering zebras. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The adults let us sleep for a couple of hours before we moved on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the corner now a couple of boys darted out of the Five and Ten with handfuls of candy bars, dropping them along the walks as they ran with a man right behind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Broadly stated, the plan called for Mudgett and his friend to recruit a couple of other accomplices, who together would fake the deaths of a family of three and substitute cadavers for each person. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The wire door was a couple of hand- spans ffom his face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t mind that at the top, the elevator stopped a couple of inches below the floor. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple of days of Dad’s torture, more than a few of them packed their bags and headed back to Ohio. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I heard them growl and saw them snap and lunge at fellow marchers—they even tore at the clothes of a couple of people near me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d finished, Bobby put a couple of quite intelligent questions to me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Not for a couple of years at least! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They made their way back to Matthew, stopping a couple of times for James to pick up some produce and other items from the farmers’ market for his mom and grandmother. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We could walk back to Riverside right now and find a couple of new ones,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The steel mill was off to our right, just a couple of miles north. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

That a girl so brittle and domineering should be brought this low by a couple of nine-year-old boys seemed wondrous to Briony, and it gave her a sense of her own power. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I spent a couple of hours visiting the seedier taverns around the University, making casual conversations, asking casual questions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I grip her arm and catch her so she doesn’t fall into the pit, which is only a couple of feet deep, but lined with nail boards, like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once, in reference to winters in central Florida, she solemnly informed me, “We usually get frosts once or twice a winter, but this year we had ’em a couple of times.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was at a farm a couple of miles from our development. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The story included a couple of quotes from me—one was about Dad needing to work on his self-control, and the other was about how he wouldn’t hurt a flea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were only a couple of feet separating them now, and Kaede felt as if that space was pulsing with the beat of her heart. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally he found a couple of quarters and laid them on the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stepped to the granite plate and took a couple of slow swings. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Michael said enviously, “He won’t get to buzz the Eiffel Tower, but he’s picking up a couple of Parisian agents. He’ll have to land well outside the city.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then a couple of years later he ran off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of days he looks much better. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After a while, Bertha came out with a couple of cats trailing along behind her. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Somehow Ellington got her through a couple of numbers before she was hustled off the stage. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Guess the radiation has died down, unless a couple of freak shows are driving it.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Just wanted to get away for a couple of days, Hel. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then, just as Mr. Curtain was finally going inside, a couple of Executives came out for a leisurely stroll over the Institute grounds. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not one of his friends brought home more than a couple of centavos a week to his family, but each and every boy came home to eat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His father had tried to bridge the silence of the drive a couple of times. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pinched off a couple of inches of stalk and handed it to me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

To their left, a long table was set for at least a dozen people, and a couple of smaller children sat on the long bench down one side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

If our species has existed for a couple of million years, what is its history? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Dr. Charles Purvis was walking a couple of blocks from the station when he heard that the president had been wounded. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They took off running like a couple of spastic marathoners. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Others suggested that a longer Academy would not be necessary if short classes weren’t booked into long class periods, leaving us to practice pool shots in the lounge for a couple of hours each day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred stops at a small closet and grabs a couple of ice packs. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Man, what I wouldn’t have given for a couple of streetlights. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Most of them had had sneaker-lace or yo-yo knots untied by Maniac, and they expected this would only take a couple of seconds longer. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She claimed he set fire to a couple of her dogs and skinned some neighborhood cats and strung their naked pink bodies up on a clothesline to make jerky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But since she couldn’t, she lost a couple of moments grabbing the stools, restacking them, and climbing to the top shelf. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I took a couple of deep breaths and put my feet square to the line. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I gave it a couple of dribbles. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was as if half of Bucky’s demonstration had shifted over a couple of blocks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas thought he saw a couple of red flashes to his left. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The first drawer she tried opened only a couple of inches—it was jammed, crammed full of bottles and a cardboard package. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You think about that little baby of yours. You’re going to see its face in a couple of months, so keep on going.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the gym in the glow of a couple of outside lights near it and I knew of course that it was the Devon gym which I entered every day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, she stuck a couple of them between the pages of the histories, and would sneak them out when Mrs. Caruthers was dozing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They had pulled aside the curtains and were watching a couple of mice scuttling in the shadows on the other side of the street. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He’d come back a couple of hours later and type up a story, and it would appear in the next day's paper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go away for a couple of years, come back, and say I was kidnapped, and mom will never know and she’ll just be happy to see me.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It took me a couple of hours to do this, and I really had a difficult time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, one year and a couple of months—this year’s going by so fast. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head was within a couple of feet of Trotter’s eyes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll always help the needy and infirm, ma’am. Here’s a dollar. That’ll buy a couple of watermelons and keep you going for a couple of days.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a couple of Snickers bars, some chocolate-covered peanuts, a bag of trail mix. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’d give a couple of extra sticks when someone bought ten, which was five dollars’ worth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a nose like a black, deformed potato, eyes like a couple of fangs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s much better. My mother says he’ll be back in the mines in a couple of weeks.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the houses have their doors open to the air and I glimpse hens, a cat, a couple of men, in the inner courtyards. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But it dawned on me that I’d seen this same car a couple of times on the highway, going south. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He reached across Ron for a couple of chicken legs and a handful of chips, but before he could take them they vanished, to be replaced with puddings. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They set up two biocontainment pavilions at the hospital and shut the people up for a couple of weeks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wait for a couple of minutes so the pan cools off some. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of places now which I wanted to see. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was down in the main cabin opening a couple of cold beers for a mid-morning toast when a crash and a sudden pitch to starboard had me panicked. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was worth the walk for me if I could save a couple of pennies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Today we have "120 or so" known elements–ninety-two naturally occurring ones plus a couple of dozen that have been created in labs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He stretches the bill, snaps it a couple of times, showing that it is, in fact, just a standard Andrew Jackson, nothing fancy, no tricks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She looked around and spotted a couple of desks that looked like they were wedged firmly in place enough to climb. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I want to tell you fellows,” he said, “that I got a couple of fine children home and a pretty wife. And I want to tell you that I’m not good enough for them.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one thought much about it until a couple of days later, when Tommy took off the dressing to reveal something at just that stage between sealing and still being an open wound. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ida had found a couple of air mattresses so that they wouldn't be too crowded on the two beds that Riccio had already pushed together. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking a couple of families to the movies tonight.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They left Angel with Aunt Queen and promised to return in a couple of hours. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a couple of steps in, and stops to look at my wall of pictures. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

One day I’m leaving Murphy’s, loaded up with bait and a couple of traps that need new heads. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Garlands of dried flowers hung on the backs of the chairs, and a couple of them sported squash. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But the Professor never stopped for a moment; he sawed down a couple of feet along one side of the lead coffin, and then across, and down the other side. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I hated that in a couple of days she'd be going back to college and I'd be getting ready for school Monday morning without her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We drop down again briefly—just a couple of levels — and the doors open on the Hangar. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Not bad, considering that a couple of days ago he was the villain of the school—him and me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

My arms have grown wings and I’m almost afraid of going up into the sky, as though I held a couple of captive balloons in my fists. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next I rummage through my desk for an old spiral notebook with only a couple of used pages. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The poor truck was rattling to the point I expected the hood to fly off and decapitate a couple of pine trees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hanging out with a couple of friends when the fight broke out, and like every other kid on campus, I wanted to see it up close. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She saw that the crevice he had fallen into was a slim slash in the ground—little more than a couple of feet across. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a moment a couple of men walked into the living room as the woman and I peeked in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, maybe we should wait. It’s only a couple of months now.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We ended up filling a couple of soda bottles with the cloudy brown brine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He tapped it a couple of times, and we listened. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I got a couple of T-shirts for myself, and one for Mom that said, “My favorite child gave me this shirt!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Trina jumped back a couple of steps when she reached the boarded- up shack, then turned to face Mark and Alec. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For a couple of minutes there, I had forgotten. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I’ve crossed paths with her briefly a couple of times since my arrival, and was dogged by the feeling I’d met her before. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of birds roasting on a spit as well, and as Will came to sit nearby, Serafina Pekkala flew down. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had only occurred to me a couple of years ago, when a friend of Navid’s had come over for dinner, that not everyone cared about food like this. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We’d only written each other a couple of times, and that was right when she’d first left and was probably a little lonely, though she didn’t ever say so in her letters. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Now, the Industrial Revolution is not an easy transition, especially, in my experience, when you have to zip through it in just a couple of days. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reese would always lend us a couple of old bats if we wanted to play, but balls were something else, because we kept knocking them out of the sandlot. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Oops. Wait. More than a couple of times. Whenever I go downtown I'm east of Arlington.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They told me over and over that if I needed anything they would be just a couple of minutes away. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

We had to learn all their names, and memorize where they were in the sky, so that no matter which way we were pointed, we could always find a couple of them. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pay a couple of dollars and they give us tickets, and then we're in. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Just pours himself a cup of coffee, throws a couple of pieces of bacon on a paper towel, and starts to walk out of the kitchen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He’d lost a couple of pounds too, which Lester theoretically could have spared, but the new shape was wrong on him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Hollister had said nearly the same thing a couple of weeks ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Walter offered to take a couple of us with him but Daddy refused. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our ideas are popping. Too bad we have to share them with a couple of girls. Can’t believe they split us up even after my dad made that donation.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

More accurately, she has been arrested and sent to prison—not this one, obviously—because she stole a couple of cabbages. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I saw a couple of cafes down from the station, but I couldn’t tell. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cousin owned a fuel truck and had smuggled people with it a couple of times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of cages for showgirls to dance in, but no one was in the lounge now except a janitor. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. His son usually takes him out a couple of times during the summer for a short ride.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her father’s apartment was only a couple of miles away. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I take a couple of breaths before turning to face her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I counted a couple of times on my fingers, my mouth moving silently with the words. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully in a couple of years we’ll be in a better place financially, and we can get you your own piano.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were only a couple of things he couldn’t do with a cast: drive and get wet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then at last he came back and had a couple of branches of cherry blossom in his hand. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, a couple of brown bears were lumbering in the meadow a few hundred feet away, their coats gleaming in the starlight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The songs are always by the same singers, like a couple of prehistoric baboons named Perry Como and Bing Crosby. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

If I squinted real hard, I could just make out a couple of dark fuzzy splotches in the distance. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he’s saying that, I come to a stop a couple of feet closer than him. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mom wanted a real home up front, so Dad built a couple of bedrooms and a kitchen with a double sink. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of cars and loading vans were parked there. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next day after school, Jesse went down and got the lumber he needed, carrying it a couple of boards at a time to the creek bank. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think Wilfrido cared about a couple of kids checking out his store, but I went with it anyway. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I take a couple of steps on the first bench. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Just a few teeth-sucking sounds and a couple of whispers: “She think she all that.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I run outside to pick a couple of daisy flowers I saw blooming in the side yard and ’range ’em in the skinny glass vase. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her back has long since given out but she’s leaving now because she’s scheduled for knee surgery in a couple of weeks, the result, she says, of too much floor scrubbing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took her offer on the deer and she threw in a couple of venison steaks we could pick up after the butchering. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of cars sat in the parking lot when they arrived at the bank. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Myna will return in a couple of hours with either a boy who’s ripe to be gator bait again next week or a few of his fingers and toes left over to bury.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the first really good days of spring that year, and I’d been sitting on the grass talking with a couple of the older girls. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peek at the long cardboard box he just came out of and see a couple of plastic bags tied closed and a frayed green comforter. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Outside, you walk a couple of quick blocks and then stop to look around: people with their coffee cups, people with their phones, people with their friends. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I followed up a solid base of meatballs with a couple of packaged cupcakes and washed them down with a can of cream soda. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The first time he’d looked for her it was a halfhearted search after a couple of hours’ spectacular fishing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man he recognized, walking past the fountain toward a truck parked next to a couple of cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I thought of a couple of things to make it really pay.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy went back to her family’s little campsite and looked around for her pillow, but there were only a couple of cereal bar wrappers and some bottles of water. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There's the headline about Afghanistan just a couple of feet from me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You look like a couple of the lightbulbs in your brain flicked back on,” Alec said, sitting down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"No need for help. But thanks for stopping by. Maybe in a couple of months." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The boom-box boy shook the dead box, and slapped it on the sides a couple of times. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to spend a couple of weeks in New Hampshire.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped the forgetful Chavez a couple of times after that on the threshold of the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got some ice and a couple of glasses and we took a fifth of Famous Grouse with us into the shadowy living room, our shoes clicking across the ghastly wilderness of white linoleum. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If only he could wait a couple of days for better weather. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Santicl6 has had to be very careful this time around, smuggling in just a couple of things every few days. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much, mostly parts for the Prospector and a couple of chairs and Mom’s oil paintings and art supplies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But ya never know. All we usually take with us is a couple of sharp knives.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

One summer, a couple of years ago, three children stepped on a plane in Jacksonville, Florida. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I think a couple of them are sixth-graders too, new to Poplar Springs Middle, like me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After a couple of blocks, when I could breathe a little easier, I craned to look around. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chuckling, he said, “Well, I guess dogs can be carried that way same as anything else, but we’ll have to cut a couple of holes to stick their heads through so that they won’t smother.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of circular strokes on his midsection and his back, and some special attention to his feet and face, he’d duck under for a rinse and get out. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching over the table, he opened the book for Meggie at a place that he had marked with a couple of long blades of grass slipped between the yellowed pages. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He owns a couple of hundred—perhaps even a couple of thousand—books. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The only indulgent thing I did, just once, was a couple of weeks after I heard Tommy had completed, when I drove up to Norfolk, even though I had no real need to. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d written his remarks over the course of a couple of weeks, working on them in between Illinois senate votes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From there, we could see a couple of kettle ponds in the distance and a row of buildings on a wind-scoured bluff overlooking Buzzards Bay. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a couple of feet to your left, Jax,” Ma says. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dad also scavenged a couple of tables and chairs, and he built some makeshift closets—which were actually kind of nifty—by hanging lengths of pipe from the ceiling with wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way onto the front step with immense caution: They could see a couple of puffy-eyed Death Eaters watching the house from across the misty square. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had typed a couple of things the night before, so all I had to do was push a button. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When the timer went off, I stuck toothpicks into a couple of the cupcakes to make sure they were done. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

One day he got into a conversation with an elderly woman who lived on Eighty-Ninth Avenue, a couple of blocks from his house. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After a couple of hours, I was exhausted. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She cleared her throat a couple of times, thinking maybe the sound magic would float by him and he’d see it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Later that night, another patrolman wistfully told a colleague over his police radio, “You should have been here, ol’ buddy; got a couple of ’em tonight.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll call her in a couple of minutes," she says determinedly, "when we find your aunt's building. You won't need me after that." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“After lights-out, a couple of the guys are going to sneak in here for a poker game. That’s why. We always play poker here on Sundays. Twenty-dollar buy-in. Do you know how to play poker?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We were, a couple of times, reduced to eating from dumps and garbage cans. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Stewart stopped the company and a couple of men approached the hole. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a “chicken switch” in the testing chamber for the candidates to flip if they wanted to come out early; a couple of the women took advantage of it. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He then moved to Florida to live with his sister for a couple of months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He got a couple of fingers on it, but I jerked it out of his grip. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there for a couple of minutes waiting for a response. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

After hitting through a couple of buckets of range balls, Dad dropped me at Starbucks. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Craig, I am Monica, a nurse on the floor here. I am going to ask you a couple of questions about what you’re feeling and find out how to help you.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I think he might be sniffing back a couple of tears himself. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Nothing to worry about. The police have better things to do than to launch a big investigation over a couple of phony tickets.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, he realized there was a firefight going on around him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hi, I’m your fake friend for a couple of weeks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Daddy dropped the two of us off a couple of hours ago before heading back to the store to protect it from the rioters. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Will rummaged in the rucksack for the water bottle and a couple of biscuits, and handing one to Lyra, he went with her up the slope of the dune. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Somebody in a shelter a couple of days before had told us how delightful—how gorgeously amenable to hiking—the mountains of the Virginia Blue Ridge were. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

How-ever, I understood that I was loudly discussed in the stores and on the streets—that the druggist and a couple of others had risen to my defense when the discussions became hot. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark stumbled a couple of steps backward, stunned by the man’s appearance and scared out of his mind. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But here are a couple of loose ends you may want to tie up. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snag a couple of copies of People magazine and I am out of there. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I practice a couple of smart faces. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in faded, threadbare GoreTex, a couple of months shy of his sixty-ninth birthday, Pete was a gangly, slightly stooped man who had returned to the high reaches of the Himalaya after a long absence. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had to cough and swallow a couple of times to keep himself from throwing up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not doing this for a piece of bread or a couple of bent cigarettes.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His plan was to stay with Kaira’s mother for a couple of years to avoid suspicion, then divorce her and live with Aileen. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Lydia, could you take a couple of pictures of me with my staff?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It slid open with just a couple of squeaks, then I was inside the Amos house crouched down like a cat burglar. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He would pick a piece of grass, think for a couple of seconds, and then set it down any old place on the blanket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Keep me posted on any additions to the bumper art gallery,” Lindsey said, close to my ear, as Ruth took a couple of Shastas from the cooler and slammed down the hatch. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He’s carrying a couple of binders and a saggy bag of groceries and looks tired, but he gets all excited when he sees the stove in their kitchen, which is apparently some kind of antique. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Uncle and Jedda-Boy took a couple of surveying instruments and discussed mud and sand and other important surveying matters. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see you in a couple of hours, sir,” said Stone. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He took a couple of steps toward me and reached out his hand. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rose stood up from where she was playing tic-tac-toe with RiRi in a crust of snow with a couple of sticks, but I went over to the Elders first. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I think you’re a couple of old rogues, but you may well have something,” Wilkins wrote from London on March 18, 1953. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He answered his phone, then opened our front door for a couple of CSIs. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Jesse had made a couple of friends at work, and did go out sporadically; he was adventurous when he could be. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wylan did the same, and for a moment they hung, pulling on the chain like a couple of crazed squirrels who hadn’t mastered climbing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I carried a tin bucket of water to a shaded area in the five acres of scrub and dumped it on the ground in the same place a couple of times a day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was packing our lunch, with a couple of early tomatoes and some salt for them in a twist of paper. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the sound of it, it was the long-tongue-like-eels kind that Kat told me about a couple of years back. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t rode but a couple of miles when the cap’n pulls his horse up. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I just want to make sure I’m hearing you right on a couple of matters,” said Nels. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to our jungle trip, we also spent a couple of days living in the desert, but that wasn’t as much fun. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was right about Sal—he was playing basketball every day, and a couple of times there were the voices of other boys, kids from school. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how many expectant mothers we’ll have. I have a couple of nurses and one medical orderly. I’ll need you to help the wounded soldiers in the other ward as well,” he said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was a keg and a couple of cases of beer. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twenty dollars is a bit much for a couple of burgers, don’t you think?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Janae pulls out her phone and spends a couple of minutes scrolling. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I took a couple of belts of the booze I’d brought. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he could think of was dry clothes and a cup of hot coffee and maybe just plunking down in front of the TV for a couple of hours. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I hear a couple of Freedom Writers might get to go. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Two of them. And a couple of security guards as well.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had taken her a couple of hours, and it still wasn’t right. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They hung out together a couple of times before any of the babies were born. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The tape disappeared a couple of months after the incident with Madame. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Riding around the countryside like a couple of bandits,” Ma said, rubbing my leg to quiet the muscles. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She and Uncle Lou came over for dinner a couple of nights ago, and we talked about everything from women's rights in India to the environment to preservation of endangered tigers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here are a couple of other examples: If he is here, he’ll be in the kitchen. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I had food enough in the cave for a couple of weeks, maybe longer if I did not eat much. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He is a couple of inches shorter than I am and somewhat wider. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

This night needed one of her stormy pictures, like the one she was so close to showing Layla just a couple of weeks ago. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh . . . Say, I’ve got a couple of pig tails left. You want me to put them in with the beans?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for a couple of stunned hours with the rangers, she hadn’t seen human faces in what seemed like years. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once he reached a point a couple of feet above his friend, Thomas wrapped one of the vines around his own chest, around and around several times, snug against his armpits for support. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Emma Jean Landrum, another member of Langleys tiny engineering sisterhood, sat a couple of desks away from Mary in the Four- foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After I got a couple of good blows in, he dug his elbow into my ribs and kicked the skates out from under me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guard raised the newspaper, to which a couple of dusty moth wings were still clinging, and slapped the door frame with it, smiling broadly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But a couple of times now he has said, “Mom. Are you kidding me? Let’s go already!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Anyway, from my experience as a little boy at the Lansing school, I had become fairly adept at avoiding the white-girl issue—at least for a couple of years yet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he squatted a little distance away and rolled and lit a joint, taking a couple of long lazy tokes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, he was back a couple of hours later when the R side returned from lunch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had returned a couple of hours ago, and collapsed onto the couch next to each other. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But he kept returning to this: suppose somebody, or a couple of people, or maybe even a cop, was shot up there? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the dance, Roy Lee tried a couple of times to beat me to the drive-in in English. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then it’s only a couple of hours until I’m supposed to be at a landing pad, preparing to lift off. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘You two—sitting there—looking like a couple of fishes.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went in a rowboat with a couple of young fishermen of Low Torning, who wanted the honor of being his boatmen. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gone out with a couple of guys in law school but hadn’t met anyone special upon returning to Chicago and had little interest anyway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’d eaten dinner with them a couple of times, but the conversations were awkward and unmemorable. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He won’t come again for a couple of weeks—training up in the mountains, something like that—he can’t really say. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Easy enough—as long as there are only a couple of variables. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Not that they looked like him, though a couple of them did, but they had other facial differences. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Six seconds later Lavadie called, wanting to know could he shoot her or not, because she went through a fence on his property and zigzagged around a field, killed a couple of sheep, then left.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I understand that you have a couple of pretty special players on your team this year.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we made a couple of turns and pulled into a wide driveway. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a couple of silly tricks,” he said. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poked my head through the curtain and there they were, Mom and Mr. Stokely, wrapped around each other like a couple of tangled-up vines. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult for me to decide to quit my job as an astronaut, but I thought I had a couple of good reasons. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked along until I came to a section that had not yet been completed, where the wall was only a couple of bricks high. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I opened the bag and ate a couple of sand-wiches and took a drink of the brandy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The two guards stepped back a couple of paces, watching him like hawks. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All they needed, he said, were a couple of matching sweaters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see what the board will look like a couple of moves from now. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

There are always a couple of Hanukkah houses, too, all done up with blue and white. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I got a couple of them after Sherm got all the boys in trouble—I figure that was David Marcel, mad about getting suspended. But they really started coming after someone posted Patrick’s selfie.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now she bent her head forward, and Immie pinned up a couple of pieces on the neck that had come loose. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After walking for what seemed like a couple of hours, we reached a motel billboard that we had passed only a minute or so before the car broke down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few cans of Spam in the pantry, along with some mixed vegetables, and a couple of rotting onions in the refrigerator. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them weren’t young at all; why, that man had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In one of the unoccupied bedrooms, she sat for a couple of hours with a plate of cookies. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had only had the dog for a couple of weeks, so he couldn’t have been that attached to it, but when it died, Andy almost fell apart. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of glasses of wine first, to calm me down. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait until a couple of weeks after her kid is born. Give them a show.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn took a couple of rabbit punches to the kidneys before one of them grabbed a handful of his hair and yanked him upright. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’d burrow under my covers, wondering if a whole army was shooting at us or just a couple of soldiers on the riverbank. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the equivalent of pulling a frantic all-nighter to get a paper done in college, only Barack was estimating it would take him roughly a couple of months to get the book finished. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

You breathe in a couple of times to get as much air into your chest as you can. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We also put on a couple of television shows, hoping to give people an idea of what the earth looked like, and what it was like living inside the command module in weightlessness. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Annabeth Chase. And a couple of their monster friends. Yes, I know.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think a second and then I say, "Yeah ... I guess I should make a couple of calls, and then call you back, okay?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few monsters, a couple of human horrors to suit the present company?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a life-or-death attempt being made near my table by a couple of Neanderthals looking to collect money for a beer blast in the sculpture studio. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even the tavern keepers didn’t seem surprised to see a couple of kids at their back doors with a wagon full of liquor. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Capricorn’s men were watching the old woman as she crossed the square, walking so fast the girl stumbled over the hem of her dress a couple of times. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sky was pitch-black, but by now Tally could read the stars well enough to know that the first notes of dawn were only a couple of hours away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

So I went back home, and in a couple of days, my Lost Boy friend gave me two applications to go to America—one for me and one for Tabitha. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a couple of the worst seasons, Dad and Mom actually took in what they called West Bank refugees who could not get to their homes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Once I had a couple of them free, I’d pretend they were talking to each other in cheeping voices. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The small community was too settled and too frightened to run and hide in the woods because of something in the air and the premonitions of a couple of kids. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Paul had a couple of customers when I got to his stand in the courthouse lobby, so I hung back, waiting until they were gone. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“TV’s here, too,” said Kojo excitedly, nodding toward a couple of camera crews from local stations that had set up their tripods and equipment on the gym floor. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned the littlest twigs together in a tiny teepee over some crumpled-up newspaper and shoved a couple of the cotton balls in. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Older than Bone Gap itself, the cemetery had a couple of stones dating back to the early 1800s. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It's October and winter is only a couple of months away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She grabs a couple of menus and walks them outside, where they ask to be seated. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I have a couple of cigars left, from Cuba. Want one, Alberto?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

They’d only come up from America a couple of years ago and were still struggling. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I watch her for a couple of minutes and then step over the rope. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of sleepovers at Auggie’s house, and Auggie tried a sleepover at my place once, though that didn’t work out. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He said he couldn’t afford to hire riders, so he’d brought along a couple of dogs to help him herd his cattle. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the ball from them and bounced it a couple of times, dribbling it back and forth between my legs. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Spoken like a couple of spoiled brats,” Juanita said, giving them the evil eye. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Evil’s an unreality if you take a couple of grammes.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Amari returned a couple of hours later, her feet were covered with mud. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We landed in the middle of the cabin area and were immediately met by Chiron, the potbellied satyr Silenus, and a couple of Apollo cabin archers. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the far end, by the library office, a couple of boys were balling up paper and lobbing it over onto other boys’ heads, then ducking down and laughing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

That gave me a couple of weeks to plan and gather the rest of the menu. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Here and there a middle-aged or older woman wore a heavy, colorless kimono, and a couple of somewhat younger women wore colored ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their side had Gino and a couple of big guys playing fullback. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been lucky in that our target has bumped into some food along the way. He chewed on a couple of cows for an hour or two, so that bought us a bit of time.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I rub my chest, clearing my throat and following her down a couple of hallways and onto the wide, glass-encased bridge leading to the next building. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of Auk casements on my dresser, which he stared at for a moment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

You have to be when your parents get dirty looks at the mall and somebody shouts, “Go back home!” a couple of times a year. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And there, sure enough, sat Mr and Mrs Jenkins in a couple of armchairs with a low round glass-covered table between them. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I stood with my heel like that, and swung my arm a couple of times like that. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re a young man. Forty-eight. And from the looks of you, from what the medical report tells us, we’re likely to have you around a couple of weeks more.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still time, I thought, to try to get a couple of other keeplocks into the shower before my gym porters came back and demanded theirs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured out what Ernie meant a couple of days later. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Land on the top of Skiddaw and walk for a couple of hours in the heather. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carmen sat really close to me, and a couple of times our hands touched, which made me eat my sandwich really, really fast. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The gyptians had planned to stop and rest their dogs, repair a couple of sledges, and get all their weapons into shape for the assault on Bolvangar. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

—I have nothin’ broken—just some slight burns, a few cuts, and a couple of ugly bruises. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence ensued for a minute, while Joe angrily ripped a few things loose from the tractor’s engine and unloosened a couple of bolts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only third period on Monday morning and already she’d left a couple of notes at my locker and had tracked me in the hall between classes. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the town, over a bridge, on for a couple of miles, and he stopped at a low, rectangular building with an illuminated Pabst sign, and a Coca-Cola machine by the door. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, he gobbled up a couple of pieces of ham and some cornbread crumbs, and Jackie said, “Wishbone! Stop that!” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Hailey and Luke walk in our direction but brush right past us, her shoulder a couple of inches away from mine. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

If I don’t press that button, the sluggers will simply collect a couple of breeding pairs and restart the human experiment on another planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I spotted a couple of spiders, but I didn’t say anything. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As mayor, Harrison had kept a couple of cases of fine bourbon in his office at city hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I pull out a pad of paper and scribble a couple of paragraphs about the fast we’re planning for tonight. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“She’s been using it for a couple of weeks. Sometimes at night she coughs and she doesn’t use it and I think she’ll die right then in the sleeping bag.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Our own district superintendent confided that the principalship of North High would be opening up in a couple of years, and the job was mine for the asking. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I jab the stick at the cluster a couple of times, and sure enough, part of the glittering rock comes loose. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Look at the menu. Notice how there aren't any prices? I bet a Coke here is a couple of dollars." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Max unzips her backpack and pulls out a couple of graham cracker packets and two juice containers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A magpie fluttered out of one of the rhododendron bushes growing near the house, and a couple of fat sparrows pecked busily at invisible insects in the gravel, but that was all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had the idea to set up a booth that sold hot cocoa and s’mores fixings, and we lit fires in a couple of the old metal garbage cans. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then a couple of the boys show up: Chase, who likes to play outfield so he can daydream, and David, who’s wearing his T-shirt from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, put a couple of potatoes in that bed of coals, and I’ll set out our plates and mugs. I think we’ll have some of Jenny’s peach preserves by way of celebration.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could guess a couple of things from that: he had not seen or heard which way I ran, but he knew that Faro would follow me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We could ease into dating in a couple of months, if we wanted. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Let me end, then, with a couple of additional bad inferences which are further suggestive of the role that innumeracy—in the guise of fallacious logic—plays in pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was folded what seemed like a couple of hundred times, and getting it open was like untying a knot. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I could see the backs of three women, stirring and chopping and moving pans around on a couple of giant stoves. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In a couple of strides she reached the front door, and she walked outside. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Liana and I walked a couple of blocks without saying very much. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of kids are out here, including Lena, who’s reading as usual. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The stranger had a couple of dogs with him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because Freak and I are still a couple of blocks from the pond, just kind of easing our way along, when these punks start mouthing off. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Familiar streets are unrecognizable from a couple of years ago, the ruined houses empty and silent. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could see people rush by, but eveiyone spoke English so quickly that I could only understand a couple of words. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But I’ve seen him around ever since then: a couple of times in the playground, a few times in the park. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we’d miss your birthday? We’re staying the night! We got a couple of rooms at the Sleepy Inn. We thought you’d like a real bed for once. A splurge.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Good. I’m glad now that I had the sense to start a chicken roasting. Fresh bread and chicken should make a pretty good meal for a couple of hungry bachelors like us, eh?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only a couple of hours of walking ahead of me, and it being hours before dawn, I take time out to look at the mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minho was holding out a couple of pairs of tightly cut underwear, made from a shiny white material. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Good-bye now,” he said with determination—and in a couple of spins they were both gone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t matter, kiddo. It’s absolutely unbelievable that a couple of twelve-year-olds made this. You and Serenity will get a grand prize for this. Mark my words.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Judy Poovey lived a couple of doors down from me and seemed to think that because she was from Los Angeles we had a lot in common. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

While I was still in Texas, late in 1960, the incident most reported and pictured in the newspapers was the matriculation of a couple of tiny Negro children in a New Orleans school. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrive, we have to step over a couple of golden retrievers. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The toll collector had a couple of knickknacks littered across the surface: a unicorn with its wings outstretched and a tiny clay bear. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was closed for a couple of years, and then out of nowhere, it seemed, it became a fancy restaurant. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"This must weigh a couple of tons. It's not going anywhere." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Back in his bedroom, Harry fiddled aimlessly with his rucksack, then poked a couple of owl nuts through the bars of Hedwig’s cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In a couple of hours it will be over. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about tomorrow, when I turn thirteen, and a couple of weeks after that, when we leave—and how everyone has said that one day I’ll build again. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I’ll never forget secretly watching as he poured half a glass of brown liquid, drank it in a couple of gulps, set the glass on the table, and promptly burst into tears. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“My birthday is in a couple of weeks.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Ask him if we can have a couple of these fans for your birthday present,” said Rosaleen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d try to imagine the worst thing that could happen, like getting the flu or barfing for a couple of days.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I have done so—as a young boy, and then, when destroyed financially and forced to go back to the woods, as an adult for a couple of years. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

With nothing better to do, he organized a silent coup and took over the Homeowners Association a couple of years back. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He rummaged in a basket in the corner and pulled out a couple of yards of plaid fabric. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even so I broke a couple of fingernails; but by sunset I had it lying in pieces on the barn floor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Oak Park is a couple of blocks away from my grandparents’ house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Seth stayed a couple of steps ahead of her, and the swift satyr was gradually increasing his lead. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

You never knew how long they’d be gone, a couple of days, sometimes a week, sometimes a month, depending on the fish. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved to the edge of some trees, where suddenly a couple of mismatched, beaten chairs appeared, courtesy of some nearby women. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Alums stood up and clapped his hands and a couple of the old ldds did too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards ignored him for a couple of minutes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It’s filled with different-colored inks, reds and blues and blacks, and a couple of sparkly fluorescent colors from a gel pen kit I got back in sixth grade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He reaches for the cooler and pulls out sandwiches, a bag of potato chips, and a couple of pops. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I dived in and rode a couple of waves, but they had reached that stage of power in which you could feel the whole strength of the ocean in them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our first job was to hike a couple of miles through the jungle to our assigned camping area. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a couple of brothers that are the meat, a few sisters that are cheese and tomatoes, so I guess I’m the lettuce.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

While the cameras were focused on Haley’s smile, Mrs. Daley wrapped up a couple of chicken kebabs in a napkin and slipped them inside her purse. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow comes and goes a couple of dozen times before I get around to opening my mouth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook’s children had grown up in the house but had left and gone off to other places a couple of years ago, California and Boston and the like. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The front door of the library opened, and a couple of colored girls walked in. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fire devours books,” he always said, but she was twelve years old, she surely could be trusted to keep an eye on a couple of candle flames. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I went back to the police station after a couple of hours. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a couple of spoons and made them do high kicks on the tabletop until Hazel slapped his arm. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was that same map Joseph was now holding, in the middle of a snowstorm, a couple of days after Christmas, lost in a city he didn’t know. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It looked as if it’d been hit by a couple of hurricanes and left for dead. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His face twitched a couple of times and for a minute it looked like his eyes were going to come open but they stayed shut. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Now these have to dry for a couple of hours. Then I’ll take them out, and you will have a full head of gorgeous, shiny curls.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Boll was bound to be inside, cooking up the fresh muskrat we’d sold her, so we might have a clean shot at swiping a couple of melons and not being noticed. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only people in The Coffee Pot were a couple of farm women passing the time of day with Mrs. Ike Cripe. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Old Dan, giving up his search, came back to the tree and bawled a couple of times. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing. Saves me a couple of headaches.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Bet that crippled blacksmith was surprised when he netted a couple of stupid kids. You looked good on TV” I shoved his shield at him. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a couple of times after that I was sloppy and he’d land a punch or a kick before I could get away, but I never trusted him again, not for a moment. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had a couple of matches she kept there for when she had to relight Mrs. Caruthers’s fireplace, on the rare occasion it went out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We found a bottle under a couple of smaller rocks and dug it out. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pushes over a table and a couple of chairs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And now, just a couple of weeks later, everything came together and was finally happening on a beautiful, cool, sunny November afternoon. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Billy filled it one-third full of bran and then he added a couple of handfuls of dried hops. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh I suppose not,” she sighed, and she sat down to watch their chess match, which culminated in an exciting checkmate of Ron’s, involving a couple of recklessly brave pawns and a very violent bishop. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Right down the hall. She was here for a couple of months. She was a real mess. I’ve never seen anyone so devastated.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I had had nothing to eat yet myself, except some milk and a couple of sprigs of field cress. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s not such a bad life,” Mom told us after they’d been homeless for a couple of months. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He just sent a couple of texts to guarantee that he keeps them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Get me a couple of aspirins, mijo. My head is killing me,” he said, covering his head with both hands. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Men still tucking their nightshirts into hastily pulled-on overalls hurried down the road, a couple of them carrying shotguns. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Most disturbing of all, there were a couple of kids with brutal injuries, and they didn’t even seem to know they were hurt. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to need a couple of dry cells,” he said. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally somebody asked what the problem was, and Lemon looked down at his hands and said that back in high school he’d had a couple of bad experiences with dentists. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw several bottles of nail polish, polish remover, a couple of lipstick tubes, and other jars and powders. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There were no Brahma bulls, only a couple of bucking Herefords. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked very much alike, with heavy dark-blond hair and epicene faces as clear, as cheerful and grave, as a couple of Flemish angels. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But he now had a couple of new features: a bridge of pearly-white front teeth, and also a dashing scar on his face, thanks to Idiptu. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Ever since I took some contaminated phenylthiamines about ten years ago. If I eat a couple of doughnuts or something I’m usually OK.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Six days after the election, I flew to D.C., having set up meetings with administrators at a couple of different schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Everybody find a seat, please. Come in,” she said to a couple of kids who had just walked in the room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I will. Believe me. But I’ve got a couple of loose ends to wrap up first.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We spend a couple of hours quizzing each other on military terms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"Good. Gather up your things and I'll meet you outside in a couple of minutes." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing except a couple of bumps left over from his last bout of acne. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he wanted to do was hide for a couple of minutes—maybe crouch between a couple of pickups—and figure out an escape route. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized I’d raised my voice until a couple of Viviana’s friends glanced in our direction, but I didn’t care. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I decided I'd surprise Jay Cee and send in a couple of the stories I wrote in this class under a pseudonym. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It contained a couple of plastic tubes with screw tops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we settle in, I wish at least a couple of sheep had stayed behind. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Darren and I luck out—he eases into a spot across from the Key Bank, just a couple of doors away. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She was staring straight out the window, watching a couple of sparrows bathe in a puddle. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tossed a couple of pieces of fish stick left over from supper onto the floor for two of the cats. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In a couple of days, he’d have to walk through metal detectors just to go to school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, Ruby and her mom are away for a couple of days. And I didn’t realize I’d been hiding anywhere.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Even Uncle Al is affected—he stops each day to observe our progress and within a couple of days orders up new posters that feature Rosie with Marlena sitting astride her head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Two women stand a couple of feet away from me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I must have been down there, banging away, for a couple of hours — I was trying to stay hidden until everyone else went up to bed so I wouldn’t have to deal with anybody. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was just for a couple of days. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I pulled down the plates from the cabinet and grabbed a couple of forks from the drawer. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I just have a couple of white spots that are probably there because Mom switched detergents or something. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He yawned a couple of times, big yawns that he didn’t even try to hide. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’m relieved when the mysterious box jumps a couple of times. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But then the bust set in after a couple of years and Charlie moved back to Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it took me a couple of hours to come down the mountain to you. Thought you were an animal at first. Then the sun hit your mask.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I felt the click, a deep affection, a bond that formed there, but after a couple of months I started to drift away. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s the plan for your next post? You were all fired up about all those magazines we saw a couple of weeks ago.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I know there are a couple of huge screens here on the square. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The war in Europe had been over for a couple of weeks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d got a video player in the billiards room a couple of years earlier, and by that spring had built up quite a good collection of movies. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only fourteen at the time, and was making his way past a couple of high school seniors when one of them stuck out his foot. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I ventured over to listen to a couple of wheezing retirees trying to explain everything to Doc. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Freak's birthday is a couple of days after school gets out, and the Fair Gwen has already made it clear he's not getting a ride on the space shuttle. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

To answer your question, I've seen him a couple of times since the wedding—probably twice a year or so. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Several people asked questions to hear themselves talk and there were a couple of questions asked by news service men who wanted to know the answers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mostly it was stuff he sold to a couple of friends who had tourist-type antique and secondhand stores down in Chamisaville. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie went over to the window, rested her forehead on the pane, and looked down at the garden, where a couple of Capricorn's maids were busy tying up tomato plants. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They found their way to the depot, which was a couple of concrete warehouses in a scrubby area of waste ground where thin weeds grew between gray rocks and pools of icy mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Verna had met Suzanne a couple of times while we were at Harvard and by sheer coincidence was now living in Silver Spring, in a building just across the parking lot from Suzanne’s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of opportunities to score against Shandra, but I didn’t. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit at a carrel by a window and keep being drawn to the traffic, even though I know it’s still a couple of hours until Rhiannon will show up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

After a couple of seconds, she goes, “Hi, this is Midtown School of the Arts. May I speak to Mrs. Jayda Jackson, please?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You beat me on a couple of those!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Heavens. I think you might have died in that warehouse rather than wire one of us for a couple of hundred dollars.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Plus, whatever spots we found would only be good for a couple of weeks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I tried something similar a couple of months ago. I got him to start a memoir.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I m—mean, you’ve already ...” I trailed off, clutching my lute closer to my chest and moving a couple of steps away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tiffany and a couple of other girls are still at it, taping more on the far side of the lunchroom. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Must have been a couple of hours toward town when my father nudged me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the model of a brain he got for Christmas a couple of years ago. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But a couple of weeks ago, I saw him sauntering by. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of other wild cards dressed up in gray-and-white outfits—Demon Brigade fans, probably hoping their clothes will warm them up to the official team. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On a morning work detail in December, a couple of weeks after his return to school, Shin discovered a dried-up ear of corn in a pile of straw and devoured it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But Dad took it slowly, and within a couple of months the older children had learned all the tricks involved. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man she’d met before bellied up a couple of seats down the bar. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They open it for a couple of hours a day for commercial trucks.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He was supposed to take the chocolates a couple of days ago. The assignment was over. But he still refused to take them.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped after the words “Now that the g.d. war is over and you probably have a lot of time over there, how about sending the kids a couple of bayonets or swastikas...” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

‘I know! The Portuguese have taste. Anyway, I supposed this was a decent place to lie low for a couple of days.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Our friendship, if you could call it that, had started a couple of months before with his mocking me, but in a way that I deserved. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My score also allowed me to compete at the CoverGirl Classic a couple of weeks later. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She reads a couple of very vivid paragraphs about the “whiter-than-white, nearly alabaster, snowy, bleached Alps” in Switzerland, where her family went on vacation. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was still a couple of scenes before Frank ’n Furter enters. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Naw, my dad had this done for me when I got here. I mean, it’s just a bed and a couple of posters, but it’s cool he gave me the room.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They were all his homeboys, you know, the kids he hung out with just a couple of years ago. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter had put a few things there before she got into bed—a couple of coins, a ring, her watch—but Brother Louis wasn’t interested in those. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We went into my house, took turns in the bathroom, and I poured a couple of glasses of water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When she broke the news that her aunt Norma had terminal cancer a couple of years ago, she bought Popkenchurch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My mom's journey across the globe started when she flew from Tehran to London to spend a couple of days with her brother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The machine rose a couple of hundred metres, then headed eastwards, and as it turned, there before Bernard’s eyes, gigantically beautiful, was the Singery. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laid awake for just a couple of seconds thinking about all that stuff Mr. Antolini'd told me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As long as we could be sure it was a helix, the assignment of the positions for only a couple of nucleotides automatically generated the arrangement of all the other components. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It's been a couple of days since the birthday party now. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Ooh,” a couple of the guys say, and one or two give me dap as they crack up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Discounting a totally negligible incident a couple of years earlier, when he had methodically dragged the entire apartment for a mislaid or “stolen” tennis-racket press. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then there was a couple of farmers from Redding Center I didn’t know, and, of course, Sam. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only when a couple of them broke and started to bleed that he thought he’d better stop, since he was not sure how much blood he had left to lose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The familiar shoreline of Long Island appeared up ahead, and a couple of friendly great white sharks surfaced and steered me toward the beach. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And then there was that other person”—Chrissie had turned to Ruth—“that boy you were telling us about the other day. The one a couple of years above you who’s a park keeper now.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first showed up, a couple of people raised an eyebrow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Blackjack swooped down behind an overturned school bus, where a couple of campers were hiding. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

All that’s left when we’re done is a black couch, coffee table, two side tables, a folding table and chairs, plus a couple of lamps. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After a couple of years of phone conversations and visits, I agreed to marry him. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cast an uncomfortable glance at a couple of women passing by. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

So Butterscotch barked—first a couple of tentative yips, then louder and more urgent. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We paraded around the room a couple of times in lockstep, like a chain gang, with Frank first, Ernestine next, and the children following by ages. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stew was made out of dandelion greens and a couple of potatoes and some small wild carrots and some crawdads and a couple of little chunks of meat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of chunks of chewed-up bread, a blob of baloney and some of the mustard swimming around in the bottle. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’d worked out with Cornell for a couple of years, but having children had changed my regular routine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I told him that we would see each other in a couple of years, when the war of winter turned to spring. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Vincent returned it in a couple of days, and the painter “thought my drawing good, and in fact it isn’t that bad.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She climbed the ladder only a couple of steps. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Presently Ma Costa had the frying pan going, with a couple of fat eels hissing and sputtering and the kettle on for potato powder. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just been looking at your friend. I think we’re going to have to keep him with us for a couple of days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My intent was to say a couple of words and sit down. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“No one’s tried to attack me so far, except a dragon and a couple of grindylows,” Harry said, but Sirius scowled at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I followed him to a table with a couple of free seats, and watched him tear into his lunch while I dumped mine out of its paper bag. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

After we stretch—which hurts — there’s a couple of hours of strengthening exercises — which hurt—and a five-mile run—which kills. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Most newborn babies do not survive more than a couple of days. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned a moment later with a couple of wrapped packages that he set on top of the coffee table. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We tell her how Seven gave Remy a couple of hits, which has Kenya beaming, talking about, “My brother don’t play.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“There are a couple of pieces. I want to take them out. I don’t have any anesthetic.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the sun came up a couple of hours later, Stanley looked for "the thumb of God." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The other good news is that it only takes a couple of minutes and a little thought to achieve this, and put some of the basic elements of music to work. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Take a closer look, Dana. It’s too straight. It’s not a bone; it’s modern lumber. We’ve been finding pieces like it for a couple of weeks now.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Smith waited a couple of minutes, then rapped his baton on a gate and shouted, “Lock in!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, it was only a few hours a day for a couple of months. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone we knew was planning on going to his funeral, which was being held in the town where he grew up, in the mountains a couple of hours’ drive away. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owl swallowed the mouse in just a couple of gulps, leaving just its tail trailing from her mouth, like a length of bootlace. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bus bobbed to the surface, along with a couple of capsized, half-melted canoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“We were a couple of old cripples together,” Red said, “all washed up. But somehow we both had a pretty good idea that we’d be back.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, my high school world and my other world have collided a couple of times recently, but Bre exists on a different plane from everyone else. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I went a couple of rounds on the floor with girls from the sidelines. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw a couple of disturbing things up there, Georges. Very disturbing.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sweat poured down his face and the thing almost slipped out of his hands a couple of times, but eventually he broke the first seal and moved on to the next one. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He walked over, and she arranged a couple of pillows into a chair, and he sat beside her. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I watched them awhile, then got to watching a couple of squirrels playing in the top of a tree close to the one I sat under. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what we thought for a couple of centuries after he started ruling over us. Then we realized he really is just weird.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a dry one, too, and a couple of bandages, and carried them back to Stick. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But we didn’t find a movie until Room 32, occupied by a couple of guys from Mississippi named Joe and Marcus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Lydia pushed a couple of times before she figured out that she needed to lift the door by the knob while pushing. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I think instead of downloading the Elliott Smith songs you mentioned, I'll just drop a hint to my dad that I want a couple of his albums for Hotel Hanukkah. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I’ve talked on a telephone a couple of times. In town. But we don’t have one.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Here are a couple of other examples: Their house was destroyed in 1993. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of shops with nice clothing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Gale and I divide our spoils, leaving two fish, a couple of loaves of good bread, greens, a quart of strawberries, salt, paraffin, and a bit of money for each. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Rumor has it that a little freshman got punked a couple of days ago and her gang was planning to retaliate. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The big steel wheels creaked a couple of times, then started moving. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of people are around, and they pay no attention to us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I put four cards on the counter by the register and dug a couple of dollar bills out of my pocket. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then she said: “Do you know what Henry made us do, a couple of days after that thing in the woods?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The driver—a sandy-haired guy who’s been on this route for a couple of years—beeped once more, then rumbled on. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Have a seat, I want you to get a couple of images in your head before we go out there.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Molineaux was standing in his orchard, shaking his cane at a couple of small boys he had treed in an apple tree. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suggested a couple of route changes; Jesse marked them conscientiously on his map. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa closed his eyes tightly, a couple of tears squeezing out anyway. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d pulled out a couple of tools and fixed it in about two minutes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had left the “scary, screechy” phase of violin playing shortly after that first year, and had even won a couple of violin competitions recently. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Probably,” Mom said, handing me a couple of mugs. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

After doing that a couple of times, she told him, he should take the shot himself. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In front of her, on the table, was a small piece of prickly pear cactus, just a corner of a tiny lobe, big enough to have a couple of spines sticking out of it. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We had some rough summers but it only went dry a couple of times as I remember. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been diabetic a couple of times, and the first time was harrowing. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and asked Cramp if he could leave me alone for a couple of minutes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“No need. It’s just a stomach bug. It’ll pass in a couple of days.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they stopped for supplies, Boseman was distracted by a funeral procession rounding the corner and she made it a couple of yards before a boy tripped her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He popped a couple of red grapes into his mouth. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’d first heard about it from a couple of my donors up in North Wales. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sealed and dry inside was a box of matches, some folded-up newspaper, and a couple of cotton balls. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had made a couple of really good friends, and was really proud that he had made the basketball team. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, leaving the wrong impression is much worse than making a couple of grammatical boo-boos. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a glorious day; I was sick of being poor, so, before I thought better of it, I went into an expensive men’s shop on the square and bought a couple of shirts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I enter a small hall lit with a couple of warm lamps on a table. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to teach her a couple of times and it was disastrous. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

About the time I heard the engine building up steam, a couple of more men hopped in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, when he was trying to remember it in detail, it felt like it had happened forever ago, but it had probably been only a couple of hours. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

While spinning along a Kansas highway one fine June morning, Mr. Ziegler spied a red convertible parked by the roadside, its hood up, and a couple of nice-looking youngsters fiddling with the motor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of avatars sitting there, watching. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of hostels, giant projects built by the government for housing migrant workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not that anyone here knows that, except Tanisha, and she found out by accident when she came to my house to study once and saw a couple of drawings hanging in my room. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know the study I told you about a couple of weeks ago?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Alex smiled there were a couple of teeth missing up front and some fresh bruises still on his face. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I got back, half a dozen officers were waiting on my center gate—impatient, in a couple of cases, to the point of anger. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school, a four-story brick building with a yard in front, sat just a couple of blocks from our house on Euclid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’d put it back in the cupboard next to that big red bowling plate he’d won a couple of years ago. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“In Des Moines. Just a little. You know, a couple of beers after work. Nothing to get in a panic about.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’d warm the crowd up with a few songs, then the dancers would come out and do a couple of numbers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I sat down at the bar--it was pretty crowded-- and had a couple of Scotch and sodas before old Luce even showed up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He’d been around C Average for a couple of weeks, and people knew his name from our posters and had seen him in the halls. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

All the Mexican guys were joking around with each other in Spanish and a couple of them even joked with me and Rondell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could see where Byion learned how to say a couple of words and have people think he’d said a whole bunch more! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just between ourselves, Blore, and taking into account that we'll probably both be a couple of stiffs before another day is out, you did indulge in that spot of perjury, I suppose?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Once, for instance, a few of us were going back from the pavilion towards the dorm huts and found ourselves walking behind Tommy and a couple of other boys. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been to a couple of her birthday parties, and she came to one that I had at the skating rink the year I turned eight. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a couple of wrenches out of the toolbox and headed for the stairs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, it’s just a couple of turns up that way. Let’s start sticking closer to the houses.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I swear I heard Michael humming one of the blessings under his breath as he counted up paper chain links a couple of days ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He closes and opens his mouth a couple of times. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Will be in a couple of days,” I say. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It went on that way for a couple of hours, with Robbie getting sloppy drunk, losing to Dad, and groping me when we danced or sat at the bar between games. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Which meant he’d only been a scythe for a couple of years. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Patrick got in the driver’s side of Sam’s pickup truck, telling everyone he’d see them in a couple of days. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And in combination with a couple of wicked blue pills, it stole the energy I needed to get myself out of the den. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Drugs didn’t kill Cassie, not unless it was a couple of bottles of aspirin. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Just straight talk from a couple of Harlem’s old guard. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of seconds he pulled his face out of her stomach. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Luma’s hair was short—a couple of inches, maybe, trimmed above the ears and high on her neck. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I lingered on Chad Turner, Phil Stroper and a couple of the other guys, stretching the moment as far as the tension would take it. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At least a couple of the first-year girls waited for me and asked if I was okay. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the water’s lapping around the high marks on the pilings, I give the winch a couple of cranks until the line goes tight. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The kid we called up from the select team, Cole Lenk, was quite the ballplayer. He had a couple of hits and threw a runner out trying to go first to third from right.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Backing up a couple of steps, he said, “We’re not going to jump on him. All we want to do is make a bet.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had invited friends, summer people she’d met a couple of days earlier at a farmer’s market. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now that they had a secure hiding place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then toward the end of the summer, the second card arrived, and all it said was ‘Leaving Fairbanks tomorrow, see you in a couple of weeks.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote a few little stories, what he’d been doing that week, a couple of jokes. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I backed up a couple of steps, went into a crouch, swung my gun arm up, straight out stiff, left hand clamping right wrist, like I saw on TV. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It had a few benches bolted to the ground here and there, as well as a couple of kiosks for notices. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing a couple of plates and spoons from the drying rack beside the sink, he set the table and dished them both up some food. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

At first, all this food makes me nauseous, but after a couple of months, I feel strong again. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a couple of them and hurried back to his room, where he ate and waited until it was time for the meeting. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Let me say a couple of things about this particular case,” he continues, talking over his shoulder to me as we walk on. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then all of a sudden they heard a couple of bangs, as if two doors had been slammed shut inside the house. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He bounced a couple of slackers who confused freedom with no rules, so the rest of us don’t make waves. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then it shook its wings as though casting off night forever, took a couple of awkward steps, and flew away. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

June grabbed her phone and tapped the screen a couple of times before holding it out to Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If you’re nice, I might even tell you a couple of different ways to get there. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I wore it for a couple of years, but I had to stop wearing it when I had my eye surgery. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Quaking with fear, Chickenhound held his breath as the woodland juggernaut thundered by within a couple of yards of the hideout. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He says he can access the utility box in the storage room and throw a couple of circuit breakers.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Besides the garbage, I found some car keys that Jimmy said were from a DeSoto, a couple of teddy bears, some watches, a couple of wallets, and a few jackets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wiped a bunch of tears away with a twisted-up hand and blinked a couple of times before she looked at me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It slid forward and hung from a couple of toes. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Together we greeted Neil, and for a couple of minutes the three of us just floated there, admiring two shiny silver boxes filled with moon rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He skimmed through a couple of pages, snickered, handed the book back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Proper British airmen flying over the European Continent carry a couple of photographs in their emergency kit, just in case they’re shot down and need fake ID. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And, as the tension in Milagro grew, that was where Bloom wanted to go for a couple of days with Linda. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was so close that I could see a couple of beard hairs he’d missed when he shaved. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, then a couple of little Ravenclaws went sprinting off the pitch, snorting with laughter. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I start pulling things out of the drawers—underwear, a couple of T-shirts; I stuff them into the bag. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

An accurate diagnosis, a couple of grateful women patients—women with money and position—and word had got about. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I flubbed a couple of lines,” said Via, shaking her head. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get my hair to stay down, and after a couple of pats I just gave up and went back outside to meet Carmen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, I went with a couple of the other girls to look for her. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She leaned in until her nose was touching Hanako’s, and then she rubbed back and forth a couple of times. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I have a couple of errands,” she tells the receptionist. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington’s troops chased the British from the battlefield, killed a passel of them, and took a couple of hundred prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes! We got invited to this fancy dinner party on account of saving so many folks at the lecture a couple of weeks ago.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

All I could see was white, a few clumps of trees, a couple of farmhouses, and the muddy black trail of the oxcart winding through it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack and I walked right behind a couple of sixth graders into the building, and then followed them to the auditorium. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Annie grabs a couple of old wooden milk crates and hands them over. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“But he has asked me to tell you a couple of things, to prepare you.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a couple of seconds he pulled the bottle away from my mouth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Eyes fixed straight ahead, she pretended to ignore the gallantries, but a couple of times her lips curled into a smile. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Just give ’em a couple of minutes,” said Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I could not see exactly what he was doing, but he walked slowly around the wagon, bent over it a couple of times, and then stood up straight and stared down the road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He placed it directly opposite me, a couple of feet away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had dozens of phone conversations with him and even met him a couple of times. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But a couple of them were really close to the ship, busy doing something, though Mark didn’t have a good enough angle to see what. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I was just a couple of miles shy of the next station. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cuts stung and didn’t heal for a couple of weeks, but I didn’t mind. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lily looked at me for a couple of beats. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I connected a couple of wires, and now Eagle was receiving electricity from Columbia. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

California voters also came very close to banning the death penalty; the ballot initiative lost by only a couple of percentage points. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I raise my eyebrows before I remember he doesn't know about the message Haymitch sent us a couple of nights ago. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I just stood there for a couple of minutes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dad flicked it a couple of times, swaying back and forth; then he held it up to the light and studied it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle got a couple of answers right on his own, but he took longer to respond than everybody else, so his name never appeared on the leaderboard again. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The peach trees had all died, but there were a couple of small oak trees still growing by an old abandoned cabin. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Petey pulsed feebly into the air and came to rest a couple of feet away, with Ajax closing fast. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She expertly sliced a couple of legs off the body of a chicken. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She has a speech impediment, bad moods, and “a couple of peculiar habits that many would find repellent,” he tells Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even then, they only got away because a couple of cowboys were on the rail ready to jump in and distract that horse. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malia uses the spoon to scoop a couple of mini marshmallows off the top and eats them. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I learn, in a couple of hours of scattered exchanges, that Melissa was a waitress before this job, that her husband works in construction and her children are grown. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weakly, I tell him I’ll take it and will move in in a couple of days. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He honked a couple of times and a lot of faces looked out from Louie’s back window and then a lot of people came out—Louie, Marin and all the little sisters. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she mentioned how they’d defeated the last fare raise on AC Transit a couple of years back, a group of people whooped and cheered in response. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Samantha and I shared the sofa, and Hugo lay on the carpet with a couple of forty-pound weights in his hands. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of iron cots with bare springs, one against either wall, the mattress pads rolled up at the foot of them in army fashion. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Most of the words were self-explanatory, but Thomas wondered about a couple of them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s going to be tender for a couple of days. But you’ll be fine. I promise,” the nurse says gently as she pushes a button to make the bed go flat again. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s only a couple of weeks, then I’m out of here. He can quit his treatment then for all I care.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Scientists are rushing toward the edge of the clearing, where a couple of them are struggling to pull something out of the ground. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I tried on a couple of different tops, not sure what to expect tonight. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, she stops me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Jean shouted and pointed at a couple of black children on one of the porches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We moved in with the Garcías a couple of weeks ago, after hearing the news. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Mo had bought a couple of well-worn paperbacks that looked as if they had already passed through the hands of several people. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He read it a couple of times to make sure it said what he thought it said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I'm supposed to be in the cellar bringing up a couple of bottles of port for the men, but I saw you duck out and figured you were looking for evidence of where Lily is.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I heard a couple of the house servants talking, just saying vaguely that there was trouble. I thought I should find out for sure.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. I heard that happened a couple of months ago to someone, but that was before I got here.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“No wallet,” he told her, “but this stuff should be good for a couple of cans of soup.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Greyback got up and took a couple of steps to where Harry sat, crouching down again to stare closely at his misshapen features. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I could go on a trial basis, for a couple of weeks. To see what the schools are like. What the area is like.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had some explanatory pictures next to their glass cage that showed a couple of bats sucking the blood out of a horse’s neck while the horse was sleeping. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know that Rosie loved anyone who rubbed her rump, so when she mooed and swayed her behind, Joseph took a couple of quick steps back. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In a couple of days, we was going through mile after mile of orange groves. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of guys from the soccer team were there, too, a couple of the toe stubbers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego sent me a couple of texts, left some messages, but I deleted them unanswered and unread. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The car coughed a couple of times before it started. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At first it was a couple of pounds a year, undetectable even to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irked at me, he jumped up and down a couple of times, ran a lap around the open space, and finally, spent, plopped down beside me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the fire escape stopped at least a couple of feet above the front entry arch. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But when it began to die down a couple of hours later, the bull carcass wasn’t half burnt up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam gives up after a couple of tries. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Mostly you just turn a fairly unpleasant orange color, but a couple of people have also sprouted tentaclelike warts all over their bodies. As if St. Mungo’s didn’t have enough to do already!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Manzanar was a historic site, run by the National Park Service, my mom told me, but a couple of months ago, the Park Service lost its funding and this place was shut down. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I’m very happy to give you a loan to tide you over for a couple of weeks. We’ll talk about it tomorrow. OK, darling. Bye.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening the soldiers cleaned their guns, sometimes firing a couple of rounds into the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After a couple of weeks, Painter knew he could trust Kelley to handle the job alone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If they found food in a student’s pocket, they would sometimes deliver a couple of desultory whacks with a stick. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had been hiking the trail, evidently only a couple of miles behind us, for four days, and had been camping alone in the open each night, which struck me now as awfully brave. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, Sir Kay had a black key on his tent, and Sir Ulbawes, in the opposing camp, had a couple of elbows in flowing sleeves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolls his eyes at me a couple of times over. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I was so glad we’d done an accounting section in math a couple of weeks ago or none of this would have made any sense to me. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Story's quite true! I left 'em! Matter of self-preservation. We were lost in the bush. I and a couple of other fellows took what food there was and cleared out." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

His size and strength—and I suppose that temper—meant no one tried actual physical bullying, but from what I remember, for a couple of months at least, these incidents kept coming. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never told me her age, but I guessed she was only a couple of years older than me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe you. 1 think you went in there, hung around a couple of minutes, and came out.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are beds in it, or rather bunks—a couple of wooden beams over which wire netting is stretched. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom hadn’t mentioned our trip in a couple of days, and it was looking more and more like we weren’t going to go. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I gave my head an imperious tilt, set my shoulders a little differently and made a couple of mental adjustments. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pedaled around the block a couple of times and came back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took a couple of nips from his silver flask, and we napped awhile as the insects buzzed and ticked and the dappled shade shifted around us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I grab a couple of empty gas cans and walk to the gas station and fill them up and walk back home. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think I have a couple of dollars to go in on a pizza. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I saw Richard glance over at me a couple of times, but he didn’t ask me any questions either. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the fire escape stopped at least a couple of feet above the front entry arch. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had himself a couple of lifelong friends, and we never let him forget it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

That morning was quiet, only a couple of guys surfing in the distance. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to hurt his feelings though, so I pretended to cough a couple of times and covered my face. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the old church, all right. Just a couple of miles down the street. It was a good building. We just got too big for it.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“When we get a couple of drinks, I’ll tell you all about it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I won it fair and square from the Elkton boys up the street. I got a pair of boots out of it as well. You never seen a couple of stupider boys.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Shay took a couple of deep breaths, and her usual calm returned. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We walked a little ways into the woods and sat on a couple of stumps whilst folks cleared out of the carnival. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of hours the vineyards gave way to cotton fields. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of seconds, I realize I’m still intact. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Byron stood perfectly still while Momma walked around him a couple of times taking a better look at his hair. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked to Johnny as if the dog fox had eaten a couple of fat pullets, and had a third in his mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was empty apart from a couple of bundles that Alex vaguely recognized. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’ll take us a couple of days to get your money together,” she said to Mr. Robert. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see you back home in a couple of months. Good luck, okay?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have a couple of hours before we get to your house.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a short time later that Edward saw a couple of rocks poking out of the water and yelled for us to come. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long journey through the snow today, down a couple of neighborhood blocks, then around the funny lime-green house with the tiny white fence, down the hill to the railroad tracks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The stalking died down after a couple of weeks of my not saying anything. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Three boys and a girl were splashing across the sunlit harbor in a couple of pedal boats, racing toward the steps. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, there was one guy who called out a compliment a couple of times. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

There was half a loaf and a couple of onions. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I lost a couple of friends at this camp I go to,” I said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe the governor would rather close the schools than have you go with a couple of Negroes,” Daddy said to Judy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when the one with the freshman beanie said he had heard a couple of guys in the men’s room talking about how Shakespeare’s plays were really written by a lady. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then another front leg, then hindquarters, and then the box was empty, nothing but a metal shell with a couple of fake human legs attached. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Not really, but we had PE together last year and I saw him a couple of weeks ago when I was grocery shopping with my mom. He’s cute! In a nerdy way.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I blurted out, “Listen, Luis. We only have a couple of minutes, and I have to tell you something. I saw you at Lake Windsor High School. I saw what you did.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen a couple of births on that cable-TV show, and people usually yelled for a while; sometimes they swore and it had to be bleeped, but it never took longer than half an hour. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon there were only a couple of men left. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos gets a couple of towels, and we do our best to dry off the dogs before dropping them off to their apartments. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I went out to his place—it had been my old home, too, my grandparents raised me for a couple of years—to clean it out. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Rob’s father called a couple of weeks after the accident. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to dig up a couple of ferns. Then we can leave.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I dreamed about Rob a couple of nights ago. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit a couple of rows ahead of him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in an empty seat a couple of rows ahead of us. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“And my understanding is they keep those poor women at Yankee Stadium only for a couple of days before replacing them with others.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The glass elevator actually hitched a couple of times on the way up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was eleven o’clock in the morning when Guitar pushed open the door and shouted, “Hey, Feather! Give us a couple of Red Caps.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re within a couple of blocks of the office, Marge turns to me with what looks like compassion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was walking a couple of steps ahead of Calder. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

While Moss watched this process unfold a couple of times, he became aware of a distinct hum from the devices, low and subtle. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They could hang out, date for a couple of years through college and maybe grad school, and then get married. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The car was parked a couple of blocks away, very close to where the meeting had just taken place. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was so surprised I let out a couple of yips and ran into the house shouting, "I'm going I'm going I'm going." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Hey, come on, Gloria. I just got into town—be nice to us. How about some rooms for us, a couple of lodgers with good jobs?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept on rubbing, working that soft area at her lower back, where the required team racing suit just allowed for a window of skin, a couple of knobs of vertebrae. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“He did come here a couple of times. A nice man. Very polite. I knew he didn’t come from around here. He was looking for a book...” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She stood there, staring, like I was going to whip a couple of throwing knives out from under the covers and use her for target practice. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They had brought along a couple of short-handled trench shovels, a duffel bag packed with American clothes, and a suitcase with money sewn in its lining. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I have to go. I’ll see you in a couple of days.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We try and eat slowly, but we're both so hungry were done in a couple of minutes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then I pretended to be interested in tennis shoes a couple of aisles down. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were even a couple of “Aw, shucks” and finger snapping as our dinner was placed on the cashier s counter. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as yet deserted, except for a couple of large bins; the first Ministry workers did not usually appear here until at least eight o’clock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I tuck a handful of sea daisies into the sleeve of my shirt and a couple of Notes into my pocket for good measure. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Delly’s a bit thinner than I remember, but she was one of the few kids in District 12 with a couple of pounds to spare. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The Pastor twisted his elbow from my hand and took a couple of steps back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a little shelf of books, a magazine on the table, a couple of photographs in frames. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But outdoors jobs we can master & if we cant, show him or me how its done & in just a couple of days we can master a job or machine. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would just take a couple of practice swings and knock the ball down the middle and pick up his clubs and walk off into the afternoon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vajra was still in her hand, but although the weapon had been awakened, Aru couldn’t do much with it except hit a couple of things. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I know that he worked for an industrial food-service company and that he opened a couple of bars and restaurants here and there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There are even a couple of my classmates from Drake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“They had a couple of other foster kids who they had adopted, and they had an older daughter and a, um, a baby, later.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Stella happily gathered a couple of soft ones that had fallen to the ground. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One woman at work had invited him to lunch a couple of times, but since she didn’t know or care much about computers, he wasn’t interested. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption arranged himself on the couch and took a couple of deep breaths to prepare. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We heard the sound of the siren a couple of blocks away and then it faded. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first Garden Heights looks the same, but a couple of blocks away at least five police cars speed by. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Dad came up behind me and handed me a couple of napkins, which I used to wipe my hands off. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It had tables and chairs and a couple of vending machines in the corner. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If he jumped and missed, there would be a couple of hundred feet to fall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten to turn off the bathtub a couple of days ago. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Guards also allowed workers—about five thousand adult prisoners and a couple of hundred students from the camp’s secondary school—to catch fish and frogs from the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I had a couple of extra ones, so I figured I’d pass them along to you.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We leave for a couple of weeks and you turn polite on us?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But those were a couple of divorces and a serious illness ago, and the son looking over his shoulder at the mounted snapshots now had little in common with the boy in the pictures. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After feeling sorry for myself for a couple of days, I decided that I had no reason not to fight for air and freedom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Fine. They dug out a couple of pieces of shrapnel. No big deal,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There were only a couple of teachers who looked happy to be introduced. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“A castle and a bishop and a couple of pawns, at least until you get the hang of it. Come on. It’ll be something new for us to do.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A big oven, a microwave, a dishwasher, a couple of tables. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I washed dishes over and over, and Martín yelled at me a couple of times because I was taking too long to move the dish racks through El Monstruo. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We went from top to bottom a couple of times, making sure we saw everything. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Again, we don’t have definitive data, but it could be reduced to just a couple of years or maybe even less.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In just a couple of hours, the Halloween dance would be starting. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We know how they are, the first quarter you start hittin ’em a couple of times, get a couple of sticks on ’em, they want to quit.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was soft music playing and a couple of people sitting at tables writing in notebooks and on laptop computers. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I saw a couple of potato chips hit him on the back. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing to show for them except a couple of pictures and our notebook. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then we opened our bags and hung them to the rack with a couple of pieces of tape. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It took two days to move all of Nico’s things out of Beverly’s house, even with a couple of his friends helping him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Not only didn’t he eat for a couple of days, it was weeks afore he slept through a whole night without terrorfying me and Ma by waking up screaming and begging someone to stop. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a piece of paper and jotted a couple of words on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed like only a couple of hours, but was it? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Well, anyway, this era of putting Harry off lasted maybe a couple of weeks, and then came Ruth’s request. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie said, grabbing a couple of extension cords off the ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then all becomes quiet in the big room—only the candles flickering from the necks of a couple of bottles and the artilleryman spitting every now and then. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of ways to go; both involve a lot of stairs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hurt a couple of people real bad. I got angry.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She made a pot of fresh coffee, some toast, and scrambled a couple of eggs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch Jamie rolling her eyes about Meme a couple of times, though. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After a couple of seconds Cecil slaps the other man’s head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For a couple of weeks, there were reporters and politicians all over Ida B. Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood there in silence for a couple of minutes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He should have kept a guard on them, but he'd deemed it more important to have men walking the walls and protecting the gates than to nursemaid a couple of children, one a cripple. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I figure I’m gonna work a couple of months—November and part of December,” said Jones. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having a day off without a sky-high pile of catering orders or a couple of hyperactive boys leaping around is good for her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then he threatened to send over a couple of Sherpas from his team to “sort out” Ang Dorje with their fists. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

After I had gathered enough roots and bulbs and smoked enough fish to last Alice and me for a couple of months, I began it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had time enough to get the crucifix up in the hall, but she didn’t have time enough to make a couple of sandwiches? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When a couple of heads turn to look at us, he immediately lowers his volume and continues. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“This might take a couple of hours to harden, so be careful when you pack the ice in,” he says, way more enthusiastic than someone ought to be about silicone sealant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that things like that don’t just happen overnight, or even in a couple of weeks, so it couldn’t have all been ruined since I’d stopped hearing from you. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was our usual gang with perhaps a couple of outsiders loitering nearby. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. The guy went overboard, Mom says, but in a couple of weeks it’ll look okay.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I unzipped the duffel a couple of inches and felt Beau’s sniffing nose poke wetly out. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And I had no idea I was ready to answer this question, but: “His birthday is in a couple of weeks, right? The twenty-fourth?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘If only they are in a hurry and will let a couple of tired soldiers alone and pass on!’ he thought. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I took out my camera, snapped a couple of pictures, and stood gazing out at the field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Old Sunny was gone, I sat in the chair for a while and smoked a couple of cigarettes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z