My third student was a nun of the order of Sisters of St. Joseph, named Sister Irma, who taught “cooking and drawing” at a convent elementary school just outside Toronto. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The seething hiss of it washing over the beach and drawing away again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I took my small loaf of bread with me, drawing a few odd looks from the nearby students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I come face-to-face with the empty sockets of the skull drawing on my door, an O₂ mask slung over its mouth, with the words “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” written under it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Fadi added a few finishing touches to his drawings of amoebas and other single-celled micro-organisms, which the class had been reviewing. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It makes him feel drawn to God, as if God is drawing him toward heaven. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m afraid our journey is drawing to an end.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He pulls me to his chest, his hands running down my back, clasping my thigh, drawing me closer, closer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then Lil came up behind me to see what I was drawing. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After admiring my drawing, she asked, “What do you think of what’s been going on at your house?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Good at baseball, spelling, musical theater, drawing manga. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he slipped the drawings underneath his bed, onto the big pile of other drawings he had done, and climbed fully dressed into bed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The elephant is a replica of a drawing her father had done for Gogol over twenty-seven years ago, in the margins of an aerogramme. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At that time the last Ice Age was drawing to a close in Europe, and the climate between the Alps and Scandinavia resembled that of present-day Siberia or Alaska. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, two researchers, working independently, were making some startling findings by drawing on a curious fact of Earth history that had been discovered several decades earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The most important part is that I can hear the teacher and I already learned this totally new way to hold the charcoal so it’s like drawing with a motor. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He sits for hours on end drawing the human form from antique casts, and also from nudes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That night, my first homework assignment was to practice drawing that letter. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled and unlatched the case, drawing out my lute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh gods, what do we do?” whispered Mini, drawing her knees to her chest. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She’ll say that she likes my drawings, but she’ll roll her eyes because my ideas for our film are “too cliche.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie held a drawing of a man in the middle of a cornfield. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone is drawing away from me—Gale, Cressida, the insects—giving me the stage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The drawing showed everything from the Neck to the Blackwater Rush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some cards were arranged in rows on the blanket, and he was drawing other cards from the deck he held in his hands and adding them to the rows. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was starting on a new model, in the room with the dolls, drawing it out very carefully on graph paper, first, to see whether it could work. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

After sprucing it up a little, Mr. Clem advertised a drawing in the paper “for a name more befitting this fine, refurbished, modern establishment.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Darin put so much life into his drawings that it seemed if you just reached out, you could pull them from the page. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

After he drooled on her drawing multiple times, Laney took charge. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

‘Well!’ said Frodo, standing up and drawing his cloak more closely round him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, basically, everyone. Usually I’m drawing, but sometimes not. I hide in trees, bushes, on my roof with the binoculars, wherever.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I looked at his drawing, then looked at my chair. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the third test we were told to examine five drawings and figure out which two didn't belong. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes travel to the drawing behind me, the healthy lungs looming over my head, just out of reach. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My father sits in the easy chair marking drawings of spruce budworms cut open to show their digestive systems, my mother has made grilled cheese squares with bacon on them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She studies it intently, her head turned so that one black eye is trained on my drawing. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I try again, as loud as I dare without drawing too much attention to myself. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He only needed the feel of the trade wind and the drawing of the sail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven at night, he is still there, along with most of the other designers on his team, all rushing to finish drawings and models by the month’s end. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And even now Johanna has him drawing a map on a leaf rather than risking the jungle... Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I realized the only reason they chase us is because of Amil and his ridiculous drawings and his big mouth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then she’d have to say “rutabaga” so Cotton would stop drawing on the wall with markers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Who knows how many quarrels, false accusations, unnecessary dismissals, how many promising careers cut short can be attributed to a butler's slovenliness at the stage of drawing up the staff plan? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We do speed drawings of her every three minutes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then she leaned the broom against the wall and went into the drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Bernard even paints the glass panes in the drawing room so that they look like medieval stained glass. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the drawing, the stars and planets are storming out of the computer screen and into the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For a second I thought about drawing Riptide and facing her, but my heart crawled into my throat. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He carefully tore the drawing from his book. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was just a drawing, but it wasn’t something she was ready to show anyone, especially not her family. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Each has a placard hung around his neck to show why he has been executed: a drawing of a human fetus. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And wherever you looked you could see people tightening girths, putting on helmets, drawing swords, and throwing cloaks to the ground. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Scraps of paper, driver’s licenses, receipts, grocery lists, drawings in crayon and colored pencil, school pictures. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A rumble went through the crowd, then fell away like a wave retreating, drawing pebbles out from shore. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one showed a cartoony drawing and a single letter: Apple = A, Bee = B, Carrot = C, and so on. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I pulled out pictures, grade cards, newspaper clippings, childhood drawings, and school papers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Theon bent the bow, drawing the grey goose feathers back to his cheek. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My own darling child,” she began tenderly, drawing Aurelia close to her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And he could feel a shell of hardness drawing over him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, there was the matter of Mr. Clem Crummy having a drawing to get a new name for the Cold Sassy Hotel, recently bought from old Mr. Boop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I struck the first chord hard and waited as the sound of it began to fade without drawing a voice from the audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cate looked back and forth between us, her brows drawing together. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It carried an odor of fresh-turned dirt, drawing my attention to the fields where the tractor had only a few hours ago stopped plowing the earth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was another one of her stormy drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Outside, the thunder and lightning snapped right alongside each other, perfect secret drawing weather. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Which is kind of like the cartoonist drawing a cartoon of himself while he’s drawing himself. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Above her bed are papered her fantastical pencil drawings of Frau Elena’s village, of Paris with a thousand white towers beneath whirling flocks of birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Over by the cotton mill, I would see men drawing a map in the street with a stick to show where they had bought some new land for cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture was a drawing of Earth and a treasure map blended together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hug him to my chest, my eyes traveling to Abby’s drawing and then to the picture of the two of us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Collectors treasure drawings because they seem to reveal the artist’s inspiration with unmatched freshness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Chima curled up in a comer for much of the morning, quietly drawing pictures. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She says his name real weird, like maybe she ain’t just asking him about schoolwork, but accusing him of drawing the picture. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The appreciation of drawings as works of art dates from the Renaissance, when the artist’s creative genius first came to be valued and paper began to be made in quantity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I earned a few crusts of bread en route here and there in exchange for some drawings that I had in my suitcase.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Gotcha,” he said, as if monsters were a perfectly normal thing for a police sketch artist to be drawing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One day she came out of the drawing room and saw her papa. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flipped to a clean page in the sketch pad and made a line drawing of the snout, filling in the defensive wounds from the seal in all of the right spots. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The only light came from the hall, and Coraline, who was standing in the doorway, cast a huge and distorted shadow onto the drawing room carpet—she looked like a thin giant woman. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Mia scribbled a hasty note in the corner of her drawing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the butler reappeared in the drawing room some time afterwards to refresh the teapots, the employer had inquired if all was well. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The drawing master is excellent, and art is considered important in the school. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Had I been drawing away from my own mother? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She scurried across the drawing room and tugged repeatedly on the bellpull that hung by the door. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It takes a few lines but soon I'm sitting with the March sisters in their drawing room on a wintry afternoon. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If my masters were to complain about the annoyance caused by his soldier...” the woman said, drawing herself up to her fullest height to gaze directly into his eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I turn, drawing back the bowstring and send an arrow straight at Clove's heart. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But once upon a time, you weren’t very good at drawing dogs or landscapes, either.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eyebrows arched, the Brother looked through the pile of drawings on the desk. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just showed him your drawing, because it was so good. I didn’t know he would use the same design.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mother was already bustling around, straightening up the drawing room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. I know what I’m good at, and it ain’t drawing or painting or cutting things up and making something out of them. That’s Jade. I’m the poet.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A wisp of scented smoke hung in the air, drawing her down the winding path to where the red priests had fired the great iron braziers outside the house of the Lord of Light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I look at my drawing now, I can see a lot of the mistakes I made in getting the reflections and distortions right. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The shared vision expressed in their drawings struck him as being too sober and monumental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Inside the second room a table had been brought up close to the wall which adjoined the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Plenty of other experts were also intrigued by the potent drawings and had tried to decipher them, without success. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A youth, a mildfaced Acadian, was drawing water from the astern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It’s very clever.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ripping the envelope open, I pull out a carefully folded piece of paper, opening it all the way up to reveal a cartoon drawing done entirely in crayon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He picks up my sketchbook and flips through to some of my older drawings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I proudly carried the blue ribbon in my right hand and the drawing in the other. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have some drawings ready to share with them. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the time he will spend in Arles—444 days—he’ll make two hundred paintings and one hundred drawings, a huge number for an artist. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was showing off the bread the way she used to tape up the crooked drawings Matthew and Mark brought home from school when they were little. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Someone addressed her from inside the drawing room and she spoke over her shoulder in reply. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was busy drawing a row of little people on the paper before him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the dark mouth of a cave, a scrawny, bearded man in shackles stood next to a big wooden wheel marked with what looked like drawings of little animals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But he cut me off and urged me one last time, drawing himself up to his full height and asking me if I believed in God. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There’s not a single drawing of Ben’s dad. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were drawing cards for the Store and objects of the town’s adoration. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was small and crowded, but well lit and decorated with colorful posters and drawings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If the truth were to be known, anyone with a pot and a fire would try to make gold, drawing spirit from their veins, or stealing it from others. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Already I'm drawing circles on the glass, humming myself someplace far away from here. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They place the tree in front of the window, drawing apart the curtains so that people passing by the house can see, as excited as they were when they were children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy hadn’t included the drawing of her and June in the treehouse as part of the show. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She said it again, drawing out each sound. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I crossed my arms and shivered at the memory of Hamlet’s book, with its drawings of the corpse laid open, the vital parts within revealed like a pirate’s booty in a torn sack. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Joseph then took the drawings from their cabinet and gently set them on the table. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Here we were, holding hands under the table, drawing little circles into each other’s palms. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gasped and felt my body pull back on the free part of me, drawing me in like a crab on a fishing line. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like a child’s drawing, her pale face was floating in a sea of brown fabric. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The edges of the drawings were yellowed and brittle, but they were all beautiful, and they were all by Georges Melies. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Will wanted to listen, but the man in green had hold of his arm and was drawing him insistendy towards a side door. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been years when art filled Vincent’s life: beautiful paintings and drawings he had seen in The Hague, in London, in Brussels, and in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His hopes of succeeding accelerated when one day Perry produced a pastel drawing he had made—a large, in no way technically naive portrait of Jesus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s like one of his drawings,” I whisper. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her lawn sleeves above the wrists. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we could go back to the drawing board and reallocate our square footage.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through the stone, the world was gray and colorless, like a pencil drawing. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Hermione had stopped drawing attention to herself in class, keeping her head down and working in silence. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I discuss her racial problems with her constantly, drawing her out even when she doesn't feel like discussing them—and I can tell how fervently she appreciates these dialogues with me. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begin drawing what’s in my head, as if maybe by drawing it, it will exorcise the super bugs from my brain. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Images of the moon and the rocket and the explorers shimmered across the old man’s face and onto the sea of his beautiful drawings, tacked to the wall behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The wind picks up, fluttering the pages of my pad, revealing the drawing of that purple flower in my mother’s garden. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And what’d you expect? I had to make other friends. All you do is hole up making your lame drawings and obsessing about that stupid school with Mom.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I clung to the story of the accordion player and visualized my drawings making their way into Papa’s hands. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They play her death in full, the spearing, my failed rescue attempt, my arrow through the boy from District 1's throat, Rue drawing her last breath in my arms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The drawing was one of her stormy drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not to call off a contest, certain of my failure, before she even looked at my drawings. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

What the architects’ drawings had shown him, however, was that in reality he would have far fewer than twenty-six months. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Tell me what this signifies,” I whispered eagerly, my finger tracing the intricate drawings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was holding up an orb light and drawing a picture of the sun on a chalkboard while his students took notes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Hugo reached into his pocket and took out the automaton’s drawing, which he had taped back together, and handed it to the old man, who took it in his shaking hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

One end of it lashed Sam’s hand, and he cried out in pain, starting back and drawing his hand across his mouth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her hands were covered with charcoal, and I saw drawings everywhere, and they were all of the same man. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered in the drawing room around the piano. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They won’t listen, Jam! They said the drawing was just a drawing. That monsters aren’t real anymore, that I was confusing Moss.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He nodded to the man and took the five, letting his eyes smile, since his mouth was engaged in blowing and drawing. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Meryl Lee stared at my drawing, then went back to sipping her Coke. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The dream was so vivid I can even remember some of the drawings. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When he spoke of Darin, he captured my brother perfectly—his drawings, the way he thinks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I load the dishwasher as slowly as I can and signal the answers to Emma by drawing numbers in the air behind Jennifer’s back. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Voices reached him across the hallway through the open door of the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They began to hum softly, as hobbits have a way of doing as they walk along, especially when they are drawing near to home at night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m really good at drawing the human Heart now. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studies every photograph of every painting, and he spends an awful long time on each drawing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“If it happens, I’m saying. We can’t waste anything. If we get enough meat in the water we’ll have a good shot at drawing the bigger fish.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I study the tomato closely, drawing it in my mind. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to explain. You don’t have to like the drawing.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Edward undressed in idle, leisurely moves, drawing his shirt off over his head, revealing golden shoulders and the good muscular neck. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine her sitting in an old English house, sipping hot chocolate while snow falls outside, drawing a tiny menorah on a notepad, a Hanukkah celebration for her alone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Monday and I would write letters to each other with funny drawings and ripped-out magazine articles, keeping up with the latest neighborhood gossip and music. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"He said, `Can they climb it?'" answers Peeta, drawing my focus back to the base of the horn. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Piles of papers and drawings you made when you were little. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He thought about making her a book of his drawings. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I realize with horror it’s not a drawing of a friend. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

To avoid drawing attention to the arrival of so many scientists, she cautioned them never to refer to each other as “doctor” or “professor” while in town. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would you like to try drawing me now? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is now drawing towards the sunset; Mina’s uneasiness calls my attention to it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Why,” continued Wickersham, drawing out the word sarcastically, “are you in front of him?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This apparently contradictory object turned Brunelleschi’s drawing, almost magically, into such a good likeness of the three-dimensional Baptistery building that it was indistinguishable from the real thing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Each sticker has a drawing of hands high-fiving. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

In minutes, Gregor' was hopelessly lost, and the mental picture of their path that he’d been making in his head resembled one of Boots’s squiggly drawings. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aberdeen Gardens, the sprawling development built on former Hampton Institute farmland, was another desirable location, its wide streets with grassy medians and surrounding forests drawing many active-duty and retired military families. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She flicked the blade against her arm, drawing blood. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The mute sat silently over his glass of beer, idly drawing on the table with the end of a burnt matchstick. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” I said, moving closer to look at the diagrams he’d been drawing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The drawing. You remember. The little room you did not understand.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The girl grabs the pencil, focusing, drawing the line in fits and starts. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

For the first few minutes I concentrated on die circular light, but finally, drawing in my chin, I looked down to see that Luce was holding the crocus between his thumb and forefinger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Most were on the run from something, eager to avoid drawing the attention of slavers or interest from the Ravkan government. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He hurried out into the middle room, drawing on his blue outer trousers as he went, and knotting about the fullness at his waist his girdle of blue cotton cloth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Your Royal Highness," said Thornbut, drawing him aside, "our march to-day will bring us through the pass and right to your royal father's castle. We may be in battle before night." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the backyard with my drawing pad in my lap while Mom works in the garden, padding its perimeter with bark chips and seaweed. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the market town, she parked the car and bought some crayons and drawing paper, and a box of home-made sweets. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

On the page was a drawing of four coconuts, real coconuts, wearing mariachi hats. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It is tugging at him harder, drawing his feet toward the wheels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A sketchbook picture is already drawing itself in my head. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the evening, I do a pencil drawing of the driveway, empty. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Sure, you said you were making a short film with your friends, but you didn’t say anything about drawing pictures for it.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He is also drawing maps of the rivers and land he has found on his exploration trips. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And that was okay because that’s what the drawings were—dreams that got Ivy through a storm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dimple ogled the drawing, the rich detail of the boys brocade kurta and pants, the intricate metal work on the gada. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He has a wife who suffers his absences without complaint, and who arranges porcelain kittens by color, lightest to darkest, on two different shelves in their drawing room in Stuttgart. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His Stygian iron blade seemed to make the shadows even gloomier, as if the infernal metal was drawing the light and heat out of the air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, the good news is that your patron isn’t here. The bad news is ...” I broke off, drawing a deeper breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if this was a cue for me to say how good the drawings were, but by this time, I was becoming genuinely drawn to these fantastical creatures in front of me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, what else is on the list?” he asks, looking back down at the drawing and then back up at me before starting to shade something in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The train thrusts forward, drawing out the weak screams of the still conscious. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It looked like a child’s drawing of a skeleton rising up out of the ground. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Only male crickets could produce the sound, drawing the one wing against the other, all to attract a mate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You know,” said Akimi, “my dad told me the library people had like a bazillion different architects doing drawings and blueprints that they couldn’t share with each other.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Farther and farther until it looked like a crooked drawing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But that will never happen because I can’t go a whole entire day without drawing. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the rough drawing I had done during the morning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She just knew that she was ready to show Layla her drawing, because every time she worked on it, she ended up crying or her chest would tighten and she couldn’t get enough breath. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My breath fogs up the glass, and one more time I lift a shaking finger, drawing a heart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He seems to be drawing little comfort from being in God’s house. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was a shout from the drawing room upstairs, where Colonel Hawkins and his men had been meeting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1425, Brunelleschi placed just such a point in the center of a drawing of a famous Florentine building, the Baptistery. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

To work, aside from pulling up vines or drawing something in the sand, you must be able to see. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be something about Papa in that file, something that could help me get a drawing to him. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was going to be my best drawing yet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Why were those drawings hidden in the armoire? Why did Papa Georges get so upset when he saw them?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Aye. Damas had ever a red panache. I think they are for drawing off. How quick they have been!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of Oliver drawing in his sketchbook every day on the bus to school. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the page facing Map 4 was a drawing of a house with a lacy wraparound porch. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned each page, carefully and gently, taking her time on each drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I pull the ribbon, and the box unfurls into a handmade, colorful, pop-up bouquet of flowers, the same purple lilacs and pink hydrangeas and white wildflowers as in Abby’s drawing suddenly brought to life. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“So beauty to you is what’s palatable to everyone else? You’re drawing what you think everyone wants to see?” he asks gently. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Because there’s something off about every single drawing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She gasped, drawing breath after greedy breath in the dark of Kaede’s tower room. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Word of the victory at Riverrun had spread to the fugitive lords of the Trident, drawing them back. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Still, she smiled through the whole process, like drawing a simple whale was the best thing that ever happened to her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“This drawing is yours, right?” she asked, handing Ivy the paper. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Though the drawing was done in black pencil, Roza’s smile blazed, her hair seemed to glow with dark, unearthly light, the hollow of her throat pulsed with a private invitation. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was drawing ragged breaths just from the effort of packing a few of my belongings into a brown paper bag. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I point at the drawing behind her, a beautiful picture of lungs, flowers pouring out of the inside, a backdrop of stars behind them. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Now, sitting in the drawing room, Emma read page after page of The Origin of Species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking at my drawing in the dirt. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I laid down the pencil and stared at the drawing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He continues explaining by drawing little stick men and women on the whiteboard. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father jumps out of the elevator and sprints down the right hallway, drawing the Dauntless guards after him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Why would Mom have made a copy of that drawing when she always had her phone—with the original drawing on the case—right with her? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was drawing closer, and the children could see a few details. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

When Dessie got up in the morning Tom was already at his drawing board, beating his forehead with his fist and growling to himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Midday had come and gone before he and Penny reached the well, where a scrawny one-legged slave was drawing water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They talk about his work—Vincent tells him that Uncle Cor didn’t like his second set of drawings as much as the first but that his friend Van Rappard thought they were good. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To be sure, men and women have long been authoring their own content, beginning with drawings on cave walls up through Gutenberg and the typewriter. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eden always seems to be drawing in my dreams. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The black shape went into the drawing room, and Coraline followed it a little nervously. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Baba always tells me how good I am, but since sixth grade started, Mama hasn’t even looked at my drawings. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He sat down next to her, leaning over his knees with concern drawing a line down his forehead. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Laney sat at the living room table making her brownstone drawing, with Hyacinth, Jessie, and Oliver next to her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He even screamed at Papa when Papa told him he would take away all his drawing material if he didn’t do better in school, and Papa swatted him in the face. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She comes around to my side and leans in to better study the drawing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Across its pages swarm boyhood drawings, inventions: an electric bed heater he wanted to build for Frau Elena; a bicycle with chains to drive both wheels. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Afterward she threw her paints and brushes into the trash and sat down to contemplate her drawings, which is to say, the history of her joys and sorrows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this high-tech equipment, it appears, is drawing up into the mountains people who perhaps shouldn’t be there. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for my drawing pad, and she gives it back. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In frustration, Mandela pushed off, drawing a yellow card. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The drawing of the lots to determine who’d play what color, scheduled for noon at the Hotel Esja, attracted hundreds of journalists, officials of the ICF, and members of both the American and Russian sides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was midsummer 1891 by the time the last of the architects’ drawings were completed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was planning to give him the drawing for his birthday, but after seeing those brochures, he looked like he needed a transfusion, so why wait? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the drawing I had done on the back of my hand with a pen. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He’s back to innocence, but still has fear, that death is upon him and drawing near. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a drawing of two loosely twisted strands of DNA. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lordship emerged to meet him and the two gentlemen appeared to exchange complicit glances before disappearing together into the drawing room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first was the old crayon drawing he’d made when he was seven years old - a diagram of a flying ship he’d seen in his dreams. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration of egg tempera are too much for me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up the crayon drawing of Gran with the goldens. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She had had no formal instruction in drawing. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Ivy took the drawing back and looked at it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The drawings papered the front of the refrigerator, waiting for the next time his father would come home. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hollister clamped his mouth shut and focused on writing the address, drawing a long inhale of breath through his nose. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And I didn’t organize anything,” Milo answered indignantly, drawing great agitated sniffs of air in through his hissing, pale, twitching nose. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“After we reached the hill without drawing fire, Hai thinks it’s safe. So he’ll send his men up, then he’ll write up his report and take credit for the body count. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I am glad not to be wearing the gaudy, provocative clothing that seems to be drawing stares and whispers to Lil and Em. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The steam then condensed, drawing water up a pipe into the cylinder. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Because there was no point. What was I going to do? Sell my drawings? It was a waste of time.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The walls of the exhibition hall were covered with paintings and drawings, all with animal or environmental messages, made by Roots & Shoots members from different parts of Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing on the walls, not a single painting or drawing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the blackboard and start drawing on it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I miss”—he peeks over his shoulder into the apartment and lowers his voice—“drawing down there.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He found the others assembled in the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The mechanical man hadn’t been writing ... it was drawing! The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

On another page, he sketches the area, drawing nested arcs around Eagle’s Ridge. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Otto wrapped his remaining length around Flux’s hands and leaned back, drawing the rope tight. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The article began by describing Bohr’s becoming entangled in his microphone cord, drawing a pained high-pitched squeal from the loudspeaker. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if the drawings in Mom’s proposal had come to life. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Redemption folded the drawing back into a square and put it away. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t there too much blood there?” she said when I spread my drawing out. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was trying to react to the picture Max was drawing, trying to compare that picture with what he had felt all his life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Fern pointed to what was left of the twig scratchings like the drawing was as clear as day. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I could hear the housemaid overhead drawing the curtains for the night, shutting down the windows that had not been closed already. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The people in the shack were still staring, but Lyra’s words eased the atmosphere a little, and the woman invited them to sit at the table, drawing out a bench. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We are not playing hide-and-seek, Harry,” said Voldemort’s soft, cold voice, drawing nearer, as the Death Eaters laughed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Me: IT sits on my table, ITs leg smears my chalk drawing, blurring the roots into a mossy fog. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She went about drawing a large quick cross on the back of each coated figure that came by. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she’d find a bare wall behind it, but when she moved the sign, most of her photos and drawings were still pinned there. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Baker showed his drawing to a few colleagues, including two of the doctors who attended Garfield at the train station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You can always try again,” Reynie said, looking over Sticky’s shoulder at the drawing. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I did, however, stumble onto a life drawing class being taught in one of the studio buildings off the main campus—a building with one whole side of it tucked into thick old-growth trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I stared at the cities on the map as I was drawing, trying to commit them to memory. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I want you to do a photo-realistic pencil drawing,” Radar said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In an attempt to make it Gothic, the guy was drawing spires along the top of the page. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I've included a drawing of the one who looks like you. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I called out, too loudly, drawing another snicker from the audience. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The thought conjured an old memory of my father sitting on my bed and showing me the back of a magazine, where two drawings were printed that looked identical. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Can’t she see I’m already drawing a Heart in my notebook? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She studied the drawings they had made and noticed one of the sleeping rooms had a tall loft in it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The way I see it, a dream is like a drawing in your head that comes to life. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When I turn I see Calvin is not drawing. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The shot was cropped well—the Saint Bernard’s eyes looked up while the kitten looked down, drawing the viewer’s eyes to the expressions on their faces. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Your lovely little cousin’s body is lying in the drawing room. The fish have eaten out her eyes. Her mother can’t stop crying. Is that what you call playing.?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Within perhaps a week,” recalled a student, “there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer’s office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The show has to start out easy — to give the viewers confidence — and then get progressively harder and harder, challenging the preschoolers more and more, drawing them into the narrative. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finishes up the drawing, leaves it pinned on his desk to be reviewed in the morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They chose ten treehouse drawings, along with a new drawing of Ivy all alone, which would be at the center. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Those are just the old drawings; he’s seen them already. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The next day, most of the debate club kids are already in their seats when I ease myself into the chair next to Lydia, who’s back to drawing cats. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I look around at the other projects—more drawings, homes made from Popsicle sticks, even LEGOs. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t look exactly like her mom’s drawing, but it was close enough. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He pasted it on an empty page between his biology drawing of the aorta of a duck and his civics project on the history of the Constitution. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened a drawer and brought out another drawing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At night, new drawings accumulated beneath his bed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I gave them to you not because I thought they would curb your behavior—they certainly did not curb mine—but because these were the earliest acts of interrogation, of drawing myself into consciousness. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh no. I don’t want this. They’ll think I’m trying to get attention. They’ll think I’m drawing the focus away from—” Her fingers tap, tap, tap. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The books composed of page after page of ink drawings of plants with descriptions of their medical uses. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now more than ever I must avoid drawing attention to myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will keep drawing—and by the end of his life the number of drawings will equal the number of paintings—but by calling himself an artiste-peintre he means he’s not just a draftsman. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She gets up and puts him back in the crib, drawing the blanket to his shoulders, then returns to bed, shivering. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she leaned in close to look at my drawing a little harder. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had gestured at the two drawings again with his paint-stained fingers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he brought a drawing home from preschool, the paper decorated with gold stars and happy faces, his mother, Didi, would take the drawing and exclaim, “A star! Good for you!” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her book was a volume of English history illustrated with a few drawings which she pointed out to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Marco hands him one, and Mr. Barris begins drawing, taking the rudimentary sketch of the circus’s layout and developing it into a complex design. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He set his coffee cup down on the table, examining the drawing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I am unaware, of course, how much time they give you for your personal drawing at your Convent and hope you will advise me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

No matter how much comfort Ivy got from drawing her treehouse pictures, they were make-believe too. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She pointed to her chicken-feet drawing, and waited for Big Ma to be unbelievably astounded. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If she was, she should have come into the drawing room and told me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Holly glanced over at Amari, then down at his drawing and back at him again. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” he said, drawing up short at the sight of Harry and Hermione. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They were just hanging out but when Karen started setting up her drawing pad they came over to check us out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad shows me tricks sometimes. There are a lot of tricks to drawing. I can show you.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re too good to be working for him. How much does Hideo pay you to keep you so loyally at his side? To come when he whistles? Or is something else drawing you to him?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Leonardo da Vinci wrote a guide to drawing in perspective. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He could see the opposed forces of his destiny and his will drawing swiftly together now, toward a junction that would be irrevocable; he became cunning. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After drawing my blood and doing a full physical exam, she advised my parents to take me to see a psychiatrist and also a therapist. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

At lunch during the following days, Quentin and I worked on how to build a rocket, sketching out crude drawings and theorizing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Daryl R. shrugged and kept drawing on his tablet with his index finger. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Most surprising were several pieces of sailcloth with charcoal drawings of a woman’s face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Adele showed her my drawings and some of my make-believe schoolwork. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Georgie picked up a stick and began drawing little figures in the dirt. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But how could you talk to Bloom without arousing his suspicion and drawing a surefire story that might appear somewhere sometime? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the drawings are shockers, but still excellent. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I actually went through the chalk because a few of us girls were drawing unflattering pictures of Miss Anderson on our slates, but that is beside the point. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, Europeans did not begin to learn about Arabic numbers until much closer to the time this drawing was made, around A.D. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Well, the birds don V like it either Here is a drawing of how to change the wires on a transformer so eagles, owls, hawks, vultures, even blue jays don V get zapped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The drawing twirled a circle in the pavement, bowed to Sierra and placed one gloved hand at her feet, then danced off. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clarke hustled her directly to the drawing room in such a flurry of chatter Penelope barely had time to gape at the grandeur of the house’s vast interior. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The drawing room on the second floor wasn’t a room where folks sat with paints and colored chalk to draw pictures, like I’d figured. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should probably stick to drawing pictures, which I do sometimes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His feeling was that I could start drawing my ideas and cities since I wouldn’t have the space anymore to build them in real life. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When I’m not pacing, I’m drawing; when I’m not drawing, I’m thinking—which just leads me back to pacing and drawing again. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Her mother was a nurse at the hospital, counting pills, drawing blood, changing bedpans, no stranger to night and double shifts. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Clancy laughed, drawing my attention back to him from the window, and I suddenly wasn’t sure how I could let my thoughts wander. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen Mom with pneumonia hacking up lungs while bent over that drawing table. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

June blinked at the drawing and ran her finger over Greenleigh-June’s pixie hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Squinting tensely through the darkness, they watched the figure drawing nearer, walking steadily toward them between the graves. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Somebody is drawing symbols of racial hatred all over the school, and we’re talking about Wi-Fi? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I flipped my drawing over and saw an A in red marker on the back. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Who knows what faces I’m making, what kind of modern art I’m drawing onto myself? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She says there was a large drawing of a bat on the blackboard, with its wings outspread and just a tiny bump between its legs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One: At an early age my sister Gretchen exhibited a remarkable talent for drawing and painting. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She’s worked with a lady who can make a drawing so realistic it looks like a photo, and with a guy who can speak any language after hearing it only a few times. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled him closer, drawing him into her gaze, until their faces met and she kissed him lightly, lingeringly on the lips. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I watch him getting closer and closer to the drawings that are going to get me murdered. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He even hates signing his name at the bottom of his drawings in art class. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t tell his parents about the drawing class, something they would consider frivolous at this stage of his life, in spite of the fact that his own grandfather was an artist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room, I see a framed drawing I never noticed before. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He sits in the darkened drafting room, surrounded by the desks of his coworkers, some piled with drawings and models, others as neat as a pin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hector asks him, drawing curious stares from the nearby patrons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maxine teaches him how to paddle properly, angling the oar and drawing it back through the still, gray water. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She shuffled her papers—mostly drawings of buildings and a bunch of handwritten notes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Let’s put it to bed. back to the drawing board. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went back again to the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She said she found a mean drawing of his lips and it made her lose her cool. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I work day and night and have a small drawing ready for you which I'll send bye and bye. I have no more money for a stamp, excuse the postcard.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The gaudy frames of the glasses were cheap, drawing attention to features that needed no heavy emphasis. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was something of a fashion plate, always well dressed and forever drawing the eyes of the young women around him, though he did not seem to have a steady girl. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Planted along the grass at the road’s edge were two lines of hornbeam trees, odd-looking things with perfectly symmetrical close-leafed crowns, more like children’s drawings than like real trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I thought we were drawing the human figure in motion,” said one seventh grader. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was my brother Gardiner’s drawing up too, and I wonder how he came to make such an awkward business of it. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

My drawings have lost all sense of form. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was about a boy named Sanju, who could make anything real by drawing it. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Beats me what Ivan thinks he’s drawing. This is a picture of nothing. A big, black nothing.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“And she comes up behind him and sees what he’s drawing, and she thinks he’s pretty cool.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We ate almost all our meals in the drawing room, journeying to the dining car only on those infrequent occasions when Mother yielded to our complaints that scurvy was threatening to set in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had a drawing of a donut on it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But with only one operational success under its belt and with six Mercury missions to go—with the orbital flight still on the drawing board—NASA’s road to the Moon seemed unimaginably complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

While I’ve been messing with the weapons, Peeta’s been squatting on the ground, drawing something with the tip of his knife on a large, smooth leaf he brought from the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he had finished, drawing up his pants and buckling his belt, Bernabe knelt on the floor near the spider, watching it work. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Amari, his drawing pad halfway out of his backpack, the colored markers gathered in their rubber band on his desk. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ron was drawing attention to this odd phenomenon by regarding Travers with confusion. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Cruel? Celaena, Perrington is just over there. I’m sure he’s not happy about you being here, so I wouldn’t risk drawing his attention any more than necessary.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He found us in the drawing room, in the middle of a meal. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry backed away, drawing his wand as he did so. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

After another offside call, Fornatee cursed at the referee, drawing his second yellow card and an ejection. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She had her notebook open, and she was drawing a heart around Gregor’s name in bubble letters. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Francie came in off the cold street she thought that the warmth was like a lover’s arms around her drawing her into the room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waved at Ms. Faraci when I entered, but she was busy drawing chemical structures on the board and didn’t notice. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I asked Bambi, with maximum delicacy, to please hold off, temporarily, submitting any more drawings with titles kindred to “Forgive Them Their Trespasses.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mostly, the power was with Leon, whose look was mock-solemn, and consisted of drawing the corners of his mouth downward while rolling his eyes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was the same school where I failed first grade because I did not know English well enough and where I had received first prize for my drawing of a butterfly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Is it a drawing book? Maybe a new pistol?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to talk about the drawing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“He’s coming to get us. He’s on his way. He’s wrong, Mother! They think he’s dead because he has left. He got my drawings. He’s coming for us!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It stayed there for years, second shelf of the medicine cabinet—milky-white bottle with the iconic line drawing of a sailing ship, a totem of our exotic visitor. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a small drawing of a black bird in front of a bridge and ocean waves, and a short string of numbers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at the paper a hundred times and practiced drawing the letters in the dirt with a stick, over and over again. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Syme had done earlier, Winston had taken up his spoon and was dabbling in the pale-colored gravy that dribbled across the table, drawing a long streak of it out into a pattern. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Patricia was two years below us but everyone was in awe of her drawing skills, and her stuff was always sought after at the Art Exchanges. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, she managed to hang on to the drawing and keep it in her locker. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The draft offices started drawing names out of a tumbler today,” Cymbeline said. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The air was cleaner in the drawing room, and there was much less noise. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after the French discovered similar paintings, partially obscured by millennia-old mineral deposits, that the Altamira drawings were pronounced authentic. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka broke into song at the end of each decade, uplifting Igbo songs that made Aunty Ifeoma sing in echoes, like an opera singer drawing the words from the pit of her stomach. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I open it and find pages filled with unicorn stickers and drawings. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sit in the Vista Lounge drawing while Callie looks out the window. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Looking up from my drawing, I watch all of them as they eat, talking about what Stella will do now, their words overflowing with love for her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I’d tried, even as a junior lawyer, to pay it forward, encouraging curiosity when I saw it, drawing younger people into important conversations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then below are periodicals, papers, and letters all jammed in together with drawings and rough sketches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Khadijah auntie walking up to me, leaning on her cane, drawing me into a one-armed hug. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Do you even know me at all? Have you looked at a single one of my drawings? Did you know there’s a girl I like? I’ll bet you didn’t.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Root drew a house of three stories with gables and a peaked roof, in red brick, buff sandstone, blue granite, and black slate; Burnham refined the drawings and guided construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mack enters my domain and picks up a drawing. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Who did those drawings? Who is playing this trick on me?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

All at once, he claps his hands and everyone stops drawing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He stopped drawing and looked up at Holly. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Emily ignored him, drawing the last of her milk through her straw with a series of loud slurps. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the artist fills a sketchbook with pieces of a person, and uses the drawings as a foundation for a finished painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He showed me another drawing across the page. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She walked into the drawing room and looked at the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

In an upper window of the house he could see a man drawing a bow on them and he pushed the boy’s head down and tried to cover him with his body. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I roll over on my side, my eyes landing on my own lung drawing, making me remember the drawing in her room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t like showing anyone my drawings—they’re almost like the private part of my thoughts—but Mrs. Newman is different. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She was expected in the kitchen on behalf of her mother, and Leon was waiting for her, she knew, in the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He made drawings of work he intended to do with iron or wood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stop drawing and look down at my pile of markers next to me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He uses some of his drawing techniques in his painting, too—dashes and strokes, working to find the painting style that he likes best. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was drawing up idioms in the list, visions of me in the whitest raw light, instant snapshots of the difficult truths native to our time together. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How the incoming waves create an undertow, drawing back the water from the shore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the drawings of the shark teeth, the rows and rows, just waiting in line to pop forward. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Primitive drawings marred the walls, some scored, others scrawled. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It came to me that Tommy’s drawings weren’t as fresh now. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler sucked in a breath and jerked the sword away as the man’s hand ran along the edge of the blade, drawing blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She stands on tiptoe next to me, drawing in a sharp gasp as she takes in the trail of red leading up to the door. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He imagines her puttering around the apartment, drawing a bath, pouring herself a glass of wine, her bags in the hallway. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I flip the page and start drawing it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I reached for the gun in reflex, nearly drawing it before it occurred to me that Grigori was not one meter tall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He gives me a pained, reproachful stare, drawing himself up into the proud, theatrical, poker-up-the-bum stance of a matador. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only known trace of the Norte Chico deities may be a drawing etched into the face of a gourd. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t have this copy of that drawing, either. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The sight of those drawings was like a knife to his heart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mo remained silent, pushing cake crumbs off the rough tabletop, drawing invisible patterns on the wood with his forefinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Some instinct is drawing them down the road.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure of its purpose until he lurched forward, drawing his restraints tight, and vomited into the mask. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Last week she had told them the story of Pilgrim’s Progress, drawing on every detail she could remember. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The judges passed around a bowl for drawing out numbers, and as the team captain, I took a slip. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

People came by, tilted their heads at her drawings, and Ivy held her breath while they inspected all the little bits of her heart. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He recently did some drawings set near there, he tells Theo, and he’s the same person he was then. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She put them in a paper bag and crept back into the drawing room when the lights were suddenly switched on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The freeway billboard has a drawing of Mack in his clown clothes and Stella on her hind legs and an angry animal with fierce eyes and unkempt hair. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Angela apologized and started to leave, but Mrs. Castro begged her to keep drawing. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The match against Ravenclaw was drawing nearer and nearer, but Harry still hadn’t ordered a new broom. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Stand aside,” said Riddle, drawing out his wand. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I lie back down on my bed, holding the drawing to my chest and closing my eyes tightly. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I spend a lot of time in my room drawing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s too much in love with himself, always drawing pictures of his own face. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was filthy and sweaty—from the exercise or the blank drawing time? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Some were photographs—Momly always went nuts with pictures, and Uncle Tony always went nuts with camera filters, and together they had the nerve to get cell phone pictures printed—and some were drawings. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she was just so focused on whatever she was drawing that she didn’t notice Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He is preparing to take his registration exam, the two-day ordeal that will enable him to become a licensed architect, to stamp drawings and design things under his own name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s also making sketches in pencil, and drawings in pen and ink. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When I look up front, nobody’s there but two kids drawing on the board. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Clipped to one corner of the drawing was a small square of paper. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Step by step it has been going on for a quarter of a century, drawing on even earlier work for some of its foundation stones. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He’ll draw more. He’ll make new drawings at your new home,” he said, trying to make me feel better, but for some reason I felt like I had been stabbed in the heart. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I rip out the drawings I have made, intending to crumple them up, but he puts his hand quickly on mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe he cared about her drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m happy because I get my drawing just right. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just Ned’s drawing of home, a place he wanted to remember. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had been writing down everything and had already filled several pages with descriptions and drawings. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Somewhere up there, Tris’s voice pierced the simulation I was under, and I felt her hand on my chest, drawing me back to reality. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Peaches was getting loud, flashing proud and drawing a crowd. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he pledged himself to art, Vincent has gone back and forth between drawing and painting, learning about one from the other. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Cane chairs had been arranged in rows, drawing boards on each seat, a crate between every two chairs with a big jar of clear water and several ripped-up pieces of old toweling on top. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If you do a drawing of the tornado, will you show me? Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And if Kate and Constance were drawing no such unpleasant attention themselves, it was only because they were having a terrible time with the quizzes, which was even more discouraging. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She saved their drawings, helped with homework, offered advice, and shared funny poems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I imagined Ambrose drawing on his own body’s heat, concentrating as the chill slowly worked into his arms and legs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m sending the others. The paintings and drawings of our town.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Powell said that you were up here drawing and that you were pretty good. So I came up to see if you were.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

During class, I couldn’t help but sneak looks at Dorothy at her desk while she worked on a drawing of frog intestines. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“At the photography studio. The best drawing will be on the cover of the book.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Outside the plate glass the world in the mist had become a pencil drawing executed in a dozen different grays with, here and there, a smudge of electric red or pure white. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

While the biologists continued to take measurements, I made a simple line drawing from nose to tail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But inevitably the time was drawing nearer when the disappearance of the animals must be uncovered, the hue and cry begin, and every glimpse or smallest piece of evidence be of value. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been printed to be the exact same dimensions as the actual wall drawing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But then there was that poem she’d looked at without June’s permission, and all the photographs June was taking, and her glass girl drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Take it. You must,” and he thrust it at Amil and swatted his drawing hand. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Amari gave me back the recorder and started putting his drawing pad and pens back into his knapsack. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe he hadn’t been just asking to see her drawings the other day. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I slipped inside my house and breathed deeply, drawing the warm, peppery aroma of Mama’s chicken casserole into my lungs. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

All the while Aycliffe was drawing closer, his face filled with hate. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And drawing Michael and Jane and Mary Poppins after her, she led the way through the shop and out by the spinning door. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

‘No,’ he kept saying, drawing the three of them into an embrace. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I did so the door in the large drawing room that led to the stone passage and the back premises opened, and I heard voices. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, I lift my head to see what Eden's drawing now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

No smudges or spots that would mar the drawing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Eight months after Pa’s birthday drawing, it is a rainy, grey autumn day, October 1, 1864. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When it’s done, I stick the picture on the fridge next to the old crayon drawings of Dad, Gran, and the goldens. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Amil sat on his bed drawing pictures in the air, humming softly to himself. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One of the cooks rang the bell, drawing the lesson to a close. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ultima’s owl gave the warning that the time of peace on our hill was drawing to an end. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you say so?” she whispered, drawing back her face to look at him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at the flyer, which had a cheesy drawing of a giant smiling egg, with location and cash prize details underneath. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

These audition studios are a series of corners, hallways connecting to hallways, like an Escher drawing, a staircase becoming an upside-down door. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

At the desk, I flipped through the drawings, looking at all the sketches of shark parts—fins, teeth, and vertebrae. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The lead was soft and good for drawing. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They relaxed in her presence, brought her crayon drawings or flowers they had picked from their mothers’ gardens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy reached inside her locker and unclipped the typed note from her drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He told me about his airplane,” said Andrius, pointing over my shoulder to the drawing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The endpapers are covered in an exquisitely detailed drawing of a tree covered in symbols and markings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She began a charcoal drawing of the fields, rolling like the sea rolled. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I returned to our shack and hid the pen and drawing in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But on the side where the fortune would go, there was just a line drawing of a rose—otherwise, it was totally blank. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Rewrite my will with a clause about my bequeathing the drawing to them. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the 1850s, the canal and the railroads were drawing a throng of new businesses to Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As though time has slowed, I bring my knees up to my chest and open my hands, drawing the splendor to me like an instinct. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She’s placed Carlos’s drawing of me next to her and Grandpa’s wedding picture. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

It was me, crouched beside the carcass, drawing on my sketch pad. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked at what she was drawing for the first time. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was a set of diagram drawings of the inside mechanism of a gasoline pump—approximately identical to the ones at Mr. Klein’s store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their colors and patterns make me wonder why I haven’t been drawing butterflies. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

All those drawings in Sean’s sketchbook flipped through her head, and her cheeks went hot. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Snowball used as his study a shed which had once been used for incubators and had a smooth wooden floor, suitable for drawing on. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The circus has arrived near London, the train creeping in just after nightfall without drawing any notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As she looked at all her stormy treehouse drawings, all those pictures with her tucked away inside with some nameless girl, she noticed something else. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But all she saw was that infuriating drawing of her family she had stuffed into her pillowcase last night before the tornado hit. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I left her on the pier, tracing her finger across the rail as if drawing a battle plan. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I finish, I leave the drawing on her bed, and then go look for Jude. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The drawing was of what seemed to be an ordinary man, with a swath of thick black hair. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So I leave Chicago out, because it is off the line, out of drawing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph tried to focus on the drawing of the angel and on Leo. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the brush drawings it looks like the ideograph for “human,” two black wings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last drawing was something she hadn’t seen before, something very different from everything else in the book. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The original illustration, a line drawing of five dancing men, was done by the late artist Keith Haring. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to mark the ones where we know the Gamemakers’ weapon follows us out past the jungle, so we’ll stay clear of those,” says Peeta, drawing diagonal lines on the fog and wave beaches. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tells his brother that if he can go on drawing, he will recover. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She walked down the hallway, then turned into the drawing room, steady step by steady step, pretending that she could not feel the other mother’s blank black eyes on her back. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She continued clutching the drawing to her chest and rocking it back and forth. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the page on our lesson in business correspondence, and began to work on an elaborate pencil drawing of Noah’s ark. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I sat there, I found it impossible to escape the sensation that something dangerous was drawing in upon to us. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘There!’ he cried after a moment, drawing his hand across his brow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stop drawing, looking for a sign about what the TV picture means. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The two other flyers just had little drawings. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Of course!" the man retorted, drawing his sword. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A woman appeared on the balcony, drawing a woolly pink robe about her. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he's “walked the earth for 30 years,” he wants to “leave a certain souvenir in the form of drawings or paintings in gratitude.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And I kept drawing cartoons of the things that made me angry. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t see Taylor anywhere, and she was afraid of drawing too much attention. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Across the table, Jude’s talking to Mom and at the same time sending me secret silent death threats because she thinks my drawings came out better than hers and we’re having a contest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then, herding close together, they had returned to the drawing room—to sit there—sit, watching each other. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Her drawings didn’t embarrass her; they confused her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed, I slide my drawings underneath my blank writing assignment. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

After the math, I did the drawings again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The farrier went through detailed drawings of what had happened. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She laid out the drawings on a few desks and told her teacher how she wanted them displayed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He spent several months devoting himself to his campaign, drawing on the support of the Conservative Party, as well as his own fortune, which he placed at the disposal of the cause. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy descended slowly, the lantern light shakily drawing the station from shadow. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The bell-shaped yellow fruits hung lazily, drawing buzzing bees that bumped against my window’s netting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boy leaned against a lavatory and began drawing on the back of his hands with a ballpoint pen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And an old witch in the tower, and a dragon in the drawing room.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I also had drawings of the nozzles and casements and how they worked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One by one they walked to the front of the room, unrolled their drawings, and displayed them upon the wall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are three people in the tattoo place: the other tattoo artist, who is drawing a lion on another man’s arm, and Tori, who is sorting through a stack of paper on the counter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She stood and crossed the room, drawing the gauzy curtains shut. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Obviously, the boundary between Congo and Angola is nothing but a line on a map—the Belgians and Portuguese drawing their lots. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital went about its business without involving the prisoner in the elegant drawing room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They formed a whole, I among them; each felt it, and it was a refuge and true comfort in the night, that wholeness of the huddled group each drawing life from the others. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at my drawing, trying to collect my thoughts. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Werner’s cot in the attic, the wall above it papered over with her drawings of imaginary cities. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His drawings are studies for paintings, studies after paintings, and also just drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“S-S-S-S-S-H-H-H-H-H-H-H,” he cautioned, putting his finger up to his lips and drawing Milo closer. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Papa, telling me to be careful with my drawing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She took her hand from the phone and massaged her forehead—no trace of the beast migraine, and thank God for that—and went toward the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I look at my pad and pretend to sketch, but my drawing of the garden is complete. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A drawing by Frederic B. Schell depicting a crowd of people in the main building on opening day of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They both stood there for a minute, staring at the drawing. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It's not much fun just drawing with Mr. Powell.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He kept trying to put his near-side front paw to the ground and then drawing it up again, hopping on three legs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pushed the door open, and the five of them stood there, expecting to see a huge mess, ripped-up drawings, chaos. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

My knife is in my hands, though I don't remember drawing it, and I hold it to the throat of the hooded man beside me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He would like to show his drawings to his dad, but he didn’t dare. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing was right—not her friends, not her crush, not her drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was as if she was drawing the air toward her; Kaede could feel the currents in the room bending to her will. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She runs off but looks back to make sure I’m drawing. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I entered all of the text and the drawings myself. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Vivi, thankfully, is lying on her bed, writing a letter in green ink with drawings of hearts and stars and faces in the margins. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d used a drawing compass to outline them, so they looked more like happy polka dots than like eggs—but they were perfect if you asked me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Suppose I told you, Luke, that I would meet you clandestinely in the second-best drawing room—how would you ever know where to find me?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only instead of words like “cup” and “teaspoon” and “lettuce” and “chicken,” there was drawings. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was afraid he might buy one place and then see another he liked better, and all the time the Sanchez place was drawing him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After two strong gin cocktails in the drawing room with Leon and his sister, Marshall had come upstairs to find his room, unpack and change for dinner. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As for Aravis, Shasta did not even dare to look at her for fear of drawing attention. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He likes to paste lots of paper scraps together with flour and water to make a bigger drawing space. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At the last minute he registers for a drawing class in the evenings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a pen-and-ink drawing on page eleven by her father, an illustrator for the magazine: a view of the North Calcutta skyline sketched from the roof of their flat one foggy January morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun rose higher as the morning went on, drawing heat from every crevice of the city’s roads and buildings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There were places you didn’t want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the mess, she saw the drawing of Greenleigh she’d made the other night, June seemed to be using it as an example. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he returned, drawing a long breath, “I hope so.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Then we shall make our own way,” Taran shouted, drawing his sword. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But with the summer drawing to an end, with Tommy getting stronger, and the possibility of notice for his fourth donation growing ever more distinct, we knew we couldn’t keep putting things off indefinitely. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy had loved drawing that picture of June and giving it to her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We came to our English class yesterday and found our poems and drawings gone from the wall. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large bird began a song, drawing my eyes to the throbbing of its bright blue, red and yellow throat. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father sits in an armchair in the evenings with a board across the arms of the chair and the drawings on the board, going through them with a red pencil. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next piece of paper was another drawing, a close- up of the prow of the ship, which read Kraken. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me—do you think his head worth drawing? Is he a friend of Mr. Pontellier’s? You never said you knew him.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

They exchange presents: she gives him a small used book of drawings by Goya, and he gives her a pair of blue woolen mittens and a mixed tape of his favorite Beatles songs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The most delicious vision these eyes ever beheld,” Valentine liked to tell the new arrivals, drawing out delicious as if ladling hot caramel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t stop thinking about June, how Ivy just started drawing her face like it was a habit or something. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Well... yeah,” Joey said, “but remember, there can be headlines and drawings and pictures and dingbats— they all take up space, too.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He simply found himself drawing out the chain and taking the Ring in his hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Goober asked, drawing him away from the others. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No sculpture, no carving or bas-relief, almost no painting or drawing—the interiors are completely bare. What we do see are these huge mounds—and textiles.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She looked back at the girls in her drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She sits in bed, embroidering a pillowcase with a drawing of Cinderella wearing a ballroom gown. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were numerous pictures—drawings, prints, a watercolor painting or two—all of high quality, as far as Hannah could judge. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When I turned in the drawings based on my scientific calculations to Mr. Ferro, he studied them, asked a few questions, and then called in Mr. Caton to do the work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I could tell you were drawing them in, especially when you said that thing about Dracula representing the untrustworthy foreigner who came to England to plunder and pillage.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, making a real machine from a drawing is not straightforward. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After playing some Italian songs, Miss Bingley varied the charm by a lively Scotch air; and soon afterwards Mr. Darcy, drawing near Elizabeth, said to her— Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I felt the sharp chill of the fog around my lower legs and there was fire all around me as I ran, coughing and drawing in more bad air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m drawing too much attention to myself, and Blackcliff is the worst place to do so. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They had reshaped his eyes, cutting them narrower against the light, and altered the line of his brow, drawing it forward and knitting it between his black eyebrows in a single furrow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers over the writing utensils, longing to use them for my own drawings. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t write back, but I drew Gat silly crayon drawings of the two of us. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“No, no,” she said, drawing the mirror back. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He refuses to look at my drawings, and now that my gut has gone silent, he refuses to take guidance from it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He’d given her his drawings, he had eaten her food as if he had been taking Communion, he’d trembled when she kissed him, but he had never said it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Sierra dropped to one knee and touched her right hand to Robbie’s drawing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the end, I decided the most prudent moment in the day would be as I served afternoon tea in the drawing room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were covered in drawings, which wasn’t unusual for her, but these symbols I recognized: Greek letters, pictures from camp beads, sketches of monsters and faces of gods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I walk down the stairs, drawing my hand lightly along a railing to avoid slivers, and walk out to the end of the pier. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I need to leave without drawing attention to myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d brought a big drawing pad and asked me to describe the creature again, and as I did he sketched it, stopping occasionally to ask for clarifications. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Coraline walked over to the door at the far corner of the drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I would take him tea in the drawing room and, well ... The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But there was something happening between Dante and his drawing pad that made me feel invisible. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Bouquets of flowers and a dish of tangerines flanked the drawing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Just think about that. Just think about me bringing you your drawings. Picture it, because I’ll be there.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

To the left of the shark drawing, the first raindrop hit the page. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ellidyr, drawing his mended cloak about him, stalked from the chamber without a word. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

And the third floor is drawing and painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As Thomas sat down, Minho grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil and started drawing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Running backward, making applesauce, doing jumping jacks, gargling, blowing bubbles, slicing garlic, making a house out of playing cards, stringing popcorn, organizing furniture, drawing mazes, and making pinatas.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of rallies were staged in North Carolina during the 1960s, drawing as few as 100 to as many as 3,000 curious and generally appreciative participants. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

From being ordered often to bring some particular scroll to Pai, he had become superficially familiar with these drawings, which at first had looked like meaningless bird tracks to him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Amil will draw those boys looking mean and monster-like and leave the drawings on the ground for people to step on. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At lunch later that day the girl was crying with her friends as she showed them the drawing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And next time he wouldn’t wait until the precise strike of dawn before drawing her close. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her fingers moved over the tiles, drawing deep resonant sounds from within the big box, and she began to sing in a high, sweet voice. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just because line is discussed with drawing, however, does not mean that it is not equally important in painting and sculpture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air still feels rich in my lungs, though summer is drawing to a close. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had a rich voice, and being from Alabama, he had a soft way of drawing out his vowels when he sang. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“This is serious. The Soviets could arrest you if they saw your drawing.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The little professor stands at the chalkboard drawing a wiring schematic for a simple Morse-code practice circuit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Occupation authorities will want to know that a stranger is pacing off distances and making drawings of houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He can paint in oil, since his expenses are reduced by living at home, but he also keeps drawing—in pencil, black chalk, and colored ink—and uses watercolor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Marco pauses, looking down at the sketch, annoyed that he could not properly capture the beauty of the thing in hastily rendered drawings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

June waved a hand over the drawings on the porch. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not knowing what to say, I didn’t reply, but kept studying the drawings. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mercury had long been the jinx world of the System, but this was drawing it rather strong—even for a jinx. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He’s standing near his locker, hiding a pack of cigarettes in between a folder covered in black Sharpie drawings and an English textbook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I look closer, I realize that he's drawing soldiers breaking into our home. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She paused in the entrance to the drawing room and observed that the chocolate-smeared cocktail glasses had yet to be cleared away, and that the doors into the garden still stood open. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Say it,” he cried, his dagger drawing closer. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Printed on the little square of paper were drawings of emergency hand signals for communicating with aircraft from the ground. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, Penelope did become very adept at drawing squirrels. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We usually included one drawing of each animal in the field guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Just before we were to reboard the bus, I wandered into the large drawing room dominated by a Hals and a Rubens. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I had, naturally, been called to the drawing room several times already that night to replenish refreshments, and had observed on these occasions the gentlemen deep in conversation over weighty issues. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviet army was drawing closer, and the Germans were throwing their energy into covering their tracks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The drawing room which had transfixed Cecilia that morning with its parallelograms of light was now in gloom, lit by a single lamp near the fireplace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tears fill my eyes as I stare at the drawing, and I brush them away with my arm, knowing that for once, I’m doing the absolute right thing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The house's got four windows and a chimney, same as a little kid's drawing of a house. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She dragged one hand free and wiped them away, drawing a ragged breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He returned to shallow tentative breaths, drawing air past his lips as if he were sipping from a straw. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As he pockets the power-up and turns away, I edge my way closer without drawing the attention of the security bots. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Well, as to that," Desmond replied, drawing his long- sword, "wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Johnny took his seat and Cilia put down the slate she had been drawing on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the good parlor, where I’ll serve the tea. The drawing room is upstairs. We’ll clean up there later. Open them windows.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had studied the drawings in his father’s notebook closely and had made great progress. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She waited for the blood to coagulate, and then she pressed the Band-Aid over the cut, drawing the sides of the cut together to seal the wound. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will need to continue the kind of exercises we have done today, drawing small amounts of the splendor in and through your body,” said Badwa. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My drawing stick rolled away, propelled by the wind and rain. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With the doorknob jammed against the small of my back, I watch Joon return to his drawing, his neck so tense and tight the back of his head touches his shoulders. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The commotion had a way of drawing in the rest of the neighborhood. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He feels ill at ease with the praise, just as he had when he was a child and destroyed his drawing of the cat, the clay figure of the elephant. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“No fighting. No drawing weapons. And don’t make any comments about the boss’s appearance.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Glass bowls of red berries were set on small tables in the drawing room, library, and the front parlor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the anthem, they show President Snow drawing the envelope for the second Quarter Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my palest-yellow pencil and add a dot to my drawing, gleaming in a window. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Death Eaters, for sure,” said Ron, as he, Harry, and Hermione watched from the drawing room windows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I scribbled the numbers beside my drawing of the dorsal fin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Four days later he again prodded Hunt: “The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I saw maps and drawings, pictures from magazines and newspapers and the Internet, pictures I’d taken with Grandpa’s camera. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my mind on the demonstration, but something began to paw the inside of my drawing arm. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It looks so flat, a cheap, cruddy drawing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was drawing his fingers along threads in the air, rolling them between his fingertips. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I notice we are drawing the attention of a few people in the hall. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But until I saw Amari’s drawing, I hadn’t really thought about my hair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I keep asking questions, about any physical detail I can think of, mentally drawing a girl in my head. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She continued down the frozen, silent hallways, crossing the three wings of the house, until she came to the drawing room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is worse, so much worse, than them seeing some stupid drawings. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It’s like I haven’t even drawn or painted anything until she sees it, like it’s all invisible until she gets that look on her face and says, “You’re remaking the world, Noah. Drawing by drawing.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Printmakers must usually copy onto the plate a composition that was first worked out in a drawing, whether their own or someone else’s. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Walters tilts his head like he doesn’t Get It but I don’t want to explain right now because I’m busy drawing. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all sat in silence, staring at the drawing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few people shake their heads stiffly, begging me with their eyes to stop drawing attention to their vicinity. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a cook wagon in the middle of the field, something I’ve only seen from drawings about Western life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Rachel, with a ghost of the charm she must once have possessed, succeeded in drawing William, if not actually into the circle, at least to its warm circumference. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

So, starting tomorrow, it’s back to the drawing board. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She carefully rips the naked English guy out of my sketchbook, thankfully not noticing the drawing beneath it, and carries him with her over to the bed and sits down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Between them, they lifted up the woman and carried her into the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The teacher stared at the drawing, and then gave Hazel a searching look. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Given the photo of the board members on the synagogue’s anniversary pamphlet I’d obtained, I doubted if half the old geezers on the board were still drawing air. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he hates writing anything down, except for his drawings. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The tomb drawing clung in his mind, and so did Heqet’s idea that there was some thieves’ plan connected with that little room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of pictures, drawings of the things that made Ivy happy, self-portraits, all the colors of her world, all the things that made her feel like her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I chewed my lip and stared at her daughter, who had brought me a drawing, wondering what education she could hope to receive from a mother who had none herself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On Amherst Street, Gogol sits at his grandfather’s drawing table, poking through a tin full of dried-out nibs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The design was simple, the word “Jude” at the top and “Vermin” at the bottom, a detailed drawing of what must have been a flea in between. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A drawing showing horse saddles and harnesses used during the Civil War. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy had spent the rest of the afternoon doing the only thing that made her feel better: drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m propped on my bed drawing Brian, who’s a few feet away at my desk watching a meteor shower on some astronomy site he’s addicted to. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I stare at the drawing I did earlier of myself as the Grim Reaper, the blade of my scythe reading “LOVE.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The mother bustled about, putting the porridge into a bowl for all to dip into and drawing a bench up to the table. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But most of all were the drawings and paintings and carvings of eyes, big and small, all over the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, her drawing pad was ripped to pieces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She watched him pause, unfold the bird, and stare at the drawings she had done. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“When I’m drawing a picture, I feel…quiet inside.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Pinned with thumbtacks in a circle, all those stormy treehouse drawings surrounding one strong, smiling girl. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She turned and hurried into the drawing room and pulled open the door in the corner. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Ma gave him her drawing manuals and encouraged him to learn from them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Emily Brent came out of the drawing room window to meet them. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I kinda like drawing my own comics,” he said, his voice lower than before. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He saw them push her out and take her at gunpoint to the drawing room, where they ordered her to stand beside him and not move. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words from commercials, conversations, and books run between my doodles and across the backs of my drawings. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy had never put her drawings on display before, especially since all the things she’d wanted to draw for the past year weren’t things she could show anyone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Robbie was a tall Haitian kid with long locks who had shown up midyear with a goofy grin and wild drawings covering every surface of his clothes, his backpack, his desk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I designed for both of them literally dozens of insulting, sub-normal, but quite constructive, drawing exercises. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Why, today! Madame is here now, waiting in the drawing room. And the tailor is here, too, to measure the boys, although boys’ clothes are so much less interesting than girls’. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It looked like a comic drawing of a young Indian boy in an embroidered kurta, holding something—a sword?—above his head. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had been drawing a picture and Rab was telling her what to draw. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They communicated for one whole day using nothing but drawings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She took hold of it and pulled it, drawing Palmer closer until his face was inches from hers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was drawing with felt pens at her own little table in the corner, where her paintings were taped up next to the refrigerator. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is going on here? Where did these drawings come from?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I quickly pull my backpack closer to me and start drawing a cloud in the window’s condensation. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of my drawings, lifelike and full of pain, sitting in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Hugo, gather up these drawings and lock them in the armoire.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I kept a journal on our explorations and made drawings to illustrate our findings. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When I returned downstairs, I discovered Mr Cardinal moving rather restlessly around the drawing room examining objects he must long ago have become familiar with. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I make a drawing of the inside of the frog, with all its curlicues and bulbs, its tiny lungs, its cold-blooded amphibian heart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The quadroon sat for hours before Edna’s palette, patient as a savage, while the housemaid took charge of the children, and the drawing room went undusted. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The queen wants him, old man, not that it's your concern," the officer said, drawing a ribbon from his belt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The German countess then began to speak, but I was at this point, for some reason I do not recollect, obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

So North probably saw not a working model, or even a maquette, but a drawing—hence his insistence that he had only seen it in model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He imagined the Romans drawing up battle lines right now, encircling Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the original drawing, it said, “Illiterate’s Entrance”, so I changed it. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

One of the apprentices stood there drawing wire, his shoulder muscles bunched with the effort of pulling a greased, reed-slim ingot through a hole just too small for it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

To support this credo, he submitted a goodly number of original drawings and oil paintings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes that happened, like when she was helping Leo with the ship’s machinery or drawing architectural plans on the computer. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And on the inside, it was full of all the best drawings that Calista had taught me how to do—superheroes and unicorns and donuts and all my favorite stuff to draw. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I cupped her hand in both of mine, drawing comfort from the warm softness of her fingers between mine. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A thousand Charlies are drawing something in the steam on the window. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bill Gates, who started off squarely in the upper middle class, made a fortune without finishing college, drawing three aces. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The last card I made, the one with a drawing of a girl’s hand raised in a “hi” wave. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking closer can wake something feeacrtifuL Sometimes I can change how I feel about something by drawing it. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy thought about how she first started drawing, how the shapes and shades sort of fell out of her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He excelled, however, at drawing and sketched constantly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a small drawing of a black bird in front of a bridge and ocean waves, and a short string of numbers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were so beautiful, and some-times just being close to them made her feel stronger, braver, as if somehow she were drawing strength from the stone dragons locked inside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m drawing a pigeon wedding in my sketchbook. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hurried to the living room and curled up on the couch, drawing my blanket tightly around me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And then we see an artist outside a bookstore doing a live drawing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They pass around donation envelopes adorned with a drawing of a freight train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In between are drawings and postcards that have pleased me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like the moon when it’s a thin crescent and looks like a cartoon drawing of a closed eye, as if the sky were winking. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting quietly at Table Six with Bob English Who Draws, who is drawing. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Instead he gives Van Rappard a pile of woodcuts and a drawing—still another version of Sorrow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like video games; that’s just what he thinks. I’m sitting in my room reading and drawing.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Books of drawings produced in the early modern period are mainly intended to advertise an engineer’s skills, not to provide you with the information you would need to do the job yourself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A swirling wind gusted, drawing a high shivery scream from the cracks in the Wailing Tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“He could blend easily into any group without drawing undue attention to himself, a valuable characteristic for a spy.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wondered aloud to Hamlet The masks made it possible for us to speak without drawing the attention of others. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Every day I feel myself maturing, I feel liberation drawing near, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Reaching out, I gently trace Will’s lungs, like I do with Abby’s drawing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

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

As I swiveled around, the ground liquefied beneath me, drawing me into darkness deeper than the sea. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After a while, I noticed that some of the creatures started reappearing, which made drawing them easier. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They seemed to linger on the field, drawing out their notes, waiting. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The mechanical man hadn’t been writing ... it was drawing! The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“The circles keep expanding,” adds Michael, picking up another marker, writing and drawing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were long lines of figures, added, divided, and subtracted, and little drawings. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But they move the harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues from Arles and hang the baby’s almond tree in the most prominent place in their flat, above the piano in the drawing room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Their brows shiny with perspiration, the evangelists sat speechless as Limela unleashed his blasphemous tirade, drawing parallel after parallel between Christianity and witchcraft. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t keep drawing your own spirit. It might not kill you,” he said, because spirit wasn’t like blood, and somehow people went on living without it, if you could call it living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You’re so good at drawing. You could draw something and we could frame it.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“For sure,” Mapper said, narrowing his eyes at the drawing as if a master attack plan would materialize if he just squinted it into existence. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They should always share their opinions about the paintings and drawings they see, he writes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This new video appeared to be made up of notebook paper drawings that got crumpled and uncrumpled, over and over. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After prayers, after lights-out, Jutta sneaks up to her brother’s dormer; instead of drawing together, they lie hip to hip listening till midnight, till one, till two. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wrote to her regularly and Rosa sometimes replied, sending him lines of poetry and drawings of flowers she had copied out on sheets of parchment paper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Riley escorted me to the principal’s office, and I spread the drawings and equations out on his desk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at America now,” I say, pointing at Ben’s drawing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ship was drawing closer, growing larger and larger in the mist like a shadow at dusk. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The quiet made her mind fuzzy with worry, but she kept drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I checked everywhere: under the chairs, around the lectern I’d stood behind while delivering my eulogy, under the treat table, on the bulletin board packed with Sunday school kids’ drawings of God’s love. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Sure thing," Barrelhouse said, reaching for a glass and drawing a beer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish he wasn’t drawing attention to me—I wish he could ignore my awkwardness the way Emery used to. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I only have a minute left now, so I quickly pull off the caps on the markers and start drawing a rainbow on my jeans. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Cautiously they crept along it until they reached the drawing room door, which was ajar. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I went into Amil’s stacks of drawings that he keeps in the corner of our room and tried to find it, but I couldn’t. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He says her full name, drawing it out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I explained that I wanted to get the drawings just right, but I thought it might help to understand the shark inside and out. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And the catch in her voice when I showed her my drawing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It had rained during the night, a gentle and safe sprinkle that Ivy let lull her to sleep after she’d stayed awake for hours drawing, and now the pavement shined like polished silver. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A woman was drawing water from the well, and Gage the cook stood in the door of the kitchens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Will you stop it!” she cried on the third evening of Kreacher’s absence, as all light was sucked from the drawing room yet again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

While she sat in the drawing room, feeling her tiredness at last, but unwilling to go to bed, her mother was questioned, then Leon and Paul Marshall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Emma went down to the drawing room for tea as usual. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them came to look at Snowball’s drawings at least once a day. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Seeing him in school instead of in custody means it’s time to go back to the drawing board. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She has spent half the exam time drawing surreptitious cartoons of various teachers in the school, which she shows to me on the way home, laughing her exaggerated laugh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The artist was discovered at the bottom of the yard drawing the nursemaid Milagros's boy with a brown and a gold and a purple crayon. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Frodo and his companions huddled round the fire, wrapped in every garment and blanket they possessed; but Strider was content with a single cloak, and sat a little apart, drawing thoughtfully at his pipe. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s not that he never gets sick, or has a deathly fear of needles, but I think some part of him thinks that drawing attention to an issue makes it worse. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He stopped to catch his breath, drawing a grimy hand across his face. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Because a lotta people draw. If you go to art school, you will find a whole teeming buttload of drawing dudes.’ Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now he was drawing near the bridge below, and Frodo’s staring eyes followed him, unable to wink or to withdraw. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I sat on a hunk of granite and put the sketch pad on my lap, opening to a drawing of the great white shark, with its pointy teeth and charcoal-black throat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But Seabiscuit was a fail-safe moneymaker, drawing record crowds and wagering virtually everywhere he showed his face. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To understand how syntax works, it helps to visualize the ordering of strings-within-strings by drawing them at the ends of the branches of an upside-down tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What did you think of it?” she asks Gogol, drawing him without warning into the discussion. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wound up with eleven fellows from Kent sleeping three to a bedchamber and using the second-floor drawing room as their common area for dining and conversating. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see him drawing plans for his next octagonal addition or a crazy idea for how to make his own solar panels. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s drawing something colorful on her tablet with a blue stylus. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She raised her left hand and waited a beat, and just as the shadow reached her, she smacked her drawing with her right hand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I remember how Jude gave up the sun and stars and oceans for my drawing of him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they created drawings and stencils first, or if they just grabbed their cans of spray paint and improvised. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As a bonus, Hooke filled a space at the end of the book with drawings based on some of his astronomical observations. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And, there, I tug my shirt aside to reveal my shoulder, and I start drawing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Plus, a minute ago, June had looked so sad that she wasn’t good at anything, and now she looked so excited about drawing that Ivy couldn’t say no. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said Henry, drawing a line on the map with a pencil. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each day when the door was open to light, I would add more detail and identifying clues that Papa would recognize—our birthdays, a drawing of a vilkas—a wolf. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the papers were just drawings, but the journal was what interested Ivy the most. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I worked on the drawing for a while, until my hand started to cramp up, which is just one of those things that happen when you work with pencil. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I promised to contribute a water-colour drawing: this put her at once into good humour. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So what he did was he took a pencil and one of those steel compass things, and he started drawing circles onto a piece of paper. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Little Raphael,” as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to make time pass by drawing an elephant in one stroke, the way Jalil had shown her, over and over. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And I started on another drawing of Donut Man, with his arms reaching high up into the sky. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had tidy columns with block letter headings and drawings on nearly every page. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On its cover was a drawing of an anthropophagous Negro; above the drawing was printed The Black Plague. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She’d pinned her drawings and old photos of New Orleans on the walls, but that only made her homesickness worse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My mother, who watches the lottery drawing every night on channel 11 without ever having played the numbers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I feel so guilty. My freedom cost her family their lives. The drawing you found in my suitcase. It was from Lina. She was so talented and was just about to start art school.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“More tea, I think,” said Dumbledore, closing the door behind Harry, Ron, and Hermione, drawing out his wand, and twiddling it; a revolving tea tray appeared in midair along with a plate of cakes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mama wants to keep every single thing: baby clothes, our drawings from kindergarten, our cheap Barbie doll knockoffs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the course of clearing the dining room, and also in preparing the drawing room for the arrival of the evening's visitors, I was obliged to walk repeatedly past the smoking- room doors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was drawing out the inevitable, a predator playing with his meal before eating it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After I completed my engineering drawing of the nozzle, there was nothing to do but to go up to the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Goodness,” he said, when she had finished talking, drawing back in mock surprise. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like most saints, he made his living by copying manuscripts and drawing pictures for them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also sends him a drawing of a Zouave, a French soldier, which amazes Bernard. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On Monday, James Russell was counting my squat thrusts for the Presidential Physical Fitness chart when he said, “I hear you’ve been drawing birds at the library.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a piece of paper with a simple pen drawing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was drawing of me crying over Khalil, and I had devil horns. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He covered more of the paper with his arm and kept on drawing. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The outlaw threw down his bow and sat cross-legged on the ground, drawing Maid Marian to sit beside him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at this,” Mr. Loomis said, pointing to one of the drawings. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There are no confirmed sketches from Maria’s early years, but this 1669 pen-and-ink drawing is often attributed to her. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was the perfect drawing to help her forget about how horrible her birthday had been so far. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You should’ve worn my clothes,” Frankie muttered under his breath, drawing a small manila card from his evening coat’s breast pocket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He stood on the dock for a long time, gazing at the lake, oblivious to the rain, thoughts assembling themselves, connecting with other thoughts and drawing together in new ways. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The silversmith was busy drawing a political cartoon concerning tea and tyranny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we could just have a drawing once a week. Yes, we’ll have one every Saturday! Whoever gets drawn, we’ll teach him to drive. Man or boy.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Tyson was drawing a map in the sand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Gray’s Anatomy was open by a folio pad of his own drawings. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was drawing breath in sharp, painful gasps, running at a crouch.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The two children played for quite a while, climbing trees and drawing in the dirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Did June just see a pretty drawing of herself? Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hollister clamped his mouth shut and focused on writing the address, drawing a long inhale of breath through his nose. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When we finally pulled apart, panting, he smiled down at me, his hand drawing a strand of hair off my face. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had set himself the task of drawing and committing to memory the bones of the hand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hours swim together—Camila and Mya leaving, Barb and Julie coming and going—but I keep drawing, wanting every little detail to be remembered forever. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She drew away and laid the shoulder bag on her dressing table before following Mrs. Coulter back to the drawing room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the semester was drawing to a close. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The evening was now drawing close, and well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then imprisoned there, would take new freedom and could in any of many forms elude all pursuit. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I flipped my sketch pad back to the drawings I’d made the night we saw the shark hanging from the winch. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But preferably not, I need it for drawing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had a hungry mind, an itchy curiosity, and a knack for drawing, building, and fashioning. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the drawing room, the air was thick with tobacco smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next couple of years, Charles had the drawing room made bigger and added a kitchen wing so there would be more room for the growing number of servants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the Cossacks broke free of the circle and ran to the center, drawing their swords. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where we’re going. I don’t want them to be destroyed. There’s so much of me, of all of us, in these drawings. Can you find a safe place for them?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Harry knew that the people in the drawing room were listening for more noises from the cellar. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She squeezed her eyes shut, hoping that when she opened them again, she’d be in her bed, drawing secret pictures that scared her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was decorated with drawings of people halfway through transforming into other people. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Next to us on the bench, Calista looked up to see Darren too, but she didn’t say anything about him, just went back to drawing in her sketchbook. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the boudoir and the drawing room, the parlor and the conservatory, the doors and windows were closed, the draperies pulled together, and the darkness back again. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet you could come up with some amazing drawings.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Fair enough,” he said, picking through the racks before drawing out a bottle and holding it up to a lamp, peering through it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My drawing takes shape under my hand: lemon for the stars, cream for the moon, pine for the trees along the fence, charcoal gray for the darkened windows, all but one. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the back of the stall, there came a tentative sound of nostrils drawing the air, weighing the scent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His art is actually good—clearly he’s got mad drawing skills. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Just a project I started in my after-school drawing club, which turned into a small canvas painting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry shouted back, as two more Death Eaters emerged out of the darkness, drawing closer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That evening, I took a break from drawing sharks to pick at a mysterious casserole with Dad. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pontellier, attired in a handsome reception gown, remained in the drawing room the entire afternoon receiving her visitors. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the Popsicle in a glass and flipped through my sketchbook for a clean page, but halfway through, I paused at the moon snail drawings. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was all drawings, like I figured, mostly of people. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with drawing a line in the sand,” Goddard responded. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As the pile of drawings grew smaller, Joseph prayed the story wouldn’t end before he could finally find out what happened to Leo. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The first one was a drawing of a accordion and told about a band named “H. E. Callowski and the Wonderful Warblers of Warsaw,” who were the “Masters of the Polka.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

That night, I tore more drawings from my tablet and hid them with the others under my suitcase lining. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I say: "Quang-ha, do you think I could have this drawing?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I could see that Mrs. Odom’s rutabaga trick with Howard’s brother Cotton wasn’t working too good because there were lots of drawings with colored markers along the bottom of the walls. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I went back to the drawing room and thought for an instant that they were chance visitors, all these official people who suddenly filled it. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“We shall feed the parrot to the beasts of the deep, as your drawings suggest, and none will be the wiser.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I knew Miss Love thought it was awful of Grandpa to hold Mr. Clem to the drawing, but he just laughed when she said so. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He sometimes uses watercolor, and experiments with using watercolor in chalk drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As she got a bit older, still enduring the Luftwaffe’s bombs, her drawings showed curious little doodles. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were drinks in the drawing room or on the terrace, and that was where Briony was supposed to be—with her mother, and the brother she adored, and the little cousins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I started to move my hand slowly, toward the tiny front pocket of my shorts, pulling the piece of silk string out of it without drawing too much attention to myself. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

That night, as I waited for my uncle to come say good night, I thought about Amari’s drawing of me, about the brilliance of my hair, the superpower in it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We laughed, and as Noodles started folding the drawing up, the door of their building swung open. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

One man pressed an open hand to his jaw, drawing his fingers across, pulling at his lips, making them grotesque. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her quickest way into the drawing room was across the lawn and terrace and through the French windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her mouth kind of looked like the Joker's—depending on who was drawing him—really wide and curvy. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The Ladd Devine Company had started drawing up plans for the recreation development about the same time people were losing their water rights and beginning a wholesale exodus from the hapless west side. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew a line through this too, and filled up the rest of the piece of bark with a drawing of Frightful. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maid leads him into a grand drawing room, its ceilings aswirl with plaster flourishes, its walls painted a delicate eggshell blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Squinting at the drawing, I realize it’s missing something. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He leaned over my drawing while I made notes about the shell colors in the margin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Scholars probably consider it a practice drawing, maybe for his cityscapes for Uncle Cor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When I say this, I am not merely drawing attention to the fact that our generation had a less snobbish attitude as regards which employers were landed gentry and which were 'business.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A sense of something tasty about to happen was spreading across the bar and drawing more soldiers in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Aragorn dismounted and set Merry on the ground, and drawing his sword he stood by the king’s stirrup. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Now even as he prayed the tide at ebb had turned, and the river god made quiet water, drawing him in to safety in the shallows. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helplessly, she let herself be guided toward the drawing room, all her terror concentrated on the simple fact that he wanted her seated before he broke his news. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Coraline crept into the drawing room and tried to open the old door in the corner. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Though Titian no doubt worked out the essential features of the composition in preliminary drawings, none have survived. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Here/' she whispered, taking the hairbrush and drawing Eleanor's hair into a ponytail without brushing out the curl. "Eleanor . . she said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Very shortly after she opened her eyes in all their softness, and putting out her poor, pale, thin hand, took Van Helsing’s great brown one; drawing it to her, she kissed it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Maribel bent down to get them, and Garrett crowded up behind her, settling his hands on her hips, drawing her against him. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

This time I know it’s my mother’s hand, drawing me into her arms. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

What the apprentice or art student learns are skills and techniques: established ways of drawing, painting, carving, designing—established ways of seeing. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twenty weeks a mysterious line starts drawing itself down from her navel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’d said that his parents don’t like how much time he spends drawing. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Curtis motioned for me to show him the drawing again. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“People come from everywhere to get me to stand in for ’em at drawings and give them numbers to play. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took lessons from a drawing master and a writing master. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a figure moving about on the terrace, and lights were coming on in the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He also read when his friends were late for lunch, to avoid drawing the attention of some of the football players, who liked to harass him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence for a minute, Nancy smiling at Joe, Joe staring at his beer can and drawing pictures with his finger in the puddles on the table. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I located the exit and headed for it, drawing my sword as I went. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My heart aches at the thought of drawing. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was his lordship who initially revived the matter one afternoon when I was serving his tea in the drawing room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on, then, Potter,” Malfoy said quietly, drawing out his own wand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Klein’s nurses and firefighters would size up a situation almost immediately and act, drawing on experience and intuition and a kind of rough mental simulation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They were accompanied by the first perspective drawing of the entire Earth as a sphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But he’s worried drawing will interfere with his real work—the work of the church. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Lydia had the sense to bring her notebook with her, but she isn’t drawing any cats. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were far beyond the borders of the Bree-land, out in the pathless wilderness, and drawing near to the Midgewater Marshes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In later years he would rest on the sofa in the drawing room and look at some old china and pictures that Etty had arranged. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is only a step from a drawing such as this to a modern blueprint. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was still holding my hand, and he tugged on it, drawing me closer to him. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I lean back, and Mack picks up the drawing. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Ivy didn’t know why people colored bolts of lightning yellow in drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had slipped the drawing back into her suitcase. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had got very white, his pallor dry and talcumy as a chalk drawing on rough paper. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The work of drawing the warp threads from the beam through the harness and reeds had to be done painstakingly by hand. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up and saw the drawings of angels on the domed ceiling I thought of her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Under his rickety bed lay a pile of Hugo’s drawings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Ha!” said Mr. Banks, drawing in his head very quickly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

After she finished I checked out her drawing. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had made them had now destroyed them, erased them like mistakes in a drawing, like marks on white paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He studies it, his head bent, his finger drawing a path like I drew lines on my maze. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Digory saw all the animals, dwarfs, satyrs, nymphs, and other things drawing back to the left and right to make way for him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Having reached their side of the street, he strode off along the pavement, drawing many curious glances due to the flamboyantly cut suit of plum velvet that he was wearing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He is all concern, all gallant attention, gently drawing them toward more savory matters. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We made drawing after drawing on it by filling in the tiny squares with colored pencil to make pixelated portraits. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He experiments, drawing with lithographic crayon over carpenter’s pencil, and uses a mixture of milk and water to fix the drawings to the paper. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had no features, like a homicide chalk drawing, and he was facing me, instead of showing his profile and going after the great whites like he was supposed to be doing. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Powell asked if he could keep my drawing. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Did I see something in the background of the drawings, the words The Sleepwalker? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was making them wait, drawing out the tension, reveling in their misery, savoring his evil victory. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Look at the drawing, then look down at the floor,” said Kyle. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Here’s a drawing of it: Manolo—an ivory frame for my graduation picture. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a library book on African public health, before we left home, I found a drawing of a worm as thin as a hair meandering across the front of a man’s startled eyeball. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry woke early next morning, wrapped in a sleeping bag on the drawing room floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And it may well be that that time is drawing near at last. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I watch her page through slowly, then put on the granny glasses that hang around her neck and go through the drawings again, and then again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When they finally left, the flowers were destroyed, the furniture broken, and the walls covered with drawings and writing, but Fernanda pardoned them for all of the damage because of her relief at their leaving. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes straight ahead and cross three crosswalks without drawing much attention. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As Mami pulled her feet onto the rungs of her rocking chair and rubbed the goose bumps from her arms, I imagined a world of fascinating creatures slithering underfoot, drawing squiggly patterns on the dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Only a dull, greenish tinge along the horizon to their right showed that daybreak was drawing closer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Did that strike you as odd, sheriff? Do you remember? That with all those lights drawing, the batteries still had plenty of charge, enough to turn the engine over with no trouble, as you say?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It would have suited her better had Briony wept and allowed herself to be comforted on the silk chaise longue in the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When we get there, Al is sitting in the chair already, and a small, narrow man with more ink than bare skin is drawing a spider on his arm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I touch the edge of one drawing—a close-up of a horse with long eyelashes and clear, yearning brown eyes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m way more comfortable with drawing creatures, plants, landscapes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fighting through the darkness to pick up his drawing pencil in the Borinage. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Though it is from Ashima’s father, no drawings for Gogol adorn the margins, no elephants or parrots or tigers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” I said, “he should be over at a desk, drawing something.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His wife helped by drawing the basic melon shape over and over in charcoal on pieces of wood. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Three of the six drawings were by Vesalius himself; the other three were by John Stephen of Kalkar, a highly respected pupil of Titian, which gives you some idea of their quality. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There are a dozen of us in the room, with our hopeful, almost-new Bristol drawing boards and our black- tipped fingers; two older women, pight young men, another girl my own age, and me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We worked frantically drawing water, washing the burning bodies, and trying every herb, tea, and poultice to break the fever and banish the infection. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these latter drawings contained a detail he found in none of the others, either a truncated passage or a small room in a location which seemed either senseless or mistaken. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Slowly Cluny’s tail wound itself about the ferret’s neck, drawing him in close. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I tried drawing the hundreds and thousands of wandering fingers together, focusing them into something sharp and lethal enough to penetrate his wall. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She flipped it open to the drawing she spent all afternoon working on. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was my job to give a driving lesson every Saturday after our drawing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

About two inches square, each card has a simple black-and-white line drawing and the word or phrase printed along the top. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to stop him, but he caught her, drawing her flailing body into his arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later the child is drawing on the wall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One thing I knew for sure—we would not find a kindly old couple enjoying an evening pipe and needlepoint in the drawing room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In his pop-eyed hurry to pull bones out of the ground, he tore open the site with a bulldozer and didn’t bother taking notes, sketching maps, or executing profile drawings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She looked at her drawing of the fields for a long time. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Frank’s drawing table takes up most of the basement. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He spent the whole night making incomprehensible movements in the drawing room; later they turned out to be exercises designed to perfect the mind’s control over the body and to improve digestion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, with the aid of several glasses of champagne, Tsukiko persuades her to abandon the effort, drawing her out into the sunken garden to distract her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He sat on the ground, drawing circles in the sand, trying to prove a theorem. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bessie said nothing, but she evidently knew what had been going on in the drawing room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he could use his father’s drawings as a guide to rebuild the missing parts. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a deep breath, his lips drawing together to a point, until he looked more ferret than human. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She also gave him her own drawings of flower bouquets to copy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I know I’m prompting him, playing up to him, drawing him out, and I dislike myself for it, it’s nauseating, in fact. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could sense when she was drawing near to the central hunting camp, for the tents became larger, and the people moving around them walked more briskly, as if they were on a schedule. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge book on porous mimeographed paper—four hundred pages long with no drawings or photographs, only diagrams and formulas—between brick-red cardboard covers. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He spits it into the fire, Michael gives out a loud cry and you can see him drawing the air into his head and kicking his legs and laughing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Like many a really good artist, M. Yoshoto taught drawing not a whit better than it’s taught by a so-so artist who has a nice flair for teaching. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She wore a maroon T-shirt and ratty jeans decorated with marker drawings. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I take one more look at my drawing from the yoga room earlier, carefully evaluating it as I pull it down off the wall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He glanced at Rose’s drawing, then added large green teeth to his own. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Jam handed the drawing back to Redemption, speechless with disbelief. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go up,” said Hermione with a frightened look at the same spot, and she led the way up the creaking stairs to the drawing room on the first floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I held the drawing out for her to see, but I didn’t say anything. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She folded it and smoothed it, and then hung it beside the inlaid bed upon a bar; then, drawing the door shut by its silver handle she slid the catch in place and went away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he heard that she had objected to the drawing of the animal’s claws, he tasted uncertainty, even alarm. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He’d been drawing ever since Hazel knew him, and for his birthday last year she’d gotten him this big fancy black sketchbook. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The drawing looked a little cartoonish, but I felt like I had built the architecture of the scene. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Not like Mama Ya-Ya who calls my name, drawing out the third syllable, the ah sound. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She asked for a transfer to the drawing room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the drawing of colors quickly followed, leaving no opportunity to reflect further on the incident. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then one afternoon, maybe about a month after I’d started, I came up to his room and found him at his school desk, carefully going over a drawing, his face nearly touching the paper. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At four o’clock on Sunday, less than two weeks before Thanksgiving, Mr. Clem held his drawing on the hotel piazza. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

You can do all the drawing though if you want. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single picture at the front, on smoother paper than the rest of the pages, shows a pencil drawing of the author, sporting a velvet jacket, a billowy white shirt and cravat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watercolors and oils, prints, drawings, sculptures in stone and bronze, all crowded together with nowhere for the eye to rest. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I stood drawing lines in the dirt with my big toe, saying nothing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On the wall, I tacked the poster of the red hen which my mother had given me for my fifth birthday, and the drawing of the bam she had given me for my last birthday. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I'm not confident enough to let my drawings speak for me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But on the edges of the plans he made other drawings, sometimes trees, sometimes faces or animals or bugs, sometimes just figures that you couldn’t make out at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rose and bowed low to Frodo, and drawing the curtain passed out into the cave. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When I finish my last drawing I go to the sofa where Dad is sitting and show it to him. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leave the drawing there, wedged underneath the mailbox with our key. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The paragraph ended at a drawing of a sprig of mistletoe, and Anya looked up at the woman. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Once again, we can easily push this question back one step further, by drawing on written histories and archaeological discoveries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But at least he doesn’t have my drawing hand cut off. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

On the floor she had made numerous chalk drawings. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And suddenly I knew something was wrong and distorted and out of drawing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work advanced slowly, impeded by the worsening relationship between the fair’s two ruling bodies, the National Commission and the Exposition Company, and by the architects’ failure to get their drawings to Chicago on time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was a skillful and steady incision, like drawing a curved line with a pencil across the crown of the head, a fluid and graceful curve. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tells us to finish our drawings from memory. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We connect the stars in typical constellations, in the usual celestial follow-the-dots drawings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved giving gifts, drawing out the suspense, and he always chose wonderful things. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re really good with that boy,” he said, drawing circles with his smallest finger on her elbow. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, but Jo’s attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he plops down on the couch and starts drawing pageant gowns like mad. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It has a drawing of the Statue of Liberty. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By her early twenties, she was dancing professionally before packed houses all over Germany, drawing rave reviews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The lake was beautiful and always changing in hue and texture, but it was also, Olmsted argued, a novelty capable of amplifying the drawing power of the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Rather than go downstairs to the instructors’ room for drawing paper, I drew the sketches on my personal notepaper, using both sides of the sheet. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Nestled inside was a framed photograph of the wall drawing Oliver had made of the family when he was little. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Johnny stands next to him and I start drawing them, their shaggy hair and baggy clothing making for great outlines. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

All these drawings make the closet seem smaller. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the rooms are barren except for the drawings and corkboards all over the walls. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Two years ago,” said Harry, his heart now hammering against his ribs, “there was a big gold locket in the drawing room upstairs. We threw it out. Did you steal it back?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

So shaken was I that I dropped it, drawing a derisive laugh from Nick. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She is supposed to get access to the city archives and look up the original architect’s drawings for the old hotel building that the Ormaie Gestapo use as their headquarters. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He told her about his collection of drawings and the worm he was currently observing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clarissa looked from the drawing, to me, then back to the drawing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Hiroshi and Jamie, but either way, I didn't take those photographs, and I certainly didn't apply to Prism for drawing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You figure he hasn’t run for maybe six hours. And all these lights been drawing off the battery. Better choke it up good, Art.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like that urge to fill an empty space with drawings. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Was this desolation but another link in the chain of doom which seemed drawing tight around us? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was drawing a map of my closet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Emma could have sworn she felt the crooked heart against her palm, even though it was just a Sharpie drawing on plastic and perfectly flat. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Everyone did a fine job. I value every single story and poem and drawing that was prepared by a Riverside School student, but as you know, I could only choose three to represent us.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Soviet government considered it a national embarrassment and punished him for not drawing at least one game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The drawings—sometimes crude, but always lifelike—depicted creatures like the ones she saw in her visions. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We do know that Brunelleschi, in his search for new architectural forms, had made a study of the surviving classical buildings in ancient Rome, a study which involved taking measurements and drawing plans and elevations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Uncle Clark, who was a contracting carpenter, was at his drawing table, drafting models of houses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after a while, I got better at drawing and started making my own family cartoons in the same style. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a stub of blue chalk and shaded in some areas of his drawing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jack was kneeling and drawing a circular pattern in the sand with his forefinger. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But here’s what Simon doesn’t know: the drawing’s in my phone, too. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Johnson says I should write a letter to Mrs. Brook to go with my drawing. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was genuinely surprised to learn how much my drawing had upset Ben, because I was teased so often myself, and I became better and better at dealing with it as I got older. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She turned away so fast that she made herself dizzy and disturbed one of the drawings near the bottom of her piece. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The manager followed Holmes to his second-floor office and there in the pleasant cross breeze from the corner windows studied Holmes’s drawings of his kiln. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There is a drawing for work he must complete by tomorrow, a cross section for a high school auditorium in Chicago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the image, that of a young girl calmly drawing a sword toward her body, pulling the blade through a man’s neck as she might have pulled a string through cheese. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I see you got something for your drawing,” he said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Vincent remains exemplary in nursing and is also working with the greatest ambition on drawing and painting.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Frankie squeezed in between them to show off his latest drawing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There is mechanical drawing and calligraphy, and each student spends four hours a week on freehand drawing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He again began by drawing pictures, but gave them up as too complicated and too artistically demanding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be lying on my bed, doodling in my sketch pad, doing everything physically possible to not just stop drawing and jam the pencils into my ears. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The two leaped and twirled around each other in fervent circles, every so often drawing close to exchange blows, like two hawks locked in a fatal spiral of courtship. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he said this, I suddenly remembered a drawing Laura had done once of her intestines and laughed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, scattered around the house, there are stacks of drawings made by his students with colored pencils. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Javi kept tugging me and talking, drawing me across the street. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I put the box away and took my drawing pad out to the backyard, where Mom was gardening. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rab, Mr. Lorne, and Johnny all had their heads over the drawing board where the second letter was pieced together and spread out. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside I asked Edna for a glass of water and she led me down the hall to a small kitchen, drawing it for me from a green old-fashioned cooler. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something real, something that wasn’t just stuck in a drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was drawing circles in the dirt with his foot and looking all mopey. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Obie would emerge with the black box at the moment before the drawings and the fight began. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the drawing, she was standing on a green lawn that looked exactly like the yard she’d spent the past twelve years playing in and running through. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We were jammed, two in a berth, into a drawing room and two sections. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

So fair a day now drawing to its close. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping my eyes on the guard directly in front of me, I slowly raised my arm and placed it over her shoulders, drawing her into me, the other hand still raised at face level. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I even flip the page back to see if maybe the drawing is on a previous page, but no. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, I played alone in the back yard, bouncing a rubber ball off the fence, drawing figures in the soft clay with an old knife, or reading what books I found about the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the twenty-seven-inch accelerator was still on the drawing board, Lawrence and Livingston worked intently to improve the performance of the eleven-inch chamber that Livingston had built for the old magnet. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ivy waited for more details, but June just rested her chin in her hands and sighed at her drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I studied its precise drawings and stored in iny memory the virtues and uses of all plants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was a rich fee, considering that all Burnham wanted them to do was provide working drawings and make a few visits to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I felt sleep drawing itself over me like a thick blanket, like death. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She must have seen the drawing by now, right? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I showed a picture of a jellyfish that looks like Darth Vader, and another that looks like a kindergartener’s drawing of sunshine, just a big circle with lines sticking out in every direction. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She’d used these for her drawing until they were stubs too small to hold. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The vanishing point turned a two-dimensional drawing into a perfect simulation of a three-dimensional building. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But when I try to carve it, it looks like a dead tree, toothpicks, a child’s drawing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though we were standing in one of my drawings. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Here it was uncomfortably moist, and they left it quickly, to come through an arched doorway into the drawing room and stand, aghast and incredulous. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” I say, drawing out the folded-up note and smoothing it against the top of a cunning little table with carved bird feet for legs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The family did not use the drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“My to-do list,” I explain, crossing off number 12, “Work out,” and heading to the very bottom of my list to write “Will drawing.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As for my father, he thinks my talent for drawing is impressive, but wasted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, as soon as they became familiar with the geometrical techniques of perspective representation, artists became fascinated by mathematical shapes and the difficulties of drawing them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

About never drawing the attention of the police. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Also, there are gun rooms and trophy rooms, a billiard room and a smoking room, two libraries, innumerable retiring and drawing rooms, etc. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He held the twenty cent one in his hands, drawing it through his fingers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nine weeks he’s been in Auvers, he’s made seventy paintings and thirty drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He turned away from me, and began perusing the volumes upon the shelf, selecting some, drawing them out, and laying them in the crook of his arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now he makes one of the first of many drawings and sketches he will send to Theo in a letter. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That had been when I’d finally spotted the difference, the tiny mark on one of the drawings. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need to hurry. Slow and steady hands make good drawings!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Hillary’s gender was used against her relentlessly, drawing from all the worst stereotypes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I turned to pick up my drawing pad. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In social studies, while we were drawing latitude/longitude maps, I opened my notebook and stared at the photo inside—my friend Annabeth on vacation in Washington, D.C. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this period the word ‘model’ is ambiguous: it can carry the modern meaning but more often it refers to a graphic representation, a plan or drawing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The drawing room had been prepared for the interview as if it were a stage set, with two chairs drawn near each other and a tea tray already in place on the sideboard. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But the best thing she ever gave him wasn’t a drawing. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

We could progress no further as we were without drawing the eye of suspicion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Because those lights do a lot of drawing. I’d reckon they can run a battery down quick—just like in your car. So I have to wonder a little, yes.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Something funny, Miss Amin?” the Director asks, drawing my attention away from the window. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She glanced down the table at Ess, drawing flowers, and felt fiercely glad. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I understand you have been working today with police artists on composite drawings of the persons you saw with the missing boy on Sunday.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I spent the morning drawing on my arm with a blue marker and pretending to read. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He kept drawing until his mind calmed down. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Soon the three companions found themselves in a ring of horsemen moving in a running circle, up the hill-slope behind them and down, round and round them, and drawing ever inwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I stare at his drawing to avoid his eyes and ask, “Joon, where do you go when you skip class?” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Dork,” Lucas said, drawing back his fist and pretending to swing at me again. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was the drawing of her family that she’d ripped out of her notebook the night of the storm—the one that was most definitely missing Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When he first moved to London, he made a book of drawings for Tersteeg’s little girl, Betsy, back in The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The officer holstered his weapon, drawing out a set of cuffs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Other times, he appears more like a man: He spreads books and papers and archno-techno drawings on the table and makes notes with his sharpened pencil. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had no money left to get her drawing paper. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest was a drawing of the giant farm implement shed that Deere & Company was proposing to put up on the block where the old brickyard had been. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent finishes those drawings quickly, and when he gives them to Uncle Cor, his uncle likes them so much he commissions a second series of cityscapes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The drawing room dazzled after the darkness outside; even with his eyes almost closed Harry could make out the wide proportions of the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

With the convention drawing close, I worked with a speechwriter for the first time, a gifted young woman named Sarah Hurwitz who helped shape my ideas into a tight seventeen-minute speech. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The sitting room would once have been called a drawing room, perhaps; then a living room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw this drawing we cannot be sure: an earlier entry was written in 1701, which gives us an approximate date. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She wanted to take out all her stormy drawings she’d gotten back from Keeper and line them up for Layla to see. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I pictured Mother, tired and parched, drawing back away from the window. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was demonstrating in this first image that perspective drawing involves establishing a picture plane through which the image is viewed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I played with a little sandbox on the table next to me, drawing swirls in the sand with my fingers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After she gave me la bendición, she handed me Apá’s drawing and said she trusted me to take care of my mother. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now a young girl, probably twelve, was drawing figures in the sand, carving out big, crude faces with a piece of driftwood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried, the sound drawing closer, myriad-voiced, humming, enfolding me, numbing the air, as I started beneath the ramp. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In addition to being quite social, however, you appear to be a gifted artist. Your portraits are”—she paused, rotating the drawing—“captivating. They show a depth of emotion well beyond your years.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I checked. One thing. A drawing of you and him on some weird animal. Nothing else. Not even a toothbrush.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After she left, I worked on my drawing of the Large-Billed Puffins. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Does he want me to show him the naked drawings of the English guy? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The horsemen, following the trail, had turned from the river, and were drawing near the downs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, when she reentered the drawing room in triumph, no one paid her any attention, and everything was exactly the same—tired, miserable adults sipping tea and smoking in silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, they have one of my drawings of their cat on the wall right behind the cash register. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

With the help of the girls’ drawings and a finger- beam searchlight, we went straight to the things we wanted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have difficulty interpreting nonverbal cues, such as gestures and facial expressions or putting themselves inside someone else's head or drawing understanding from anything other than the literal meaning of words. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"It's gone, sir, dean vanished. I was going round drawing all the curtains and the one in the lav—bathroom wasn't there any longer." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

One has a drawing of a gorilla cradling a baby elephant. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Paintings, drawings, pottery; all sorts of “sculptures” made from whatever was the craze of the day—bashed-up cans, maybe, or bottle tops stuck onto cardboard. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch a mind movie of her taking a stick and drawing a line in the dirt between us under a bright blue sky. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Robert came in and began drawing the curtains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever this person was, they loved her drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

First order of business, drawing straws to see who has to get in the Chuckie costume. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Leo had pinned her portrait next to the drawing of the Argo II to remind himself that sometimes visions do come true. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One of the drawings had fallen to the floor. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One featured a drawing of a pen and a bottle of ink. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jon poured with exaggerated care, vaguely aware that he was drawing out the act. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If it helps, I think your drawings are the prettiest I’ve ever seen. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I see the wooden box in the little boy’s hands, President Snow drawing out the yellowed envelope. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Aha!” she said, drawing out an old black coat with braid around the lapels. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother in New York didn’t write very often, but when she did, I sent her one of my best school compositions, or a drawing, or a joke copied from the newspaper. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then in the entrance to the drawing room door, Armstrong stopped dead. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The speaker’s tone had become quieter and quieter, drawing Malcolm closer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...this drawing. It is perfect, but it’s just a drawing, you know? A picture. It’s made up. Like you said, a story.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One of the men turns around, drawing down on us. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I guess I had been looking toward the Encouragement above the TV, a drawing of an angel with the caption Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Yet in the wider world, the war was drawing closer to American shores—and it would push both Elizebeth and William to their limits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He joins drawing clubs so he can paint clothed and nude models. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Inside, the lined sheets are covered with drawings instead of writing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I grab a napkin and begin a drawing of them for the Sketchbook of Impossible Things. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It said Potter for President, and Dean, who was good at drawing, had done a large Gryffindor lion underneath. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was April who won the straw drawing this time, and she thought quite a while before she decided on a question. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The source of Burnham’s greatest dismay was the failure of the architects to finish their drawings on schedule. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You can send me pictures of your drawings, you know. I am interested.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The rest of the hour vanished as I copied his drawings. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And then, quick as a lightbulb flicking on, Barry could see a letter hidden in the drawing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I carefully shade Barb’s hair, leaning back to look at the drawing I did of her holding a pitchfork. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Worse, the drawing—the burning, destroying—isn’t done. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Despite the school drawing from a state with roughly the population of Angola, Australia, or Afghanistan, Prince was the only black child. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I pick up a book of my own, turning the pages and falling in love with the drawings the way I did the first time I watched one of the anime shows Dad brought home. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I shall get a nice box of Faber’s drawing pencils; I really need them,” said Amy decidedly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go into Dad’s bedroom closet, where he crammed all the drawing supplies that used to be in his home office, behind our old kitchen. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My mom wordlessly kneels to gather scraps of drawings from our game of Honor Pictionary and stacks them into a neat pile. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s made up of intricate cartoon drawings, each one instructing people on the proper way to hand wash or the correct way to cough in public. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This climate is unsuitable for tender-skinned women of course, so I prefer to think of you at home, soaking your stockings or drawing a bath. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Next, I return to my room and start on the drawings of Brian—it takes forever to tear them all to pieces, there are so many. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The hunters circled them and began to walk toward each other, drawing the circle smaller and smaller. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had one picture back, a drawing she loved, but this wasn’t how she wanted to find it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They would leave with the bag tucked out of sight, sometimes drawing furtive, disapproving glances from those who knew about the store’s reputation for such transactions. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s brought with him to the hospital books on drawing perspective and a few novels by Charles Dickens, including The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which Dickens had left unfinished when he died twelve years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I told the bank that we had a plan, and I presented that in the drawings that were submitted. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It leaves an ugly dash across my drawing, right through the middle of a lopsided mountain. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what I wrote at the top, when I was done with the drawing. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I gasp, drawing a rattling breath into my lungs. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand,” she said, drawing nearer to Shilling, who was, thankfully, still a wolf dog. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the old womans face in the drawing still holds some youth. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sierra slammed her hand on the drawing and felt the jolt of spirit flood through her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We could see the wide Channel & even Boston-Town, & — my God, I do not jest—there, drawing up, was a Sloop & a Schooner, discharged Boats with Parliament’s Marines to protect their seized Animals. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted in flam-boyant colors: hibiscus pink, lilac, pistachio, and are crowded with clusters of paintings and drawings and photographs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt achy, my arm muscles and fingers sore from my precise drawings. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Right after June gave her the whale drawing, Ivy and Keeper started writing more and more notes to each other. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“My bride is here,” he said, again drawing me to him, “because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His leechiness was drawing IQ points out of the back of my head. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But despite the explicit and exaggerated drawings, I can’t muster any interest whatever in Mr. Big Studio Director boning the skinny would-be starlet with the horse face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I hold up my drawing, showing the intricate plan I spent most of the morning working on, every detail perfectly accounted for and coinciding with a different person and a task. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They were drawings on pieces of paper that they cut out and stood up with pins, because Elsie was a really good artist. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, there was a scroll of paper twenty yards long—one page pasted to another—which had drawings depicting the history of the human race from a Marxist point of view. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I take my pencil and draw a line through “Will drawing.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He also paints a watercolor and makes a drawing for the doctor who treated him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Arriving tourists are hailed by “guides” with backpacks full of phony ancient figurines and ethnically incorrect souvenirs of Mexica drawings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He opened his drawing pad and we all leaned toward him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her tears were further proof of the truth she felt and spoke, and when her mother’s hand caressed her nape, she broke down completely and was led toward the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All around, on haphazardly aligned shelves the boys had fastened to the walls themselves, amidst the model cars and their made-up superhero drawings, were souvenirs from all the adventures they’d experienced throughout the season. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m writing to you while drawing and I’m in a hurry to get back to it, so good-night, and send the sheets as soon as possible.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“That drawing is not perfect, Ivy,” she said. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Amari opened his drawing pad and flipped through the pages until he came to a brightly colored picture. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I asked, drawing my knees up to my chest and pressing my face against them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

What they heard that evening, and for many evenings after that, was that India and Pakistan were drawing closer and closer to war. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She said she had “34 kittys in my cooking class and 18 kittys in my drawing class.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I pushed my handful of soft-lead drawing pencils to one side of my desk, took out my fountain pen, and fell—very nearly heartbroken—to work. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Struchen went to the bulletin boards and tapped photos and drawings with a pointy aluminum stick as he presented the facts. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard for me to explain exactly what a half-moon is without drawing a picture. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frustrated with drawing, I switched to the printmaking department, where I overturned great buckets of ink. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He makes several of his drawings on grey paper instead of plain. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“In the cabinet in the drawing room. Nobody could open it. And we...we...” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Or the fact that Rishi was drawing it with a perfect ballerina’s bun, except the bun happened to be a croissant. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The captain sits at his desk with a half-melted candle, studying one of my drawings for symbols and signs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Why go to the bother of drawing lines and angles inside a dot, if those patterns weren’t going to show up unless you enlarged the dot again and again and again? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They disagreed about how to explain what they had seen, but at least they agreed that the drawings they both published were illustrations of the same phenomena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Monday night we’re back at Joe’s house, printing up names on his computer and drawing red circles around them and red slashes through them. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was already signed up for tesserae, which entitled them to a meager supply of grain and oil in exchange for his entering his name extra times in the drawing to become a tribute. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can see that she is drawing Ruby. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I tried to follow him, drawing in air when he did, exhaling in turn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This new video appeared to be made up of notebook paper drawings that got crumpled and uncrumpled, over and over. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The young women of Marina Raskova’s regiments treasured the thought of finishing the war and living ordinary lives, drawing heavily on Marina’s model of perfection as a soldier, a woman, and a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

High on the neck of the lute it snapped and the tension lashed it across the back of my hand, drawing a thin, bright line of blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So anyway, then my mom made him cry about his dad or whatever and the kid stopped drawing circles and presumably lived happily ever after. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

An extra nursing duty was drawing the blackout over the huge ward windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The drawing is striking, well executed, poignant, melancholic, beautiful—but not in a traditional sense. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I liked that there were all these neat little drawings and paintings by students on the walls, framed like they were important. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The women all stayed in the wattle huts, peering out the door, hiding their children behind their skirts, drawing back fearfully into the darkness of the huts as the strangers came up from the beach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, drawing deep from his inner reserves, Bobby did climb. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But now he knows that he is happiest when he’s drawing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Moving in a slight awkward crouch, she made her way through the press of loudly talking guests and out of the drawing room door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a drawing of the Inquisition. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When she handed the bills to Petey, she said, “Sooooooo,” drawing out the vowel with such forced casualness that a first grader would have been suspicious. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think of all the drawings around my room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Alfhercht reach out a hand and hook his finger in the air, drawing down and out. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing?” he asked, quickly picking up the drawing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sight of a young woman drawing water was too much for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a three-dimensional nightmare version of some of his own drawings. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

After school he’ll find her, hand a drawing to her, and run away. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But now she is drawing a picture too. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They use local children as lookouts, who race forward on their bicycles to tell the bandits when migrants are drawing near. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The quantum singularity in my chest churned, drawing more interstellar dust into its event horizon, sucking up all the light that drew too close. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I glance over to the cartoon drawing of us, the red bubble letters jumping out at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I asked her if she was the one who made the drawings. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so the day went, with monumental climbs and the hope of water over the next hill the principal thing drawing us on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She spent all day working on oil paintings, watercolors, charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink sketches, clay and wire sculptures, silk screens, and wood blocks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People call New York a cesspool, but New Yorkers would never knuckle under to intolerance and let some lowlife get away with drawing swastikas. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Identical smiles peek out from underneath thick wool scarves, the holiday lights at the park down the street twinkling above our heads just like the stars in her drawing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Tear-shaped, white with black numbers, the compasses have a drawing of the Kaaba stone at the center. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo, but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I also had a drawing pad and colored pencils, a manila envelope with important prison and parole papers, and my copy of The Brothers Karamazov. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, it succeeds at drawing my attention to his rather gorgeously full lips. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Turning to the whiteboard, he began drawing a basic organizational chart. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed the letter by drawing a map and giving detailed direc-tions for finding the trailer on Bullhead City’s Baseline Road. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The devil of it was that none of his regular teachers ever liked his drawings. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to, but it’s so much easier than drawing attention to myself by trying to go against the swarm of eighth graders headed in one direction. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now, as he waited at a traffic light, he had to admit that the drawing, coupled with the imaginative and dedicated coloring that Quang-ha had done earlier in the afternoon, was disturbing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If the Reich doctors decided that the patient’s life was “useless,” they prescribed euthanasia by drawing a red cross by the patient’s name. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Voyager relies on a small nuclear power plant, drawing hundreds of watts from the radioactive decay of a pellet of plutonium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again drawing from the pool of most common names among white children, here are the top picks of highly educated parents versus those with the least education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Words flash on the screen, accompanied by a drawing of a red giraffe. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She walked up to me and handed me the drawing and the silk blue ribbon that had a number one printed on it in gold. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was drawing pregnant stick images on the inner flap of my Introductory Agriculture for Junior Secondary Schools when he came into my room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I gave Henry Hawkins a different card than I gave all the other kids—it was bigger than the others, and it had a drawing of a character from his favorite cartoon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sound of Lord Ashton’s voice boomed through the house, up the stairs, and into Penelope’s room at the far end of the corridor, all the way from the first floor drawing room. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Ivy kept taking the little whale drawing out of her folder and staring at it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sprints back up to the landing, drawing his revolver. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent, the erstwhile evangelist, now living with a baker, spending his time drawing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But drawing that spiral drew Newton into more correspondence on ‘Philosophy’ whether he liked it or not. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I gathered all of my drawings, even the ones on small scraps, from underneath the lining in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I put the drawing of the man with the germinating brain in my room on the wall where I can see it when I roll over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There were painted tiles on the wall with what looked like kid drawings of faces, boats, and animals. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The wall behind it was decorated with Leo’s crayon drawings. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But I can remember when we came to it with prayer, listening for trouble in our laboring old motors, drawing a plume of steam from our boiling radiators. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begins each notebook the same way, with a detailed drawing of a tree inscribed with black ink inside the front cover. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Now, Mr. Pip,” said Mr. Jaggers, “attend, if you please. You have been drawing pretty freely here; your name occurs pretty often in Wemmick’s cash-book; but you are in debt, of course?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are fixed on the far wall, which is drawing closer by the second. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were looking at our hands, entwined, and he was drawing patterns along my palm, and I could hardly breathe as he left trails of fire along my skin. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Note the faint grid lines that would help her copy a master artist’s drawing in order to learn proper placement and proportion of objects on the page. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her skin flushed as she examined these drawings, the lines of thighs and rise of breasts—were they imaginary women? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He remembers that when he and Moushumi were first dating they’d spent an entire afternoon, in a bar, drawing a plan of the ideal house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up in this environment, the young Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drawing room was a welcome change for Betsy, but the move came too late to help. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Try drawing the contour of the heron without a line—suggest the feathers,” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She hung drawings of squirrels all over the nursery, expecting that the constant exposure would soon cause the children to grow bored with the idea of squirrels altogether. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The alchemist began to draw in the sand, and completed his drawing in less than five minutes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aravis undid the door and opened it, drawing back a little way to let the strangers in. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Abu taught me the basics of drawing, and from there I moved on to painting and sketching—I loved anything where I could be creative with colors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen the drawings published by those first adventurers after they hurried back home to Europe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own tablecloth, undertaken reluctantly but in the long run drawing out my most dedicated efforts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden I’m drawing has only one red rose, right in the center, and I want it to be perfect. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I can remember drawing such mustaches myself, and the spite that went into them, the desire to ridicule, to deflate, and the feeling of power. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The navigator and I have it easy—my drawings and his charts are treated as beyond scrutiny. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I pulled out one that was covered in different types of native saltwater fish and one that had an old Victorian drawing of a mermaid. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t she just stay in her jeans and give you the, like—” “Band pants? I wondered the same thing. She said she didn’t want me to risk drawing attention to myself.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The picture was a drawing of Earth and a treasure map blended together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Every day at school, Ivy received another one of her drawings and a message from the person who had her notebook, the Keeper of all her secrets. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I want to kill all the vandals, miss,” she said, when she came up to hand in her drawing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her bowstring was taut, the arrow nocked to it in readiness; she could have pulled and loosed in less than a second, and Mrs. Coulter would have been dead before she finished drawing breath. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We had Best see to drawing up those documents. Lord Varys, send for parchment and quill. And someone will need to wake Joffrey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ralph winced, turned his attention to another man, a man drawing a woman over to his stool. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not as well loved as Mr. Morton, but as much admired, was Miss Bernstone, the special drawing teacher who also came once a week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like writing books and drawing were high on Mom’s priority list right now. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Seventy years later Luther still has the drawing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even brought my sketchbook that day, but I’d taken a photo of the drawing on my phone. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He had his hair cut short, cropped above his ears, and the drawing was in pencil so you couldn’t tell what color his eyes were, but they were dark, and wide, and sad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course it is. I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I’ve seen any of your drawings. Honey, you’ve improved so much! The lines and expressions on our faces. The unique use of color.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She sat back, the cold porcelain of the tub seeping through her borrowed T-shirt, and took in her drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Ernest loved technical extrapolation, and we had fun drawing such an accelerator.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He never seemed to notice that Granny was still drawing well water and emptying slop jars after other women were turning faucets and pulling tank chains. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But as soon as it did so there came two more lions' roars, immediately after one another, one on the right and the other on the left, and the horses began drawing nearer together. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Wishes he’d thought to grab his map so he could add a drawing of the marquee over Meridian just for something to do. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t worry when a few seconds later he says with a full-on grin, “I totally saw what you were drawing back there, dude.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The school had let my third-grade class decorate the book’s front cover that year, and I’d spent the entire past week painstakingly drawing in the elaborate swirls on the cover’s corners. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He put the drawing back on my desk and looked around my room, one of the first times I think he had ever done that. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair, drawing them across my tongue, through my teeth, tasting her shampoo and the icy flavor of snow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She beckons me over to her table, not with a subtle head tilt or single finger hook, but with a full arm wave, drawing the entire room’s attention. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The swing set was just sitting there, abandoned, the two little swings hanging still and sad from a grayed plank of wood, the outline of the seats like a kid’s drawing of a smile. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I lay down on my side, drawing my knees toward my chin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serenity is examining my drawing pad, her brows furrowed in concentration. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all woods may be drawing near. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Kretzsky’s face was turned to the drawing, but I could feel he was staring at me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He knew that Brother Andrew wouldn’t find the drawing there. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four smiling, mocking, threatening men remained in the drawing room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the drawing room, I saw that the gentlemen were still in a rather serious mood. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to melt away before her, drawing hoods over their faces and fleeing as fast as they could. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She holds the drawing up for me to see. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their lives, which had almost gone their separate ways a week ago, were now drawing together again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time my eyes close, I see that Suit in my house drawing a gun. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I sit, staring at the drawing of the lungs while I breathe in and out. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Regardless of any heart drawing, he was a stranger still. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Obinze, from the other end of the bar, had said, “Good!” drawing strange looks from everyone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Women were busy with their everyday routines, drawing kolams to decorate the ground before their houses. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It got so that I liked the rehearsals, even though it meant that I couldn't be drawing the Great Esquimaux Curlew with Mr. Powell on Saturday afternoons. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In most of my drawings, he’s so big, I can’t fit all of him on the page, so I leave off the head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But with her diamond-patterned mermaid tail, frayed tank top, and the little beaded seashell necklace around her neck, the drawing was also Greenleigh. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Ents were drawing near the crest of the ridge now, and all song had ceased. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was obliged, as I was saying, to spend some uncomfortable minutes standing in the drawing room yesterday afternoon while Mr Farraday went about his bantering. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some thirty people were left in the building, holding out in the drawing rooms on the second floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at my desk, drawing hats and mustaches on the people in my textbooks while I thought about Maribel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A drawing of James Russell going for a lay-up. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Slowly I sit up and push my back against the wall, drawing my legs close to my body. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Leonardo’s drawing is clear enough for a model of the machine to have been built and demonstrated to be functional. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He let me touch the drawing pad paper once. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were very close, and she ran along the veranda and darted into the drawing room; “Hugh Crain,” she said, “will you come and dance with me?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

With the perspective frame, he feels confident making a drawing with a firm hand, the outlines and proportions being correct. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He gives her a shiny black plaque with a drawing of a boy and girl looking tenderly at each other. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My drawing pad is open in my lap. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now is he drawing anything on the board? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I like your drawings. Some are very realistic, but some, they’re, well, twisted.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I think drawings in the margins would be good. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he robed off the bed, grabbed the drawing, and dashed out of the room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The stuff in the yellow rings had the power of drawing you into the wood; it was stuff that wanted to get back to its own place, the in-between place. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

After the pigs had been slaughtered and fresh pork was for sale in the market, another wave of British officers moved in and set up their camp beds in the second-floor drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will wanted to listen, but the man in green had hold of his arm and was drawing him insistently towards a side door. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to show me your drawings?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

After years of clandestine relationships, it felt refreshing to court in a fishbowl, to have the support of her parents from the very start, the inevitability of an unquestioned future, of marriage, drawing them along. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The swastika is bad enough, but the thought of some shadowy person actually drawing one is worse. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I missed drawing on real paper and longed for light to sketch properly. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed weird to Ivy, the idea that someone would want to discuss her drawings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The teacher begins class—a different girl model today—lecturing about positive and negative space, about drawing the space around a form to reveal a form. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, adults helped them in many ways, but basically the boys knew that drawing as little attention to themselves as possible was their best chance of survival. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Devon says if I went a whole day without drawing I would probably die. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to his room and wrote a list of the principal rivers of England for geography homework before drawing them on a map. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ask who the man in the drawings was, because I was afraid the answer would give me heavy boots. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Storm clouds rose up behind her, dark and threatening, but a powerful sun peeked through, sending coppery rays through the whole drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some of our old drawings are in there, my brother’s spaceships and red and gold explosions, my delicate, old-fashioned little girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gawaine turned away from him, drawing a hand across his face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The butler had left the dining room quietly, taking care to close the doors behind him, and proceeded calmly to the drawing room where his employer was taking tea with a number of visitors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“No problem,” he said, turning around to get a look at the drawing. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I know what she is doing—weighing a single life against so many lifetimes and memories, drawing an obvious conclusion from the scales. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I look back down at the drawing, rotating his questions in my mind like I’m searching for their hidden agenda. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The three dancers in the piece, all recent graduates of Juilliard themselves, bring a distinctive vocabulary to the montage, drawing viewers into an experience that is at once life-affirming and joyful, without any bubble-gum sentimentality. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the first, we were shown a series of three drawings and asked which of the four adjacent ones might best complete the sequence. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe a drawing of his hero will make him feel better. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was drawing a swirl in the sand garden on her desk when I said that. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“No, I was wondering if you ever actually make the drawings you do in your head?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Ann Atwater spent the better part of the night creating decoy gatherings, drawing police attention away from sites she knew had been targeted for the torch. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Noah, he says in that bone-melting way and my hands are in Heather’s hair, and I’m pressing my body against hers hard, drawing her closer to me, pushing my tongue deep inside her mouth... I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Even so, this was a blow to the government, for they now had to go back to the drawing board in the case they were calling the trial to end all trials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My breath fogs up the glass of the window, and I reach up, drawing a big heart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be a freak on one side of my face and have to walk around in profile like an Egyptian drawing for the rest of my life.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the number of houses in smaller neighborhoods had continued to increase, drawing the attention of upwardly mobile families who, like their white counterparts, had a vision of postwar success that included home ownership. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The junior officers cleared out their cots, clothing, and maps from the second-floor drawing room so we could scrub and polish it from ceiling to floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny details of the drawings he’d seen earlier started to come back to him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Luke hands me a church flyer with a drawing of Jesus giving me a thumbs-up. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“What do you think he is, some kind of radical rinky-dink reporter? He’s drawing a decent weekly salary from Halversson; he’s got a wife, a brat, a mortgage, and a ’71 Oldsmobile on time.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also the warming diversion of going to the library to play ping-pong beneath Wyndham Lewis’ stern drawings of Naomi and her children. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I often do this: sense the other person’s life drawing me in, and run in the other direction. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Greatjon bellowed his approval, and other men added their voices, shouting and drawing swords and pounding their fists on the table. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I shouted something and then it twisted and was gone, shaking the brush and drawing Ricky’s attention. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She straightens the already perfectly straight stack of drawings. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her locker again, but all she saw was that little heart-shaped arrow on her drawing, pointing at the two girls like an accusing finger. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When it was lit and a thread of smoke was curling up from the bowl, he used the pipe to emphasize what he said, drawing little designs, like Chinese writing, in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And June knew what Ivy’s drawings looked like. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She presided over the world in her drawing room on satellite TV. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others thought mice were as good a subject as any for drawing and writing. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The mantelpiece in the drawing room back home was quite empty. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She stops at a drawing of a round, windowless room illuminated only by light that filters through the koi pond enclosed in glass above it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’s absorbed in his maps and I’m absorbed in my drawings, trying to be here and not somewhere else. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

"I'm good at drawing butterflies and flowers and things." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Evolutionary biologists have recently been developing ever more sophisticated methods for drawing conclusions from comparisons of different plants and animals of known evolutionary histories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a piece of scrap paper and spent nearly a half-hour drawing diagrams and explaining the basic biology of cells as Deborah asked questions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In addition, Eurasian domestic animals made Eurasian agriculture itself more competitive by providing fertilizer, and eventually by drawing plows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the hollow below, Bigwig seemed to be drawing to a close. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell he was sad, even though he was just a drawing, not a real boy you could talk to. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I put my pretend pencil over the glass case again, and I started drawing the wings. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She began to draw, and I looked at her as if I were drawing her, too. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She sorted through them carefully, and selected the oldest, biggest, blackest, rustiest key.They went into the drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

This was not going to be a bingo-ball drawing like the lottery. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They are always teazing the Negro on his Silence, in hopes of drawing him out, saying, “The Negro stares at a Tree. Han’t he seen a Tree before?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He set off, drawing the Invisibility Cloak tight around him as he walked. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His voyage to Europe had shown him that a really good gravel path “should be as even and clean as a drawing room floor.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Is like a web of roads. Is entire canal system. One canal leads to crossing place and meets with another,” explains one man Bernard, drawing lines in the dirt with a stick. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men stopped at the well, where a woman was drawing water. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took with her to her grave the picture of her little daughter’s body laid out on the chaise longue in the drawing room of the Ayemenem House. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had bumped into an armchair, in her drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He went to our room and put all his drawings into one pile. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She paused, drawing a ragged breath, and took the moonstone ring out of her pocket and put it into the palm of his hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart surged with pride, drawing me back into the moment I’d pulled the gun. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“And,” she says, “all that doodling of yours, Ally. If you weren’t drawing all the time, your work might be done. Please put it away.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And then, because I could see her drawing in, I turned away from any implied criticism of Jaimito. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There could be no connection between that drawing and the goblet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Sir, I’m trying, I’m trying!” said Harry desperately, but he did not think that Dumbledore could hear him; he had rolled onto his side and was drawing great, rattling breaths that sounded agonizing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The empire’s enemies grew thin and desperate and even the most cynical of men could see the end of the war was drawing swiftly near. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There is only horrid beastly boys in the drawing room.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laney’s drawing and Oliver’s poem were shoved under the door, Hyacinth’s wreath was taped up under the peephole, and Jessie settled her tray on the floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Red Cow, drawing in her breath, gave one huge tremendous jump and the earth fell away beneath her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“But if he does not show up by Tuesday at twelve noon, at the drawing of lots, he loses all of his rights as challenger,” Euwe said. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I shivered as I passed, drawing my coat tighter around myself to keep out the rain and the cold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I sweep a last look across the piano, the guitar left on his pillow, the baseball posters, and my drawing of Kristi’s house. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A drawing that made little lightning bolts flash in her belly. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He moves closer, drawing up my gaze, pinning me with his eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She gets to her feet, taking her child by the hand, drawing her to her side. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been drawing pictures at every meal there all my life. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her style was rough; her people had heads too big for their bodies, but Jennifer liked the feel of drawing the same way some people enjoyed singing in their showers. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I keep drawing, mapping space, mirroring row upon row. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I sighed, too embarrassed to tell him how much I missed school myself—not arithmetic or geography or social studies, but reading and drawing and playing with my friends at recess. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Under the last sign there’s a line drawing of a woman’s body, lying on a table, blood dripping out of it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy flipped through the crinkly pages and caught a glimpse of a drawing she’d abandoned a few months ago as a hopeless case. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hugo could see the automaton’s drawing on the desk. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I hope you will all be as eager to accomplish your tasks once they are set out,” said Gwydion, drawing a sheet of parchment from his jacket and spreading it on the table. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I held back, slowing my pace rather than stopping and drawing attention to myself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a November issue of Life, I found, to my great interest, drawings of the internal mechanisms of a variety of different kinds of rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is a great fleet drawing near to the mouths of Anduin, manned by the corsairs of Umbar in the South. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look at all well, and I’m afraid your term of existence is drawing to an end. Still, would you like to see some of the readings recorded today?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I took the drawing from the book and put it in my shirt pocket with the other two notes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

His drawings were pretty good, I had to admit. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I set the note on a small silver tray and carried it into the drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our newspaper Muhammad Speaks ’ full back page carried an architect’s drawing of a $20 million Islamic Center proposed to be built in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Ivy had just finished a bit more detail on a stormy treehouse drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the stars in the uppermost sky, drawing the shape of the condor in flight with his fingers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I covered my lapse by yawning, so the doctor gave me some drawing games. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"And though 'a be not comely, yet 'a must come," I added, drawing an appreciative laugh from the others. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo saw that they were all covered with drawings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And in her practical way she scraped together a small square of dust, and with a twig from a pigeon’s nest began drawing a map on the floor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It began with the strange gentleman’s sitting down at the table, drawing the candle to him, and looking over some entries in his pocket-book. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sending those drawings to Leo Tilden was a good thing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her wispy blond hair stuck out in all directions like a small child’s drawing of a sun, and her eyes seemed to roam about independently of each other. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from large-scale cave art, the people of the Upper Paleolithic also produced small, hand-sized drawings and carvings in bone, horn, or stone, skillfully cut by means of flint tools. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the waste they saw riders picking their way; they were coming from the north side, and already they were drawing near to Orthanc. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Ana asked, returning to the sofa to get back to the drawing she was doing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I told you, I’ll kill them,” he said, drawing the cage to his chest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He has this style of drawing that’s all movement and sharp angles and bold pencil lines. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In Washington’s number seven seat, a realization flickered through Joe’s awareness—the boat was drawing abreast of his father’s house on the west side of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Another girl might not have told herself a love story about a drawing her brother made. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s yours,” I repeated, handing the drawing to Curtis. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know this, so why is it drawing me? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I did four pastel drawings from the permanent collection—a Chagall, a Franz Marc, and two Picassos. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Once in the house, I go straight to my room, open a sketchpad, and start drawing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his eyes with his hands, and, drawing them away, blinked slowly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In those days, proving a mathematical theorem was often as simple as drawing an elegant picture; the tools of ancient Greek mathematics weren’t pencil and paper—they were a straightedge and compasses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon, one of the horses drawing her wayn died in the traces. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I used my fingers to sketch the image in a layer of dirt on the floor near the front of the train car, wiping the drawings away and starting over, again and again. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked around for more of her own drawings, ones that June shouldn’t have. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Laughing to myself, I take a manila envelope that I stole from the nurses’ station, slide the drawing inside, and scrawl on the outside: “Inside, you’ll find my heart and soul. Be kind.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She takes the hardbound green volume, with gold lettering and a line drawing of a girl with abundant red hair in a chignon on the front, and opens it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Disgusting, Nina thought, drawing her cloak tighter around her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The river was drawing him outward, away from the bank. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s lungs closed up at the thought of someone paging through her whole notebook, drawing after drawing, secret after secret. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Little did I know our time was quickly drawing to an end. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Amil was furious that he had to take the book instead of his drawings, but Papa told him he couldn’t throw fits like a child anymore, that he was almost a man now. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But I was nowhere even nearly prepared to face the freakish fact that there were two people in the world who had less talent for drawing than either Bambi or R. Howard Ridgefield. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He looked at his drawings for a long time, memorizing their beauty and strangeness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

None of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing nigh. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was drawing on it now, in a French barn, in the small hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She drafted drawings of new flight instruments and prepared them for testing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Flocks of birds, flying at great speed, were wheeling and circling, and traversing all the land as if they were searching for something; and they were steadily drawing nearer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But as she leafed through the book, the drawings got more sophisticated, more detailed, more artistic. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I said, drawing myself up to full height. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At last there came another steam whistle blast, closer this time, definitely drawing closer, and he slammed his coffee cup to the table. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My drawing pad is open in my lap, and my pencil is idling in my hand, the eraser tap-tap-tapping against the corner of the page. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They walked behind Parks through my living room, drawing room, and library. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I recall, I was rung for late one night - it was past midnight - to the drawing room where his lordship had been entertaining three gentlemen since dinner. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Modern drawings of ancient cities tend to show them at an imagined apogee, the great monuments all splendidly arrayed together, perfect as architectural models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Around in a circle he went, drawing up sapling after sapling, until he made a circle out of knee-high trees, with an invisible bundle of magic in his fist. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of drawing his nose when he wriggled away from the table. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When she’s done playing, she comes over and I show her my drawing. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was using the exact same markers as me, but somehow when she drew with them, her drawings looked a million times better than mine. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was filled with nature notes, drawings of insect anatomy, and other such things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A month in the Slammer while the doctors hovered over you in space suits drawing samples of your blood, just waiting for you to crash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a sketchbook open in front of him, and he looked like he was drawing a cross between a space alien and a girl in yoga pants. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A little while later, I remember that it’s Thursday, which means life drawing at CSA, which means I’m ending my house arrest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z